Engineering a Disaster
A verified Blizzard quest record from Sholazar Basin. Use the archive brief, rewards, and linked research to finish it without losing your place.
Who gives Engineering a Disaster
1 recordThe NPC, object, or item that starts this quest, with the first known coordinate when available.
- Engineer HeliceNPC #28787Sholazar Basin · 35.6, 47.2
Where to turn it in
1 recordThe NPC or object that accepts the completed quest. Phasing and alternate-faction versions can produce more than one endpoint.
- Hemet NesingwaryNPC #27986Sholazar Basin · 27.0, 58.6
Identity and tooltip facts come from Blizzard. Relationship rows are refreshed from Wowhead's structured source tables and merged with anonymous in-game observations from WoW-God Sync. Inspect source
What To Do
Complete the quest objective shown in your tracker in Sholazar Basin, then return to the turn-in NPC.
Quest Text
These goblin goons and their minions have decided that they own this pillar and its crystals. I came here to explore the crystals and take samples, but they overpowered me and won't let me return to the camp. If you'll help me fight our way out of here, we can teach these thugs a lesson they'll never forget!
Plan the run before you travel
Sholazar Basin belongs to the Wrath of the Lich King archive. Start with its campaign track if this record is unavailable or the next step is missing.
Check the exact quest giver and turn-in records above first. Use this page's community comments for phase changes, cave entrances, spawn timing, and corrections from the live game.
No group size is listed by Blizzard, so this is usually soloable unless the objective text says otherwise.
Pin the quest in-game, enable objective outlines, then use the exact-title references in the archive for NPC or object coordinates. Add a correction below if the live game differs from this record.
Objectives and map pin
Blizzard's public API publishes a quest's text and rewards but not its objectives, its own level, whether it can be shared, or any map coordinate. Nobody has synced quest 12688 yet, so there is nothing to show here rather than a guess. Running the WowGodSync addon while you play contributes those fields for everyone.
Check it in game
Quest completion is stored per character on Blizzard's side and is not in the public API, so paste this in your chat box and it prints true or false for “Engineering a Disaster” on the character you are logged into.
/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12688))/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompletedOnAccount(12688))A false also comes back for a quest id the client does not know, so it means “not recorded as complete” rather than proof the quest exists on your account.
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Rewards
- Experience
- 4,100
- Money
- 10g 50s
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