Quick Facts

Storyline
Klaxxi Daily Quests Kunchong Treats Culling the Swarm Eradicating the Zan'thik Dark Skies Dreadspinner Extermination Mistblade Destruction A Little Brain Work The Scale-Lord The Fight Against Fear Bad Genes Infection Sonic Disruption Free From Her Clutches Sampling the Empire's Finest Wing Clip The Matriarch's Maw Seeds of Fear Rampage Against the Machine The Warlord's Ashes An Ancient Empire Sap Tapping Putting An Eye Out Nope Nope Nope Debugging the Terrace Brain Food Shortcut to Ruin Ordnance Disposal Vess-Guard Duty Shackles of Manipulation Meltdown Specimen Request Fear Takes Root Quiet Now Kypa'rak's Core

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Comments

Comment by 846417

Not sure if its just unlucky, but it seems like it a low drop rate, killed like 8-9 guys and only got 1 so far :(

Comment by 330242

Just kill this NPC Thought-Bound Miner and Shackles will drop. Best spot in the south, at the mine.

Comment by uriahworld

Look for the large chunks of Earth by the tree, Miners can be found throughout the Island by these.
The quest 'bubbles' on the map limit the area when in fact there are many scattered around.

Comment by Elanorea

In the quarry area there are three thought-bound miners that spawn inside tree roots. If you attack them from a distance they'll evade, but standing right next to the root they can be killed (and looted, since when they fall down part of their body will be outside the root). It may take some fiddling to find the right spot, especially for the one at the bottom of the quarry, but they're all definitely killable.

Comment by edgeblade

Terrible drop rate on these. Good luck if there's someone else here besides you. Only seemingly 1 good spot with more than 2 of the mobs. Respawn rate isn't horrible, but isn't quick either. They need to either: A) Buff the drop rate, B) Buff the number of mobs, C) Buff the respawn rate, or D) Get rid of this quest altogether....

Comment by vortal

Not sure if I just got lucky or not but having gone around the island many times and competing with 3 other players for these to spawn, I cam across 2 at location 28.2, 88.3 which seemed to be on a permanent respawn.
As soon as I killed them they reappeared and I was able to get the shackles quickly.
Still took 20+ kills :(

Comment by merpy

IMO, you're better off skipping this quest when levelling Klaxxi rep. The drop rate is just too low for the scant few Thought-Bound Miners you can find and the 143 rep you'll get. Do the rest of the dailies, and don't give yourself the headache.

Comment by 151802

Go to 28,88
Looks like an acorn on its side. Great place to farm

Comment by ikenaikoto

thankfully, blizz buffed both the drop rate of quest items and the quantity of Thought-Bound Miner in 5.1. This quest now is very smooth.

(why wowhead still says im patch 5.0.5? :p)

Comment by Darneas

Watch out on this quest. There's this one manipulator with two or three miners that travels with a scorpion of some sort. Everytime I would start fighting a group of miners they would pop up behind me and I would be going against nine of them.

Comment by cernowyth

Go to 30.3, 87.8. You can snipe down on them and they will climb up to you, just begging to be killed and relieved of their shackles.

Comment by Okonomiyaki

Had excellent luck in Amber Quarry area at the southernmost tip of Zan'vess.
Killed maybe 12-15 Thought-Bound Miners & got my 6 shackles.
Super fast & easy.

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Shackles of Manipulation

Collect 6 Zan'thik Shackles from Thought-Bound Miners and Thought-Bound Brutes in Zan'vess.

	Zan'thik Shackles (6)

Description

The Zan'thik employ a sizable force of... indentured labor.

Yaungol are bound in special shackles which enhance and prolong the effects of sonic manipulation. It is this technology that allows the Zan'thik manipulators to command such large quantities of thralls to endlessly toil for them in the quarries.

I would like to study these shackles.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Cache of Infinite Treasure		Lesser Charm of Good Fortune

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

130 reputation with The Klaxxi

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(31506))

Guides

Mists of Pandaria - Faction Dailies Wowhead's Guide to the Klaxxi