Defend the Drill
A verified Blizzard quest record from Thousand Needles. Use the archive brief, rewards, and linked research to finish it without losing your place.
What To Do
Complete the quest objective shown in your tracker in Thousand Needles, then return to the turn-in NPC.
Quest Text
I'm not leaving here empty-handed! Are you? I bet you were wondering what's in the giant crate. Well, wait no longer. I want you to take one of our drilling rigs to the oil pools and pump us up some crude. Of course, you should expect the centaurs to attack. Just defend the drill long enough for us to get a barrel or two out of the ground.
Plan the run before you travel
Check the quest area, faction, and level range before you travel. If this quest is part of a chain, finish nearby campaign quests in the same zone first.
Open the Wowhead page for coordinates, NPC spawn comments, cave entrances, and player-submitted route notes. WoW-God links out instead of copying community comments.
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.
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Rewards
- Experience
- 4,100
- Money
- 10g 50s
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