Noxious Lair Investigation
Quest #82
Level 47
Tanaris
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What to do
Bring five Centipaar insect parts from the Noxious Lair to Alchemist Pestlezugg in Gadgetzan.
Objective by objective
- Collect Centipaar Insect Parts item #8587
The quest's own structured objectives. How many of each you need is set by the game when you accept it, so it is not stored here – the sentence above is the quest's own wording.
The quest giver's words
All right now, these reports about the bugs... what we know is that they are draining the water pools that used to be where the Noxious Lair is. What we DON'T know is, well, everything else.
Let's figure out who our enemy is first! I want you to head into the Noxious Lair and get some parts off of those critters. Get five from the Centipaar there and bring them to Alchemist Pestlezugg for him to dink with. With him on the case, we'll figure out what they are!
Progress
You're Junior Surveyor <name>, yes? Quickly now, there is a dire situation at hand! Do you have the insect parts that Fizzledowser said you would?!
Completion
Good work - I'll start my analysis on these now! I can tell you right from the start though... these are nothing like any insect form I have ever seen. It's almost as if these bugs are being controlled by an outside force or something.
You need to go talk to Fizzledowser right away; apparently there is an emergency that he needs your help with on the double! I'm not sure, but I think it involves more of the bugs in the Tanaris desert!
Category: Tanaris.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 50s
- and 27s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 4,500
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at level 52 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 38–52 4,500 100% 53 3,600 80% 54 2,700 60% 55 1,800 40% 56 900 20% 57–89 450 10% 90 none 27s 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
- Gadgetzan +150
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 47, requires level 38
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Gadgetzan Water Survey #992 · any one of these
After this
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Senior Surveyor Fizzledowser npc · Tanaris at 0.502, 0.275
- Hand in to
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- Alchemist Pestlezugg npc · Tanaris at 0.509, 0.270
- 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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Tanaris
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Senior Surveyor Fizzledowser
Starts the quest · 50.2, 27.5
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Alchemist Pestlezugg
Hand the quest in · 50.9, 27.0
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Centipaar Wasp
Quest objective · 36.0, 41.6
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Centipaar Stinger
Quest objective · 36.4, 39.6
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Centipaar Swarmer
Quest objective · 36.8, 40.4
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Centipaar Worker
Quest objective · 32.4, 45.4
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Centipaar Tunneler
Quest objective · 39.0, 29.2
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Centipaar Sandreaver
Quest objective · 32.2, 48.0
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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 (Tanaris), 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.