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Tooling Around

Tooling Around is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Wetlands. It is step 32 of 40 in the Wetlands storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Wetlands at 38.8, 39.7. It rewards 6 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

Description

I'm in charge of supplying this dig. It's not that bad, but having to pick up and move out so fast wasn't exactly ideal!

Archaeologists need tools, you know. You can't run around pulling up priceless antiquities with your bare hands. If you're going back to the dig site, can you bring back the tools that got left behind?

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationIronforge +250
Top Comments

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Anais777+6via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This quest has been updated in 7.3.5. Now it offers the vanilla Orc Axe that Rexxar uses as well as many other orcs. Including Garrosh pre- Cataclysm. The original design was lost in Cataclysm but its back now.
So god damn grateful for it.

Thanks blizz.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationIronforge+250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeLeather Legs
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor7
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +7 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for23 silver51 copper
TypeCloth Legs
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+4 Intellect, +6 Stamina
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for23 silver42 copper
TypeOne-Handed Sword One-Hand
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Weapon4 - 7 damage, speed 2.6
Stats+2 Strength, +3 Stamina
Suited toProtection, Frost
Sells to vendors for32 silver47 copper
TypePlate Chest
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor17
Stats+4 Strength or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +5 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for23 silver59 copper
TypeMail Legs
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor10
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +7 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for24 silver71 copper
TypeOne-Handed Axe One-Hand
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Weapon4 - 7 damage, speed 2.6
Stats+2 Agility, +3 Stamina
Suited toEnhancement, Outlaw, Windwalker, Brewmaster, Vengeance, Havoc, Survival
Sells to vendors for34 silver53 copper

Reputation: Ironforge +250

This Alliance capital is the pride of the Dun Morogh dwarves. Home to King Magni.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Wetlands that reward Ironforge reputation: Cleaning Hovel (+250), The Stolen Keg (+250), Fight the Flood (+250), Sedimentary, My Dear (+250), Thresh Out of Luck (+250), Fenbush Berries (+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.

3D Model

First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapWetlandsTurn-in marker at 38.8, 39.7, 9 mapped points
World Map

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.

Wetlands Quest turn-in 9 mapped points
Wetlands map showing where to go for Tooling AroundTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #56 38.8 39.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inWetlands 38.8, 39.7/way #56 38.8 39.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Wetlands 34.9, 48.2/way #56 34.9 48.2

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 Wetlands map

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

Getting there

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

  • Whelgar's Retreat, WetlandsAlliance · about 20 yards north
  • Greenwarden's Grove, WetlandsAlliance · about 720 yards east
  • Dun Modr, WetlandsAlliance · about 750 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 280 yards south-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

Wetlands

Part 32 of 40.

Previous: Strike the Earth! · Next: The Angerfang Menace

  1. 27Dark Iron Trappers
  2. 28Gnoll Escape
  3. 29Yorla Darksnare
  4. 30When Archaeology Attacks
  5. 31Strike the Earth!
  6. 32Tooling Around
  7. 33The Angerfang Menace
  8. 34Mired in Hatred
  9. 35The Threat of Flame
  10. 36For Peat's Sake
  11. 37Longbraid the Grim
  12. 38The Crazed Dragonmaw

Showing steps 27 to 38 of 40.

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.

  • Strike the Earth!Wetlands · Level 10-30

    In case you didn't notice, the land here in the Wetlands is pretty messed up. Floods, earthquakes... and on top of it all, even the ground's got a wild hair now.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Angerfang MenaceWetlands · Level 10-30

    When we hauled up here to get away from the raptors, we put ourselves right next to a whole slew of Dragonmaw orcs! I've heard the stories in Menethil, how the Dragonmaw are even cruder barbarians than other orcs, how they strangle black dragons with their bare hands...

Quests that require this one

Also counted by Wetlands Quests

Its criteria name 16 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Wetlands has 40 steps, from Fight the Flood to The Battle of Thandol Span.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Wetlands (40).

Other storylines on the Wetlands 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.

Wetlands QuestsComplete the Wetlands storylines listed below.10
Related
Too Much Twilight
Too Powerful, Too Dangerous
Too Quiet on the Northern Front
Tool of Attunement
Tooling Around Vol'dun
Tools of Declaration
Tools of the Enemy
Tools of the Trade

Guides and routes on this site that cover Wetlands.

Database

Quest Location and Connections

More Quests in Wetlands

See all 55 quests in Wetlands
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