Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Quest #26046
Level 27
Stonetalon Mountains
2 runs – thin
What to do
Kill 12 Raging Earth Elementals.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Raging Earth Elemental NPC #41993
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
Dontrag can explain it better than me. Basically, we're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Can't do anything down here due to all of the things that can kill us and can't go back to the base due to all of the things that can kill us - you know?
Perhaps if we worked together we might be able to get this mess sorted out. How about you get started by clearing out some of these elementals that have apparently killed everything in the mine, ok?
Completion
Get the parts, kill the elementals and rescue the peons... We get all of that done and we're as good as promoted!
Category: Stonetalon Mountains.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 22s
- and 19s 80c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 3,300
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at level 32 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 24–32 3,300 100% 33 2,650 80% 34 2,000 60% 35 1,300 40% 36 650 20% 37–89 330 10% 90 none 19s 80c 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 3,300 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Orgrimmar +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 27, requires level 24
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Where Are the Parts? #26044 · any one of these
After this
- Spare Parts Up In Here! #26048
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Scout Utvoch npc · Stonetalon Mountains at 0.671, 0.645
- Hand in to
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- Scout Utvoch npc · Stonetalon Mountains at 0.671, 0.645
- 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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Scout Utvoch
Starts the quest · 67.1, 64.5
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Scout Utvoch
Hand the quest in · 67.1, 64.5
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Raging Earth Elemental
Quest objective · 67.2, 65.4
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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 2 completed runs. 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 2 runs by 2 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 available
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 2) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 2) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 2 from 2) not yet
Timings
Based on 2 completed runs. Published by the analyser – low confidence.
Same 2 runs; mean 8 min 7 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
15 tracked kills, typically 3,630 XP, done around level 26.
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.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.670, 0.650 median of 2 recorded accepts on Stonetalon Mountains
- Turn in
- 0.670, 0.650 median of 2 recorded turn-ins on Stonetalon Mountains
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
Order published by the analyser from 2 runs.
Objective 1 — needs 12
Players finish it about 6 min 12 s into the quest (median over 2 runs, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.667, 0.687 weight 1.00, 36 points
24 recorded positions in Stonetalon Mountains.
- 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 |
9 min 43 s | 0 | 26 | 22s |
Community notes
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