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Meet The Maw

A World of Warcraft quest in Val'sharah. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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The Maw is a legendary pet encounter found north of Andu'talah in Val'sharah, and is only available to fight when his world quest, 'Meet the Maw', is available. His moves are Creepy Chomp, Devour and Siphon Life. The experience gain from this fight is insignificant and it's not worth leveling pets with.

Pets
To beat the Maw, I used my Emerald Proto-Whelp (Breath/Emerald Presence/Proto-Strike), Emerald Whelpling (Breath/Emerald Presence) and Yu'la, Broodling of Yu'lon (Breath/Emerald Presence/Lift-off). You only need one of these three green dragons- put one of them in your first slot and then bring any two other pets with Dragonkin damage for backup. Yu'la in particular will have a speed advantage over the Maw so bring that if you have one.

Strategy
On round 1, use Emerald Presence, then Proto-Strike, then spam Breath. Refresh your Emerald Presence Buff as needed to maintain it, and spam Breath to work down his health. Try and time a Proto-Strike (or Lift-off with Yu'la) to get out of the way of Devour when your health gets within killing-blow range if possible, but no sweat if you miss it. Keep mashing Breath with Emerald Presence up and he should go down without trouble.

A full video guide of the strategy I've laid out can be found here. Hope this helps!

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 45
LocationVal'sharah
SideBoth
SharableNo
Added inLegion
Quest ID41861

The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(41861))

Requirements

Quest typeBattle Pet World Quest

Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.

Objectives

  • Defeat The Maw

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.

Val'sharah Objective area 1 mapped point
Val'sharah map showing where to go for Meet The MawObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #641 64.6 40.6

Coordinates

  • Objective areaVal'sharah 64.6, 40.6/way #641 64.6 40.6

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 Val'sharah map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Val'sharah, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Val'sharah:

  • Starsong Refuge, Val'sharahAlliance and Horde · about 450 yards south-east
  • Garden of the Moon, Val'sharahAlliance and Horde · about 770 yards south-west
  • Sylvan Falls, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 970 yards north-east

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.

Objective targets

The Maw

KindBattle pet
FamilyMagic

Creature, object and item facts from the current retail client; “also asked for by” lists other quests whose objectives name the same target. Prices are the US commodity auction house’s lowest listed price.

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Where this quest fits

Other storylines on the Val'sharah map

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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward these achievements.