What to do
Assemble the Samophlange Manual.
Objective by objective
- Collect Samophlange Manual item #11149
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
Back when I was in the Tinker's Union, Boss Copperplug was the best engineer we had. He defected to the Venture Company shortly before I left, and took his greatest techniques with him. He hoarded his secrets, doling out bits and pieces of knowledge to his trusted inner circle.
If he built the samophlange, then he's probably got the manual. Last I heard, he was operating right here, out of Boulder Lode mine to the northeast. Get the manual from him, and collect the pages from his followers.
Progress
Did you find Copperplug?
Completion
You found it! Wow, it's over 600 pages, only 30 of which are intentionally left blank.
Let's see. Chapter three: Backsplicing the Reverse Crankshaft Flywheel Pulley? Interesting. Chapter seven: Valve Timing for the High-Pressure Expansion Condenser!? This stuff is great! And I still don't even know what this thing does.
Here, have some of my old tools. Let's fire this thing up one last time!
Category: Northern Barrens.
What you need
- You must be carrying
The reward
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Out-of-Date Manual
item #59547 · Uncommon · item level 14 · sells for 4s 57c
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Scrap Metal Shield
item #59548
- Money
- 8s
- and 9s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 1,450
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at level 21 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 14–21 1,450 100% 22 1,150 80% 23 875 60% 24 575 40% 25 290 20% 26–89 150 10% 90 none 9s 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
- Bilgewater Cartel +350
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 16, requires level 14
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Return to Samophlanger #14004 · any one of these
After this
Nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Sputtervalve npc · The Barrens at 0.623, 0.175
- Hand in to
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- Sputtervalve npc · The Barrens at 0.623, 0.175
- 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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The Barrens
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Sputtervalve
Starts the quest · 62.3, 17.5
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Sputtervalve
Hand the quest in · 62.3, 17.5
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Venture Co. Enforcer
Quest objective · 60.4, 3.8
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Venture Co. Overseer
Quest objective · 60.6, 3.8
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Boss Copperplug
Quest objective · 60.0, 4.0
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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 (The Barrens), 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.