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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 Lucky

The island shoveltusks are found ON the island Kamagua is located on, the wolves there feed on these guys so make sure you loot 'em quickly. The drop rate is pretty decent, but currently on beta there aren't a ton of the mobs.

Comment by Norrec

Leads to Arming Kamagua.

Comment by 22578

iI dont know if it is a bug but I found a perfect location to farm them fast.

31,62.3

they respawn immediately after you kill the 2 mobs there.

Comment by Thesteini

If you see a wolf attacking an island shoveltusk, you should attack the wolf first. What happened to me at first was that I attacked the shoveltusk and tried to get the kill, but before I could kill him he would instantly die because the wolf was attacking him and I didn't get loot/xp. But if you kill the wolf first, you can kill the shoveltusk peacefully (yes, irony, I know).

Comment by 230648

I found the droprate to be extremely low. Got 1 out of every 12 kills. Maybe I'm just unlucky. :(

Comment by 249178

Horrible quest. The drop rate is low and the mobs are scattered around the island. Did I mention that wolves will kill them instantly some of the time? Or that they sometimes randomly die anyway?

There's a good spot though, south of Kamagua there is a spawn of 6 of them that run around together.

Comment by Nanshama

Drops off of Island Shoveltusk

Comment by 239043

I actually had a shoveltusk attack a worg I was fighting and the shoveltusk died because of the bleed...it could be a bug, but it appears they don't actually have to deplete the health of the shoveltusk for it to die.

Comment by 151905

I also noticed the drop rate seems to be pretty dramatic. Even worse with the Worgs killing all the Shoveltusks on the island.

Comment by 253957

YOU NEED TO KILL THE WOLVES. The wolves kill the shoveltusks, so if u kill the wolves ur gonna not only get spawns but the wolves wont be killin ur mobs.

Comment by 242047

I had good spawns at 32.5, 66.2.

Comment by 47329

31.0 / 59.5
A decent number of fast respawning Shoveltusks and a very few Worgs to contend with.

Comment by vexis58

Quest text should read: "Please help! My people are starving to death! Despite this, we are still extremely picky eaters. No, we don't like that disgusting Shoveltusk Stew you got from the mainland shoveltusks. No, Shoveltusk Flanks won't do at all. It HAS to be the Island Shoveltusk Meat or we're not eating it!"

Also, "there are many shoveltusk on the island and their meat is plentiful"? LIAR!

Comment by 310821

Best place I found to get these are 28,65 usually 3 hanging around and the herd comes by as well.

Comment by belinrahs

At 31,61 I found a crapload of the mobs with few wolves around. Fast respawn for me, too.

Turalyon US if interested.

Comment by Whittall

I personally didn't get a very good drop rate at all. I got the 6 I needed in about 30 kills. I guess some people have different luck :).

26,62 is where I found a lot of mobs. At one point I saw 8 shoveltusk killing one wolf, they were close together so it was fun to AoE them :D. Only got two pieces of meat from them, though ._.

Comment by 288466

I believe this is the quest referenced in the comic.

Comment by 124883

Ok so this quest has a horrible drop rate for me. I've killed 16 and still no drop. Absolutely ridiculous.

Comment by pnukup

Please remove all sharp objects from your room before doing this quest.

Comment by 451774

This was a little annoying at first but then found a good group at around 26,61 that contained about 6 (sometimes 8) Island Shoveltusk.

The key is to clear a small area, around this, of the Worgs so that when the Shoveltusk do re-spawn, they aren't attacked straight away.

This group gave me all the Meat required for the quest however the drop rate from others I found was quite low, as some others have said.

Comment by 94801

32,66 i killed 2 and they instantly respawned, great spot. This was my second time through this quest, the first time took about 30 minutes because of worgs that kill the mobs, second time took about 5 because of this great spot.

Comment by Chispios

When i found the pack i was all "Yay!" and ran in and AoE :D

Comment by zarbuchan

Worst !@#$ing quest in northrend.

Comment by Alysis

Think this quest has had the drop rate buffed a bit, and spawns increased, usually its a pain, but got all the meat in 1 pack post-3.3, then deleted the meat to confirm, and got it all in 2 packs right next to each other. Much nicer then usual, would like confirmation though.

Comment by 508661

Kill-stealing NPCs, the leading cause of gamer aneuryisms since 2009

Comment by 287965

I'd also like to add to make that which is bad even worse the fact that the built in questhelper says the quest obj is just south of Vengeance Landing where the ships are which is completely ridiculous. #$%^ you Blizzard!

Comment by 773353

I am a level 75 orc dk. I cannot get this quest. HELP! please!
I am revered, can do all three dailies, but haven't been able to pick up any other quests from this town. I have done all of the scallywag point quests. I hope you have an answer for me, because I want that penguin!

:-D

Comment by 806064

I did this in less than ten minutes, by killing one herd, then quickly moving on by Griffin and finding another. Don't stay in one place. The minimap pointer was also telling me to go to wrong place. Correct place is by Kamagua, where the quest is given out.

Comment by GerMaxLeo

29, 70 is a decent place

Comment by 836277

had that. Marker showed there, quest area was shown correctly. Relogged and the marker moved to the correct spot as well.

Comment by 828782

I found 11 Island shoveltusks located at 28.64
Dropped 4 meat. Prolly would've dropped more, if wolfs wouldnt eat my mobs :<

Comment by Pipkins

Every day dozens of a rare breed of Shoveltusk unique to an island in south-eastern Northrend are slaughtered needlessly. Poachers active in the area have been seen killing them in swathes and dismembering the carcasses, only to take a thin slice of meat from one poor beast. For two gold a month, you can help pay for rescued Blackrock Worgs to be released into the area to combat the intruders. D.E.H.T.A can't do this on our own, but with your help, we will.

Comment by 1440987

Feeding the Survivors http://youtu.be/mjq1rfvUMlM

Comment by 1510906

Hoo boy. Looking forward to this one. So this quest has:

Low drop rate
Low spawn rate
Mobs that kill the target and prevent looting

Seriously, all they need to do is make the objectives not appear on the map and require a dozen meats and they'd have the Gold Standard for infuriating quests. And for extra vitrol, the description reads "there are many shoveltusk on the island and their meat is plentiful." and the next quest reads "our great ancestor fended off a hundred worgs."

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=fkXHFCd09OE&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Aerynsun8449

I realize this is OLD content, but that makes this even worse. You'd think after all these years of people complaining about the drop rate that Blizzard devs would FIX it.

Ok, that being said, WTH devs? We're killing Shoveltusk for their meat. THEY ALL HAVE MEAT! WHY ISN'T THE DROP RATE 100%? What is the scenerio? MOST of the kills the meat disappears? Is this Star Trek? Are we using phasers set on high? But then, why are there bodies we're able to skin? Oh, we can skin meatless bodies? Exactly what drugs were your devs on when they thought of that phenomenon?

Comment by Nover05

For all WoW Head users... Not everyone uses the same co-ord addon, your co-ords don't help if this is the case. Using identifying terrain features and sub-zones with map identifies would work significantly better for all, rather than a select few.

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Feeding the Survivors

Elder Atuik at Kamagua in Howling Fjord wants you to obtain 6 pieces of Island Shoveltusk Meat from Island Shoveltusk in the Isle of Spears.

	Island Shoveltusk Meat (6)

Description

We tuskarr rely mostly on our fish catch for sustenance. In times of great need, however, we will on occasion hunt land animals.

The nearby village of Iskaal was recently attacked by pirates and the survivors just keep pouring in.

Our catch has been modest this week, but there are many shoveltusk on the island and their meat is plentiful.

Aid my people by hunting these great beasts and obtaining their meat.

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with The Kalu'ak

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11456))