# Steamwheedle Cartel Reputation (levels 50–60)

> Every goblin town at once: Zorbin's zapped giants and Knot's shackles, then five new quartermasters and their hats.

Page: https://polestar.guide/guides/reputation/steamwheedle-cartel

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## At a glance

- Category: Reputation; in game: Reputation > Reputation · World > Steamwheedle Cartel Reputation
- Levels: 50–60
- For: Both factions
- Zones: Feralas, Tanaris, Burning Steppes, Winterspring, The Barrens, Stranglethorn Vale, Riverglades
- 18 steps, 12 quests
- Reward: Fizzbolt's Fashionable Fedora, Tough Guy's Eyepatch, Stolen Wastewander Cowl, Barrens Headband, Haughty Fellow's Monocle, Forever's goblin quartermasters: gear for levels 20 to 50 at Friendly and Honored
- Comes after: [Bloodsail Buccaneers Reputation](https://polestar.guide/guides/reputation/bloodsail-buccaneers.md) (levels 55–60)
- Last changed 2026-10-30, in Polestar 0.3.0

## Steps

The steps as the guide window shows them, in order. Goals marked with a race or class are only for that race or class; a step marked with a condition applies only while it holds.

### 1. Zorbin Fandazzle

Where: 44.8, 43.4 on the Feralas map.

Five goblin towns share one reputation family, the Steamwheedle Cartel: Ratchet, Booty Bay, Gadgetzan, Everlook and Forever's new Powderfuse in the Riverglades. Everyone starts each at Neutral (500 into it). A gain with one town gives the others half as much; a quest for the Cartel itself, like Zorbin's, pays every town in full. Losses spread the same way: a Booty Bay Bruiser or any goblin of the towns costs 125 (half that with the other towns), and Bloodsail Buccaneers reputation is earned only that way. Zorbin camps on the road through central Feralas and works for anyone, even players the goblins hate. His first two quests are level 48: in Classic they paid less once you were 6 or more levels above them (a fifth at 57 and up), but they open his repeatables, which are level 55 and pay in full at 60.

- Accept **Zapped Giants** from Zorbin Fandazzle — Zapped Giants: 150 to every town
- Accept **Fuel for the Zapping** from Zorbin Fandazzle — Fuel for the Zapping: 150 to every town

### 2. Zapped giants

Where: 37.8, 22 on the Feralas map.

Use Zorbin's Ultra-Shrinker on a living giant (Land Walker, Cliff Giant, or a Shore, Deep or Wave Strider, level 47–50) and it shrinks into a zapped version; kill that for its Miniaturization Residue, one every time. The Land Walkers and Cliff Giants in the north-west hills are the thickest; the striders walk the coast and the shallows. The shrinker lasts two hours: if it runs out, abandon the quest and take it again.

- Use **Zorbin's Ultra-Shrinker** (optional) — Zorbin's Ultra-Shrinker, on a living giant
- Collect **Miniaturization Residue** ×15 for Zapped Giants — Miniaturization Residue, from the zapped giants

### 3. Sea Elementals and Sea Sprays

Where: 34.4, 35.6 on the Feralas map.

The Sea Elementals and Sea Sprays (level 47–49) drift along the Forgotten Coast and in the shallows below the giants: about half drop a Water Elemental Core.

- Kill **Sea Elemental**  or  **Sea Spray** for **Water Elemental Core** ×10 for Fuel for the Zapping — Water Elemental Core: Sea Elementals and Sea Sprays

### 4. Back to Zorbin

Where: 44.8, 43.4 on the Feralas map.

From now on Zorbin offers Again With the Zapped Giants (10 residue) and Refuel for the Zapping (6 cores), again and again: 25 reputation with every town each time.

- Turn in **Zapped Giants** at Zorbin Fandazzle
- Turn in **Fuel for the Zapping** at Zorbin Fandazzle

### 5. Lost Rigger Cove, below 56 (Below level 56)

The Southsea pirates of Lost Rigger Cove (level 44–45) on the east coast of Tanaris give Gadgetzan 5 each up to the end of Honored, and the other towns half. Two quests at Steamwheedle Port pay 100 Gadgetzan each: Southsea Shakedown (10 of each pirate) and Pirate Hats Ahoy! (20 Southsea Pirate Hats, one in ten pirates). From level 56 the pirates are grey and pay little: skip this step then.

- Accept **Southsea Shakedown** from Security Chief Bilgewhizzle — Security Chief Bilgewhizzle, Steamwheedle Port
- Accept **Pirate Hats Ahoy!** from Haughty Modiste
- Kill **Southsea Pirate** ×10 for Southsea Shakedown
- Kill **Southsea Freebooter** ×10 for Southsea Shakedown
- Kill **Southsea Dock Worker** ×10 for Southsea Shakedown
- Kill **Southsea Swashbuckler** ×10 for Southsea Shakedown
- Collect **Southsea Pirate Hat** ×20 for Pirate Hats Ahoy!
- Turn in **Southsea Shakedown** at Security Chief Bilgewhizzle
- Turn in **Pirate Hats Ahoy!** at Haughty Modiste

### 6. Tinkee Steamboil

Tinkee Steamboil, a goblin at Flame Crest in the north of the Burning Steppes, has a chain that pays every town 150 and Everlook 150 more. Use her Draco-Incarcinatrix 900 on a broodling, kill it while the device holds it, and pick up the Broodling Essence it leaves. The device takes only Black and Scalding Broodlings, not the Flamescale Broodlings of the west: Scalding Broodlings (level 53–54) roam just west and east of Flame Crest, Black Broodlings (51–52) the north-east corner of the zone, the thickest group. They are few and spread out: the path passes both and ends among the Black Broodlings.

- Accept **Broodling Essence** from Tinkee Steamboil
- Go to **Scalding Broodlings west of Flame Crest** Burning Steppes
- Go to **Scalding Broodlings east of Flame Crest** Burning Steppes
- Go to **Black Broodlings in the north-east** Burning Steppes
- Use **Draco-Incarcinatrix 900** (optional) — Draco-Incarcinatrix 900, on a Black or Scalding Broodling
- Collect **Broodling Essence** ×8 for Broodling Essence — Broodling Essence, left by the broodlings
- Turn in **Broodling Essence** at Tinkee Steamboil — 100 to every town
- Accept **Felnok Steelspring** from Tinkee Steamboil

### 7. Everlook: Felnok Steelspring

Felnok Steelspring is in Everlook. The Chillwind Chimaeras (level 55–57) south-west of Everlook drop the horns one time in five.

- Turn in **Felnok Steelspring** at Felnok Steelspring — 50 Everlook
- Accept **Chillwind Horns** from Felnok Steelspring
- Collect **Uncracked Chillwind Horn** ×8 for Chillwind Horns — Uncracked Chillwind Horn: Chillwind Chimaeras
- Turn in **Chillwind Horns** at Felnok Steelspring — 100 Everlook
- Accept **Return to Tinkee** from Felnok Steelspring

### 8. Back to Tinkee

Return to Tinkee gives 50 to every town. Her later quests, Egg Freezing (150 to every town) and Egg Collection (200), are done in the Rookery of Upper Blackrock Spire, a ten-player dungeon: take them up with your group.

- Turn in **Return to Tinkee** at Tinkee Steamboil

### 9. Dire Maul North: Knot Thimblejack (From level 57)

Where: 59.2, 45.1 on the Feralas map.

Knot Thimblejack sits shackled in Dire Maul North, the Gordok ogres' wing (a five-player dungeon from level 57: group up). Every Gordok Shackle Key frees him once: 150 to every town, and he is shackled again on your next run. Gordok ogres drop the keys (about one in fifteen; Guard Fengus one in seven): a full run of the wing usually brings one. His Gordok Ogre Suit pays 100 the first time and 50 after, for 4 Bolts of Runecloth, 8 Rugged Leather, 2 Rune Thread and the Ogre Tannin from the basket in the wing. Under 57 when you get here? Unskip this step later.

- Reach level **57**
- Go to **Dire Maul** Feralas
- Collect **Gordok Shackle Key** (optional) — Gordok Shackle Key, Gordok ogres
- Accept **Free Knot!** from Knot Thimblejack (optional) — Free Knot!: 150 to every town
- Turn in **Free Knot!** at Knot Thimblejack (optional)
- Accept **Free Knot!** from Knot Thimblejack (optional) — Free Knot!, again on every later run: 150
- Turn in **Free Knot!** at Knot Thimblejack (optional)

### 10. Every town to Friendly

Where: 44.8, 43.4 on the Feralas map.

Neutral 500 to Friendly is 2,500 with each town. The quests above pay every town up to 700 (Zorbin's two 300, Tinkee's 150, the first Free Knot 150 and the first Ogre Suit 100; less when you are well above their level); Zorbin's repeatables do the rest, 25 to every town each: 10 residue (ten giants) or 6 cores (about twelve elementals). The towns' own quests count too, each giving the other towns half: Ratchet's in the Barrens (levels 10–25, about 4,300: the Samophlange chain 625, Mebok Mizzyrix's errands, the Wizzlecrank and Gilthares escorts 150 each), Booty Bay's in Stranglethorn, Arathi and the Badlands (30–50, about 6,500: the three OOX robot rescues 250 each, An OOX of Your Own 200, Stranglethorn Fever 200, Facing Negolash 200, the Sunken Treasure chain at Faldir's Cove), Gadgetzan's in Tanaris (43–55, about 3,000: the Divino-matic Rod 200, Wastewander Justice 100 each, the WANTED posters) and Everlook's in Winterspring (52–60, about 1,450: Donova Snowden's Winterfall chain, Umi's yeti quests). Forever adds a few low ones: A Simmering Storm and Stormy Potential in Durotar and WANTED: Bruuz (Ratchet 100 each), Important Heirlooms in Ironforge (Gadgetzan 100). In Classic they pay in full only while at most 5 levels below you; past that each level takes a fifth off, down to a fifth. Kills help while they are not grey, 5 each: Southsea pirates in the Barrens for Ratchet and in Tanaris for Gadgetzan and Stranglethorn's Venture Co. camps for Booty Bay, up to the end of Honored; Wastewander bandits for Gadgetzan and Bloodsail pirates for Booty Bay only up to the end of Neutral. Friendly opens each quartermaster's first gear.

- Accept **Again With the Zapped Giants** from Zorbin Fandazzle (optional) — Again With the Zapped Giants: 10 residue
- Collect **Miniaturization Residue** ×10 (optional)
- Turn in **Again With the Zapped Giants** at Zorbin Fandazzle (optional) — 25 to every town
- Accept **Refuel for the Zapping** from Zorbin Fandazzle (optional) — Refuel for the Zapping: 6 cores
- Kill **Sea Elemental**  or  **Sea Spray** for **Water Elemental Core** ×6 (optional)
- Turn in **Refuel for the Zapping** at Zorbin Fandazzle (optional) — 25 to every town
- Reach Friendly with **Ratchet** — Ratchet
- Reach Friendly with **Booty Bay** — Booty Bay
- Reach Friendly with **Gadgetzan** — Gadgetzan
- Reach Friendly with **Everlook** — Everlook
- Reach Friendly with **Powderfuse** (optional) — Powderfuse

### 11. Every town to Honored

Where: 44.8, 43.4 on the Feralas map.

Friendly to Honored is 6,000: 240 of Zorbin's turn-ins, or 40 Free Knot runs, or a mix. Nothing can be saved up: residue and cores drop only while their quest is in your log, and you can carry one Gordok Shackle Key at a time, so hand each in before the next run. Honored opens each quartermaster's blue items.

- Accept **Again With the Zapped Giants** from Zorbin Fandazzle (optional)
- Collect **Miniaturization Residue** ×10 (optional)
- Turn in **Again With the Zapped Giants** at Zorbin Fandazzle (optional)
- Accept **Refuel for the Zapping** from Zorbin Fandazzle (optional)
- Kill **Sea Elemental**  or  **Sea Spray** for **Water Elemental Core** ×6 (optional)
- Turn in **Refuel for the Zapping** at Zorbin Fandazzle (optional)
- Reach Honored with **Ratchet**
- Reach Honored with **Booty Bay**
- Reach Honored with **Gadgetzan**
- Reach Honored with **Everlook**
- Reach Honored with **Powderfuse** (optional)

### 12. Every town to Revered

Where: 44.8, 43.4 on the Feralas map.

Honored to Revered is 12,000 more: 480 of Zorbin's turn-ins (4,800 residue) or 80 Free Knot runs. Revered opens the five cosmetic hats, the reason most players do this. Legacy Diplomat adds up to 10%.

- Accept **Again With the Zapped Giants** from Zorbin Fandazzle (optional)
- Collect **Miniaturization Residue** ×10 (optional)
- Turn in **Again With the Zapped Giants** at Zorbin Fandazzle (optional)
- Accept **Refuel for the Zapping** from Zorbin Fandazzle (optional)
- Kill **Sea Elemental**  or  **Sea Spray** for **Water Elemental Core** ×6 (optional)
- Turn in **Refuel for the Zapping** at Zorbin Fandazzle (optional)
- Reach Revered with **Ratchet**
- Reach Revered with **Booty Bay**
- Reach Revered with **Gadgetzan**
- Reach Revered with **Everlook**
- Reach Revered with **Powderfuse** (optional)

### 13. Ratchet: Winklespark

Winklespark, Ratchet's quartermaster, by the docks. Friendly, level 20 gear: Quilted Cloak 41s (Stamina, Agility), Rumpled Kilt 54s (Stamina, spell power), Ratchet Wristwraps 34s (Intellect, Agility). Honored: Defective Samophlange, an off-hand, 66s (Intellect, Spirit); Barrens Basher, a one-handed mace, 1g 65s (Stamina, Strength). Revered: the Barrens Headband, a cosmetic hat, 2g.

- Buy **Quilted Cloak** from Winklespark (optional) — Quilted Cloak, Friendly
- Buy **Rumpled Kilt** from Winklespark (optional) — Rumpled Kilt, Friendly
- Buy **Ratchet Wristwraps** from Winklespark (optional) — Ratchet Wristwraps, Friendly
- Buy **Defective Samophlange** from Winklespark (optional) — Defective Samophlange, Honored
- Buy **Barrens Basher** from Winklespark (optional) — Barrens Basher, Honored
- Buy **Barrens Headband** from Winklespark (optional) — Barrens Headband, Revered

### 14. Booty Bay: Gezzy Gunkgear

Gezzy Gunkgear, Booty Bay's quartermaster. Friendly, level 30 gear: Deckswabber's Mitts 1g 10s (Strength, Agility), Sea Giant's Toe Ring 1g 48s (healing and spell damage), Soggy Boots 1g 3s (Intellect, Spirit). Honored: Booty Bay Bruiser's Buckshot, a gun, 3g 11s (attack power, Stamina); Souvenir Sea Shell, a necklace, 1g 66s (health regeneration, Stamina). Revered: Tough Guy's Eyepatch, 5g.

- Buy **Deckswabber's Mitts** from Gezzy Gunkgear (optional) — Deckswabber's Mitts, Friendly
- Buy **Sea Giant's Toe Ring** from Gezzy Gunkgear (optional) — Sea Giant's Toe Ring, Friendly
- Buy **Soggy Boots** from Gezzy Gunkgear (optional) — Soggy Boots, Friendly
- Buy **Booty Bay Bruiser's Buckshot** from Gezzy Gunkgear (optional) — Booty Bay Bruiser's Buckshot, Honored
- Buy **Souvenier Sea Shell** from Gezzy Gunkgear (optional) — Souvenir Sea Shell, Honored
- Buy **Tough Guy's Eyepatch** from Gezzy Gunkgear (optional) — Tough Guy's Eyepatch, Revered

### 15. Gadgetzan: Rettrick

Rettrick, Gadgetzan's quartermaster. Friendly, level 40 gear: Reflective Wristguards 2g 74s (Intellect, healing, spell damage), Sunburn Spaulders 2g 94s (Agility, attack power), Sandstorm Cover, a cloak, 2g 36s (Spirit, spell power). Honored: Jhordy's Misplaced Screwdriver, a one-handed weapon, 9g 46s (Strength, Agility); Suspicious Spare Part, a ring, 3g 80s (Strength, Stamina). Revered: the Stolen Wastewander Cowl, 10g.

- Buy **Reflective Wristguards** from Rettrick (optional) — Reflective Wristguards, Friendly
- Buy **Sunburn Spaulders** from Rettrick (optional) — Sunburn Spaulders, Friendly
- Buy **Sandstorm Cover** from Rettrick (optional) — Sandstorm Cover, Friendly
- Buy **Jhordy's Misplaced Screwdriver** from Rettrick (optional) — Jhordy's Misplaced Screwdriver, Honored
- Buy **Suspicious Spare Part** from Rettrick (optional) — Suspicious Spare Part, Honored
- Buy **Stolen Wastewander Cowl** from Rettrick (optional) — Stolen Wastewander Cowl, Revered

### 16. Everlook: Zippie Fizzbolt

Zippie Fizzbolt, Everlook's quartermaster. Friendly, level 50 gear: Steamwheedle Grips 3g 10s (Spirit, Intellect), Impractical Headwarmer 5g 84s (Agility, Stamina, frost resistance), Substandard Belt Chain 4g 68s (Agility, attack power), Coldmetal Guard, a chest, 10g 96s (Strength, Stamina). Honored, three trinkets at about 7g 55s: Everlook Pathcarver (nature resistance), Everlook Delivery Bot (frost resistance) and Parachute-Priest Pager (shadow resistance), the last two with a use. Revered: Fizzbolt's Fashionable Fedora, 25g.

- Buy **Steamwheedle Grips** from Zippie Fizzbolt (optional) — Steamwheedle Grips, Friendly
- Buy **Impractical Headwarmer** from Zippie Fizzbolt (optional) — Impractical Headwarmer, Friendly
- Buy **Substandard Belt Chain** from Zippie Fizzbolt (optional) — Substandard Belt Chain, Friendly
- Buy **Coldmetal Guard** from Zippie Fizzbolt (optional) — Coldmetal Guard, Friendly
- Buy **Everlook Pathcarver** from Zippie Fizzbolt (optional) — Everlook Pathcarver, Honored
- Buy **Everlook Delivery Bot** from Zippie Fizzbolt (optional) — Everlook Delivery Bot, Honored
- Buy **Parachute-Priest Pager** from Zippie Fizzbolt (optional) — Parachute-Priest Pager, Honored
- Buy **Fizzbolt's Fashionable Fedora** from Zippie Fizzbolt (optional) — Fizzbolt's Fashionable Fedora, Revered

### 17. Powderfuse: Friz Frazzlespark

Friz Frazzlespark sells Powderfuse's rewards in Powderfuse Port, on the east coast of the Riverglades, alongside general goods. Friendly, level 40 gear: Crawler's Clackers 2g 74s (Stamina, attack power), Misplaced Pantaloons 2g 94s (Intellect, Spirit), Disengagement Ring 2g 36s (Agility, Spirit). Honored: Primitive Fishing Pole, a two-handed weapon, 9g 46s (Stamina, Strength, Agility); Thrash's Trash, a shield, 3g 80s (Stamina, spell damage, healing). Revered: Haughty Fellow's Monocle, 10g.

- Buy **Crawler's Clackers** from Friz Frazzlespark (optional) — Crawler's Clackers, Friendly
- Buy **Misplaced Pantaloons** from Friz Frazzlespark (optional) — Misplaced Pantaloons, Friendly
- Buy **Disengagement Ring** from Friz Frazzlespark (optional) — Disengagement Ring, Friendly
- Buy **Primitive Fishing Pole** from Friz Frazzlespark (optional) — Primitive Fishing Pole, Honored
- Buy **Thrash's Trash** from Friz Frazzlespark (optional) — Thrash's Trash, Honored
- Buy **Haughty Fellow's Monocle** from Friz Frazzlespark (optional) — Haughty Fellow's Monocle, Revered

### 18. Every town to Exalted

Where: 44.8, 43.4 on the Feralas map.

Revered to Exalted is 21,000 more with each town: 840 of Zorbin's turn-ins or 140 Free Knot runs. No quartermaster sells anything for Exalted: this is for the title bar only.

- Accept **Again With the Zapped Giants** from Zorbin Fandazzle (optional)
- Collect **Miniaturization Residue** ×10 (optional)
- Turn in **Again With the Zapped Giants** at Zorbin Fandazzle (optional)
- Accept **Refuel for the Zapping** from Zorbin Fandazzle (optional)
- Kill **Sea Elemental**  or  **Sea Spray** for **Water Elemental Core** ×6 (optional)
- Turn in **Refuel for the Zapping** at Zorbin Fandazzle (optional)
- Reach Exalted with **Ratchet** (optional)
- Reach Exalted with **Booty Bay** (optional)
- Reach Exalted with **Gadgetzan** (optional)
- Reach Exalted with **Everlook** (optional)
- Reach Exalted with **Powderfuse** (optional)


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