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Wipe That Grin Off His Face

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

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The Snows of Northrend Quest Tree From Whiterock

#)Where in the World is Hemet Nesingwary?──>a)Welcome to Sholazar Basin

b)Venture Co. Misadventure    a)Need an Engine, Take an Engine
b)Wipe That Grin Off His Face b)Have a Part, Give a Part        b)Engineering a Disaster
 ├──┬──────────────────────────┘   ├>e)Aerial Surveillance
 | c)Kick, What Kick?              └>e)An Embarassing Incident
 | c)The Great Hunter's Challenge    e)Reconnaissance Flight      Force of Nature*
 |
 ├───────────────────────────────────────────┐
c)Dreadsaber Mastery: Becoming a Predator   c)Rhino Mastery: The Test
 |            ├──┬───────────────────────────┘         |  |
 |            | e)Some Make Lemonade, Some Make Liquor | d)A Steak Fit for a Hunter
 |            | e)Still At It                          |
 |            | e)The Taste Test                       |
 |            | #)Fletcher's Lost and Found            | a)It Could Be Anywhere!
 |            └──────┐                                 |
 |                  e)Crocolisk Mastery: The Trial     |
 |                  e)Crocolisk Mastery: The Plan      |
 |                                      ║ |            |
f)Dreadsaber Mastery: Stalking the Prey ║ | d)Rhino Mastery: The Chase
 |                 ║                 ╔══╝ |  ║         |
 |                 ╚═>Lakeside Landing*<══╪══╝         |
 |                                        |            |
f)Dreadsaber Mastery: Ready to Pounce     |           e)An Offering for Soo-rahm
 |                                        |           e)The Bones of Nozronn
 |                  e)Crocolisk Mastery: The Ambush   f)Rhino Mastery: The Kill
 |                                        |            |
 ├────────────────────────┬───────────────┴───┬────────┘
 |                        |                   |
g)Sharpening Your Talons g)Securing the Bait g)In Search of Bigger Game
 ├───────────────────────┬┘
 |                       ├>h)Reagent Agent   g)Burning to Help
i)A Mammoth Undertaking  └>h)My Pet Roc
i)Post-partum Aggression

Legend:
# means Other Zones
* means another Quest Tree.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 20-30
Quest ID12525

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12525))

What to do

StorylineSholazar Basin, step 4 of 65

Description

We must send Foreman Swindlegrin packing if we're going to shut down his mine permanently, but be careful. His bodyguard, Meatpie, is a large, mean ogre, and isn't likely to let you see the foreman without a fight. The two probably occupy a platform that would let them look out over the entire Venture Company operation at Swindlegrin's Dig. Remember, the dig is on the far side of the Suntouched Pillar to the northeast. Good luck, {name}.

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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.

Sholazar Basin Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Sholazar Basin map showing where to go for Wipe That Grin Off His FaceTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #119 27.3 59.9

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSholazar Basin 27.3, 59.9/way #119 27.3 59.9
  • Objective areaSholazar Basin 35.5, 50.0/way #119 35.5 50.0

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 Sholazar Basin map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Sholazar Basin:

  • Nesingwary Base Camp, Sholazar BasinAlliance and Horde · about 100 yards north-west
  • River's Heart, Sholazar BasinAlliance and Horde · about 1,000 yards east
  • Bor'gorok Outpost, Borean TundraHorde · about 1,100 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 460 yards north-east
  • Objective areaabout 470 yards north-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

Choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeMail Wrist
Item level34
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +6 Versatility
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for24 gold13 silver
TypeLeather Wrist
Item level34
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +5 Versatility
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for24 gold3 silver
TypeCloth Wrist
Item level34
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Stats+4 Intellect, +6 Stamina, +9 Versatility
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for23 gold68 silver
TypePlate Wrist
Item level34
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor13
Stats+4 Strength or Intellect, +6 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for24 gold31 silver

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

Sholazar Basin

Part 4 of 65.

Previous: Venture Co. Misadventure · Next: Kick, What Kick?

  1. 1Need an Engine, Take an Engine
  2. 2Have a Part, Give a Part
  3. 3Venture Co. Misadventure
  4. 4Wipe That Grin Off His Face
  5. 5Kick, What Kick?
  6. 6The Great Hunter's Challenge
  7. 7Rhino Mastery: The Test
  8. 8Dreadsaber Mastery: Becoming a Predator
  9. 9Dreadsaber Mastery: Stalking the Prey
  10. 10Rhino Mastery: The Chase
  11. 11Crocolisk Mastery: The Trial
  12. 12Some Make Lemonade, Some Make Liquor

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 65.

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.

  • Venture Co. MisadventureSholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    Ever since we arrived, the Venture Company has hampered our efforts to secure our campsite and survey the area. Normally, we wouldn't care what they were up to, but they've started antagonizing our scouts and shooting down supply flights. We can't allow this insult to stand.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Kick, What Kick?Sholazar Basin · Level 20-30

    So you think you can shoot? Well, let's give it a try. Here, we'll start you out with something nice and gentle. Don't worry, it's got no kick to it at all. Remember, don't point that gun at anything you don't intend to fire at.

The storyline at a glance

Sholazar Basin has 65 steps, from Need an Engine, Take an Engine to Reclamation.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Sholazar Basin (63), Un'Goro Crater (2).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

  • Into the Basin Complete the Sholazar Basin storylines listed below.
  • The Snows of Northrend Complete all of Hemet Nesingwary quests in Northrend up to and including Post-partum Aggression.

Other storylines on the Sholazar Basin 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.