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Quest
... and Bugs
A World of Warcraft quest in Dustwallow Marsh. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Whether it's easy to accomplish this quest, which as I remember from the last time one of my characters did it, involves gathering of the quest items on the east coast of the area and your recommendation is to come in from the west side of the area, depends entirely on one's level and abilities when attempting to navigate to the appropriate area to perform the requisite activities. If you are just finding out that you need to follow those directions to access the Swamp of Sorrows, you are probably unaware that Alliance players will almost immediately encounter Stoneard Scouts and Stonard Explorers, marked PVP, patrolling the paths on the west side of the Swamp of Sorrows. If you don't want to be flagged for PVP for fighting them, they need to be avoided. And that's just the first of your worries for taking this path to the quest area. The path soon branches into paths leading southeasterly and northeasterly. The southeasterly path will take you smack dab into Stonard. If you get too near it one or more level 65 Stonard Grunt (Bosses) will come out and attack and you'll be quickly dead. Again if you attempt to fight them, you'll be flagged for PVP (and dead). As soon as you spy it, detour to the northeast. The northeastern path leads into Fallow Sanctuary. which you'll also want to avoid as you'll get mobbed on your way through. So in either case you will be traveling off of the pathways and across country and likely agroing one battle after another with Swamp Jaguars, and Sorrow Spinners in the jungle, and Sawtooth Crocolisks, Snappers, and Tangled Horrors in the waterways. You may encounter the Pool of Tears in east central Swamp of Sorrows, which is generally quite safe to swim across the top, skirting the Temple of Atal' Hakkar in the center of the water. Once you reach the Misty Reed Strand, which forms the northeastern coast of the Swamp of Sorrows, be careful of the level 43 Monstrous Crawlers if you decide to attack them, as they can be problematic for lower level characters on this quest. So bottom line is if the quest is red or orange to you, tread very carefully when going this way. If it's green or gray to you, then it should be relatively easy to get across the area (and you probably already have the map filled in for this area, having been there before...).
You have to kill "silt crawlers" http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=922
or "monsterous crawlers" http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=1088
located along the eastern coast of Swamp of Sorrows.
I found the most around 95, 48 but they can be found anywhere along the water, they have a good drop rate.
Quest facts
The client quest POI data records no map location for this quest, so no map is shown.
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Description
Another component of my new recipe is the shelled leg of a giant crab. And the crabs they have in Dustwallow -- spiny rock crawlers they call them -- will be perfect! The shell of the crab leg is a key element of the dish's presentation so I need pristine, unscarred legs. An adult crab might only have one or two such legs, and I need a lot in order to research my dish. Head on over to the rocks surrounding Theramore and get me those legs!
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Reputation: Stormwind +250
One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.
Reputation group: Alliance.
Other quests in Dustwallow Marsh that reward Stormwind reputation: Mudrock Soup and Bugs (+250), Stinky's Escape (+250), Reinforcements From Theramore (+75), Traitors Among Us (+250), Propaganda War (+250), Discrediting the Deserters (+250).
Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.
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Guides and routes on this site that cover Dustwallow Marsh.