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TODO: Bring back a removed Barrens quest #1236

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GizzleBizzle opened this issue Jul 16, 2023 · 0 comments
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TODO: Bring back a removed Barrens quest #1236

GizzleBizzle opened this issue Jul 16, 2023 · 0 comments
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GizzleBizzle commented Jul 16, 2023

The Barrens should have one more quest available to the players in 0.5.3. Not everthing is known about it from the sources we currently have, so I'd rather report what I've managed to find and wait for more sources while working on other issues.

Currently known quest details
Name: Industrial Espionage
Level: 18
Required Level: 13
Location: The Barrens
Quest ID: 859
Offered by: Sputtervalve
Turned in to: Wizzlecrank's Shredder
Quest experience reward: [SPECULATION] Between 200-450 exp.

Quest description text

Director Riddlevox put me in charge of the Union's shredder development program. Few months on the job and I'm already in hot water! See, the Venture Company's new shredder is better than my latest, from the interchangeable hands to the control grips!

My boss has given me a pretty strict deadline, but my boys and I couldn't come up with anything. Nothing was working, so we >decided to "borrow" one of their prototypes. I sent Wizzlecrank to the Sludge Fen to steal one, but he hasn't gotten back yet!

Quest Details
It's a typical breadcrumb quest. Because Wizzlecrank is in a remote area, far away from any quest hub, Blizzard needed to somehow make players aware that there is something to do there, creating a quest that would lead to finding Wizzlecrank and starting the Ignition quest. That is why this quest shouldn't grant a lot of experience, since there is a trend in all alpha breadcrumb quests awarding very little experience.

Later on (patch 0.6 according to my research) this quest was changed into a simple gossip from Sputtervalve.

Sources
WarcraftStrategy (Captured at 19/08/2004 - second day of 0.9)
https://web.archive.org/web/20040819042657/http://wow.warcraftstrategy.com:80/sg_quests.php?QuestId=859

WoWhead (Showing required lvl 13)
https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=859/unused

GoblinWorkshop (Captured at 06/09/2004 - last days of 0.9)
https://web.archive.org/web/20040906103955/http://www.goblinworkshop.com:80/quests/industrial-espionage.html

Screenshot from 0.5.5 with people talking about this quest
https://archive.thealphaproject.eu/media/Alpha-Project-Archive/Images/Azeroth/Kalimdor/Barrens/Goblin%20Shreddar.jpg

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