Touching Ground (Alliance)

Touching Ground
Rogers and paratroopers on deck
Start	Sky Admiral Rogers [42.0, 92.8]
End	Sully "The Pickle" McLeary [43.6, 90.7]
Level	10-35
Category	Jade Forest
Experience	122,100
Rewards	9 80
Previous	[10-35] Unleash Hell
Next	[10-35] No Plan Survives Contact with the Enemy,  [10-35] Welcome Wagons

Touching Ground
Level: 10-35
Sky Admiral Rogers ^{[42.0, 92.8]}
Sully "The Pickle" McLeary ^{[43.6, 90.7]}
XP: 122,100

Rewards:

9 80

For the Horde version of this quest, see  [10-35] Touching Ground.

Objectives

Use a Skyfire Parachute to touch ground in Garrosh'ar Point, then speak to Sully "The Pickle" McLeary.

• Equip a Skyfire Parachute

Description

Their town is burning and their men are scattered and broken. I need every available man on the ground NOW to finish them off.

Grab one of the parachutes on the edge of the ship and get down there!

Rewards

You will receive:

• 9 80
• 122,100 XP

Progress

Move it!

Completion

'Bout time you showed up, <laddy/lassie>! Let's do some damage!

Notes

• This quest was slightly bugged at release, with the parachutes sometimes not spawning on the sides of the ship.

Upon accepting the quest, Sky Admiral Rogers gives a speech to a group of nine Alliance Paratroopers standing in formation before her on deck.

Sky Admiral Rogers says: Men, you've trained for this. You're among the elite. You are Skyfire men!

Sky Admiral Rogers says: This is the ship that took down Deathwing. You think some raggedy little Horde outpost stands a chance against the pride of the Alliance fleet? NO!

Sky Admiral Rogers says: Those green dirtbags down there plagued your homes in Southshore, laid siege to your children in Redridge, and massacred every man, woman and child in Theramore.

Sky Admiral Rogers says: It. Is. PAYBACK TIME!

The paratroopers cheer.

Run to the side of the ship and interact with a parachute. The adventurer will put it on and jump off, circling over Garrosh'ar Point before landing to the north next to Sully. He's tinkering with a busted Garrosh'ar Shredder.

• Sully "The Pickle" McLeary mumbles to himself while tinkering with the shredder.
• Sully "The Pickle" McLeary says: Gah, this thing's a death trap!
• Sully "The Pickle" McLeary says: Is that... a cherrywood drive-shaft? Who does that?!
• Sully "The Pickle" McLeary says: I'm pretty sure this "valve" is a toenail. Goblins...
• Sully "The Pickle" McLeary says: Yeesh! Me great nan could build a more reliable manifold than this. An' she has!
• Sully "The Pickle" McLeary says: Look at this - total amateur hour! Doesn't even have a second-stage turbine blade.
• Sully "The Pickle" McLeary says: Level two grappling done. Now to tighten up level three...
• Sully "The Pickle" McLeary says: Wait and see, lads. We'll have ourselves a fine killin' machine in no time.

Progression

1.  [10-35] The King's Command or  [10-35] Hero's Call: Jade Forest! or  [10-35] Mists of Pandaria: To Pandaria!
2.  [10-35] The Mission
3.  [10-35] Unleash Hell
4.  [10-35] Touching Ground
5.  [10-35] No Plan Survives Contact with the Enemy &  [10-35] Welcome Wagons
6.  [10-35] The Right Tool For The Job
7.  [10-35] Envoy of the Alliance &  [10-35] The Cost of War
8. Complete all of:
   •  [10-35] Pillaging Peons &  [10-35] Critical Condition
   1.  [10-35] Priorities!
   2.  [10-35] Koukou's Rampage
9.  [10-35] Fractured Forces &  [10-35] Smoke Before Fire &  [10-35] Twinspire Keep &  [10-35] Unfair Trade
10.  [10-35] The Fall of Ga'trul
11.  [10-35] Onward and Inward
12.  [10-35] The White Pawn &  [10-35] Hozen Aren't Your Friends, Hozen Are Your Enemies

Patch changes

• Hotfix (2012-11-28): The quest "Touching Ground" can now be completed correctly.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB