TheWoWDBfor those skinners out there, skin before carving the meat, but dont loot the hides until after you carve the meat. that way you can get the meat and the skin!
Quest
Big Game, Big Bait
A World of Warcraft quest in Deepholm. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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For the skinners, I don't know if it's a bug or something but after you've mutilated the basilisks, you can still skin them, you won't get leather from it, but still get the skill-ups.
BUT: If you skin them, the corpse doesn't disappear and if you wait some time (like 1 minute or something like that), you can skin them again, you can easily level your skinning this way, but you won't get any leather from it :(
I guess this will be fixed soon.
Upper World Pillar Fragment Quest Tree From Whiterock
The War Has Many Fronts{H}* The Battle Is Won. The War Goes On{H}* | | | S)Hero's Call: Deepholm!(A) | S)Warchief's Command: Deepholm!(H) ├──┼────────────┬─────────────┴──┘ |one out of four| └┬──────────────┘ S)The Maelstrom S)Deepholm, Realm of Earth | a)Gunship Down a)Captain's Log a)The Earth Claims All a)Elemental Energy ├──────────────┴───────────────┘ | b)Diplomacy First──>b)The Admiral's Cabin──>b)Without a Captain or Crew | b)All Our Friends Are Dead──>b)Take No Prisoners | b)On Second Thought, Take One Prisoner b)Some Spraining to Do b)Return to the Temple of Earth──>c)Blood of the Earthwarder c)Deathwing's Fall c)Bleed the Bloodshaper c)Twilight Research c)Question the Slaves c)Maziel's Revelation c)The Forgemaster's Log c)Maziel's Ascendancy c)Silvermarsh Rendezvous c)Quicksilver Submersion c)The Twilight Overlook──>#)Into the Stonecore(Stonecore) | | d)To Catch a Dragon d)Big Game, Big Bait | ┌───┘ d)Testing the Trap #)Twilight Documents(Stonecore) | \ #)Followers and Leaders(Stonecore) d)Block the Gates d)Abyssion's Minions | / d)The World Pillar Fragment The Middle Fragment* | / The Very Earth Beneath Our Feet* Legend:
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Quest facts
Quest ID26766
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26766))
What to do
WhereDeepholm, Twilight Depths
StorylineDeepholm, War & Gunships, step 53 of 57
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Description
We're only going to get one shot at capturing Abyssion, {name}. Let's make it count. We'll test out the trap on the biggest of the stone dragons in the Alabaster Shelf. To lure the stone matriarch, we're going to need to gather sufficient bait. Take this knife and carve 5 sides of basilisk meat. That ought to be enough even for her appetite.
Where to go
Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #207 64.5 82.1
Coordinates
- Turn-inDeepholm 64.5, 82.1
/way #207 64.5 82.1 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Deepholm 56.2, 84.6
/way #207 56.2 84.6
Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Nearby on the Deepholm map
- The Master's Plan about 400 yards
- The Return of Twilight about 400 yards
- Destroying the Cult about 400 yards
- Unleashing the Elements about 400 yards
- Held Captive! about 400 yards
- Doomshrooms about 1,040 yards
- Gone Soft about 1,040 yards
- Shaken and Stirred about 1,040 yards
- Corruption Destruction about 1,040 yards
- Rocky Upheaval about 1,040 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Deepholm, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.
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Reward details
Reputation: The Earthen Ring +250
This gathering of the most powerful shaman of Azeroth seeks to maintain the balance between the world's elemental forces. Their main focus during the cataclysm has been to repair and stabilize the damage caused by Deathwing's arrival.
Reputation group: Cataclysm.
Other quests in Deepholm that reward The Earthen Ring reputation: The World Pillar (+75), The Earth Claims All (+250), Gunship Down (+250), Captain's Log (+75), Diplomacy First (+75), All Our Friends Are Dead (+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.
Storyline
Deepholm, War & Gunships
Part 53 of 57.
Previous: To Catch a Dragon · Next: Testing the Trap
- 46Bleed the Bloodshaper
- 47Question the Slaves
- 48The Forgemaster's Log
- 49Silvermarsh Rendezvous
- 50Quicksilver Submersion
- 51The Twilight Overlook
- 52To Catch a Dragon
- 53Big Game, Big Bait
- 54Testing the Trap
- 55Abyssion's Minions
- 56Block the Gates
- 57The World Pillar Fragment
Showing steps 46 to 57 of 57.
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
Before this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- To Catch a Dragon
Having a dragon guard the fragment was a smart move on the enemy's part. They can keep moving its location any time we get close to it. Catching Abyssion will be extremely difficult, but I have a plan that might help.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Testing the Trap
You must set the trap for the matriarch now. Go to the western end of the Alabaster Shelf and place the trapped basilisk meat in the center of the feeding grounds.
The storyline at a glance
Deepholm, War & Gunships has 57 steps, from Where's Goldmine? to The World Pillar Fragment.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Deepholm (57).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Deepholm map
- Deepholm, The Stone Throne
- The Elemental Lords II
- Call of the Doomhammer
- The Elemental Lords III
Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.