Quick Facts

Series

1.	Rocket Rescue
2.	Momentum

Storyline
Tanaris Seaside Salvage Puddle Stomping Rocket Rescue Dead Man's Chest To The Ground! Lootin' Plunder Going Off-Task Filling Our Pockets Captain Dreadbeard All Cheered Out Cutting Losses Chicken of the Desert A Great Idea Just Trying to Kill Some Bugs Define "Crazy" What We Came For Terrapination You Too, Brute? Thunderdrome: The Ginormus! Thunderdrome: Zumonga! Thunderdrome: Sarinexx! Thunderdrome: Grudge Match! Ancient Obstacles Laying Claim Fragments of Language The Secrets of Uldum What Lies Within The Grand Tablet

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Comments

Comment by Vlad

When you start the quest (Horde version or deprecated quest) you are mounted onto Balloon Throwing Station and after a small while the balloon is armed and you may now shoot two types of rockets:

Deliver Life-Rocket (shoot at Steamwheedle survivors)
Pirate-Destroying Bomb (shoot at Southsea pirates)
Emergency Rocket Pack (to return to the shore -in style!)

Comment by Raincloud

Hotair baloon at 58.27

Comment by winterhoof

as of the hotfix today Q wouldn't work for me (cant confirm if thats fault at my end or everyones not able 2 do it) but instead of being able too choose where you can place the "safety" rockets and bombs it just fires them infront of you, rather annoying since until thats fixed tanaris is basicly locked out :(

Comment by 08Jacob

After looking a while myself I can report that the baloon is just next to the docks.

Comment by 578741

Indeed, the balloon is just outside Gadget via the east exit , 53,27.

Comment by wharris

Was there supposed to be some dialog with Noggenfogger? The next quest says something about being asked to take care of the rest of the goblins, but the only dialog I saw is the normal one between gnome vs goblin.

Comment by 364647

The next quest after this one should be Momentum. Head east along the coast till you get to the tunnel that takes you to Lost Rigger Cover. You will need to speak with Kelsey Steelspark. She can be found at cords 69:42.

Comment by orangeboom

Outside with the dock's you can see the hot-balloon, click on it and be prepared to have fun! =3

After clicking on it, fly around and shoot down on the mod's.

When you are done with savin 5 soul's and killin 40 she devil's simply just click the spell to become Superman and can fly back to the startin point.

Comment by Evildisaster

This is overall an easy quest if you have ever done a vehicle quest before.

Press 1 to give goblin life jackets and 2 to bomb pirates!

Also when I used the rocket to get back to Gadgetzan I got the Going Down? achievement as I was dropped from a great height!

Comment by socalheel

absolutely correct, aim as if you were controlling a catapult.

fun quest.

Comment by 720645

Funny how the horde version of this quest gives double gold and more exp.

Comment by 853898

is there any great secret in navigating the balloon in rocket rescue>

Comment by FuryWar

This quest is a lot of fun! After I had bombed the pirates and rescued the stranded Goblins, I hit the rocket pack, which flew me back to Gadgetzan then went out on me just high enough to get me the "Going down?" achievement for falling 65+ yds and not dying. (I was on my 48 Rogue, so had the Safe fall passive trick to keep me from getting hurt even a tiny bit. It was quite the surprize to get "Going Down?" this early, as I was thinking I wouldn't be able to get it until I started questing in Outlands, which is where my Warrior main first got it back when the achievement first came out.

Comment by 880747

But where is the baloon(s)? :D

Comment by BaronYiffington

Seaside Salvage and Puddle Stomping are the prerequisites for this quest.

Comment by janan2

Just a reminder to anyone who has forgotten how to aim the darn thing, right click and it will show a shooting stream that you use to aim and then hit either 1 or 2 depending on whether you are shooting at the boats or dropping rocket packs on the little islands.

Comment by 854153

Doing this for Alliance, I fell out of balloon twice. Second time I recorded it, and watched the playback carefully. Looks like if you bomb the sails of the boats, the bomb bounces back and wipes out the balloon. Not sure if that's what happened the first time, but I landed on the rocks that time and it's a long way back from the grave yard.

So be careful and hit the deck and not the sails with the bombs or you'll have to swim or worse.
- wg

Comment by Alaurynn

This quest is currently bugged if you're in a party. If one party member presses "6" and ejects from their balloon, it will eject all other party members from their balloons also. They do not get rocket boosts and are unceremoniously dropped to their deaths. If you're in a party, it would benefit you to wait until everyone is finished before anyone ejects.

Multiple bug reports have been submitted. I submitted one over a year ago, but after having just had the same problem on an alt, I submitted another.

Comment by Shashos

I see the other comments about being unceremoniously kicked from the balloon while doing the bombing section, but it happened to me twice during the Life Rockets delivery part of it.

Was not grouped up, so it wasn't a case of someone else ejecting. The only thing I can think of is that I was half watching TV at the time and so was mindlessly spamming the number one button.

I was never able to get it to happen again, so I have no idea what was causing it.

Comment by 897352

My first time, I saw a group of pirates, lined up, hit "2" and was ejected. Next time, after waiting to deliver all the life rockets, I lined up on pirates, hit "2" and... was ejected.

I didn't hit a sail (the first group was on a beach), and I wasn't in a group. Very odd bug!

UPDATE: My third time through, I managed to bomb a couple of pirates, when suddenly somebody jumped out of the balloon (I was not in a group) and I was immediately ejected. If it was the NPC jumping, it seems odd that there was no trigger event or dialog...

Comment by chglfish

I've tried several times to do this quest and when I right-click to adjust my aim, the balloon kicks me out into the water. Bonus if when I land, it's in a mess of pirates and I get ganked.

Has anyone else had this issue where it glitched? If so, how did you get around it because I don't think I can go much further in Tanaris without doing this.

Thanks! XD

Sandrii

UPDATE: I found if I used my move keys ('A' & 'D') I could sloppily aim during the rescue part and get them handed out without being unceremoniously ejected. During the bombing part, I could use my right-click. BTW, I am a rogue had no pet, and was not part of a party. ;-)

Comment by wowheadizmydaddy

/Tanaris

I mean, really now. 5.4.2 and this... >.>

Comment by chibiusako

This quest is still extremely buggy. I have attempted it 5 times, and each time it has kicked me out of the balloon at random points. Twice it happened before the action buttons even became usable.

If you can manage to make it through the life rocket delivery part, you can just run over to the pirates and kill them by hand. Or keep getting back in the balloon and praying you can get a few kills in.

Comment by HedderPilsner

I can confirm that this quest is STILL bugged (after how many years?). I have attempted to complete it close to 10 times now, and nearly every time I try to aim, click on the action buttons, or use the number keys, I get booted from the balloon. Most of the tries, I was kicked before the buttons were even available to click on, but I have been able to finish the life rocket part over the course of 4 attempts. This part HAS to be completed using the balloon, but the balloon isn't necessary for killing the pirates (just a lot easier if you can kill more than one at a time). I ended up just going to the island and killing them off one-by-one to finish it.

Comment by coumadin

So on my first try, I was able to send life-rockets just fine to the goblins. Once I met the quota, I stopped pressing buttons waiting to reach the boats with the pirates. I was sent flying off the balloon because of the bug. It's happened several times before and I think that's why I keep quitting Tanaris quests on each of my characters.

One strategy I tried after multiple times of flying that seemed to allow me to finish the quest was to make sure to keep the balloon active. Once I hit 5/5 life-rockets, I kept sending those life-rockets to goblins to avoid being idle. I think I saved at least 10 goblins. Then as soon as you see a pirate within reach, start shootin' those bombs down on them.

I don't know if it was pure luck, but I've tried it a couple of times within the past 3 weeks on different characters that I'm leveling and this strategy worked.

Comment by ThePeno

There seems to be some confusion about this quest. When you accept the quest, go to /way 53.3, 27.4 just outside of Gadgetzan and hop in the balloon. Hit 2 as you fly over the boats to kill pirates and hit 1 as you fly over the goblins to deliver the rockets. When you are done, hit 6 to deploy your emergency rocket pack and it will take you back to Gadget.

Comment by Boxofbeer

Rocket Rescue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEp048T7JoY

Comment by GeezerBahl

Worked like a charm for me. Only drawback is when returning via the rocket pack, it dropped me off in the air and I almost died when I fell - but on the plus side I got the Going Down achievement. :)

Comment by Sourtaste

Oh my god
I was doing the ironman challenge and the ending of the quest nearly gave me heartattack

Comment by Thomasa123

As of the prepatch it seems this quest is utterly bugged, the bombs do 0 damage, and getting the 40 kills is about as much rng as mount farming in raids...

Comment by catsofdeath

I came across this quest while doing Loremaster. You can fly out and kill the pirates and then get in the balloon and then deliver the bombs. This way is a lot faster since everything can be one shot

Comment by reliq

If you don't yet have your achievement, you will by the end of this :)

Links

Rocket Rescue

Deliver Liferockets to 5 Steamwheedle Survivors and use bombs to kill 40 Southsea Blockaders.

	Life Rockets Delivered (5)
	Southsea Blockader slain (40)

Description

When the water came in, Steamwheedle Port to the east was flooded, and a lot of poor goblins are still stuck there! Now those mean pirates are shooting at any boat that leaves the docks here.

But they won't expect us to fly! There's a hot air balloon by the docks. We can use that, fly over to rescue the goblins, and take care of the pirates, too. Mr. Noggenfogger will be so pleased!

Go to the docks and hop in the balloon and I'll be right behind you, okay? I've got to get some rockets...

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Nasmira's Soup Stirrer			Dud Bomb
	Salvaged Steamwheedle Helm			Failed Liferocket Prototype

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Gnomeregan

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25050))