The Reticent Tinkerer

Level 200World EventSoloScales with level

Walkthrough

Steps

To talk to Redd knock twice on the door of Redd's Abode .
Pick up Redd's Gas Mask outside his house, on the left side of the stairs, and put it on.
- Click on the ground spawn next to the door to receive the appearance-only gas mask, then equip it.
Enter Redd's Abode while wearing the gas mask.
- Once you wear the gas mask, you can click the door again to enter.
Speak to Redd near the entrance.
See what Redd's about.
- Follow Redd after talking to him (which there will be a lot of, so be patient).
Find out exactly what Redd wants.
- Talk to Redd again near a cannon.
- Redd will give you instructions on how to kill the clockworks.
  1. Pull the gate lever to open the gate (behind you)
  2. Come back to the cannon and load a cannonball into the cannon, one at a time (click a cannonball next to the cannon, then click the cannon). You can actually pre-load the cannon before opening the gate.
  3. Wait for clockworks to emerge from the gates. Clockwork will come from the gate area one at a time.
  4. When the clockwork is close enough to be hit, it will have a red target ring at its feet and the text "Target Acquired!" will appear in your chat window. Fire the cannon by clicking the cannon. Repeat step 2 to reload the cannon and get ready to fire again. Firing a little before the "Target acquired" message seems to work better.
  5. Destroy 5 clockworks, then close the gate via the lever. (Clockworks defeated via normal combat will not yield the required quest drop. You must defeat a clockwork with the cannon to be able to gather the appropriate quest item from the corpse)
Go down in front of the gate and right-click / "gather parts" on each destroyed clockwork (they won't disappear as you click on them, just click on each one)
Return to Redd, who is working at a counter not far from the cannon. Talk to him long enough to get his attention and update.
Take the hoverdisk to Klak'Anon: Redd's Request.
- The hoverdisk is within the same zone in front of a short barrier near Redd.
A clockwork orderly will steal your decodicon and flee!
- Follow to , kill the orderly to retrieve your decodicon. Important: kill all clockworks in the zone or it will be more difficult to defeat the Taskmaster later.
Obtain 6 Mechanized capacitor plugs.
- Enter the cave at and follow it to the next area and kill drone shredder Mk II clockworks, then loot capacitors for updates.
Safely extract two binary fluctuator gears.
- Kill a tinkered Overseer to obtain Lever A. (POWERDRAINS massively.)
- Kill a tinkered Taskmaster (POWERDRAINS massively plus calls all remaining machines in zone- clear those first), located in the little alcove in the NW corner of the room, to obtain lever B. During the fight, the tinkered Taskmaster will summon a drone fixer-upper to repair it. (If you die and try again, at least 2 more machines will spawn- kill them first.)
- The levers go into sockets on either side of the glowing door at . Pull both levers to deactivate the force field.
- Enter this room to find 2 machines.
  - On each machine, click a white circle on the right side of the console, then click the large spinning gear above.
  - You will learn the Tik-Tok language if you do not already know it.
Return to the entrance and click on the hoverdisk to return to Redd.
Talk to Redd and wait for his signal.
Once Red gives the signal, press the big red button on the counter next to him to complete the quest.
- You can then hire one (or both) of the mercenaries standing in front of Redd.
  - If you want to hire both mercenaries, add first hired mercenary to 'Hire Anywhere', then hire the second one.

Note

If you miss the target, you most likely will be killed by the 4x Clockworks, don't leave the instance after you "Revive", go to close the gate and open it again, this will let you continue with the quest.
It is better to use the Chat window to monitor the alert message rather than watching the Popup Messages window which might have delay depending on your UI Settings.
You can zone in together but it is better to do alone, you don't get group updates for some parts and some you do.

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Quest information

Journal Category: World Event
Journal Level: Scales with player level
Journal Difficulty: Solo
Starting Zone: Steamfont Mountains
How to Start: Click on the door at in Gnomeland Security Headquarters to Speak to Redd through the door.

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Rewards

XP: 25,686

Shiny Tinkerfest Cog(Item)×10

Reward data may be incomplete for choice rewards and conditional items.

Walkthrough

Steps

To talk to Redd knock twice on the door of Redd's Abode .
Pick up Redd's Gas Mask outside his house, on the left side of the stairs, and put it on.
- Click on the ground spawn next to the door to receive the appearance-only gas mask, then equip it.
Enter Redd's Abode while wearing the gas mask.
- Once you wear the gas mask, you can click the door again to enter.
Speak to Redd near the entrance.
See what Redd's about.
- Follow Redd after talking to him (which there will be a lot of, so be patient).
Find out exactly what Redd wants.
- Talk to Redd again near a cannon.
- Redd will give you instructions on how to kill the clockworks.
  1. Pull the gate lever to open the gate (behind you)
  2. Come back to the cannon and load a cannonball into the cannon, one at a time (click a cannonball next to the cannon, then click the cannon). You can actually pre-load the cannon before opening the gate.
  3. Wait for clockworks to emerge from the gates. Clockwork will come from the gate area one at a time.
  4. When the clockwork is close enough to be hit, it will have a red target ring at its feet and the text "Target Acquired!" will appear in your chat window. Fire the cannon by clicking the cannon. Repeat step 2 to reload the cannon and get ready to fire again. Firing a little before the "Target acquired" message seems to work better.
  5. Destroy 5 clockworks, then close the gate via the lever. (Clockworks defeated via normal combat will not yield the required quest drop. You must defeat a clockwork with the cannon to be able to gather the appropriate quest item from the corpse)
Go down in front of the gate and right-click / "gather parts" on each destroyed clockwork (they won't disappear as you click on them, just click on each one)
Return to Redd, who is working at a counter not far from the cannon. Talk to him long enough to get his attention and update.
Take the hoverdisk to Klak'Anon: Redd's Request.
- The hoverdisk is within the same zone in front of a short barrier near Redd.
A clockwork orderly will steal your decodicon and flee!
- Follow to , kill the orderly to retrieve your decodicon. Important: kill all clockworks in the zone or it will be more difficult to defeat the Taskmaster later.
Obtain 6 Mechanized capacitor plugs.
- Enter the cave at and follow it to the next area and kill drone shredder Mk II clockworks, then loot capacitors for updates.
Safely extract two binary fluctuator gears.
- Kill a tinkered Overseer to obtain Lever A. (POWERDRAINS massively.)
- Kill a tinkered Taskmaster (POWERDRAINS massively plus calls all remaining machines in zone- clear those first), located in the little alcove in the NW corner of the room, to obtain lever B. During the fight, the tinkered Taskmaster will summon a drone fixer-upper to repair it. (If you die and try again, at least 2 more machines will spawn- kill them first.)
- The levers go into sockets on either side of the glowing door at . Pull both levers to deactivate the force field.
- Enter this room to find 2 machines.
  - On each machine, click a white circle on the right side of the console, then click the large spinning gear above.
  - You will learn the Tik-Tok language if you do not already know it.
Return to the entrance and click on the hoverdisk to return to Redd.
Talk to Redd and wait for his signal.
Once Red gives the signal, press the big red button on the counter next to him to complete the quest.
- You can then hire one (or both) of the mercenaries standing in front of Redd.
  - If you want to hire both mercenaries, add first hired mercenary to 'Hire Anywhere', then hire the second one.

Note

If you miss the target, you most likely will be killed by the 4x Clockworks, don't leave the instance after you "Revive", go to close the gate and open it again, this will let you continue with the quest.
It is better to use the Chat window to monitor the alert message rather than watching the Popup Messages window which might have delay depending on your UI Settings.
You can zone in together but it is better to do alone, you don't get group updates for some parts and some you do.