TheWoWDBHere's a useful tip if you're stuck on one type of dragon - keep your enemy alive, and keep using the Phase Modulator until it finally turns into the type of dragon you need.
Quest
What Came First, the Drake or the Egg?
A World of Warcraft quest in Blade's Edge Mountains. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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63.76 (around here.. (south of death's door))
1.) click on the nether drake egg
2.) use the Temporal Phase Modulatoru get either
Proto-Nether Drake
-or-
Adolescent Nether Draketo get one of these u need to use the modulator twice.
Mature Nether Drake (arcane blast is really deadly, so watch out!)
here's another trick i found helpful.
when you click on the egg, a nether whelp will spawn -- knock the whelp down to 1/2 or less health before using the modulator on him, makes the final dragon much easier to kill (they inherit the amount of health). This works well until you need to get a specific type, then sometimes the cooldown on the modulator doesn't have time to run out. I ended up standing there letting the dragon hit me until i could hit the modulator again.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 20-30
Quest ID10609
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10609))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineBlade's Edge Mountains, step 49 of 95
RewardsMedicinal Drake Essence, 
Clocktock's Jumpers, 
Devolved Drake Girdle, 10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Medicinal Drake Essence, Clocktock's Jumpers, Devolved Drake Girdle, 10g 50s, 4,100 XPDescription
I'm researching the applications of drake essences to my work as a physician. I think they could be a panacea for a host of maladies! I need someone to go south to the Singing Ridge and get me some. Willing to take my temporal phase modulator and use it on the nether whelps that hatch from the nether drake eggs? Retrieve the essences from whatever they turn into. Which, I might add, I'm not certain of what that will be as we're using some pretty dicey, time and space modifying tech here.
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #105 61.0 68.1
Coordinates
- Turn-inBlade's Edge Mountains 61.0, 68.1
/way #105 61.0 68.1 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Blade's Edge Mountains 62.5, 75.9
/way #105 62.5 75.9
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 Blade's Edge Mountains map
- Desecrate this Fire! about 680 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,060 yards
- Hero's Call: Blade's Edge Mountains! about 1,340 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Blade's Edge Mountains, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Blade's Edge Mountains:
- Toshley's Station, Blade's Edge Mountains
- Evergrove, Blade's Edge Mountains
- Sylvanaar, Blade's Edge Mountains
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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Choose one of these rewards:
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Other quests on the Blade's Edge Mountains map
Reward details
Items you receive
TypeConsumable
Item level42
BindingBinds when picked up
UseDrake Essence
Pick one of these
TypePlate Feet
Item level31
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor15
Stats+6 Strength or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +12 Critical Strike, +5 Haste
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for68 silver97 copper
TypeMail Waist
Item level31
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +4 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for23 gold89 silver
TypeLeather Hands
Item level31
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +8 Stamina, +5 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for23 gold80 silver
TypeCloth Shoulder
Item level31
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+6 Intellect, +8 Stamina, +5 Critical Strike, +8 Versatility
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for34 gold38 silver
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
Blade's Edge Mountains
Part 49 of 95.
Previous: Cutting Your Teeth · Next: A Date with Dorgok
- 44Crystal Clear
- 45Gauging the Resonant Frequency
- 46Ridgespine Menace
- 47More than a Pound of Flesh
- 48Cutting Your Teeth
- 49What Came First, the Drake or the Egg?
- 50A Date with Dorgok
- 51Favor of the Gronn
- 52Pay the Baron a Visit
- 53Into the Churning Gulch
- 54Goodnight, Gronn
- 55It's a Trap!
Showing steps 44 to 55 of 95.
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.
- Cutting Your Teeth
It's nice that you've been helping out Toshley and his scientists. I, however, do not have the luxury of indulging in my 'personal' interests. If you want to make a difference around here, you'll do what I ask of you, and right now, I need weapons.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- A Date with Dorgok
Good, I've seen you around and I've been meaning to speak to you about a matter of some importance. There are reports coming in that for some reason the Bloodmaul ogres are planning an offensive against Sylvanaar and Ruuan Weald.
The storyline at a glance
Blade's Edge Mountains has 95 steps, from The Encroaching Wilderness to Maxnar Must Die!.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Blade's Edge Mountains (95).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Blade's Edge Mountains map
- Burning Crusade Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.