Be aware: You do have to complete the other two quests that are available at the same time in the same area in order to get this quest.
So save yourself some confusion, and pick up Spore-be-Gone and Unwanted Pests, and you'll be building your Salvage Yard in no time.
Quest
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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She brings along a 3 seat car and can't even give us a lift? There's goblins for you.
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 Lode3. 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].
Quest facts
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
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?
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.
Turn-inObjective areaIn-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
- All Natural about 1,030 yards
- I See Dead Arakkoa about 1,030 yards
- The Ebon Hunter about 1,030 yards
- Words of the Raven Mother about 1,040 yards
- The Bloodmane about 1,040 yards
- Rendezvous with the Ritualists about 1,040 yards
- Back on Track about 1,050 yards
- Gaze of the Raven God about 1,200 yards
- Sons of Sethe about 1,220 yards
- Call of the Raven Mother about 1,250 yards
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 Arak
- Southport, Spires of Arak
- Talon Watch, Spires of Arak
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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.
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Storyline
Pinchwhistle Gearworks
Part 3 of 14.
Previous: Spore-be-Gone · Next: Clearing Out Before Cleaning Up
- 1Defungination
- 2Spore-be-Gone
- 3The Mother Lode
- 4Clearing Out Before Cleaning Up
- 5Getting the Crew Back Together
- 6Skimming Off the Top
- 7The Right Parts for the Job
- 8Sporicide
- 9Preventing the Worst
- 10Follow that Hotrod!
- 11Flame On
- 12Unwanted Pests
- 13Field Trial
- 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-Gone
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 Up
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
- Establishing Axefall
- Securing Southport
- When the Raven Swallows the Day
- Secrets of the Talonpriests
- The Gods of Arak
- Shadows Gather
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.