Quick Facts

Series

1.	Rocket Rescue
2.	Momentum

Storyline
Tanaris Seaside Salvage Puddle Stomping Rocket Rescue Dead Man's Chest To The Ground! Booty Duty Going Off-Task Filling Our Pockets Captain Dreadbeard Bootlegger Outpost Cutting Losses Chicken of the Desert A Great Idea Just Trying to Kill Some Bugs Un-Chartered Get The Centipaarty Started Maul 'Em With Kindness Sandscraper Thunderdrome: The Ginormus! Thunderdrome: Zumonga! Thunderdrome: Sarinexx! Thunderdrome: Grudge Match! Laying Claim Fragments of Language Ancient Obstacles 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 Gendou

The ruins of Steamwheedle Port are still full of hapless Steamwheedle goblins, waiting to be rescued. Every single one of them is a potential future customer. They're firing on every boat that leaves port...so I say we take to the skies!

This quest text is poorly written. I had to read the quest objectives a few times to figure out what the hell was going on, since on initial reading it appears the hapless Steamwheedle Goblins are firing on every boat that leaves their own port.

The pronoun in the last sentence of the paragraph doesn't agree with the antecedents in the first two sentences.
Frustrating, to say the least.

Comment by 08Jacob

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

Comment by Emiliafire

When you start the quest you need to make your way to a balloon just outside Gadgetzan.

Coords are 53,27.

Comment by 716334

If you have not done any "vehicle" quests before this may seem a bit strange so here is what to do - go to the zeppelin northeast of gadgetzan and click it - you will mount it and it will set off - you should see a new action bar with the abilities mentioned by Rinor - these are not usable straight away - watch for them lighting up -to aim these abilities use right mouse button and move mouse to steer the point they will land near - the zeppelin will go to the goblins for rescue first - out where steamwheedle port used to be - aim near them and use button/ability 1 - there are lots so no need to spam - just aim near and fire 1 till you get 5/5 - the zeppelin will then head to the pirates - time for button 2 - aim near them and spam button 2 - again not that difficult - use right mouse to move the aim area so you get them all - when you get 40/40 use button 3 for a quick rocket pack back to gadgetzan - have fun and kill/rescue them all

Comment by 163843

It's not immediately apparent, but you need to direct the shots like a catapult aim. So hit both mouth buttons and get it turned the right way. Just clicking on the enemy or the area you want to hit like in some bombing runs doesn't work. It's kind of a weird set-up, and that's probably what was confusing both me and the person a couple posts above me.

Comment by cazel

The Bilgewater Cartel thanks you for your frequent future purchases!

Our Bilgewater Cartel representatives are waiting to help find the payment plan that's right for you as soon as you land!

Every Life Rocket comes with a two-year contract and FREE non-arbitration clause!
Be sure to fill out all included paperwork during your flight!

By wearing, holding, or otherwise using this Bilgewater Cartel Life Rocket, you agree to be bound by the terms of the end user license agreement!

Comment by PrincessNothing

I think I'm doing something wrong with this quest. I can't hit anything, for the life of me.

Comment by 311670

If you can't figure out how to aim, drag your camera around (right-mouse button) and an aiming reticule should appear for you.

Comment by Chilcoot

This quest opens after completing:
Puddle Stomping &
Seaside Salvage.

Comment by 831887

There is no ballon anymore and the coords are wrong......... How do I find the ballon now?

Comment by Kogamaru

The balloon is there for me, it just wont register any of my kills and rocket saves for the quest. it was and then i got called for tol barad then all of a sudden it wont work anymore, so i dont know what happened, maybe it glitched out or something.

I do know that its possible to go fly out on your flying mount and kill the mobs, but it is still a pain lol. and you dont get the option of taking the rockets with you, you have to use the balloon.

Comment by 882029

I got stuck in the baloon as well. I'm using Dominoes and the 3rd button did not show up. Relogging caused my toon to be moved to the nearby graveyard. So, that is the best solution if you run into that situation. =]

Comment by 401423

Hold down your right mouse button to activate the catapult feature. It took me 20 minutes to figure it out! Once I held the button down it went fairly quick.

Comment by Etreum

The problem for me was that on the initial attempt, the targeting system did not work.

I rocketted out of the balloon and tried again. This time the targeting did work and the rest was easy.

It is a catapult-like targeting system, you need to hold down the right mouse button to enable and use.

Comment by marcadagua

I tried to finish that quest, doesn´t work. I opened a ticket for the staff. My hunch: bug.

Comment by Chifen

I found one huge benefit in this quest, consider not handing it in untill later:
When you are in the balloon hurling bombs at the pirates, you get full mob exp from them, every single one you kill. For the quest you only have to kill 40 of them but I stayed on the balloon for a while and got more than half a level for it, and yes, I have that little life left.
Another nice profit from this quest is that you get the achievement "Going Down?" when you click 6 to return to Gadgetzan.

Comment by 863853

For those who are looking for comments that are up to date and actually useful, the coordinates for the balloon are 53.3, 27.4, right outside Gadgetzan and before the docks. This is the latest comment (4.3.3) and saves you from scrolling down and searching for one useful comment among many, many useless comments. I didn't have any issues with the quest bugging out. I just couldn't find the balloon. Hope this comment actually proves useful to you.

Comment by 1031035

Does anyone else fall out of the balloon when tyring to shoot?

Comment by Troo

This is the first time this has happened to me since Cata came out and changed the area, and I've done this quest many times since then.

I was partied with a friend and as soon as we hit 40 kills the balloon just dropped us right where we were. Didn't give us the time to click the eject button to get tossed back to Gadget. Glad we both landed in deep enough water. Gonna send in a ticket to see if they know about this.

Comment by latetotheparty

The key is holding down both mouse keys to aim the trajectory of your fire. Otherwise, it's really hard to get the targets.

Comment by Arthedain92

If you're having trouble turning the quest in like I did (couldn't select a reward), try logging out and back in. Worked fine for me after that.

Comment by Umiamz

For the first time ever when doing this quest I wasn't given a parachute at the end and was left with about 10% health and the Going Down achievement :)

Comment by 1481786

I cant mount the hot air balloon please help

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=Eohw-W8p1f8&feature=youtu.be

Comment by gabrielbernuss

In patch 8.0, there's a bug where most of them are immune to the bomb

Links

Rocket Rescue

Deliver Life-Rockets to 5 Steamwheedle Survivors and use bombs to kill 40 Southshore Blockaders.

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

Description

Alright, <name>. We've done enough small jobs around here; it's time to seal the deal.

The ruins of Steamwheedle Port are still full of hapless Steamwheedle goblins, waiting to be rescued. Every single one of them is a potential future customer. They're firing on every boat that leaves port...so I say we take to the skies!

There's a hot air balloon just outside of town near the docks, we can use that. Go ahead and hop in, I'll catch up with you.

Progress

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 Bilgewater Cartel

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(24910))