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Thistle While You Work

Thistle While You Work is an Alliance-only quest for level 5-30 in Loch Modan. It is step 20 of 35 in the Loch Modan storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Loch Modan at 82.8, 63.5. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 5,150 experience and money.

Description

It's stabthistle season! Stabthistle seeds are responsible for up to 89% of seed-related injuries among hunters.

You'll find stabthistle seeds mostly in the lower woodland just north of the lodge. They're commonly found at the base of trees, and they will stab and hurt you.

I'd advise you to avoid them, but I actually need someone to help remove them for the sake of safety! Bring me back stabthistle seeds so we can make sure others don't get hurt.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience5,150 XP
ReputationGnomeregan +250
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP5,150
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationGnomeregan+250

Reward details

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 Loch Modan that reward Gnomeregan reputation: Reinforcements for Loch Modan (+10), The Lost Pilot (+75), A Pilot's Revenge (+150), Defcon: Bobcat (+250), Wing Nut (+250), Skystrider's Heart (+350).

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 mapLoch ModanTurn-in marker at 82.8, 63.5, 16 mapped points
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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.

Loch Modan Quest turn-in 16 mapped points
Loch Modan map showing where to go for Thistle While You WorkTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #48 82.8 63.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inLoch Modan 82.8, 63.5/way #48 82.8 63.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Loch Modan 67.3, 44.0/way #48 67.3 44.0
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Loch Modan 72.0, 36.8/way #48 72.0 36.8
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Loch Modan 73.7, 43.7/way #48 73.7 43.7

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 Loch Modan map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Loch Modan:

  • Farstrider Lodge, Loch ModanAlliance · about 30 yards south-west
  • Fuselight, BadlandsAlliance and Horde · about 1,000 yards south-west
  • Dustwind Dig, BadlandsAlliance · about 1,300 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 560 yards north-west
  • Objective areaabout 570 yards north-west
  • Objective areaabout 440 yards north-west

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

Loch Modan

Part 20 of 35.

Previous: Foxtails By The Handful · Next: Defcon: Bobcat

  1. 15Axis of Awful
  2. 16Suddenly, Murlocs!
  3. 17Smells Like A Plan
  4. 18Hornet Hunting
  5. 19Foxtails By The Handful
  6. 20Thistle While You Work
  7. 21Defcon: Bobcat
  8. 22The Joy of Boar Hunting
  9. 23Vyrin's Revenge
  10. 24Vyrin's Revenge
  11. 25Wing Nut
  12. 26Bird is the Word

Showing steps 15 to 26 of 35.

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.

  • Foxtails By The HandfulLoch Modan · Level 5-30

    We've seen more foxes in the hills lately. Cunning creatures, they are. A good test of a hunter's skills, and a fine profit to boot! It's their tails, lad. Fine and fluffy, they're just as good hung on yer belt to ward off fleas as they are to line the gloves of some fancy noble.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Defcon: BobcatLoch Modan · Level 5-30

    Stop everything! It's come to my attention that there's been bobcat sightings near the lodge. Bobcats! Now mind you, I've never seen a bobcat, but they're surely dangerous. They're like mountain lions or something. I don't want anyone leaving until the area is secure! Anyone but you, that is.

The storyline at a glance

Loch Modan has 35 steps, from The Lost Pilot to The Winds of Loch Modan.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Loch Modan (33), Dun Morogh (2).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Loch Modan 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.

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