For those trying to hunt down:
[item=8704] from The Hinterlands (Personal stats: Killed some stalkers, some trolls, some owlbeasts (about 20 all told)... Then killed my first ooze at Skulk Rock, and it dropped)
[item=8623] from Tanaris (Personal stats: Went into Zul'Farrak like all other posters recommend, killed some twenty or thirty trolls and scarabs, and it dropped from one of the troll corpses)
[item=8705] from Feralas (Personal stats: As recommended by many other posters, Feral Scar Yetis - dropped on my first kill)
- Only available if you have not already completed the quest.
- Yes these still drop in Mists of Pandaria.
- Yes it can drop off ANY mob in the respective zone, however [item=8705] has the highest drop rate from [npc=5292] IF you haven't already done the quest.
- It WILL eventually drop - some days RNG is your best friend, other days you want to repeatedly punch a kitten (or other obscenely fluffy creature) just to illustrate how cruel the universe can be.
- The command to check if you have completed ANY of the distress beacon quests is here (special thanks to MrsSushi for locating the updated version of this as of 5.0.3):
/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{25475,25476}})do print(z[k])for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h["..q.."]\124h" ,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE)end end
You will see lines of dialogue that look like this:Tanaris
#1 [351] Complete
#2 [648] Complete
Hinterlands
#1 [485] Complete
#2 [836] Complete
Feralas
#1 [25475] Incomplete
#2 [25476] Incomplete- After completing all three escorts, you can then acquire the quest An OOX of Your Own and get your [item=10398].
Happy hunting!
Quest
Rescue OOX-17/TN!
Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Just 2 ambushes: three lvl 47 scropids in the start and three wastevander humans (1 mage, 2 assasins, around lvl 44) almost in the end. And some usual mobs chicken just cant get past on its way >.<
Soloed without much troubles as lvl 47 affliction warlock.
Picture at http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=7784 shows the way chicken follows.
This horrible quest got an absolutely wonderful update for patch 3.2: about 1/4 of the way through the regular escort route (before you reach the Wastewanderer camps), the chicken will enable rocket packs and fly away to safety, giving you quest credit in the process. I assume the other chicken escorts got updated similarly. Save 6~10 minutes of awful escorting you'd otherwise have to do.
At a glance
Rescue OOX-17/TN! is a quest for level 15-30. It rewards 2 reward items, 2 reputation rewards and 8,250 experience.
Quest facts
The client quest POI data records no map location for this quest, so no map is shown.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(648))
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Description
The gnome's voice crackles once again from the robot: "I need to move OOX-17/TN to an open, safe place so it can begin a lengthy take-off procedure. It has built-in cloaking, but I need time on my end to make it operational again. I need you to escort the robot from its current location to, let's say, near the Caverns of Time! That should be a perfect place, and long enough, to get things on line!" "Escort it safely and then come talk to me in Booty Bay! Oglethorpe Obnoticus - out!"
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Reputation: Booty Bay +350
This booming coastal city is run by Baron Revilgaz of the Blackwater Raiders. Mortal enemies of the Bloodsail Buccaneers and part of the Steamwheedle Cartel.
Reputation group: Steamwheedle Cartel.
Reputation: Bloodsail Buccaneers -350
These bloodthirsty corsairs are the bane of many a merchant in the high seas. Sworn enemies of Booty Bay.
Reputation group: Classic.
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