TheWoWDBThe hatchlings are yellow and all you have to do is right click on them to pick them up. They are located in the burning forest nearby at 47, 27.
Quest
Securing the Bait
A World of Warcraft quest in Sholazar Basin. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Killing Drake Eggs in the area spawns the hatchlings that you can than pick up.
I found these eggs to be a good way to raise my unarmed skill.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 20-30
ZoneSholazar Basin
Quest ID12605
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12605))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineSholazar Basin, step 23 of 65
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
We're not likely to get Broodmother Slivina's attention waving our arms around like fools, but if we're smart, we can bait her into fighting us. We'll also secure more, uh, fodder for my little project. <Dorian glances over at Zootfizzle.> But don't worry about that for now. Just look for the primordial drake eggs in the area east and northeast of the camp. Burst them open and scoop up the hatchlings that come out. When the broodmother realizes what we've done, she'll have no choice but to face us.
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #119 42.3 28.7
Coordinates
- Turn-inSholazar Basin 42.3, 28.7
/way #119 42.3 28.7 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Sholazar Basin 47.1, 26.9
/way #119 47.1 26.9
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
- Honor the Flame about 980 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 980 yards
- Farseer Grimwalker's Spirit about 1,920 yards
- Kaganishu about 1,920 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
- Nesingwary Base Camp, Sholazar Basin
- Death's Rise, Icecrown
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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Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Storyline
Sholazar Basin
Part 23 of 65.
Previous: Sharpening Your Talons · Next: A Mammoth Undertaking
- 18Crocolisk Mastery: The Ambush
- 19Rhino Mastery: The Kill
- 20The Taste Test
- 21In Search of Bigger Game
- 22Sharpening Your Talons
- 23Securing the Bait
- 24A Mammoth Undertaking
- 25Post-partum Aggression
- 26Playing Along
- 27The Ape Hunter's Slave
- 28Tormenting the Softknuckles
- 29The Wasp Hunter's Apprentice
Showing steps 18 to 29 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.
- Sharpening Your Talons
The primordial drakes occupy most of the area to the north and east, and I can feel the heat of their breath even at this distance. Before we can challenge the mightiest among the drakes, we must test our skills against the lesser creatures.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- A Mammoth Undertaking
Before you go off challenging Broodmother Slivina, Dorian thought it might be a good idea for you and Hemet to coordinate your efforts by riding into battle on the back of a mammoth. The area around the camp is full of them. Just take this bridle and slip it over the head of a shattertusk mammoth.
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.