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Comment by 15342

inside the building mostly, quite fast respawn on the cocoons

Comment by Discord

Cocoons can carry different things - friendly targets, enemies, or just plain nothing.

Comment by 20402

For Hunters: Dont use your pets to break the cocoons, you need to melee them yourself to get anything out of them. I wasted 15mins myself breaking them with my pet and nothing.

Comment by 228314

Actually it gives 21,150 exp and 250 Argent Crusade Rep.

Comment by 8153

This can take a while since the rate for soldiers seemed to be about 6:1. The fastest way to do this is make a single mad run through the temple and use whatever instant cast abilities you have to break them open (DoTs work best). You'll get credit for the soldiers and the enemies will stop chasing after a few yards.

Comment by Backwell

You can see the contents of the cocoon. If you look near the base and it's blue. It will contain a troll, if there is noting but cocoon it will be the npc you're intended to rescue.

Comment by Darkprodigy

It seems when i move up close to the cocoon then back away and kill the cocoon, its a captive footman everytime. But if i kill the cocoon from far away it is a troll and if i kill it up close it is nothing.

Comment by 158255

For ranged, I myself tried releasing the cocoons from ranged 10+ times, 100% of the time a troll came out. Then I decided to use melee, and 3 out of 5 were argent soldiers. So it seems self melee is the only option.

Comment by 273364

Just did this as a 77 mage. When I released the captives with any of my fire spells or by beating them with my staff I always got a troll. Arcane explosion ensured the release of three soldiers in a row after about 20 trolls in succession. Weird.

Comment by 281298

I had to go through about 20-25 cocoons before I got all 3 captives.

Comment by Joensuu

Just open the cocoons with a normal attack! I did 6 cocoons with spells and no captives freeded. The i just used normal melee twice on each coccon and got all 3 in a row.

Comment by 292292

I just did this as a 77 mage, too.

The way you open the cocoons is not important. I got captives when using ranged fireballs, and I got trolls when using my basic melee attack.

I think it's random.

Comment by 278845

Its just like all those other free people from webs it seems, horrible free rate. So far 10 trolls in a row and not one single victom.

Comment by 297479

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Comment by 284480

All around 52,69. Horrible rate of release. Try to do it with other q's from the q givers nearby.

Comment by 197620

It might just be coincidence, but if you have 0 runic power, it always opened for me, with a regular melee attack.

Comment by 99641

At 52, 67 I got all 3 of them in my first three openings, all of them from just one melee swing.

Comment by 88759

Just a heads up: you MUST do Rupert's portion of the Pa'Troll quest (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=12596) before the 3 other quest chains open up here.

Comment by 322555

the drop rate sucks! u hav a 30% chance of getting the guys from coccons

Comment by 327560

Just hit the cocoons and they crack open, they will either be a Drakkari Captive or a Captive Footmen. I opened about 10 or 15 cocoons and of course, 3 were captives. Easy quest over all.

Comment by Superspacemunky

I tried everything listed here to no avail. The zero runic power, checking for the blue base.. etc. Maybe it was just my luck but when I was giving up and headed back to the little hand in area I decided to use Icy Touch on one from its max range and got the captive. Did the same thing for the next two and voila, quest done.

Comment by 66075

All these posts about, 'don't use sinister strike!', 'go close then back up and attack!', etc. are ridiculous. Whether it is a troll or a soldier is determined when the cocoon spawns; there is no internal programming processing 'oh did this paladin have a seal on? how much runic power did this death knight have when he attacked?' it determines whether you have done the 400-or-so damage to the cocoon and whether you are on the quest.

Onyxia doesn't deep breath more. keep your absurd and ineffective hypothesizing elsewhere. it doesn't help.

Comment by 318722

I agree with xtrmntr, but after a couple dozen empty/troll filled cocoons, even the wildest theories start to look good. On a slightly related topic, I wonder why the trolls attack? You save them from being liquified and sucked up by a giant spider and they decide trying to kill you is a good way to repay the favor?

also, on the topic of wacky theories, it seemed to me that when i was able to "kill" the cocoon in one hit I had a much greater chance of getting either a captive or a troll... Prolly not related, but there it is...

Comment by 334755

well having tried a few of the theories put forward here, i can definitely say that it's random. btw as a mage who previously had a staff skill of ~300, it's now at 354. these cocoons are excellent for weapon target practice.

Comment by Eleftheria

I managed to kill exactly 28 trolls (As a warrior using just melee as suggested) before I finally abandoned the quest, save yourself a headache and skip it.

Comment by Cometcow

The theory about the base of the nerubian cocoon, im sad to say i could not confirm that, how ever, as blankace stated that some of these crazy ideas seem to give you a little hope, i have one of these crazy ideas, that somehow worked for me, if no victims come out, just trolls, i had a ratio of 3trolls to 1 victim, simply just make one of the trolls agro you, keep it like a pet, and go hit the cocoons, maybe this will work for you, Hope this helps

Comment by 292926

LOL, i was killing coccons outside the building for half hour and nothing, then i went inside the building and in the first 3 coccons, 3 footman appear! 3/3 inside the building ! :)

Comment by 65322

haha funny how i did this, i got 2 throlls in 5-6 tries, after that i killed about 10 coocons and nothing, so while i was killing the spider i used "killing spree" (combat specced rogue) it killed the coocon and released npc :D

Comment by Feranda

This is weird. I did this quest just a min ago and it was one of the easiest quest I have done this far. First 3 cocoons I destroyed (with Ice Lance and Fireblast) gave me soldiers and quest complete. All cocoons I destroyed were outside buildings.

Either Blizzard changed this or I had luck. Anyways it seems to possible to get good rate outside building too.

Comment by 218650

Think this is bugged at the moment. Opened 35 cocoons (not in a raid group, and have quest in log) no NPCs, only hostile mobs. Gave up and dropped it.

To be honest, any quests which involve random drop rates tend to be a waste of time - the killing X mobs or get Y are the best for XP and levelling.

Comment by Allakhazam

I opened about 15 with no luck, until I put the pet on passive and used a melee weapon (instead of ranged). 3 of the next 4 were footmen. It was probably a coincidence, but it's worth noting if you're having problems.

Comment by Allakhazam

If you have a pet, but them on passive. Just you attack the cocoon and within 10 minutes of starting the quest.

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Cocooned!

Captain Rupert wants you to open the Nerubian Cocoons in Drak'Sotra and return to him once you have freed 3 Captive Footmen.

	Freed Captive Footmen (3)

Description

Now that the tunnels have been sealed, our next concern is recovering those who have fallen to the enemy.

With any luck, several of our soldiers are still alive and relatively well inside the nerubian cocoons.

Free them, <class>, while you still can!

Completion

Rewards

The following spell will be cast on you:

	Captain Rupert Kill Credit

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Argent Crusade

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12606))

Guides

Argent Crusade Reputation Guide for Wrath of the Lich King Classic