Black Box Mechanimation

Level 42Steamfont MountainsSoloShareableCompletion shareable

Walkthrough

Steps

Speak with Finbert Lintzig got quest then talk to him again to get some Black Boxes(x3) at Gnomeland Security Headquarters
Install the 3 Little Black Boxes given to you by Finbert Lintzig into the Inoperative Clockwork
- The Inoperative Clockwork turns into Opticron (non-aggro) which is serviced by several clockworks that it destroys and then becomes the Haywire Opticron (42^).
Slay the Haywire Opticron (respawn time is about 5-6 minutes)
Return Finbert Lintzig

Fun Facts

When booting up, before turning into an attackable mob, the Opticron says 2 things in Tik-Tok. When this quest was first put in the game, the language was not available to players, but nearly all clockwork mobs and NPCs spoke in it. The language was later made available to players via a quest in Moors of Ykesha when The Shadow Odyssey launched.

For those of you who don't want to wait to get the language, then come back for this quest, here is what the NPC says:

\aNPC 12655222 Opticron:Opticron\/a says in Tik-Tok, "Opticron Status: 99%."
\aNPC 12655222 Opticron:Opticron\/a says in Tik-Tok, "Aberrant Battle Module Configuration: Online. Initiate Annihilation Mode."

The NPC then spins around, "killing" the clockworks that came to its aid, then turns into the Named Monster Opticron

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Quest information

Journal Category: Steamfont Mountains
Introduced: Echoes of Faydwer
Journal Level: 42
Journal Difficulty: Heroic
Starting Zone: Steamfont Mountains
How to Start: Speak with Finbert Lintzig, at Gnomeland Security Headquarters
Timeline: Steamfont Mountains Timeline

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Timeline

Steamfont Mountains TimelineStep 2

Previous: The Little Black Box(L42)
Next: The Staff of the Observers(L50)

Rewards

Coin: 264,459

XP: 598

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