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Storyline
Zangarmarsh Disturbance at Umbrafen Lake A Warm Welcome As the Crow Flies Balance Must Be Preserved Drain Schematics Warning the Cenarion Circle Return to the Marsh The Umbrafen Tribe A Damp, Dark Place Safeguarding the Watchers Saving the Sporeloks The Boha'mu Ruins Idols of the Feralfen Gathering the Reagents Messenger to the Feralfen Too Many Mouths to Feed Diaphanous Wings Menacing Marshfangs Umbrafen Eel Filets Blacksting's Bane Unfinished Business The Dead Mire An Unnatural Drought There's No Explanation for Fashion No More Mushrooms! A Job Undone Menacing Marshfangs The Respect of Another Thick Hydra Scales Searching for Scout Jyoba Jyoba's Report Observing the Sporelings A Question of Gluttony Familiar Fungi Stealing Back the Mushrooms The Sporelings' Plight Natural Enemies An Outside Perspective Sporeggar A Friendly Gesture Now That We're Friends... Fhwoor Smash! Ango'rosh Encroachment Overlord Gorefist Daggerfen Deviance Secrets of the Daggerfen Stinger Venom Natural Armor Maktu's Revenge Lines of Communication The Terror of Marshlight Lake Spirits of the Feralfen A Spirit Ally? Stinging the Stingers The Sharpest Blades Burstcap Mushrooms, Mon! Have You Ever Seen One of These? Angling to Beat the Competition The Biggest of Them All Pursuing Terrorclaw WANTED: Boss Grog'ak Impending Attack Us or Them Message to the Daggerfen

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Comment by 6934

He's surrounded by about 3 Marsh Dredges/Lurkers. Soloed this as a 62 mage without a hitch. You'll find him at the lowest point of the cave; you can jump down from almost any spot if you want to get to him quickly.

Comment by 12897

It's really easy because the Sporeloks help you...his spawn time is sorta slow but he spawn at 72,94 deep in the cave for me.

Comment by 10501

He's non elite. Cake quest.

Comment by Babcok

I don't get the Quest ... maybe someone has an Idea ?? My friend get the quest an he has killed the Lord ...

Comment by 16877

I personally thought this quest was completely easy. The spawn rate wasn't all that slow for me, and wasn't surrounded by anything. Easily soloed by a level 63 rogue.

Comment by 15857

I think you have to be friendly with Cenarion before you can get this quest. Once I hit friendly, about 7-8 more questgivers just popped up.

Comment by Split

EZmode on 62enh shaman.. in fact the attack speed is so slow, you can get in a LHW if need be with no cast slow-downs. ALSO make sure u have the quests: "A Damp, Dark Place" and " Saving the Sporeloks"

Comment by Split

forgot to add, do make sure u check the clams you get - i got 2 golden pearls and 1 Jaggal Pearl

Comment by 702

You can do two other quests at the same time.

http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9788

http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10096

Comment by 25329

i recomend that u fight ur way don the cave instead of jumping down cuz when u jump u will get agrom from all 4 mobs at the same time if u go fight your way u can simply pull the 2 first mobs andafter that pull the lord and the reamining.

Comment by 29687

I soloed him 62 Shammy (easy) only healedmyself 2 times - 3 shooted the guys aroung him then took him out in 4! Not that hard. If your a Mage, Rogue, Warrior, or Shammy you can do with 1 person. If your a feral Druid, you can do it with ur eyes shut cause feral druids are too good and i hope they get nerfed in next patch! - To all the Feral Druid Ally's that ghanked me - LOL

Comment by Kampai

No need to be friendly with CE, I just got the quest as Neutral. I'd guess some of the other quests opens this up.

Comment by Wildhorn

TO GET THIS QUEST: You need to complete http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9747 . It DOESNT require any reputation level.

Comment by 45521

Cave entrance at (74, 92), Lord Klaq is at (72, 94) and the path from the road to the cave is at (77, 86).

Comment by 47613

pulled without any adds and no sporeloks already fighting them as a 63 shaman

Comment by 22172

Soloed as lvl 63 holy paladin. I pulled him with 2 adds. I waited on Sporeloks, but i don't think they would be such a great addition...

Comment by 55479

I soloed as 61 combat rogue just wait for some Sporeloks and i killd him without getting some adds on me.

Comment by 49014

This quest was very easy, soloed as a 63 fire mage.. I am almost sure I could have done it well before this level.
coords are exact as well ^^

Comment by 60905

Soloed as a 62 warrior easily. Shot at the add to the far right, killed the two adds and got Lord Klaq all by myself. Didn't even have to use Recklessness.

Comment by 61150

Soloed as 62 hunter, easiet group quest ever.

Cave Entrance at 74,93 and Lord Klaq is located at 72,96.

Comment by 58847

Easily soloed as a 61 Warlock.
Somehow managed to pull him alone with Curse of Agony, despite the 3 guys standing directly next to him.
Very very easy quest.

Comment by 52355

This quest is a piece of cake for a BM specced hunter.
Here's what i did:
Make your way ontop of Lord Klaq, not down to him.
If you have 3/3 on Hawk eye you can reach him from this distance.
So mark him, put on Eye of the Beast, get your pet down there and cancel Eye of the Beast.
Put on Bestial Wrath, rapid fire and Indimitation (For aggros purpose).
Just bomb him with your arrows until he dies.
It's many adds down there so if your pets health is below 50%, Mend Pet him/her and the adds will aggro you instead.
While they're on their way up to you, the Sporeggar npcs will aggro the most of them, lay a Frost Trap if necessarily.
When Lord Klaq is dead, just kill the others and you're done :)

Side notes: The Lurkers and Dredgers don't deal high amount of damage and they're slow so your pet will do fine down there, however, use Mend Pet anyways just incase. They can do high amount of damage if they do critical strikes.

You can do 3 other Quests in here also in one sweep.
A Damp, Dark Place (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9788)
Saving the Sporeloks (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10096)
Plants of Zangarmarsh (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9802)
Unidentified Plant Parts have a high droprate in here, i'll guess on about 30-65% for me anyways.

Hope this helps :)

Comment by 57777

This is very easy to solo as 62 feral druid, along with A Damp, Dark Place (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9788) and
Saving the Sporeloks (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10096).

Use cat form and stealth to kill your way to lord Klaq. When you get to the outer chamber, use faerie fire or moonfire to pull solos until you only have the 3 guards and Klaq. Wait until they are mob-attacking a sporelock. pull Klaq with faerie fire, and use bear form to kill him. He's not elite so he dies before you need frenzied rejuvenation. Pop rejuv, kill the remaining mobs. Other sporeloks will help you though they don't do much damage.

Comment by 69210

Soloed as a 61 rouge just got close enuff to first add to aggro then solo it and same with 2nd on then took klaq and the last addon at once

Comment by 61872

I just soloed this quest as a 62 shadow priest. Probably the easiest group quest ever. I pulled 2 of the lurkers away and killed them, waited for the Sporelings to spawn and then took down Klaq before he could even run to me and hit me.

Comment by 21592

I was able to pull Klaq with a Vampiric Touch as a lvl 62 shadow priest. None of the adds aggroed when he ran through them.

Comment by BoJlk

Althoug they're very close to each and it's easy to suspect that if you aggro one the other will follow.

This is not the case with this quest.
According to the comments above you will aggro maximum two of them.

Comment by 86477

shadow preist- --- llevitate down to the back and take em out one by one

Comment by 102519

uhhh.. i dont know what happened but i mana tapped klaq n run back to the small opening.. he came alone without agroing the others around him

Comment by Daywish

Shoulden't be marked as a group q imho, it's easy soloable ... did it unscratched solo as an 61 frost mage ... free xp imho, you still gotta go there for the other 2 quests so ...

Comment by 43546

i managed to pull him without his adds by just attacking him =S was prepared to fight all the mobs, but only he came, rather weird...

Comment by 99207

just did this with my 62 hunter. Quite easy since it's possible to pull Klaq without pulling any of the mobs standing around him.
GL all

Comment by 118730

Did this as a level 61 troll frost mage, pulled the two adds with Couterspell and killed 'em off after that. On Klaq I popped Berserking, Icy Veins and used my trinket and then 3-shotted him with frostbolts. It's a really easy quest.

Comment by 122526

This quest was really easy. Just did it with my 61 warrior. Just walking around trying to find the chest for http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=9788 stummbeled across the mob and killed him. I was able to pull him and one of the Lurkers near by. Didnt have any trouble at all with killing both of them

Comment by 122603

easy soloable as a 62 hunter just go for it..

Comment by roarana

for hunters...freezing trap is worthless cuz the Sporeloks will attack it even when it is frozen but other than that good luck

Comment by 121629

I rly didn't get why it was suggested to do that q in group. well, yes, Klaq is guarded by two other mobs, but its a peace of cake for a 62 lvl feral druid. didn't even have to heal myself, just used my trinkets' abilities. easy xp :)

Comment by 64812

Pretty much the only danger for this quest, is when (or if) you jump down, you aggro the three on the lower level.

Comment by 159578

Never fought an easier boss mob in all my days. It says "group" in the quest panel for this, but you can do it solo with complete ease. Did it as a 64 druid: used cat form and had him as good as dead before he even got the chance to really put the hurt on me

Comment by 98675

This quest is an absolute joke for a Prot Paladin. When I killed him on my 63 Protadin, I pulled all four at half health and half mana and forgot to buff myself. Healed once. Was wearing almost all OL greens. Don't worry about this one ; )

Comment by 162221

Its very easy to solo i did it at 61 as a protadin :)

Comment by 129088

this is a solable quest by almost every class thanks to the little dudes.

Comment by maciok

Easily doable by a 62 fury warrior.
Just pull boss from range and he will come with 1 or no adds.
Have no idea why this is marked as a 'group' quest.

Comment by 150695

If you're a Blood Elf and don't want to deal with all the adds around him, just hit him with a mana tap and he will come alone.

Comment by Toryn

Like everyone is saying, there is no reason why this is a group quest. Maybe he used to be elite and Blizzard just forgot to remove the "group" label from the quest.

Anyways, as a lvl 63 Retribution paladin, Klaq fell faster than a two year old running on sand with his shoes tied together. I bubbled and jumped from above, focused on Klaq and then took out his friends.

Comment by 155128

Soloed as 60 destro warlock, Lord Klaq is with two lurkers 60-61, all of them elementals. With a Voidwalker, banish one the lurkers, kill the other one, kill the banished lurker and then kill Lord Klaq (Immolate>Curse of Agony> Corruption>Many Shoots> Conglagrate).

Comment by 105431

Soloed as a 63 Demonology Warlock with absolutely no problem. He has 3 adds, but I was lucky enough to have a few Sporeggar guys down there fighting them. Ran in mopped him up and booked.

Comment by SockPuppet

I did this one the "hard way" on my 64 Feral Druid, by just prowling up behind Klaq and having at him while he and the other three beat on me. I didn't have any help from the sporelings, but I'd dropped Klaq and one of the adds before I had to heal. Then dropped the other two, all in kittyform. Very simple quest, just bash 'n' heal 'n' bash some more.

Comment by daxiongmao87

for those without coords, map

Comment by 241968

Soloed at 63 as a shadow priest but ended up dying a few min. later :P

Comment by 251993

Soloed this on my level 62 rogue with no Spore people to assist me. Tried to pull the main mob, he brought one friend so I turned on Evasion and Blade Flurry - when they were both relatively low I used Killing Spree to finish them both off and then vanished before anything else came around.

Comment by 242636

Whipped Klaq and his cronies like they were red-headed step-children, L65 Prot Warrior (ok alittle over powered for them) but damn it was fun. Hardest part of quest is finding him in that twisty turny cave system. I got lost and had to kill everything all over again. Quick respawn rates. Have fun. :)

Comment by Krazycarn

This guy is a joke. Although it propably did have something to do with sporeggar dudes.

Comment by Krazycarn

If you are a miner, look at for the couple of Adamantite Deposits that are there. I only found 2, but with a possibility to drop 7 motes of earth, thats pretty good.

Comment by 166755

Soloed with my level 62 Unholy Death Knight. Was able to pull every one of them, one at a time, using Death Grip and a little patience. Even pulled Klag without attracting the last of his helpers standing behind him. Just take your time and inch forward to get into range with each one. Have your Ghoul (or Pet) on passive.

Comment by 476523

soled him 62 balance druid
use swarm then typhoon then barkskin and hurricane and your good will clear the whole room hes very easy

Comment by 732612

Turned him back into top soil as a 63 Paly. Will use his and his adds corpes as fertalizer from now on.

Comment by janan2

I am really confused. The coords for this quest on carbonite are around 22,7 and I don't see a cave. There are level 7x ogres walking around which doesn't seem to go with a lvl 62 quest. Any thoughts?

Comment by NoGravitas

Im trying to do this as a lvl 65 NE Hunter. Easily killing the early mobs, then i get killed by rooting spell giving me major damage, even tho the log shows 36 damage per hit. Spell keeps taking health until I die, even tho I'm not in combat.
Should be an easy quest!

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=aUOp1Drk_t0&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Aurleis1

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

1. Safeguarding the Watchers
• Accept the quest, Safeguarding the Watchers, from Windcaller Blackhoof at coords 80.4, 64.6 (Moonwell in Cenarion Refuge).
• Travel southwest to a cave located at coords 74.7, 91.5.
• Enter the cave, and jump down off the first cliff you come to.
• Turn right, and follow that passage to coords 73.0, 94.6.
• Kill Lord Klaq.
• Turn around and follow the passageway at coords 73.2, 96.2.
• Travel up an elevated path at coords 71.1, 97.3, that you will follow around to coords 74.0, 94.2.
• Turn left, when you reach 74.0, 94.2 and follow the passage to the cave exit.
• Travel northeast, back to Cenarion Refuge, to coords 80.4, 64.6.
• Turn in the quest to Windcaller Blackhoof.

Comment by Miut

Did anyone find out how to get round the Rooting spell that hits you every few steps and drains life so fast you have no chance of reaching your target? It does the same to my wolf companion.

Comment by PredatorZero1208

Contrary to what the in-game minimap may indicate, Lord Klaq is NOT just outside the cave. He is actually at the bottom of the large pit in the center of the cave.

Comment by flaotinging

Hi. To save you some time I made a map and an accompanying description of where to go to complete all three quests in this cave. Hopefully the screenshot has been uploaded and approved by Wowhead, but you can just as easily follow the written instructions in case it's not up to standards.

I submitted a screenshot of the map with a path and some POIs drawn on them. Follow these instructions:

Enter the cave at the pink dot.
Hug the right wall and follow the blue line until you find the first passage way to the right (just past the 90 degree bend in the line).
You will descend down a ramp, at the end of which are Ikeyen's Belongings at the green dot.
Make a 180 - the path you came down will go up on your left side. Do not go back up. Instead, follow the right wall through a fairly tight passageway full of mushroom dudes.
You will enter a clearing full of Marsh mans you have to kill. Lord Klaq will be at the end (red hostile target marker) if he hasn't been killed yet. He's a fairly fast respawn.
Go back the way you came and kill Marsh mans along the way until your bloodlust or quest need is satisfied.
Enjoy the remainder of your stay in Zangarmarsh.

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Safeguarding the Watchers

Kill Lord Klaq and return to Windcaller Blackhoof at the Cenarion Refuge.

	Lord Klaq slain (1)

Description

In your travels, you might have encountered some of the expedition's watchers. They do the majority of the field work: documenting the unique inhabitants of the marsh, collecting samples, and making contact with sentient species.

The safety of the watchers is paramount, <class>. We've had to recall the watchers we sent to explore Funggor Cavern to the south, because of marshbeast attacks. Warden Hamoot believes that killing their leader, Lord Klaq, will bring a swift end to the attacks.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Cenarion Expedition

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(9894))