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Ringing Deeps - World Quests / Repeatable Capturing the Cataract's Creatures Nothing to Waste Deworming Solution Claimed Salvage Scrounge that Scrap! Lava Glob Lobbin' Pipe Patcher You Go Take Candle Candle Kingbreaker All Worked Up Digging into Trouble Foggy Faceoff Cloud Farming Courier Mission: Ore Recovery Thieving Snufflers Wayward Walkers Mineral Buildup Taelloch Cleanup Reaching for Resources Special Assignment: When the Deeps Stir Geothermal Gem Treatment Construct Containment Excavation Liberation Rollin' Down in the Deeps Gearing Up for Trouble Everyday I'm Snufflin'

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Comment by TheWildHorse

After you take the quest, take the bucket and drop down below the tracks. It will show ore that you can pick up and fill your bucket up. You cannot be mounted for this nor mount after picking it up or you will drop it all.

Over time you will lose stability so you have to use the action button to replenish. Just click once and aim for the third and smallest segment - the sweet spot - and click the button again to stop the bar. This will replenish your stability and make you walk normal again.

To deposit, you have to launch yourself up on the tracks again using an interactable catapult and walk all the way to the end of the tracks (past the quest-giver) and stand near the entrance into the mountain to drop them. There will be a huge yellow arrow there.

Comment by Pouned

Grab the bucket and go down.
Grab ore. Like 5 of them.
Only use the extra action button when it says : Stumbling.
You WILL DROP the ore. Doesn't matter. Walk towards the catapult at coordinates 63.66 62.89

Stumbling ? Use the button.
Ore drops on the ground ? Grab it again. And move towards the catapult.
When they drop, they drop as little puddles around you, walk over them to grab the ore again.

Once there, use the catapult :
/way 63.66 62.89 Catapult

It moves you up near the bridge.
From there, walk towards the bridge end where a huge yellow arrow is visible, cleaning mobs on route.
Move ore to there :
/way 61.57 62.23 DropOreLocation

At the beginning of the bridge there is smoke : go through it. It will shroud you so you can pass near the mobs without aggroing.

Do NOT mount. Stay on foot at all times.

Comment by Pax0707

This quest is an absolute waste of time.

Comment by queerguy

OMG...I have never felt such a strong desire to break all 10 fingers on the hands of whoever designed THAT quest! Ridiculously time-consuming for NOTHING! Stability button - doesn't work; mobs are spawning like crazy.

Comment by Melandroso

If this is up, you can do the I Only Need One Trip. It is not hard - just pick up all 10 ores before turning any in. If you loose stability, click the extra action button and click it again (and keep it pressed down), to get stability back.

Comment by Bursi

Don't mount.

Comment by Hipodil

I hate this world quest!

Comment by ivikatasha

If you think the stabilize extra action button does nothing: you have to click the extra action button twice. Once to start the ability and once again to stop in the best spot, the 3rd one

I did not have to hold the button down, holding it down and releasing it on the best section did not work for me at all

Comment by Shashos

Boy, I love this one. /s

Get aggro from mobs and watch as other players run over and grab the quest items, leaving you to fight everything.

Will not do this one again.

Comment by linda535

Worst. Quest. Ever.
20 second CD on the Stability buff, which takes too long to give credit. Once I got to 50%, I couldn't catch up. Adds hitting you all over. Elites pathing.
If it had a really good reward, it might be worth it. But not.

Comment by Nagratz

You have to stop to use the special action button.

It acts like a Evoker ranked ability (press to start and hold it until it gets to the 3rd bar then let up on the button)

Comment by ComeAndSee

This quest is pure torture.

Comment by AdenAndrews

EASIEST METHOD!
Use the Improvised Springboard to throw you up onto the bridge. Makes things a lot easier.
located at /way 63.67 62.94.

Comment by Ovez

No mounts allowed. Click bucket. Jump down. Collect ore. Walk back to where you jumped down from. Walk over bridge. Channel new ability if you fall (like Evoker abilities).

Comment by slashtwo

Its a never again from me.

Comment by shofixti

Maybe they've adjusted the quest some since launch, but even at oh-dark-thirty EU time when I did the quest, the monster spawn rate wasn't too bad. I went down the ramp by the bucket pile, picked up all of my ten things, walked back up the ramp, through the smoke, and across the bridge. Things I noted:

Click the action button once to start the meter, and once again to stop it (I felt like I was playing Links Golf from the old days). With my US lag, I had to do the second press juuuust before crossing into the third section. If you do it right you get all your stability and can hoof it for a bit.
Once on the bridge, headed west towards the big door and the turn-in, keep an eye out over the door for the swooping birbs. They'll fly down the bridge and if they hit you, you'll drop all your ore and have to pick it up again. If it falls inside an object where you can't reach, sucks to be you, you have to get more. There are also birbs that cross the bridge from the sides, so keep your head (or mouse, really) on a swivel.

Keep your eyes open, be steady with the action button, and be patient, and you can have your achievement in no time!

Comment by dreamgarden

There should be an achievement for completing this quest. Well, I guess there is (I Only Need One Trip). Might want to try that after getting better gear.
The instructions for this quest are unclear. Yes, you do deposit ore at the end of the bridge (eventually), but that is like step 6. Where are the instructions for the rest of the steps?

Pick up bucket
Fly down from bridge
Pick up bits of ore. The highlighted stuff. You might not want to do all 10 at once because you might die or something and lose them ALL and have to start over. If you can get the ones near the springboard, all the better.
- DO NOT MOUNT AGAIN AFTER STARTING TO PICK UP ORE
- I had to pretty much ignore the whole "stabilize" stupidity because it generally triggered while I was trying to battle 3-7 mobs at the same time.
Use springboard to get back up to bridge.
/way 63.66 62.89 Springboard
Walk through smoke
Go to end of bridge until you reach the door and ore gets deposited.

Comment by HellViper

If you are a death knight that has the On a Paler Horse hero talent you can use your Acherus Deathcharger mount during this world quest.

Comment by kornfreak78

This quest can go straight to hell. I attempted it.. and yeah, never again.

Comment by Brad1987

This may in fact be the worst world quest that has ever been in WoW... What a painful experience. Note to self, no reward is worth this waste of time....

Comment by Vampyrr

Reminder you must click and HOLD the Stabilize! Action button and release where you want it to stop the small bar is the sweet spot and refills all your stability.

Comment by Info

Can Blizzard, for the love of God, stop hiring the village idiot to design world quests?

Comment by kotasbu

this appears to be bugged for me. I picked up the bucket, my queue popped for a dungeon. I came back. the bucket which is listed as optional is greyed out. on the WQ. It's not in my inventory as far as i know. I cannot find it again to use. No ore is shiny to be pickedup.

Comment by utakata

Not even seeing action button great job blizz 👎

Comment by seventhbeacon

Seriously just f*ck this quest and the devs who designed it.

Comment by knitwhit

Save your sanity and don't do this quest.

Comment by dylacat

Yes, it took a while. You gotta watch that meter. As long as you keep steady, and don't aggro too many at once, it's easy. I got the achievement too. Good luck everyone! 🖤

Comment by NickJ

Literally, the worst WQ in The War Within. The reward of 800g should be 2000g for how long and arduous this quest was.

Comment by Alieru

I lost my ore bucket and I can't find another one. I'm at 8/10 ore deposited. I tried leaving the quest area, relogging, everything I could think of...still no ore buckets.

Comment by Werdax

just deposited 10 ore to the npc at the end that lets you deposit ore to her... and that's not where you take the ore... yeah this WQ is one of the stupidest they've ever designed

Comment by Dakanlord

how bad a person can be on their job to design such a garbage, frustrating quest?

Comment by Haxan

Just one word: Abandon!

Comment by AskeHK

This world quest can be quite annoying because of the mob density.
If you have a tank or healer spec - or enough movement tools to run away - I'd recommend just getting the ores you need and rushing through the mobs without killing any of them.

Whenever you go down to ~50 stability just use your extra action button. You need to recast it at the tiny third spot on the cast bar, doing so gives you sprint and immunity to stability loss for a while.

Comment by sunman42

Cue "I enjoy being a (nelf assassination) rogue" to the tune of "I enjoy being a girl." Long, slow-ish, but can be easily done in stealth. If an upset mob pops up when you grab the ore, pop Shadowmeld or Vanish, lather, head back up the slop to the railroad spur, pop Sprint, head for the deposit location, later, rinse, repeat. Helps if you have a few speed enhancement enchants on gear.

Comment by RhazzahDoom

I might be able to do that quest on my heroic geared warrior, but other than that... totally not worth it. Too many mobs and they hit like trucks. Forget trying to do that quest for the piece of gear it drops.

Comment by omedon666

Found the war within's "Nope" world quest!

Comment by Vikerules

proof right here that wow devs are completely and utterly clueless on how to make a video game

Comment by nikkenson

Yes this quest is frustrating, but! For anyone who looked this up wanting instructions on helping with the actual World Quest:

The "stabilize" action button works similarly to an Evoker ability channel, press it once to 'activate' and press it again to help stabilize yourself with the ore, aiming for the smallest notch to get the most stability. (This can also grant you a speed boost)
Try to gather ore as closely as possible to the foot of the bridge OR near the springboard, this will help to avoid a long path to the drop-spot and hopefully less dropped ore.
Don't mount. You'll lose all your ore.
You CAN travel with less ore to make it a tad less frustrating, it will just take more trips.
The drop location is the furthest end of the bridge to the west where the Arathi NPCs are wandering, a yellow arrow will indicate the drop-point that you can see when on the bridge.
Avoid the Deepflayers at all costs, they will make you instantly drop all of your carried ore regardless of how much stability you have. (Taking them out is preferable if you're able to.)
You can re-collect any dropped ore but it will despawn fairly quickly, so try to make picking it back up a priority.

Good luck!

Comment by Dracology

fight through hordes of adds, find ore, can't even interact with it. Great. Just reading the other comments this seems like a do not bother WQ

Comment by Seniri

Yeah I'm never attempting this %^&*ing piece of $%^& quest again. Died twice with full loads on the way back, as a clothy.

Comment by HLProthall

I tried this quest once in beta. Key word: tried. I would literally prefer to quest in the Maw, pre-able to mount times, than do this quest ever again.

Comment by Zaazu91

You can use the Vulpera racial Make Camp to set your camp at the drop-off point, then collect all 10 pieces, then return to your camp for an easy win.

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Courier Mission: Ore Recovery

	Pick up an ore bucket (1)
	Deposit a total of 10 ore across the bridge to the west (10)

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(82580))

Courier Mission: Ore Recovery

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