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Howling Fjord Hell Has Frozen Over... If Valgarde Falls... Rescuing the Rescuers Prisoners of Wyrmskull Into the World of Spirits The Human League The Path to Payback The Echo of Ymiron Zedd's Probably Dead And Then There Were Two... The Depths of Depravity The Ring of Judgment Stunning Defeat at the Ring Return to Valgarde The Explorers' League Outpost Locating the Mechanism Anguish of Nifflevar Dragonflayer Battle Plans To Westguard Keep! Meet Lieutenant Icehammer... Drop It then Rock It! Harpoon Master Yavus It Goes to 11... Let's Go Surfing Now Tools to Get the Job Done Out of My Element? We Can Rebuild It We Have the Technology Iron Rune Constructs and You: Rocket Jumping Iron Rune Constructs and You: Collecting Data Iron Rune Constructs and You: The Bluff Lightning Infused Relics The Delicate Sound of Thunder News From the East The Clutches of Evil Mage-Lieutenant Malister Two Wrongs... Report to Scout Knowles War is Hell Reports from the Field The Windrunner Fleet Ambushed! Guide Our Sights Landing the Killing Blow Report to Anselm Let Them Eat Crow Sniff Out the Enemy The Dragonskin Map The Offensive Begins A Lesson in Fear Baleheim Bodycount Baleheim Must Burn! The Ambush Adding Injury to Insult The New Plague Spiking the Mix Test at Sea New Agamand The Dead Rise! Elder Atuik and Kamagua Grezzix Spindlesnap Feeding the Survivors Street "Cred" Arming Kamagua "Scoodles" Forgotten Treasure Avenge Iskaal The Staff of Storm's Fury The Frozen Heart of Isuldof The Lost Shield of the Aesirites The Ancient Armor of the Kvaldir Gambling Debt The Fragrance of Money Mutiny on the Mercy Jack Likes His Drink A Traitor Among Us Sorlof's Booty Dead Man's Debt Zeh'gehn Sez The Shield of the Aesirites A Carver and a Croaker A Return to Resting "Crowleg" Dan Return to Atuik Meet Number Two The Jig is Up Mission: Eternal Flame Mission: Package Retrieval Mission: Forsaken Intel Absholutely... Thish Will Work! You Tell Him ...Hic! Mission: Plague This! Operation: Skornful Wrath Gruesome, But Necessary Burn Skorn, Burn! Towers of Certain Doom All Hail the Conqueror of Skorn! Dealing With Gjalerbron Of Keys and Cages Necro Overlord Mezhen In Service to the Light Sleeping Giants The Slumbering King Down to the Wire The Yeti Next Door I'll Try Anything! A Tailor-Made Formula Apply Heat and Stir Field Test Time for Cleanup Parts for the Job Warning: Some Assembly Required Mastering the Runes Suppressing the Elements Making the Horn Mimicking Nature's Call March of the Giants The Book of Runes The Lodestone Mastering the Runes Skorn Must Fall! Demolishing Megalith The Rune of Command Gruesome, But Necessary Burn Skorn, Burn! Towers of Certain Doom The Conqueror of Skorn! Dealing With Gjalerbron Of Keys and Cages Necro Overlord Mezhen The Walking Dead Sleeping Giants The Slumbering King Gjalerbron Attack Plans The Frost Wyrm and its Master The Artifacts of Steel Gate The Cleansing Spirits of the Ice The Fallen Sisters Wild Vines Spawn of the Twisted Glade Seeds of the Blacksouled Keepers Keeper Witherleaf The Book of Runes Mastering the Runes The Rune of Command March of the Giants The Lodestone Demolishing Megalith See to the Operations I've Got a Flying Machine! Gjalerbron Attack Plans The Frost Wyrm and its Master The Cleansing In Worg's Clothing Brother Betrayers Eyes of the Eagle Alpha Worg In Worg's Clothing Brother Betrayers Eyes of the Eagle Alpha Worg

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Comment by 182651

They are glowing spores around the Twisted Glade (55,16). Use the ice core in your inventory, freeze it, attack. It'll become unfrozen, so stop DPS and refreeze it. If you kill it when it's not frozen, you will not get credit for it.

Try to avoid using DoTs, as they'll kill the spore before the cooldown on the ice crystal is up.

Comment by 90513

To save time, you don't have to freeze the spore, then re-freeze it. You can just go all-out DPS until it gets low on HP, freeze it, then kill it for credit.

Pair this quest up with Spawn of the Twisted Glade: http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?quest=11316

Comment by 141303

As well as freezing it once it's low on HP - if you have a pet, put your pet on passive - I found I wasn't getting credit when my ghoul was landing the killing blow.

Comment by 22001

The spores are spawned by the Withered Keepers, don't kill them.

Comment by 93142

Quest appears to be bugged in the latest build. The keepers cast the summon spore spell but the spores don't show up.

Comment by 180842

The spores now spawn independently - thank god.

Comment by 104789

Bugged again as of 9/28 it seems =\

Comment by 88783

To do this quest I had to kill the spores (the ones that didn't evade) then freeze their corpse.

Comment by 65239

Leads to Keeper Witherleaf

Comment by ezesion

Comments above seems slight misleading. All I did was nuke the spores then cast the freeze thingie, and it was done. Tonns of emm where evading though.

Comment by 80642

Quest is currently bugged in live.

1) Find spores that aren't bugged/evading
2) Kill them
3) Use Ice Core on corpse of Spore
4) Repeat until quest is finished

Edit: Fixed spelling error.

Edit Again: It seems that the quest may be fixed on all realms as of Nov 18/08. All spores should be behaving correctly now, and not evade bugging. So, just omit step one, and continue on with the quest as normal.

Edit for a third time: I've personally tested this and I can confirm that the quest is now working as intended. The spores are no longer bugged.

Comment by blackviking

Most of them are bugged. Try to find one and stay there...faster than searching new bug-free ones...

Comment by 245719

I have a theory, since they don't move and they only have that spore cloud spell, when someone tries to attack them from range they go into evade mode and get stuck in it, so whatever class you are, always try to start attacking them from melee range, see if that works. Of course, there's nothing to do about the ones already bugged.

Comment by 237323

Comfirmed, You have to kill the Spore then use, Enchanted Ice Core. But the spore with missing health will become evade and you wont be able to kill the spores . Cords 52,16

Comment by 245847

Definitely a frustrating quest. There's obviously the evasion bug which sucks but I had a problem with freezing them. After they were down I'd click on them and hit the ice core to freeze them but it came up as an invalid target. That happened twice and then it worked ok after that.

Comment by Caryatid

If you send your demon/pet at the spores the pet will only attack if the spore is unbugged.
Saves some time attacking ^^

Comment by 70784

Ok after trial and error I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT. Just kill the spore completely. It will pop out this little spore ball on the ground. Retarget that and then freeze the spore ball.

Comment by 246662

OK, so this is it.

Attack the spores that have full health. The other ones evade.

Once dead use the ice thing in bag on corpse.

Comment by 113359

Basically just look for ones that have 100% HP, they are the ones that are not Bugged. MUST HAVE 100% HP.

Secondly, make sure you dont kill any annoying adds right on top of them, as you will cover the corpse and be unable to target it to get credit... can be frustrating.

Comment by Kartova

As a hunter here is what worked best for me after finding no Spores with full health:
1) Find a few that are together with low health
2) Explosive trap one to death while killing the mobs around it for the other quest
3) When that spore dies, if it hasn't been tapped you can freeze its corpse.
4) Wait for respawn

I got 3 in the same area and just alternated killing them with the explosive trap and then killing the respawn.

Cake walk.

Comment by Mazater

The mobs for this quest can be found around 54,17 (directly west from the questgiver).

Comment by 260974

I'm the hunter from an earlier comment regarding Explosive Traps. I did this quest again and found that while mobs weren't completely glitched like before (my wife was on her Hunter this time and was offering to come up and use our little trick), there were still mobs that were gray. The only real problem was that there was no one around doing it, so it seems like you can still lock them in place.... You can kill them fine though, but they remain tapped, so you'll obviously still need to find mobs that aren't already claimed.

Comment by 258357

Skipped this at first because of the Evade bug, came back to it at 80, just killed them, then froze the little ball corpses. took 5 mins

Comment by cerin616

Had no problems with evades.

Easy way to kill as a rogue and take almost 0 damage from spore cloud-
Wait until the spore cloud bar decreases to about 3/4, then cheap shot, most of the time this will hit the spore as the cloud fades and before it creates a new one. Hold it in a stun lock with kidney shot, hit it just as cheap shot fades. Right when kidneyshot fades back off from the spore, wait for a few seconds and you will leave combat but the spore will NOT heal. Re enter stealth and do it again. Should save plenty of time from healing.

Im not sure if blizzard meant for this, or if it is a bug they will fix, but the spores do not heal if you leave combat. They also remain tapped. I had half the field tapped by someone else =c

Comment by 85078

If you click on them and see if they are greyed out as though someone else already tagged them before you attack. I was getting a message saying they were already tagged when I tried to freeze them.....

Comment by 281599

Once you kill them they explode leaving no bodies to freeze, tried killing them before they died but failed.
All I can say is that this is BUGGED!

Comment by LargeGoose

Even reading this I still missed the important part, for me it wasn't bugged but I couldn't see how to freeze them to complete it. The key is as skulfap mentions "the little ball corpses" they are seriously easy to miss!

Comment by 244891

Did this today (lock, with VW pet). Appeared to be bugged, as I was dotting at a distance. Corpses disappearing.

So instead I meleed and dotted. Result: 100% success rate. Ranged, pile in there, no more bug.

Comment by shohanu

Interupt does work on the spores only spell so for any class with interupt this quest is easy. also as of 3.0.8 i tried ranging down (takes a long time as a DK) and meleeing the spores, does not seem to be bugged anymore

Comment by 265544

if you're fasdt enough youcan use the core twice on one spore

Comment by lillicat

After you kill the spores, there will be a small golden ball that appears on the ground after the spore explodes. Click the golden ball, that's the corpse, and then use the stone.

Comment by 244023

The Quest is working fine now but one thing to remember the corpse these spores leave is a tiny yellow circle on the ground that is hard to see unless you are looking for it. And its ovious but must be said its that tiny corpse that must be selected for the freeze to work.

Comment by Dekuscrub

i tried it today as a frost mage, im finding the corpse, and have done this as other toons totally fine. but when i do this as my frost mage it just procs deep freeze, freezes it, and i dont get credit toward the Q. as im dual specced for fire/frost, i changed spec and tried again, and still procced deep freeze somehow. something screwy is going on. i guess ill have to find someone to group with and hope they can do it, and ill get credit for being in the same group as them.

edit. turns out i didnt leave the raid i was in earlier in the day, found out i was still in the raid group despite it being hours ago. serves me right for being unobservant.

Comment by innoby

Quest is bugged again, I get the same error for every time I attempt it "Target is Tapped" is there any way to complete this quest?

Comment by innoby

IF you get the "Target is Tapped" error you can "fix" it by letting that spore cloud hit you, aka you have to get close enough to get the poison effect on you before you can kill it and be allowed to use the icecore on it

Comment by 268737

Pre-quest is Wild Vines and The Fallen Sisters.

Comment by Bjothur

Be aware that when you kill them they turn into a little orange ball. I couldn't spot them at first so I thought it was bugged lol.

Took me twice as long as it should take.

Don't let this happen to you :p

Comment by Waylo

Note: Do not follow the Blizzard Questhelper. They have it set to kill Cyclothar and earn the spores frozen from him.

This is a misdirect that's targeting PVP taurens and Wind Tamers before targeting Cyclothar which is near impossible without a 5-man or level 80 doing the job.
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The correct mobs are confirmed at 51,74. They are the orange fuzzy spores you kill, then type /target Spore if you can't see them. Then use the freeze ray on it.

Comment by edmeister9000

its like this, the corpse is a little tiny ball. You CAN target it no matter what...

Its not glitched, its just too small for most to see...

Put on your glasses and it might help you...

okay, i will admit i have had problems when another mob dies in the same spot, but no biggie....

Comment by Samelde

The Questhelper map still targets Cyclothar and mousing over the mob shows him as the target for Freezing the Spores. Much to my surprise, I found out the locals don't take kindly to Allies! Now, my toon is a lvl 80 fairly well-geared fury warrior, and I barely escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Interestingly, the Wowhead entry for Cyclothor here shows him as the ojective of the spore quest. However the commentary indicates he is not, as per above.

Comment by 597503

The spores are stationary, and never actually target you, so they purely apply the Spore Cloud debuff.

Since they never actually target your character, if you have a taunt which causes damage - such as Hand of Reckoning, you can spam it for a bit of extra damage.

Comment by 319945

o this quest does not lead to the the quest Keeper Withleaf Spawn of the twisted glade leads to the quest keeper witherleaf

Comment by Chamonze

If you get the message "Target is tapped" all you have to do is kill them and wait untill they respawn.
They reason they do this, is because someone trolled the place by hitting them once, therefore making the spore their "own"

Comment by arrica

The corpses are not easy to find.
When they die, they explode, and a little orange ball is laying on the ground. That is the corpse. (:

If you find it hard to see them, you can make the graphic low. Then the grass will be "flat", at it is easier to find them.

Comment by BarnabyBBarclay

You have to complete Wild Vines and The Fallen Sisters (both from Lurielle) before this becomes available. (NPCs for both quests are in the same spot.)

Comment by 1440987

Seeds of the Blacksouled Keepers http://youtu.be/OWf7JngyPKg

Comment by Boxofbeer

Seeds of the Blacksouled Keepershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FByhjUqKk4k

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=rAcKVgdti0I&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Cangrejoloco207

The spore magically shrinks down to a small disc. You must target it and then and click the enchanted ice core.
Typical of the bad questing in this zone.

Comment by Roughrdr

Was going back through on an alt, and it appears the seeds no longer shrink. Kill the spore, and a large disk shape object spits out and can be easily seen now.

Comment by Eziair

So many of the dead spores just told me "Invalid Target" when I tried to use the quest item on them.

Links

Seeds of the Blacksouled Keepers

Lurielle at the Frozen Glade wants you to freeze 8 Spores.

	Spores frozen (8)

Provided item:

	Enchanted Ice Core (1)

Description

The glade to the northwest, now the Twisted Glade, used to be home to a number of keepers of the glade. Together with the sisters, they saw to the glade's upkeep.

When the glade changed, the sisters died, but somehow the keepers managed to survive. Now, they seed the land with poisonous spores that wither healthy greenery.

I'll give you one of the cores from the ice elementals. Once you've destroyed a spore, use the ice crystal to freeze it and keep it from regenerating.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Blacksoul Protector's Hauberk			Root of the Everlasting
	Drape of Distilled Hatred

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11319))