Message in a Bottle
Quest #630
Level 51
Stranglethorn Vale
no runs yet
Available in: TBC Anniversary details not known yet Classic Era details not known yet Forever details not known yet · compare
What to do
Slay King Mukla and return to Princess Poobah with the Key to free her.
Objective by objective
- Collect Shackle Key item #4103
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
<name>, I put my faith in you and anyone you can muster to help free me. The great Skymane King Mukla is my captor. He commands the beasts of this island, and they keep me here against my will with the aid of this chain. If you can slay him and find the key to this shackle, I shall be indebted to you greatly.
I often hear him to the southeast side of the island, but please be careful: he is not to be trifled with.
Progress
I thank my ancestors someone has come to aid me. Do you have the key that will free me?
Completion
<name>, you have saved me from a great dishonor. If it was within my power, I would offer you a place among my tribe. But for now, all I can only offer you is this token for the courage and nobility you have shown.
Category: Stranglethorn Vale (Elite).
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Poobah's Nose Ring
item #4118 · Uncommon · item level 50 · sells for 73s 13c
- Money
- none
- and 87s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 7,350
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at level 56 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 45–56 7,350 100% 57 5,900 80% 58 4,400 60% 59 2,950 40% 60 1,450 20% 61–89 725 10% 90 none 87s 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.
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 51, requires level 45
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Message in a Bottle #594 · any one of these
After this
Nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Princess Poobah npc · Stranglethorn Vale at 0.385, 0.806
- Hand in to
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- Princess Poobah npc · Stranglethorn Vale at 0.385, 0.806
- 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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Stranglethorn Vale
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Princess Poobah
Starts the quest · 38.5, 80.6
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Princess Poobah
Hand the quest in · 38.5, 80.6
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King Mukla
Quest objective · 40.6, 83.2
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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 (Stranglethorn Vale), 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.