TheWoWDBMake sure you have Lafoo summoned. Look for shiny spots on the ground. Stand over them and Lafoo will dig them up. Wait for him to dig them up and loot them.
Quest
Gods like Shiny Things
A World of Warcraft quest in Sholazar Basin. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Lafoo does not aways uncover the treasure when he digs up 'shiny things'. Sometimes it's a Sparking Hare, which gives a 50% speed boost for 1 minute when killed.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 20-30
ZoneSholazar Basin
Quest ID12572
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12572))
What to do
StorylineSholazar Basin, step 41 of 65
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
Soo-say said we go with you. You be nice, okay? Ooh, ooh! We know! We can make Soo-say happy if we bring back more offerings for shrine! We not need to go far, there's always stuffs to dig up around village... just look for sparkles in dirt! Let's go! Let's go! More offerings for shrine!
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #119 54.6 56.4
Coordinates
- Turn-inSholazar Basin 54.6, 56.4
/way #119 54.6 56.4 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Sholazar Basin 54.9, 55.3
/way #119 54.9 55.3 - Objective areaSholazar Basin 54.7, 56.2
/way #119 54.7 56.2
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 Sholazar Basin map
- Desecrate this Fire! about 350 yards
- Honor the Flame about 360 yards
- Farseer Grimwalker's Spirit about 1,350 yards
- Kaganishu about 1,350 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Sholazar Basin, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Sholazar Basin:
- River's Heart, Sholazar Basin
- Warsong Camp, Wintergrasp
- Nesingwary Base Camp, Sholazar Basin
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 Oracles +350
The gorlocs of Sholazar Basin are a race of reptilian creatures who see themselves as guardians of the titan technology that remains in the zone (though they understand little of it). They find themselves in an escalating territorial war with the wolvar.
Reputation group: Sholazar Basin.
Other quests in Sholazar Basin that reward The Oracles reputation: Fortunate Misunderstandings (+350), Make the Bad Snake Go Away (+350), Making Peace (+350), Back So Soon? (+250), The Lost Mistwhisper Treasure (+350), Forced Hand (+350).
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
Sholazar Basin
Part 41 of 65.
Previous: Make the Bad Snake Go Away · Next: Making Peace
- 36The Mist Isn't Listening
- 37Hoofing It
- 38Just Following Orders
- 39Fortunate Misunderstandings
- 40Make the Bad Snake Go Away
- 41Gods like Shiny Things
- 42Making Peace
- 43An Issue of Trust
- 44Back So Soon?
- 45Returned Sevenfold
- 46The Lost Mistwhisper Treasure
- 47Forced Hand
Showing steps 36 to 47 of 65.
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.
- Make the Bad Snake Go Away
We were here long before the puppy-men came. This is very sacred place - we will not leave. You seem like maybe you good, but we have Lafoo stay with you just in case. You understand we think. There snakes thing that keeps trying to eat our hatchlings. Go with Lafoo and make them stop, okay?
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Making Peace
We have great idea. You were friends with puppy-men, they maybe listen to you. We want you to go give offering to Shaman Vekjik. He southwest where river turns into waterfall. Tell puppy-man we no want fight. Tell him we play nice. You good <race>. We trust you do this right.
The storyline at a glance
Sholazar Basin has 65 steps, from Need an Engine, Take an Engine to Reclamation.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Sholazar Basin (63), Un'Goro Crater (2).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Sholazar Basin map
- Borean Tundra
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.