What to do
Ride the Krom'gar Hot Air Balloon and attempt to stop it from destroying Windshear Hold.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Krom'gar Hot Air Balloon NPC #40984
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
We don't have a moment to lose, <name>. You're going to have to commandeer that hot air balloon and stop it!
How? I have no idea! We don't have time to argue details! Grab onto that rope ladder and climb up! Just start banging on stuff once you're inside!
If you somehow manage to stop the balloon and survive, report to Lord Fallowmere at Windshear Hold in the west.
Good luck, we're all counting on you. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to RUN FOR MY LIFE!
Completion
Amazing story, lad. I'd have never believed you had I not seen it with my own eyes. You did enough damage to that balloon to make those fiends pull back! Alas, the threat is far from over. We have only delayed the attack. There is much work to do if we are to stop the Horde from destroying Stonetalon!
Category: Stonetalon Mountains.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Stonetalon Defender's Staff
item #57418 · Uncommon · item level 26 · sells for 49s 29c
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Wand of Bought Time
item #57419 · Uncommon · item level 26 · sells for 49s 47c
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Commandeered Gloves
item #57420 · Uncommon · item level 26 · sells for 13s 98c
- Money
- 40s
- and 16s 20c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 2,650
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at level 31 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 24–31 2,650 100% 32 2,100 80% 33 1,600 60% 34 1,050 40% 35 525 20% 36–89 270 10% 90 none 16s 20c 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
- Gnomeregan +350
- Darnassus +350
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 26, requires level 24
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Orders from High Command #25650 · any one of these
After this
- Free Our Sisters #25662
- Just Ask Alice #25673
- Gerenzo the Traitor #25729
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Boog the "Gear Whisperer" npc · Stonetalon Mountains at 0.725, 0.615
- Hand in to
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- Lord Fallowmere npc · Stonetalon Mountains at 0.596, 0.569
- 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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Stonetalon Mountains
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Boog the "Gear Whisperer"
Starts the quest · 72.5, 61.5
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Lord Fallowmere
Hand the quest in · 59.6, 56.9
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Krom'gar Hot Air Balloon
Quest objective · 73.2, 61.0
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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 (Stonetalon Mountains), 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.