What to do
Place 3 Swoop Eggs in Swoop Nests and protect them until they are collected.
Objective by objective
- Use or find Swoop Nest object #195588
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
As the region becomes more lush, the creatures of the desert are being forced into increasingly confined spaces.
A particularly distressing result is the impending extinction of the local swoops. Predators feast on the birds and their eggs when they take nest.
I have acquired some swoop eggs from Tanaris and coated them with an irresistible pheromone. Place one in each nest you find, then protect it until a swoop comes to carry it off.
You will be doing a service to the balance of this land.
Completion
You have done well, <class>.
This land is in your debt.
Category: Desolace.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Swoop Eggs
The reward
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Featherlight Leggings
item #55894 · Uncommon · item level 31 · sells for 44s 12c
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Collector's Padded Gauntlets
item #55895 · Uncommon · item level 31 · sells for 22s 26c
- Money
- 30s
- and 15s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 2,550
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at level 36 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 27–36 2,550 100% 37 2,050 80% 38 1,500 60% 39 1,000 40% 40 500 20% 41–89 250 10% 90 none 15s 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.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 2,550 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 31, requires level 27
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
This quest stands alone: nothing leads to it and nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Cenarion Embassador Thunk npc · Desolace at 0.704, 0.330
- Hand in to
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- Cenarion Embassador Thunk npc · Desolace at 0.704, 0.330
- 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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Desolace
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Cenarion Embassador Thunk
Starts the quest · 70.4, 33.0
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Cenarion Embassador Thunk
Hand the quest in · 70.4, 33.0
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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.
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
Based on 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.
Same 1 run; mean 32 min 8 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 2,805 XP, done around level 32.
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 (Desolace), 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.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.700, 0.330 median of 1 recorded accept on Desolace
- Turn in
- 0.700, 0.330 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Desolace
- 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 1 — needs 3
Players finish it about 27 min 43 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.600, 0.260 weight 0.33, 1 point
3 recorded positions in Desolace.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
| Character | Time | Deaths | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
32 min 8 s | 0 | 32 | 30s |
Community notes
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