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Unwanted Pests

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

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Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU4JhYWk7nE

Depending on which outpost building you have chosen for Southport will depend on who your quest giver is.

If you had chosen the Stockton Brewery, your quest giver is [npc=85550].
If you chose the Smuggler's Den, your quest giver will be [npc=86589].

1. Pinchwhistle Gearworks / Pinchwhistle Gearworks - (Video) - Speak to your Southport Flight Master, [npc=83567], and select "Take me to the Pinchwhistle Gearworks."

• Go to coords 61.5, 72.9 and turn in the quest to [npc=81109], and pick up Defungination. Also grab Spore-be-Gone from [npc=81128].
• Travel south to coords 62.5, 73.8, and pick up Unwanted Pests from [npc=85062].

2. Defungination - (Video) - Travel south into Sporemist Shallows and use [item=112683] on [npc=81288], which look like small orange mushrooms on the ground.

Spore-be-Gone - While completing Defungination, activate [npc=81135].
Unwanted Pests - As you're completing Defungination, kill a total of 10 mobs (either [npc=81138] or [npc=82243]).
• Travel north, back to Pinchwhistle Gearworks, to coords 61.5, 72.9, and turn in the quests, and pick up The Mother Lode

3. The Mother Lode - (Video) - Leave Pinchwhistle Gearworks, traveling southwest past the Flight Master, to coords 59.1, 79.1, and turn in the quest, picking up Getting the Crew Back Together.

4. Getting the Crew Back Together - (Video) - Travel south down the path and click on 6 [npc=89209] to revive them.

Clearing Out Before Cleaning Up - While completing this step, kill 8 [npc=81168].
• Turn the quests in and pick up Follow that Hotrod!

5. Follow that Hotrod! - (Video) - Travel south to Pinchwhistle Point to coords 58.5, 92.3.

• Turn quest in and pick up quests The Right Parts for the Job & Skimming Off the Top from [npc=81972].
• Also pick up quest Field Trial from [npc=81443]

6. Field Trial - (Video) - Use the [item=115475] on [npc=85258] around coords 58.2, 89.4. Around this same area you will find [npc=81370] and [npc=81524], for the other two parts to this step.

The Right Parts for the Job - Use [item=112698] on [npc=81370], and collect 16 [item=112634].
Skimming Off the Top - Kill 4 [npc=81524] and loot their [item=112906].
• Travel back to coords 58.5, 92.3 to turn in these quests and pick up the next series for this chain.

7. Sporicide - (Video) - Travel to coords 55.8, 89.0, and kill a total of 6 of either [npc=82265] or [npc=85316] while completing this step of the chain.

Curing With Force - While completing the above quest, attack [npc=85421]. When they are at 35% health, use [item=115533] on them.

8. Preventing the Worst - (Video) - Place 5 [npc=81632] at the following coords:

• 56.7, 89.9 - Inside a small building
• 56.5, 89.5 - Outside
• 56.7, 91.4 - Inside a small building
• 56.3, 91.5 - Inside a small building
• 55.8, 91.0 - In an opening, on the second floor, of a large building

• Turn in the quests in the vicinity of coords 58.5, 92.3, and pick up Flame On from [npc=81443].

9. Flame On - (Video) - Click on the [object=231910] at coords 58.5, 92.3, then turn around and jump into the [npc=81567] at coords 58.8, 92.8.

• You will then be flown back to Pinchwhistle Gearworks where you will turn in this quest and pick up [item=111957] and recruit [follower=192].

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 30-40
Quest ID36179

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(36179))

What to do

StorylinePinchwhistle Gearworks, step 12 of 14
Rewards16g 98s, 5,450 XP

Description

Those creatures out in the shallows keep busting the turrets as fast as we can get them operational. I'm supposed to go clear them out but my blaster is completely busted; the damn thing barely can light a candle like this! Could you do me a favor and go kill a few of those pests while I get my blaster fixed at the shop? Just let Gazwitz know you covered for me so I can get reimbursed for the repair.

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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.

Spires of Arak Quest turn-in 12 mapped points
Spires of Arak map showing where to go for Unwanted PestsTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #542 61.5 73.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSpires of Arak 61.5, 73.0/way #542 61.5 73.0
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Spires of Arak 63.4, 76.0/way #542 63.4 76.0
  • Objective areaSpires of Arak 62.6, 73.9/way #542 62.6 73.9

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 Spires of Arak map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Spires of Arak:

  • Pinchwhistle Gearworks, Spires of ArakAlliance and Horde · about 40 yards south-west
  • Talon Watch, Spires of ArakAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards north
  • Southport, Spires of ArakAlliance · about 1,400 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 170 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 80 yards south-east

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
Money16 gold98 silver
Experience5,450 XP

Storyline

Pinchwhistle Gearworks

Part 12 of 14.

Previous: Flame On · Next: Field Trial

  1. 1Defungination
  2. 2Spore-be-Gone
  3. 3The Mother Lode
  4. 4Clearing Out Before Cleaning Up
  5. 5Getting the Crew Back Together
  6. 6Skimming Off the Top
  7. 7The Right Parts for the Job
  8. 8Sporicide
  9. 9Preventing the Worst
  10. 10Follow that Hotrod!
  11. 11Flame On
  12. 12Unwanted Pests
  13. 13Field Trial
  14. 14Curing With Force

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.

  • Flame OnSpires of Arak · Level 30-40

    Alright <name>, we've saved as many as we could but now we need to make sure this disaster doesn't spread any further. The firebombs are wired up and ready to go. Kimzee just finished work on the flying machine so we're ready to ride back to the Gearworks as soon as we're finished.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Field TrialSpires of Arak · Level 30-40

    Look, I didn't tell Kimzee about this because I don't want to hurt her feelings, I chose not to leave Pinchwhistle Point. See, I've been working on a serum that I think should be able to cure the infected, but when I tried to test it I got surrounded and I injured my leg during the escape.

Quests that require this one

The storyline at a glance

Pinchwhistle Gearworks has 14 steps, from Defungination to Curing With Force.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Spires of Arak (14).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Spires of Arak 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.