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Series

1.	Good Troll Hunting Troll Season!
2.	Filling the Cages

Storyline
Grizzly Hills Local Support Close the Deal A Tentative Pact An Exercise in Diplomacy Northern Hospitality Wolfsbane Root The Conqueror's Task Gray Worg Hides The Flamebinders' Secrets A Show of Strength The Thane of Voldrune A Minor Substitution Jun'ik's Coverup Delivery to Krenna My Enemy's Friend Filling the Cages Truce? Vial of Visions Subject to Interpretation Sacrifices Must be Made Heart of the Ancients My Heart is in Your Hands Voices From the Dust Test of Mettle Words of Warning Escape from Silverbrook A Swift Response Secrets of the Flamebinders Thinning the Ranks Descent into Darkness Report to Gryan Stoutmantle... Again Hollowstone Mine The Damaged Journal The Runic Keystone The Runic Prophecies Softening the Blow Brothers in Battle Uncovering the Tunnels The Fate of Orlond Steady as a Rock? Check Up on Raegar The Perfect Plan Why Fabricate When You Can Appropriate? We Have the Power ... Or Maybe We Don't The Iron Thane and His Anvil Blackout The Captive Prospectors Looking the Part Cultivating an Image Put on Your Best Face for Loken Souls at Unrest A Name from the Past Ruuna the Blind The Failed World Tree The Thane of Voldrune A Dark Influence A Possible Link Children of Ursoc Vordrassil's Sapling Vordrassil's Seeds Ursoc, the Bear God Attack on Silverbrook Mikhail's Journal Vordrassil's Fall Gorgonna The Darkness Beneath Tactical Clemency A Possible Link Ruuna the Blind Ruuna's Request Out of Body Experience Fate and Coincidence Anatoly Will Talk Sasha's Hunt A Sister's Pledge Hour of the Worg The Bear God's Offspring Nice to Meat You Therapy It Takes Guts.... Dun-da-Dun-tah! Drak'aguul's Mallet See You on the Other Side Chill Out, Mon Jin'arrak's End Raining Down Destruction Rallying the Troops Into the Breach Gavrock Runes of Compulsion Latent Power Free at Last Destroy the Sapling Vordrassil's Seeds Ursoc, the Bear God The Conquest Pit: Bear Wrestling! The Conquest Pit: Mad Furbolg Fighting The Conquest Pit: Blood and Metal The Conquest Pit: Death Is Likely The Conquest Pit: Final Showdown An Intriguing Plan The Unexpected 'Guest' From the Ground Up We Have the Power ... Or Maybe We Don't Bringing Down the Iron Thane The Damaged Journal Deciphering the Journal The Runic Prophecies Pounding the Iron In the Name of Loken The Overseer's Shadow Cultivating an Image Loken's Orders

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Comment by Acku

The troll village is located at 13, 61.
You must not engage the troll you wish to trap.
Tell Budd to hit him when you're about 20 yards away from the target.
If you screw up, you have to run all the way back to the camp to pick him up again.
Follow-up: Truce?(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##asakawa##DELIM##Calling him a "retard" isn't nice.

Comment by 182248

to make the quest less frustrating, do the following couple things before talking:
1. make sure there is only one troll nearby - bcuz any add that hits u interrupts you from using the cage, or adds will kill the retard before he does anything
2. make sure there IS a single troll nearby, otherwise talkin to the retard will only make him attack the air
failure to do so will result in much wasted time running back.(##RESPBREAK##)272##DELIM##Uchur##DELIM##

Comment by 3946

Worst quest in the beta.

Tips:
Remember you have to grab Budd from his tent at 16, 48
When you approach the troll talk to Budd and he will go stun it for you

Comment by Shatteredhelix

I found this quest to be quite easy and not frustrating at all, just don't charge in and take about five seconds to think instead of just rushing in and it could be one of the easiest quests in the zone.

Comment by 18970

Just ride straight south (13,61) . Try to avoid any combat situation where Budd is "tanking" as he only got 514HP.
Like said above, check the area for a single troll.

A tip: Avoid the first ruin wall when you hit the camp. There is almost always a troll shaman behind it which is getting into Budds attention span. He'll sap the wrong one for you and you run out of Budd and sap time ...

Comment by 31213

Very annoying. Took 4 tries.

1. You only get 3 minutes. (Failed cause I couldn't figure out how to "talk" to him - there was in fact a pet bar)
2. If you get aggro while laying the trap it will get interrupted and the mob will come out of sleep.
3. If you get aggro on the mob Budd tries to tag the tag will fail.

Comment by 30985

I was having trouble with this because I was not getting a pet bar.

/console reloadUI

Fixed it for me, and might for other people.

Comment by blupache

Any class: watch that Budd doesn't get stuck pathing around trees & get too far away from you. He'll despawn & you'll need to wait 3 minutes to pick him up again.

Paladins: Be *really* careful. Crusader Aura is bad here m'kay? Budd's not that quick.

Comment by 150475

Just stay far away from Budd while he does he work and you'll be fine. Worst. Rogue. Ever.

Comment by 246350

This quest is quite annoying if you do it wrong.
Basically, as others have said, you need one on it's own.

It will interrupt if you get aggro from something nearby, plus Budd will be gone.

It's not hard, it's pretty easy if you know what to do.
Took me 4 tries.

Comment by 246372

A few tips more:
- he doesnt *your* target, when you hit the pet bar sap button, he tries to sap the nearest troll
- this includes already tapped mob
- the troll whoich you are going to sap has to be out of combat. So dont aggro him!

So after ~5 tries I did it like this:
- Approached the camp from west
- killed one serpent, waited till I was out of combat
- there was only one troll, I hit the sap button, then after the sap, ich ran into range of the cage device and trapped the troll
- so my advice: Let a buddy clear the area leaving only one troll behind and you are ready to go

Comment by 97960

As i set him to sap the troll , a rogue sapped me and get my troll . i lol`ed

Comment by 118464

Dunno guys, I just read all your comments and was expecting some horrible, buggy quest. But I just completed it 1st try without a problem at all. I hung around the outskirts of the troll camp, saw a single troll standing by itself a few yards in (near the temple-like building). I had Budd sap it. I ran in and used my cage. Quest complete.

I saw some other people running straight into the camp and trying to do it while avoiding wandering pats and other mobs (windserpents, etc). I assume this is why most of you had issues. Don't just run in. Take your time and do it correctly.

Doing it in 1 run patiently takes less time than running back 4-5 times. Neg me if you want, but if you do, you're just bitter.

Comment by 171525

Not very hard at all.

1) Take the quest.
2) Talk (right click) to Budd.
3) Budd will start following you, he goes right behind wherever you go for 3 minutes.
4) Ride south, near the toward 13, 61 (or the little arch under Granite Springs).
5) Avoid all mobs on the way, don't draw aggro to anything.
6) When you get there find an issolated (or clear the area around one).
7) Once you have a troll in sight send Budd in and use the Sap-looking button on your pet action bar.
8) Get close and as soon as he saps use the Bounty Hunter's Cage on the sapped troll.
9) Return the quest and get your XP. ;)

Comment by 65622

My pet bar was greyed out. Couldn't do anything about it. Skip this til the bug is fixed!

Comment by 251609

First step STOP! pick up BUDD hes at 16, 48
Next make sure you have an ACTIVE PET BAR or you can't do anything with Budd
Next go find a troll target him and pull him WATCH OUT Budd has like 1K health he's 2 shotted EASY
Once you have pulled the Troll IE you are <IN COMBAT> Budd's pet bar finally is usable
Click the "sap" looking button if you don't know which one that is mouse over the buttons and read.
Then when the troll is sapped (or sleeping) "ZZZ's" coming from his head
Click the cage in your bag.

This is a very poorly set up quest, patience is a definate virtue.
BTW all this must be done in 3 min... or Budd just walks away
if Budd Dies, or Gets bored (ie walks away) just go back to camp and get him again

Now for those that say they assume that the reason some of us had issues was cuz we were runnin in they may be incorrect I had issues cuz:
1) I didn't have my pet bar on
2) There is no "description" anywhere in the quest on how to "get budd to do anything"
3) They have changed the quest several times from talk to Budd out of combat to finally having a pet bar and having to be in combat.

A bit better quest discription would be good cuz I "did" take my time and it still took 3 or 4 times to get the dang thing

Comment by 249660

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvSN9zma5uI

Comment by Netspook

What annoys the hell out of me, is that for us warlocks, Budd replaces our minion. Yup, having Budd and a minion up at the same time is not possible. (I guess the same goes for hunters.) That alone was reason enough for me to hit the abandon quest buttom.

Comment by 128588

HORRIBLE quest. The time between uses of Budd is now 10 minutes. Quite possibly the worst quest ever imagined.

Comment by 140670

Don't ever try to catch one of the undead trolls, you'll be stuck with the 10 min debuff making you wait.

Funny quest and all if you have done ZA but come on, a debuff!

Comment by sTyLnK

This quest is hell on a PVP server. Not only will you lose Bud if you are ganked and die, but you will have to run back to your corpse, run all the way back to get Bud again and come all the way back to do the quest. Definitely very time consuming and frustrating. Might want to do it at a time when it is abit slower.

Comment by Sonatina

Bartender people: Enable your pet bar.

Comment by 107517

cmon ppl, u're all missing the most important part;

the yoke slasher, the Grinder of Reverse Emancipation, or the Spike of Renounced Autonomy?

has anyone gotten the meaning of the items yet....

Comment by Draklor

Ok I know the problem people are having here, they are going north to the troll village of Zeb' Halak - DO NOT GO THEIR the Trolls are undead.

Take buddy SOUTH to loc 14 ,61 and then get within 20 yards and use his stun/sap then you'll be done this is a very easy quest that I was getting upset over because I did not read all the quest text. Real easy not bugged just have to go south... I saw about 4 other people north trying to sap undead trolls, trolls are bad enough with out wanting dead ones. I hope this was helpful

Comment by Azaram

Budd is wearing a Flimsy Male Troll Mask... no wonder he's so successful at mingling with the trolls!

Comment by 275073

since pretty much everyones a dumb ass on giving proper directions. Budd is inside a small hut near by quest giver and doesnt come along unless you talk to him first.

Comment by Califree

I've just failed this quest and come here to read. The only thing I can add is that Budd had 10 minutes attention span instead of 3.

As a BM Hunter, having brain-damaged Budd replace my pet was a definite DEBUFF. He aggroed everything in sight on the way to the troll ruins! If you're a hunter, track beasts, and pray ol' Budd doesn't run off...which he will do if you try to hit his Sap button (his only ability) in an effort to get him to help you fight off worgs.

Comment by 36760

Firstly, Budd can keep up with an epic mount.. which is nice.

Secondly.. don't let him get hit. He has NO health. I aggroed a Wolf and it had him down in 3 hits, before I even realized what happened. Now that was fail on my part but I just thought that you should be made aware of his fraility.

Comment by 276867

its very simple q u have to speak with npc "budd" and then go in the area with the dead troll right be side of the camp and sap the troll with badd's skills after that use the the q item on troll

Comment by 288303

confirm budd is in tent at 16.3-48.2 or above the "S" in granite springs

Comment by 175422

DONT DO THE SAME MISTAKE AS I DID! WARNING!
I went to Zeb'Halak instead of the ruins SOUTH of the camp. Dont go to Zeb'Halak the trolls ur after is at the ruins south of the camp, not north. ^^ Good Luck

Comment by 128757

If the pet bar doesn`t show up and you don`t want to reset de UI, when you are in position use Ctrl+4, for the ones that use a player with pets they know this will activate the number 4 skill, wich is the one you need.

Comment by Zorim

If your pet bar doesn't show up, you can press Ctrl-4 (by default) to use his ability.

Comment by 295148

Its easier if you go to south east to the path and follow that down to the ruins than try and traverse the gauntlet of wolves.

Comment by 291282

This quest is annoying...

Comment by 265795

Well, I'm here to tell the Death Knights, that this was a really easy quest, believe it is the same for Warriors and maybe Paladins.

I ran straight south (the way I came up from Conquest Hold), if Budd had aggro I simply cast , or used the if it was only one mob, and they would change target to me instantly, leaving Budd unharmed.
Also a nice detail, Budd can keep up with a 100% ground-mount, haven't tried, but doubt he would fly by your side while mounted on a flying mount. ;)
Now, when you come within range of the troll you want to trap, Budd's petbar becomes active and you can use the sap ability, using this makes Budd run off after he sapped the troll, ergo he vanishes, so as read read above, using the sap ability on a non-troll will also make him disappear. Now, after Budd saps the troll, simply go to the troll and use , run back (this time there's no Budd to have to babysit.

Hope this was somewhat helpful.
Also, Budd can be found at cords: 16,48, or in the little hut closest to the burning troll-mummies and the drunk :)

Good luck everyone :)

Comment by JamieK

crap quest......abandoned.

Comment by 146327

If your concerned, walk over to the area and check it out.
You can kill any mobs on the way back, it is not that far.
I didn't have any trouble, but after reading all of the posts, I'm glad I scoped the area out first.

Comment by 316138

This has to be the stupidest, boring and frustrating quest i've ever experienced.
This moron, Bud, tortures you with his stupid jokes. I say torture, because you have to read them so you don't miss anything. Not that he says anything substantial. Then, while the idiot is telling jokes a troll takes him out with ONE HIT. More interesting fact is that you cannot summon your minion (if you are DK or whatever). THe second you do so, Bud goes back to camp. And you have to go all the way back to get bud and work with the joking idiot all the back to the Troll village. The quest seems to be built around Buds boring jokes because it is unlike any other quest where they put no intuitive sense nto it. You have to trial/error in order to figure it out. Hopefully, Blizzard will make this quest less frustrating and without all the 'let's make our users laugh' type dialog. Not saying laughing isnt good thing (I actually laughed at the nut quest where you eat a nut and have to poop it out), but this quest is not even close to funny and I have to eat an aspirin to finish it.

Comment by 230948

I've tried this quest for 20 times now and i cannot finnish it, when i throw the cage to a sleeping troll nothing happens , i wont get the quest completed.

Comment by 319660

Just take Buddy follow the road it's a wolf a littte down the road don't let the wolf attack Buddy he has a few hp points (1500) ... once there....clear the area as long as you get aggro and not Buddy sap one troll shaman cage it and there you have a troll in a cage
(any troll works i've caged a shaman)

Comment by grenichzor

I dont see what everyone is complaining about in this quest.

Step by step guide, the easy way.
1) Go to the quest giver, nearby in that camp are 3 tents. In one of the tents is an NPC called Budd
2) Now talk to Budd, and get him to follow you (Just speak to him)
3) Now mount up and go back to the troll camp (Budd should follow you) pretty much directly South of the camp you are in
4) You should now have a pet action bar with aggresive defensive passive etc, go near to a troll and use the move it has to "Tag" a troll
5) Once it is tagged, target the troll and use the item you were given by the quest giver (Bounty Hunters' Cage)
6) Quest should be complete, now mount up head back to the camp and turn in the quest

Hope this helps

Comment by wye43

Budd's skill is: Tag Troll - 15 yard range - instant - no cooldown
2nd feedback after doing the quest after 4 months again: some good changes are in, Budd will not bug that easily, but still moronic quest design, you need to read a lot of external information(wowhead) and do the quest multiple times to apply workarounds.
Bad quest. And not one of those you can just skip it, it leads to major chains.

Comment by 346774

Stupid q but got it in the end, cheers.

Comment by wowhead100

I made the mistake of not having my pet bar activated on Bartender, once I enabled it, piece of cake....

Comment by 350072

what is the mob name
?

Comment by Kuida

So as soon as i got this quest i used Budd's tag ability and he went to a mass of troll corpses beside the camp and tagged one. It went to sleep and i caged it. pretty weird

Comment by 361735

I'm having trouble with this. I get Budd all the way there, get really close to a troll, click sap and Budd goes "there's no trolls here mon!" and disappears! What the heck am i doing wrong? I'm tired of doing this quest.

Comment by bendolf

budd sits in the easternmost tent and you have to talk to him

Comment by 345030

Horrible, horrible quest. Nigh-on impossible if you're a pet-using class and manage to aggro anything on the way - Budd replaces your normal pet, dies if an enemy even looks at him funny, and is generally a complete waste of space. Why they couldn't make him a "companion" that tags along with your regular pet, I do not know. If it wasn't a prerequisite for so many other quests, I'd say to abandon it and ignore it, but as it is there's not much choice...

Comment by 363608

If this quest and several others is any indication, Blizzard must be convinced that it's super duper "fun" for us to feel left without a freakin' clue as to how to complete quests. Newsflash Blizzard--it's NOT.

"Gee, I've got one hour to play tonight. It'd sure be awesome if I could spend that entire hour in utter confusion and frustration." ...yeah, right.

Ok, so apparently you have to use this guy as you would a pet. Well, it would've been REEEEEEEEALLY nice to have known that an hour ago!

/end rant

Comment by MisterRik

Geez, howzabout something as simple as a question mark over Budd, like every other NPC in the game you're supposed to talk to has? While I realize Blizzard doesn't design these things with QuestHelper in mind, it didn't help that after I accepted the quest QH pointed me straight to the troll ruins so that I assumed Budd was hanging out with his troll buddies and went down there and hunted all over for him.

Comment by Xrystal

Why the hell would this quest be designed so that you have to run through a whole wood full of Wolves and Budd has a little over 1k health and gets raped EVERY TIME?

Comment by Gamefr3ak

WARNING PET CLASSES!

Dismiss pet before getting Budds buff. I summoned my DK pet and budd left me. Be careful. I learned this the hard way 2 times... and he has 1.6 HP and it's hard to keep him alive. and being and unholy DK and all, losing my pet was a complete DEbuff! (Thanks for Califree for letting me know this info for when I read up on this quest)

Comment by 415951

The quest was acutally easy i thought it was going to be hard first get quest then budd is sitting down in a tent with a mask on hes a human but talks like a troll lol anyways talk to him then he will follow your for 10 minutes go to the village target a troll and tell budd to sap it then you have 13 seconds to cage it do it quick or your going to have to run back.

Comment by Zhawq

The pet bar I get when I have Budd with me, looks exactly like a hunter pet bar.
There's no "sap" icon in it.

I've tried "engaging" with the trolls, both by actually getting into fighting, and by just tagging them.
It always end with them hitting at me and Budd running ov er to fight them, whereafter he dies.

I've tried clicking the icon that copmes up next to the minibar (telling about Budd's attention span), but that doesn't work either.

I obviously get nothing out of teling him to attack the trolls. He dies!

.......

Hmm, CTRL-4 ... wonder if that works for someone who has reset all keybindings?
Guess I'll have to try it.

... It didn't work. I only tagged the trolls for fighting like I would with my cursor.

How do I set CTRL-4 to tell Budd to sap a troll, when I have nothing that tells him to do that in the first place?

Well, maybe people with Bartender4 just can't do this quest?

.......

"3) They have changed the quest several times from talk to Budd out of combat to finally having a pet bar and having to be in combat."

Yes, I've done the quest with three chars, but this is the first time I have trouble like this.

I hate giving up on quests. Sometimes it's really the most sane thing to do, but usually I just keep at it anyway, until I get it done. I guess I'm stubborn that way.

But still ... I HAVE been in battle with the trolls while trying to get Budd to sap them. It just doesn't work. He doesn'tr reacat to anything I try to tell him to do.

I've even tried hitting every single icon in the pet bar, except for "come back" and "passive". Maybe I should try Passive next time.

.......

Okay, I abandoned and retook the quest, and this time the "sap" icon was in the pet bar.

However, it made no difference. Budd still doesn't react to it.

If I click it in safe distance, he doesn't react. If I get closer, so I'm in 'combat' with the troll, he doesn't react but heads over and fights the troll ... and dies.

... I'm giving up for now (Grrrr!).

Comment by 428342

Heh this one was different. I took budd down to the ruins and started looking for an "Ice Troll" ... literaly. Never found one with budd (twice) or alone ... spent an hour I bet. I put in a ticket then decided to experiment.

I went to get budd again and ran him down to the ruins. I positioned us on the edge of the ruins area. Then with noithing targeted or agroed I clicked budds bloody rebar knockout thing. Budd sorta got stealthy and snuck up to one of the "Warriors" and whacked him. I skipped over clicked on him and used the cage. He was neatly caged then and quest was complete. The thing that made me try letting budd look for the stinkin troll was thet he kept sayin "I kin smell 'em".

How was I to know that all those guiys were Ice trolls..... ha ha ... I edited my ticket and told them nevermind. God I seem to know how to make things hard. :)

Comment by 118714

This is the third time I'm doing this quest with three different cahrs. It is absolutly the worst, buggie, non-thought trough quest ingame.

Comment by kurtiffrig

1) Talk to him, he's in a tent at the camp and he'll follow you thereafter (but only for 10 mins.)

2) Hit the Follow button, if you don't Budd the retard will wander off and get lost.

3) Take the path of least resistance on your trip down south, I found the snowy edge was best.

4) When you get there just hit the Tag button on the menu bar, he'll find the closest troll and stun it.

5) While he's stunned click on the cage and trap the sucka. Easy quest, just follow those rules.

By the way, if necessary he CAN be healed with bandages.(##RESPBREAK##)272##DELIM##Uchur##DELIM##

Comment by 462690

This almost drove me crazy. I followed everything, and the only pet-bar I had on screen was Agressive, Defensive and Passive, no sap. Then after 5 attempts I noticed the edge of a button UNDER my paladin seal-bar. I moved the seal bar and there was the sap button (and the other buttons).

VERY annoying but finally solved it. So if you have extra bar-addons, move them around since they may hide the quest-specific buttonbar.

Comment by Brasso

Budd is fragile. Very fragile. Don't flight form all over the place.

Comment by Nekrotik

Another tip: before grabbing Bud, go down the hill and kill all the wolves first. It will make the trip much faster and easier.

Comment by 547780

You can heal Budd with Health Funnel.

Comment by Reiknar

As mentioned previously, this quest is outright horrible.

Didn't realize he was a pet, and didn't have pet bar up so didn't know till I came here to read up on it after he died the first time. I'm a paladin, but I could not heal my "pet", buff my "pet" nor did my "pet" gain the benefits of my auras. After noticing the quest rewards, all of which fall UNDER the quality of stuff I had pre WotLK, heck I think some of my pre BC stuff was better than this crap, I'm guessing that after the initial concept, this quest was created during "Bring your child to work day" at the office.

Horrible design, horrible implementation, horrible rewards... hoping that the followup quest(s) make it worth my while... otherwise, this quest was a horrible waste of time.

Comment by 445356

And yes, Health Funnel does work on Budd XD

Comment by SpectraKitty

BS! This quest is BUGGED! There are no ice trolls! Blizz better remove this quest and FIX IT! >:(

Comment by DonahueDakota

God, I wish they at least Gave him more than 100 life, I also wish them gave him a BRAIN.

Comment by 637506

I found the Troll village but NO Ice Trolls. Only found Ice serpents and Troll shaman but NO ICE TROLLS. NOt sure what to make of it.

Comment by 637506

the shaman are the trolls you are looking for. It should take no time at all.

Comment by wtfoomnofair

Make sure you only press the ability on the petbar once. Clicking it twice will make him simply disappear.

Comment by 37999

The rewards for this quest have great names. The only one that doesn't follow the theme is the Warbling Crossbow (unless warbling has some connection to slavery that I don't know about).

Comment by noora

You now get 9 minutes to do the quest after you pick up Budd.

I am going to try to describe something I observed, even though I am not sure of the reason for it.
At first the pet action bar was there, but appeared to be grayed out. Clicking on the buttons had no effect, so I couldn't find a way to send Budd toward the troll by himself. I kept inching closer and closer to the troll, thinking I was out of range. Eventually I agroed the troll, and it attacked us. I shadowmelded to take myself out of combat. I saw that Budd and the troll were fighting and the pet action bar was now usable, so I clicked the 4th button and Budd sapped the troll and I was able to use the cage on it. I am not sure whether I had to be in combat, or just had to be very close to the troll before the action bar would work.

By the way, don't worry that it doesn't say "Ice Troll" above the heads of these mobs. These blue guys have various names. If you are in the Ruins of Drak'Zin, you have the right ones.

Comment by safetydance

If you are using a baraddon you MUST have pet bar set to ENABLED. (Took me 10 minutes to figure this out.......)

Comment by violetta

very simple and easy quest... except for hunters (probably warlocks to a lesser degree as well)
Budd replaces your pet, has very little health and very little threat and will seemingly go out of his way to aggro any mob between the quest giver and the trolls you need to take him to. since you must escort him from the camp to the trolls (even if you can fly, it's not an option for this quest) it makes it seriously frustrating. especially if you manage to get him there only for him to complain that there's no trolls nearby, ignoring the one ten yards in front of him, and despawn
what makes it even worse is that if you skip this quest you miss out on half of one of the best quest chains in WotLK as well as two dungeon quests

Comment by Lothrik

Budd: 18.4, 48.3
Troll Village: 13, 61

What to do:
1. Safely guide Budd from his spawn location to the Troll Village.
2. Use this macro:
/cleartarget
/tar Drakkari
/use Tag Troll
/use Bounty Hunter's Cage
3. Turn in the quest back at Samir.

PS:
Ctrl-4 advice: Useless for people with non-standard key bindings.
Enable your pet bar: They probably disabled it for a reason, you know.
"Click the Sap-looking button": Why not "Use Budd's Tag Troll ability"?

+ if you found this helpful.

Comment by Cierona

As a warlock, it's going to be a pain, but at least you can cast at 0 range after the little retard runs off and pulls 4 mobs, completely ignoring the one you had targetted because it was out on it's own.

As a hunter, don't even bother.

And here I am in Zul'Drak, and I have a similar quest, Kickin' Nass and Takin' Manes. I have a new 'pet' and an ability they need to use, but whoever came up with this quest isn't a retard like the one who made Filling the Cages, because it isn't required that I lose my class pet so I can give orders to the new one, I just use an item in my inventory.

Comment by 749343

As a warlock, I decided to clear the route to the village first and THEN pickup the idiot. That way he cant agro anything and I dont have to try to defend him without my trusted voidwalker.

In the village: just be patient and wait for one of the trolls to stand alone.

Comment by 673059

As a BM hunter you really should do yourself a favor and skip that quest.

Comment by 771053

The shaman are the trolls you are looking for. Once I knew what the troll was I did it with my BM hunter just dismiss your pet before you talk Budd.

Comment by 773545

even as a hunter, this isn't bad. fly AROUND the area where the wolves are to the west (near the river) to get down to the trolls. only non-aggressive stags there, so you can get budd down there quickly and easily as he will keep up with your flying mount and there is nothing to aggro. due west from where you get budd, then down the river.

you will have to kill a cupplatree serpents as you approach the kill area from the NW before you can get to the trolls, but even as a petless hunter this was no problem. as long as you go around the long way, this is a piece of cake and certainly isn't worth missing the entire Drakuru questline for.

Comment by poarro

You can go straight to the Filling the Cages quest (given by Samir ) without having to complete the chain (Good Troll Hunting quest, given by Sergeant Thurkin - Only tested with HORDE!).

Comment by 734840

A warlock might be able to heal Budd with Health Funnel.

Comment by 787222

Have attempted this quest 7 times so far...ok, so call me names and demean my intelligence, however, Budd dies constantly. Kill everything from the camp to the ruins so that it is not even possible that he aggros anything. Also, when I finally got an alone troll I "told" Budd to "sap"...he "sapped" the space next to me, which had nothing in it, and then disappeared. *sigh* I can only try it once more, and then I will be "sapped" and forced to abandon. Good luck!

Comment by Skyrunner

Budd be one fast runner mon'!

Comment by 273749

Budd is the best hero of the Alliance. You see him again in Vashj'ir, and then again in Uldum.

Comment by Trilok

Talk to Budd first. He is located in the small hut on questgivers left side

Comment by Desertcobra

I drpped and retook quest, and got Budd back immediately. Go figure.

Comment by gwendseli

Another tip is just to calmly walk Budd to the nearest road. No wolves to mess with.

Comment by 837555

I little confusing quest. I summoned my elemental twice, and wondered why Budd disappeared. He dies easy, and leaves you quick. Easy quest once you follow directions above, and you NEED to finish this quest to have Truce? quest chain available, that ends up in a dungeon quest.

Comment by 815912

Simple quest as a BM Hunter. Bud is very fast. To get him safely and quickly to the village just mount and run along the nearby road. When you get to the troll village Change to MM if you can and take out a few mobs leaving a lone troll. Send Bud. he stuns run forward and activate cage.

Comment by ziggy29

Make sure you put Budd on PASSIVE. You want the take all the aggro, not Budd -- or else you're sure to have a dead Budd. Two hits and he's down.

Comment by 836714

Hard or easy, the truth is that this quest just doesn't have anything to do with having fun.

If you're having trouble keeping that dummy with you, try just taking the road on the east side of the quest giver. There's no mobs or trouble that way so you'll get Bud there with full health and he'll stay with you all the way no matter how fast you go, as long as you stay on the road. Head south on that road and it takes you right next to the ruins. Then you can pick out a loner Drakkari troll on the outskirts to finish up the quest.

I feel sorry for the players who don't use wowhead and have to figure this one out on there own..

Comment by 810202

This is one of the buggiest quests I've ever attempted. It's nearly impossible if you haven't attempted it before. My advice- don't do it.

Comment by iReCool

Just get the really first troll you see just outside the town (to prevent hits and the troll getting bored), did this quest in less then a minute.

Btw: You can mount up while having Budd as pet. (Also Fly)

Comment by ziggy29

Maybe I was just really lucky, but I just got through this quickly on the first try with a 75 BM hunter. Mostly stayed east and then took the road, put Budd on passive and only dealt with one worg, and then went to sap a troll (and fortunately there was only one troll nearby and no ice serpents, which is where the luck came into it). So definitely possible, but it is a disadvantage. Also helped that this is the fourth toon I've leveled through this zone so I knew the mechanics of the quest pretty well.

Comment by 863424

Just go to Budd with your flying mount, talk to him and fly to the location the quests gives, sap somebody with his 4th spell, and use the cage, that's all. You can use ur flying mount, he will not be attacked by anyone, furthermore he will follow you whereever you go.

Comment by 876124

I was having a lot of trouble with this quest because Bud kept dying - he only has about 1500 health you can't heal him and the worgs close by could kill him in a bout two hits, but i realized that if I go into flight form (I'm a druid), Bud won't disappear. Just fly relatively low to the ground and put him on passive you will be fine.

Comment by OhWhyNot

I found the best place to do this quest is to the lefthand side of the stairs on the ledge of the waterfall, which is really close to the ground. Coords are 19.6, 26.8. You are just above the trolls and you can get them easily.

If you run out of bottles due to trying you can abandone the quest and get 15 potions to throw. Got all 20 trolls and still have 7 bottles left.

Hope this helps.

Comment by OhWhyNot

After you turn this quest in it becomes a daily so you get to do it again.

Comment by 271695

I never used to have problems with this quest before, until my baby hunter just happened to pick it up while leveling in Northrend.

I dismissed my pet before I started talking to bud. he followed me like the good little tard he is, but no pet bar. Since I hadn't been out in Grizzly Hills after Cata until now, I thought that they maybe changed the quest and he'd just tag trolls by himself now.

Turned out he didn't. He will attack them and then die really really fast. So, I go pick him up again... no pet bar. Abandon quest, pick it up again, talk to Bud... still no pet bar.

I was about to give up when I stumbled over Lothrik's marco here on wowhead:

/cleartarget
/tar Drakkari
/use Tag Troll

That marco works like a charm and can be used to tell Budd to whack a targeted troll and stun it, even if you have no pet bar showing up that would allow you to control him otherwise.

And with that, this quest is cake. take everyone's favorite idiot to the trolls, target one of them (doesn't really matter which one) and once stunned, use your cage on the troll. Done.

Comment by Jimbofult

The most helpful comments that I found here:

After talking to Budd in his tent, you can just fly or ride to the troll area without worrying about him following you - he's right behind you and isn't likely to stop for a fight along the way.
Clear away some of the distracting (to Budd) mobs so that Budd can go get the troll.
DISMOUNT
Don't target or aggro a troll yourself. Just get Budd close to one and then use pet tool bar to let him go find and sap the nearby troll.
Be sure to use your trap as soon as Budd has sapped the troll.
Once you have captured the troll, just mount back up and fly back to the camp for turn in.

Comment by bettybae

This a poorly designed quest, I just had my fifth try.
First two times, I was using flying form and wondering why the hell Buddy wouldn't move a step, and then realized he needed to be CLOSELY ESCORTED. Used moonkin form, and tried to walk through but the wolves take him out on ONE HIT.

Do yourself a favor, and give up. That's what i'm doing.

Comment by 781590

man this is my 5th time through northrend, doing it on a warrior this time around and i know i've successfuly did this quest at least 3 times before, and this time it just ain't happening. it's pissing me off too because this isn't the only quest that i've completed before that i couldn't this time around, outland was especially bad for this. if it doesn't work, just keep it moving, u might eventually get it to work, but it could take hours, hours that could've been spent successfully gaining xp and completing quests.

Comment by Cissy44

I died 7 times and every time Budd would engage I tried the cage and it said invalid target - whether I tried immediately or waited shore or waited long. Just made me fussy so had to abandon it before my OCD kicked in and I break the monitor :)

Comment by Fartyhead

This quest is broken dont even try it I tried for literaly 30 minutes so dont even try it just skip it

Comment by MsPhelix

I just did this quest very easily - once I read Jimbofult's comment so I'm repeating it here:
After talking to Budd in his tent, you can just fly or ride to the troll area without worrying about him following you - he's right behind you and isn't likely to stop for a fight along the way.
Clear away some of the distracting (to Budd) mobs so that Budd can go get the troll.
DISMOUNT
Don't target or aggro a troll yourself. Just get Budd close to one and then use pet tool bar to let him go find and sap the nearby troll.
Be sure to use your trap as soon as Budd has sapped the troll.
Once you have captured the troll, just mount back up and fly back to the camp for turn in.

Me:
Budd can be found sitting in a small tent about due S of the quest giver; he is wearing a Troll mask.
Budd is a PET and can be used like a pet - some people say they had trouble with his pet action bar - could see it but pressing buttons did nothing - I didn't have that problem but if you do, try logging out and back in (or even exiting and restarting the game); I've found that often helps when things don't work right.

Comment by Khromogg

Pointless and stupid quest. . . abandoned.

Comment by 997740

I ran into a problem others may be having. I use x-pearl and dominos and I had to go into my dominos settings and turn ON my pet bar. Budd does nothing on his own so you have to click the "sap" button on the pet bar. Hope this helps.

Comment by 988240

Well... Bud died over 20 times on my attempts. I was looking for an "ICE TROLL" and avoiding all those shaman. So don't make the mistake I did... the shaman are the "ICE TROLLS".
Worst quest I've done so far.

Comment by 258415

To get Budd to stun a troll.
1) Speak to him in his tent (to have him follow you) at 16, 48. (He will have his own pet ability bar.)
2) Travel to Troll Village - 13, 61
3) When you get near a Troll, use Budd's (pet) ability - the fourth button on your "pet" ability bar.
4) Walk up to stunned Troll and click on cage in quest objectives or in your bag.

Comment by DeliaDelilah

You can fly with Bud. Bud is on PET BAR. Sap troll then click cage.

Comment by Slan1011

I'd thought I'd seen the worst, most confusing pointless and unentertaining quests ever conceived by Blizz, but they constantly amaze me in their continued demise.

Comment by MsPhelix

SEE COMMENT BY NLDAVIS74! (He's talking about Budd's Tag Troll ability.) It makes the quest a cinch.

Comment by Rahaf

If you are using an add-on, Don't forget to enable the Pet Bar. So that you can use the order "Tag Troll" which is the forth one from the left.

Comment by 1231006

Budd is located at 16.37,48.25 directly SSE of Samir the quest giver. Also remember that the sap is on a pet bar just like a hunter's pet.

Comment by xb3au

Thanks for the comments about bar addons. Yes, ensure that the "pet" bar is "enabled." For example, I use bartender. Another tip: Even if the pet bar is enabled, you may have issues if you speak with Budd while mounted. It took me two tries for the pet bar to appear. The second try I dismounted and then spoke with Budd. I immediately saw the pet bar. Then, just to be safe (although people here say you can fly with him), I used a land mount to travel the short distance to the quest area. Budd will creep to troll you target and use the sap option from the pet bar. Once it's sapped, you can use the cage when you're close enough. Good luck!

Comment by Shashos

Be careful when doing this quest now. Since the Great Stat Squish of 2014, Budd has very few hit points and if he's hit by any sort of enemy attack, he's toast and you'll have to go get him again.

He's horribly suicidal apparently and will try to 'help' you out if fighting a mob. Silly Budd.

Comment by mugetsu357

If the pet bar doesnt show up for Budd use (/spell tag troll) and he should stun the troll.

Comment by AnarchAL

This is officially the stupidest quest in the game, tried 4 times, still trying.

Comment by 1440987

Filling the Cages http://youtu.be/o4qNh6xqNis

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Jzo0zImAU&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Boxofbeer

Budd sits in the left tent. Speak with him to start. Lead him to Ruins of Drak'Zin.
After he joined you, there a "pet" panel appears, you have to target troll and use Tag Troll ability - it's fourth on the panel.
Wait till Budd sapped the targeted troll, come closer and apply Bounty Hunter's Cage onto it. Succes! Travel back to the camp.

Filling the Cages - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpTup_JcDJo

Comment by gimmicksz09

I always skipped this quest cuz it never worked, now I realize after all this time it's cuz I was attacking with Budd not sapping :(

Comment by pherkier

Budd is a pet, and he has a bunch of abilities, one is called TAG A TROLL or something, use that and then the cage (the quest item). Budd is inside a tiny house 16.34 48.18.

Comment by crysnine

Thanks for all of the notes regarding Budd having a Pet Bar. That was a big help. OTOH, as a Druid, I found that every time I arrived at the troll site and dropped out of travel/flying form, Budd and his pet bar disappeared. Finally, I recruited Budd (for the umpteenth time), climbed on a ground mount, and took the road to the east of the quest giver's camp (as someone suggested earlier). Upon arriving at the troll site, it was but a moment's work to sap and cage a troll. Thought I'd post this just in case any other Druids are having the same issue that I did.

Comment by 11unone11

wtb sap pet

Comment by ZhaunRong

Budd is in a tent at 16.4, 48.3. You have to go get him - AFTER you pick up the quest. Am running a hunter so dismissed pet before picking up quest. When Budd came on board new pet task bar appeared. Control+4 is the command to tag the troll. Once the troll was tagged (asleep or knocked out), highlighted the troll, took the cage out of inventory and caged it. That's it.

Comment by Angelina91

I had to read a few comments before I got the whole story so I just wanted to hit the main points

Talk to Budd in a little building near the quest giver
after he will give you a pet ability action bar
the 4th button is the troll stun
DO NOT ENGAGE TROLLS
Get near a ice troll and use his ability

Comment by hcm92

I have read through these comments and have not found anyone saying they have the same issue as me; I play a beast master hunter with the animal companion talent so that I have two pets - and this seems to stop the quest from working as Budd doesn't stun the Trolls and the Trolls focus on my second pet instead of Budd. Has anyone had the same issue and found a solution or am I just unable to do this quest?

Comment by globalmenace

OK, came to Northrend, chose Grizzly Hills for leveling, and unfortunately the first ~~bug~~ quest I picked was this one. After tinkering around for 10 minutes and reading WoWHead for 5 minutes, I give up, since I’m not just leveling one toon.

Grats, Blizz.

I understand that every wasted minute with a bugged quest translates to additional subscription money. Most things that users perceive as bugs (inaccurate descriptions, misplaced markers, quest mechanic bugs) are obviously features for you.

But – please – do not exaggerate it, and fix the old stuff once and for good. This quest is just an example; other quests are even more broken. I really love this game, but don’t make me feel too much like a fool playing it.

PS:

I know that this quest is doable. I have done it with another toon a couple of years ago. But that’s all I remember. Unfortunately I haven’t protocoled all the necessary info to make this quest doable for my next toon within a reasonable amount of time. Guess, at that time, I was sure the quest will be fixed when my next toon comes along. How naive.

Comment by xLunacyx

I had trouble, thought it was bugged, check wowhead comments... apparently he has his own pet bar with an ability that saps a troll so you can then cage it.

Comment by lbeaton

Long-time WoW player here, and it's not like I'm gonna stop playing the game, but I just thought this should be on the record. Given that trolls are coded as Afro-Caribbean, the gist of this quest is that Budd is a blackface minstrel, and you use him as a judas goat to capture black people to sell into slavery.

Nope, nothing provocative about that at all.

Comment by Liike

Pick up quest, talk to Bud in the farthest left tent. Once you pick up Bud, head down to the quest area. I didn't see any "ice trolls", but the "Drakkari Warrior" worked just fine. I got him down to about 40% HP and used Buds Action Button, looks like a club. Completed quest. Good luck!

Comment by Mirkobardo

this quest for me as a hunter was almost impossible without wowhead

Comment by cherioux

If the quest seems broken to you, you aren't alone; I thought that it was broken for me.
Budd will have a sap appear on your pet bar. If the pet bar is dark, i.e. not able to use any abilities, kill something then it should work.

Comment by Frazznak

If you don't have an active pet bar and your keys are at default then get Budd and fly to area then target a troll and then to get Budd to attack Troll and when he is attacking hit and he will stun the target. Throw cage :).

Comment by Arrowstorm

Quest should be REMOVED FROM THE GAME.

This is AWFUL. I've spend half a friggin hour on this stupid crap just trying to get the npc to do what it's supposed to do. This is the epitome of Blizzard wasting your time.

Comment by Aerisot

Bartender is absolutely horrible for this quest, it shows the pet bar, but not all the buttons your "pet" is suppose to have, IE it only shoes attack, stay, and follow, but not Sap, which is pretty crucial to this quest.

I recommend hitting Ctrl 4 while budd is in combat with the troll, this should cause him to stun the target.

Comment by DreadNaught503

Quest is bugged for me, i can't tell him to go stun a troll...

Comment by barcs

An absolutely cancerous quest in 3.4 (Wrath classic). Half the time you tell Bud to sap, he just disappears and despawns. You have to run back dozens of times to get Budd again and then he routinely just fails or attacks other trolls or follows other players. It's flat out stupid. If you're not a pet user, put him on defensive or he'll go around aggroing everything and dying.

Comment by trinketeer

to do this (at high level or otherwise)

dismiss any pet
Speak to Budd in the tent to get Budd to buddy up with you
find a Drakkari shaman or warrior

* see your pet action bar * for Budd, there's a button that looks like a rogue's Sap spell. use that, then hit your quest item (the cage)!

Comment by Sozialhase

If the pet bar is not displayed, use Budd to pick a troll and press "Ctrl 4". This will stun the troll and you can catch it.

Comment by Anise

This is one of those "we will make you spend one hour on a quest" blizzard tricks.

Budd has a HUGE aggro range in CATA classic. Its like 50 meters and he goes running off to anything that is red that you cant even see. So he dies. So yuo go back and do it again but here is the trick. I am doing cata....not wotlk so take it...abandon it. Trust me. You will save time and sanity. This is a blizzard bullcrap quest

Links

Filling the Cages

Samir at Granite Springs wants you to use the Bounty Hunter's Cage on a drakkari troll that's been stunned by Budd.

	Captured Live Ice Troll (1)

Provided item:

	Bounty Hunter's Cage (1)

Description

'Ol Budd's seen better days.

Ever since our stay in Ghostlands he's been useless to us. We've had to find ways to make it on our own, and today that means sellin' trolls to the highest bidder.

Fortunately, we've recently found a use for Budd. Something about his condition allows him to mingle with the local trolls, so we taught him a little game that's turned us a tidy profit.

See for yourself. Talk to Budd, take him southwest to Drak'Zin Ruins and use this cage as soon as he tags a troll.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Grinder of Reverse Emancipation			Yoke Slasher
	Spike of Renounced Autonomy			Warbling Crossbow
	Sword of the Caged Mind			Mace of Helotry

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11984))