What to do
Report to Warden Stillwater at the Sludge Fields in Hillsbrad Foothills.
The quest giver's words
Warden Stillwater, over at the Sludge Fields, north of here, has sent out a distress signal. The missive wasn't clear, but from what I could make of the letter there's a riot happening at the Sludge Fields and most of the guards have been killed. The warden has warned that any would-be-heroes approach from the back entry, located on the western side of the Sludge Fields.
He's also asked for discretion. He doesn't want news of this little *ahem* uprising to surface.
Completion
Who are you? Did Sylvanas send you? Everything is FINE! Yes, perfectly fine! I've got it all under control!
Well, fine all things considered that is... We've got a few problems that perhaps you could help with, <class>.
Category: Hillsbrad Foothills.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 90c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 170
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at level 26 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 19–26 170 100% 27 130 80% 28 100 60% 29 65 40% 30 35 20% 31–89 15 10% 90 none 90c 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 170 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Undercity +10
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 21, requires level 19
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Human Infestation #28138 · all of these
- Thieving Little Monsters! #28144 · all of these
- Coastal Delicacies! #28146 · all of these
After this
- No One Here Gets Out Alive #28192
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- High Executor Darthalia npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.292, 0.633
- Captain Keyton npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.333, 0.736
- Hand in to
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- Warden Stillwater npc · Hillsbrad Foothills at 0.362, 0.611
- 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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High Executor Darthalia
Starts the quest · 29.2, 63.3
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Captain Keyton
Starts the quest · 33.3, 73.6
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Warden Stillwater
Hand the quest in · 36.2, 61.1
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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 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 1 min 42 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 187 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.
- pick up
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.330, 0.740 median of 1 recorded accept on Hillsbrad Foothills
- Turn in
- 0.360, 0.610 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
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.