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A Little Payback

Quest #25589 Level 41 Thousand Needles Horde only no runs yet

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What to do

Slay 15 Southsea pirates at the Southsea Holdfast.

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

It's time for a little payback, I think. Can you blame me? After they locked me down in that outhouse and left me to drown?!

I'll make it worth your while if you head up to the Southsea Holdfast on the eastern bluffs and exact my revenge.

Completion

That'll teach those scurvy dogs! You have my thanks, <name>.

Category: Thousand Needles.

What you need

Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.

The reward

  • Paper Roll Bracers item #63578 · Uncommon · item level 41 · sells for 51s 1c
  • Rugfizzle's Boots item #63579 · Uncommon · item level 41 · sells for 76s 22c
  • Outhouse Boots item #63580 · Uncommon · item level 41 · sells for 76s 51c
  • Payback Band item #63581 · Uncommon · item level 41 · sells for 43s 27c
Money
55s
and 27s 60c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
Experience
4,600
at level 46 or lower; less above
By character level
LevelExperienceShare
38–46 4,600 100%
47 3,650 80%
48 2,750 60%
49 1,850 40%
50 925 20%
51–89 460 10%
90 none 27s 60c 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: 5,060 experience (median of 1 run), 55s (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 4,600 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 41, requires level 38
Profession
none
Repeats
once only

The chain

Before this

After this

Nothing follows it.

Where it starts and ends

Starts at
  • Rugfizzle npc · Thousand Needles at 0.782, 0.738
Hand in to
  • Rugfizzle npc · Thousand Needles at 0.782, 0.738
Where A Little Payback starts and ends in Thousand Needles
Where A Little Payback starts and ends in Thousand Needles
  • 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 Thousand Needles
Relevant locations in Thousand Needles
  • Thousand Needles
    • Rugfizzle Starts the quest · 78.2, 73.8
    • Rugfizzle Hand the quest in · 78.2, 73.8
    • Southsea Sailor Quest objective · 92.0, 73.8

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 3 recorded attempts the hub has.

How precise this guide is

Early guide Built from 3 runs by 1 player – medium 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 0) not yet
  • Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 3) 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: 0 completed runs behind the medians, 3 recorded attempts in total.
– median time (accept → turn in) from 0 runs

Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.

– fastest recorded run

Same 0 runs.

1 / 3 turned in / attempted nobody abandoned it

Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.

0.7 deaths per attempt 2 deaths in total

23 tracked kills, typically 5,060 XP, done around level 40.

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 (Thousand Needles), 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 A Little Payback in Thousand Needles
Overview of A Little Payback in Thousand Needles
  • hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
  • where players were
  • pick up
  • turn in
  • where players die – not published yet

Where they happened is shown once at least 5 characters from at least two different people have done this quest (now 1 from 1): unlike the route, a death spot is about the player, not the quest.

Pick up
0.780, 0.740 median of 1 recorded accept on Thousand Needles
Turn in
0.780, 0.730 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Thousand Needles
Deaths during this quest
2 deaths, in 2 runs Only deaths between accepting and finishing this quest count. Where they happened is not published yet – see the map above.

Objectives, in the order players do them

Order published by the analyser from 3 runs.

Objective 1 — needs 15

Players finish it about 3 min 19 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet

Go to (published hotspots):

  1. 0.920, 0.760 weight 0.80, 24 points

15 recorded positions in Thousand Needles.

Objective 1 of A Little Payback in Thousand Needles
Objective 1 of A Little Payback in Thousand Needles
  • hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
  • where players were
  • pick up
  • turn in
  • where players die – not published yet

Tips

No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.

Recorded runs

The most recent 3 of 3 attempts; the median above is built from 0 completed runs.
Character Time Deaths Level Reward
Bananaroot-HoptallusPandaQuest supporter – 0 41 55s
Bananaroot-HoptallusPandaQuest supporter – 0 – –
Bananaroot-HoptallusPandaQuest supporter – 0 40 –

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