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The Only Way Down is in a Body Bag

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneStonetalon Mountains
Quest ID25614

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25614))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineStonetalon Mountains, Alliance, step 4 of 48
Rewards4,100 XP

Description

The skies are swarming with heavily armored orcs on the backs of even more heavily armored wind riders. Our best efforts to bring them down have thus far proven fruitless. Our arrows usually just bounce off of those foul creatures. If we do happen to take one down the orcs deploy their goblin parachutes and safely land on the ground below. I need you to use Gnombus's sniper cannons and blow up the Warsong wind riders and then blow up the parachuting orcs. The only way down is in a body bag.

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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.

Stonetalon Mountains Quest turn-in 9 mapped points
Stonetalon Mountains map showing where to go for The Only Way Down is in a Body BagTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #65 71.8 45.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inStonetalon Mountains 71.8, 45.7/way #65 71.8 45.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Stonetalon Mountains 72.5, 48.8/way #65 72.5 48.8

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 Stonetalon Mountains map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Stonetalon Mountains:

  • Stardust Spire, AshenvaleAlliance · about 300 yards north
  • Windshear Hold, Stonetalon MountainsAlliance · about 840 yards south-west
  • Astranaar, AshenvaleAlliance · about 1,200 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 130 yards south

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
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationDarnassus +250, Gnomeregan +250

Reward details

Reputation: Darnassus +250

This Alliance capital is populated by Night Elves and is located in the Island of Teldrassil. Ruled by the Priestess of the Moon, Tyrande Whisperwind.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Stonetalon Mountains that reward Darnassus reputation: Do Yourself a Favor (+10), Return to Stardust (+10), Hellscream's Legacy (+250), Field Test: Gnomecorder (+25), Burn, Baby, Burn! (+250), Bombs Away: Windshear Mine! (+10).

Reputation: Gnomeregan +250

The former denizens of Gnomeregan, now living in New Tinkertown and in league with the Alliance.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Stonetalon Mountains that reward Gnomeregan reputation: Do Yourself a Favor (+10), Return to Stardust (+10), Hellscream's Legacy (+250), Field Test: Gnomecorder (+25), Burn, Baby, Burn! (+250), Bombs Away: Windshear Mine! (+10).

Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.

Storyline

Stonetalon Mountains, Alliance

Part 4 of 48.

Previous: Do Yourself a Favor · Next: Return to Stardust

  1. 1They Took Our Gnomes
  2. 2Ze Gnomecorder
  3. 3Do Yourself a Favor
  4. 4The Only Way Down is in a Body Bag
  5. 5Return to Stardust
  6. 6Hellscream's Legacy
  7. 7Field Test: Gnomecorder
  8. 8Burn, Baby, Burn!
  9. 9Bombs Away: Windshear Mine!
  10. 10Don't Look Them in the Eyes
  11. 11Windshear Mine Cleanup
  12. 12Illegible Orc Letter

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 48.

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.

  • Do Yourself a FavorStonetalon Mountains · Level 10-30

    So these night elves send out a desperate call for help to us, goes something like this: <Gnombus changes the pitch of his voice to sound like a woman.> "Please come help us! The big, mean Horde has goblins! Oh, we can't handle goblins!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Return to StardustStonetalon Mountains · Level 10-30

    Huntress Jalin will be pleased to know that the way to Windshear Hold is now clear. Please return to Stardust Spire and inform her of your success. She will most assuredly have more work for you now that our path is clear. Thank you and good luck, friend.

The storyline at a glance

Stonetalon Mountains, Alliance has 48 steps, from They Took Our Gnomes to Dances with Grimtotem.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Stonetalon Mountains (43), Ashenvale (5).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Stonetalon Mountains 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.