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1.	Find OOX-17/TN!
2.	Rescue OOX-17/TN!

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Comment by hungry

Just 2 ambushes: three lvl 47 scropids in the start and three wastevander humans (1 mage, 2 assasins, around lvl 44) almost in the end. And some usual mobs chicken just cant get past on its way >.<
Soloed without much troubles as lvl 47 affliction warlock.
Picture at https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/npc=7784 shows the way chicken follows.

Comment by 33682

I must suck because I did this on my 60 hunter and failed it twice, but did it on my 45 paladin and succeeded. The moral of the story is that it's pretty challenging. You have to keep 3-4 mobs aggro off the chicken because he dies easily.

Comment by 44364

Me a lv 45 Hunter and a lv 46 worrier finshed this quest easyly I dont recomend doing it by yourself and allways let the chicken hit first becuase if you dont he will keep walking and aggroing more.

Comment by 60018

I done this quest as a lvl 43 prot (AoE) pally, it took two attempts. The first time the chicken died when i bubbled against the Mage and the 2 assassins because he pulled all the agro. I healed and ruined their day (but really they had already ruined mine!). Anyway, next time i got through with no problems. Tactics: I killed the scopids pally AoE style (BoSanc, Ret Aura, SoLight, holy shield). I consecrated to pull any agro off the chicken. (remember we don’t want him to die!) This was the toughest fight by far. I think i even used Lay on hands after some wolf joined in. I killed everything slowly from then on so that my health and mana kept going up, BoWis, SoL does it for pallys. I changed to Prot Aura too for the chicken! Keep an eye on the chicken’s health; take as much beating as you need to so that he has time to heal. You can always take a potion or bandage. (I couldn’t heal the chicken). I switched to Shadow res Aura before i got to the mage and Co. Killed mage first, pulled the agro from the chicken with consecration. Then went back to pally AoE again to finish off the assassins. They dual wield so happy days. (The chicken doesn’t take well to dual wielders though!) He died quick the first time! There was no other trouble. Sorry this is really only a pally guide....
The longest part of this was finding the chicken! Which got me killed once but the second time i pulled a lvl 50 basilisk and half way through that i pulled another lvl 50 giant bug that dropped critters. (they died on my BoSanc though! lol) I survived it though but the fight took so long the basilisk had disappeared (and i couldn’t loot it!) by the time I had finished off the bug! (really what happens is that you try and keep your health up (Jol Sol) while holy damage (ret Aura, BoSanc, Shield spike) slowly kills them!)

Comment by lordgreg

I soloed this quest as lvl46 hunter without any problem. Just stay behind a chicken a bit, when he aggroes, attack one mob after another with your pet, so your pet will take aggro for all three mobs attacking chicken. After that, just use mend pet on your pet, chicken will help you, throw few arcane shots on them and you're done.

Comment by Alderaan

Pain attention if you are a mage to aggro on you...
So don't use frost nova, expecially when attacked by groups of 3.
If you don't aggro on you, the chicken aggro on him and you fail the quest because the chicken dies.
Blizzard & Ice Barrier/Mana Shield are welcome when facing the groups of 3.

Comment by Hoshi

Don't know if it was just one of those days, but of all the times I have done this quest, the one I just completed a minute ago took by far the longest.

There seemed to be 2-3 times as many mobs on the route back, the chicken aggro'd everything in sight let alone range.

Would like to hear some more reports of doing this after 2.3

Comment by 103852

This little bugger runs right infront of Caverns of Time. I tried to do this but every time I bump into high-level hordes who find it funny to ruin my questing. Just a notice, everyone should be careful while doing this. I'd suggest doing it when it's not prime-time for players so that you might be able to avoid any high-level gankers.

Comment by Celwindia

Solo'd this the other day as a 48 SPriest. Instead of fearing ambushers for the escort quests, I usually try to find a different way.

The first group I thought would be like the previous groups I ran into, and come from a distance, so I mounted and scorpions spawn in a circle surrounding the chicken, and immediately start attacking. Throw dots, attacks, or get some kind of aggro from all of them, and just focus on the one he's focused on. For reference, I found my chicken was able to stay alive for at least 25 or so seconds, easily with one scorpion and poison on him. If you're a lower level, don't attack the mob that the chicken is focused on, take 2 off of him, and take the 3rd when you've finished one, the chicken should survive comfortably, as should you.

The chicken ran past or into several mobs on the way, before, after, and in between ambushes. I didn't find these happening too terribly often, every 20-30 seconds of dead time. I just join him in the fight, these are typically single mobs, I got occasional doubles.

The second group does approach from a distance, so I was able to mount and kite them, just running through, and then past the group. The mage was only able to cast on me once, and the melees got 2 attacks per? After seeing this was quite possible, I dropped mount and engaged. I threw dots on the assassin's, and then just focused on the mage, they dropped with no fuss.

A few helpful things to remember, I wasn't able to buff or heal the chicken whatsoever, but within 10 seconds of leaving combat, that cheesy NPC regen kicks in, and he's full in 2 ticks. If his health is really low, and he's walking directly towards a mob, simply go to the side of the path, and pull the mob yourself, keeping it out of the chicken's aggro range, he'll walk right past, and you can finish the mob yourself. Also, bandages are extremely helpful, just remember that they can be interrupted easily, wait until the scorpids' poison wears off before you bandage, or you'll have a minute to wait to try again =P Hope this helps. 5450 XP

Edited for typos and the like.

Comment by 121123

Just soloed this chicken-escort with my lvl 44 Warlock, guess they kinda nerfed it with 2.3 patch.

Comment by Yeoman

Followup of this quest is An OOX of Your Own, but available only after completing all 3 separate quests of finding distress beacons in corresponding zones:

Find OOX-17/TN! (Tanaris, this quest chain)
Find OOX-09/HL! (The Hinterlands)
Find OOX-22/FE! (Feralas)

Comment by 122145

I had a hard time with the humans, so I tried to do the Undead thing and eat them. The chicken, however, felt this was unnecessary, and chose to go on without me, and I failed the quest so close to the end.

Comment by Kevers

solo'd as 44 rogue

pretty easy just long

Comment by 113718

coords are 60,64 btw

Comment by 88189

Just a small hint: make sure you let the mobs that aren't part of the ambushing plan (so the mobs the chicken runs into) attack the chicken first. So don't go clear the path, because then you risk the chicken getting more aggro, because he won't stop walking if just YOU engage combat. I made this mistake and got an ambush of 4 scorpids and a land rager instead of the 3 scorpids. Fail.

Comment by Soaa

I was doing the quest and at one point the chicken just suddenly disappeared even though no one was hitting him and he was right next to me. Didn't even get "failed" to the quest log.

Comment by 173144

For most of the mobs, you can mount and kite them out of the path of the chicken; you don't even have to kill them, if you make a big loop you'll get far enough ahead and leave combat.

So neither you nor the chicken will have to engage, except for possibly the ambush groups. If you fail the quest at one fo the groups, that one will also stick around and be available for kiting.

Comment by 184374

As a 47 prot Pally, I thought it wasn't too difficult. However, if you get ganked by a member of the opposing faction, not only will you fail the quest but you'll also have to find the distress beacon all over again.

Comment by 134320

What I would recommend doing is going and grabbing Tooga's Quest before starting this one around Thistleshrub Valley(30,73). Bring the turtle up to the quest start then escort them both to Steamwheedle Port for a total of 22650 experience (that's including doing Find OOX-17/TN!).

Comment by Abdulmaiden

Soloed as 44 level druid (feral). First part was kind of hard which is scorpids.

If you're a druid you can follow this:

Move as stealthed. Never attack any mob before they attack your chicken. The chicken does really good and helpful damage on mobs, he can even pull the mob with his DPS capability. When scorpids come do all of your hots on you, and go for bear form, kill one of the scorpids, then use War Stomp (If your damage is low). Then use all of the hots again and go cat form. Leave the chicken's target, and attack the other mob. Don't worry about the chicken's HP because it regens too fast. After you killed the scorpids, innervate yourself or just drink. Then go for stealth again. Do the same thing as i mentioned before, don't attack any mob unless they attack chicken.

After the humanoids come, do the same thing when scorpids came. But one thing is different here, don't go bear form. Cat form is enough. Kill warlock first, leave the chicken's target attack the other one. After you killed two of them, kill the chicken's target. Humanoids can flee, so be aware they can run away from you and pull other mobs. If they flee just use moonfire.

After you killed humanoids, you just walk. And kill the mobs on the road if you have to.

My druid's stats while I'm doing this:
in cat form: %21 dodge, 1.8k armor, %23 crit, 514 ap, 2.7k hp.
in dire bear form: %21 dodge, 6.3k armor, 229 defense rating, %23 crit, 353 ap, 3.8k hp.

Comment by 222970

You know what killed me after doing a corpse run, using a pot and following a chicken around for a few minutes? This line:

Cloaking systems online! CLUCK! Engaging cloak for transport to Booty Bay!

Also keep in mind that the chicken can take quite a hit before it dies, so run back if you died, he might still be around. He won't be around if you see you've failed the quest, obviously.

Comment by 260788

Tried to do this quest today, 1 Dec 2008 with my lvl 46 feral druid.

When I have done this quest before with other characters, it has been soloable with a little effort. Well.. no more by the looks of things.

This is because in addition to the chicken pulling random mobs on the way plus having some scripted mobs spawn on it (which isn't particularly difficult to handle), it also runs past one of the Wastewander camps (the one closest to the beach) and aggroes pretty much everything there. Since the camp mostly consisted of Wastewander Shadow Mages who hit pretty hard with their shadow bolts and have voidwalker minions on top of that, AND who flee when on low health (pulling a few more mobs - hey, the more the merrier, right? :P), try as I might I could not kill them, not even take the aggro off the chicken before the chicken was dead. It seemed to take about 4 shadow bolts and a few hits from the meleers to kill the chicken.

I guess I was a little slow reacting, might have been able to heal the chicken or do something else, but.. I really don't understand why it is necessary to let the chicken run past that camp so so close. Was it really just my bad luck?

One way to get past this, I suppose, would be to ride in pulling the camp myself, but about 2-3 shadow-bolting mobs on me does not sound particularly appealing, and if I get knocked off my mount, it can hurt. A lot. Can't clear the camp long beforehand either, since the mobs seem to respawn pretty quickly.

Has anyone else had the same problem?

Comment by JKremis23

Original: Very easy, yet up there on the list of terrible quests. I dread this one every time and not quite sure why... lol

Edit: I now remember why I hate it so much...
1) Can't help the stupid chicken (Heal, Buff, etc...)
2) As stated, the chicken is an effing tard that pulls everything cuz hes only lvl 42, and he deserves every failure he gets out of this quest.
3) As a pally doing this quest, it wasnt hard. That is untill he runs along the damn beach and pulls about 6 people, half of which throw shadow bolts around for about 200. Thought SR Aura would solve that... nope. Damn bird doesnt get buffs! How could i forget that?
4) Ummm... the 100s of scorpions he pulls poison the hell out of him and you cant dispel them. The poisons end as soon as he leaves combat, but still... hes in combat for 4 mins straight cuz he attracts sheit like an overpowered magnet on steroids.

And the absolute worst part... at the end, after you go through all that hell, HE TURNS ON HIS CLOAKING DEVICE TO GET TO BOOTY BAY! Where the hell did that come from? I was so ^&*!ed! He couldnt take the wussy rogue style way out from the start? Ugh.. Dumbass poultry..
I will never become a vegetarian... We need to wipe this species off the planet. A bird that cant fly? It cant even swim or run! *sigh* maybe one day....
J/K i love my Eggs and Bacon =D oh yeah and chicken sandwiches FTW =]

Comment by 242636

Solo'ed this with a level 48 Warrior (speced for Arms with Whirlwind sword).
Another ecsort job. Completed it with some difficulty. The robot chicken pulls several random critters. I followed the chicken and when it looked like our path would cross with monster(s), I would use Charge ability to stun and engage the mobs. At one point I had 2 basilisks and a scorpion at one time. Hack-n-slay away, finally beat them. Health really low at this point. Well timed healing potions and multi-monster attackes (Thunder Clap, Sweeping Strike and Cleave) are really helpful. Got jumped by 3 Wastewander members, they just materialize out of no where. Again hack-n-slay, they were much easier, one took off on me but bled out before he could bring any buddies with him. Other then that, really no problem. Had to go all the way back to Booty Bay to get the XP, that bites (I don't like that area, I get lost easy). Get a nice shield and XP reward...

Comment by 251762

I hate escort quests for the simple fact that whoever (or whatever) you are escorting always takes a route to deliberately aggro as many mobs as possible. When I did this quest as a 47 Prot Paladin I had no problems protecting him until we were in sight of Steamwheedle Port. It was there that I was walking right beside the chicken, a scorpid attacked me but left the chicken alone, which kept right on walking. Halfway through the scorpid fight a hyena had to stick his nose into my business. By the time I killed both the scorpid and the hyena the chicken was dead and "Quest Failed" because he kept on walking while I was fighting. I'm not going all the way back to start again so I abandoned. Besides, the two quest rewards consist of a shield which is not better than the one I already have and some other useless "novelty" item. As for the lost XP I can easily make that up on another quest.

Comment by 274181

i solo'd this quest at 48 with a retri pala with some epic gear and had level 80 priest buffs.
Everything was going fine until i came a cross 3 scorpids who jumped in and attacked me and the chicken. I layed down AoE and then another 2 hyenas decided to attack so i took the threat off the chicken and managed to kill all five creatures exhausting mana but only getting taken down to quarter health. I think this was the most tense part of the whole quest.
If i didnt have buffs i dont think i would have completed the quest. easiest way to complete is to walk infront of chicken and kill all mobs which are in the path of the chicken.
good luck guys and have fun ^^

Comment by yunusual

This quest counts for the Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement.

Comment by 278963

Did this as a 42 survival/marks hunter.

For hunters it seems the best strategy is to run ahead when the first ambush comes, drop a freeze trap, feign, run back and nuke one of the non-frozen mobs. Then get your pet to charge the other non-frozen mobs, and do a sustained dps on it so that you dont take aggro. If the frozen mob gets out when the 2nd mob is still alive, scatter shot if you're survival. If not, concussive shot, then run up and wing clip, shoot down the 2nd mob, and drop the freeze trap when its off cool down. Finish the 2nd mob, viper and drink until the 3rd mob is freed, and repeat what you did for phase two.

I found this strategy works with the hinterlands quest and the first two ambushes in feralas, but with the gnolls check out the comments for feralas.

Happy Hunting!

Comment by 282791

Okay, got a minor problem on this quest. Ive escorted the chicken in and so on, but afterwards i realized it should be turned in at booty bay, so i abandonded the quest (yeah i know - dumb me). And cant start the escort quest again or anything either cant i get the drop again, so there's no way to complete this quest for me currently.. or any ideas?

Comment by 344286

This essentially is a quest I won't try again until I am 70+. Absolutely ridiculous, horrible AI, the pathing is a disaster.

I wouldn't even attempt it until you're over 50 solo. Probably doable mid 40s with an additional person.

Boo.

Comment by 339654

Wow this was really bad. Its such a long escort! I ran through the mobs on my mount to find the guy and lost half my health. Then i accepted the quest. The first ambush with 3 scorpids also pulled in a nearby hyena and basilisk really hard (im 44 hunter). I was about halfway there when some 80 horde came along and blasted me off the earth and no im #$%^ed off so i logged.

Comment by insinu8

I completed this as a lvl45 frost mage. The first set of scorpids caught me off guard, but I waited until the chicken had them all aggro'd, then hit them with a frost nova, backed up a step or two and killed them with 1 blizzard followed by two arcane explosions.

I then followed the chicken so I could see what his next encounter would be. It was always only one mob (except once, when he got a basilisk and a hyena). I stood back and let him handle it for the most part, only using my wand to make sure the mob died before senor el-cluck-o.

As soon as the warning about the wastewanderers came, I blinked forward with my ice barrier on to grab aggro, then led them towards the ocean until the chicken was past. I blinked again to catch up and then followed him the rest of the way dealing with the single mob encounters as I did between ambushes. It didn't take more than about 20 minutes, and I only had to use one mana crystal (scorpid ambush) and evocation once (after the scorpid ambush).

Be sure you have your mana crystal created ahead of time. Keep your ice armor up and don't waste mana killing the single mobs....use your wand. GL!

Comment by 119063

Does anyone know if the second part is shareable? I cant seem to get the drop for the life of me. I am a lvl 80 and mayhave picked it up a long ime ago but i dot have it now and i dont have a ! over him. And yes this is the only one i need to do to finish the OOX quests, 2 GM's confirmed this

Comment by Darksoul1719

Another good quest to combine with this quest is Tanaris Field Sampling, because on the way you encounter alot of the mobs that you need to test for the quest. Keep in mind though from the looks of it, this is a Horde only quest though.

Comment by 345231

while doing this quest u can also do "Tooga's Quest", the destination is the same just pick the tooga quest 1. and then come to pick up the chicken, and tooga can help u kill the mobs, not much but any help is welcome.

Comment by Kyuudo

This horrible quest got an absolutely wonderful update for patch 3.2: about 1/4 of the way through the regular escort route (before you reach the Wastewanderer camps), the chicken will enable rocket packs and fly away to safety, giving you quest credit in the process. I assume the other chicken escorts got updated similarly. Save 6~10 minutes of awful escorting you'd otherwise have to do.

Comment by 436714

Alright, so I (Level 45 Rogue) did this quest for the first time only to be chopped down unexpectedly by three scorpids (and a wandering earth elemental). I had already used up my resources (bandages, potions) and special abilities while battling the other critters along the way, so I was doomed with half-health by the time I got to the end with no chance of refueling. I traveled back to the crash site to do this quest again, this time taking down the wandering beasts with minimum effort. I also remained stealthed alongside chickenbot. Surprisingly, when I got down to the site where the scorpids spawned (I remained in stealth) there was... silence for a moment after chickenbot reported danger. Then only one scorpid spawned. o_O Hacked him down and chickenbot flew to Booty Bay.

Comment by 316093

This has been made a hundred times easier. It now spawns 3 Dunemaul Scorpions roughly west of the bottom part of CoT and once you kill those you will have completed your quest. You no longer have to go all the way up to Steamwheedle Port for it to complete. Soloed as 45 rogue, quest was orange.

Comment by 297839

At level 46, I received 12600xp - undead priest, with no heirlooms / raf.

Comment by 459642

BUT I DONT FEEL LIKE ESCORTING A CHICKEN!

i hate chicken !

Comment by 486005

I just solod this quest with my lvl 47 warrior easy. there is only 1 ambush of 3 of those scorpion things. the xp from this quest is 12,600 which i think is well worth it!

Comment by Thottbot

I saw this with one of the related quests in Feralas. My understanding is that if someone else is currently working on the quest (and the chicken somehow respawned) it will get stuck like that.

You just need to try again later or wait for it to start walking.

Comment by Thottbot

he probably wont move because you dont have the start quest object. I just did the one in FE and it went fine.

Comment by Thottbot

I too managed to get the Feralas and the Tanaris chicken to get to it's destination without a single fight. Just let it go in front of you with some distance between you and the chicken, so it agroes the enemies. Do not attack any of them, they will run behind the chicken and do nothing more than that.

Comment by Thottbot

It might be bugged on 2/29/06 because there is no 2/29/06, perhaps you are living in an alternate universe, or a few centuries in the future when February '06 has 29 days?

Anyway, took me 2 tries (first time at 46, too tough) succesfully at 48 with my hunter.

I completely disagree with another post that you should only attack those mobs that the chicken fights. Things to remember:

the chicken is 42 and a whimp.

If you are ahead of the chicken and attack a mob, he will break his path and assist you. This is a great way to slow him down while you let your mana/health regen. Between your standard damage, your pets damage and the chickens, you really don't need to be using any mana or taking any damage. This is downtime. Once the mob is dead, the chicken will resume his normal path.

There are 2 summons in his path. The first is a trio of scorps between two small mounds of dirt when you're heading north. The second is 4 humanoids (usually 1 mage with pet and 3 warrior/rogue class mobs) levels 43-44. This is the tougher of the two ambushes. It occurs with the tents of the wastewater bandits to your immedate left. As usual, take down the caster first, keep the aggro on your pet or yourself but away from the chicken.

Before each ambush, the chicken will alert you of incoming. Good time to lay down a trap (whatever knd suits your playing style).

If you've survived the bandits, it's smooth sailing to the dock.

Comment by Thottbot

In BootyBay, at the cords of 28, 76

Comment by Thottbot

60,65 On a mountain by the Gaping Chasm

They fixed the bugs, this is hard now.

Comment by Thottbot

I did this quest last night as a level 50 mage and as stated in previous posts, I let the chicken run a bit ahead of me and when the mobs aggroed him he just kept running and eventually they stopped following. There were a few times I had to fight but nothing major. Was pretty easy. :)

Much Love,
Chastity

Comment by Thottbot

/tloc 60,65
Previous guys are right. Kill 3 scorps first and don't atack every1 who atacks chicken. Atack only if chicken stops and starts fightin. The only problem are 3 human mobs at the beach. It was tough, but I did it, and imho, any1 45+ can do. The rest was np at all. Finish the quest at Booty Bay.

Comment by Thottbot

You return quest to Oglethorpe Obnoticus in Booty Bay. He is at top floor 28,76.

For those of you who can't use coordinations if you are in the INN in Booty Bay you walk out of it walk straight up to the North up the deck. Turn right in the first door you reach after going to higher deck floor and there he is! :)

Comment by Thottbot

Tanaris 60,64 homing Robot OOX-17/TN

Comment by Thottbot

5450xp at level 46 (quest yellow) - since it wasn't listed at the top

Comment by Thottbot

I was about to start this quest, but an opposing faction started it first. I followed them to help them with the mobs.

I then went back and started the quest. I was not attacked once.

Cheers.

I apolgize. These comments should have been for the 09 quest.

Comment by Thottbot

Can't say that it was easy...
Those normal mob's were easy (those what chicken aggro's), but you will get attacked by 2 waves.
First wave contains 3 scorpion, used pshyical scream and they never came back...
Second wave contains 3 pirates near of other pirate camps so i had to kill total like 6 pirate. I had mana like 300 when second wave came so I changed to holy and started shooting with wand cuz all mana i had i used for healing myself. I were almost dead all the time and so was chicken but I finally made it after 8 min fight!
I really don't recommend to do it alone when you are below 50.

Comment by Thottbot

I've done this quest on 4 different characters and today when I did this on my lvl46 rogue I figured out a trick. This is for people like me, who are: lazy to find a group/have crappy gear/don't want to wait until lvl48+ to do this.

The difficulty in this quest is that there will be 2 ambushes on the way, and because my gear is crappy I had to blow all my cooldowns in the first ambush and therefore I had nothing left for the second...

This is how I managed to do this:
Start the escort @60,64, when the first group of scorpions spawn let the chicken "tank" them, and kill 2 of the scorpions using cooldowns as needed, then finish the last scorpion after the chicken dies! don't loot any corpses.

Now run back to 60,64 and start the quest again, in the first ambush there will be no scorpions(they are dead already)!

Before you get to the last ambush your cooldowns should be ready, keep a healing potion, trinkets, engineering stuff, anything that can help ready for the last ambush and you should make it..

Good luck @@

Comment by Thottbot

At last i figured out why i couldn't redo the quest it was, because i had to abandon the quest, then go to the chicken again and, accept the quest over again lol. I was able to redo the quest over as many times as i want until i finished the quest so i basicilly learned something new today.

Comment by Thottbot

OK- to all who dont understand why the chicken doesnt move after you fail a couple times. Abandon the quest right where u are at the chicken. The exclamation will come back and redo the quest again. You can do this as many times. Let the chicken go in front and ahead. Watch what he attacks and what he doesnt. the first battle will happen when scorpids appear from the ground a good 3-4 will appear. Then 3-4 humanoids once you pass the wastewanders.
Thats it.

Comment by Thottbot

Just solo'd this as a 45 BM hunter. Couple of important things (That some have mentioned)

#1- the Chicken will keep on running if he doesnt pull aggro. So really, the best thing to do is let him pull aggro first, then pull it off him using growl/intimidate if you are a hunter (Volley also works well but you better then be able to transfer it off you and to your pet)

#2- He will NOT wait for you. If he doesnt stop to fight, disengage and run like hell. If you are a hunter, leave your pet behind till aggro drops and resummon.

#3- He will not wait for you AFTER a battle either, so dont loot, skin or waste time, the second you are "out of battle" drop down with a drink and food. You can usually get halfway up in health and mana before he gets too far away. He moves faster then most escort quests (about the speed of a normal run) so aspect of the cheetah for hunters is your friend, in between battles of course. It will let you get a little bit more food/drink into you.

#4- He does NOT aggro everything. Let him run ahead, he will run past the camps without pulling anything, he will run past most mobs. There are only three "bad" battles, one with three crystalhides (lvl 45) one with three scorpids (level 45-46ish) and three assasins that spawn out of now where near steamweedle. Those are the worst, and level 48 to boot. I had a lot of problems with the last fight as I was only lvl 45, had to use health pot and feign, and still MIGHT have lost if a passing by orc hadn't taken a few shots at the one in my melee range. All other battles are single mobs easy to pick off.

All in all for the almost 5k points this quest awards, its not bad. Don't pass it up.

Comment by Thottbot

At level 46 (warlock), I found the three scorpions impossible.
Voidwalker, my tank, died and they jumped on me. We did not even kill one of the three scorpions. No spells could have kept us alive in there :)

Comment by Thottbot

i failed soloing as a lvl 49 druid..

i found i could kill the three scorpids no problem .. but i couldnt kill them fast enough before they killed my robo-chicken

=(

as it turns out OOX-17/TN cant take on one scorpid by itself, let alone three of them.. so make sure the scorpids are primarily attacking you. Also, dont make the same mistake i did and resort to healing the robot.. haha it doesnt work.

Comment by Thottbot

Done as 45 Warlock , got a mechanic greench from Xmas winter veil thing and easy just group feared dotted all and let my greench do the hard work

Alessia 45 Warlock Kazzak Horde

<3

Comment by Thottbot

This is easy q as warrior. Fisrt, clear the path from Steamwheedle Port to chicken. Then, when you let the chicken go, there will be some scorpids that chicken actually "creates", and they will automatically attack to chicken. Then, use Challenging Shout, and kill them (Challenging Shout aggros all the mobs around u). And then there will be another though place, where u can use same trick.

Enjoy,
Gnomiez

Comment by Thottbot

If you do this quest solo and your 46 and lower. Make sure to bring potions. It helps a whole lot. Especially if your a mage. Your going to need the extra mana.

Comment by Thottbot

Btw you cannot follow chicken and let aggro the npc's along the way he will fight to death! so that idea's out....

Comment by Thottbot

I hate that chicken, I did what the guys above me said, it was a breeze, I did it on my lvl 45 hunter, if your on a pvp server, it prolly won't be so easy.

Comment by Thottbot

I Tried to solo as a 46 hunter, had no idea what was gonna happen. The chicken aggroed every creayure along the way (creatures to close to use scare beast on because of thier compact arrangment) and when i finaly got to the scorps, i got wiped

The Chicken Cant Take a punch... >:(

Comment by Thottbot

This quest was completely ridiculous. I solod at lvl 47. I am a 47 Fury Warrior. It was pretty smooth until I got to the three scorpions, I almost died but used a superior healing potion to keep going. The three humans were cake. When fighting more than one mob on this quest I used Sweeping Strikes and Whirlwind which took the mobs out pretty fast. I think it should be worth more xp and have a better reward. I suggest doing this as a group just to be safe, specially for casters.

Comment by Thottbot

I'm skipping this one. Attempted as a 46 Feral Druid. This thing walks right into every mob along the way and is very weak! Normally on these escorts I can cast mark of the wild and thorns on the escorted to help out and use my heals but nothing works on this darn chicken. Rewards aren't even worth it.

Comment by Thottbot

Soloed as a 45 Draenei Shadow Priest, with decent gear

let the chicken aggro all mobs first, if you aggro the mob, the chicken wont help fight and will continue to run off,

pretty tough quest for shadow priests, remember to fear when the 3 adds turn up, drink between fights if possible, even then i had to use symbol of hope and gift of the naruu to save my gorgeous hoofs once or twice

Comment by Thottbot

It's hard to get good comments/advice on this quest because it's so different every time (not sure that people realize that). I've tried several times as a 46 shadow priest. Fighting the scorpions beforehand takes care of that part, but I don't stand a chance against the gang of 4 level 47 Wastewanders. If anyone knows how to fight a 46 shadow priest successfully against 4 level 47s, then please pass that knowledge along (Fear ain't gonna cut it ;)). And, obviously, they're so far away from the starting location that they will ALWAYS have respawned, in case you're thinking about taking them out 1 or two at a time (dying in between) and then making a break for the chicken.

But anyway, back to my initial point: the chicken aggros differently EVERY single time you do it. The second time I did it (before figuring out how to kill the scorps ahead of time), the chicken walked RIGHT through them (aggroed NONE of them). They attacked me but I just ran 'til they gave up...and then kept following the chicken. I can't help but assume that the same could possibly happen with the Wastewanders. It's quite annoying regardless, considering the rewards ;).

Some people have actually talked about how easy it was without even mentioning the Wastewanders.... huh?... how did they avoid THAT. LOL... See what I mean?... strange... :\

Bottom line: a little consistency with the chicken's aggro would be nice... I assume that it's intentional but can't quite figure out why... he aggros about 90% of the time according to my few attempts.

Comment by Thottbot

You do know, of course, that there is another reward for finishing all 3 chicken escorts, I assume.

Comment by Thottbot

Holy crap i was waiting for this chicken to spawn because i died lvl 48 hunter cause i didn't play smart. takes 4ever i was waiting for a good 15mins and still didin't spawn spawn so if this happens to you heres what to do simply log out for like 5mins or even do another quest then log out then log right back in should be fine.

Comment by Thottbot

omfg...I was about half way done with this quest and i had a huge lag spike, then i got back with 49 health back and stunned. Didn't even get to LOH. Gonna bring a friend with me next time cause that sucked ass. It was going easy for me tho, 45 ret pally. The 3 scorpids that ambushed game me hell since i didn't have much many to AOE.

Comment by Thottbot

i easily soled as a 46 hunter

Comment by Thottbot

I had a group of 5 levels 46-52 3 rogues, a warrior, and a druid. the aspect of the quest was easy and most likely soloable. however, after 6 attempts as a result of getting ganked by 4 bored 70s, we gave up. if you play on a pvp server, do this LATE AT NIGHT so there will be less horde/alliance. there's nothing worse than being 80% through an escort quest and dying in less than 2 seconds then having to repeat.

Raschlau - 47 NE Rogue Smolderthorn

Comment by Thottbot

As a lv 48 and 49 balance Druid, i could not solo this quest. it was impossible. But once you hit 50 and grab force of nature, it makes it so much easier. Just use it on the 2 events and its easy as heck.

Comment by Allakhazam

There is an other bug with this quest - if you engage the enemy and the hicken is not right by you, including the 2 pre-planned ambushes - it just wanders off and you end up failing. happened to me twice now.

Comment by Allakhazam

As tonight, the quest is bugged... The freakin chicken won't move... :(

Comment by Allakhazam

Just want to broadcast this wonderful quest. If you rescue all 3 chicken. You get 7100 bonus exp. true as is when i m lv 50. plus a mechanical chicken. dont pass up those distress beacon!

Comment by Allakhazam

I saw a reference to 3 escort quests I have done the one in the Hinterlands and Tanaris does anyone know where the 3rd quest is?

Comment by Allakhazam

Well this quest is bugged. And its the last chicken thing too. Pissed me off. The chicken won;t move after you accept the quest

Comment by Allakhazam

Eh, just mount up, aggro everything before the dumb ass chicken, and when things get bad use a AOE and a slowing effect,( pericing howl, frost nova, stuff like that) and then get away and mount back up and do it agian. i soloed with a 44 warrior.

Comment by Allakhazam

I just failed the quest and so I abandoned it. Does this mean I can not do the quest again?

Comment by Allakhazam

Did this quest as a 47 hunter. First time, I died. Second time I hung back a bit, let chicken aggro and sent pet to take care everything. Did get low on health and had no major healing potions, but managed not to die. Chicken was found SE of Gadgetzan in the hills just south of the shore there. I was actually looking for a place to rest and found chicken. Got 4400xp for just finding chicken so if I didn't escort, I wasn't all that worried. Turned in quest at bb got 5450xp points. Did quest on 2-24-06 worked fine.

Comment by Allakhazam

It's bugged for me on (8-15-06). The chicken gets to the destination and disappears after leaving the message and nothing happens. It doesn't say completed" next to the name...so..the mission is bugged =(

*good luck to ppl that play it when it's bugged

Comment by Allakhazam

Keeping it quick and simple

Quest coordinates:
Tanaris: 60.2 , 64.7

Action required:
Escort

Item/mob description:
Mechanical chicken on floor

Dangers / Info:
Let chicken agro 1st

Template v1:
Not interested in replies to this post, I will never reading them. Why? Quest complete. No need to come back.

Comment by Allakhazam

STUPID CHICKEN!

Tried solo lvl 46 lock didn't make it obviously, when the 3 scorpions ambushed me. Will try again at a higher lvl.

Thrall ~ Blakmariah ~warlock lvl 46

Comment by Allakhazam

5450xp

Comment by Allakhazam

I soled this q at lvl 47 or 46 being a warlock.

The chicked in my case proved to be a tough mofo, not in the sense that it was dealing alot of dmg, but in the sense that it can take quite a heavy beating.

It will avoid plenty of mobs, although eventualy it will walk in others. The good thing is that they are 99% of the time single pulls and as you move towards the bay, tha lvl is getting smaller.
You should not have a problem.

The only tough part is 2 or 3 times when an "ambush" happens. the chicken will stop and tell you "Danger Imminent" or something like that, then 3 mobs will appear all beating the chicken. Ass to that one more mob that might be following you from before ( The chicken WILL draw aggro but will NOT attack unless you stop to attack a mob ), and its not a pretty picture.

I used Howl of terror and then kept moving, chicken following.
The good thing is that the ambush mobs, behave like normal one as far as following you is concerned, meaning that after a while they will stop following you.

Very good XP on the q uppo completion in BB as well.

Comment by Allakhazam

Failed , went back, no chicken, abandoned it, and quest completely disappeared, still no chicken!
How do I get the chicken/quest back?

Comment by Allakhazam

Isn't that hard. Get two level 40+ players (yourself included) Besure to stay infront of the Chicken kill mobs ahead of time so the chicken will jump in and help. If your spotted by a mob after the chicken passes then the chicken will not help you down mobs.

Comment by Allakhazam

cuz we got more mysterymeats

druid lvl five oh and roguelevel 52

I was thinking this is like the hinterlands one . . .

oh hell no

you gotta go all the way up the steamwheedle . . .

the problem is the chicken aggros everything, unlike the hinterlands where some enemies cruise on by. So we got triple the fights.

Nope . . .

several scripted mobs show up, but I couldn't tell cuz were fighting everything.

The crazy one was where a hyena, a scorpid, was drawn and the fight lasted long enough to get a basilisk and a elemental patrol to show up to bomb the chicken.

Then right after that was the scripted triple scorpid.

Ok the scorpids are pretty uber, the rogue lvl 52 was getting hit for 138, and the scorpid are lvl 47. Times that by three. I thought it was cuz weaksauce leather armor, but in bear mode I was taking 90 per hit (well my leather is low end for my lvl).

The triple scorpids almost killed the rogue off (they got true poison where it lasts 30 secs and drains hp fast) before I could draw them off in bear mode + heal. (I was lom'd from the 3 scorpid, elemental, hyena fight and several other fights earlier) .

It was weird they didn't go after the chicken but I think the 3 scorpids scrip came in the end of the other 3 mob fight so they went after the rogue instead.

I'd say bring a warrior along . . . to draw the crowd . . . and they can probably take the hits from the triple scorpids.

But after that it was one's and two's . . . damn my druid, she was getting ticked off the chicken was aggroing everything. We even had a hynea came from down town, way form the mtn section. It even pulled the lazy basilisks!

The last scripted ambush is a 3 humans. The two assassin types are easy to deal with, but they are rolling with a shadow mage. And the shadow mage can f#@k up that chicken, one hit chopped 1/4 of its hp. So hit the shadow mage fast and quick and keep pounding on it because drawing his aggro takes a while.

Drawing aggro of the humans was harder than creatures, so the tank has to keep repeating (hey look at me!) aggro drawing tools . .. I was using bear . . .

But were weren't outta the woods yet, we had 3 seperate cases where waste wander humans get aggro'd by the chicken, a roc buzzard, another scorpid, and a final hyena.

come to think of it the kiting method might work since there's no stealth enemies and the lots of spaces but since I had a pal, we decided to bash our way through.

now time to see if feralas beacon will drop . . . been there farming mobs like John, and I get Nathin' for drops.

Comment by Allakhazam

i go to bootybay but i can't find him to take the reward

Comment by Allakhazam

tried it today and still not working, at least not for me. completed two others but this chicken isn't moving...

Comment by Allakhazam

i am a lvl 50 mage now and even that can't do. there is a place where this root will meet about 3 spiders and 2 barlisks. even after i aoed all of these. the robot won't wait for me to recover, which made me die on later road.

Comment by Allakhazam

As of now, 01/26/2006, this quest is bugged for me. The chicken would not follow me back to Steamwheedle.

Comment by Allakhazam

Just completed this quest and it's working fine.

Comment by Allakhazam

Solo'd it as a 45 Warlock. Pretty easy if you keep a good supply of potions and bandages.

Comment by Allakhazam

Solo'ed as a 48 Pally.

Took 20 minutes to run the gauntlet to Steamwheedle Port. The Shield was an upgrade for me.

Best O' Luck to ya!

Comment by Allakhazam

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Edited, Feb 22nd 2009 10:13am by JJakaJuan

Comment by Allakhazam

nt

Edited, Wed Mar 22 20:18:33 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

I tried to escort as a high 40s Mage, failed the quest. The dang chicken won't get back up after going back to the starting point. SON OF A....... I hope Blizzard fixes this.

Comment by Allakhazam

I accepted the quest, and the chicken didn't do anything

Comment by Allakhazam

I already began this quest,
but OOX-17/TN dont follow me,
How can I finish the quest?

Comment by Allakhazam

I had no problems doing this quest today, May 18th. The only problem anyone in our group had was when one of us was stunned, and the rest of us had wandered too far away, so they wound up failing. But they went right back and wound up soloing it.

Comment by Allakhazam

When I tried to interact with the chicken, it didnt do anything, no chat bubble, no nothing. I couldn't remember if I had tried it before and failed it, or if I'd ever done it at all (too many alts)..Anyway, it didn't say "failed" in the quest log, like alot of the escort quests do when you muff em' up, so I thought, what the hell..I'll just abandon it, and hopefully the beacon will drop again. Well, as soon as I abandoned it, the exclamation point appeared over the chicken, and I was able to escort him and complete the quest.

I did one of the other chicken escorts on the same day (the one in Feralas I think) and that one said "failed" in the log, but it still let me interact with him, without having to abandon it.

So, it appears at least these two chickens have different code built around them. Don't rely on seeing the familiar "failed" if you muff it, because for this chick, you won't. Just abandon at the chicken, and you'll get another shot. Hope this helps.

Comment by Allakhazam

Is it possible for a 44 rogue to do this alone?

Comment by Allakhazam

omg this damned chicken is STUPED .

Comment by Allakhazam

The AI on the chicken is *!@#. Sometimes when he beeps about "imminent danger" aka an ambush, he won't even fight and just leave me with three guys to deal with, while walking away. If he walks too far, you fail btw, so it's a bit hard to kill 3 equal level mobs AND keep moving with him.
Also, he has a strange range. I saw him fighting a wolf from 20 yards away (the wolf didn't chase or anything just fought back... from 20 yards away...)
Totally worthless quest if you aren't 50+... at which point it's still worthless waste of 30 minutes.

Comment by Allakhazam

i just tried today and once i killed a dog he disappeared and he said nothing but ill try n wait and see but it doesn't say failed or compltete yet

Comment by Allakhazam

Solo'd this at lvl 45 and im a paladin...too easy...did it in 2 tries cus firstly i didnt realise how fast the chicken went...i thought it was a walking chicken and so i went to get my mount but...1 croc and 1 hyena killed it...so then i knew how fast he went 2nd try... :D easy peasy lemon squeezy

Comment by Allakhazam

Right now 01/02/2006 the quest is bugged once again.. finished the tanaris part of it but the gnome in BB wont recon me.. so no reward even if thequest log says it is "complete"

Comment by Allakhazam

Not bugged as of Dec 30, 2006. So I want no one complaining about it being bugged lol.

This was a hard quest to solo for me, as a rogue. If I wasn't an engineer with dragon gun and dense dynamite, I probably couldn't have done it.

And mechanical repair kits don't work on the chicken. I made 4 of them after failing 5 times thinking they would work, but they don't. Eventually did it alone though after some more improvising.

Comment by Allakhazam

Solo'd as a 50 priest. Though I was 50, it was still a bit tough, though for other classes this is a good solo level. Just take the single mobs that are in your way and have the chicken help, and if you don't have a pet, remember to sometime let the chicken hold the aggro for a while.

For me, the first ambush was around the caverns of time, I think a bit before it. Three scorpid burrowers or something like that. As a priest, just take one to 1/2 health, fear, kill, take another to half health, fear, repeat ...

Easy until next ambush, a tiny bit before 64, 34. It was three wastewander bandits, and since one was a warlock, a voidwalker too. Was a lot tougher than the scorpids, used a mana pot though I probably didn't need to. Smooth sailing from there.

Love these quests because the chicken hauls major assparagus.

Comment by Allakhazam

First time solo (49 shadow priest) through this goofy escort quest (they aren't my favorite) I had no trouble staying alive, and for the most part, could keep the chicken alive too. That is, until the Wastewanders and Minions jumped us just south of Steamwheedle. I couldn't hold aggro on all mobs and dps and heal the stupid chicken. Good point to mention: you can heal the chicken! So the chicken died, quest failed.
Tried it again with a lvl 44 pally - no problems at all. Good strategy for me was to have friend pull aggro and I stay with the chicken and dps on the way by.

Comment by Allakhazam

Found the homing robot at 60,64. Incredibly easy for a 45 warlock, but I had very good gear.

Comment by Allakhazam

Not to hard of a quest after you find the robot.

Basicaly as soon as you start it the chicken takes off just follow him and he will lead the way. Keep moving as long as he does, sometimes he will go back to fight aggro but not always. Best thing to do is be sure that you let him get a little bit of the aggro and go down in health some because if he does not then when the mobs are dead he will just take off again and not give you time for health or mana regen.

How I did the quest was had one person riding a mount ahead and geting aggro then draging it away from the dirrection he was heading and this made it go faster; I did find out the hard way though that if you get to far away from him and even if he does not die you will fail in completing the quest.

What's along the path? Well your basic mobs you find out there will be there plus at one point 4 crabs will spawn which you will have to fight and at another point four humanoids (forget name) with swords will spawn which you will have to fight.

Because I lost credit the 1st time the person with me just did what I had done and rode ahead to draw off agro and it was clear sailing we both completed.

------------------------------------
Melocz ~ Dwarf Priest ~ Bleeding Hollow

Edited, Thu Jan 6 06:55:15 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

A friend and I did this quest, and we both managed to get the chicken back. He got the completion message in his quest log, I did not. I guess I'll see if it'll let me try again later, even though the rewards are useless for a rogue.

Comment by Allakhazam

Escort part of the quest is still bugged on Llane as of tonight. :(

Comment by Allakhazam

chicken doesn't move.

Comment by Allakhazam

double post!

good thing I didn't lag like this during the escort.

Edited, Aug 4th 2007 3:34am by Wuggums

Comment by Allakhazam

I was escorting Tooga the turtle back to Steamwheedle and I had the chicken distress beacon in my inventory. So, I accepted the quest, picked up the dopey metal chicken and escorted both turtle and chicken back to Steamwheedle :-)

Admittedly, for a lvl 50 hunter the escort quests aren't too much trouble, but doing a double escort is worthy of some snapshots :-)

Comment by Allakhazam

I did this quest on 12/10/05 and 12/11/05 and it was bugged for both times. I sent a help request to the GM so we'll see if they get around to fixing it, until then i guess abandon it and go back and look. Every time i'm in Tanaris I'm gonna try to do that quest, it's suppose to be good XP and my friend wants the off-hand thing so if it ever works for me i'll tell you guys :)

Comment by Allakhazam

Find him in mountains at 60,65

Comment by Allakhazam

Tried soloing this one with a lvl 50 war. Evertyhing goes relatively well until I hit the 3 scroptions ambus and get pwned after the chicken dies. agrr!

Comment by Allakhazam

two of similar quests was bugged for me also. tanaris and feralas. but i got another quest drop in hinterland when doing other quests. so I crossed my finger and try the quest. It worked! and I finished the quest. So now I thought I give the other quest a try because I needed the shield reward for tanaris quest. guess what, tanaris worked also. so i went to feralas and that worked also. So hinterland might be the starting quest for all other if you are bugged, but I don't think it was meant to be that way.

Comment by Allakhazam

Did this solo as a level 44 hunter, in order to actually keep him alive I had to almost make a path of dead mobs for him to walk through. One point with 3/4 scorpids, a basilisk and a coyote made me struggle but completed finally. Pushed me into level 45. 5450 exp.

Edited, Aug 6th 2007 2:49pm by HellfireDonson

Comment by Allakhazam

The chicken will lead you from Southbreak Shore to Steamwheedle Port, dragging you through whatever lies in between. I lucked out and a level 48 Dwarf Hunter followed me, killing a lot of the mobs so I didn't have to do much of anything. But as with any escort quest, you know the chicken will walk right into danger. There is a mob of scorpids along with everything else in Tanaris.

The mobs aren't too bad, other than the scorpids. If you really wanted to prep yourself, you could go kill them on the way to the chicken so they are dead when you go back by.

When you get to Steamwheedle Port, the chicken vanishes, you get the quest complete message, then you must go to Booty Bay to complete. Turn it in to Oglethorpe Obnoticus at 28,76. He is in the house on the top level above First Mate Crazz.

+4700 XP (marked low level when I turned it in)
+350 Booty Bay Rep
-350 Bloodsail Buccaneers Rep

Level 54 BE Paladin (I put this quest off as long as possible!)

Comment by Allakhazam

I've tried this twice and the chicken won't move. A GM has said that they're aware of the problem with it not working for some people and they're working on it.

Comment by Allakhazam

coords from CTMod 60,64

Comment by Allakhazam

Found the beacon last night. Escorted the chicken this morning.

However, when I went to do teh one in Feralas, it was just standing there--though I did not have a beacon yet.

Maybe I did the Feralas one already. Not 100% sure.

Comment by Allakhazam

to finish this quest solo i'd recomment that you go to the group of 3 scorpids before start the quest. and you can pull mobs. so you avoid acidents

Comment by Allakhazam

I tried this quest once on my own, and the chicken died. The quest still showed up as active (not failed) in my quest log, so I did not "abandon" and get it again. Joined up with a group, the quest was showing as active AND shared. Completed it but should have noticed that when the chicken disappeared I did NOT get a quest completed message. Then went all the way over to BB, found Oglethorpe... and in fact that quest is not showing as completed.

Will try again later and post update...

After abandoning, and picking it up again, I was able to complete it with no problems. So make sure if you fail it (if the chicken dies or you die) abandon it no matter what your quest log says.

Edited, Sep 18th 2007 5:16pm by bethanyburke

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest is a pain in the butt....Th one in Feralas was easier :(

Comment by Allakhazam

Have to watch out for the scripted triple scorpids. Get three cloaked assasians when you think your home free. Everything else was one or two mobs at a time, sometimes three. A tip, the chicken is metal, he can take a little abuse. If a caster, then let him go in like a pet, and dot on all before entering the fight, then fear, kill one or two and fear again if needed.
LvL 45 Priest, not bad just a long walk.

Comment by Allakhazam

Apparently applies to all the chook escort quests.

I died whilst escorting the chook. Quest listed as 'completed'. Advised by GM that although it's not in the 'currently researching' list, Blizz are aware and are researching.

GM advised me to abandon the quest, and keep an eye on the patch notes.

I advised GM to kick the Bug Forum maintainer because I had needlessly bothered a GM.

Edited, Wed Apr 5 22:15:13 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

I did this tonight with a friend and although we had both got the quest and had to do it twice it works perfectly. It's good advice about not reacting to mobs, most of them didn't latch on.
(whether I was just slow about clicking on it I don't know but I couldn't click, doing it twice was no biggie - I was a 46 warlock and friend was a 48 warlock)

Comment by Allakhazam

49 lock, easy - no glitches (5/07)

Comment by Allakhazam

Solo'ed it as a 43 feral druid. Funny thing is, I didn't have to run to SW Port or take on any scripted mobs. The damn chicken flew away where the first scriped mobs of scorpids attack, and I completed the quest. Was pretty bad ass, and a joke of a way for an easy 13.5k experience.

Comment by Nokiya95

Chicken has around 3k health apparently.
Feel free to let it tank things while you eat/drink. It won't die fast.
Soloable for hunters, warlocks, mages... without any resetting or real struggle.

Danger comes in accidentally pulling a stray mob.

Comment by Dissectional

WoW Classic macro to tell you which quests you have/have not completed in the chain to get the Mechanical Chicken.

/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{2766,2767}})do print(z)for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h" ,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE)end end

Zone	First quest	Second quest
Tanaris	Find OOX-17/TN!	Rescue OOX-17/TN!
Hinterlands	Find OOX-09/HL!	Rescue OOX-09/HL!
Feralas	Find OOX-22/FE!	Rescue OOX-22/FE!

Final quest in the chain is An OOX of Your Own, started and completed in Booty Bay.
Run this to see if you've completed it:
/dump IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(3721)

Comment by Trilliandent

This quest is broken for me. I escorted it, it said the thing about cloaking systems online, engaging cloak for transport to booty bay! and then disappeared. So I went to booty bay and ogledude had a yellow ? for me, but when I click it, it's just his intro text, 'how may i help you?' or whatever. The quest is in my quest log, but not marked as completed. When I hover over steamwheedle port, there is a spot that shows the quest, to escort it, but there is nothing in that spot; that is where he disappeared. I use questie.

I found a thing from blizz saying there are issues with it. I have a ticket in, but GMs have not been helpful so far at all with any of the issues I have, so I am wondering if I will have to just abandon it and start again. Le sigh.

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/125195

Can't Complete Quest: To the Rescue!
Updated: 5 months ago Article ID: 125195
Relevant Games:

"Common Problems
I cannot complete the quest To The Rescue!
I am unable to interact with Kadrak for the quest To The Rescue!
We have received multiple reports of this issue and are currently investigating it. Currently, we do not have a workaround. Be sure to check our Bug Report forums for any new issues. If you discover a new issue, you can report it there or in-game through the in-game bug report feature."

Edit: The GM told me the issue was not replicated so it's not an issue. Though it is an issue. Oh well.

Comment by Hopesedge

As a mage my best advice is to drink whilst it's taking damage damage against individual mobs, you'll need full mana for the ambushes if you're doing it solo. Also you can skip fights with lots of individual mobs if you polymorph then / frost nova them before they hit the chicken, but if you do that with too many packs then you'll have very little time to actually drink.

Comment by maglen69

Biggest issue with this quest is the NPC level.

He's lvl 42.

Going through a zone where everything is lvl 45 and to make matters worse his path takes him through multiple mob pats.

So while there may be only 2 "ambushes" he goes through roughly 8-10 mob dense areas and due to his low level will pull every mob, guaranteed.

In short, this is a massive P.I.T.A.

Comment by silverhawke249

soloable as a Lv45 hunter. for this, you might want to intentionally fail it once to spawn the three scorpids from the first ambush.
clear out the area of other mobs that's not those three scorpids, then start the quest.
mount up, as the chicken gets near the pack, aggro all of them and walk backwards towards the destination.
once the chicken has gained enough distance from where the scorpids were originally, feign death. if all goes well, the chicken and the scorpids will ignore each other.
the second ambush, unless pre-spawned, can't be cheesed this way so you gotta fight 'em. fortunately, the wastewanders are like 44ish, so there's no problem, just get the caster first.

Comment by aprilmyriad

Did this quest on 9-11-22. Only had to escort him a short ways, to 61.3, 53.8. No ambush spawned for me - although the chicken did give me a warning. Quest is very easy now.

Comment by Darkdefender

Spawned three scorpids on the warning, and a nearby hyena and rock elemental also aggrod(you can take a guess how it went) so be careful

Comment by Saoshyant

Avoid this quest if you're on a PVP server, followed the chicken for 15 minutes, enemy players ganked me. EZ-PZ

Comment by borcar

This was doable at level 60 since I saved these quests for later when I got them but I can see how difficult this one would be for level 40s and early 50s solo. He aggros the entire map due to his 42 level. Even as a feral 60 at one point he meandered into 9 diff mobs on top of the 3 ambushers near the end so I had 12 mobs beating on me.

Also like other escorts do not try to pull for him as he will just run ahead leaving you fighting. I would get a partner for anyone not near max level. Or look up the path and clear it and dont loot mobs before you pick it up.

Comment by ZyleneIT

Hate this quest.. that $%^&ing chicken even when aggroed by the mobs keeps running and failing the escord because runs away while u are fighting mobs... I let tthe chicken aggro but safter i aggro the mobs the $%^&ing chicken keep running. %^&* this quest really. 19 years and still bugged AF

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Rescue OOX-17/TN!

Escort OOX-17/TN to safety, then report to Oglethorpe Obnoticus in Booty Bay.

	Escort OOX-17/TN to safety (1)

Description

The gnome's voice crackles once again from the robot:

"I need to move OOX-17/TN to an open, safe place so it can begin a lengthy take-off procedure. It has built-in cloaking, but I need time on my end to make it operational again. I need you to escort the robot from its current location to, let's say, near the Caverns of Time! That should be a perfect place, and long enough, to get things on line!"

"Escort it safely and then come talk to me in Booty Bay! Oglethorpe Obnoticus - out!"

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Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Optomatic Deflector		Thermotastic Egg Timer

You will also receive:

	Optomatic Deflector		Thermotastic Egg Timer

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with Booty Bay
-350 reputation with Bloodsail Buccaneers

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(648))

Rescue OOX-17/TN!

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