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“If there is good in your heart and your conscience is clear, read on. In this mine, near the foreman’s scaffold, rests a hefty cargo of dynamite. Go there and pick up several bundles of the explosive and make your way towards the entrance of the mine. Once there, set the dynamite and blow up the entrance. Remember to do this for the upper and lower entry points of Wintergarde Mine.
You must leave nothing to chance. The evil that exists here must never be allowed out. Light guide you.”
-Slinkin the Demo-gnome
Retrieve a Wintergarde Mine Bomb and use it to blow up the Upper Wintergarde Mine Shaft and the Lower Wintergarde Mine Shaft. Report back to Siege Engineer Quarterflash at Wintergarde Keep in Dragonblight when you have completed this task.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: Slinkin the Demo-gnome (body) — Wintergarde Mine, Dragonblight
Turn In: Siege Engineer Quarterflash — Wintergarde Keep, Dragonblight
Objective: Retrieve a Wintergarde Mine Bomb and use it to blow up the Upper Wintergarde Mine Shaft and the Lower Wintergarde Mine Shaft. Report back to Siege Engineer Quarterflash.
Walkthrough
This quest is given by Slinkin’s body, the same NPC you just turned in The Search for Slinkin to.
Even in death, Slinkin left behind instructions: “If there is good in your heart and your conscience is clear, read on. In this mine, near the foreman’s scaffold, rests a hefty cargo of dynamite… You must leave nothing to chance. The evil that exists here must never be allowed out. Light guide you.”
Step 1: Pick Up the Bombs
The Wintergarde Mine Bombs are at approximately [80.7, 41.3], near a small wooden platform (the “foreman’s scaffold” from the quest text).
From the quest giver (Slinkin’s body), you turn around and hang a right around the corner: “You’ll see the bombs dead ahead, about 20 feet away from the quest giver, in front of a little wooden platform.” You only need to pick up the bombs once. They work for both mine shafts.
Step 2: Blow Up the Upper Mine Shaft
Head back toward the upper mine entrance. Use the bomb just inside the entrance of the Upper Wintergarde Mine Shaft [80.4, 44.8].
Fun tip: Stand a few steps back so you’re still inside the mine when the explosion goes off. It will blow you out the front entrance. This is a fun shortcut out.
Step 3: Blow Up the Lower Mine Shaft
After exiting the upper shaft, you need to find the lower entrance. This is the part that confuses players:
The lower shaft at approximately [80.2, 45.4]. Use the bomb inside this entrance to complete the second objective.
Step 4: Return to Quarterflash
Head back to Wintergarde Keep and turn in to Quarterflash. His progress text acknowledges Slinkin’s sacrifice: “He was a good gnome, one of our best. Slinkin will be missed.” His completion: “His death will not have been in vain, friend. The information that Slinkin died for will be instrumental in defeating the Lich King. I promise you that we will make this right.”
Troubleshooting
Quick Facts
Do Alongside
If you haven’t already completed these from the previous quest trip, finish them now:
Lore & Story Context
A Dead Man’s Last Request
Leave Nothing to Chance is unusual in that the quest giver is a corpse. Slinkin knew he was going to die (his note from the previous quest: “It won’t be long until they find me”), but instead of trying to escape, he spent his final moments documenting intelligence about saronite and writing instructions for whoever found his body.
His posthumous quest text is written like a final testament: “If there is good in your heart and your conscience is clear, read on… The evil that exists here must never be allowed out. Light guide you.”
By sealing the mine, you’re carrying out a dead agent’s last wish. The mine can’t be held, so the next best option is ensuring the Scourge can’t use it either.
The Saronite Thread
This chain finale connects directly to the expansion’s deepest subplot.
Slinkin’s intelligence from the previous quest (the word “Yogg-Saron” and the ore called “saronite”) feeds into the follow-up quest Understanding the Scourge War Machine, where Quarterflash sends his analysis and ore samples to High Commander Wyrmbane.
Wyrmbane’s response: “I am by no means a scientist… so you’ll have to forgive my plebeian understanding of what has been written. Now, according to this analysis, assuming I have the brain power of at least an adolescent school boy, we still don’t know jack squat about the Scourge war machine.”
At this point in the story, the Alliance knows the Scourge is mining something powerful but has no idea they’re harvesting the crystallized blood of an Old God imprisoned beneath Ulduar.
That revelation won’t come until much later, through the Icecrown and Storm Peaks quest chains.
Explore Dragonblight’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Dragonblight Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.
Vikstone's War JournalSlinkin’s final note continued beyond the intelligence about saronite. His last orders, written while the Scourge closed in.
If there is good in your heart and your conscience is clear, read on.
In this mine, near the foreman’s scaffold, rests a hefty cargo of dynamite. Go there and pick up several bundles of the explosive and make your way towards the entrance of the mine. Once there, set the dynamite and blow up the entrance. Remember to do this for the upper and lower entry points of Wintergarde Mine.
You must leave nothing to chance. The evil that exists here must never be allowed out.
Light guide you.
I found the dynamite where he said it would be, bundled near the foreman’s scaffold. The undead miners paid me little attention as I gathered the explosives.
The upper shaft collapsed first, rock and timber cascading down, sealing the entrance in a cloud of dust and debris. The lower shaft followed moments later, the blast echoing through the hills.
Whatever saronite remained in those depths would stay buried, including what the Scourge had been building.
Quarterflash nodded when I returned. “He was a good gnome, one of our best. Slinkin will be missed. His death will not have been in vain, friend. The information that Slinkin died for will be instrumental in defeating the Lich King.”
I thought of Slinkin alone in the dark, writing instructions for whoever found his body. Planning for victory even as death closed in. There were worse ways to spend your final moments.
Quarterflash still wanted samples out of the depths, because the Alliance had to understand The Bleeding Ore before it turned up somewhere worse than a shaft under Wintergarde.
