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The Stagnant Oasis

The Stagnant Oasis is a Horde-only quest for level 5-30 in Northern Barrens. It is step 17 of 62 in the Northern Barrens storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Northern Barrens at 49.5, 58.7. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 4,100 experience. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

Description

Can what's happening to the south happen here? Judging by what you found at the Forgotten Pools, these oases may be the key. Let's perform an experiment.

Here, take these seeds I've collected from the summit here. They are dead and infertile, but carry them down to the Stagnant Oasis just below us. If there is a fissure there, then place the seeds within it... and observe. Report your findings back to Tonga at the Crossroads.

Rewards

Experience4,100 XP
ReputationThunder Bluff +250
Top Comments

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HazardousPizza+8via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

-VERY EASY WAY TO GET FOOD-

1. Plant the seed in the bubbles thing (see above comments for more information on where it is located).

2. Right click the bushes that appear around it (pointer will become a cogwheel when you mouseover it). You will receive Fissure Plant for each bush collected.

3. Go to the quests menu (Default keybind is "L") and click "abandon" button, its in the lower left corner (MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SELECTED THE RIGHT QUEST! Name has to be "The Stagnant Oasis").

You will keep the food.

4. Go up the mountain to the guy you got the quest from (Jerrik Highmountain) and accept it again.

Repeat the above steps until you have the desired amount of food.

This will save you some money, as this is completely free to do!

You can also sell the food to a merchant for some money, but it will not be a significant amount.

Hope this helps!

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
ReputationThunder Bluff+250

Reward details

Reputation: Thunder Bluff +250

Baine Bloodhoof leads his people, the proud Tauren, from this mighty Horde capital.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Northern Barrens that reward Thunder Bluff reputation: The Forgotten Pools (+150), Altered Beings (+250).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapNorthern BarrensTurn-in marker at 49.5, 58.7, 2 mapped points
Objective areaSouthern Barrens1 mapped point
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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.

Northern Barrens Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Northern Barrens map showing where to go for The Stagnant OasisTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #10 49.5 58.7

Southern Barrens Objective area 1 mapped point
Southern Barrens map showing where to go for The Stagnant OasisObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #199 62.6 33.4

Coordinates

  • Turn-inNorthern Barrens 49.5, 58.7/way #10 49.5 58.7
  • Objective areaNorthern Barrens 55.9, 80.6/way #10 55.9 80.6
  • Objective areaSouthern Barrens 62.6, 33.4/way #199 62.6 33.4

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 Northern Barrens map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Northern Barrens:

  • The Crossroads, Northern BarrensHorde · about 40 yards west
  • Hunter's Hill, Southern BarrensHorde · about 1,100 yards west
  • Ratchet, Northern BarrensAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 920 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 1,200 yards south-east (on the Southern Barrens map)

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Northern Barrens

Part 17 of 62.

Previous: In Fungus We Trust · Next: Altered Beings

  1. 12The Forgotten Pools
  2. 13Fungal Spores
  3. 14Kolkar Leaders
  4. 15A Growing Problem
  5. 16In Fungus We Trust
  6. 17The Stagnant Oasis
  7. 18Altered Beings
  8. 19Flushing Out Verog
  9. 20Verog the Dervish
  10. 21Hezrul Bloodmark
  11. 22Counterattack!
  12. 23The Zhevra

Showing steps 12 to 23 of 62.

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.

  • In Fungus We TrustNorthern Barrens · Level 5-30

    I've cultured these unusual spores you dug up with a most magnificent cocktail of ... reagents ... that I'm fond of. I'm eager to see how my manipulated spores react to the waters of the Crossroads oases.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Altered BeingsNorthern Barrens · Level 5-30

    It will be important to study both plant and animal life impacted by the oases and the unusual energies you've discovered. The Stagnant Oasis below us is home to a species of snapjaw turtles. Recently their population has exploded.

Also counted by Northern Barrens Quests

Its criteria name 11 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Northern Barrens has 62 steps, from In Defense of Far Watch to Mor'shan Caravan Delivery.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Northern Barrens (61), Southern Barrens (1).

Other storylines on the Northern Barrens 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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.

Northern Barrens QuestsComplete the Northern Barrens storylines listed below.10
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Guides and routes on this site that cover Northern Barrens.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this quest is in the Classic Era client's data too

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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Quest Location and Connections

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