A Dark Threat Looms
Quest #280
Level 18
Loch Modan
no runs yet
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What to do
Chief Engineer Hinderweir wants you to swim down to the base of the dam, locate the powder keg and stir in the Disarming Mixture to prevent an explosion.
The quest giver's words
Earlier today I spotted some Dark Iron Insurgents swimming toward the Dam with a large keg. No Mountaineers were on hand to stop them! I'm afraid they've planted the Seaforium at the base of the Dam and it could blow at any minute! Let me combine all these ingredients into the Disarming Mixture. There we go.
Now I need you to take this mixture and stir it into the keg before it's too late! Hurry!
Progress
The top of the keg slowly twists off.
Completion
The keg fizzles slightly as the Disarming Mixture settles in.
Category: Loch Modan.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Disarming Mixture
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 4s 20c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 675
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at level 23 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 16–23 675 100% 24 550 80% 25 410 60% 26 270 40% 27 140 20% 28–89 70 10% 90 none 4s 20c more money The game pays the full figure up to five levels above the quest, then 20 % less for each level more, down to a tenth, and none at the level cap. A bonus of your own (a guild perk, a holiday) comes on top.
Reputation
- Ironforge +75
Who it is for
- Faction
-
- Race
- Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Draenei
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 18, requires level 16
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- A Dark Threat Looms #278 · any one of these
After this
- A Dark Threat Looms #283
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Chief Engineer Hinderweir VII npc · Loch Modan at 0.461, 0.136
- Hand in to
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- Explosive Charge object · Loch Modan at 0.506, 0.143
- pick up
- turn in
These two markers are the quest giver's and the hand-in's own positions – not where anybody was standing. The recorded positions are further down, under the community data.
Relevant locations
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Loch Modan
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Chief Engineer Hinderweir VII
Starts the quest · 46.1, 13.6
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Explosive Charge
Hand the quest in · 50.6, 14.3
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The pins are the game's own map markers; the coordinates are the game's 0–100, as
/way takes them.
What players recorded
Everything below this line is a different kind of knowledge from everything above it. Above: what the quest is, the same on every realm. Below: what actually happened when people played it, uploaded by them, with the number of runs printed against every figure. It is an observation, not a fact about the quest.
Nobody has completed this quest with telemetry on yet, so there is no timing. Everything below is drawn straight from the 0 recorded attempts the hub has.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 0 runs by 0 players – low confidence. Every upload of this quest sharpens it: the hotspots tighten, the order and the timings settle, and the parts below unlock as the sample grows.
- Where to go – pick-up, objectives and hand-in needs one recorded run not yet
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 0) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 0) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 0 from 0) not yet
Timings
Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.
Same 0 runs.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills.
The route
An early route: drawn from the first runs and sharper with every upload. Pick-up, hand-in and the objective hotspots are where the quest is, so they are shown from the first run.
Map coordinates are the addon's own 0–1 zone coordinates (Loch Modan), origin top-left, x to the right and y downward. Drag the zone map to pan, ctrl/⌘ + scroll or the buttons to zoom; the grid lines are tenths of the zone.
- Pick up
- Not recorded yet.
- Turn in
- Not recorded yet.
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
No objective progress has been uploaded for this quest yet. Once somebody plays it with the addon on, the objectives and their hotspots appear here automatically.
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
No runs recorded yet.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.