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1.	The Hunter's Charm
2.	Courser Antlers
3.	Wavethrashing
4.	The Green Drake

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Comment by powdahound

I had the most luck with the regular Wavethrashers up around The Tower of Eldara (86, 25 or so). Took about 30 minutes at lvl 51.

Comment by 7215

Elite sharks tend to roam around that area, for a wandering 51 hunter, it can be dangerous!

Comment by 8134

I found a large concentration of Wavethrashers in the bay north of the Temple of Arkkoran (a named landmark on the regular map). Again, just as with the coursers, focus on the higher level beasts to greatly improve the drop rate of the Wavethrasher Scales.

Comment by 9913

If you click on the underlined "Wavethrasher Scales" above in the quest text it shows the drop rate to be better for the lower level Wavethrashers, including the Young Wavethrashers. I had equal luck it seemed with all the mobs I killed. Much better drop rate then the antlers for me.

Comment by jericho

Don't bother with trying the Young Wavethrashers. There are way too few spawns to make them worthwild to hunt for the scales. The first post about heading towards the Tower of Eldara and farming the Wavethrashers there is a good choice. They spawn on the beach and sometimes just off shore. There is easily enough to get your scales in under 30 minutes. The only bad part about this area is the sheer number of roaming Murlocs and Makrura in the area. At 51 you might have some issues without being careful, so take caution while fighting.

Comment by 33042

I had good luck around 88,34 ... but it's out in the boonies. You won't be able to eat and drink very often out there at sea, so I'd only recommend that area if you're lvl 54 or above. That said, there were a good number of the wavethrashers around compared to other areas. There are a decent number on land north of there as well.

Comment by Bradrules

Gave up after literally 30minutes and only 1 Wavethrasher Scale, it sent me crazy lol

Comment by badget

WOOT. i only needed to kill 8 of them.

Comment by 3946

Did at lvl 50 took 30 mins +

Comment by 31800

I will go back to some of the coords stated here and try. I did this tonight, level 56 Night Elf Hunter w/pet same level ... I started counting on paper with the little tic-marks 1-2-3-4-5, 1-2-3-4-5, etc ... I killed 32 Wavethrashers ... took FOREVER to even find them ... was about to abandon the quest ... and got ONE SCALE on the 32nd kill!!! That is just BS!! I was going to petition the quest as broken or at least a total waste of time. BAH!! What a joke. If I didn't REALLY want that charm ...another hunter in the area told me she had gotten 4 in 25 kills ... so her odds were a lot better than mine :(

Comment by 33816

I found maybe 30 in like an hour and a half from those 30(it was the young ones i was after)i had 2 scales. So don't look for the young ones cos they really don't spawn often enough to be worth the annoyance of swimming around for that period of time

Comment by 60672

Kill the regular Wavethrashers, i got 6 in 9 kills total just ran along the shore line (had Beast Tracking on) and took about 15 minutes traveling and all (found like 3 or 4 close to the tower)

Comment by 77522

the best place to find them is between the tower of eldarath and the temple of arrankoa.they are at the beach and at the water also

Comment by 71113

Horrible, HORRIBLE droprate!

Comment by 65110

I killed a total of 9 to get all 6, a mix between the Wavethrashers and Young Wavethrashers. In my experience, the type of wavethrasher didn't affect the drop rate.

Comment by 53628

50% drop rate. i was at 89 26

Comment by 89608

the drop rate on these are so low. plus, it was hard to find an abundance of them. i made one trip from the top of the coast of Azshara to the bottom and got them all.

Comment by inmediasres

I recommend route between tower at (89,33) and (82,11). Wavethrashers are usualy on the coast, while the Young Wavethrashers are usualy in the water. For me, youngs had better drop rate, so consider https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=9452 or https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=5996 or simply skip them

Comment by 78097

If this helps any one I went in too the ocean at 57,8 and under the noggenfogger potion the (skeletal) form and hunted the wave thrashers with no outside mob influences and they all dropped with in 15min for me hope this helps lvl 52 hunter

Comment by Sabrina

I agree with hunting the Greater Wavethrashers I had a much better drop rate from them.

Comment by Lukian

Took me 54mins to complete as a 50 BM Hunter. This was without water breathing potions. Quite a long quest.

Comment by 82315

Sharks, murlocs, those lobster dudes, and giants are trying to see me dead! I can barely find any Wavethrashers by the Temple of Arkkoran. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong spots but, seriously, its getting tough.

Comment by 108059

i found LOADS of them, like 5 or 6 on the same screen far south at about 71,96

Comment by BlackEnd

Young Wavethrashers seemed to drop the scales more often. got all 6 in under 30 mins.

Comment by Shivacode

After doing the coursers, the droprate didnt seem so bad. However, less mobs to kill and very spread out, in water nonetheless.

Took me about 40 minutes as a 50 BM hunter. The mobs are pretty easy to kill even being 53 and all, your pet should have the new rank of Growl and be 50 from killing the hundreds of coursers in the previous part of course. =P

Comment by 51739

Make a targeting macro it'll help you find them, even outside the tracking zone.

/tar wave

Comment by Sirian

I've killed about a million of the regular thrashers and get 4/6 scales.
Drop rate seems horrible.

Oh and btw, the tower zone (88,34) is fine even at level 50, I'm only 50 and nothings even been close to killing me yet.

Comment by 121859

I found a lot of them from 87, 15 and onwards and also had the drop rate improve after I got 2.

ETA: Also found a lot at 87, 28.

Comment by 126729

I found a whole bunch of the greater wavethrashers at 61, 99 level 53-54 mobs

Comment by Sokur

Spent over an hour swimming up and down the coast dodging raging murlocs & elite giants only to kill 16 Wavethrashers and have 3 scales drop. Had to take a break, i'll update when i'm done. The only good thing is I've got lots of thick & rugged leather from this chain quest, call it a perk if you will, i won't. On a side note, i've gone through roughly 800 arrows, so make sure your quiver / ammo pouch is full before embarking on this journey.

Comment by Aurai

Great Wavethrashers are the way to go .. I found lots of them at the southern end of Azshara on the Bay of Storms side around 70,75 and on around to 50,92.

Comment by slidewithme

Sadly, you can't get the scales through skinning.

Comment by 102621

Looks like Blizzard lowered the drop rate. I've been clearing the area around Tower of Eldara twice so far and only got 1 scale.

I'm starting to think the trinket is not worth the amount of time spending on doing this quest.

P.S: I dropped the quest. 1 scale after an hour of farming is just simply ridiculous.

Comment by idomagic

Took about 45 minutes from start to delivery of this quest tonight for my lvl 50 toon.

What I did was head straight north and jump down at about 41,16, then swim/run along the coast towards 87,23. Naturally, you should track beasts and kill any wavetrashers you spot.

By the point I reached 87,23 I got the last drop and could ride back.

Comment by 48772

I started up on the northern-most shore killing the young ones, there I got one scale in roughly 15 mins...
I swam around the coast looking for more, in 5 mins of swimming...
Moved down the the Temple of Arkkoran and killed the normal Wavethrashers, I got one scale in about 10 mins...
Swam down to the Southridge Beach (took about 10-15 mins) and got my last four scales in four Greater kills

:/

50 BM Hunter

Comment by MantiKore

Got my first scale at my 8th kill, near the Tower of Eldara.
They are easy to kill but I really honestly believe that these incredibly low drop rates is something that Blizzard should review!

Took me about 1 hour and 50 minutes and 28 kills to get all the scales... :(

The boring part is the moving back and forth looking for these dudes and waiting for respawns...

Comment by 176340

I started at the very western tip of the jagged reef, I got scales for all but 1 kill.

Comment by Faeore

I've done this quest on 3 hunter, and it feels more painful every time I do it. Bad spawn rates, Bad spawn locations, slow travel time due to the water, Bad drop rates. each time I've done it I've taken over an hour.

-Killing young ones: bad drop rates
-Killing normal ones: bad rates bad spawns
-Kiling the greater ones: lots of high levels "trash", questionable drop rates.

Quest needs a buff, either 100% drop or better spawns for the mobs.

Rewards are questionable in terms of effort to reward, they're gonna be replace in outlands very quickly.

Comment by Dirkster

Get a few elixirs of water walking https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=8827, put on Aspect of the Cheetah and just run to the north-east part over water where most Wavethrashers are.

Doing this I avoided all major aggro issues when walking over land, plus I killed some thrashers underway. Just be careful of the elite giants and some other mobs, but they can be avoided easily.

Comment by Rendon

Mobs are pretty uncommon, but at least the drop rate is good. I killed 9 regular (and 1 young) wave thrashers to get my 6 scales.

Comment by 193367

Blizzard really needs to rethink this quest. Wether its upping the amount of quest mobs, or letting them roam on land, something needs to be done. Swimming up and down a coast in water for 2 hours made me almost delete my hunter. This quest is complete garbage.

Comment by 207286

This quest is almost not even worth the XP. I got scales on my first 3 guys then killed 12 in a row without anything so I'm guessing it was luck. This quest needs more wavethrashers also, like everyone is saying, swimming and swimming and swimming for an hour is pointless. If you have good patients then go for it, but if you can spare the XP I say skip this quest.

Comment by Tacos

when swimming out in the water beware of the elite sharks roaming around. they can kill you in about 3-4 hits. I had to try and attack one just for the fun of it on my hunter, bad idea with the GY run.

Comment by 259529

I roamed around a lot, however, I found a group of them around the 52, 5.1 area which was approximately 400 yards to the north of where the quest stated they were at. I killed approximately 12-15 of them before getting all 6.

Comment by 273631

this quest is horrible the monsters them selves are hard to find and the drop rate is low but good luck :)

try looking at the chords from the other comments some of them have a lot of th wave thrahers

GOOD LUCK :)

Comment by 238959

The biggest problem isn't even mentioned by anyone: HOW DO YOU GET TO THE WATER?

I first came to Azshara and wanted to hunt lobster for my cooking skill. I wandered the entire coast and couldn't find a way down. Now I have a quest down there?

Everywhere I look is cliff. Someone please describe where a path is.

Comment by 237476

ı think the most important thing that where these mobs are. the coordinate is 84,11 :)

bu moblar 84,11 koordinatında bulunuyor.yalnız istenen itemler kolay bulunmuyor.kolay gelsin...

Comment by 237476

ın addition,the mobs whose level are 22 has the wanted item.

ayrıca 52 level olan moblar bu itemlere sahip

Comment by 286812

I had a lot of luck with Young Wavecrashers at about 57,10 to 62,10, where the mountains are. The drop rate was almost 100%, and there were no other mobs around. only took me 8 kills :)

it was also really easy to find them with track beasts since the other mobs were humanoids or yellow

Comment by Gummy

Went to 44, 12 and swam to 50, 7, about 10 kills later had the quest done. Hardest part was getting back on land ><

Comment by 146294

This quest took FOREVER to finish! So only do it if u have plenty of patience.
its not really hard just very time consuming. just avoid the elite giants and youll be fine =)

peice of advice. there are alot by the tower of elrada! just mind the murlocs and ull be done pretty fast ^_^ hope that helps

Good luck! *youll need it*

Comment by Dualas

Doesnt count towards Loremaster of Kalimdor.

Comment by 7203

Took 55 minutes to gather the scales. I was competing with two other hunters. The drop rate is not higher and Azshara, despite being a beautiful zone, is still one of the worst zones to do anything in.

The devialsaur eye is a great trinket but maybe not 100% worth it.

Comment by 406417

you can find some around the beach from 83:13 to 87:30 cca ;)

enjoy

Comment by Maxymum

I killed 4 of em and just got 1 quest item. It takes long time..

Comment by Mooz9

It reminds me of a angry grandmother (Or maybe 3 of them)..

Comment by 467982

Completed this quest 10/12/09, took about 15 mins at coords 85,25. It's still good. Thanks.

Comment by 493630

Took me about 20 mins to complete. Drop rate on the scales suck. If you go out to the Northeast tip at Jagged Reef they are all over the beach there.

Comment by xdirtyboots

Don't bother doing this quest. It takes upwards of half an hour, drop on quest item isn't even 100% and rewards are weak.

Comment by 512738

I recommend starting at the southeast portion of the map and moving your way back west along the coastline at the bottom of the area. If you are using Blizz' new quest tracker on their map (I was) the areas that they highlight give you an extremely small area to look in. Use these as a rough guideline, but go further out into the open water - that's where the threshers are. Make sure your tracking is on and the drops should come quickly enough.

Comment by 274984

Took me about 20 minutes looking around for a way 'up' from the jagged reef from where these guys are found until I finally gave up and hearthed.
Talk about a stupid design! At least make a couple ways up to the regular elevation so players don't get stuck!
Azshara sucks, just throwing it out there.

Comment by Javasar

They were impossible for me to find...

Comment by Thottbot

They are all over 88.30

Took a few kills, but got all 6 in about 25 mins. North of the temple on a beach.

Comment by Thottbot

Wavethrashers are not classified (like goo) so they are UNTRACKABLE. They look like orange 3-headed hydras and walk along the coast by the Tower of Eldara (89,34) in Azshara. Goto the tower and head north along the coast. If you are not yet done, head back to the tower then west along the coast. Not a bad drop rate (1 in 4) so maybe Blizzard improved it since the previous posters' complaints. :) Place your vote!

Comment by Thottbot

I had no probs with this stage as 52 NE Hunter, farmed the best drop rate left of the Tower of Eldara (in the 87,20's area), didn't need breathing potions in the deep parts, just sent pet down and pulled him back within breathable area and killed, had, I reckon about 3 kills to a drop.

Comment by Thottbot

You can go to the tower of eldara (89,33) i found alot of them there took me 10 minutes to finish.. they walk around on land so you dont need water breath potions. I did this as a lvl 50 hunter! Good luck!

Comment by Thottbot

K dont listen to all those other comments go to 86.27 all around that area on the beach

Comment by Thottbot

As every body ells says. Its at the northern coast. I got my 6 scales in about 20 minutes. But its a long swim!

Comment by Thottbot

Go for the Wavethrasher (lvl 52-53) not the Young Wavethrasher.

Best location is a circular pattern around the Tower of Eldara to the far east. That little penisula around 89, 34. On land and in deep water and everywhere between.

Farther NE is a WASTE of time. Farther West there are just fewer target mobs.

This WILL help. :)

Comment by Thottbot

go to the north

Comment by Thottbot

The best place to look is the around the Tower of Eldara. I found upwards of 10 around the coastline and you can find them as far out as you can swim. The tower is in the north east part of the map.

I also found 4-5 on land at any given time. Besides the swim up the coast because I thought they were all in the water, once I got up there, it really took no longer than 20 mins to get my drops, picking 1 drop up along the swim up the coast.

If you're just starting this quest and haven't done it before, head straight to the Tower of Eldara area. It will save you a lot of time.

Comment by Thottbot

i was lucky both of the quests (coursers and thrashers) i got them in like max-10 kills :D

Comment by Thottbot

I wasted 2 hours swiming for those stupid things and on my way out of the water I found them along the beach towards the tower do yourself a favor and stay on the land way more there!

Comment by Thottbot

it took 2� hours, i killed 18 of them and got:
3/10 from Great Wavethrashers
1/5 from Wavethrashers
2/3 from Young Wavethrashers

yeah, definitely, the hardest part is to find them
i did it at lvl 51

Comment by Thottbot

I didn't find any wavethrashers at the location detailed on the above map. I only found them at the fartherst eastern edge of the upper penninsula. They were near the point with the tower, past the areas where the Courser Mosshoofs are found.

Comment by Thottbot

I can see how it would be very frustrating if you don't expect to be spending some time on it so here's your warning- VERY TIME CONSUMING!
Now that we're past that- I went to the tower like everyone suggested. I probably got a droprate of 1-4, not bad. Start at the south of the peninsula and work your way up to the north and circle through the water down to the south. Rinse and repeat. I got to halfway through the water part and I was done but as I left I noticed the threshers on land had ALREADY respawned. With just half that circuit and the moose part, I walked away with three pearls including a golden, a plate green that will probably auction for 4 or 5g, a plate blue that will sell for 20g, a half level exp, and bags full of vendor trash. I was expecting to grind this level anyways, I found it to be very convienent- MUCH more convienant than trying to make your way through the gobs of aggroing hyppogryphs to the quest giver. I highly recommend a noggenfogger/underwater breathing pot but I survived without. Goodluck.

Comment by Thottbot

I found it easiest at about 88,31 around the Tower of Eldara. There's more of them, and the're on land so you don't have to fight in the water. Reasonable drop rate, and plenty of good loot from the other mobs in the area too. Came back with a bag of pearls. :)

Comment by Thottbot

DO NOT I repeat DO NOT go where this map here tells you to go. There ar about 3-5 Wavethrashers in that entire area and take an INCREDIBLY long time to spawn. Go to 83.30 and just walk around in that area. This map is EXTREMLY missleading and should be removed from the site.

Comment by Thottbot

I found alot of these around 87,28. About 7 there. Got the quest done easy :)

Comment by Thottbot

they can be found between the temple of arkkoran and the tower of eldara in the water a ways out so u will need under water breathing drop rate is ok but not great will have to kill quit a bit to get done

Comment by Thottbot

also i used eyes of the beast to see them along with tracks of the beast

Comment by Thottbot

WOOHOO after i posted tha i must have goten thottbot karma, all mine were under water and they all dropped 1 after another took alltogether maybe 35 minutes

Comment by Thottbot

Go east of the quest giver all the way to the water and there are tons there... i did this quest in roughly 15 min

Comment by Thottbot

Bliz has these hydras intersecting with "humanoids" a lot, so it's easy to find yourself getting jumped by things 1-4 lvls above you. I suggest keeping "track beasts" up until you find one, the switching to "track humanoids" while you're fighting, so you can see what's around.

And I *strongly* agree with a poster above--bring 2 potions of greater water breathing. It took me slightly over an hour to do this, and it's a lot easier with a potion.

You may also want to do this along with the pool samples quest from UC Apothecary, the 4 Tablets quest from Az, and the quest to find "some rune" from the goblin north of the Blood elf area. The tablet quest in particular results in well over 20,000xp since you get 4 quests to deliver the tablets, and 4 to return payment to the base in Az--easy.

Comment by Thottbot

WTB Aspect of the Fish. :( +30% Swim speed, dazed if hit, and UNDERWATER BREATHING.

These things are incredibly hard to find, but the drop rate is really high. A big, welcome change from the Coursers. Look around 95,35, off the coast near the Tower of Aldara, and be prepared to do a lot of diving. :)

I did it by throwing on Track Beasts and swimming up and down the coast, diving down to kill them. They show up as Aggressive Beasts on your minimap.

Comment by Thottbot

Hi guys i would like to confirm that from grid co ords 88.25 to 90.35 there is a vast number of the wavethrasher around and it is easy to complete this quest from here.

I searched some other co ords and found the drop rate to be around 1% i hope this helps u out.

I know that a fellow hunter said that its not worth the trawl for the trinket but in farness to him he was having some rather bad luck. Should he or she been looking in these co ords it would have made the grind that little bit easyer and of course the xp u get if ur lvling is very good as well but only come to here if ur well speced as the vreatures like to gang on u and ur pet.

I supose now we know how it feels when we gank the alliance and creatures of this world ! its finally pay back time so be Warned.

Comment by Thottbot

I went to 87,25 and while there was only one wave thrasher there I killed it and just starting killing the surrounding npcs and sure enough after about 1-2 minutes more wave thrashers started spawning. Happy Hunting

Comment by Thottbot

I am not having problems finding the Wavethrashers. I am having problems getting the scales. After 1 hour of killing them, and my bag becomming full of items from everything around me, I only had one scale. The above coordinates are correct. I believe it will only be patience and the fact that I will be alot richer by the time I finish this quest that will make it well worth the wait. The XP is not bad because I am about to level. Have fun. Kill everything around you.

Comment by Thottbot

damn these things thier drop rates are you low and you need 6 damn it!

Comment by Thottbot

i found around 85, 30, not good drop rate though

Comment by Thottbot

If you have to kill the mobs in the water, send your pet down to get them (Dash is of course very helpful), then call it back to the surface. You won't waste as much time swimming or have to worry about your breath. Swim speed pots would be a good thing though :)

Comment by Thottbot

I met 4 of them at 84.0 There are the moste ;) and the q is very hard to complite Good luck

Comment by Allakhazam

I didn't have much trouble finding these guys once I went farther out to sea. I was on the southern most beach when I started to go out farther and finished the quest fairly quickly, so I would guess they spawn more farther out.

Comment by Allakhazam

Is this quest and the antler one just for rep for someone? or is there an amount of gold you can get? or is it repeatable? jw...

Comment by Allakhazam

/target wavethrasher
/target young wave
/target great wave

Spam it lots

Comment by Allakhazam

the drop rate is appalling on this quest just as the previous was, I've killed about 15 wavethrashers 89,27 and still no drop, am i the only one that these quests always take ages with?

Comment by Allakhazam

nobuddy ever wants a hunter >:}

Comment by Allakhazam

Awful Drop rate. Swim around, that is where I found all but one of mine.

Comment by Allakhazam

It was all too easy. I ran off the cliff at the northern most point, and fell into the water. Swam from thrasher to thrasher. Sent my pet to do the dirty work, while I skinned the last kill. It took 16 thrashers before I got all 6 scales (kill numbers 2, 8, 11, 13, 14, & 16). The hardest part was getting back up to Ogtinc. If you set your hearth stone to Astranaar (Alliance) or Splintertree (Horde), you can get back faster than swimming around. My hearth was set to Shattrath, so that wasn't feasable. The next quest leads to the Sunken Temple. I'm looking forward to it.

Darkspear 51 Hunter NE

Comment by Allakhazam

Hello! Just thought I'd put in my two bits.

Everyone seems to be having a hard time finding these guys. I found a nice nest and haven't been having any problems. If you pull up your map of Azshara, look to the Northeast corner.There is a small Peninsula that somewhat resembles a southeast facing arrow. If you go just northeast of that, to the beach, you will find plenty of the young ones. Good Drop rate!

Comment by Allakhazam

(89,33) That is where I saw the most of them. I just took my time, got all of my scales in about 1hour 30 min just killing them and spamming /target wavethrasher (made a macro) and got it done, on to the next part!

Comment by Allakhazam

I found a group of about 4 of them just off the Tower of Eldara, about 92,38. Other than that it involved a lot of swimming around the shore. Drop rate seemed to be about 1 in 4.

Comment by Allakhazam

Gotta agree with fireopalwow, though I think his coords are a little misleading. I would say go to the Tower of Eldara, which is at (89, 33), and search the waters and coasts around there. It is called the Jagged Reef, as he says. Many more Wavethrashers than elsewhere, and MobInfo lists the drop rate at 34%.
Not too bad a quest at all if you go to this area! Wheee!

Comment by Allakhazam

Is it just me or does anyoen else find these extremly Rare. I found one after an hour of running around and watching others kill the normal mobs in that area.

Comment by Allakhazam

The whole /target wavthrasher thing isnt working..Is there something im doing wrong, or somthing spacific i have to do to make it work?

Comment by Allakhazam

I you check the reward from ST.... well imo that class q aint worth a %^&*/the efforth ^^. Its RPG but.. not this time..

Comment by Allakhazam

If you need many of these, just go to the most eastern corner at the northern peninsula of Azshara. Get further off the coast and you'll find a large amount of Wavetrashers. The drop rate was about 15% for me.

Comment by Allakhazam

I was going around the middle to southern coasts and found that the Greater Waveth's don't have a very good drop rate. O_o Confirmed this with Alla. So if you're going to try this, go for the young ones.

Because personally, I killed like 15 of these and didn't get a single drop. :( There are also a lot of elite giants roaming around, although they give pretty neat stuff sometimes, if you can take them. :)

Comment by Allakhazam

Another good spot for this quest is along the beach at 70,7, and continuing southeast from there. Just continue walking the beach to the southeast, and you're sure to find enough Young Wavethrashers to fulfill the quest requirement. If you walk the water's edge, you can target the Wavethrashers in the water, and pull them up onto the beach, avoiding having to fight them in the water. Watch out for lobstrocities when you pull the Wavethrashers; they tend to gang. I got all six scales this way, and only had to kill about ten of them. They often drop clams which can contain small lustrous pearls, a plus.

Comment by Allakhazam

Way easy. Ran to the point on the coast around 88,28. First 4 I killed on land dropped. Had to go into the water for the others. First kill dropped an epic mace! Next 2 dropped the rest. Not counting travel time, maybe 10-15 mins tops.
Stay around the Tower of Eldara.

Comment by Allakhazam

Lucky me! 7 kills, 6 scales....the courser antlers took about 30 kills though, so i guess its a fair trade

Comment by Allakhazam

The person who said to go to the Jagged Reef was right in my opinion, although his coordinates won't even actually put you in the water. The Jagged Reef,in the far northeast part of Azshara, is a large area. The hydras are offshore. And the specific hydras you are looking for are called "Young Wavethrasher"s.

All the ones I fought were level 51 or 52 and they were well spaced from each other and from other mobs which were also around level 51 and 52. You will have to swim around through the whole huge area that is called the Jagged Reef, but on the plus side the drop rate there isn't nearly as bad as 3% and you can avoid most of the murlocs and lobster humanoids in the area. I had to kill 15 hydras to get my 6 drops. Worked for me.

The closest thing I saw to a concentrated spot for the young wavethrashers was while I was fighting one at 80.9, 5.9-- I could see three others on my mini map at one point during that fight. (I kept my tracking on beasts to look for the hydras and just watched out around me for the other mobs, but you could do it the other way around too.)

Two caveats: I did see a level 57 elite shark at one point at the furthest out point I swam to. Hopefully he doesn't move closer to shore and eat anyone. Also be prepared to run thru an area of higher levels and elite giants on your way to the shore praying that you don't get knocked off your mount or at least not often. But at least once you get through that area you won't have to jump to your death to get down to the shore. The jagged reef is one spot where you can get up and down fairly easily.

Comment by Allakhazam

Leads To:
The Green Drake]

Comment by Allakhazam

Took me 8 wavethrashers to get 6 scales.. an thats killing the young ones too. The antlers took me forever to get 2. I did the cor. 89.33 an went up the coast an killed the young ones for the last 2 scales. Goodluck an happy hunting.

Comment by Allakhazam

OK I don't usually post, but these messages lost me a lot of time. 55,41 to the edge of the beach at 81,12 is where I found most of the waves. Any lower or farther has to be a very rare spawn time. They spawned on the beach near the Tower 90,33 much quicker. You will be doing this quest for roughly an hour if you stick around this area, but I listed the other coord unless someone else is questing. Don't forget to SWIM OUTWARD at the Tower AND high on the beach even near the grassland, there's a bunch in deeper water and in these spots by the Tower.

That's all the info you need, don't mess with the young ones or some of these other cords, they lead nowhere to nothing.

Edited, Apr 8th 2007 7:40pm by WrrDnJ

Edited, Apr 8th 2007 7:43pm by WrrDnJ

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest wasn't too bad, although it says to "track and hunt wavethrashers"...but they aren't trackable... =( I killed 10 total wavethrashers and got all 6 scales, I had good luck finding them in the northeast part of the map, near the tower on the beach.

ps, hunters need aspect of the dolphin or something, swimming is too slooooowwwww.....

Comment by Allakhazam

I found them mostly out of the water but the Temple of Eldara (89,33) some do go into the water and then come back out again.

Comment by Allakhazam

This is a REALLY annoying quest, the wavethrasher are MOSTLY (not all) underwater, and 2/3 of the other mobs there aggros... Also, I seem to have a better drop rate from the ones underwater. That might just be me though.

Comment by Allakhazam

sorry for the double post

Edited, Mon Sep 19 02:34:44 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

There is a large group of the Young Wavethrasher around location 49,8. That's in the water to the north and almost right in the middle of the map in that northern water area.

I had to kill about 10-12 of them to get my 6 scales for the hunter quest.

Comment by Allakhazam

i had a really good drop rate from the young wavethrashers.. dont know if its chance or if they drop more

Comment by Allakhazam

Well... I don't expect blizzard sacrificed much though to this part of the quest... they let us hunters hunt a creature which doesn't have a type... so we can't track it... perfect quest for a hunter ^^

Comment by Allakhazam

They're now beasts, contradicting what Eleonoway has said. You can use Track Beasts to track them.

Comment by Allakhazam

Ok, some people have said that they do not have a type and cannot be tracked; when I went there this afternoon, they were classified as Beasts, and could be tracked.

I did find a lot of them around the Tower of Eldara (90,33), which is on a small, sandy peninsula at the very easternmost bit of land on the map. Be careful, though, since there are lots of murlocs and crab-people about, and if you're tracking beasts they can sneak up on you. The drop rate wasn't so bad; about every one in three dropped scales for me.

Best of luck, fellow hunters.

Comment by Allakhazam

Found a bunch on the beach at 88,22.

Comment by Allakhazam

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Comment by Allakhazam

Ughhh! This quest makes me hate questing. Horrid drop rate, and very few thrashers. However, found most, say 90% of the thrashers around Tower of Eldara (89,33) -- the entire tip. solo'd without difficulty at 54, with the exception of venturing into the Temple and aggoing five murks and makrinni's.

Have fun :)

Comment by Allakhazam

ok so i was swimming over to the tower dodging giants right? so im passing the giant/snake combo and look to my left, and theres a giant, as i was swimming away, i noticed he farted. he farted a big green bubble underwater. the then proceeded to pop it, sniff his finger, and wave his hand to get the smell away.

Comment by Allakhazam

I went into this thinking it would be difficult- Instead I got the 6 drops in less than 10 kills.

I started at 66,6 and worked my way along the coast to 82,10 and got all 6 drops off of Young Wavethrashers. The most difficult part was getting back to turn in the quest, as there are leet giants and elementals all over the place at first, then some animals and humanoids as well. I didn't know what to track! :)

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-Ziana & Fluffybutt
Lv. 52 Hunter & Pet
Kael'thas

Comment by Allakhazam

This is how it happened for ME as a level 53 hunter w/ bear...

I took down the coords written here and took into consideration the "stay close to the tower" bit but that didn't work for me at all. That and I couldn't find hardly ANY wavethrashers (or young wavethrashers) at 82.10 nor 88.28 ...
I had the best luck in the water by the tower (but farther out)... around 85.38 ...

A few things to watch out for:
-lots of other crap in the area like crawlers and murky things as well as the crab-men... most likely you'll end up having to kill lots of those just to get to the wavethrashers which imo is really annoying

-IF YOU CAN TRACK, the wavethrashers are beasts, NOT dragonkin like I first assumed.

Comment by Allakhazam

It didnt take me all that long to kill what i needed, finding them was the hard part.

Comment by Allakhazam

Have being on this quest now since 10.30am the time is now 3.24pm have done nothing but kill and hunt these damn Wavethrashers and i've had 1 drop of the scale!

Comment by Allakhazam

90,33 got 6 scales in about 30 min. good luck

Comment by Allakhazam

Found some around 54,42. Just swim along the beach a little ways out and you will find them.

Edited, Nov 18th 2008 12:12am by tebinium

Comment by Allakhazam

Took me forever to do this pain in the arse quest.. and after 3 hours, and -32 speed swimming and lots of noggenfogger elixirs(really helped since I had ran out of waterbreathing elixir), I found the prime spot, Jagged Reef; drop rate there was great and so were the turtle scales from skinning the coralshell lurkers. coords are 84,24 north east portion of the map you will see on your map what looks like a light house, go for it no need for swimming to get to this local either, no jumping to your death.. just ride.. Enjoy and Happy Hunting! Hope this helps!

Comment by Allakhazam

Deep-dive helm helps alot on this quest.

Comment by Allakhazam

Young ones also get this drop

Comment by Allakhazam

I got the first 5 drops fine. 30 more mobs (and a crap ton of swiming and murloc aggro from half way across the map) later I still had not found 6th drop.

Comment by Allakhazam

Yeah run/swim round to the point of the headland. The spawn rate off the Tower of Eldara is much better. I swam around for about 15min, found 2. Ran up to 90,36 ish and found 4 in the water waiting to get pwn'd.

Comment by Allakhazam

85.24 is the entrance ONTO the beach

I got all my scales around the tower of Eldara

Either in the water slightly offshore or along the beach either side of it

Just deal with the random fishmen and crabmen first

ABout 50% drop rate

Comment by Allakhazam

i am a hunter from dragonmaw and all i need to find them was spammed /target wavethrasher

Comment by Allakhazam

It seems like the wavethrashers have moved after 1.8. I found 5 of them around 84,14
Whoops, never mind they are all young ones...

Edited, Wed Oct 19 00:33:09 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

I found a nice concentration of em' at 89,26 with a respawn time of about 10 minutes or so. To reach the shore you have to head straight East from Ursolan (44,26) otherwise it's all cliffs unless you get to the shore from inside the Ruins of Elderath.

MapCoords coordinates.

Comment by Allakhazam

I found them south again, I followed a path down from where I had the courser quests to the lighthouse area (there are two gnomes, one sells trade supplies, the other is blacksmithing) and there were a few of the thrashers in the water. I've killed 7 and gotten 4 scales so I think I'll stay in that area, no one else seems to go there and the majority of other mobs are turtles who won't attack you.

Comment by Allakhazam

Stay with the 89 33 tip. I started at 70 7 (found one there) but did not find any more till I got to 90 26 near Tower of Eldera. The drop rate there was about 50%. You will also find a few a bit out to sea and the respawn rate is good so it sould take 20 minutes or so to get the 6 scales needed for the quest. I just killed the other mobs to keep the beach clear, they are fairly easly (one at a time) at level 50.

Edited, Oct 14th 2006 at 8:34pm PDT by airboyz

Comment by Allakhazam

ha - I did the whole swimming around thing, Killed 6 got 2 scales... Glad I came to read this. Goiing to approach this a different way if WoW will ever come back up ONLINE!

Thanks

Martini Grace - AKAMA

Comment by Allakhazam

Took me 8 wavethrashers to get 6 scales.. not bad.. .It took me longer to get the place than to kill an get all 6 scales.

Comment by Allakhazam

My personal suggestion is this, head to the northern tip of the clifs to a place called tower of eldara. If you swim there you will run into a handful but watch out for the giants. By land you can walk down to the beach when you get to the point and there are several wavethrashers on the beach rather than hunting them out, one at a time in the water =)

Comment by Allakhazam

spear with a +15 agi enchant not bad ehh?

Comment by Allakhazam

i dont know how ur meant to 'track' them but anyways, 89,26 is agood spot they are the orange three headed thingies not nagas like i thought

Comment by Allakhazam

I cant find the Quest giver and some1 give me the cords..

Comment by Allakhazam

I killed bout 10, and got 4.. The last 2 was found in the last 2 mobs.. Rly.. There were most Wavethrashers round Tower of Eldara, although I got to 75 kills before all 6 was acquired.. Worst quest since the one in Hillsbrad called Helcular's Rod.. :P

Only do this q if u think the reward is worth it..

Comment by Allakhazam

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Comment by Allakhazam

Once you have it targeted with /target wavethrasher, cast hunter's mark. If you're close enough, it'll show up on the map and you can go right to it. (thanks to Varrock on Argent Dawn for this idea)

Comment by Allakhazam

pretty decent drop rate around 94, 30. they're a bear b/c they're untrackable. but chumps all the same. prob killed 15-20 to get all 6, nothing else cool.

Comment by Allakhazam

The droprate on this quest is horrid!

Comment by Allakhazam

just farmed around the tower (88,30) - took about 15 mins

5100 xp @ lvl 54

Comment by Allakhazam

after reading *most of the post here, i tried the swimming up to that tower, died when ganged, not a fun quest, cant get to where u need, the only way i found down to the beach was to jump to my death

not worth it, too much cost for repair, really bad quest i dont advise anyone to do it

oh and before anyone says why didnt you ask bla blah....i did ask in general chat....no response as usual. I found that it's better not to ask anyone for any help at all in wow because the responses i get are 99.99% of the time very rude and insulting. I have not played wow for years and years, i'm not some bored level 70 just there to make it misarable for new players like myself. I have to usually turn off the chat channels and try to muttle thru with what i know, or read forums like this for any help.

Edited, Nov 10th 2008 11:18pm by bernieboo

Comment by sevlin

this quest just makes me feel i have a cancer in my brain :D takes 1 hour to complete in swimming the water slow as hell

Comment by drth308

Just did this in Classic, took about 15 kills to get 6 scales. Around the tower of Eldara at 80,20 was perfect. Level 50, hardest part was running past the 54 Elites to get there.

Comment by Kittyx

Class	Starting Quest	Rewards To Choose From at the End of the Questline
Druid	A Better Ingredient	Grizzled Pelt, Forest's Embrace or Moonshadow Stave.
Hunter	The Green Drake	Hunting Spear, Devilsaur Eye or Devilsaur Tooth.
Mage	Destroy Morphaz	Glacial Spike, Arcane Crystal Pendant or Fire Ruby.
Paladin	Forging the Mightstone	Lightforged Blade, Sanctified Orb or Chivalrous Signet.
Priest	Blood of Morphaz	Blessed Prayer Beads, Woestave or Circle of Hope.
Rogue	The Azure Key	Ebon Mask, Whisperwalk Boots or Duskbat Drape.
Shaman	Da Voodoo	Azurite Fists, Wildstaff or Enamored Water Spirit.
Warlock	Trolls of a Feather	Soul Harvester, Abyss Shard or Robes of Servitude
Warrior	Voodoo Feathers	Diamond Flask, Fury Visor or Razorsteel Shoulders.

Comment by Kysumu

I was going to vote this in the top ten Classic WoW annoying quests after about 20 mins and getting a single scale (despite some posts in this thread saying how easy it was lol). Then I got a handle on it and did the rest in less than 30 mins.

I was questing at the North end of the map as the other posts said this was the best area.

The mobs are mostly under the water, I only saw a couple on land so you will be swimming a lot. They are not exactly numerous either so it can be a reasonable delay before you find the next one (swimming is sooooo slow).

I strongly recommend you get a water breathing potion. This saved me ages swimming round on the surface/just below the surface/trying not to drown fighting and collecting loot and made it much easier to find the mobs.

If you don't want to spend the money on a water breathing potion then be warned, some of the mobs are quite deep and you have to be almost right over them to be in target range.

The Wavethrashers do not track. As a hunter used to tracking everything this was very frustrating! So I made a macro to target and then put a skull on the mobs.
/target Young Wavethrasher
/target Wavethrasher
/stopmacro
/script SetRaidTarget("target",8)

This works for both normal and Young versions. Just swim round and spam it, saved me a lot of time and frustration.

The Young Wavethrashers seem to be more prevalent at the very North end of the beach and unlike other posts I didn't notice the drop rate being any better/worse than the "Adult" Wavethrashers.

Hope this helps if, like me, you are finding this quest to be a pain.

Comment by kredes

This is literally one of the worst quests in the game. There seems to be something really wrong going on with the spawns, combined with the low drop chance, at least in the North-eastern part. Sometimes they just dont respawn for a really long time.

Comment by mohdsnk

killed over 70mob got 3/6 items. worst quest in classic so far.

Comment by levinsong

Felt compelled to comment based on these other comments, especially after expecting the worst. I finished this quest in ~9 or so kills.

I went around the Southeastern tip from the Naga beach, was about to turn north and swim across the way but turned the corner and found Great Wavethrashers. First 2 kills dropped scales, and the other 4 followed quickly after. I followed the coast south and around and there were a TON of Great Wavethrashers ripe for the killing. I did have to drown and spirit rez to avoid a walk back, but overall this was incredibly easy.

Either the droprate was changed or the Great Wavethrashers are the key?

Comment by Softcore

Finished in 15 minutes as a raid geared 60.

Went near the tower in NE corner of Azshara, /way 86, 25

Cleared Hydras in area, used eagle eye to scout up and down the coast in the water to find more hydras, swam towards them once spotted.

Drop rate seemed to be roughly ~40% for me.

Comment by AnesidoraDH

Did this at 57. Best place was at 100, 23 and a little South at 84, 40 in the water. I found 5-6 of these guys back to back. So make sure you check the WATER and not just the coast. Good luck! Hope this helps :-)

Comment by etou11

Don't get fooled by all these map markers, there aren't nearly as many of these mobs around as they imply. Questie has false data as well. At most places there isn't a single one, so have fun swiming around searching for them. I took a whole trip from the very south to the very north along the beach and found perhaps 10 (Beast Tracking enabled and swimming, so I am sure I didn't miss them). Got 2 of the quest items from this one trip in like 20 minutes, before I aborted the quest and HS out. Waste of time, strong candidate for worst quest of entire classic.

Comment by Lozzie1107

This quest was a giant pain in the nethers. Many people have said to get a water-breathing potion, I agree. I didn't and I regretted it, the quest took me way longer than necessary. My best farming spot was on the southeastern tip in the deep water, farming the Great Wavethrashers.
Also, the drop rate was poor, around 25-30%.

Comment by Battlescar2112

I'm at the extreme southeast part (after a brutal travel to get here) and I've been here for 20 minutes swimming around looking for a wavethrasher. There are none. I haven't seen a single one anywhere here. There's nobody else around, so it's just me. There are no wavethrashers. Not one. There's supposed to be some all over the place. There are none. Not a single one.
I'm not sure why Blizzard thinks that it's a good idea to make people kill things that already have the worst drop rate possible, and not have any of the mobs to kill.

There are no wavethrashers in the southeast. Not a single one.

Comment by Dangerbook

I just took a little more than an hour to complete this quest at level 58 with Greater Waterbreathing elixir. I killed approx 23 wavethrashers including a couple Great Wavethrasers (level 54) and I don't suggest doing this quest at much lower level or without waterbreathing. Fewer mobs will aggro on you as you swim by including murlocks, makkrinni and so on. I started by making my way down the cliff from the quest giver, going out and swimming north along the coastline, riding back down along coast while there was beach - and the wavethrashers ARE found on beaches too! - then swimming south. The questie markers were fairly accurate note that both maps show there are no wavethrashers along most of the middle stretch of the Bay of Storms which is what I saw. Cannot stress enough that beast tracking and water breathing potion were both vital this was tedious enough without having to watch a breath timer. Picked up 4 spinefin halibut, 23 zesty clam meat, and 1 lustrous pearls from the thrashers and whatever aggro'd on me.

Comment by Dangerbook

Great Wavethrasher on beach, found in south, head north for easier prey

Comment by Nicholaa

With many of us Classic peeps utilizing Questie, I wanted to share that it's better to swim a lot further out into the water (before the fatigue area) and do NOT rely on the Questie markers; otherwise you may be searching a LONG time - BUT - as others have said, right around Tower of Eldara (91.59, 35.84) I found 4 Wavethrashers alone :)

It took 13 Wavethrashers killed to get the 6 required scales for me. No other loot worth mentioning.

HARDCORE mode for life,
Karms on Bloodsail Bucaneers Alliance

Comment by kevinish

Lvl 51 Hunter: Pretty straightforward; just jumped down from the QG, rode to the water and started swimming northeast. Encountered a few on the way, sending my pet (doesn't need to breathe) then finishing off from the surface with ranged. By the time I hit the beach by Bitter Reaches I was done.

Comment by Etreum

Take a water breathing potion.

I killed most of them in the Bay of Storms / Ruined Reaches area after I turned in the helipad quest and on my way to the engineering shack / ramp up.

Comment by KelWow

Is this working for SoD? I'm not getting any scale drops!

Comment by TruthPill

Make this macro.

/cleartarget
/target wave
/target young
/target great

Run up or down the shore.
Spam the macro.
Use eagle eye to scan the water (they can spawn out near to the fatigue zone)
Profit!

Helpful additions:

Azure Belt,
Ring from BFD,
Shaman friend with water walking,
Water Breathing Pot (or Gnomer staff)
Fishing Pole to get Essence of Water.

Comment by Subiedave

Stay northeast, seems to be a much better drop rate.

Comment by tielovou

I submitted a Screenshot of the location I found the most mobs (on day 2) That location was /way 45.1, 13.7 to /way 47.0, 0.3 to /way 52.8, 3.5 in a loop pretty much.
I just kept completing the circuit in the North to NE area of Azshara, it looks like Fatigue area but it never struck me and I was there for roughly 20 mins to get 4 drops.

The previous day I was along the coast & central Azshara and only got 2 drops over roughly 2 hours.

It seems like all the mobs with the drops are hiding out in the far ends of the water, but the drop rate seemed to be worth the swim.
Also, they did seem to drop more from Young Wavethrashers, idk if it was just me though.

Good luck! Hope this helps someone.

Comment by cromagnon

Tower of Eldara, Phase 6, drop rate could be increased, took 12 kills to get 6 Wavethrasher Scales. Hope this info is helpful.

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Bring 6 Wavethrasher Scales to Ogtinc in Azshara. Ogtinc resides atop the cliffs northeast the Ruins of Eldarath.

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The wavethrasher is an amphibious beast living only here in Azshara. They are powerful and resilient.

The tough, reflective scales from a wavethrasher mirror the strength of the hunter.

Track and hunt wavethrashers along the coast of Azshara, and bring me their scales.

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