Quick Facts

Series

1.	Digging Through Bones
2.	Fumping
3.	The Big Bone Worm

Storyline
Terokkar Forest Vessels of Power Olemba Seeds Stymying the Arakkoa Thin the Flock Unruly Neighbors The Firewing Liaison Thinning the Ranks Fel Orc Plans Timber Worg Tails The Elusive Ironjaw WANTED: Bonelashers Dead! Torgos! Speak with Private Weeks Who Are They? Kill the Shadow Council! Olemba Seed Oil And Now, the Moment of Truth Arakkoa War Path Stymying the Arakkoa An Unwelcome Presence The Firewing Liaison What Happens in Terokkar Stays in Terokkar An Unseen Hand Vestments of the Wolf Spirit Patriarch Ironjaw Welcoming the Wolf Spirit WANTED: Bonelashers Dead! Torgos! Speak with Scout Neftis Who Are They? Kill the Shadow Council! Strange Energy Clues in the Thicket It's Watching You! By Any Means Necessary Wind Trader Lathrai A Personal Favor Investigate Tuurem What Are These Things? What Are These Things? Report to the Allerian Post Report to Stonebreaker Camp Attack on Firewing Point Attack on Firewing Point The Final Code The Final Code Letting Earthbinder Tavgren Know Letting Earthbinder Tavgren Know Speak with Rilak the Redeemed The Eyes of Skettis Seek Out Kirrik Veil Skith: Darkstone of Terokk Veil Rhaze: Unliving Evil Veil Lithic: Preemptive Strike Veil Shalas: Signal Fires Return to Shattrath The Skettis Offensive Missing Friends The Tomb of Lights Vengeful Souls Recover the Bones Helping the Lost Find Their Way Before Darkness Falls The Infested Protectors Cabal Orders The Shadow Tomb Taken in the Night For the Fallen Terokkarantula Return to Sha'tari Base Camp The Dread Relic Evil Draws Near Digging Through Bones Fumping The Big Bone Worm An Improper Burial A Hero Is Needed The Fallen Exarch

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Comments

Comment by 11009

Very nice reference to Frank Herbert's Dune series: All 3 names refer to main chars...

Comment by Toppazz

Using the drums either gets 3 sand gnomes, 3 of the mature worms, or the elite worm. It took us about twenty summons to get the big worm, though I don't know if that's regular or not. Two things to take note of. Make sure you stay at full hp for summons. Our T2 paladin got 1-shot by three 1.3k poison bolts since he wasn't at 100%. Secondly, assign one person to summon. If two people place the drums at the exact same time, bad things will happen (we got a spawn of six worms).

Comment by Benegesserit

Voice Amplification Modulator, Jom Gabbar, worms...well, everywhere, this monster (getting the Rev knife for my pirate outfit). I love this game.

Comment by Bigblue

To get this quest, you need to complete:

Digging Through Bones (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10922). Don't really need two players.
Fumping (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10929). Again, don't necessarily need two. Just expect downtime if you're soloing.

Toppazz is right, be cautious when summoning, and definitely bring a healer. Hai'shulud hits hard, and even the mini worms can be a handful.

Comment by 7524

Look around 44,77 for the Kodo like things u need to kill to summon.

Comment by 10621

Try frost novaing him for a cool visual of completely out of proportion HUGE novas.

Comment by Kyrra

This quest seems to be somewhat bugged. Every time we got the Mature Worms, 2 of them stay under the sand and never come up.. but while they are in the sand, they can keep shooting you with their poison (1000 damage a hit). If you get the Mature Worms, just run.

Comment by 15507

I tried about 30 times, never got the worm. Best bet would be to find some horde doing the quest, wait for them to get the big guy, then gank em and steal their kill. After 30 tries with me ( 65 pally ) and a 65 warrior, and seeing the horde get it on their first try, it just seemed fair.

Comment by 6678

He is stunnable--took him down with 2 rogues and a warrior by keeping him locked down with Kidney Shots and Intercepts.

Comment by 4634

A shaman's poison cleansing totem or a druid's abolish poison makes the poison tick trivial.

Comment by 18541

try entangle root him :D hilarious..

Comment by 15892

There seems to be a lot of confusion in the notes above this note. THIS IS EASY! Go to 45,77 -- Kill one of the yellow clefthoof guys, then use the drums when it is dead. You get a nice 65 elite worm that can be duo'd or trio'd. Done.

Comment by 26020

shani's knife is really good offhand for fury warriors.

Comment by 17169

don't try kiting to town

i kited a clefthoof to the town and then used drums, 2 worms spawned and killed me in about 5 seconds with no help from guards. worthless bastards.

Comment by 19534

This quest is not worth doing for the rewards if you are a caster (and probly any other class as well) its long annoying and buggy. For a one hand caster wepon id do http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10921 to get the blade of retribution instead http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31821
much shorter easier quest line and a better caster wepon

Comment by apvalceanu

more than 3 reference to Dune series:

Dib'Muad's Crysknife - Muad'Dib - main char
Shani's Crysknife - i think this refers to Chani, Muad'Dib's (unofficial) wife but may also refer to Ghani (short for Ghanima) his daughter
Revered Mother's Crysknife - refers to the reverend mother (thik this is how it was writen)
*Crysknife* - reminds me of the name of the knives in Dune that were made our of the sandworm's teeth
Hai'Shulud - is the name of the big elite worm that u have to kill in the q, in Dune it was Shai'Hulud - the sandworms
Fumper - Thumper (as someone already metioned) in Dune was the thing with which one would call the sandworms

Comment by 36399

Bugged for me.

Used drums, killed 1 worm then others kept spitting on me from under the ground, couldn't target them.

Might try later just for rep. (70 warlock)

Comment by Tsaza

Got him to about 40-50% hp, somehow wiped and started run on travel form. Then it said "Leaving Combat", I looked back and the worm had died :S I did not kill it, somehow it just died. Quest item was also lootable, and I got it finished.
- 70 Lvl Druid

Comment by 3159

2 rogues (66 & 68), hard (:

Comment by 28519

I did this quest with one other person near Vindicator Haylen who starts the For the Fallen quest. He tanked the worm for about half the fight before getting killed. Not sure if it's a glitch but it seemed impossible to pull aggro off him leaving us in good condition for the second half of the fight. 67 Hunter, 66 Mage

Comment by 47364

Somehow... I soloed it as a lvl 70 rogue... lost only 50% HP...

Comment by 13494

Was able to easily solo this with a 68 Hunter and I imagine it can be done with any other ranged class as well.

The trick is to use the east tunnel that leads into the Auchindoun. Kill the clefthoof near the tunnel so you don't have to travel far to get there once the worm spawns. Once it spawns, you want to run down the ramp and get positioned so that you can quickly strafe behind the wall out of line of sight once he begins casting his ranged poison attack.

If you are positioned correctly, you will not take any damage whatsoever because he can not pop up from under you if you are deep enough inside the tunnel.

You get a few seconds in between each ranged poison attack to do some damage. It took me about a minute to finish him off using this method.

Comment by Hirru

Heh, I am not sure what happened, but i attempted to solo this quest as a 68 holy paladin and it seemed to be going ok. It couldnt hit me for very much and wasnt immune to my stuns. I got it down to about 50% and and just suddenly died. Dunno why that is but ill take it! lol GL to you all

Comment by 26336

Just did this as a 64 priest, with a 64 rogue. Getting the spawn with the 3 worms was harder to deal with than the boss itself, due to the huge damage that they concentrate on one person. Once we got the boss, I went into healbot mode while the rogue dpsed. He does a fair amount of damage, but nothing that I couldn't heal through.

Comment by Telasero

Easiest Method Ever, Kill him in 1 shot. (Sound impossible? Its not =) )

You may need a timer mod, he will despawn 3 minutes after he is spawned regardless of his current health or if he is in combat.

Summon him, wait 2 minutes 50 seconds, shoot him.

Survive the next 10 seconds and he dies and is lootable if you have him tagged.

Comment by 51517

LOL this trick is great! worked fine for me! Mighty Telasero!

Comment by 53461

Not a 100% success rate but as with the earlier quest, should be done at 50,76, where Vindicator Haylen can help you clear off the undesirable mobs that you may summon.

Comment by 40815

Soloed as 70 affliction/demo warlock. Nothing fancy, dotted him up, spammed shadowbolt, sacced a VW, fast summoned another, and sacced him again when the time came. Killed him with 500 hp to spare, used no pots or healthstones.

Comment by max0r4axor

Soloed lvl 70 feral druid very easy can root and use cyclone had to heal 3 times used my tank gear.

Comment by Sentient

Tried it as a 64 Hunter. It honestly took 45 minutes to finally get the big one to spawn and over 40 summons (all FD).

Finally he spawns.. My FD Fails.. I try to summon pet and do get him off me but when FD becomes available again a horde mage appears and starts attacking the big worm. My pet dies, I get aggro and have to FD. The mage gets him down some, then the worm turns and hits me for 2 1,000+ bolts.

Friggin FD failed 2 times (No it was not serpent stung either time).

an hour wasted... plus 2 stacks of bandages because I needed to be full health each summon. waste of time.

Comment by 63706

nice dagger. get him at first try

Comment by 63718

soloed as 66 BM hunter. First FD then waited some time and then attacked again and after ~30 sec he died himself=]

Comment by Agnome

Easy, 66 resto shammy and 70 lock.

Comment by 14370

today i soloed it as 70 level bad geared feral druid. Took few tries but still..

Comment by Aredict

Took him out today, 70 enhancement shaman. I don't think I even had full HP/mana, but I popped earth elemental and kept it healed while regenning mana with Shamanistic Rage. Got him down to like 15% when Rocky died, and I easily took out the rest. Don't even think I needed that 1 potion I used.

Comment by Ragg

I soloed Shai'Hulud with the waiting until he despawned method. He's despawning after 2 minutes now however, not 3. Just engage him about 1:45 after he spawns and stay alive and you're golden.

Comment by 32973

Just tried it on 14-July-2007. The worm died after exactly 2mins.
Because he dies at the same time as my Earth Elemental despawns. (Shaman)

Shaman can solo this at lev66 with just keep the Earth Elemental healed. Easy enuff.

Comment by beretta

Solo'd as a 70 Arms spec warrior.
To clarify all of the above:

Kill Decrepit Clefthoof http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=22105 - Found in and around 44.77.
Once dead, click the corpse and use your drum.

You will get ALOT of BS spawns. for me it was 3 little gnomes... which is better then the 3 worms. the Gnomes were much easier to run from.

Once the named does spawn.... For me, first I tried to DPS it down... Figured I was 70 and had decent gear... so I used recklessness.... and didnt even get it to 50% before I died.

Second time, I used the strat listed above... spawn him... he will hit you a few times, just run out of aggro range, heal up, then within 2 minutes of spawning him, run back in dps him a little and just stay alive.... at 2 minutes he despawns, you loot,

quest complete.

Comment by 67450

As of July 15, 2007, the strat still works.

The worst thing about this quest is all the fake spawns. Like posted above, I suggest doing this at 50,76 so the 62 elite can help you out when you get fake spawns. Don't expect him to be able to kill the gigantic worm, he got killed in seconds.

Comment by carnifex266

19th July, it still works.

However, this is such an annoying quest, due to getting so many pointless spawns.
Timed the two minutes with a trinket.

Comment by Faradize

2nd try and elite came, however hes very hard at 70. :S
did for first, but used super heal

Comment by 76206

Still works as of August 7th

Comment by 77799

well, I finally managed to solo it as a level 65 41/15/0 Tauren Hunter, I died about 3 times with trial and error, but I wound up using a mixed strat, I summoned him near where Vindicator Haylen is, ran off (with pet dismissed) and Feigned, waited about 1min 40 seconds, ran back to him summoned my pet and made it attack, then stood next to Vindicator Haylen so he'd help, he actually despawned/died when we had him to about 45%... and I got to loot. :)

hope this helps someone.

btw. I got lucky I got him first spawn, the 3 set of bone worms twice and then him again.

Comment by 76136

Got him on my 2nd fumping (worms the first time). Couldn't believe how huge he was.. just kept coming out of the ground. A L70 cat tanked him, so I spent most my time running around trying to hit after he digs (travels quite far) and healing kitty.

No real strategy, just going for it.

Nice rewards, good EXP, cool references. Definately a chain to do.

Comment by 62416

We summoned the elite worm and by luck chance I was at 49,76 near some Sha'tar NPC's (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=22462) and one of them came to help. We probably would have killed the worm without the NPC, but it was kind of a morale boost to have some free help.

Comment by uglybot

Alternate spawns have been reduced - now if you don't get Hai'Shulud when fumping, you only have 2 gnomes or 2 of the smaller worms to deal with.

Hai'Shulud still dies after 2 minutes of being spawned.

Comment by bananastand

I managed to solo as a 65 druid, all I did was kill a clefthoof near the Auchindoun graveyard and summoned him there. I pulled him over to the stone part where he couldnt move any further and just continually rank 1 moonfired until he decided to despawn.

So not a real solo but I did finish my quest so I am happy.

Comment by Ryori

Soloed as 65 warlock using this technic.

Comment by 72048

Yep, still works.
Had to summon 8 times tho and the rewards kinda suck, all daggers.

Comment by 70510

solo'd as a level 70 warlock, 869 spelldamage affliction spec, 8.3k health unbuffed, 9k with imp out

just load DoTs and drain life spam, no biggie

Comment by 84707

I'm a level 70 Paladin and just did this quest solo, was a bit frustrating with all the worm spawn and all the nature damage, they tick for about 1000+ and it hurts, you need full health every time you beat the drums in case you get the elite worm and its megga huge. Here is how to do it. Like everyone said it took about 20 drum beats and spawns to get the giant elite worm.

Stay close to 44, 77 in the Bone Waste Land (AND) close to Auchindoum open stair entrance going down into it. However long it takes to get the elite to spawn you will have to try. But when you do, make sure you hit the Elite with spell or whatever at least once to tag it or aggro. Then immediately run into Auchindoum entrance out of the worm line of sight, may have to move down the ramp out of line of sight. Don't try to fight it solo, its nature damage at 1000+ will kill you quick. But Worm will follow as far as the concrete entrance to the stair ramp and no more. Stay aound the corner and you can pop out and throw it a spell or two ( I just kept throwing avengers shield at it when it was off cooldown since only range spell) and like everyone else said it will die in 2 mins irregardless. When it does run up and loot the sucker.

Comment by 79146

There's another way to solo this. First, kite one of those clefthoof as close to auchindoun as possible. (around 42,72) Then use the fumper, if the elite spawns, run behind the wall, turn right, and get past that rock. It seems like the elite cannot get past that rock OR regenerate hp when it drops combat. After that, heal up, then pound it with ranged attacks till it gets to around 70% then wait for 1 min, and it will just die.

Comment by 57826

Shittiest quest ever :s

not worth doing if you don't really want the rewards.

Comment by 64937

Lol tryed as a 65 druid oomkin... startet with tree ants and dps and keep healing me and got out off range off it... suddenly i got out of combat i ran in fast and took form 40% to 36%... after running around it a bit it suddenly die with 36% health left and i could still take the q item.... either its was a bug or LUCK off some sort

Comment by 86981

Don't do this quest!

It took me 25 spawns of trash before the boss. The trash can be:
A)2-3 Sand Gnomes that have no drops or experience.
B)2-3 Worms that can take down an unaware 70.

After all this, you down the boss for terrible blues, 350 LC rep, and about 15G@70 (if you sell the dagger reward).

it took me 40+m to do the damn thing!

Comment by 84719

Telasero, excellent advice. i solo's as a 65 rogue

Comment by 84719

by the way only took me 3 spawns. FYI

Comment by 88885

I used the suggestions here to solo this with my lvl 67 lock.

Magically I managed to get the elite on the very first attempt. I summoned him right by the tunnel leading to Auchindoun, thew dots on him, and watched his casting bar for poison spit. By moving out of his line of sight before he spit I was able to avoid most of the damage. Actually the damage that did hit me wasn't bad... about 150ish each time. Because I kept out of his LOS most of the time he didn't hit me enough to even cause me to need to drain life, pot, or use my HS. He did seem able to hit my VW though, even from around the corner. I just went with it and sacrificed him when he got really low on health in case the worm wanted to hit me but he didn't seem to.

After I got him to about 40% health he fell down dead. I wasn't timing it but I'm guessing that was the 2 min mark. Thanks for all of the suggestions, it worked out perfectly.

Comment by Shuji

Now this was fun! As a 70 Paladin tank I tried to solo him. Must've been possible I thought. So set foot for him, and after 2 summons he popped up. got him down to arround 30% while I needed a bandage for if it was going to do some serious damage which it did not do. SO I bubbled and bandaged, but it dropped dead while I did so. I can't confirm this but try to solo it as a paladin and just bubble? Was pretty weird to see.

Comment by Shivacode

Duo'd with a 64 frostmage and 66 shadow priest (me). Got him on the 2nd fumping. Kept dots + VE up, used shadowfiend for mana restore + extra DPS, frost mage used elemental. Had to use a Super Healing Pot, other than that I "tanked" it easily. VE kept the mage alive. Sold the dagger since I had the Battle Mage Baton.

Comment by 70795

Used the tactic explained above as a level 65 Rogue. Got the worm on my first summon and it worked like a charm. Thanks for the advice.

Comment by 85210

Some Detail on "soloing" this with my 66 rogue:
1, pop a trinket with 2min cooldown when you see it
2, run just out of his poison range
3, when it's out of combat, use bandage
4, run to avoid poison again
5, when out of combat again, mount, and kite him
6, when cooldown is about 1:45-1:50, ran to him, ss->ss->KS, use potion if nessecery. then he died, you get the loot and 50exp. that's sweet

Comment by 95856

how to solo it as a fire mage

Comment by 58048

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Comment by casualblair

65 Paladin, on my way by so I dragged a Clefthoof over to the entrance and fumped. First try, Big Bone Worm. Used LOS, waited 1:45 or so, ran up, attacked, bubbled. It auto-died a few seconds later.

Thank you wowhead! I love you to guts!

Comment by Moklar

Soloed as a 65 Feral Druid, tank specced... with a little help of Vindicator Haylen.

at 60% health I shifted out barkskinned and healed up to full health.

I proceeded to fight and suddenly the worm died.

I'd have to say VERY easy.

Comment by jcook264

He does die after two minutes

Comment by 19180

Just soloe'd it as 64 rogue...
I ran around him for bout 1min50sec, jumped in, managed to hit him once and he died...lol

great quest :D

Comment by 31004

Great advice here, did this easy as a 65 feral druid, took 2 clefthoofs to get him to spawn, ran into the hall, then just kept popping out and moonfiring him until he died after about 2 minutes

Comment by 102600

Best quest ever! I used the tunnel method. Pulled a decrepit kodo to the tunnel entrance and summoned the worm first try, ran down out of LoS, threw a few avenger's shields at him to tag him and waited the 2 minutes for the despawn. In addition to getting the quest item I got Abyss Walker's Boots too!

Comment by 76172

Soloed as a 65 Moonkin. I did use Force of Nature and trinket + pot, but it worked. I don't think you should have any problem with him if you're 2 or more. As others have said, when you hit the drum after you've killed a Clefthoof, other worms can spawn as well, however only 2 worms spawned for me, not 3. Good Luck

Comment by Merik

As a 66 resto shaman

I got near the vindicators near netherweb ridge and killed a clefthoof. I then dropped wrath of air, mana stream totem. summoned the worm and dropped Earth elemental totem on it.
pretty straight forward the dranei would help out and the elemental would tank the worm the whole fight no problem at all.

Comment by rodebert

Easly soloed as a lvl 70 frost mage in full epic gear, and didn't even have to run away just keep it in range but not too close.

Comment by 54514

Just completed this solo as a level 64 Assassination specced rogue. Basically I followed a couple of the above strategies.

When I got him to spawn, I sprinted out of range and out of combat; beware, he'll dive into the earth and resurface near you once or twice until you get out of range.

I then waited until the 1:50 mark before re-engaging him. I spamed a couple of Sinister Strikes and then popped Kidney Shot to keep myself alive. I managed without a healing pot, but I would recommend one.

A note, you can stun him but you cannot Cheap Shot him. Once you get out of combat range, he will go underground like the patrolling worms you normally see. The only way to get him up is to unstealth near/on him.

Hope this helps Rogues looking for a new outlands dagger!

Comment by 108577

Still works as of 16/12/1007.
Ez mode tactics, just be careful not to pull the clefthoof to close to Auchindoum, because you wont be able to use the fumper as it does require you being in the Bone Wastes to summon the worm.
Rewards kinda sucked for a druid(

Comment by Eaglesight

And if you're level 70 you can easily use it and run away asap and avoid aggroing any mobs you eventually don't want to kill.

Comment by 108744

Well, i didn't use any special method (66 Bm hunter) just an elixirt that gave me 60+ AP.

I sent my pet and i was spamming heal. after some dmg on it i stunned it and then it turned on me. I decided to let it hit me so i could have my pet healed. After a while my mana gone and my pet died but i managed to kill it :)

Comment by Awlbiste

Duoed it quite easily as a 66 lock with 65 hunter, his pet died at about 10% so we just burst him down after that. No special strat, got him on the second try (3 worms on the first try). Took maybe a minute to kill him.

Comment by 95558

Note: It is possible to drop out of combat while inside the tunnel and you will not be given credit for the kill. Try to get some licks in and the end of the 2 minutes to make sure you get credit for the kill.

Comment by Deizen

I first summoned him just to test if I were at the right spot, and ofc I summon the Elite in the first try :P and get killed, I checked around here and used the Tactic above (Very awsome and functional tactic) then tried 3 more summons and got him again :)

As a Lock with no Off-hand item I'd preferr the Invincible Stave (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=25935) over the Caster dagger though, as Stamina means more for me and it has 15 spell dmg more.

It IS a Green item, but still pretty nice

Comment by 72311

You only need to be in combat with him when he dies, and you'll be able to loot him. On my rogue, what I did was use the regular LoS strategy, and used my throwing weapon to stay in combat. As a bonus, I even leveled my throwing skill while doing it.

PS: Strategy still works in 2.3.3

Comment by 114264

So far I found one strategy that works great and is very much amusing as the same time.

Step one: The key is to kite a Clefhoof from 44, 77 to the Sha'tar Vindicators fighting the Initiates at 36, 78.

Step two: Kill the Clefhoof.

Step three: Use the Fumper and summon. (More likely then not you'll get the elite.)

Step Four: Run to each Vindicator in turn and get hit or shot at. The Sha'tar Vindicators will attack anything that attacks you near them. They even net the giant elite making it unable to move as you recruit all 6-10 elites to kill this creature for you.

This is fun and not hard to pull off. The best part is seeing this crazy battle between NPCs that you just instigated. Enjoy! =D

Comment by 48293

To those who don't do the tunnel methodology and are working in a group, there is a graveyard on the eastern side of Auchindoun. The clefthooves are fairly close to it to begin with but if you ranged pull a clefthoof close to the graveyard and summon there, you and your friends can die during this fight and immediately respawn, bandage, and get back into it. Hope this helps.

Comment by 90735

Remarkably easy as a 67 Enhancement Shaman with average gear (about 800-some AP and 20% crit). Here's what I did:

1) Set down Grace of Air, Strength of Earth, Mana Spring, and Searing Totem. Equip a good shield and your strongest weapon. Make sure to keep Water Shield running throughout the entire fight - this is vital.

2) Kill a Clefthoof anywhere that's clear of wandering aggressive critters, summon until you get the worm.

3) Shai'Hulud will hit you decently hard, around 500-700 with 40% reduction. Get in there and use Flame Shock and Stormstrike whenever you can. When you get low on HP (about half health), run away from him and heal. His Poison Bolt hurts (about 1k damage on me), but it's less frequent, which means it has less of a chance of pushing back your heal. Make sure to keep Searing Totem down for constant damage. When your mana dips to about 20%, activate Shamanistic Rage. This will give you some breathing room (30% more reduction is massive) and can restore a huge amount of your mana. Keep repeating the Stormstrike/Flame Shock pattern and he should die very soon.

The only consumables I used for this were one Fel Blossom and one Super Mana Potion. I did this to play it safe, though, as this was my first attempt. After doing it, however, I'm more than confident that it's possible to do without any consumables at all. If you're nervous, just bring along a Super Mana Potion and you should be fine.

Comment by 97657

Didn't seem like a problem. Did it on my lvl 65 fury warrior with a 70 resto druid. We got the Big Worm first try, and weren't close to dying.

Comment by nauthydaug

A very easy way to kill him is to pull the worm to the npc standing
beside the rock. pretty easy job for a warlock and a hunter :) lol

Comment by 46568

2-24-08

I just now soloed this quest on my 66 frost mage. I pulled a Decrepit Clefthoof just outside the eastern tunnel of Auchindoun (43,71). The first summon was 2 mature bone worms. I ran inside the tunnel, and kept casting at the worms from around the corner.

After they died, I pulled another clefthoof and got the elite worm. I did the same tactic by running down into the tunnel and stepping around the corner to get out of LOS. The worm stayed right at the entrance and would shoot poison bolts at me whenever I would step around to cast.

Whenever you stay back around the corner you get out of combat, allowing you to bandage, drink, heal, etc. Just keep damaging the worm whenever you can and he'll despawn after 2 minutes, leaving a lootable corpse.

I got my quest item and completed my quest. Very nice strat and still works very well.

*edited to add coords*

Comment by 28509

lol EASY cakes, solo'd 70 MM hunter

MD my scorpid, surprisingly he kept aggro, tossed on mend pet like 3 times, i stayed at range, and he got downed relatively easy. and no1 was kidding about how F-ing huge he is! hahaha.

Comment by lyphe

SOLO'ED this today as a 63 ROGUE:

The entire quest chain is solo'able for anyone if you do it right. The first part is simple, just stay stealthed if you are a rogue and then kill the worm. The second part is also very simple so long as you keep your back to the NPC camp so they can help you ( see other notes in here ). And the advice on using the tunnel is excellent for the third part. You need to go attack at clefthoof and then lure him back to the tunnel so that he dies as close as possible to the entrance, but that not to hard. Then, after you bang your drum and run into the tunnel, heal ( you'll need to after the big worm hits you initially ), and then slowly creep up to the worm's red aura and attack it from behind the wall. He won't hit you but you hit him. You may not kill the worm, but it died for me at about the 2 min mark with around 90% health, so that was a nice surprise.

Happy hunting! Lypheforce

Comment by Retrouve

Can confirm that the tunnel method still works. Easily solo'd as a 64 frost mage.

Go to the eastern tunnel of Auch, at 43, 71
Kill clefthoofs and use the fumper until you get the big guy spawn, got him on my 3rd kill.

I was a bit of distance away from the tunnel, so pop a shield/blink or whatever, he hits very hard, and go around just around the first corner of the tunnel, out of his sight, he will get to a certain point and then stop. Any ranged dps can pop out every now and again and frostbolt or whatever, without getting hit by the poison. Meleers can time it and run out when he is about to despawn, which I think is about 2 minutes.

An easy 13k xp, and quite good rewards for a hunter/rogue.

Comment by 134700

2.4, hit once ran in circles, snatched organs, i win
-meeck

Comment by Snoopybat

you need to kill a clefthoof in terokkar forest and then fump on it be ready for some sandgnomes or mature bones before the big comes

Comment by Shanody

I experienced something odd with this quest - I have done it before with other characters and knew how hard this mob hits, but as a level 68 Shadow Priest I considered myself overpowered and went in for a try ^^
I got him to about 85% when I realised I was out of mana and quickly running out of HP. Basic instinct told me to shield and run which I did.
At one point I noticed he no longer reached me with his toxic spits, but he also no longer followed me underground - he was simply spawned and taking damage from my Shadow Word: Pain. Having found the holy grail, I decided to just run in and out occasionally to refresh that SW: Pain and just settle for a 5 minute long fight.
Once he reached 65% hp, he simply died. There was no one else in the area, I was not using any other spells but my SW: Pain to keep my mana up as much as possible and have the worm take some dmg.

The one thing that may have affected this all, is the fact that the Bone Worm had moved itself into a rock (see image of mounted Draenei Shadow priest with a corpse of the Big Bone Worm in a rock - in case the image gets accepted ^^) - though under normal circumstances he should then evade or even despawn rather than die.
Anyway, he died with 65% hp left and was lootable. Bug perhaps?

Comment by Icithis

Soloed as a 65 Demon/Destro Warlock. Just CoD it, and have your Felguard run all over the place trying to get to where it pops up. I also used a healthstone and a Super Healing Potion, as that first CoD will draw a bit of aggro. Second CoD killed it. Dunno why it was , or why the previous was .

Comment by 127328

I'm honestly disappointed nobody has commented on a name like "Big Bone Worm." Honestly, what kind of internet is this where we can't make sophomoric jokes all the time?

Comment by 79259

I was ready for a long grueling fight on my prot pally when he collapsed of a heart attack of some sort. Reviewing the log didn't show what happened, and I came here to find out that trick. Still works as of 2.4

Comment by 40468

Easily done as a 65 lock.

Pull the clefthoof to the ent and summoned. I was lucky and got the worm the first time. I put a corruption on him and ran down the tunnel. Peaked around and put an agony on him. Waited till the dots were about to expire and peeked around again just to get los and put 2 more sets on him. Did this 4 times, he despawned and I looted.

Great technique!

Comment by 34524

As many already has said, it dies after 2 minutes. I solo'ed it on my lv. 66 Shaman without problem.
I just summoned my Earth Elemental, made him tank, healed him when needed and just outlasted the worm. Sure i could have runned away, but i wanted to try my new skill since i just hitted 66.

Comment by Zarzt

67 Resto Shaman
When i got the worm to spawn, I sent my earth elemental after him ( the elemental last for 2 mins so it was just enough time for the worm to die) and he kept the aggro while healed him with chain heals and earth shield.

Easy, just took about 5 or 6 summons to get the worm.

Comment by 131549

Completed as L66 combat dagger rogue. Great advice above!

Used Talbuk Hunting Bow of the Bandit to kite clefthoof towards me, then brought him just inside the shadow area near the entrance ramp and killed him. "Fumped", and after about the 4th mob, the Big Bone Worm spawned. Hit him a couple of times, ran down ramp and around corner and stopped immediately. Popped out once, shot one arrow, popped back and waited. Worm died, looted, turned in quest and picked up Shani's Crysknife. Sacrificed a bit of dagger speed for the additional AP, and the added bonus that rogue's get from +9 Agility. Very nice!

Comment by Invasion

Soloed as a 63 druid. Got the worm on my first summon. DPS in cat form until your about half way down, shift into bear form, Bash to stun when you need a heal, Remember mana pots cause all the shapeshifting and healing can bring it down pretty fast.

Comment by 157161

Makes sure you have the fumper when you do this quest! I threw mine out of my bags since my party member had one on him. When I went to turn in the quest I couldn't. The only way to get a new fumper was to abandon the quest, which also happens to destroy the Enormous Bone Worm Organs. What a pain!

Comment by 80791

Still working as of 7/15/08.

Comment by Mairin

As a 68 lock you can just do the tunnel trick and keep all dots up while LoSing the poison and he won't even live long enough to despawn. Great tip about the tunnel above.

Comment by Apronos

Soloed him quite easily as a 66 feral druid.

The first thing I did after summoning him was poping cat form and putting up a 4 cp Rip.
I then went out and healed myself (regrowth, rejuv and 3x lifebloom) and popped bear.
I put up 5x lacerate and spammed Maul and Mangle(bear).
Then I just went out and healed and repeated the same thing over and over (not the cat part though).

I had to use innervate and had 60% of my second mana bar left when he despawned after I got him down to 20%.

Comment by dbodinem

Very Strange...

He'll stay around for 2 minutes and then just die.

Yep. That's what happened...and he doesn't go very far away when he goes underground so if you can get out of the area, you can get credit and get a decent dagger for doing almost nothing.

Comment by 18004

soloed with shammy, at lvl 66.
not hard at all.
no "cheating" ;)

still easy to do the other way. did it with my other alts, just ran far out of combat.
ate, just to get the time right when to go back. waited almost 2 mins. went back, and dead he went after a short while.

Comment by 166928

As of Aug 22 the trick still works. Completed as combat rogue.

<pays off to have "throw" since it's cast time is faster then the worm's poison cast time. this allowed me to run back and forth dealing dmg thus letting you loot him after the timer is up. doing this makes it so you do not have to time ure attack>

Comment by 28771

i soloed it as a lvl 67 affliction warlock with the help of the Vindicator Haylen @ 49,76...

had imp with me and used it as a mana pool, also used 1 Major Healing Potion and 1 Fel Blossom, overall it wasn't an easy fight but clearly possible...

Comment by 140992

got it on my 2nd try. solo'd lvl 70 elemental shaman. i used the earth summon to help.

Comment by Mikeshunt

couldnt solo. but any other DPS with a MM 67 hunter will kill him.

Comment by 60834

Here's a screenshot of how to melee hit him while OUT of LoS.

Comment by 103795

Solo'd rather easily as a well geared frost mage (full s3/s4). Didn't need to iceblock or anything, he got me down to about 50% hp/mana.

Comment by 200530

Still works like a charm. 08-08-22 to solo as a 65 rogue.
Hit him a couple of times. run down the tunnel use bandage and wait until the cool down are done run up use vanish and hit him until he dies after 2 min and done

Comment by toshi0220

Solo'd it easy 2.4.3.

Killed the Clefthoof, and got it first try. As a mage I blinked and just ran towards the Auchindoun tunnel and by then it had about 25-30 seconds before it despawned. Spammed mana shield, hit fire blast and for the last 15 seconds hit Ice Block, then health pot (which wasn't needed at all btw) and I came out of it at 100%.

Comment by riker

confirmed this is still working. Thank you!

Comment by 203712

just soloed this as a 63 rogue, boss came on the first summon, didnt use a timer just step out shoot it then hide in the tunnel again.

Comment by Gant

Soloed him today! im a feral druid and i used 1 mana pot and innervate. :D

Comment by Arkham

Did it just now on 9/08/2008. The "run and wait" method outlined in previous comments still works.

He killed Vindicator Haylen while I waited, though. :(

Comment by 108437

Just 2 manned it with a mage. Were both 65. I was healing and the mage was DPSing and we got him down before the 2mins despawn. Not that hard but bring pots.

Comment by 140602

Cheat still works. 09/10/08

Comment by 208429

haha this is nothin went to spot with clefthooves killed 1 summoned the big guy an soloed him on meh 65 prot pally

Comment by 214468

Solo this as a 66 lvl prot pala. It took about 2 mins and used 1x mana pot but it went down :P
actualy he dies after some time u dont have to kill it . It was at 50% when he died.

Comment by matthewczv

For you lucky enhancment shammy's out there you this is soloable kinda... i am a 65 enhancment shammy i have pretty decent gear all you have to do is... drag the decreptit clefthoofs to to vindicator haylen then use the fumper when the enormus worm summons let haylen get aggro and from there you can attack and run and heal because haylen net's him when haylen gets to low on hp heal him this is exactaly what i did :)

Comment by kojiroh

You need to kill a clefthoof first. Using the drums requires a clefthoof corpse nearby and if there's no corpses around, you get "You have no target error". Skinning the corpse actually "removes" it, so it means you'll have to kill another clefthoof.
And, the 2-minute-wait strategy still works as of 03.10.08.
I've had one of the funniest moments in my entire WoW life when I did this quest, by the way. My first try was unsuccessful and I had three worms. The second try was successful and, as I was doing it the 2-minutes-way, I've immediately started runnning when the "Big Worm" spawned. Just as I was out of combat, I realized that the big worm was attacking someone; Vindicator Haylen.
I've watched the fight between him and the big worm with tears of laughter flowing out my eyes. Haylen was doing his best to kill him, but no go. When the fight was over, and Haylen was dead, the big worm still had 92% of its health.

Comment by 223781

Just solo'd as a lvl 68 holy Priest, PW: Shield and DoT'd runnin round in circles and tossed the occasional Smite in :D

..................... although it seemed to of glitched I got him to 60%ish and he just keeled over...... oh well i got the item!

Comment by nemoolcay

as a lvl 65 warlock i used the los tactic and just put my dots on the elite and wait it to die, only get around 1100 dmg 2 times while trying to send shadow bolt and u can heal bandage behind the wall while waiting

Comment by malla29

Soloed as a 66 Moonkin druid with the new talent 'Starfall' . Summoned Trees , used starfall pop barkskin and nuked the worm until dead. Needed to pot once and heal twice. All up with the new talents not a very hard fight. Just make sure you have all your cooldowns up (Trees , Starfall , Innervate , barkskin)

Comment by 123301

Soloed as lvl 64 Mutilate Rogue two days ago.

The trick with 2 minutes despawn of the Big Worm still works. Summon him, hit a couple of times and run to Auchidon circle. You need to keep the worm "interested" all the time. I used Throw for that.
Simple procedure - throw - hide behind the corner - throw - hide again. Be careful as his poison hits for 1k nearly.

P.S. To make the kite even easier I advise you to kill Clefthood as close to the circle of Auchidon as possible. I think it is evident that for any class kiting a lvl 65 non-elite with only melee attack is much easier than kiting a lvl 66 elite with distant attack.

Comment by 222832

Summoned on first try as a 70 enhancement shaman.
Killed him without even losing hp...lol...

Comment by Huntermaster

Soloed as a 65 feral druid, really tough, but can be done.
When he tunnels away pop out and heal, then go back at it.
Also, it helps to always keep lacerate up on him, it seems that he takes good damage from it.
Happy Hunting :)

Comment by 213361

I soloed it by my lv 70 mage, 5 tier 6 pieces. full arcane. I only used one health pot and evocation. 300hp and mana left when he died. He hit 1000~on me :S + I got aggro by a npc undead nearby. very hard without a pet or something.

If you are an arcane mage do the following:

start vid trinkets pom etc, Frostbolt, arcane missiles, arcane barrage, blink backwards, arcane barrage, fireblast, mana shield and nuke him hard with arcane missiles. When blink is ready go for it. Blink through him, all instant casts you can and he would be dead. If not, just keep on nuking, use healthpotion if you are under 30% hp.

Good luck!

Comment by 116782

Just did it. Had used the hit, run into the tunnel turn the corner and wait plan twice before with no problems, worked just fine.

HOWEVER.

This time the worm DID come down the first ramp after me. I continued down round the second corner going down and was able to wait him out there. He died and I looted the corpse.

So beware, he CAN leave the sands.

One thing that was different this time was that he killed me right off, I ran back and res'd while he was still up, hit him once and ran, got down the ramp after drinking a potion nailed him again, that's when he followed me down the ramp. Could be that just hitting him while he's in the sands and then booking down the ramp without hitting him again is the way to go.

Comment by Haahdek

Soloed as 66 level Death Knight (Unholy)

Comment by 248978

Soloed as 66 Blood DK 30 mins ago.

I honestly thought I might be taking too much of the cake trying to solo this, but as I had no help from randoms nor anyone I knew.. I just thought to give it a shot.

Took a small eternity for me to spawn it, but eventually got it and was literally wetting my pants at the time. Just MoB'd and VB'd Hai'shulud to heal off the initial damage he did and his hard hits then just kept my basic dps rotation on, summoned a ghoul with dusts and... well, capped him! :D

Wasn't too difficult, just took a fair amount of time 'cos of the back-and-forth running.

I honestly urge any player who knows to play properly to solo this, it's a real adrenaline rush to down a mob with ~33k HP, at least I had fun doing it. :D

Edit: Oh yeah, did have to use a pot and a fel blossom.

Comment by 253259

Solo'd tonight. I tried kiting a clefthoof over to the vindicators at first to get their help when Hai'shulud appeared. I got first tap, and the vindicators helped finish him off, but I wasn't able to loot him. I went back to where the herd of decrepit clefthoof are and finally got him to respawn after fumping about six or seven more times.

I used my ghoul, my runic weapon, both of my HoT's (Gift of the Naaru and Lifeblood), a healing potion, and kept spamming Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Death Strike and Death Coil. I took a food buff and a scroll buff for strength beforehand and used Frost Presence for the extra armor and health. I also used Mark of Blood and Icebound Fortitude towards the end of the fight. I had about 1/4-1/3 of my health left when he died and I was finally able to loot him.

Don't know if these stats will help at all: DPS was 255, AP is 1356, Crit chance 16.36% (not great, I know), Armor 8454 and my total health was 9459. Level 66 Draenei death knight.

Comment by 266403

Solo'd as a level 67 Unholy DK earlier today. I didn't have any trouble killing him at all, didn't use any strategies either just tank and spank.

I did kill about 20 clefthoof before realizing that there is no item to loot and you just need to kill them and use the "fumper" :P. Most DK's of this level should be able to solo it very easily.

Comment by 244895

Easy SOLO for ANYONE -

Ok the trick is to go and find NPC Vindicator Haylen who is by a big rock west of Netherweb Ridge...he gives you this quest http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10920

Pull any one clefthoof towards you and the NPC - the closer you can get it to him the better...kill the clefthoof.

Use your frumper and summon....you may get the gnomes or mature worms which is fine just make sure you are near the NPC and he will help you out.

Once you get the elite worm just make sure you are near the NPC and he will attack and take the agro for you! I did this as a DK so in my case the agro kept switching back and forth but I can see this working for any other class. There was even a point where I died came back to my body and the NPC was still fighting and i still had him tagged.

For DK - PlaugeStrike, IcyTouch, Hearth Strike and use DeathStrike when you need health.

Comment by 241762

One Morgul death knight (unholy) unbuffed is all it takes to take down the big worm! lol

Comment by 230791

Just solo'd as a 64 rogue. The above timing method still works :)

Comment by 281683

Was very easy.

Just use the LoS trick, was very very VERY easy for a shadowpiest =P

And uhm.. The worm will automatically die after 3 mins, I had him to 5% or something with half my mana used, and he suddenly died :)

GL!

Shadowpriest, Balnazzar

Comment by 205759

soloed as 68 BM hunter below par gear
just a tank and spank pet died the same time as it

Comment by Koshut

You can solo him with a death knight very easy!

Comment by 265795

I just soloed this one as a level 66 Unholy Death Knight. Had a lot of fun, he came on my 4th spawn, and he was big :) Took him out without passing under 3500 health.

No special tactic, just summoned the gargoyle and melee'ed him. The Death Strike also came in handy.
So Death Knights out there, go for it :)

Comment by 294696

just soloed as a 67 unholy dk

Comment by Infiniti

I soloed him semi-easily as my level 64 Blood Death Knight! Here are a few tips:

1. Use Death Strike and Rune Tap to restore your health.
2. If sand gnomes appear, you can use Raise Dead on them.
3. I'm not sure about this one, it'd be nice if someone tested it: maybe use Death Grip to pull the worm back towards you when it goes underground and comes back up somewhere else?

Comment by ilotytto

I easily soloed it with 65 blood DK without dropping under 50% hp key is just to burn cds and its @#$%ing easy &*!@

Comment by imperia

i was able to solo it with my 66 level feral druid. I summoned the worm then i went far away from him. he began to chase me and i led him to some rock(that looks like summoning stone). looks like he got stuck there (he wasn't able to chase me anymore - when he go underground he appears on the same spot - near/ontop the rock). I saw he was unable to use his poison attacks anymore. so i went bear form and pwned him. its pie without his poison attack - at least for tanks. the kill itself gave me 1400ish xp with 10% xp shoulders.

Comment by 181086

i where lucky got him at my first summon. its easily solo'able with BM hunter just send your pet in BW and kill command and nuke him !

Comment by ikha0s

This worm is almost impossible to solo without Auchindoun exploitation. He somehow auto-dies after 1-1,5 minutes of the encounter.

Comment by 261185

Soloed as 69 resto druid in tree form wearing mostly Outland greens and a few blue Outland quest rewards. I tagged him quickly with a moonfire and starfire, then went into tree to keep healing myself. He automatically died after roughly a minute and a half, and I was able to loot the corpse.

Comment by 333518

Soloed as a level 66 Protection Paladin. Didn't bubble or use any pots. Just make sure to turn around every time the worm digs and run, it'll get up right in front of you - if you time this right, it'll only use poison once as it spawns :)

Comment by 345357

Soloable by 67 unholy DK. Change up your regular DPS skills for Death Strike, keep bone shield up, and if needed you could use Icebound Fortitude. Use Frost Presence, as that will save you in the long run. (If needed you can also use Death Grip to pull him to you.

Comment by Hoora

Thanks to the prior posts and luck I got him to spawn after two tries. I just hid at one of the Spirit Towers while my pet beat on him, watched the timer and jumped out at the exact moment his time ran out and looted the worm organ. I am a lvl 70 DK. Think I am going to buy a lottery ticket today!

Comment by 356778

I just solo'ed this questline as a 63 rogue. This is my first character so my equipment is mostly blues with a few greens.

Cleared the trash mobs ( got 29% in to the level doing this), the Clefthooves and summoned. (40,75).

It took many summons. Got the Big Worm twice out of a dozen or so. Sand Gnomes and Mature worms were the majority of the targets summoned.

So, the Big Worm take down functions just as the previous posters say (I could hardly believe it). I did the "/timer" hit start, use the drum to summon, Boom big worm, Sprint away, bandage, 1:20 on the timer, stealth back, de-cloak at 1:45, hit evasion, smack him a few times, The big worm died, I had 65% of my health.

Friggin Awesome (3318 EXP just for the kill).

Comment by 330533

Soloed as a 67 retribution paladin. I didn't use the tactic described above, just DPSed him down.
It's a tough fight, but soloable. He casts Poison after every blink and Bore, which is very annoying for melee classes that can't kite. He has around 35k HP.

My hammer, silence and cleanse helped me a lot. Don't bother trying to counter the poison with Repentance, he is some unidentified kind of creature and therefore Repentance can't be used on him. I didn't use any of paladin's life saving abilities such as bubble or Lay on Hands.

Comment by 368262

i summoned the elite with first time and killed it alone with 67 lvl DK

Comment by ravenmeister

nice tacs but no need if you are a dk:P soloedd it with lvl 65 with quest gear pretty easy :D

Comment by Slvrdrgn77

i kited the clefthoofs towards vindicator haylen, killed and then fumped. and 3 rd try i got the named, and the npc trapped and help me kill. another thing to try as solo. lvl 68 pally

Comment by 122055

Another great strategy to soloing him, courtesy of Jame's Horde leveling guide is simply using his LoS attacks against him.

At 44, 72.1, is one of the entrances to Auchindoun.
You will need to pull a clefthoof to the entrance of the tunnel, but still be in the Zone called 'The bone wastes'. Once you have your clefthood corpse ready, use the Fumper on it, and hopefully you will get the massive worm. When this happens, run to the bend and hide around the corner. Then, simply use a ranged attack (I used my warrior's throwing axe) while LoSing around the corner to avoid the poison spit and after about two minutes, the worm will die, and you can loot the quest item! While LoSing the worm, keep in mind that you will have to side step to the right about 3 paces or so to avoid being hit by the poison spit.

The link showing a screenshot is about 3/4ths down the page.
http://www.wow-pro.com/leveling_guides/james_horde_leveling_guide_chapter_v

Good luck!

Comment by 305585

This quest seems to be bugged. When the Fumper is used on a clefthoof corpse, either three things spawn: Sand Gnomes, Mature Worms, or a rumble of bones. The necessary mob needed to complete the quest can, indeed, be summoned, when the said rumble of bones spawns, but the player has to use an AoE spell that can clip the ground (Arcane Explosion, for example) on top of the bones.

Comment by 395973

got it the first time....died...then needed about 4 more to get the big worm lol
35.6k health,be prepared

Comment by master796

For me elite worm came up in the first try and i soloed it with my 66 DK :P

Comment by Berrenger

Wish I'd read all the comments above before doing this mofo, would have saved me some trouble!

Solo'd as a lvl 72 fury warrior in pretty average gear (drops, quest rewards), but it was close. Had to execute him 3 times before he died. I used one super healing pot about half way through and ended up with about 2% life remaining.

Nevertheless, really pleased to do this one as it gave me the Terror of Terokkar achievement :-)

Edit: The worm came up on my second fumping

Comment by 419795

64 UH DK - easy solo - keep diseases up and spam death strike :D

Comment by 382731

soloed it..first kill the clefthoof...summon and run in the tunnel.. came out see the sand rumbling..shot him and run back into the tunnel came out he was dead
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Comment by tazz602

I didn't read the sneaky way (hide and one shot) - but I solo'd him with a lvl 64 Ret Pally - stayed close, almost on top of him to avoid getting hit too much - used lay on hands once - regular heals and was able take him out (or outlast him)

Comment by atkrei

just did this a few seconds ago. i couldnt make him die in1 shot even when i did run out fo combat, the 3rd time i ran out of comabt i decided to attack him, i saw him moving undergroudn with the piling rocks, i attacked him to half of health and all of a sudded he died

Comment by 368042

hehe...The "Big Bone Worm."

Anyone else see a perverted joke there mhm?

Think about it for a second.

Comment by 88575

Lol I got him at first summon... peace a cake for at prot pala at lvl 68 didn't even heal (except SoL) just killed him...

Comment by Random0204

Find a Fumper, kill Bone Worms and get a Crysknife.

Neato

Comment by 480716

Hello all, I really did not see any helpful information in this on how to do it the best way. This is how your going to have to do this quest.
1. Go to 47,68
2. Kill the Decrepit Clefthoof that are roaming that whole area.
3. Once you killed a Decrepit Clefthoof, use your Fumper near its corpse.
4. You may get Hai'Shuled to spawn up, If you don't worry because it took me the Thrid Try to get him to spawn. Others that take its place are like Two Mature Worms Or Sand Gnomes.
5. Once you Get Hai"Shuled to spawn, Kill it. He is pretty tough and he does have like 33K HP. I was able to take him down with my level 65 Deathknight. For others you might want some help maybe a second person. He does do that borrow and goes behind you while your trying to kill him. I thought I would let you know that.

Well I really hope that this helps you all out and have a great day.

Comment by huldu

Took him down as a 65 arms warrior. I did summon him next to the npc, was thinking maybe he could help. The problem was he didnt help he basically did nothing but throw nets and horrible damage. When i took note of this i started to bash the worm as good as i could. The fight was over surprisingly fast. No timing "cheats" or exploits used just raw dps.

Comment by magoon123456

This is a pretty hard quest to do alone, but its posseble as a 67 hunter. my pet died when it had 5-6k left but i got it killed before i died ! :D

Comment by Boomerasp

Tried 4 times to lure a clefthoof over to the east tunnel as stated above. No way! He either dies or quits the chase
before getting near the tunnel. If anyone has any hint on a better way to do this, please post it!

Comment by Wrathmire

This quest still seems buggy- sometimes you will get the big worm you want, but he hides under the sand and continues to do damage to you whilst you are unable to damage him. Solution? I ran away about 20 yards until I left combat, ran back to where he was still bubbling around under the ground. Bingo.

Comment by 149641

Solo'd as 67 Prot Pally, got lucky and he appeared on the first try. used normal abilities, popped a mana pot about halfway thru and made sure to stun him whenever it was up and pop a holy light/flash of light.

Comment by Sourpop

Solo'd as 65 Death Knight, got it after around 6 summons, not too hard in my opinion

Comment by 429348

1. omg this worm is BIG.
2. took me 3 goes to summon him
3. nice going with the tunnel corn thing, realy helped, pulled him to it, he couldnt follow all the way, went round courner and exorcismed him a few times and he auto died after 2 mins :D

Comment by n2trains

67 orc DK and 65 b-elf din. I was the din. Easy as hell. Summoned once, and we summoned by a dead clefthoof. Rumor has it that's how you summon on the first try.
Good luck to you all.

Comment by 426436

Soloed as 67 lvl assassination rogue.It was really hard.Took me 2 tries.Used everything i have.The most annoying thing is how he get underground and moves behind you at 30 yds.Got summoned from the first try.

Comment by Nacosz

The strategy to run down into the cave like place worked like a charm on my assassination rogue (lev 66). It took me 3 tries to summon the bone worm, and once he spawned I ran down into the cave thingy just behind the corner, and kept using my throw attack on the worm until he used poison, and that's when I ran back behind the corner. I just kept repeating the throwing until he despawned and I was able to loot it. Easy quest, and quite good reward :P

By the way, the worms name is Hai'Shulud.

Comment by 542960

Soloed as a 67 prot warrior. Use shield bash, concussion, and shockwave to keep him from casting poison, which he seems to like to do just after warping. I just ran like hell at him repeatedly mashing one of the above skills. Used shield block as well and kept rend on him.

Comment by MrKayonne

Solo'd him as a Lv67 Blood Death Knight, I used a method to do him otherwise I couldn't have done him, my 1st attempt got me killed then I saw some Comments saying some method, the method was to pull Decrepit Clefthoof near the tunnel and then try summoning Hai'shulud and then kill him, I could get Hai'shulud to 55% HP before I ran into the tunnel (at that momment I had 35% of my HP) get outta of combat and eat, then went back to Hai'shulud and finished him. Thanks for the users that said this method :D

Comment by renarrix

hehehe I soloed it as a 66 DK DPS Tauren :DD it took a while

Comment by renarrix

actully wait well I got him down to 5k but I had a clefthoof on me.. does that count?

Comment by Myriell

I got him at my first try, and killed him alone with my pet without major problems. At first, its annoying that he pops up behind me all the time, but if you move to the spot where he disappeared, you will be in range to shoot at him again.

Comment by 496052

Bugged? as of 16/07/10

When i kill a clefthoof and use the Fumper, i have no problem with the sand gnomes or bone sifters. Those appear as they should do.

But when i get the big worm, it stays underground (you can see the animation of earth and bones throwing in the air) and attacks you from there. Standing in such a range he can't get to you doesn't help to unearth him.

After two minutes or so, he unearths, but he's dead, unlootable, and even untargetable. Then he despawns in about 3 seconds.

Comment by 48124

hello guys you must found clefhoof at bone waste teritory around....terrokar!and use drums(quest item)one his corpse after some tries your BIG WORMshow up!

Comment by Aislinge

Not sure if anyone is having problems but this quest is bugged for me. He comes, he dies. I can't hit him, his death doesn't register and the quest is incomplete :( Reported so we'll see what happens.

Edit - Haha! Spoke with a very helpful GM - the trick is to stand there and get thumped by him and kill him slooooowly... as a ilvl264 lvl 80, I was killing him before the game sequence could figure out what was happening. As the GM pointed out to me, I'm hitting him as hard as a group of lvl 70's and the timing mechanism isn't built for that.

They stepped me through it and it worked first time! If you ever see him with 'No name' or 'Unknown', try this method. GL :)

Comment by Kindread

Soloed this as a level 67 balance druid in average iLvL 84 stuff. I had a few problems because I wasn't kiting him.
Got it on second try, if you do it over by the decrepit clefthooves, look out for the lost spirits, it's what killed me the first time. Anyway, if you want to solo as a balance druid, pop your treants, barkskin and any trinkets you may have and keep the heals on yourself and DoTs on the worms.

Good luck!

Comment by 720611

As of 4.0 quest is very easy to solo like all other "suggested players " outland quests so no need to post "Soloed as blah blah" and write a tutorial.

One tip is that clear the area abit before summon , still killed worm and 4 adds no problem which kinda proves my point

Comment by Aeolynn

Soloed as 65 arms warrior, no strategy just bruteforced through it (needed to pot once)

Comment by 261383

Appeared on my first kill, solo'd as a 65 Paladin.

Comment by 757388

Did this quest just now....i'm a lv 66 SV hunter....i have bout 7.3k hp & my bear pet had bout 8.7k hp....i didn't use the hit & run method.....just let my bear tank it through & spammed mend pet & serpent sting along with explosive shot & arcane shot....also included the ocassional freeze trap to heal pet and proc lock & load for extra dmg =)

Comment by 770277

OMFG.... hours for searching the summing point. The wow normaly show u a WRONG point. I found one bone waste at 49.62/74.91. If u see any Bone wastes stay on it and try to use the Fumper. Its write invaild target.. WTF... Now go to my adress target one big Decrepit Clefthoof use the item and kill this saur. The Worm coming up. With 85 rogue easy to kill LOL

Comment by 757174

Solo'd with my 65 feral druid, started out bear for the roars, then into cat, when he moved healed myself up, back to cat, rince and repeat.

Comment by Zaxy

Just soloed it as a (freshly) lvl 65 hunter. Running beastmastery tree, with my cat on pure dps tree.

It took about 15 fumps to get the elite- making sure to stop and recharge fully before each new fump. Finally surfaced at 46,76. Will definitely echo the note above to keep the field clear of other enemies before fumping.

Once the elite worm surfaced, I made sure to hit it a few times with melee (it had high dodge abilities, so no guarantee arrows would hit, and since it surfaces practically on top of you, might as well!) then got out of the way and let my cat go to town, simply keeping serpent sting and concussive shot on it at all times, and pet mending constantly. Threw in plenty of arcane shots (most of which it dodged), used kill command and bestial wrath, and kept heals and bandages on myself as needed. All done in about a minute.

Kudos to Blizz for making a boss that can be soloed, but gives a good fight!

Comment by remid0d0s0

Did this on my overgeared L64 hunter. 2nd summon got the big bad worm. My pet gorilla (10k hp) tanked it fine. I was down about 50% of my hp early on until I decided I would just autoshoot it to death to avoid aggro and the fairly serious attack.

Comment by graum920

I just solo's him very easily as a 67 Blood DK. only in quest gear and some of the starter stuff still.

Comment by 847230

For anyone wondering the actual references to Dune throughout this quest line I've decided to expand on an earlier post.

Dib'Muad's Crysknife - Muad'Dib - Refers to the main character Paul Atreides also known as Muad'Dib, his official Fremen name that he adopted after joining with the Fremen.

Shani's Crysknife - Is a reference to Paul's wife among the Fremen and later his bound concubine after he becomes Emporer, Chani.

Revered Mother's Crysknife -The Reverend Mothers were the highest ranking females in the Bene Gesserit and among the Fremen priestesses.

Crysknife - The reference is to the Knives that were used by the Fremen. They were a double sided, curved, milky blade. They would disintegrate unless they were kept near human flesh.

Hai'Shulud - Reference to Shai'Hulud, which meant "Old Man of The Desert". It was a name for the sand worms of Dune. They were also referred to as Shaitan which meant "Devil".

Fumper - Is a reference to the Thumper that Fremen would use to summon the worms of Arrakis so they could ride him using techniques only known the them.

Really nerdy, I know. But I loved all the references in this questline.

Comment by 717646

Best to bring a friend for this. I tried to solo with my 66 Goblin Warlock. The worm kept moving and appearing behind me, killing me before my pet.

Comment by 852298

Soloed as a 64 shadow priest. Just keep power word: shield/renew up, also keep shadow word: pain/devouring plague up, and you should be fine. Took me a while, but I ended the fight with full health.

Comment by momof4rugratz

Stood on 44,77 and first drum hit and got it :)

Comment by 860907

why this is ''group'' guest? i soloed on 64lv hunter :)

Comment by Grukam

Lvl 67 fury warrior. Planned on using the hide in the Auchidoun tunnel strat. Tried kiting my first clefthoof too far towards the ruins and it ran back to it's spot and died. Pulled a second but not as far dropped it, those things hit hard when you kiting and not fighting them. Dropped it, played the drum ran down the tunnel, set timer and buffed up. At 1:30 I was ready to fight him but before I could he dropped dead so had to start over. Kited a 3rd clefthoof and it was a little to the left of the tunnel when I dropped it which ended up being a good thing as the worm had no shot at me once I was in the tunnel but was still very close to the opening to go and fight him. Watched the timer and just as it was getting close to 1:30 went out and began the fight. He dropped and despawned and I thought I would have to do it all again but noticed a black looting bag as I passed my cursor around in front of the tunnel. Moved until it colored up and looted the quest item.

Comment by 811664

I've killed this guy several times, and he hasn't dropped any organs. Has anyone else had this problem?

Edit: Posted too soon. Just got it. Probably 5th to 6th try.

Comment by ccmccoy

There don't seem to be any recent references to a method I have used successfully in the past to solo the big worm fairly easily with a variety of characters around level 65-67. Go to 50, 76 (in the SE by a large stone outcropping) and locate Vindicator Haylen, a level 62 elite npc. He will help dps the worm when it appears. Clear the surrounding area and pull decrepit clefthoofs back to Haylen for killing/thumping. When the big worm finally appears, let Haylen tank while you dps, avoiding its poison and melee hits as much as possible. I just completed the quest again with a level 67 BM hunter and a ferocity pet.

Comment by 915964

This is soloable as a level 67 frost mage, use the mirror image cloning spell thing, and its not difficult, i took no damage

Comment by Kootenai

Finishing up old rep grinds, did this quest as BM lvl 85 hunter w/worm pet. The big worm would spawn and then immediately go underground and despawn before I could target, never mind attack it.

Went several rounds with the same result -- dismissing pet seemed to fix the problem, allowing me to target, kill and loot the objective.

(I have no idea if this bug was specific to the kind of pet I had out or is general to hunter pets.)

Comment by Pypode

As Level 67 warrior, killed him easily. Got organs right away. Really dumbed down since my last toon came by to kill the big worm.

Comment by 680985

A rare elite patrols the area of this quest named Crippler.

Comment by 982914

For those of you who don't want to read the quest text like me, just kill a clefthoof and use the quest item and he should spawn. No longer elite as he was previously.

Comment by TheRealLink

Just for reference, I tried this quest today (5-19-12) on my Ironman toon (68 WAR).

Had no idea you could mis-thump and pull up to three other mobs until I read things here. Guess I was just fortunate and my first fump made the big guy come out. He showed to me as having just under 12K HP.

His poison spit did a couple hundred to my Nightelf and melee was just over 500 a hit when you factored in his armor break attack (-50% armor). Just found an empty spot to fight him in. Got him to roughly halfway, healed up when he burrowed and then was able to finish him off.

Comment by drpimento

I just tried this twice as lvl 73 pally at about 47.8, 7721. Both times killed the clefthoof, first got the gnomes, 2nd the 2 mature worms, third big fella. When big worm appears, is only for a moment, is untargetable, burrows for a couple minutes, reappears, still untargetable, and dies on its own & unlootable. 2nd try all the same except a bone spirit aggros me halfway thru the burrowing, so I let it go hitting me hoping it would react to the big worm when it appeared. The big worm reappeared no reaction from npc, same end result. Submitted bug report and going to follow thru with a ticket.

Comment by MsPhelix

Ok, so don't be an idiot like me :( I killed about 20 Clefthoofs, looking for meat to drop to lure the Big Worm before I reread the quest and realized that you just kill a Clefthoof and use the Frumper. Big One came up first time I used the Frumper.

Comment by panzerfuhrer

4-5-14 Quest is easy now, completed it on my 64 NE Druid. I went to 45.8, 79.1 since there is little to no spawn other than decrepit clefthoofs.

Killed a decrepit clefthoof and thumped and I got 2 sand gnomes. I killed a second decrepit clefthoof and got the big guy. He did little damage and only burrowed down once.

Comment by Benegesserit

Blizzard's getting lazy and just reusing references now

The Sleeper Has Awakened

Comment by 1440987

The Big Bone Worm http://youtu.be/juSw7ZwIOqE

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Big Bone Worm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvtdF3F5YoM

Comment by Aurleis1

Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3zqM1IPYGo

1. The Big Bone Worm
• Accept the quest, The Big Bone Worm, from Dwarfowitz at coords 31.0, 76.2 (Sha'tari Base Camp).
• Travel east of the base camp, into the Bone Wastes to 42, 77 and eastward.
• Kill Decrepit Clefthoof, and use Fumper in the area of the corpse (do this until Enormous Bone Worm Organs appears (giant worm).
• When Enormous Bone Worm Organs comes up from the ground, kill it and loot the Enormous Bone Worm Organs from its corpse.
• Travel west, back to the Sha'tari Base Camp, to coords 31.0, 76.2.
• Turn in the quest to Dwarfowitz.

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=bFLPNy6Vxlg&feature=youtu.be

Comment by MRTF

Damn shame you can't tame one of those worms as a hunter. Would be awesome for RP as Muad'Dib. :)

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The Big Bone Worm

Dwarfowitz at the Sha'tari Base Camp in the Bone Wastes wants you to recover Enormous Bone Worm Organs.

He wants his Fumper back too.

	Enormous Bone Worm Organs (1)
	Fumper (Provided) (1)

Description

I was right! These carcasses you brought me belong to maturing worms. Do you know what that means? It means that somewhere out there is a big one! I think we can get it to come out if we can provide the right kind of food. Let's see... something big! Yes!

I remember seeing clefthooves east of here on the other side of the Bone Wastes. Get out there and kill a clefthoof. Once it's dead, use the drums. Hopefully the big one will come up to feed. If you manage to kill it, bring me its organs!

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Dib'Muad's Crysknife			Revered Mother's Crysknife
	Shani's Crysknife

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with Lower City

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10930))

Guides

References to Literature and Poetry in World of Warcraft