What to do
Thunk at Thunk's Abode wants you to find the Unnatural Outcropping.
The quest giver's words
By authority of the Cenarion Circle, I am charged with turning these harsh lands into lush prairie.
The lands south of here welcomed the growth, but something here is fighting back - resisting the replenishment.
Perhaps your eyes can succeed where mine have failed.
Please, <race>. Scour these lands and discover the source of the desert's stubbornness.
Completion
You look around, scanning the horizon for what might be responsible for placing this stone here....
Category: Desolace.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 11s 40c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 1,900
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at level 36 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 27–36 1,900 100% 37 1,500 80% 38 1,150 60% 39 750 40% 40 380 20% 41–89 190 10% 90 none 11s 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.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 1,900 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
Before this
Nothing – this is where the chain starts.
After this
- Heavy Metal #14254
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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- Smouldering Stone object · Desolace at 0.693, 0.212
- 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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Smouldering Stone
Hand the quest in · 69.3, 21.2
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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.
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 1 min 21 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 2,090 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.
- pick up
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.700, 0.330 median of 1 recorded accept on Desolace
- Turn in
- 0.690, 0.210 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
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
| Character | Time | Deaths | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
1 min 21 s | 0 | 32 | – |
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.