What to do
Take the Krom'gar Hot Air Balloon to the Sludgewerks in Stonetalon Mountains.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Krom'gar Hot Air Balloon NPC #41987
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
Champion, we have acquired a new target. Our scouts in Battlescar Valley report that the night elves are preparing their own weapon of mass destruction and hiding it within an ancient tree. They will never be given the chance to use their weapon against us.
You are to escort the bomb to the Sludgewerks for refueling and then to Cliffwalker Post, from which we will detonate the bomb and kill all of our enemies.
Go now, <name>. Report to Jibbly Rakit when you arrive at the Sludgewerks.
Completion
Krom'gar has sent his champion! Well you haven't a thing to worry about, Champion. We'll get the balloon all fueled up in no time. How about you lend a hand around here while you wait?
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
- none
- and 7s 20c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 1,200
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at level 35 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 26–35 1,200 100% 36 950 80% 37 725 60% 38 480 40% 39 240 20% 40–89 120 10% 90 none 7s 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.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 1,200 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Orgrimmar +75
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 30, requires level 26
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- All's Quiet on the Southern Front #26073 · any one of these
After this
- The Turd Problem #26075
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Overlord Krom'gar npc · Stonetalon Mountains at 0.661, 0.637
- Hand in to
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- Jibbly Rakit npc · Stonetalon Mountains at 0.529, 0.391
- 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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Overlord Krom'gar
Starts the quest · 66.1, 63.7
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Jibbly Rakit
Hand the quest in · 52.9, 39.1
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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 3 min 16 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 1,320 XP, done around level 29.
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
- 0.660, 0.640 median of 2 recorded accepts on Stonetalon Mountains
- Turn in
- 0.530, 0.390 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 1
Players finish it about 1 min 46 s into the quest (median over 2 runs, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.510, 0.460 weight 1.00, 2 points
2 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 |
3 min 11 s | 0 | 29 | – |
Community notes
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