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The Start of Something Bigger

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

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Oceandust+6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Alliance Mechagon Quest Chain Intro:

1. Fame Waits for Gnome One
2. The Legend of Mechagon
3. Looking Inside
4. Let's Get It Started
5. You Must be This Height
6. Report to Gila
7. A Small Team
8. The Start of Something Bigger
9. Princely Visit

Follow up chain that unlocks daily quests for the island:

10. The Resistance Needs YOU!
11. Rescuing the Resistance
12. My Father's Armies
13. We Can Fix It
14. Drill Rig Construction
15. Send My Father a Message
16. Welcome to the Resistance

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Doloria+6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Travel Advisory
Rustbolt (the junkyard city near the flight point) is a SANCTUARY city. If you're in War Mode and attack some attractive horde targets, you will trapped in nets by goblins and attacked by large bots. Unless you are in a raid group you will die.

How to return to Mechagon
Once you discover the Mechagon flight point, you can travel to/from any flight point in Kul'Tiras. WoW forum also says there is a portal in Zandalar near the entrance to the Motherload instance.

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Shad0wman+1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Quest is bugged to hell and haven't figured out how to unfug it yet. Bluzz will be of know help to this problem. Maybe leveling up. Maybe some phasing issue. 8 just did it simultaneously on 2 different accounts, one bugged the other didn't.
One thing that does happen is that my quest log turns all red and tells me I have to get to lvl 25 to continue the campaign. One thing I think it is would be the phasing with whatever is going on in Neighborhoods atm. I did briefly see there was a portal in neighborhood and it asked if I wanted a visa, on another character. I didn't do anything but my character in Mech that's phased out does see a portal that requires lvl 25 for some reason.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-60
ZoneTiragarde Sound
LocationBoralus
Quest ID54992

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(54992))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineExpedition to Mechagon, step 7 of 17
Rewards25g 74s, 8,150 XP

Description

We have coordinates locked into the gyrocopters. You and Captain Winklespring will fly the lead. If we run into any trouble, Tinkmaster Overspark wants the most experienced pilots out front. Board whenever you are ready to go.

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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.

Boralus Objective area no plotted point

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Boralus:

  • Hatherford, Tiragarde SoundAlliance · about 220 yards north
  • Firebreaker Expedition, Tiragarde SoundAlliance · about 330 yards south-west
  • Proudmoore Keep, Tiragarde SoundAlliance · about 420 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
Money25 gold74 silver
Experience8,150 XP

Storyline

Expedition to Mechagon

Part 7 of 17.

Previous: A Small Team · Next: Princely Visit

  1. 2Looking Inside
  2. 3Let's Get It Started
  3. 4You Must be This Height
  4. 5Report to Gila
  5. 6A Small Team
  6. 7The Start of Something Bigger
  7. 8Princely Visit
  8. 9The Resistance Needs YOU!
  9. 10Rescuing the Resistance
  10. 11My Father's Armies
  11. 12We Can Fix It
  12. 13Drill Rig Construction

Showing steps 2 to 13 of 17.

Also part of: Welcome to Mechagon (part 9 of 17), Mechagon Intro (part 6 of 8).

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.

  • A Small TeamTiragarde Sound · Level 10-60

    I've determined the single attribute that is most important for a team member to survive an expedition to Mechagon. That attribute is...being a gnome! Gather these gnomes and meet Tinkmaster Overspark and myself at the departure point.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Princely VisitTiragarde Sound · Level 10-60

    This is it! The fabled Mechagon! The greatest discovery of our age, and you're here to witness me accomplish it! <Tinkmaster Overspark puffs out his chest, brushes off his robes, and smiles confidently.> I am ready to address the Mechagon people. You may accompany me.

Also counted by The Mechagonian Threat

Its criteria name 16 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Expedition to Mechagon has 17 steps, from The Legend of Mechagon to Operation: Mechagon - The Mechoriginator.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Mechagon Island (10), Tiragarde Sound (4), Boralus (3).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Boralus 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.

The Mechagonian ThreatComplete the Mechagon storyline.10