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The Mother Lode

A World of Warcraft quest in Spires of Arak. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU4JhYWk7nE

Depending on which outpost building you have chosen for Southport will depend on who your quest giver is.

If you had chosen the Stockton Brewery, your quest giver is [npc=85550].
If you chose the Smuggler's Den, your quest giver will be [npc=86589].

1. Pinchwhistle Gearworks / Pinchwhistle Gearworks - (Video) - Speak to your Southport Flight Master, [npc=83567], and select "Take me to the Pinchwhistle Gearworks."

• Go to coords 61.5, 72.9 and turn in the quest to [npc=81109], and pick up Defungination. Also grab Spore-be-Gone from [npc=81128].
• Travel south to coords 62.5, 73.8, and pick up Unwanted Pests from [npc=85062].

2. Defungination - (Video) - Travel south into Sporemist Shallows and use [item=112683] on [npc=81288], which look like small orange mushrooms on the ground.

Spore-be-Gone - While completing Defungination, activate [npc=81135].
Unwanted Pests - As you're completing Defungination, kill a total of 10 mobs (either [npc=81138] or [npc=82243]).
• Travel north, back to Pinchwhistle Gearworks, to coords 61.5, 72.9, and turn in the quests, and pick up The Mother Lode

3. The Mother Lode - (Video) - Leave Pinchwhistle Gearworks, traveling southwest past the Flight Master, to coords 59.1, 79.1, and turn in the quest, picking up Getting the Crew Back Together.

4. Getting the Crew Back Together - (Video) - Travel south down the path and click on 6 [npc=89209] to revive them.

Clearing Out Before Cleaning Up - While completing this step, kill 8 [npc=81168].
• Turn the quests in and pick up Follow that Hotrod!

5. Follow that Hotrod! - (Video) - Travel south to Pinchwhistle Point to coords 58.5, 92.3.

• Turn quest in and pick up quests The Right Parts for the Job & Skimming Off the Top from [npc=81972].
• Also pick up quest Field Trial from [npc=81443]

6. Field Trial - (Video) - Use the [item=115475] on [npc=85258] around coords 58.2, 89.4. Around this same area you will find [npc=81370] and [npc=81524], for the other two parts to this step.

The Right Parts for the Job - Use [item=112698] on [npc=81370], and collect 16 [item=112634].
Skimming Off the Top - Kill 4 [npc=81524] and loot their [item=112906].
• Travel back to coords 58.5, 92.3 to turn in these quests and pick up the next series for this chain.

7. Sporicide - (Video) - Travel to coords 55.8, 89.0, and kill a total of 6 of either [npc=82265] or [npc=85316] while completing this step of the chain.

Curing With Force - While completing the above quest, attack [npc=85421]. When they are at 35% health, use [item=115533] on them.

8. Preventing the Worst - (Video) - Place 5 [npc=81632] at the following coords:

• 56.7, 89.9 - Inside a small building
• 56.5, 89.5 - Outside
• 56.7, 91.4 - Inside a small building
• 56.3, 91.5 - Inside a small building
• 55.8, 91.0 - In an opening, on the second floor, of a large building

• Turn in the quests in the vicinity of coords 58.5, 92.3, and pick up Flame On from [npc=81443].

9. Flame On - (Video) - Click on the [object=231910] at coords 58.5, 92.3, then turn around and jump into the [npc=81567] at coords 58.8, 92.8.

• You will then be flown back to Pinchwhistle Gearworks where you will turn in this quest and pick up [item=111957] and recruit [follower=192].

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 30-40
Quest ID35080

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(35080))

Requirements

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylinePinchwhistle Gearworks, step 3 of 14
Rewards1g 69s 80c, 675 XP

Description

Hey we got ourselves a crisis here! Our zeppelin "The Mother Lode" crashed onto the south mountain range. It was supposed to only be on an observation mission, what could have happened? We got to get down there quick and I'm going to need your help on this. Are you with me?

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Where to go

Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.

Spires of Arak Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Spires of Arak map showing where to go for The Mother LodeTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #542 59.1 79.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSpires of Arak 59.1, 79.2/way #542 59.1 79.2
  • Objective areaSpires of Arak 61.5, 72.9/way #542 61.5 72.9

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Nearby on the Spires of Arak map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Spires of Arak, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Spires of Arak:

  • Pinchwhistle Gearworks, Spires of ArakAlliance and Horde · about 260 yards north-east
  • Southport, Spires of ArakAlliance · about 1,400 yards north-west
  • Talon Watch, Spires of ArakAlliance and Horde · about 1,500 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 290 yards north-east

Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.

Related
Money1 gold69 silver
Experience675 XP

Storyline

Pinchwhistle Gearworks

Part 3 of 14.

Previous: Spore-be-Gone · Next: Clearing Out Before Cleaning Up

  1. 1Defungination
  2. 2Spore-be-Gone
  3. 3The Mother Lode
  4. 4Clearing Out Before Cleaning Up
  5. 5Getting the Crew Back Together
  6. 6Skimming Off the Top
  7. 7The Right Parts for the Job
  8. 8Sporicide
  9. 9Preventing the Worst
  10. 10Follow that Hotrod!
  11. 11Flame On
  12. 12Unwanted Pests
  13. 13Field Trial
  14. 14Curing With Force

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Spore-be-GoneSpires of Arak · Level 30-40

    We got an emergency! A bunch of spore drifters have infested the shore and tore up our Spore-B-Gone turrets. We're caught with our armor off here!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Clearing Out Before Cleaning UpSpires of Arak · Level 30-40

    Here's the situation. We need to get this salvage operation moving ASAP, but the ship went down right in the middle of the wasp nests. The ugly bugs are all over the place, and I can't call my team in here to start work until they're taken care of.

The storyline at a glance

Pinchwhistle Gearworks has 14 steps, from Defungination to Curing With Force.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Spires of Arak (14).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Spires of Arak map

Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.