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What's Left Behind

What's Left Behind is an Alliance-only quest for level 1-10 in New Tinkertown. It is step 25 of 37 in the Gnomeregan storyline. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 1,400 experience and money.

Description

Most of us have seen the sickly and deranged gnomes suffering from exposure to the poisons and radiation of Gnomeregan. Eventually, they will devolve further, until they become mindless, but mostly harmless, puddles of toxic sludge.

My research suggests that we may even be able to restore them from this state. Go to the Toxic Airfield to the south, subdue the toxic sludge I told you about, and bring back the possessions of the gnomes they once were.

Rewards

Money20 silver
Experience1,400 XP
ReputationGnomeregan +250

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Top Comments

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Jrubzjeknf+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The part after finishing this quest is absolutely hilarious.

Tock Sprysprocket is able to bring a small gnome (yes, its possible!) back to life, who walks off before the quest giver can take readings and than spontaneously causes one of the biggest explosion I've ever witnessed in WoW.

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Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
Jrubzjeknf+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The part after finishing this quest is absolutely hilarious.

Tock Sprysprocket is able to bring a small gnome (yes, its possible!) back to life, who walks off before the quest giver can take readings and than spontaneously causes one of the biggest explosion I've ever witnessed in WoW.

3
309256+2via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Do this quest with A Job for the Multi-Bot from Engineer Grindspark, if you don't already have it. Then head southwest to get Dealing with the Fallout, from Corporal Fizzwhistle, behind the building with the mailbox outside.

Then simply run around The Toxic Airfield, dragging your Multi-Bot to the toxic geysers, killing all the Living Contamination and Toxic Sludge you encounter.

Stick around after turning the quest in for the amusing interlude described above.

This quest has no followup, but turning in Dealing With the Fallout leads to What's Keeping Jessup? from Captain Tread Sparknozzle, located by High Tinker Mekkatorque.

Also, by the time you get this quest - or maybe after turning it in, you should hopefully be level 3. Make sure to visit your class trainer to pick up their next quest and train your new ability.

Mage: The Arts of a Mage
Priest: The Arts of a Priest
Rogue: The Arts of a Rogue
Warlock: The Power of a Warlock
Warrior: The Arts of a Warrior

Each class-specific quest has a Star Wars-themed weapon reward:

Mage: Electro-Staff
Priest: Staff of the Force
Rogue: Death Star
Warlock: Vibro Knife
Warrior: Very Light Sabre

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP1,400
MoneyGold20s
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 New Tinkertown that reward Gnomeregan reputation: The Future of Gnomeregan (+75), A Job for the Multi-Bot (+250), The Fight Continues (+250), Scrounging for Parts (+250), Dealing with the Fallout (+250), Missing in Action (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapNew Tinkertown
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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.

New Tinkertown Quest turn-in

Nearby on the New Tinkertown map

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

Getting there

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

  • Kharanos, Dun MoroghAlliance · about 1,100 yards south-east
  • Ironforge, Dun MoroghAlliance · about 1,700 yards east
  • Menethil Harbor, WetlandsAlliance · about 1,800 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 330 yards south

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

Gnomeregan

Part 25 of 37.

Previous: A Job for the Multi-Bot · Next: Dealing with the Fallout

  1. 20Meet the High Tinker
  2. 21The Fight Continues
  3. 22A Triumph of Gnomish Ingenuity
  4. 23Scrounging for Parts
  5. 24A Job for the Multi-Bot
  6. 25What's Left Behind
  7. 26Dealing with the Fallout
  8. 27What's Keeping Kharmarn?
  9. 28Missing in Action
  10. 29Get Me Explosives Back!
  11. 30Finishin' the Job
  12. 31One More Thing

Showing steps 20 to 31 of 37.

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.

  • A Job for the Multi-BotNew Tinkertown · Level 1-10

    If the multi-bot works, it will help us do all kinds of jobs that are unpleasant or dangerous for us gnomes! After Thermaplugg detonated his irradiator at the end of Operation: Gnomeregan, toxic clouds and ooze began bubbling up at the old airfield south of town.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Dealing with the FalloutNew Tinkertown · Level 1-10

    Tock Sprysprocket has some crazy theory about these toxic sludges being the last remnants of gnomes, so my men have orders not to engage them for now. However, the Toxic Airfield, just south of us, is teeming with living contamination.

The storyline at a glance

Gnomeregan has 37 steps, from Pinned Down to On to Kharanos.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): New Tinkertown (30), New Tinkertown (5), Dun Morogh (2).

Other storylines on the New Tinkertown 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.

Related
What's in a Name?
What's in the Box?
What's Keeping Kharmarn?
What's Left
What's Mined Is Yours
What's My Motivation?
What's Old is New
What's Out There?
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