TheWoWDBSeems to be bugged in the mists of pandaria prepatch in cataclysm classic 7/8/2025. None of the plants are spawning anywhere at all. Even after 30 minutes of going over the area over and over again with no other players.
Quest
Trouble From the Ground Up
A World of Warcraft quest in Southern Barrens. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Did the other three quests in Teagan's Expedition and this one popped up. Didn't catch if you needed to do all three or one/two in particular.
Leads to Biological Intervention, but that one doesn't give rep with the Cenarion Circle.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneSouthern Barrens
Quest ID25028
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25028))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineSouthern Barrens, step 18 of 89
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
Teegan's a fool to think the quilboar caused this sudden overgrowth. Look around you. I've been watching these plants bloom and sprout daily - each generation is more mutated than the last. This isn't tribal magic - it's something primal. And dangerous. The day before last a great druid passed through our camp. Seek out Naralex, somewhere in the midst of this jungle. He'll know what to do. And bring him some plant samples from around the overgrowth to help his studies.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #199 50.4 40.7
Coordinates
- Turn-inSouthern Barrens 50.4, 40.7
/way #199 50.4 40.7 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Southern Barrens 50.0, 39.6
/way #199 50.0 39.6 - Objective areaSouthern Barrens 56.2, 42.8
/way #199 56.2 42.8
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 Southern Barrens map
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,350 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,570 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Southern Barrens, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Southern Barrens:
- Northwatch Hold, Southern Barrens
- Fort Triumph, Southern Barrens
- Ratchet, Northern Barrens
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
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.
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Reward details
Reputation: Cenarion Circle +250
The druids of Cenarion Circle are guardians of nature and make their home in tranquil Moonglade.
Reputation group: Classic.
Other quests in Southern Barrens that reward Cenarion Circle reputation: A Curious Bloom (+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.
Storyline
Southern Barrens
Part 18 of 89.
Previous: You Flicked a Fine Vine to Leaf Me · Next: Clear the High Road
- 13Scavenged
- 14Filthy Animals
- 15Make 'em Squeal
- 16A Failure to Communicate
- 17You Flicked a Fine Vine to Leaf Me
- 18Trouble From the Ground Up
- 19Clear the High Road
- 20Feeding the Fear
- 21Warriors' Redemption
- 22Eye for an Eye
- 23Holdout at Hunter's Hill
- 24Raptor Scraps
Showing steps 13 to 24 of 89.
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.
- You Flicked a Fine Vine to Leaf Me
According to Gaines, "Three-Tooth" is what the quilboar call their matriarch. She's been twisting the thorns of this crazy jungle to her own ends, and it was her orders that Gaines be "torn apart and fed to the overgrowth." Nice lady. Let's give her a taste of her own.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Clear the High Road
This way, <class>! I see you've discovered the high road. The Alliance hopes to sever our ties with Stonetalon, but they forget that we tauren have hunted across these lands for generations. We know every hillside switchback and game trail from here to Thousand Needles.
The storyline at a glance
Southern Barrens has 89 steps, from Running the Gauntlet to Sabotage!.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Southern Barrens (88), Northern Barrens (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Southern Barrens map
- Northern Barrens
- Battle Pet Tamers
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.