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Level: 20 Requires level: 13 Side: Horde Start: Gilthares Firebough End: Captain Thalo'thas Brightsun
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Free From the Hold

Safely escort Gilthares Firebough back to Captain Brightsun in Ratchet.

	Escort Gilthares Firebough back to Ratchet

Description

Finally! Someone to rescue me!

I can't believe you got past the guards. These zealots from Theramore are out of their minds. They sank our ship and imprisoned me, the only survivor. I was called an enemy and threat to the Alliance.

Me! A threat to their great sham of an Alliance? I was a deckhand on a moonshine transport between Ratchet and Booty Bay.

Enough talk. Help me get back to Ratchet will you? Let me know when you're ready and we'll make our break.

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Reward

You can choose one of these rewards:

	Buckled Boots		Riveted Gauntlets

You will also receive: 25

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

1950 experience ( 11 70 at max. level)
150 Reputation with Ratchet

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Rating: +33 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/20/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)

This quest is a pain. Once he's out of the hold, he has to walk through the pirates, but instead of just walking by them he charges every one. And he enjoys taking out entire camps. I was a 23 priest and he still died after aggroing a camp of 5 or 6 pirates. He's one sucky tank.

Rating: +21 [-] [+]

By NeoSeraphim on 01/23/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)

Beware of any Alliance in the area, because they can kill the NPC. I was almost done with the quest (after already having to wait for respawn once after the guy pulled too many mobs) when a damn high-level Human Paladin shows up and one-shots Gilthares. I seriously wanted to punch him in the face IRL.

Rating: +19 [-] [+]

By TheOnyx on 12/13/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

If someone has already started the quest, Gilthares will not be sitting in the bottom of the tower as he normally would be doing. If you want to accept this quest and he isn't there, you'll have to wait until the other party finishes the quest before he will respawn and allow you to accept it.

Rating: +14 [-] [+]

By Lailoken on 11/25/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)

This is one of those escort quests, and it's a long one. To complicate matters, Gilthares likes to initiate combat.

Couple of things to note: 1) As with other escort quests, there are occasions where mobs don't attack. They'll just follow along behind for awhile. This can save you the trouble of killing them, however, if the escortee stops (such as for an 'ambush' or to fight a different mob), the ones following will attack. 2) There are no ambushes on this escort quest, there won't be a time where 2 or 3 come out of nowhere. However, you will need to clear away pretty much everything between Northwatch and Ratchet.

Rating: +14 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/01/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)

he mentions to stay close.&nbsp there are a lot of escort quests out there that if you get to far away, they'll fail out.&nbsp This is probably one of them.

Rating: +9 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 03/03/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)

Can anyone tell me where he is?
i�ve been looking for him a while now and would appreaciate an answer as soon as possible :D

thx

Rating: +8 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/02/2004 (Patch 1.1.0)

Nothing will aggro on Gilthares and he doesn't aggro on the Theramore humans, but he will aggro on the pirates. You do NOT need to clear his path out of the keep, only your own path so that you can get out. Stay relatively close to him at all times, we had a couple in our group fail because they were too far ahead clearing pirates. Success is not based on the group though, so individual members of the group can fail and the rest can still succeed.

Rating: +7 [-] [+]

By psilocybe on 05/13/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

If you want to save yourself a lot of headache, clear out the area around the blacksmith before you accept the quest. He is very agressive, and the icky humans run away at 20% health.

Rating: +6 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/25/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

This quest takes atleast 20 minutes since he walks so slow the whole way and you have to kill like 50 pirates and atleast 15-20 theramore guys all for like 1850 exp. You could get much more exp faster just grinding or doing different quests.

Rating: +6 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 05/15/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)

He's in a tower in the Northwatch Hold on the ground floor. I believe it is the second tower, you can't miss him.

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 06/20/2006 (Patch 1.11.0)

i had the same problem.&nbsp i made it through northwatch and most of the pirate camp and then he just faded away.&nbsp i waited a bit but he didn't show up again.&nbsp i also tried talking to Brightsun to complete the quest but that didn't work either.&nbsp please don't tell me i have to go all the way back and start over.&nbsp this quest was annoying.

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 06/20/2006 (Patch 1.11.0)

I had the same problem today, which is weird since i have done this quest about five times on different characters and it has never bugged for me before. The spot where he disappeared was about halfway through the pirate camp, in front of the tent at about 63,46.&nbsp

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 05/15/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)

It's not like this is a hard quest or anything, but I've tried it twice and both times he's just mysteriously faded away. I don't think he's dying or anything either...
Any help?

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 11/25/2004 (Patch 1.1.0)

Very nice xp if somewhat time consuming. Great to do right after the guns quest.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 03/28/2005 (Patch 1.3.2)

Is this quest now broken or am I missing somthing to make him start walking out?

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 05/03/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)

I'm thinking he might be bugged. He definitely aggroed on the Theramore Marines and Preservers, and his health definitely drops. This is post patch 1.10, so maybe they tweaked some of his settings. Anyway I was a 21 lvl Priest, and seeing as how I just soloed the Guns of Northwatch, I thought I'd try to solo this one too. Things were going pretty well, until he aggroed 3 Marine in the middle of me fighting another Marine and Preserver. I was still hanging on, but when he got to around 25% health, I tried to heal him, only to discover that you CANT'T! Renew, Flash Heal, Heal all say "Invalid Target". Needless to say, he died and I failed the quest. Very lame! Guess I'll try again when I have a group or when I get higher.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/30/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

just did this quest with a firend, he got 1500exp and was lvl13

NOT worth it for a 20min eskort q
edit: even had to do it twice :p since he ran away the first time and lost the quest like 20yards from ratchet

Edited, Sun Jan 29 21:26:55 2006

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 05/26/2005 (Patch 1.4.2)

Where is this guy? I have cleared the nortwatch hold, two times now.. Nothing

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 05/05/2005 (Patch 1.4.2)

I have done this quest in beta, tried it now, but he wont start to walk. oO
i logged out and restarted the quest several times but nothing works.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 05/16/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

Don't start, I say - DON'T start this quest until You finish first the one with the towers and captain.
This is VERY long escort, he slowly walks ALL the way to Ratchet. While fighting lvl 17 Marines seems reasonable (area where You find him), fighting lvl 13 Freebooty pirates isn't .
That's damn too long quest with crap rewards.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/05/2005 (Patch 1.3.2)

Maybe I'm blind, but where is this guy?

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/16/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

He does[/b][/i] agro the Theramore humans.

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By Anonymous on 06/08/2005 (Patch 1.5.0)

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By Anonymous on 12/03/2004 (Patch 1.1.0)

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