Quick Facts

Series

1.	Survey the Lakeshore
2.	Gunk in the Trunk
3.	Dozercism

Storyline
Azshara Runaway Shredder! The Captain's Logs Up a Tree Defend the Gates! Arborcide A Quota to Meet Basilisk Bashin' Stone Cold The Perfect Prism Prismbreak Refleshification Another Warm Body Hand-me-downs Military Breakthrough First Degree Mortar In The Face! Profitability Scouting Private Chat A Thousand Stories in the Sand Memories of the Dead Mystery of the Sarcen Stone Survey the Lakeshore Gunk in the Trunk Dozercism Mortar the Point To Gut a Fish Investigating the Sea Shrine The Keystone Shard Report to Twocrush Sisters of the Sea When Science Attacks Segmentation Fault: Core Dumped Nine's Plan Raptor Raptor Rocket Mysterious Azsharite A Gigantic Snack Befriending Giants Azsharite Experiment Number One The Terrible Tinkers of the Ruined Reaches Azsharite Experiment Number Two Operation Fishgut Rapid Deployment There Are Many Like It Mop Up Halo Drops Field Promotion Head of the Snake Ticker Required Handling the Goods Still Beating Heart Extermination Shore Leave Azshara Blues Friends Come In All Colors A Little Pick-me-up That's Just Rude! Absorbent Full of Hot Water Wash Out Dressed to Impress Waste of Thyme Renewable Resource Shear Will Manual Labor Trouble Under Foot The Pinnacle of Learning Watch Your Step The Trial of Fire The Trial of Frost The Trial of Shadow Xylem's Asylum Wasn't It Obvious? Easy is Boring Turning the Tables Pro-liberation Ice Cold Fade to Black Farewell, Minnow Airborne Again Where's My Head? Lightning Strike Assassination Grounded! Rigged to Blow Push the Button! Blacken the Skies Commando Drop Let Them Feast on Fear The Conquest of Azshara

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Comments

Comment by 9945_

The goblin spawning says that you appear to have "a ghost in the machine"..obvious reference to the anime Ghost in the Shell.

Comment by Khalaas

I'm not sure, but this quest seems to be a subtle nod to Adeptus Mechanicus, techpriests form Warhammer 40.000 universe - they worship the Machine Spirit and exorcise "impure" technology.

Comment by 342288

~~When the goblin starts to "exorcise" the dozer, he will eventually say "I uh - could use a little help here" and will die. Nothing was attacking him or Wanything... What's up?~~

edit: Never mind... Its working now.

Comment by shadow1515

Deus ex machina, or ghost in the machine, refers to the common practice in Greek plays of having a savior, usually a god, be lowered from above the stage to provide a dramatic finish in favor of the protagonist. This was accomplished using a pulley system, so it was literally a ghost (god) from the machine.

The goblin priest's reference to this phrase is a rather amusing irony, since she herself fills the traditional role of the ghost in the machine.

Comment by 193072

If the Dozer is going friendly after becoming hostile not allowing you to kill it drop the quest and relog. This worked for me and another quester in the area after we each tried at least 3 times. Good luck.

~Wiggz

Comment by 537090

it actually has reference to all these things, Ghost in the Shell, the exorcist etc. Whole thing is hilarious, idd a job well done blizz!

Comment by 423211

I would say its mixture of 2 films

1."Christine" from 1983 (movie about possessed car killing humans ) in this case bulldozer that dont like goblins to much :D

2. "Exorcist from 1973

Comment by xurbax

Uh, out of nowhere the Dozer appeared where Horzak Zignibble is (near the mine) and attacked me. Weird. I haven't even started this series of quests.

Comment by 9945_

The priest at one point also says "Well, there's your problem!" which is a reference to Mythbusters.

Comment by MoshJosh

I totally see the the references to the Exorcist and Ghost in the shell, but . .

KIlldozer! is a 1974 Made-for-TV movie. The dozer takes a life of its own and begins killing construction workers.

Watch it for yourself on Youtube. Enjoy!

Comment by 3phase

This quest is still a little buggy in 4.0.6. I kept waiting for the "I could use a little help here." emote. But it evaded all of my attacks which prevented me from completing. 3rd time around I attacked as soon as it turned red and was able to kill it and complete.

Comment by epodox

If this quest bugged for you like it did me, try abandoning the quest and then re-picking it up. This solved my issue and i was finally able to attack the dozer.

Comment by 838038

LMAO...ok..."ghost in the machine" is a term coined in the early days of computer programing...it indicated that there we anormalities that weren't inherent to the programing applied ,generaly caused when 2 or more programs used the logic instilled by the programers to deduce a random or "ghost" result...also just about the time they started using the term.."trash in..trash out"

Comment by Draconin2000

Still bugged. You need to attack the Dozer to exercise it, but the Dozer can't be attacked. Abandoning and reacquiring the quest did not fix the bug.

Comment by klyxmaster

2 things:
1. quest is still bugged. I was able to stand in the middle of the dozer and spam my attack key, and when I hit, the quest worked. If you wait til he says "...could use a hand here" the dozer is still green and you CANNOT attack it.
So give that a shot

2. Missed the Jack nickolson (sp?) from the 1st batman ".. oh we got a live one here"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaBh-B6F2sk

Comment by Ironshocker77

This quest reminds me of Christine, a old movie that tells the story of a car that gains life and turns mad, killing a lot of people. Hope someone got the same reference than i, though obviously it isnt a direct reference.

Comment by kellbyb

Quest Giver: ...what we need is a priest!
Me: Cool, I'm a priest!
Him: Take this flare gun and summon a goblin priest to exorcise my dozer.
Me: Why can't I do it myself?
Him: Just go! Come back when the problem is resolved.
Me: ...

Comment by raistlyn

If you are having problems with this, as soon as he jumps on after saying, "Give me a hand if she gets uppity, will ya?" Spam whatever you need to hit it immediately because that is the only time I saw it go red in the four times I tried this.

I hit it with a ranged spell. This might be the best bet for you since she starts jumping around like a mad (haha) woman.

Uppity indeed.

Comment by 1141855

How many here had Engineering as one of their tradeskills? Just wondering. I ran this one with a previous character and had no problems with it.

Comment by deaths3x

After the quest glitching twice for me, I got it to work by simply just not targetting the dozer until it started attacking me, while both times beforehand I had it targetted then it went green again.
Simple fix?

Comment by 1440987

Dozercism http://youtu.be/EFjezNG7vXg

Comment by 1374013

Dozercism https://youtu.be/IrjcQlNmXSQ

Comment by Vorishgo

"Hail the Omnissiah! He is the God in the Machine, the Source of All Knowledge." (c)

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBibhPVQoWk&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Vomitersoul

This quest pokes fun of many things, but I still didn't see anyone mention the Ghost Buster reference.

The main antagonist there is called Gozer. And this is a Dozer.

So another movie pun to add to the mix. This quest has to have the movie pun record in one quest in WoW.

Comment by Derplyn

"Ghost in the machine" may also refer to mind-body dualism as described by Gilbert Ryle on his book "The Concept of Mind" (1949).

Comment by Melilithia

What a cringeworthy quest. I don't play WoW for ignorant religious references...

Links

Dozercism

Use the Blessed Flare Gun near Clubnik's Dozer to summon in help, then 'Exorcise' the bulldozer.

	Clubnik's Dozer Exorcised (1)
	Blessed Flaregun (Provided) (1)

Description

...what we need is a priest!

Fortunately I have a small budget set aside for the blessing of machinery. Take this flare gun and head over to Margene, my poor sweet busted bulldozer. Fire off the signal and one of our finest airborne priests should airdrop in to get a handle on the situation. Come back when my bulldozer is taken care of!

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Bulldozer Vest			Margene Repair Gloves
	Standard Issue Airborne Belt			Heavy Mechanic's Hauberk

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Bilgewater Cartel

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(14423))