TheWoWDBFor those that be as mentally challenged as I seemd to be. You pick up a 'balloon' which goes into ur bags and you need to click on it to collect the air. I just sat on a vent with my balloon out not knowing why the air wasn't automatically going in......duh!
Quest
Undersea Inflation
A World of Warcraft quest in Shimmering Expanse. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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The Air Valve drops from one of the Green Sand Crabs, they're all around the quest-giver. The bubbles needed to use the Air Baloon are all around you, glittering like a quest-objective does :)
The Valve doesn't have a 100% drop-rate, took me about 15 kills to get mine.
The balloon appears to disappear if you mount up on your seahorse, and for me the only way to get it back was to drop and re-pick up the quest. I wasn't able to receive the balloon if I accepted the quest while mounted as well.
To avoid this hassle, just pick up the quest while unmounted and collect 10 levels of inflation without mounting.
As for the air, the bright teal seashells and the clumps of green... tube... things...(cacti with holes at the top?) can both be used to collect air, if no one else has used them recently. There's a short cooldown before they start providing air again (look for the sparkles and small air bubbles).
Quest facts
Quest ID25218
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25218))
What to do
WhereShimmering Expanse, Vashj'ir
StorylineVashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse, step 55 of 149
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Description
Fine! Fine. You argued me into it. You can help. I'm leaking air worse than a zeppelin stuffed with quilboar! My air valve must have come loose somewhere in the trench. I brought spare air balloons - make yourself useful and go fill one up, will ya? And find my valve! I'll need that too. I bet the crabs snatched it up... pinchy, greedy little things.
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.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #203 58.7 46.3
Coordinates
- Objective areaVashj'ir 58.7, 46.3
/way #203 58.7 46.3
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 Shimmering Expanse map
- Honor the Flame about 460 yards
- To the Deeps about 940 yards
- Wavespeaker's Trail about 940 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Shimmering Expanse, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shimmering Expanse:
- Silver Tide Hollow, Vashj'ir
- Tranquil Wash, Vashj'ir
- Sandy Beach, Vashj'ir
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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Other quests on the Shimmering Expanse map
Reward details
Reputation: The Earthen Ring +250
This gathering of the most powerful shaman of Azeroth seeks to maintain the balance between the world's elemental forces. Their main focus during the cataclysm has been to repair and stabilize the damage caused by Deathwing's arrival.
Reputation group: Cataclysm.
Other quests in Shimmering Expanse that reward The Earthen Ring reputation: Backed Into a Corner (+350), A Distracting Scent (+250), Totem Modification (+250), Don't be Shellfish (+250), Slippery Threat (+250), Rundown (+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
Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse
Part 55 of 149.
Previous: The Great Sambino · Next: Totem Modification
- 50The Looming Threat
- 51Backed Into a Corner
- 52Rundown
- 53Silver Tide Hollow
- 54The Great Sambino
- 55Undersea Inflation
- 56Totem Modification
- 57Back in One Piece
- 58Vengeful Heart
- 59Fathom-Lord Zin'jatar
- 60Nespirah
- 61Making Contact
Showing steps 50 to 61 of 149.
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.
- The Great Sambino
If you're heading down the trench, I'd like you to check in one of our novice members for me. His name is Sam, but he's likely to embellish it a bit. He doesn't really understand how members of the Earthen Ring work, but he tries hard, so we try to give him the benefit of the doubt.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Totem Modification
Okay, I'll let you in on the real work, since you're looking at me so desperately. This rock is untapped! It's probably richer than a trade prince during a great war! I need samples. More samples. Samples from everywhere!
The storyline at a glance
Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse has 149 steps, from Call of Duty to Full Circle.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shimmering Expanse (98), Kelp'thar Forest (48), Abyssal Depths (2), Vashj'ir (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Shimmering Expanse map
- Azshara's Power
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.