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Welcome to the Machine

Quest #28096 Level 20 Hillsbrad Foothills Horde only 1 run – thin

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What to do

Hand out 3 Quests.

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

Come in here dear <boy/girl>, have a cigar. You're gonna go far and fly high as a ranking officer of the Forsaken. Yes, indeed, this is the good life and you are going to live it!

I want you to take these orders and dispense them to the lowly scrubs that come along looking for work. Who you give what to is wholly at your discretion.

When you're ready, mount up on my trusty skeletal steed - so they don't miss you - and start living the life! Which means just stand there and wait.

Progress

How's the "desk job" coming?

Completion

So how was it? Everything that you dreamed it would be? Exciting, no?

No?

<Darthalia sighs.>

I can see that you're a true hero. You need action. I guess a "desk job" isn't for you.

Category: Hillsbrad Foothills.

What you need

Handed to you when you accept it
Daily Report - Hillsbrad Foothills

The reward

Money
none
Experience
1,550
at level 25 or lower; less above
By character level
LevelExperienceShare
19–25 1,550 100%
26 1,250 80%
27 925 60%
28 625 40%
29 310 20%
30–89 160 10%
90 none level cap

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: 1,705 experience (median of 1 run), no money (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 1,550 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 20, requires level 19
Profession
none
Repeats
once only

The chain

Before this

Nothing – this is where the chain starts.

Where it starts and ends

Starts at
Hand in to
Where Welcome to the Machine starts and ends in Hillsbrad Foothills
Where Welcome to the Machine starts and ends in Hillsbrad Foothills
  • 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 Hillsbrad Foothills
Relevant locations in Hillsbrad Foothills

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

Observed, not a fact about the game: 1 completed run behind the medians, 1 recorded attempt in total.
23 min 35 s median time (accept → turn in) from 1 run

Based on 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.

23 min 35 s fastest recorded run slowest 23 min 35 s

Same 1 run; mean 23 min 35 s.

1 / 1 turned in / attempted nobody abandoned it

Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.

0.0 deaths per attempt 0 deaths in total

0 tracked kills, typically 1,705 XP, done around level 21.

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 (Hillsbrad Foothills), 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 Welcome to the Machine in Hillsbrad Foothills
Overview of Welcome to the Machine in Hillsbrad Foothills
  • hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
  • where players were
  • pick up
  • turn in
Pick up
0.290, 0.630 median of 1 recorded accept on Hillsbrad Foothills
Turn in
0.290, 0.630 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Hillsbrad Foothills
Deaths during this quest
None recorded – nobody died doing this.

Objectives, in the order players do them

Order published by the analyser from 1 run.

Objective 3 — needs 1

Players finish it about 23 min 22 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet

Go to (published hotspots):

  1. 0.290, 0.630 weight 1.00, 1 point

1 recorded position in Hillsbrad Foothills.

Objective 3 of Welcome to the Machine in Hillsbrad Foothills
Objective 3 of Welcome to the Machine in Hillsbrad Foothills
  • 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

No runs recorded yet.

Community notes

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