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Survey the Lakeshore

Quest #14202 Level 12 Azshara Horde only 1 run – thin

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What to do

Escort a Goblin Surveyor to the three pieces of Surveyor's Equipment that surround Lake Mennar, and defend her while she takes readings. Another Surveyor can always be summoned with your Surveyor's Beacon.

Objective by objective

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 these cruddy ancient ruins have to be bulldozed if we're ever to see Azshara 's full potential. Look on my map here - you see Lake Mennar, to the East? I'll tell you what I see: a future rocket fuel depot!

But we need an accurate lay of the land before we can clearcut, bulldoze, landfill, and pave over that lake. All of my surveyors have been spooked off by the oogly-boogleys haunting that area. Escort one of my Jr. grade surveyors to the area and take readings from the equipment that's been set up.

Progress

No buncha dead elves can put a stop to progress. Not on my watch!

Completion

Beautiful work! Now that we know the area better, we can tear this lake a new one.

Category: Azshara.

What you need

Handed to you when you accept it
Surveyor's Beacon

The reward

No item reward.

Money
5s
and 5s 40c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
Experience
900
at level 17 or lower; less above
By character level
LevelExperienceShare
10–17 900 100%
18 725 80%
19 550 60%
20 360 40%
21 180 20%
22–89 90 10%
90 none 5s 40c 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.

Observed, what players here were paid: 990 experience (median of 1 run), 5s (median of 1 run).

The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.

  • Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 900 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.

Reputation

Who it is for

Faction
Horde only
Race
any race
Class
any class
Level
quest level 12, requires level 10
Profession
none
Repeats
once only

The chain

Before this

After this

Where it starts and ends

Starts at
Hand in to
Where Survey the Lakeshore starts and ends in Azshara
Where Survey the Lakeshore starts and ends in Azshara
  • 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

Relevant locations in Azshara
Relevant locations in Azshara

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.

This guide rests on 1 completed run. That is enough to show where people went and not enough to trust the timings – treat them as one player's evening.

How precise this guide is

Early guide Built from 1 run by 1 player – 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 available
  • Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 1) not yet
  • Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 1) not yet
  • Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 1 from 1) not yet

Timings

Observed, not a fact about the game: 1 completed run behind the medians, 1 recorded attempt in total.
8 min 29 s median time (accept → turn in) from 1 run

Based on 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.

8 min 29 s fastest recorded run slowest 8 min 29 s

Same 1 run; mean 8 min 29 s.

1 / 1 turned in / attempted nobody abandoned it

Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.

0.0 deaths per attempt 0 deaths in total

0 tracked kills, typically 990 XP, done around level 15.

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 (Azshara), 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.

Overview of Survey the Lakeshore in Azshara
Overview of Survey the Lakeshore in Azshara
  • hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
  • where players were
  • pick up
  • turn in
Pick up
0.300, 0.670 median of 1 recorded accept on Azshara
Turn in
0.300, 0.670 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Azshara
Deaths during this quest
None recorded – nobody died doing this.

Objectives, in the order players do them

Order published by the analyser from 1 run.

Objective 2 — needs 1

Players finish it about 1 min 23 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet

Go to (published hotspots):

  1. 0.350, 0.720 weight 1.00, 1 point

1 recorded position in Azshara.

Objective 2 of Survey the Lakeshore in Azshara
Objective 2 of Survey the Lakeshore in Azshara
  • hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
  • where players were
  • pick up
  • turn in

Objective 3 — needs 1

Players finish it about 3 min 28 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet

Go to (published hotspots):

  1. 0.370, 0.750 weight 1.00, 1 point

1 recorded position in Azshara.

Objective 3 of Survey the Lakeshore in Azshara
Objective 3 of Survey the Lakeshore in Azshara
  • hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
  • where players were
  • pick up
  • turn in

Objective 1 — needs 1

Players finish it about 5 min 43 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet

Go to (published hotspots):

  1. 0.340, 0.770 weight 1.00, 1 point

1 recorded position in Azshara.

Objective 1 of Survey the Lakeshore in Azshara
Objective 1 of Survey the Lakeshore in Azshara
  • hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
  • where players were
  • pick up
  • turn in

Tips

The analyser has not published tips for this quest yet. These are read straight off the raw runs on this page, with the evidence spelled out.

  • Most players finish objective 2 first.Evidence: median time to reach it is the shortest, over 1 run

Recorded runs

No runs recorded yet.

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