What to do
Capture 8 Hillsbrad Humans.
Objective by objective
- Kill (any of) Captured Hillsbrad Human NPC #47689 counts 7 different creatures
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
This mine was once the heart of Alliance mining operations in Hillsbrad. It now serves as a breeding ground for our loyal spiders, though, the humans still occupy it - in a way.
<Keyton grins.>
But onto business! Warden Stillwater has called for more workers at the Sludge Fields. I want you to enter the mine with these shackles and capture Hillsbrad humans for labor in the fields.
Break them out of their web paralysis and beat them into submission before you use the shackles.
Progress
We mustn't keep the warden waiting!
Completion
These will do nicely. I do wonder what the warden has planned for them. Last I heard the Sludge Fields were overrun by some very bad things.
Category: Hillsbrad Foothills.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Titanium Shackles
The reward
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Officer's Armbands
item #65668 · Uncommon · item level 20 · sells for 6s 16c
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Slaver's Leggings
item #65690 · Uncommon · item level 20 · sells for 12s 68c
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Binding Chains
item #65709 · Uncommon · item level 20 · sells for 6s 35c
- Money
- none
- and 14s 40c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 2,350
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at level 25 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 19–25 2,350 100% 26 1,900 80% 27 1,400 60% 28 950 40% 29 470 20% 30–89 240 10% 90 none 14s 40c 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 2,350 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Undercity +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- 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.
After this
- Trouble at the Sludge Fields #28168
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Captain Keyton npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.333, 0.736
- Hand in to
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- Captain Keyton npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.333, 0.736
- 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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Hillsbrad Foothills
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Captain Keyton
Starts the quest · 33.3, 73.6
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Captain Keyton
Hand the quest in · 33.3, 73.6
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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 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
Based on 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.
Same 1 run; mean 3 min 34 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
1 tracked kill, typically 2,585 XP, done around level 22.
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.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.330, 0.730 median of 1 recorded accept on Hillsbrad Foothills
- Turn in
- 0.330, 0.740 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 1 — needs 8
Players finish it about 3 min 20 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.330, 0.730 weight 1.00, 9 points
8 recorded positions 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
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.