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When Life Gives You Crabs

When Life Gives You Crabs is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Wetlands. It is step 11 of 40 in the Wetlands storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Wetlands at 11.2, 57.6. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money.

Description

There's a lot to do here, <class>, but we need to keep an eye out for the gifts of fate.

When the flood rolled in, right over our houses, it swept a good number of ocean dwellers with it. Menethil Bay's full of crabs now, large and ripe for the picking.

When life gives you crabs, go crab fishing, I say. Bring me back the largest, meatiest claws you can find and I'll pay you.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationStormwind +250
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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s
ReputationStormwind+250

Reward details

Reputation: Stormwind +250

One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Wetlands that reward Stormwind reputation: Claws from the Deep (+250), Reclaiming Goods (+75), The Search Continues (+25), Search More Hovels (+75), Return the Statuette (+350), The Cursed Crew (+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 mapWetlandsTurn-in marker at 11.2, 57.6, 12 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 12 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #56 11.2 57.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inWetlands 11.2, 57.6/way #56 11.2 57.6
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Wetlands 16.9, 56.6/way #56 16.9 56.6
  • Objective areaWetlands 11.1, 57.8/way #56 11.1 57.8

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 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:

  • Menethil Harbor, WetlandsAlliance · about 90 yards south-west
  • Ironforge, Dun MoroghAlliance · about 1,100 yards south
  • Whelgar's Retreat, WetlandsAlliance · about 1,200 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 240 yards 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Wetlands

Part 11 of 40.

Previous: Assault on Menethil Keep · Next: Reclaiming Goods

  1. 6Fenbush Berries
  2. 7Get Out Of Here, Stalkers
  3. 8Down In Thelgen Rock
  4. 9Incendicite Ore
  5. 10Assault on Menethil Keep
  6. 11When Life Gives You Crabs
  7. 12Reclaiming Goods
  8. 13The Search Continues
  9. 14Search More Hovels
  10. 15Return the Statuette
  11. 16The Third Fleet
  12. 17Cursed to Roam

Showing steps 6 to 17 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.

  • Assault on Menethil KeepWetlands · Level 10-30

    We'd barely pulled ourselves together after the flood when the Dark Iron hit the town. My men and I all rushed to defend the townsfolk, but the crazed fools retreated right into the keep itself. They're holed up good, and we can't destroy the keep. Not with half the town in ruins already.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Reclaiming GoodsWetlands · Level 10-30

    Not long ago a merchant vessel, the Blind Princess, was raided by murlocs. Although the ship escaped intact, much of its cargo was dragged overboard by the creatures, including a very valuable statuette of Terenas Menethil. We want that statuette recovered.

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).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

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.

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Database

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