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Work Order: Highmountain Salmon

Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Location: Fish anywhere in Highmountain, both open water or fish pools.

Hand in to [npc=106902] located on the top level of the building, SW from the flight path (turn right).

Objective: Catch 40 x Highmountain Salmon.

Reward: 1 x Random rare fish lure such as [item=133701], [item=133721].

Notes:


  • If the world quest Assault on Thunder Totem is active, on arriving at Thunder Totem the area will be phased with attacking and hostile NPCs on the top deck.

  • Also, [npc=106902] will be phased out so you will need to complete the assault quest first in order to deactivate that phase and speak to the hand in NPC.

  • For the hand in alternatively store the salmon in your bank (no need to have them in your inventory) prior to the quest, or purchase from the Auction House and hand in.

  • Actually fishing the Highmountain Salmon will not be quick because there are currently not many fish pools in the zone close together and are often on varying levels making it time consuming to gather, especially 40.

  • It may be easier to simply fish the open water around Thunder Totem to catch them at approximately a 20% drop rate.

  • The quest icon on the World Map can be partially hidden under the Assault on Thunder Totem quest icon, so double check carefully. Or use the Active World Quests: North America (or EU version) tool on this site; deselect all quest Types except the Professions & Skills option which should help.

Edit:
Updated to reflect the random fish lure reward. I got the [item=133701] and others reporting (including the wowhead wolrd quest maps) [item=133721]. Perhaps this varies between NA and EU or simply is randomly set each time it is up.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 45
LocationHighmountain, Thunder Totem
SideBoth
SharableNo
Added inLegion
Quest ID41240

The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(41240))

Requirements

Quest typeFishing World Quest
ProfessionFishing (skill 75)

Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.

Objectives

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.

Highmountain Objective area 1 mapped point
Highmountain map showing where to go for Work Order: Highmountain SalmonObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #650 45.9 60.5

Thunder Totem Objective area no plotted point

Coordinates

  • Objective areaHighmountain 45.9, 60.5/way #650 45.9 60.5

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 Highmountain map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Highmountain:

  • Thunder Totem, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 80 yards north-east
  • Nesingwary's Retreat, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 540 yards north-west
  • Sylvan Falls, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 750 yards west

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.

Objective targets

Highmountain Salmon

KindItem
Needed40
Item typeTrade Goods
Lowest listed price2 gold99 silver

Creature, object and item facts from the current retail client; “also asked for by” lists other quests whose objectives name the same target. Prices are the US commodity auction house’s lowest listed price.

Related

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Where this quest fits

Other storylines on the Highmountain 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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward these achievements.