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1.	Treasure Contract: The Infected Orc
2.	The Silent Skull: The First Reagent
3.	The Silent Skull: The Second Reagent
4.	The Silent Skull: The Third Reagent
5.	The Silent Skull: Taking from the Taker

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Comment by Alfa

In the nose of a skeletal animal at 68.6 34.2.

Comment by Aaahead

for this specific quest. (Step 3 below).

Info on the full "Taking from the Taker" quest chain, one of the six quest chain criteria for the Master Relic Hunter (Alliance)/ Master Relic Hunter (Horde) achievement needed to get the Harrison Jones follower with Extreme Scavenger and unique Mentor traits. This chain takes place in Gorgrond, the northernmost Draenor zone.

Bug Notes:

If you collected an item that should complete a quest, but the quest isn't shown as completed, log off and back on (just reloading won't work), click the quest in your quest log, and see if you can click "complete quest".
Leave at least one spot free in your quest log (i.e. 24 of 25), or a quest may become uncompletable going from one quest to the next.
You can not do these quests in a raid group; doing some steps in a raid group can make a quest uncompletable.
If a quest becomes uncompletable, you can return to your garrison, delete the quest, and re-accept the quest on that step of the quest chain from the book of Relic Hunting Notes on the ground next to Harrison Jones. All but the initial quest are also shareable from party members, if you are on the same step of the quest chain.

1. Treasure Contract: The Infected Orc:

Fly to Everbloom Wilds flightpoint ( in Gorgrond) or Everbloom Overlook flightpoint ( in Gorgrond) — you can choose between these separate areas to find mobs for this quest. Everbloom Overlook usually has more mobs and fewer competing players.
Kill Enthralled Mutant (98k health) and Twisted Guardian (195k health) until they drop Grinning Tolg's Journal. They're sparse, respawn slowly, and the journal's drop rate might be 15% or so, so this can take a couple minutes to a couple hours. Killing other area humanoids may hasten their respawn. In Everbloom Wilds, the orcs spawn around , , , , , ; in Everbloom Overlook they are in between the east and west mountain ranges south/southeast of the flightpoint.
Once you get the journal, click the "Click to complete quest" pop-up.
BUG NOTE: If you kill 10-20 infected orcs without getting the journal, and double-checked you're not in a raid, log off and back on, and kill more; it may have been bad luck, but this no-drop bug occurs on other Jones quests.
Bag Space Tip: After you get credit for completing this quest, you can safely delete Grinning Tolg's Journal from your inventory. It's just for interesting reading. Each Harrison Jones quest chain leaves a similar soulbound book in your inventory (click for list).

2. The Silent Skull: The First Reagent: , north of Everbloom Wilds flightpoint, under a primitive rock-covered shelter. Click the purple Shadethistle plant, then click the "Click to complete quest" pop-up. If you're not using coordinates, the shelter is a bit north of a large animal's skeletal remains, northwest of some burning trees and grass. The shelter may obscure the plant a bit depending on your camera angle.

3. The Silent Skull: The Second Reagent: , in the eye socket of the skull of a large animal's skeletal remains. Click the Bonethorn, then click the "Click to complete quest" pop-up.

4. The Silent Skull: The Third Reagent: , click the Steamcap Mushrooms, then click the "Click to complete quest" pop-up. It's in an inactive steam vent with some trees growing in it, which looks like a medium-sized dark crater on the minimap with some orange in the center.

5. The Silent Skull: Taking from the Taker:

5(a), "Brew the Laughing Skull Elixir": From the last quest, head east a few feet, then north along the path to a cave entrance at . Inside the cave to the right you'll see a Cauldron (). Click the cauldron to complete the first of the quest criteria.

5(b), "Drink the elixir and find a way to reach Skulltaker": Click the cauldron again to get a 5 minute Erratic Visions buff; if someone else clicked it recently, you have to wait for a cooldown to wear off, and in a crowd you should spam-click the cauldron until you succeed. (You don't get an elixir item in your bag; you just click the cauldron to drink it). Next find a Brightscale Ravager by the cave entrance, and talk to him ("Can you take me to Skulltaker") — or skip this if you know the way. If someone else talked to him recently, wait until he respawns. Follow behind the ravager southeast, east, then north to while avoiding floating/moving skulls. When you get to , a large hovering ravager, Gu'rakh, will offer to take you to Skulltaker. Click Gu'rakh to complete this step of the quest, and he or she will fly you to Skulltaker.

This step can be challenging. Poor visibility when you have the buff makes avoiding the skulls difficult, and when a skull touches you, you'll lose the buff and need to go back to the cave and click the cauldron again (waiting again if it's not immediately clickable). Some tips:

#1 BEST TIP: Type "/console ffxGlow 0" to reduce the fog a lot, then after you complete this step, type "/console ffxGlow 1" to return to your normal graphics setting. (Thanks Aquifel!)
Stealth abilities (rogue Stealth, druid Prowl, mage Greater Invisibility, hunter glyphed Camouflage) significantly help avoid aggroing skulls. Draenic Invisibility Potion helps too someone said you wouldn't see the Brightscale Ravager.
Alternatively, mounting up just outside the cave lets you move faster, which is an advantage avoiding skulls, or outrunning aggroed skulls.
If you still have trouble seeing the skulls, use first person view, or lower your camera angle and zoom in so you're looking at things from close to the ground, so less fog blocks your vision. Also note that skulls produce a vertical column/pillar of darkness above and below them, which can help spotting them and judging their position.
If you're having trouble seeing where to go, practice the route without the buff; from the cave entrance at , follow the path southeast to , east to , then north to . Putting a target marker on the Brightscale Ravager before talking to it might help, and it leaves a glowing trail, but that disappears fairly quickly, and if he gets ahead of you the marker and trail don't help. You're better off knowing the way, and taking your time to avoid skulls.
Using Aviana's Feather cancels the buff so doesn't help, but if you're in a party only one person needs to reach Gu'rakh with the buff for everyone to get credit for this step, and the others can use Aviana's Feather to glide into Skulltaker's crater to kill Skulltaker (Gu'rakh will only fly one party member).

5(c), "Claim the Silent Skull": When you talk to Gu'rakh, he or she will drop you in Skulltaker's Crater (), where Skulltaker (489k health) is standing atop a large skull. Walk toward Skulltaker, he'll jump down to the center of the crater, where you can kill him and loot The Silent Skull to complete this quest. If he doesn't jump, try backing up and reapproaching.

Double-check the quest is ready for turn-in, then hearth to your garrison to turn it in to Bodrick Grey (Alliance) or Rokhan (Horde).

Comment by Bloodlus

Here is the entire quest chain with locations! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzrDdjloG3c

Comment by Aurleis1

1. Treasure Contract: The Infected Orc
• Pickup the quest, inside the Garrison, from Harrison Jones / Surveyor Daltry
• Fly to Everbloom Wilds or Everbloom Overlook
• Kill Enthralled Mutant & Twisted Guardian.

2. The Silent Skull: The First Reagent
• Click the under the rock structure at coords 57,35

3. The Silent Skull: The Second Reagent
• Click the in the large skull at coords 68,34

4. The Silent Skull: The Third Reagent
• Click the at 59,33

5. The Silent Skull: Taking from the Taker
• Go into the cave & click the Cauldron... click it a second time to give yourself the Erratic Visions buff.
• Speak to the Brightscale Ravager by the cave entrance and click 'Can you take me to Skulltaker'
• Watch out for the floating skulls and their path, which you can see as a Black Cylindrical Cloud around the skulls (as you may lose Erratic Visions buff)
• Once you arrived, click Gu'rakh and it will fly you to the Skulltaker.
• Kill Skulltaker, loot the The Silent Skull.
• Hearth back to your Garrison, and turn in the quest to (Alliance) / (Horde).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYipBlH31Co

Comment by bazzyl

Quick video guide with all important stuff and locations for this questline.

Comment by Dissectional

Here's a handy-dandy macro for this quest chain, it's assumed you'll put this in a macro so the steps below are listed in reverse order.

/way Gorgrond 62.0 31.9 Follow Ravager
/way Gorgrond 60.0 32.6 Drink from the Cauldron
/way Gorgrond 60.0 32.6 Cauldron
/way Gorgrond 59.6 33.2 The Third Reagent
/way Gorgrond 68.6 34.2 The Second Reagent
/way Gorgrond 57.0 35.9 The First Reagent

For the last part of this chain you'll need to change your graphics with this:

/console ffxGlow 0

Revert graphics with:

/console ffxGlow 1

Comment by Eggshells

Some part of this chain seems to be a bit bugged as of 6.2.. If you can't loot any of the items needed try closing WoW completely and try again. This working for me!

Happy hunting

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Silent Skull: The Second Reagent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-GhVjI0NBI

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The Silent Skull: The Second Reagent

Follow the clue from the journal to find the Bonethorn Vine.

	Follow the clue to find the Bonethorn Vine (1)
	Bonethorn Vine (1)

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The second ingredient to the elixir is a vine from the Bonethorn plant. The journal reads: "I must find a vine of bonethorn, which grows in the bones of the ancient dead. I remember seeing the bones of a long-dead beast in the dry beds of the northern wilds. Its sun-parched skull would make a pleasant home for such a plant."

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(37943))

The Silent Skull: The Second Reagent

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