Marin Noggenfogger

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NeutralMarin Noggenfogger
Image of Marin Noggenfogger
Title Baron of Gadgetzan, Mayor, Mister[1]
Gender Male
Race Goblin (Humanoid)
Class Outlaw rogue
Affiliation(s) Gadgetzan, Uncrowned, Steamwheedle Cartel
Occupation Leader of the Steamwheedle Cartel,[2] Ruler of Gadgetzan, Champion of the Uncrowned, Alchemist[3]
Location Various
Status Alive
Relative(s) Sprinkle (wife)
Companion(s) Nargle Boomslang (assistant)

Marin Noggenfogger is the creator of the famous  [Noggenfogger Elixir] and, ever since the Cataclysm, the baron of the goblin city of Gadgetzan in Tanaris. He is married to Sprinkle, whom he previously considered a mere friend, who called him eccentric.[4] He is also the leader of the Steamwheedle Cartel.[2] During the third invasion of the Burning Legion, he joined the Uncrowned to give his expertise in poisons and alchemy.

Baron Noggenfogger supervises the settling of scores by combat in the Thunderdrome.[5] According to Gazlowe, gaining a title had turned Marin into one pompous little baron.[6]

Biography

World of Warcraft

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Marin was friends with Sprinkle and required her help in the past.[7]

Having heard of some strange creatures called dew collectors able to store water in special glands, Marin sent adventurers to collect the glands.[8] He tried it, and it tasted awful. Not wanting to give up on this, he had the adventurer ask Sprinkle for assistance,[7] which she provided in the form of a powder. When he mixed it with the dew, he created Noggenfogger Elixir and immediately saw profit in it.[9]

Once, when Marin was running past some old troll ruins, he noticed a camp set up there. He didn't get to visit it as he was chased off by vultures.

Cataclysm

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By the time of the Cataclysm, Marin became the baron of Gadgetzan, and both Kelsey Steelspark and Megs Dreadshredder later tried to convince him to work with their factions. Their bickering resulted in Marin sending them to do some work instead, including dealing with the Southsea Freebooters in eastern Tanaris.[10]

He also sent Zeke Bootscuff to the Gaping Chasm with a mission: Find out how to turn a profit on the silithid, or wipe them clean.[11]

Traveler

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When the crew of the Wavestrider visited Gadgetzan for the last time, Durgan One-God took Makasa Flintwill to the Thunderdrome. She noticed Baron Noggenfogger supervising the settling of scores on the fights and suspected the true purpose was to encourage locals and visitors to bet on the outcomes and to allow the baron to take his cut of every wager.[5]

Later at some point after the Cataclysm, Captain Malus and his Hidden arrived at Gadgetzan searching for Aramar Thorne, Marin was informed of their arrival and was suspicious of them. Malus was summoned to the baron's office, but the captain didn't come. Therefore, Marin brought his hobgoblin guards and went to meet him instead and found him at the wharf by his ship, the Inevitable. When the goblin saw the human captain, he looked familiar but couldn't place him and wondered if he had met this man long ago under another name. Marin spoke with Malus about his companions, the Gordunni ogres, and warned him he didn't want any troubles in his city. Later, his wife Sprinkle invited him to a picnic, but he refused as he was very busy.[6]

When the members of the Hidden were chasing Aramar and Makasa, Marin was at the Thunderdrome arena. Distracting them from Aram, Makasa let her chasers inside and shouted that they had stolen her cheese. Marin asked the Hidden if they would return the cheese, to which Reigol Valdread responded they wouldn't. This prompted Marin to open bets as this problem would be resolved with combat.[5] During the placing of bets, Gazlowe briefly argued with Marin about the cut of the take, but eventually managed to settle and close the bets, even when Makasa's allies came to her aid.[12] The combat ended in Makasa's team's victory, and Marin collected his money from the betters.[13]

After the arena emptied, Malus arrived to find his Hidden beaten. He threatened Marin; Malus wanted Aramar, otherwise he would lay siege to Gadgetzan. The Baron retorted he had faced off pirates and bandits before, but ultimately believed Malus would do that. Noggenfogger was not happy about giving in to Malus's blackmail, but he showed him a manifest and tipped him off that Aram and his friends had booked passage upon the schooner Crustacean. When Malus set sail, the human suspected lies from the goblin and anticipated that Noggenfogger had intentionally waited to pass the information along until after the schooner had set sail, thus forcing Malus to leave Gadgetzan to pursue. In reality, Sprinkle had been helping Aram and his friends, so she had learned about the Crustacean and told her husband that the boy and his friends had booked passage upon it. He had passed this intelligence on to Malus to get him out of the city. After the Hidden were gone, Sprinkle stroked his long ears and kissed him in order to soothe him, providing him relief. He was grateful to her for always putting his needs first.[14]

Legion

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Marin in the Uncrowned Vault.

At the beginning of the third invasion of the Burning Legion, Marin led the defense of Gadgetzan during the Legion Invasions, driving a massive shredder with twin flamethrowers against the Burning Legion attackers. After each invasion was successfully repelled, he offered "slightly discounted Noggenfogger Elixirs all around!".

Following the tragic Battle for Broken Shore, Marin revealed himself to be a part of the Uncrowned. During the class order campaign, he is found in the Hall of Shadows managing the Crucible of the Uncrowned. It appears Marin is the only person who truly knows how to work the venomous injections of the crucible into the Shadow's artifacts and is thus a very valuable asset,[15] though he uses this position for his own gain.[16]

In addition to aiding the Shadow on their quest to fight the Legion, Marin also asked for their help on a money-making venture: Stealing a powerful genuine love potion from the vault of Trade Prince Gallywix. Marin thanked the adventurer and served them as a champion.[17]

Trying to smooth over relations due to his earlier extortion, he donated bombs to the Uncrowned when they were working on freeing Mathias Shaw from Felsoul Hold.[18]

Battle for Azeroth

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During the Fourth War, Marin was among those who attended the private auction for the X-52 Personnel Armor.[19] After Gallywix took Hobart Grapplehammer hostage to get the armor for himself, Marin joined the battle against the trade prince.[20] After Hobart was freed and Gallywix beaten, the armor fell into the possession of Gallywix's old rival.[21]

The Goblin Way

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While running a mine in poor condition, opting for short-term profits at the cost of machine degradation, worker injuries, and shady business practices, Marin received word that Trade prince Monte Gazlowe wanted to inspect his mine and refused. This, however, only prompted Gazlowe to use the power of the Horde in order to stong-arm into agreeing. When Gazlowe condemns the condition, Marin defends them, noting that the likes of Jastor Gallywix would see it as a business. However, Gazlowe countered that Gallywix was a conman and that his practices were not good for unity. He then spoke with Noggenfogger about improving conditions overall to improve the goblin's way of doing business - to treat workers better, stop cutting corners, and provide safer conditions. Gazlowe even showed he meant his words by repairing a broken piece of equipment with the other goblins present.

Noggenfogger was hesitant, concerned about the other cartels seeing this as a weakness; however, Gazlowe offered to keep pressure off of Noggenfogger, by aligning their cartels together. Recognizing that he would be in a position of strength, Noggenfogger agreed.[2]

The War Within

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Marin survived the destruction of Dalaran and appears in the Tranquil Strand on the Isle of Dorn gutting a Nerubian Saboteur in order to create antidotes for their poison.[22]

At the Caverns of Time.

He can be seen outside the Caverns of Time in Tanaris during the Bronze Celebration.

Locations

Location Level range Reaction Notes
Gadgetzan, Tanaris[51.2, 29.8] 15-30 Alliance Horde
Uncrowned Vault, Hall of Shadows[30.8, 69.6] 10-45 Alliance Horde
Crapopolis 50-80 Horde During the Heritage of Kezan.
Tranquil Strand, Isle of Dorn[30.24, 54.56] 70-73 Alliance Horde
Caverns of Time, Tanaris 80 Alliance Horde During  [WoW's 20th Anniversary].

Abilities

Isle of Dorn

As a follower

Marin Noggenfogger is an Outlaw Rogue Class Hall champion with the following abilities:

  • Ability rogue fanofknives.png Fan of Knives (Ability) — Sprays knives all around you to counter a MinionCounters: Minions Minions
  • Inv sword 30.png Outlaw (Specialization) — A ruthless fugitive who uses ability and guile to stand toe-to-toe, countering some BossesCounters: Boss Boss
  • Ability rogue rollthebones05.png Sticky Fingers (Ability) — Chance to return from a successful mission with a random item.
A chance of items from the pick pocket table in Legion.

Sells

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Item Cost
5x  [Noggenfogger Elixir] 36s 84c

Quests

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Once his quest chain was completed, he would sell Noggenfogger Elixirs.

Objective of

Quotes

Mayor Noggenfogger in Hearthstone.

On-click

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Greetings
  • Can't you see I'm busy here?
  • Talk to me.
  • Time is money, friend!
  • What's up?
  • Yo!
Irritated
  • Yeah, ho-ho! Very funny! *fake laughter*
  • I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS!
  • Amateur.
  • I don't have to take this. I AM THE BARON OF GADGETZAN!
  • Maybe you'd prefer if some of my goons roughed ya up a bit, huh?
  • Okay, that's it. I'm putting a contract out on your head. "Clicky McClickster" here sleeps with the fishes.
Farewell
  • All's fair in love and business!
  • He he, glad I could help.
  • Hey, you scratch my back, I'll pay someone to scratch yours.
  • Hurry back!
  • Keep it real!

Gossip

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Gadgetzan

On behalf of the illustrious and still neutral Steamwheedle Cartel, I hope you enjoy your stay.

Remember, everyone is welcome in Gadgetzan! Everyone except pirates.

If the character has completed Marin's pre-Cataclysm quests:

Welcome back, friend! If feels like it's been years since you helped me whip up my first Noggenfogger Elixir.

Now I'm running the whole city! Those things still sell like crazy.

Caverns of Time

Good to see this old desert spruced up a little.

Gossip Still selling Noggenfogger Elixirs?

Nah! Sprinkle handles the sales, and making the elixir taste a lot less like shoe bottoms. She has a talent for both.

Gossip So, what are you doing these days?

I got a town and a cartel to keep me busy. Still, it would be nice to get back to some alchemy... and the wife.

Gossip What about your work with the Uncr...

Trains! Trains are great cause I am working with nothing else you need to worry about.

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Classic

Living out here in the desert is rough! I get so thirsty standing outside in this heat.

  • Buy Yes! I want more of that fabulous Noggenfogger Elixir! (after N [49] Noggenfogger Elixir)
  • Gossip Seen any strange things in the desert lately?

Well, now that you mention it, yeah, I did see something I thought was a little strange yesterday afternoon!

I was running past some old troll ruins southeast of here; well, I wasn't really running, more like hopping... The sand's so hot!

Anyway, so I was hopping past the ruins, when I noticed a camp set up there. Seems like a funny place to set up camp, if you ask me... I would have poked around a little more but one of those crazy big vultures chased me off.

Hall of Shadows

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All's fair in love and business.

Dialogue

With Megs Dreadshredder and Kelsey Steelspark in Gadgetzan:

Megs Dreadshredder says: The paperwork's ready for you to sign, Marin. My people are just waiting on your decision.
Kelsey Steelspark says: Gosh, Mr. Noggenfogger, I know you wouldn't want to damage your reputation as a neutral trade entity by forming closer ties to the Horde!
Megs Dreadshredder says: This is laughable. You know what it's like trying to do business with gnomes.
Kelsey Steelspark says: Oh, oh, I know this one! It's better than doing business with failed goblins that had to beg others for help!
Megs Dreadshredder says: Why you little irradiated...
Marin Noggenfogger yells: AGH! Enough! You two are driving me INSANE! Start getting some freakin' work done around here or get the heck out of my town!
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Notes and trivia

  • When he spoke with Malus, Marin squinted his good eye at him at one point,[6] likely implying the other one is bad, hence the monocle.
  • "Noggenfogger's cogs" is Gazlowe's expression of disgust.[24]
  • During N Rogue [98-110] Injection of Power, you can threaten or pay him in order to be allowed to use the Crucible. N Rogue [10-45] Noggenfogger's Reasonable Request later confirms that he was, in fact, threatened.
  • After completing most of the quests in Tanaris, Marin will vanish from Gadgetzan. It's unknown why he does this or where he went to.
    • This seems to have been fixed as he appears in Gadgetzan after the questlines.
  • Noggenfogger appears as a legendary card in the Mean Streets of Gadgetzan expansion for Hearthstone. His card ability causes all targets to be chosen randomly, which is reflected by his flavor text: "This flavor text was randomly generated. If it happens to form words and make sense, that is purely by chance."
  • He has an invisible Follower recruiting spell with the following description: Achievement character bloodelf female.png Champion: Marin Noggenfogger — "Marin Noggenfogger is quite possibly the world's greatest alchemist. What he lacks in brawn, he more than makes up for in resourcefulness. Never underestimate the power of goblin ingenuity... and goblin greed!" The spell is associated to a buff that says "Marin Noggenfogger is an adept Outlaw Rogue with a wide array of tricks up his sleeve."

Speculation

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When Marin wondered if he had previously seen Malus under a different name,[6] it may have occurred during his only-known visit to Gadgetzan shortly after the Second War with his brother, Greydon.[25]

Gallery

Patch changes

  • Cata-Logo-Small.png Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Model updated. Level increased from 40 to 45.

See also

References

External links

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