Use [item=203013] once to get a buff called "Deep Sniff". This makes you able to see a scent trail. On the trail there are bigger clouds where you can use the extra action button to [spell=399339].
Quest
Sniffen 'em Out!
A World of Warcraft quest in Zaralek Cavern. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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yeah, this quest is a pain in the arse!
For me, there was a dig spot just outside the cave. I wandered around the cave for way too long with 4/5 progress trying to find the last one, and finally went outside to find it there.
Quest facts
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(73408))
Requirements
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Reekroot dug x 5
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.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2133 60.8 39.6
Coordinates
- Objective areaZaralek Cavern 60.8, 39.6
/way #2133 60.8 39.6
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 Zaralek Cavern map
- Secrets From Our Father about 30 yards
- Brother's Keeper about 30 yards
- It Was Not Enough about 100 yards
- Culling the Deep about 100 yards
- Niffen and Goliath about 130 yards
- The Earth Gives Way about 280 yards
- Air Superiority about 690 yards
- Investigating the Unknown about 690 yards
- Break Them Out about 690 yards
- Worst of the Worst about 690 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Zaralek Cavern, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Zaralek Cavern:
- Loamm, Zaralek Cavern
- Obsidian Rest, Zaralek Cavern
- Dragonscale Camp, Zaralek Cavern
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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Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Zaralek Cavern map
- Zaralek Cavern
- The Ancient Bargain
- Sundered Legacy
- The Dragons and the Scale Expedition
- Breaking Ground
- Inevitable Confrontation
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.