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Working the Bugs Out

Working the Bugs Out is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Southern Barrens. It is step 50 of 89 in the Southern Barrens storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Southern Barrens at 49.2, 67.9. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

Description

Why high command decided that a silithid mound was the ideal place to build a fortress, I'll never know. Them lil' buggers are tunneling under our fortifications and setting back our timetables. We need to scorch 'em out!

Take this here bucket of burning pitch and dump it on the silithid mounds right outside the main gate. They look like big piles of sand. Kill anything that comes out, but be careful, <name> - them nasties are likely to swarm you when you light those mounds up.

Rewards

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationStormwind +250
Top Comments

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Gyaris+60via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

A lot of people were asking in game on Cenarius where these things are. They are the big termite mounds located outside the main walls of the fortress. There is one to the north of the road, and another amost directly south.

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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 Southern Barrens that reward Stormwind reputation: Running the Gauntlet (+250), Breaking the Siege (+250), Report to Aubrey (+75), Repel Boarders! (+250), The Guns of Northwatch (+75), Run Out the Guns (+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 mapSouthern BarrensTurn-in marker at 49.2, 67.9, 8 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.

Southern Barrens Quest turn-in 8 mapped points
Southern Barrens map showing where to go for Working the Bugs OutTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #199 49.2 67.9

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSouthern Barrens 49.2, 67.9/way #199 49.2 67.9
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Southern Barrens 49.1, 67.6/way #199 49.1 67.6

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 Southern Barrens map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Southern Barrens:

  • Fort Triumph, Southern BarrensAlliance · at the same spot
  • Northwatch Hold, Southern BarrensAlliance · about 1,600 yards north-east
  • Mudsprocket, Dustwallow MarshAlliance and Horde · about 1,700 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Southern Barrens

Part 50 of 89.

Previous: Claim the Battlescar · Next: A Line in the Dirt

  1. 45The Taurajo Briefs
  2. 46Pick-a-Part
  3. 47Powder Play
  4. 48Batteries Not Yet Included
  5. 49Claim the Battlescar
  6. 50Working the Bugs Out
  7. 51A Line in the Dirt
  8. 52Meet the New Boss
  9. 53Lion's Pride
  10. 54Siegebreaker
  11. 55Taking Back Taurajo
  12. 56Honoring the Dead

Showing steps 45 to 56 of 89.

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.

  • Claim the BattlescarSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    The Horde has fought us to a standstill from their stronghold west of here. The fighting continues, even as the land breaks open under our feet. Someone's got to break the stalemate! I need you to venture into the Battlescar and help my men crush the Horde opposition there.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Line in the DirtSouthern Barrens · Level 10-30

    The Alliance scorches a trail of murder across the Barrens. We must stop them here or there is nothing left for us. Across the Fields of Blood there are a number of strategic hills, marked by wooden towers and neutral gray banners.

Also counted by Southern Barrens Quests

Its criteria name 22 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Southern Barrens has 89 steps, from Running the Gauntlet to Sabotage!.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Southern Barrens (88), Northern Barrens (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Southern Barrens 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 this achievement.

Southern Barrens QuestsComplete the Southern Barrens storylines listed below.10
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