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Comment by Binary

In a random instance run of Zul'Farrak, simply progress through the instance until you find a room with a high concentration of scarabs.

Comment by 60852

Can be soloed by a druid or rogue

Go to the room on the way to first boss where all the scarabs are at, and start killing, think i killed 20-25 to get my 5..

and i got 8300 xp for this one

Comment by foxrings

The quest giver is between the two gates on the north side of town.
Away from the Inn, Bank and Auction House.

Comment by 240953

Get a team to Zul'Farrak (North West Tanaris for players who are new to wow) kill your way through the instance, dont really mind for the lone scarabs. In the middle of the instance there is a room with 60 non-elite scarabs. There is no way you wont get the quest done. Tha scarabs have a 75% droprate to give you their shells. Happy scarab hunt!

Comment by 172321

This quest counts towards Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement.

Comment by 464789

Does NOT reduce rep with Bloodsail Buccanneers!

Neither do https://www.wowhead.com/cata/quest=2768 and https://www.wowhead.com/cata/quest=3042

Comment by Thottbot

Just soloed this as a L47 (human) rogue with four points in MoD. Didn't get spotted once getting to the scarab room, and even managed to kill a couple of the things along the way. The only real problem I had was that it's possible to pull multiple scarabs at once.

Comment by Thottbot

You can obtain this quest without doing the previous quest (the point quest from Booty Bay).

Comment by Thottbot

Easily soloable as a rogue. I didn't go to the scarab room, though. At level 45, I was able to stealth up on hills out of aggro range of the trolls and just shoot my bow at the patrolling scarabs. Only pulled one at a time.

I'm 5/5 in MoD but I don't think you would need it in ZF since most of the paths are so wide.

Comment by Thottbot

all u have to do is go into zul farak, then if u go along the path 2 the rite, ul find a big room full of the scarabs

hope that helps

Comment by Thottbot

It is a room in the Instance it is hundreds of them in there! just go in and kill... thats what i did ;)

Name:Zabiin
Race:Orc
Class:Warrior
Realm:Kor'gal

Comment by Thottbot

Anybody have the coords to this place?

Comment by Thottbot

Coordinates are 38,18. It's an instant in Tanaris.
Take friends, the mobs are almost all level 45+ elites.

Comment by Thottbot

Path is to the RIGHT after the split. Room is just past Nekrum Gutchewer, Sandfury Executioner, & Sergent Bly. BEWARE! The yellow scarabs will AGGRO and BRING FRIENDS when attacked so make sure you PULL them one or two at a time.

Comment by Thottbot

just wait there are tons of them in a room up ahead.

Comment by Thottbot

how do you get to there from gadgetzan

Comment by Thottbot

are you all noobs lol

Comment by Thottbot

where do you get the scarb shells i have abso lutly not a clue

Comment by Thottbot

off of the crabs scaribs in zf there not eletet so u can slo it on a rouge

Comment by Thottbot

and my whol group got kill because i targrted 1 of the scaribs and everybody attacked the scarib thxt thing u no here comes the tank wit 20 eletes i was pissed ofer a dam crab

Comment by Allakhazam

2350 XP and a slight increase in Gadgetzan reputation are rewards for this quest.

Edited, Fri Mar 25 00:12:25 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

The shells are easy enough to retrieve from the level 45 (non-elite) scarabs. The problem you may have is if you're in a large group, it will take a long time for everyone to get all of their shells. No one can grab the same shell off of the same corpse.

Comment by Allakhazam

Two of us stayed after a ZF run to get Scarab Shells. Went back to where there was a whole compound of them. Made the mistake of assuming that since they were yellow-neutral that we could take our time doing one at a time. I pulled six with first shot! Killed all of them, but it was close :P Pick the ones that are alone!

Comment by Allakhazam

Yes, the beetles are still very social but their XP per kill seems to have increased. Anyway, the quest gave 40s and 8300xp.

Comment by Allakhazam

3900 exp/rep increase/65 silver

Comment by Allakhazam

These beetles are very "social" and impossible to pull one at a time in that area where there are loads. 2 of us stayed behind after doing ZF to get the shells and one of the little beasties dropped the Precisely Calibrated Broomstick. Looking at some of the drops they can do it is probably worth nuking them all on every run!

Comment by Allakhazam

To get to Zul'Farrak coordinates are 38:20 in Tanaris which is northwest of Gadgetzan.

Hope that helps people.

Comment by Allakhazam

some can tell de loc of this mobs

Comment by GhostGhost

If you clear zf and go back to the scarab room the mobs will have respawned. No need to seek the random ones out that patrol other parts of the dungeon just clear as normal and wait for them to respawn.

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Scarab Shells

This quest is no longer available within the game.

Bring 5 Uncracked Scarab Shells to Tran'rek in Gadgetzan.

	Uncracked Scarab Shell (5)

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The scarabs of Tanaris have very hard shells! Hard enough to use as a building material for lots of things. So many things!

In fact, those shells are so useful... the scarabs were hunted all to near extinction!

I know where there are more scarabs, and if you promise to bring me their shells then I'll tell you where they are. Promise?

Ok, the scarabs have a colony in Zul'Farrak. I guess the trolls don't hunt them for their shells.

But you can! Go to Zul'Farrak and get me uncracked shells!

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with Gadgetzan

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(2865))

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