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Series

1.	The Hand of Gul'dan The Hand of Gul'dan
2.	Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth
3.	Enraged Spirits of Water
4.	Enraged Spirits of Air
5.	Oronok Torn-heart
6.	I Was A Lot Of Things...
7.	A Lesson Learned
8.	The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History

Storyline
Shadowmoon Valley Spleendid! The Second Course... The Main Course! The Path of Conquest Breaching the Path Blood Elf + Giant = ??? Tabards of the Illidari Dissension Amongst the Ranks... Besieged! To Legion Hold Setting Up the Bomb Blast the Infernals! The Deathforge Minions of the Shadow Council The Fate of Flanis The Summoning Chamber Bring Down the Warbringer! Gaining Access Invasion Point: Cataclysm The Art of Fel Reaver Maintenance The Fel and the Furious News of Victory What Strange Creatures... Frankly, It Makes No Sense... Felspine the Greater The Path of Conquest Breaching the Path When Worlds Collide... Tabards of the Illidari Dissension Amongst the Ranks... Besieged! To Legion Hold Setting Up the Bomb Blast the Infernals! The Deathforge Minions of the Shadow Council The Fate of Kagrosh The Summoning Chamber Bring Down the Warbringer! Gaining Access Invasion Point: Cataclysm The Art of Fel Reaver Maintenance The Fel and the Furious News of Victory Illidari-Bane Shard Illidari-Bane Shard Capture the Weapons Capture the Weapons The Hermit Smith The Hermit Smith Additional Materials Fresh from the Mechanar The Lexicon Demonica Underworld Loam Tear of the Earthmother Bane of the Illidari Quenching the Blade The Sketh'lon Wreckage Find the Deserter The Sketh'lon Wreckage Find the Deserter Asghar's Totem The Rod of Lianthe Sketh'lon Feathers Imbuing the Headpiece Thwart the Dark Conclave A Ghost in the Machine Harbingers of Shadowmoon Teron Gorefiend - Lore and Legend A Haunted History Spectrecles Teron Gorefiend - Lore and Legend Divination: Gorefiend's Armor Divination: Gorefiend's Cloak Divination: Gorefiend's Truncheon Teron Gorefiend, I am... Teron Gorefiend, I am... Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth Enraged Spirits of Water Enraged Spirits of Air Oronok Torn-heart I Was A Lot Of Things... A Lesson Learned The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History Grom'tor, Son of Oronok The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered Ar'tor, Son of Oronok Demonic Crystal Prisons Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered Borak, Son of Oronok Of Thistleheads and Eggs... The Bundle of Bloodthistle To Catch A Thistlehead The Shadowmoon Shuffle What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets... The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered The Cipher of Damnation Karabor Training Grounds A Necessary Distraction Altruis Karabor Training Grounds A Necessary Distraction Altruis Against the Legion Against the Illidari Against All Odds Illidan's Pupil The Book of Fel Names Return to the Aldor Varedis Must Be Stopped Return to the Scryers Varedis Must Be Stopped Tablets of Baa'ri Oronu the Elder The Ashtongue Corruptors The Warden's Cage Tablets of Baa'ri Oronu the Elder The Ashtongue Corruptors The Warden's Cage Proof of Allegiance Akama Seer Udalo A Mysterious Portent The Ata'mal Terrace Akama's Promise Kindness Seek Out Neltharaku Neltharaku's Tale Infiltrating Dragonmaw Fortress To Netherwing Ledge! The Force of Neltharaku Karynaku Zuluhed the Whacked Zuluhed the Whacked Ally of the Netherwing Ally of the Netherwing Blood Oath of the Netherwing In Service of the Illidari Your Friend On The Inside The Great Netherwing Egg Hunt Enter the Taskmaster A Job Unfinished...

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Comment by bootable

In order to loot a Shadowmoon Tuber you first have to find a Shadowmoon Tuber Mound, a tooltip will pop up when you hover over it, then you have to use Oronok's Boar Whistle when a boar is nearby and the boar will come dig up the tuber, then a lootable Shadowmoon Tuber appears and you loot the tuber from that.

The only real difficulty in this is finding a spawn that is near a felboar, and also keeping the felboars alive because the Ravenous Flayers all around the are are constantly killing the boars.

Note: aggroing one of the felboars to make it follow you and then using the whistle while standing on a tuber, Does NOT work, just means you have to kill the felboar, which is pointless.

Comment by Darsh

If you can get one where two boars come over simultaneously (or more I suppose) you can loot multiple tuber's per mound.

Comment by 16251

i think this was the most annoying quest of the game

Comment by 17702

This was by far the most annoying quest in the game. Took me an hour to get 6. I finally found 4 by a single boar who was getting beat down by a mob so i saved him a got the rest of them. I think I'd rather dig through more fecal matter than have to do a quest like this again.

Comment by 15757

Easy quest. Took maybe 10 minutes to do. Just look for a tuber, then wait by it for a boar to spawn (20-30 seconds) and use the whistle.

Comment by Kavan

What you can also do is find a tuber, then pull a Flayer that is attacking some boar over to the tuber. Boar will follow him and when you kill the Flayer use the whistle.

Comment by Glassjaw

If you have multiple boars around one root, more than one root tuber will spawn.

Comment by aasartor

I'm pretty sure this quest is bugged, since a majority of the boars that are actually nearby tubers literally spawn in dead. How you're supposed to call a dead boar over I'm not entirely sure.

Comment by marskid2

The Cipher of Damnation is an extremely long quest line in Shadowmoon Valley. It is a prerequisite for attunement to The Eye in Tempest Keep and Mount Hyjal in Caverns of time.
"*" Indicates quests with rewards.

Quest Line
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10680 - "The Hand of Gul'Dan"
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10681 - "The Hand of Gul'Dan"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10458 - "Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth"
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10480 - "Enraged Spirits of Water"
4* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10480 - "Enraged Spirits of Air"
5 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10513 - "Oronok Torn-Heart"
6* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10514 - "I Was A Lot Of Things..." - Most annoying quest ever implemented in World of Warcraft.
7 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10515 - "A Lesson Learned"
8 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10519 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History"

At this point, the quests diverge into three separate lines (which can be done in any order) for each of Oronok's three sons who will in turn help you obtain the three Fragments of Damnation.

Quest Line I - First Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10521 - "Grom'tor, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10522 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge"
3* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10523 - "The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered"

Quest Line II - Second Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10527 "Ar'tor, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10528 - "Demonic Crystal Prisons"
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10537 - "Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart"
4 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10540 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge"
5* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10541 - "The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered"

Quest Line III - Third Fragment of Damnation
1 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10546 "Borak, Son of Oronok"
2 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10547 - "Of Thistleheads and Eggs..."
3 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10550 - "The Bundle of Bloodthistle"
4 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10570 - "To Catch A Thistlehead"
5 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10576 - "The Shadowmoon Shuffle"
6 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10577 - "What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets..."
7 - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10578 - "The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge"
8* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10579 "The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered"

After completing the quests for the three Fragments of Damnation, the lines converge and you need to kill one last boss.
Final* - http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10588 - "The Cipher of Damnation"

Rewards:

Everyone gets http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31074 - Fire Resist Neck

Choose one of the following:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31036 - Caster Staff
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31038 - Healer Staff
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31062 - Paladin/Shaman 2H Axe
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31071 - Tanking 1H Axe
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31072 - Bow
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31073 - Melee Dagger

After completing the quest, you will get a message in the mail from Khadgar. If you go to Shattrath, he will tell you to talk to A'Dal, who unlocks the the three Trials. These are prerequisites for attunement to The Eye in Tempest Keep and Mount Hyjal in Caverns of time.

Comment by chonchu

This is not a hard quest if you understand exactly what you need to do. It took me 15min to finish it.
Near the NPC you gonna find some "Ravenous Flayer" a dark mob with big claws. Their roll is just kill all "Domisticated Felboars" they can find around. The "felboars" roll is respond to the Whistle you have when you use it next to a Shadowmoon Tuber Mound. The Shadowmoon Tuber Mound roll (lol) is get digged by the felboar and gives you a Tuber itself (the quest item) and your roll is keep the Boars alive.
All resumes to:
1- Find a mound. Once you found one check if theres a noar near it (the range on the whistle is pretty short... i can say 10~15years tops). If the boar is close enought use the whistle. The boar will come, dig it and you´ll be able to loot a Tuber.
If you don´t have a boar next to it you have 02 options:
A) Wait 1 or 2 minuts. You have a 90% chance that a felboar will pop right next to it and some Flayers will attack it so you save him and use the whistle. One tip here is clear the area first. Sometimes when the boar pops 02 Flayers come to attack it and they hit hard.
B) In some spots no Felboars pop at all so you use the whistle. The Mound WILL despawn and respawn around 30sec later in somewhere else.

It all about finding the mounds, wait for a boar, save the ones that are bein attacked next a mound and etc...

Some nice mounds have 02 boars around it so when you use the whistle both come, both dig and you get 02 quest items in a shot.

Its a very patience quest. The Flayers always drop money, and good drop rate on netherweave cloths and gray items cause yes.. you will kill some.

Comment by 16172

Not sure what the problem is. This is a piece of cake.

Comment by 18921

The tubers spawn in pairs near each other. You can respawn the tubers in a new location by using the whistle on top of them. It takes about 30 seconds to respawn them.

Usually Felboars spawn near the tubers if you wait about a min. If you don't see any Felboars spawn near the tubers I suggest you respawn the tubers using the whistle.

It seems to me the Felboars do not spawn near the tubers in the north-eastern part of the zone (near all the Flayer eggs), and the north-western part of the zone (near the steep slope). I suggest you reset the tubers if you see them spawn there.

Comment by 21883

I found it quite easy to save boars that were under attack and then look for tubers around them. The boars are situated such that they spawn near tuber and vice versa. So saving a boar from a flayer will most likely net you at least one tuber. Sometimes I was able to find boars (mostly on the north side of the area) that were in range of 2 or 3 tubers.

Your biggest enemy here are allied players, as some will attempt to follow you around and steal your tubers. Kill the boars in these situations to rob them of the chance. They'll eventually leave you alone.

If you can kill the horde that are doing the quest, to free up boars and tubers. Though this may vary in effectiveness as horde may bring reinforcements, have others around or just come back and gank you.

Comment by 21902

Arrgh! This quest qualifies as one of the stupidest ever...took me a good hour! :(

Comment by 24452

Very annoying quest, if you have a flying mount it's proboably a good idea to fly around looking for boars close to the mounds, otherwise you could spend easily an hour or more doing this quest. It's very hard not to aggro something whilst on ground.

Comment by 16453

Area of harvesting is surrounding 52.15 .. if you can, find one thats being attacked and save it. try to get two that are close to one area, and you'll get multiple tubers. be patient. took me about 10 minutes. watch for adds.

Comment by Zanrok

in and around 54, 16 is where the boars and tuber things are.

Comment by 26280

Wow this quest is annoying as heck. As someone said above, the boars pop dead, so it's very hard to find one living. By the time you find one, it's almost dead due to a flayer.

I'll come back to this much later in life.

Comment by 28859

This can be done very easy by a hunter.

Shoot the Felboar and pull it over to the mound.
Make sure youre in the right spot.
Feign Death and the second you get up whistle.
The boar will run back to its normal spawn and then back to you and start to dig.

Comment by Yxbengt

The only thing I found a bit annoying about this quest was that the tubers kept disappearing when I was fighting mobs over it. Other than that it wasn't a very big hustle. Awesome tip for FD btw, that works perfect.

Comment by 26387

Tuber locations: http://www.wowhead.com/?object=184691

Comment by Black2lip

Don't use AoE when attacking a Flayer who's attacking the Felboards, else the boars will become hostile and you'll have to kill them your self.

Comment by 13166

if you have 2 felboars closed to 1 mound. it is possible for both of them come and digging the same mound. so you end up with 2 tubers by single whistle :)

Comment by 3831

I think I figured out the tuber quest at the very end, I got five in a row or so.

Just stay near the tuber or the boar, and usually a new tuber will spawn within a ten yard radius. Be patient, and make sure to look right around you. Give it about a minute, THEN look for a new tuber in the ground elsewhere.

Comment by 31263

not sure if its a bug or not, but if you happen to have 2 boars within range of the tuber mound and whistle, each boar will dig a tuber up.

Comment by Axehilt

Wow, I'm surprised this quest is being called "most annoying ever". Without any outside tips I think I managed to complete it in under 20 mins back when I did it. Just a matter of keeping your boar buddies alive and then waiting for tuber respawns, as I recall.

Comment by Farmbuyer

Horrible quest.

The flayers and whatnot have a gigantic aggro radius. If you're unlucky the quest can get bugged, where the flayers will kill boars as they spawn but before they're visible. You'll see flayers attacking empty air. Then they walk away. A minute later, the boar spawns already dead.

Line of sight also affects whether boars can hear the whistle. I've seen boars standing just above a tuber mound, but since I can't "see" them from my char when I blew the whistle, nothing happened and the tuber despawned.

I've been here for almost 2 hours, only 7 tubers so far. Boars aren't spawning anywhere near the mounds.

Comment by 29539

was actually lucky enough to get 2 from the same tuber mound twice. had 2 boars in range. didnt take that long at all. still annoying tho

Comment by 11979

Found 52.18 the best spot for this quest, lots of tubers, lots of boars, few flayers and no elite ones ...

Took less than 10 min...

Comment by 40228

35,17 bst place to make it!

Comment by 34010

I thought i'd share what i found out during this quest.

1) To make it easier on yourself, and to increase the amount of harvestable roots from 1 tubber mount, what your wanna do first of all is scout out the area - find a location that has alot of mounds within close proximity of eachother.

2) Start killing the flayers in the area you've chosen. Kill them as fast as possible and keep this up until you have a fair amount of domesticated boar spawns (say 5-7 or more).
TIP! The more boarspawns in the area the more will come when you whistle, thus creating severel harvestable roots out of 1 mound.

3) When the area runs out of tubber mounds, scout a new area and start over :)

Comment by dgrier

4/14/2007

Spotting the "Mounds":
These look like carrot tops sticking out of the ground.

Getting the quest item:
Stand on top of the carrot-looking thing, and blow that whistle. If a boar is near, it will come and dig it up. You can then look the item the boar digs up.

**NOTES**
1) The boar must be VERY near (no more than 15 yards away).
2) If you blow the whisle on a mound, and a boar does not come, the mound will despawn and then respawn somewhere else. This can be very useful.
3) If two boars come, they will both dig up a quest item. Very useful.
4) If you wait near a mound that has no boars, a boar will sometimes spawn right there.

This is very frustrating. Good luck!

Comment by 39534

If you call a boar and there are 2 nearby then they will both come and dig up 2.

Comment by 43910

Without a single doubt the most retarded quest ever. gg blizz

Comment by Aisenfaire

Watch out for the elite 70 Matriarch flayer.

Do NOT die here unless you fancy:

a) a really long ghost run back; or
b) having to rez at the spirit healer, getting rez sickness, and flying all the way back

@Destinox:

No, it isn't retarded. It's original and funny...

Comment by Aisenfaire

I forgot to say, you can find some around 56, 15.

Comment by 42691

Slow refresh on the plain near the hills. There seemed to me more tuber pops when I went onto the edge of the valley down around 53,14,

Comment by 797

This quest is idiotic...

Comment by Sinborn

this quest would be easy, if the boars didn't spawn already dead....bugged?

edit: no, you just have to look further north for alive felboars.

Comment by 52834

The Domesticated Felboars Are so Cute :D!

Comment by 5688

Quest is currently bugged, but still doable. No live boars spawn anywhere near the tubers. Instead you'll see corpses everywhere and the flayers attacking them. What you have to do is clear the whole area - I mean lock it down - for a very long time and you'll start to see a live boar or two. One live boar in a good spot can get you 3-4 tubers. Eventually you'll get it but in its bugged state it is terribly frustrating.

Comment by Zurik

if u call 2 (or more) "pigs":P to the same shadowmoon tuber mound u'll get 2 (or more) shadowmoon tubers :)

easy quest

Comment by 5353

This is by far the most annoying quest in the game, very unoriginal and ratarted

Comment by 27389

Do not do this quest if you're already in a bad mood, you will want to end your subscription before you finish it, if you ever do.

Absolutely horrible quest. Horrible.

Comment by 45677

I found that the easiest way to do this quest is to kill as much Flayers that you can. Why? Because then you have lots of boars up and when a tuber spawns; you'll have 2-3 boards running to it and dig = 2-3 tubers / blow of the whistle.
Took me maybe 5 mins.

Comment by 74255

I found a pretty easy way to manage this quest as a warrior. Whenever i saw a boar being attacked, i would taunt the flayer then run over the the tuber with the flayer attacking me and the boar following the flayer attacking him. I would then use my whistle immediately after the flayer was slain and the boar would run back to where ever you pulled it from then run all the way back to the tuber and harvest it.

Comment by 75088

This quest started out difficult as described by many above. Then i hit a good spot around 51,17 and killed flayers like mad and kept the pigs alive.

In this area I was able to keep 3 pigs alive fairly easily, and finished the quest in like 5 minutes. (I had spent an hour of frustration though before finding this good flat spot).

Also watch your AoE attacks. Don't hit the damn pigs with anything, or they'll turn on you!

Comment by 73668

If you get more than one felboar by one of the mounds, you'll get multple tubers.

You have to be extremely patient with this quest. But the reward is definitely worth it.

Comment by 11826

This quest was VERY frustrating for me. I eventually did get 5 in a row to finish the quest around 55,15.

Comment by 30378

this quest makes baby Jesus cry.

Comment by Bogcom

If you blow the whistle with two pigs nearby both pigs will come and dig up TWO roots.
Not tested with more than two pigs.

Comment by 49949

felboars die upon spawn reguardless of whether you kill the flayers around them, this quest blows

Comment by 47076

NOTE! if there are 2 boars close to 1 tuber call them both! they will spawn 2 tubers 4u!

Comment by 53766

This can be tricky. The guys are around 52, 17. For those of you without coords, they are north of the guy who gives the quest. Blow the whistle and a nearby felboar will run over and get it for you. The hard part is, Shaleskin Flayers in the area like to kill the felboars. You need to keep the felboars alive and kill the Flayers.

Comment by 27741

My findings as druid skinner.
DPS in bear form and you'll have a lot easier task getting aggro from the flayers
Seeing how fast the boars respawn (I assume resp. rate is faster than average)
this might actually be a good place to farm leather
(or you could at least try landing the finishing blow if your boar is dying from a flayer)

Thanks for helpful tips above

Comment by 96419

this quest is so simple.
screw those coments below.

*stand over a tuber
*mark a boar
*blow the whistle
*take a few steps back and then take the thing :)

Comment by 69588

Also if you blow the whistle and two boars come then you get two tubers...

Comment by tradition

This is a stupid quest. Tubers disappear if you step on them.

Comment by 1299

Did it last night in a group, which meant we needed many, many tubers. Very annoying and frustrating quest...but one I will remember for a long time, which is not a bad thing considering many of the quests in Outland are very forgettable.

Comment by 20417

I found this to be more frustrating than any other quest in Outland. It wouldn't be so bad if all you had to do was find a tuber, a boar, and whistle; instead about 50% of the time or so the tuber mound will de-spawn while you're killing a Flayer to even GET the dumb pig to start digging. This took me longer to complete than the quest in Stranglethorn Vale to get the Gorilla Sinew. Almost turned me off to the entire chain, which is really one of the more important end-game chains if your looking to get back into high-end raiding in BC.

Comment by 123236

There's a slight trick to this that has been working for me (but YMMV):

When a flayer is fighting a felboar, you can pull aggro on the flayer and drag him to a tuber. Just as you kill the mob blow the whistle. The boar will run back to its last path point, as if resetting, but then should start running happily towards you (I've had them trek a good 40 yards so far) and dig you up a tuber. I've even had it dig up a closer tuber instead of the one I was standing by.

Comment by MrWizard

WOW, this quest sucks in so many different ways on so many different levels. First, the carrots that your looking for despawn and spawn in randomly different places every 60 seconds or so, and most of the time they are not anywhere close to these Felboars. You have to be within hearing range of these boars for them to hear the whistle. There are about 2x as many hostile mobs as there are boars, so if you see a carrot your trying to get to, you have to fight through several mobs to get to it, and if your lucky it wouldn't have despawned before you got there and there are Felboars nearby you can call to it. Then the mobs are 70, so if you are sub 69, which I would assume most of you are, they will agro you from a football field away, and you'll have 4 of these guys on you before you know it. THEN there's maybe 2 or 3 carrots in that area that will be spawned at one time. Getting 3 or 4 of these would have made more sense, but you have to get a whopping 10 to complete the quest. GG BLIZZ. Also, don't die because the walk back is almost half the zone away......good luck.

Comment by 147055

High on my list of "Most Irritating Quests"

Comment by thisispatrick

If two pigs both get to one tuber, there are two tubers you can pick up!

Comment by 153790

just whistled on a tuber between 2 boars and got 2 tubes out of one mound because of it.

Comment by 178214

Yes , this quest is such a pain. coords above are correct

Comment by Flapalapagus

When you find a Tuber but no boar nearby then look for a flayer fighting a boar. Pull the flayer (not the boar, you cannot aggro the boar and then use the whistle, it won't work) and the boar will come after him, kill the flayer and then use the whistle immediately. Follow the boar because he will go back to where he was originally fighting the flayer and then start digging there, not where the actual tuber is, and the lootable tuber will spawn. Also try and gather as many boars near a single tuber and use the whistle. ALL of the boars near the tuber will dig and a lootable tuber will spawn for each boar so you can get multiple tubers from a single spawn.

Comment by 151709

Obviously the senior programmers were off the day the did this quest. WAAAAY Buggy. Boars are out of range, when you whistle they don't come and the node disappears, spawn times are random...

I was on a roll before getting this quest...Now I am burnt.

Comment by smichael4

If you blow the whistle and no Boar comes to dig up the Tuber, the Tuber disappears... So make sure there is a Boar near!

Comment by Sunderhorse

Harder than the Defias Pillager quest.

Comment by 171874

I don't know what they done up on that shelf, but someting to make it a drag to go through for sure. Did this rather easy with my main long time back. Tried today, and spent 40 min, and got 1 tuber. Such a pitty that Blizz makes a required prequest such a drag it's making people sick.

Blizz! /FAIL

Comment by 58583

Dumbest quest ever. Why the hell would you shoehorn an annoying quest in the midst of a necessary chain that tells much of the story of Outland? I see now why people abandon this quest right at this particular point.

Any place where tubers are....there are NO pigs to dig them up. When you go to search for pigs...they're already dead...cause the flayers are committing non-stop genocide.

To say nothing of the fact that when a player is at this point in the game...all they can think about is gaining as much XP as possible for their time to hit 70 ASAP. Why the hell would you frustrate the hell out of the player?

There are 0 tips for this quest other than continue to bang your head on the keyboard and stick it out if you are a completist. Otherwise, with WotLK 3 weeks out...@#$% THIS QUEST.

Comment by 168031

IMO the trick is to kill all the flayers and keep the boars safe. The tubers random spawn and random move.

Kill the flayers, keep the boars safe, use the whistle when in range. I found that easier than scouting for tubers then dropping on them and using the whistle.

It also seems that tubers spawn near boars/flayers, like all 3 objects have a set radius. 1 boar, 1 tuber, 1 or more flayers per "area".

Comment by 264956

worst quest ever

Comment by aneossino

best thing about this quest is that if you find a tuber that's near 2 felboars and you blow the whistle, both felboars will come, and 2 collectable tubers will spawn :D

Comment by Scoffy

Ok, so unless you desperately need this quest for the food or the SMV quest achievement (which is why I was doing it)...SKIP THIS QUEST! The piggy's respawn timer is stupidly slow, so if you are trying to protect them and one gets killed near a tuber...don't count on it being back anytime soon. I spent nearly 30 minutes standing around waiting for tubers, then waiting for piggys, then both...I milled around 52.5, 17.5, and finally got about 7 pigs I could keep an eye on, while waiting for the stupid tubers to spawn...and finally got my 10. This quest is quite obtuse...so just skip it.

Comment by 230503

TIP: A great way to speed this quest up: Clean out the flayers first, then wait about 30 seconds to a minute. Start searching for tubers spaced evenly between boars. If you blow the whistle, any within the range will show up. They will dig up one tuber per boar. So you can actually get 2 or 3 off one ground tuber. Try that and it'll speed things up massively.

Comment by donjohn80

Worst... quest... ever.

Comment by 296835

Anyone else sees reference to Mabinogion here?

I have been in a multitude of shapes,
Before I assumed a consistent form.
(The Battle of the Trees)

Comment by Boomerasp

Agreed! This quest is the worst pain in the a-- of Outland.I've had 7 tubers for the last hour, and no more. Quitting this quest is the only way to retain sanity!

Comment by 529357

Just incase anyone is wondering.. The mounds look like carrots sticking out of the ground. I was looking for mounds of earth or hills. But they are just carrot looking things.

Comment by sinistar

I didn't think this quest was so terrible. Just did it (@ level 80).
Clear out some flayers, find mound, blow the whistle, collect. Rinse/repeat.
Most of the time I was able to get 2 tubers per whistle-blow.

Comment by 480306

ok I've been flying around looking for tubers, and all I can find is these "Not Tubers"... What am I doing wrong?

Comment by MakaPL

The easiest way to do it is:

1. Protect any single boar.
2. Find a carrot like thing.
3. Use the quest item.
4. Boar will discover a tuber.

Remeber! More boars You call with Your whistle, more tuber will You recive from a single "carrot" :) (example: if 3 boars will start to dig near the same "carrot", You will get 3 tubers, instead of 1).

Comment by alvraen

Target a felboar, then use the whistle. It makes sure you're in range, and it's been working like a charm.

Comment by 582957

this is the only mission i've ever abandoned out of difficulty its soo hard theres never any pigs anywhere and the flayers spawn faster than you can kill.

its nearly impossible

Comment by 562692

Clearing the area of the Ravenous Flayers and saving piggies got me two 3 for 1 deals! Easy squeezy as a hunter.

Comment by 770741

Bugged for me right now...tubers come get dug up by boars, but aren't "clickable"

edit: working now

Comment by 717796

I found it a lot easier to first find a boar and then look for a nearby tuber mound. The whole thing took me 5 minutes that way... Didn't need to kill nothing. I had one boar dig up six tubers... Easy as pie.

Comment by 799999

Unless the writers intended for players to be killing and looting flayers for over an hour and completing the tuber-collecting part of this quest as an afterthought, IMHO this quest appers to have serious design flaws, and is much more of a tantalizing tease than fun. This quest would work for a group of players, but as a solo lvl 71 hunter I found the high ratio of flayers to pigs and respawn rate on the flayers to be so fast that the degree of difficulty of getting a live boar to be anywhere near a tuber when I needed one made this a long-running excercise in near-complete frustration which I abandoned twice halfway through and might never complete unless I come back as a level 80 character with nothing better to do.
Most of the time after the all flayers near me were killed I could not find a boar close enough to respond to the whistle and the tuber would disappear, and I killed a lot of boars as collateral damage when I opened fire on a flayer attacking a boar and the boar got aggravated and turned on me.
There appear to be way too many flayers in this area to keep enough pigs alive near tubers to get this done without an extreme amount of patience and a large investment in time. Get some friends to help with this quest, or be prepared for a long bumpy road to completion.

Comment by plantemarc

really retarded quest all boar arround are killed by ravenous so when using whistle no boar come and the tube disappears.

Comment by 733706

This quest was a real pain for all the reasons previously mentioned. But the thing that got me the most was standing next to a plant, blowing the whistle, and looking at a boar who would not respond. Of course the plant vanished shortly thereafter. It was also very angering to see how many plants had no boars anywhere around. Only once did I have two boars respond at the same time and I get get two plants.

They need to make the boar response distance longer to reduce the irritation of what I consider to be a very irritating quest.

BTW, in case you are wondering what the pine cone-looking things with the horns and green glow are, they are Ravenous Flayer eggs, which you will be destroying in the next quest in the chain-a much better quest than this one!

Comment by 716334

In reply to Ende's comment above, I can confirm that getting multiple boars summoned to a tuber should give you the equivalent number of quest items, as I managed to summon 4 to one location and got 4 tubers - sounds like it was a bit buggy for you. Heartily agree with his opinion of this quest - its a definite front runner for "Most Irritating Quest" award. The location of boars in relation to tubers badly needs sorted out - although, since not that many people ever find their way to this quest anymore, it will probably just stay as it is until the next "cataclysm" type event where a lot of old quests are removed.

Comment by 882560

This quest is not bugged.

I completed this quest in less then 10 minutes.

This is how you do it.

Kill all the flayers. That way they don't kill the boars.
Then just stand near a spawned tuber and blow the whistle.

Some had 2 or 3 boars digging up a tuber for each boar.

Very simple.

Comment by 325589

So, I'm thinking probably not too many people are silly like me, and still does BC 68-70 content. I enjoy it way more than the same boring Wrath 68-71 zones - my 4th alt, I did every quest I could in Netherstorm. Now, for my 5th alt, I'm doing every quest I can in SMV. This quest... I remembered being a huge pain back on my first account when we didn't have that choice. And, indeed, I spent about 10 minutes having 0 luck getting any tubers (after first spending around 5 minutes trying to dig up those eggs, and wondering why it wouldn't let me. Those eggs around the east edge of the zone... those aren't tubers.)

But anyway, once I figured out the trick, it only took maybe 10 minutes to pick up the 10. Still a braindead quest, but at least also not difficult. (And I can think of a few quests way more mindnumbingly dumb than this one.) Anyway, the trick is simple, and has been mentioned before, but I'm going to repeat it: just kill every single lousy flayer you see. Any time you see a flayer, anywhere, run over and kill it. Suddenly, you should have no problem finding boars to dig tubers up with!

Comment by Systex

Worst, quest, ever!
Seriously, took me 15 minutes just to get 2 tubes, there are alot of tubes in the ground, but no boars. On the other shelf, there are alot of boars, but no tubes! Seriously, whoever came up with this idea should be hanged from a tree.

Comment by 633884

Here is a way to end the torture quicker:

Make sure that more than one boar is on the whistle range when you use it.

You'll get one tuber per attracted boar.

Comment by 515103

Okay so we get him 10 tubers and he rewards us with 20....logic.

Comment by Transcended

Where are the boars are if there close enough two will be called over and you will get 2 tubers.

Comment by 1017804

You have to stand exactly. On top. Of the tuber.

Comment by 664366

another totally retarded quest, do people at blizzard even play this game? very hard to find a boar near a tuber, how is this supposed to be fun?

Comment by Bootee

If this was my first quest in Warcraft ever, I probably wouldn't still be playing.

Comment by iceman8721

Trick is to clear an area and wait for respawn of the boars and mounds but at the same time keep killing the flayers.

Note: if a mound nearby has multiple boars, each boar will dig its own tuber

Comment by Alaticia2012

A very time and consuming quest,even with no flayers about the majority of the boars are not within whistle blowing distance of a tuber and vice versa.

Comment by Boomerasp

One of the mos ridiculous quests blizzard ever thought up, and most frustrating! Tried clearing all the flayers from the shelf -- they res faster than the pigs -- and don't try saving the stupid pigs from the attacking flayers. The pigs will also attack, and you'll have to kill them too. The rewards aren't worth the effort!

Comment by louied777

I was a lot of things....

But, I was mostly annoyed.

Comment by Propulson

Just tested this new way out...instead of tagging the mob attacking boar,you can sand the carrot like tuber inside the the pen where Quest giver is and makes it much more eaiser to complete instead running all over the area to tag mobs and wait for more boars to re pop...also my test worked as one was dug up by them inside the pen

Comment by 871312

dumbest quest ever.

Comment by StarFire2686

Very annoying quest however if you manage to be near two pigs when you call for one on a mound you will get 2 roots. Kind of luck to get it this way but it happened to me and I was able to get it done that much faster. Really should make the pigs friendly cause you can easily hit them then you have to kill or run away.

I found the easiest way to get this over with was to find a mount near pig that was alive. Kill any enemies nearby then call it over. Once I did that the whole quest went much faster. Hope i helped.

Comment by 719073

It is possible to get more than one hellboar onto a tuber, thus creating extra tuber drops.

(Tuber drops = Amount of Hell Boars present at the tuber)

At the opening - 52,18 keep the first three boars alive and you can get three tubers from one of the tubers on the floor.

-B

Comment by thongur

Not only is this quest extremely frustrating, I believe it is bugged. When I finally found tuber mounds, at least 3 times, when I used the whistle the message "need shadowmoon tuber mound" appeared.

Comment by whecks

OK, so I just finished the quest.

I did learn a few things:

1. The big pineapple-looking things are NOT tubers. They are flayer eggs (next quest).
2. The tubers are much smaller than the flayer eggs.
3. The least frustrating tuber/flayer/boar ratio is on the side of the hill.
4. There does appear to be a spawn issue. There was nothing for about 45 minutes (almost accused wow of a glitch...then suddenly tubers spawned, boars stayed alive and I completed the quest in 4-5 minutes).

Comment by 1441176

get as much boars per root as you can. i don't know if its a bug or not, but you will get 1 tuber for each boar that comes digging so if you manage to whistle 3 in one go, you will get 3 tubers

Comment by 1440987

I Was A Lot Of Things... http://youtu.be/uIlgWOV-_oQ

Comment by Gormadok

for the first time i thought it was bugged. then i realized that i need:
- a "carrot-like" thing in the ground
- a pig or a group of pigs which arent dead nor fighting with predators
- a "short enough" distance between that "carrot-like" thing and pigs.
- when you click a q-item near a carrot-like thing with pigs nearby, they will run to that carrot-like thing and dig. more pigs/carrot = faster you finish this quest

Comment by Boxofbeer

I Was A Lot Of Things... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcprSTkAJ28

Comment by TheBube

Make sure to grab the Agility Tubers if you plan on using the Assassination Armor for your transmog.

Comment by kodiakblackout

Also note that once you eventually manage to spawn a tuber, someone else can just come and loot it.
Thank you random lv100 Gnome, what a truly disgraceful thing to do.

Comment by Aurleis1

Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai9ihtsLilw

1. I Was A Lot Of Things...
• Accept the quest, I Was A Lot Of Things..., from Oronok Torn-heart at coords 53.8, 23.4 (Oronok's Farm).
• Travel north, to the Shattered Plains, to the area of coords 53, 17.
• Locate Shadowmoon Tuber mound (veggie sticking partly out of the ground) near a Domesticated Felboar.
• If the nearby Domesticated Felboar is being attacked by a Ravenous Flayer, kill the flayer.
• Use Oronok's Boar Whistle, while standing on top of the Shadowmoon Tuber mound.
• Loot 10 of the Shadowmoon Tuber, which the Domesticated Felboar, has dugs up for you.
• Travel south, to Oronok's Farm, at coords 53.8, 23.4.
• Turn in the quest to Oronok Torn-heart.

Comment by LeaNoodles

That'll do, pig. That'll do.

Comment by Mulder101361

Here's how to make it simple. Find a tuber. Kill the flayers, and let the boars reset. Once they do, stand on the tuber and use the whistle. If you have two or more boars in range, you can loot multiple tubers per mound.

The key is get the flayers down and let the boars live.

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=WoVuP_qNQXk&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Taraezor

You'll soon suss out that you want to keep a small area clear of the Ravenous Flayer. Just enough that is manageable. Ensure four or five of the tuber mounds can spawn in your area. As per previous posters, I discovered that attracting more than one Domesticated Felboar results in multiple lootable tubers. FTW!

This quest is more about being smart than pew, pew, pew!

(You'll see some egg thingies you can't click on. That'll be the follow up quest!)

Comment by mikolaj73

Legion Prepatch

Kill off Ravenous Flayers. They usually fight with the boars and kill them. After a few minutes, more and more boars will respawn, and sometimes you will get two boars getting attracted to the whistle, and the quest will only take a few minutes. Kill off Ravenous Flayers, and then do the quest.

Comment by tarc

If this isn't the dumbest, most aggravating quest mechanic in the game, I'll eat my hat.

a) Hope that the boars haven't been munched by flayers.
b) Hope that, if boars are alive, they are near enough to the tuber to whistle to.
c) Hope that the tuber doesn't despawn after a failed whistle attempt.
d) Hope that CRZ doesn't put too many competing players in with you.

Bonus for paladins in 7.0.3:
e) Wanna break up a boar-flayer fight? Don't throw judgement, as the new "...and 1 other nearby enemy" will kick in!

Comment by gverderamo

Easy. Just go around and clear all the flayers. DO NOT LOOT THEM. Then find the mounds and blow the whistle. If you are lucky enough to attract two boars, then you get two tubers.

Comment by hotcore

It may of been 10 years since doing this quest but it still gives me nightmares. It's simply a horrible quest!

Comment by Aerynsun8449

As irritating as over half the quests in Outlands, you're suppose to whistle for the Domesticated Felboar when you're near a Shadowmoon Tuber mound, yet there are Tuber mounds with no Felboars near them (they don't come when you whistle unless they're almost on top of you). At least the "drop rate" is 100% IF you can get a Felboar and Tuber mound close without one of the damn Ravenous Flayer killing the Felboar before you get to them. I spent 3/4 of the time just running around killing the Flayers to keep them from killing the boars hoping I'd get a mound and a boar next to each other. Those damn Flayers were even attacking the dead Felboars, wtf? Sadly, on top of everything else, the Felboar are neutral so if you accidentally hit one as you're hitting a Flayer, they're mad at you and attack you instead of digging the tubers. Thanks Blizzard, thanks a hell of a lot!

It's NOT a difficult quest IF you can get the Tubers, Felboars together without the Flayers. I even lucked out once and had three Felboars next to a mound when I blew my whistle, I got three Tubers out of that deal.

I used to think the developers/programmers were on some good drugs, and didn't share. However, after this zone, I'm thinking they're just sadistic.

Comment by Dust

This is STILL one of the most asinine quests in the game.

Comment by Jayfan34

The phrase "Worst quest in the game" gets thrown around a lot, but man...

Comment by Aryvandaar

I'm almost done with Loremaster. I've done a lot of annoying and *!@#ty quests, but this one has to be one of the worst offenders.

Comment by WokkaD

A summary from other comments :
1. the number of tuburs dug up is from the number of boars digging.
2. kill the Flayers before they kill the boars (don't use area of effect or multiple target attacks).
3. make sure there are boars near the tubers

Comment by minka25

Still in BFA this quest just sucks

Comment by Blueyan

This quest has been greatly improved. I've done it loads of times on alts and at that time, it was annoying because most boars were being killed by the flayers who respawned rapidly. However, I've just done it today and there were few flayers, lots of tubers and lots of boars - so much so that two were attracted to most of my tubers. Great improvement!

Comment by Felchocobo

I'm having the best WOW experience of my life with this Quest

So Amazing

-.-'

Links

I Was A Lot Of Things...

Oronok Torn-heart at Oronok's Farm in Shadowmoon Valley wants you to recover 10 Shadowmoon Tubers from the Shattered Plains.

He also wants Oronok's Boar Whistle back when you're done.

	Shadowmoon Tuber (10)
	Oronok's Boar Whistle (Provided) (1)

Description

I've been a lot of things, stranger, but what I once was isn't what's important. What I am now is what matters and what I am now is a farmer.

I use trained felboars to dig up tubers from the hardened earth of the Shattered Plains. Recently, though, flayers from a nest to the northeast have been attacking my animals, preventing me from gathering tubers.

Would you go to the area north of here and gather tubers for me? Use this whistle while standing on a tuber mound and a boar will come dig one up!

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Oronok's Tuber of Healing		Oronok's Tuber of Agility
	Oronok's Tuber of Strength		Oronok's Tuber of Spell Power

You will also receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10514))