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1.	Screecher Spirits
2.	The Prophecy of Mosh'aru
3.	The Ancient Egg
4.	The God Hakkar

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Comment by 4634

This is part of a long chain quest designed to familiarize you with Zul'Gurub and the Zandalar Tribe. Much of the rewards are decent for their level. The Faded Hakkari Cloak is only slightly worse than everyone's favorite Hide of the Wild. Definitely a worthwhile chain for someone that doesn't want to shell out for the Hide.

Here's the full quest chain:
- Screecher Spirits(Feralas) - https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=3520
- The Prophecy of Mosh'aru(Zul'Farrak) - https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=3520
- The Ancient Egg(Hinterlands) - https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=4787
- The God Hakkar(Temple of Atal'Hakkar) - https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=3528
- The Lost Tablets of Mosh'aru(Eastern Plaguelands) - https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=5065
- The Final Tablets(Lower Blackrock Spire) - https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=4788
- Confront Yeh'kinya(Tanaris) - https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=8181
- The Hand of Rastakhan(Stranglethorn Vale) - https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=8182

Comment by Doranos

The egg is guarded by 3 level 50 - 51 elite trolls that walk a tight circle around the egg.

I soloed this as a level 52 Paladin using engineering to assist me. I rode into Jintha'alor on my mount and ran into the cave. I made it to the room with the egg in the back of the cave before finally dieing. I then rezzed in the corner of the room threw up a quick heal and used my gnomish mind control cap to MC the watcher guarding the egg. I then had the watcher attack the mobs and I bubbled. I ran to the egg released my bubble and looted before the MC wore off.

Comment by 5169

This is soloable by a 50+ rogue. Stand on top of the egg (moving to avoid the patrol if needed), and distract them on the west side. Drop down to the east side, out of line of sight. Loot egg, re-stealth, run.

Comment by 10502

Solo'd as a 52 hunter, in the little tunnel that leads upto the egg you can stand w/o aggro'n anyhting, I got up to there, died, res'd.

Plant Frost trap, send pet in to attack mobs, pull pet back, set him to attack them on the frost trap, you run and loot egg while pet is being slaughtered :p had time to HS out of there too :D

Pet died, but he was a sacrifice I was willing to make :D

Comment by konstantine

Solo'd as a 46 Shadow Priest. Wait till you're in your 50's for this one lol. Died about 35 times.

Comment by 19592

Soloed with a 48 engineer rogue. (5/5 MoD, imp sap)

1. Stealthed up to the egg - No probs.
2. Distracted the group of three.
3. Sapped the named one.
** Be sure to be away from the single guard to the north **
4. (Still in stealth) Used Gnomish net-o-matic projector on a guard.
5. Now out of stealth, used blind on the other guard.
6. Loot the egg.
7. Vanish.
8. Get outta there.

Good luck and hope this helped.

Comment by 22578

Solo it with my level 53 rogue. Stealth go in... Distract the group that is patroling, get the egg and go :p

Comment by 17301

Solod as a 48 rogue. Used the distract on one side of the egg while looting as far back on the other side of the egg as I could. The egg does have a casting time of about three seconds in case anyone was wondering.

Comment by 43769

Alchemy doesnt work. (Lesser) Invisibility or Invulnerability - tried both several times.

Invisibility - you come out as soon as you start opening the egg (regardless of time remaining on potion).
Invulnerability - told me I "could not perform that task while immune."

I wasted a lot of time and effort for nothing.

Comment by ffcloud2000

egg can be located @ 57,86

Comment by daros

Soloed as lvl49 Rogue.
Just distract patroling group and take egg from other side

Comment by 43709

Is it possible to loot the egg while having "Divine Shield" activated?

Comment by Thottbot

solo'd it, 54 Priest, horse trained to the cave, died, rez'd, ran half way thru the cave died, rez'd, ran to the egg, died, rez'd in the little nook. Ran up hit the caster, then feared, grabbed egg then died.

Comment by Thottbot

58 Shamman and myself (54 Holy Priest) tried to do it the normal way (you know pull mob -kill it; move on to next mob; rinse + repeat). We got into the cave in back of the amphitheatre and made it most of the way there. Its hard. We were not that patient, because the shamman had an appointment to go to, and that is probably what got us killed.

I would recommend doing this in a group of 3 or more lvl 53-56. Having a pet/minion would also be a plus.

P/S -> Its R-O-G-U-E not "rouge," thats either make-up or the color red in French :P

Comment by Thottbot

Reach the cave by whatever means. You can mount all the way if you want. Right up to the entrance.

The important part... at the end of the cave, the egg is in the center. 3 patrols circle it. The first 2 (in my spawns) were chicks. The last one was a guy.

I'll label it A - 1st chick, B - 2nd chick, C - 3rd chick.

After trying to retrieve the egg in my first time (and dying before i can... they interrupted me..) I observed in spirit form and noticed that...

In the room, towards the WALL, looking ACROSS, chick B walks awfully close to the egg.. but then later moves TOWARDS (sorta looks like they're merging) with chick A. So when chick B moves AWAY from the egg and TOWARDS chick A, thats when you can accept your corpse, or release stealth, and click on the egg. By the time they find out and run towards you, you've already have gotten the egg.

BTW, this can be easily done with distract it seems.. but the tip was for non-rogues.

Comment by Thottbot

Ancient egg: 57,86 .

remember its in a cave . so if u take a look on ur map its located somewhere in the mountains.

the mobs are up to lvl 52 in that cave.

personally i think its a maximum annoying quest.
the way up is really long and the cave is filled up with those trolls.

i got killed several times (lvl 50 druid) because the lvl 51/52 guys break ur stealth easily. ill wait till lvl 55 then stealth-> walk up there again-> invisibility potion-> grab egg-> die -> rezz.

if u are able to find a nice group to manage this u are really lucky . have much fun with this one.

Comment by Thottbot

cave entrance 58,78

Comment by Thottbot

1. Talk to Yeh'Kinya at Steamwheedle Port in Tanaris for the Screeching Spirits quest which takes you to Feralas. Just go left after you get off the boat from Feathermoon. https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=1328

2. Turn it to Yeh'Kinya. The second quest is The Prophecy of Mosh'Aru. You need to go into Zul Farrak for this one. https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=839/unused

3. Turn it to Yeh'Kinya. He will give you the Ancient Egg quest. It is the same area in Jintha'Alor in Hinterlands where you would purify the mallet of Zul Farrak. I would suggest you get the mallet from the Altar of Zul in Hinterlands first (2 lvl 50's elites) so you can do both quests at the same time. The place to purify the mallet is the altar before you go into the cave for the egg. This altar will be guarded by one elite wolf (49?) and one lvl 50 elite. There are also other elites in the area, but not right at the altar. https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=764/the-venture-co

4. There is a princess patroling this altar who is another part of a quest, Saving Sharpbeak. You need to do the chain for Stonebeak and then the last part is to kill the princess for the key to unlock Sharpbeak's cage. This cage is also in Jintha'Alor, but another area near the egg cave. Regardess, the items mentioned above is at the top of Jintha'Alor, so don't worry about it when you are fighting your way up. https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=1103/call-of-water

If you can, I would gather all 4 quests first before going to Jintha'Alor. Good luck!

Comment by Thottbot

Took me about six deaths but I finally figured out how to do it. As a ghost, position yourself at water level on the ne side of the egg. when they're on the far side (nearly as far as they get from the egg) and they cannot see you, rez then hit blessing of salvation on yourself (lowers your threat 30%). I had an extra second after grabbing the egg 'fore they killed me.

lvl 46 paladin. heh, beat that rogues :)

Comment by Thottbot

58,87 in the cave

Comment by Thottbot

1) Sap (45secs)
2) Blind (8-10secs)
3) Gauge (4secs)
4) Loot Egg

Comment by Thottbot

Apparently this site isn't used for location anymore... yeah... coords are great - but useless with this pretty much bc u have to go thru a city to get there....

found this on allakhazam.....

The map shows A cave in Jin'Thara but it's not the right cave. The one you want is located behind the altar that you use for the enchanted mallet quest. The cave that's shown in the map is where the missing gryphon is.

Anyway, it's a long zig-zag trail through the city to get to this point, full of level 47 elite through level 50 elite trolls. Some are easier to avoid than others.

You don't have to kill the guys standing at the altar to get to the cave.. just sneak around behind them.

Once inside the cave, all three paths lead to the egg; HOWEVER, there are a LOT of enemies in here.

If you have more than one person doing the quest, you have to wait for the egg to reappear once one person gets it (roughly a 15 second wait).

Once you get the egg, exit the cave, make a clear enough area to get on your horse, and hightail it out of there. If you follow the stone path to the stairs and DO NOT STOP, you should be fine.

The regeneration rate in that city is ridiculously fast.

Comment by Thottbot

58 80 CAVE ENTERANCE

Comment by Thottbot

I did it with my lvl 52 dwarf priest solo! u can mount untill u reach the cave, the u take off ya cloths and corpse run. When u are at the egg u start with a instant heal ( desprate prayer, potion ) and make a shield and fear the egguards. then u can open and take egg

Comment by Thottbot

There is no trick to it. Once you die urself into the room were the egg is, just stand in the water against the NE wall of the egg, slightly ahead of the incline which would let u stand on the plataform and wait for the mobs to be almost opposite to you. Rez yourself and click on the egg...you should have enough time to grab it before they interrupt you. This should help all classes.

Comment by Thottbot

For all those players having trouble looting the egg.
Stand south west side of rock where the egg is on.
As the 3 pats goes to the east side, they stop for a sec. thats when you hit res, and click on the egg.
I did this my first try, worked well and managed to get the egg. AUTO LOOT is a must :D

Good luck to ya all!

Comment by Thottbot

If you're gonna go to this place, it's recommendable that you do the other quests here too:

Saving Sharpbeak. Given from the guy in the aviari behind the Alliance FP in The Hinterlands. It's a detective quest that ends in Jintha'Alor with your freeing Sharpbeak, a cute baby gryphon.

The Mallet of Zul'Farak - not actually a quest. You have to kill some easy elite priests at one of the other temples in the Hinterlands to get the Sacred Mallet. Then you go to the Altar of Jintha'Alor - right in front of the cave with the ancient egg - and right click the mallet, and voila, you've got The Mallet of Zul'Farak - which is needed to summon Gahz'Rilla in ZF.
There's a quest in Shimmering Flats where you need to summon and kill Gahz'Rilla to get one of his scales, to get a carot on a stick (+3% mount speed). You need the Mallet of Zul'Farak to summon Gahz'Rilla. Annoying part: The carrot on a stick quest is level 42.

Comment by Allakhazam

Soloed This at 44. Distracted when they were on opposite side, only got two, the priest resisted, started walking toward the egg when she saw me vanished looted the egg, by the time of the first hit had egg in inventory, then ran my ass out of there.

Comment by Allakhazam

There are two caves, one marked on the map and one at 58, 79. You want the cave at 58, 79. It is inbetween two pools behind a span of steps.

The egg is at 57, 86. Hitah'ya and two guards roam in a circle around the egg which is on a pedastool in a small pool of water. They are the farthest away from the egg when they hit the north west portion of their walk.

I corpsed dragged my 47 priest all the way back into the cave and took two attempts at the egg to get it. I used Power Word: Shield and a Lesser Invisibility Potion.

So it is not fun, but possible to do.

Edited, Mon Jun 5 04:14:15 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

why does not some1 say the god damn coords i do not care about yalls life stories

Comment by Allakhazam

I soloed this with my lvl 48 rogue. I did not succeed on the first attempt as I was detected and interupted just before I completed opening the egg.
The location is, as was said, not in the cave you see onthe map but you do have to make your way to the highest area of the city. I did not use vanish until i attempted to take the egg, I was always in stealth mode.
The second attempt, I positioned myself to the right of the egg as you enter the room, i went arround once following the three guards and then when stopped to let them advance 1/3 way around, i was able to open the egg but was hidden from their view for a few secs and clicked vanish and then opened the egg and got it, then was killed, then I simply was rezzed and HS back to Ogri.

Comment by Allakhazam

solod as a 52 pally. no fear or anything. just kept dieing but getting closer to the egg til i was finally right at it. wait til the patrol is on the opposite side of the altar, and i opened it... i barely finished before they started hitting me. bubble hearth out.

Comment by Allakhazam

i - hunter - and druid + paladin was near egg - we before kill guards and lady but we cant open egg - why?

Edited, Oct 18th 2006 at 4:46pm PDT by Apokalio

Comment by Allakhazam

It is quite easy to do as a priest (Nighelf especially) if you do the following

1. Mind soothe on the trolls
2. Stay clear of the wolves and voidwalkers

Shadowmeld really helps when someone is too close for your liking.

Once you get to the egg you soothe the first one and run around the three guards. Stand as far from the first guy as possible and when the three trolls starts to attack you use fear and take the egg.

After that you die and resurrect at spirit healer or go back and soothe your way out.

Only died two times and one was because I messed up and got to close to a wolf

Comment by Allakhazam

managed to solo this quest as a lvl 53 warrior. How? I used my Gnomish mind control cap to MC one guard (i'm pretty sure the named would've been immune) and i made him attack at least once both of them to be sure he has the aggro, then managed to loot the egg.

(i know the MC cap will be "nerfed" next patch (1.11) but it will still be doable as the target is not in combat when you MC him)

Comment by Allakhazam

Got 4804 experience and 216 reputation with this quest at level 48.

Comment by Allakhazam

Soloed as 53 frost mage:

Corpse dragged right to the egg (2 deaths), ressed in a safe corner, popped ice barrier, sheeped caster, waited for the 2 adds to come to me, frost nova'd them, ran over to egg, got it, died, GY ressed.

simple enough.

Comment by Allakhazam

i'm only doing this quest because it leads to a ST quest :((

i wish all instance-quests weren't chained... :(

Comment by Allakhazam

I found it best to fd in the hall right before the egg and kill the patrol and the single mob before using my pet to aggro the 3 mobs guarding the egg. Make sure you use cheetah before sending pet to tank all 3 guards at the egg and use a freeze trap on one mob if you need to.

Comment by Allakhazam

i got lucky!

i was a lvl 50 rogue and i wanted to do this quest but there were LOADS of alliance including 2 lvl 60s. i just stealthed and let them clear the entire run. then i looted the egg as soon as they were gone and voila, 5900 xp for free!

Comment by Allakhazam

Where is the egg?
in BRD?
the pics says nothing to me..

Comment by Allakhazam

This leads to another quest that takes you to the sunken temple. That quest's reward is a very nice dagger.

Comment by Allakhazam

I solo'd this at lvl 51 Druid, stealthed the whole way then once I got to the egg I died three times tring to figure out how other people did it. On the fourth try I was in stealth mode and waited for the pat to headnorth west (if looking in at the egg N/W is to the left) once they were on that side I shapeshifted back and hit the egg really quick they didnt notice me until I had already gotten the egg and I tried to sprint as far as could, but ended up dead inside the cave but I got the egg. SKYWISE Knights of the Ale

Comment by Allakhazam

Did this quest with my lvl 50 rogue. Stealthed all the way to the cave. Used distract at the west part of the area of the egg (what Arthalas posted) then clicked the egg from the east (where the ramp to of the pedestal is). Gave me about 2 secs allowance to stealth back before the 3 elites got out of my distract.

Comment by Allakhazam

54 lvl druid... prowled into the cave took the egg and provled again.. without being seen and without a single kill :D

Easy :D

Comment by Allakhazam

I tanked (55 buffed warrior) for a superb 50 priest, thank goodness he knew the way, and we did great until we got to the egg chamber, then died like dogs. came back with a god-like 70 who made it easy. no way (rhetorically speaking, and I acknowledge the possibility of rare exceptions) could anyone below 60 solo this without stealth.

Saving Sharpsbeak is easy compared to the egg, once you get all the way to the top of the temple compound. Egg in cave behind Hexx, Sharpsbeak to right at small grassy field overlooking valley floor.

Comment by Allakhazam

Reward for completing this was: 5900 exp

This quest is also a prereq for the quest: The God Hakkar

Comment by Allakhazam

5900xp @ 51
wow 1.9

Comment by Allakhazam

Listen, if you're not a druid, rogue, forget to do this quest alone

You need to go through a tunnel that has whole bunch of elites

http://wow.rpgbeacon.com/quest.php?ID=452

check the link, they have the screenshot where you can fine the egg

Comment by Allakhazam

solod as lvl 52 rogue, steathed in, egg is guarded by 3 elites, sapped 1, blind 1 and gouged other one. picked up the egg, vanished and steathed out

Comment by Allakhazam

Solod it as a lvl52 warlock. Got my horse, run through the troll city. In the cave i died but i respawned near the egg. I summoned my VW and let him charge the guards. Then I stole the egg and stoned away.

Comment by Allakhazam

NO way you can do this solo as a rogue flash powder or not. Those 3 elites walking around the egg go after you the second you touch it. I tried 5 times i dont even get it 50% when they hit me. You guys are full if it saying that you soloed this.

Comment by Allakhazam

45 rogue solo... toook about 20 mins to get there and a couple of rezs... one resisted but he was slow so I looted it anyway so very doable as a rogue

Comment by Allakhazam

It's easy to run into the cave, since you can stay mounted until that time. Die in the egg chamber. Respawn on top of the egg, and as soon as you do, drop a target dummy. The 3 trolls guarding the egg will go for it, leaving you enough time to grab the egg. You'll die again afterwards, of course, but easy enough to respawn at the graveyard with the egg in your posession.

Comment by Allakhazam

If you aren't a rogue or high level druid just find a group and do all the other quests at the same time. I have a 49 twink rogue I wanted to get the end quest dagger for. Stealthed all the way there, waited til NE of egg, distracted, got egg, stealthed out. Easy as pie.

Comment by Allakhazam

I was lucky enough to get a group together of people hanging out in the Hinterlands (4 of us total).

The map shows A cave in Jin'Thara but it's not the right cave. The one you want is located behind the altar that you use for the enchanted mallet quest. The cave that's shown in the map is where the missing gryphon is.

Anyway, it's a long zig-zag trail through the city to get to this point, full of level 47 elite through level 50 elite trolls. Some are easier to avoid than others.

You don't have to kill the guys standing at the altar to get to the cave.. just sneak around behind them.

Once inside the cave, all three paths lead to the egg; HOWEVER, there are a LOT of enemies in here.

With luck on my side again, another group showed up to help fight the enemies.

If you have more than one person doing the quest, you have to wait for the egg to reappear once one person gets it (roughly a 15 second wait).

Once you get the egg, exit the cave, make a clear enough area to get on your horse, and hightail it out of there. If you follow the stone path to the stairs and DO NOT STOP, you should be fine.

The regeneration rate in that city is ridiculously fast.

Comment by Allakhazam

I attempted to get the egg yesterday and forgot I had run out of Flash Powder, so I failed miseribly! I'm going back tonight equipped with loads of Flash Powder. Sneaking all the way there is pretty easy though...

Comment by Allakhazam

I followed the technique described earlier to solo this:

1. I stealthed to the cave located at the top of Jin'Thara in The Hinterlands and at loc 60,79.

2. Staying in stealth, I walked around the egg staying opposite of the 3 guards. I figured out the point at which I could grab the egg with the guards as far away as possible: this was when the guards were right in front of the entranceway to the egg room from my perspective opposite of them. I believe that did put them in the Northwest corner with me in the Southeast.

3. Just before they were at that point, I switched to Night Elf form and started looting the egg. They noticed me around 80% done, but didn't get a hit on me until I had the egg.

I died twice before I got the timing right.

Edited, Tue May 23 15:40:23 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

My 43 Rogue just did this quest Solo, and I only died twice. It was quite simple, lol. Run in with balls to the wall to the ancient egg. Die. Spawn on the opposite side of the of the 3 elites, and open the egg. There's plenty of time to open it, once open, either vanish and sneak out and probably die, or just die, lol. Good luck!

Comment by Allakhazam

Completed this today at level 47 solo, thanks to my Flash Powder :)

Comment by Allakhazam

I solo'd it on the 3rd try. 53 NE rogue w/ MOD(5). Stood on top of egg so they wouldn't notice me. Then I threw a distract when they were at the front of the room, backed up to the point where the gear icon was grey, then went forward a bit and opened the egg. They noticed me right as my cooldown ended and I stealthed so I needed to vanish to get out of there.

Comment by Allakhazam

to clarify it sin the cave behind hex, in the room where you get the key to free they guy from the quests in the village

Comment by Allakhazam

Solo'd as a 51 warrior. Equipped tank gear, mounted up and ran to the top. Jumped in to a fountain to remove aggro. Then undressed myself, ran to the cave. Died, ressed, feared the three elites, looted, died, spirit ressed. All in the matter of 15 minutes. :-)
I'm certain it would be solo able for a warrior lower level too.

Edited for spelling mistakes.

Edited, Apr 30th 2007 8:07pm by Djemba

Comment by Allakhazam

As a lvl 55 Druid, twas easy for me to Cat stealth my way through the temple without aggro.
When I made my way to the egg room, I used Timberling and Mechanical Yeti summon items that I earned from a previous quests to distract the guards.
Then I swiped the egg and then stealth and hearthed my way out. (Best-case Scenario)

But then I got the egg and died, at least I got it.

Comment by Allakhazam

I read here that this quest was soloable. I had to do Saving Razorbeak as well, so I thought I'd give this a go. Unfortunately, I could NOT solo Vile Priestess Hexx. Too many froggings. And she hits hard.
Anyway, 53 NE BM Hunter. Died 5 times or so getting to where the egg was. I rezzed last time in a corner where the pat around the egg couldn't see me when I shadowmelded. My armor was in red. My bow was broken. All I had was my pet. I rezzed him, stealthed him (I KNEW that would come in useful one day!), worked both our healths up to full. I attacked the group of three with my pet and jumped on the egg after he aggro'd them all. I got the egg just as he died (poor guy!) tried to run and feign death, but they owned me quick with greatly reduced armor. Died, rezz'd at grave, hearth'd with egg in hand, and ALL armor red. Quite the repair bill there!
Thanks for all the useful tips here, especially from the other hunters!

Comment by Allakhazam

I don't care on which lvl you soloed it....

Comment by Allakhazam

I soloed this as a 51 druid, I logged on my 60 mage and blew up the room, logged back over to my druid and craftily looted the egg. How do you like them apples?

Comment by Allakhazam

can someone please post the coords of this place?

Comment by Allakhazam

As a 52 rogue, I managed to get myself in, distract the egg's guard and get the egg without having to fight a thing.

Comment by Allakhazam

I solo'd this as a 46 mage. i found the cave at around 60,79 in the hinterlands. how to do this solo... very carefully! I did alot of rez and run. i finally got to the egg after die'n about 7 or 8 times and you get on the opposite side of the egg as the 3 elites are and as soon as you have enough distance away from the elite's to rez with out agro'n them do it and hold shift and right click the egg and you should just get done looting as they start attacking you. then you die and hearth back and get your 1.5g repair bill.

46 gnome mage Madister Stormscale

Comment by Allakhazam

I got around to doing this at level 56 because I went through ST and couldn't complete it all. I'm also an impatient person, so while my party was getting to the entrance of the city, I was riding through on a mount aggroing everything. I rode straight up to the amphitheater and feigned death, then shadowmelded to regain my health. I then proceeded into the caves, feigning death after a few guys and then shadowmelding. When I got to the egg, I sent Karl, my level 55 bear, to aggro all of them. While he was getting owned I was able to take the egg, feign death and wait about ten seconds before he died. Then I hearthed out and all was good. I've done this for a number of elite quests and post this so people will stop whining that rogues are the only class that can solo elite quests (not necessarily someone from this thread).

By the way, my party got up one flight of stairs in the time it took me to complete the quest.

Comment by Allakhazam

I was worried about how I was going to do this quest solo with my 53 mage. So last night I run through Jin'Thara and get to the cave. I sit out there hiding and I wait.

Within about 10 minutes a group of 5 horde come along and start battling outside the cave. I take this opportinuty to run into the cave and die at the egg.

Horde comes along wipes the room, they get their eggs and leave. Then I procure my egg and hearth away!

If those horde only knew how they assisted me.

Comment by Allakhazam

Comment by Xudomus

Tip for those in classic w/o some way to CC the adds. As a Paladin I was able to hide in the corner while the guards patrolled around the egg. Luckily, the rock the egg is perched on blocks line of sight. So wait until the last guard is out of LoS walk up to the egg and loot. You have to get really close to the egg, run forward into the rock until you are able to interact with it. Don't jump. Die to the guards and spirit rez or Bubblehearth out

Comment by NeetPagle

Just did this solo today with a 50 holy priest. Death hopped my way to the egg room, then rezzed right behind the rock the egg sits on, while the patrol was on the other side. Did not aggro while out of LOS. Clicked the egg and got it before they came around and killed me. Definitely possible with non stealth class if you are willing to die a bunch of times.

Comment by dawilson06

I did this solo on a level 52 rogue. Though I'm sure can be done at a lower level. I distracted the group of three out of LOS on the rock, looted the egg from the backside of the rock, and vanished.

Quick and clean.

Comment by EterniquE

If you are a rogue and have improved gouge (and probably even without the improved gouge) you can solo this easily. Did it at level 51.

What you need to do is:

- Walk up to the egg in stealth. Easy.
- Now, be careful about that solo elite next to those three elite mobs going around the egg.
- Use your distract ability when those three elites are close to the cave wall not to be bothered by that solo elite mob AND when they are as close to the egg as possible. (You can watch those three elites go around the egg couple of times just to understand their pathing.)
- Even if one of those three elites resists your distract ability, just wait patiently to do it again.
TIP: Before distract, pre-select one of the non-caster mobs (there are 2 non-casters and 1 caster).

Now it all depends on your wrist's agility.

- Stand very close to the egg after distract, which means you should be able to see the "gold" looting icon.
- Sap 1 non-caster mob.
- FAST >> Select the other non-caster mob and blind it.
- FAST >> Gouge the caster.
- VERY FAST >> loot the egg asap after gouge and vanish.

The thing with gouging the caster is, even if she comes out of your gouge before you finished looting, she begins casting something on you so you will have enough time to loot the egg before she ends casting whatever she's casting. Vanish after that.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You may want not to cast vanish instantly after looting, because I'm pretty sure that caster is casting Shadow Word: Pain on you so, your vanish will break out and you may die because of it. You can just wait Shadow Word: Pain debuff to go away with you evasion skill up AND THEN vanish, probably much safer.

Comment by Garlin

How to solo it:
I manage it on lvl 46 with mage 1400hp

Steps:
1: Look on the map, you can see there 2 small lakes 1 cave and 3 building marks and one long road with many serpentines.
2: CAVE on the map is the fake one, do not go there (our cave is not marked on map)
3: Look on the map on the name of the place: Called JINTHA ALOR
4: You need to get on letter N on the map. (do not take a turn on letter T it is next turn)
5: If you are alone then just run with the horse then respawn in a safe place and run again, takes me 1 death.
6: As soon as you are on the bottom of letter N you suppose to see small amphitheatre with an altar in middle and 2 big waterfalls in behind.
7: The cave is right in the middle of waterfalls, like 20 meters from altar.
8: Run to cave if you die just rerun, Egg is in the last room, exactly on coordinates from wowhead. You really can't miss it
9: Now it's a hardest part, takes me 3 deaths to figure out how to do it. The 3 mobs which are patrol around an egg have a phase when they stop for a second, now you need to stand on another side of the egg release and take the egg, if you do it properly you will finish the looting before they attack you. Thanks to Muddbog for his useful comment. You can start looting from the bottom of the rock.

Comment by Powerwordbj

Did this solo as a 52 Warlock. Died a couple times getting to the cave just running by stuff mounted. Once in the cave I summoned a VW and healed up, then had the VW get aggro on everything while i ran by, once his health got low I sacrificed for the bubble and used the nifty stopwatch to sprint to the end. Tried to get a howl of terror off before i died but they dropped me instantly. When I ran back I just hit rez and immediately started casting howl of terror and i was able to loot it. You have to be in melee range of all three mobs next to the egg to fear them so they attack the instant you rez which dropped me to 120 health before i got the 2 second cast off. If that doesn't work you can try using a healthstone or health pot after the rez, then using HoT.

Comment by KromirSilvermoon

As warrior if you're alone near the egg pull the 4th dude into the 3 patrolling then use your intimidating shout and loot the egg immediately. You'll grab the egg just before they start attacking you again and kill you. :-)

Comment by kj417

As a level 46 druid I was able to do this solo but I died three times. The first time I died I got too close to one of the elites in the cave and he saw through my stealth. When I resurrected, I made the decision to do it on a cliff inside the cave near the egg even though I knew I would aggro the other elites. So I died again, but I was close to the egg.

The second time I resurrected I was able to find a safe place in the corner to eat and heal up while shadowmelded. I should have gone straight into cat form and stealthed because I can't hold my own against them at this level.

If you watch the 3 elites that patrol around the egg, you'll notice they stop briefly on one side. So I waited on the other side of the egg and as they were about to stop I canceled cat form and right clicked the egg. You have to be really close to the altar to reach it. They continued patrolling and started casting at me as I was collecting the egg but the first attack did not hit me until I already had the egg in my bag. I died almost instantly.

You'll probably want to use auto loot (or hold alt while you click the egg) since they will hit you as soon as the loot window opens.

Comment by logic203

2019 post:

I am standing right next to where the egg is supposed to be, but it is not there.
Also no mobs around the alter to protect it.

Quest buggen in Classic?

Comment by fabflippintastic

So much useless information here, unbelievable. The egg is in a cave at the very top of Jintha'Alor. Cave entrance is at 59.05, 78.66 - behind the NPC Vile Priestess Hex, required for the Saving Sharpbeak quest.

The cave is full of lvl 50 - 52 elites. The egg is guarded by a patrol consisting of 3 elites, constantly circling the egg. They never leave.

I managed to solo it as a lvl 52 rogue with improved gouge. Sap one mob, blind the second and gouge the third and quickly loot the egg. Vanish and get out of there. Good luck!

Comment by Char

Did the same person write every comment on 40 different characters across the last two decades? "Solo'ed, death run, distract, grab egg. run."
I swear, these vanilla wowhead/thottbot comments should just be wiped, they're hardly every helpful and are mostly just people bragging that they did something

For those that are NOT rogues or locks who cannot just sap or fear: There are 3 level 51 adds circling the egg. Once u rez there, they will immediately come after u and poke u to death. You cant just "grab the egg" as everyone recommended like its some instant action. Its one of those 3 or 4 second casts to collect the egg and once an add hits you, it completely cancels your cast. I assumed it would be this way but after many comments, I started to think otherwise and wasted too much time on this.

Comment by Zarroe

The egg is in a cave at the very top of Jintha'Alor. The entrance is at 59, 78
The cave is full of level 50 - 52 normal mobs, not elite as other comments say. The egg is guarded by a patrol consisting of 3 mobs, 1 priest and 2 guards, constantly circling the egg.

This was straightforward as a shaman, just drop StoneClaw for crowd control and pop Shamanistic Rage + Gift of the Naaru to become a god and burn the boss mob. Fire totems would also be useful, but I was lv54 so it wasn't necessary.

Hope this helps!

Comment by Jakathera

I have found that the check quest completion script is no longer working for me. Here's how you fix it.

Add "C_QuestLog." in between the "(" and the "I" in Is

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(4787))

This works for all quests I've tested it on both complete and incomplete. Simply change the last 4 numbers to match the quest ID you're wanting to check.

Comment by GhostGhost

Once you make it to the cave where the egg is the 3 mob patrol will walk around the mound where the egg is and stop at 1 point.

If you stand on the opposite side of the mound to them they will not see you and you can just loot the egg.

Comment by breadpuddingwow

Does NOT count for Loremaster of Kalimdor.

Comment by MatadorMedia

In SOD, this cave is filled with elite trolls. You can do death runs all the way into the back/top of the cave. If you rez yourself directly next to / behind the central pillar (where the egg is on top), the patrol cannot see you through the pillar if they are on the opposite side, allowing you to quickly loot the egg. Once they notice and murder you, take your rez sickness and bounce.

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The Prophecy of Mosh'aru speaks of an ancient egg. It is a relic of a time when trolls ruled vast empires, and it has the power to hold the essence of Hakkar. It may be the only way to keep our world safe from his evil.

Bring me the ancient egg, <name>. It is said to lay hidden deep within Jintha'Alor in the Hinterlands, in a cave behind the amphitheater at the top of the city.

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