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1.	A Simple Request
2.	Sealed Azure Bag
3.	Encoded Fragments
4.	The Azure Key

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Comment by shind

Pick pocket first. Then kill em.

Comment by 8346

These took a really long time for me. This was back when my Rogue was level 55, a few months ago. There were other Rogues in the area farming these oozes, and the respawn rate isn't fast at all. But it was worth it! I grabbed the Ebon Mask as my reward, and it lasted a good bit!

I do recommend any non-raiding rogue or pre-60 Rogue to take this quest on.

Comment by SeriusJones

Kill everything around the Ooze spawn because they share the spawn rate with the other beasts around. They are pickpocketable ;)

Comment by kreghx

Finished as a L50 NE R. Found one ooze with a fragment far North of the 65,25 - 77,27 "good spawn" coordinates...near the shore to the North.

Returned to the "good spawn" coordinates and killed enough oozes to get 8 more fragments. Then the spawn rate seemed to really slow down, and when the oozes did respawn, the didn't drop fragments. Very frustrating. Ended up killing everything in sight (challenging at L50 because of the flight patrol patterns of the NPCs)...and that didn't seem to help either.

1.5 hours after getting the 9th fragment...I finally got the 10th one...at 1 o'clock in the morning. I wasn't quitting until I got it.

Wheew!

Comment by dobe13

Definitely a low drop rate from just killing, and even from pick pocketing, had to kill/PP around 20 to get all 10.

Comment by Nines

Make sure you attempt to pickpocket the oozes before you attack them, it will cut down your grinding time considerably.

The chimeras in the immediate area share the spawns with the forest oozes, so if you can't see any forest oozes, start clearing those chimera.

Comment by Rizon

This was more time consuming than hard for me, at lvl 51 I had to stealth around 74, 28 (Just above the cliffs) dodging alot of lvl 53+ beasts filtering out these oozes.
I found that if I broke stealth I was generally dead, so I pickpocketed all the oozes I came across and was supprised at how quickly I found 10 fragments.
They carry them in lots of 1, 2 and 3.

Comment by 11294

Really annoying quest.
When you first get there odds are there won't be any Forest Ooze's, so you have to go and kill Mistwing Ravager's which are somehow connected to the Forest Ooze spawn. Both are 52-53.

Once you see a Forest Ooze, pickpocket it first then attack. Shortly after your opening move it will try to cast a debuff that will slow your movement and attack speed for 2 min. It's easy to tell when it's casting if you have cast bars turned on or you hear the casting sound and or you see the spell effect. Immediately try to Kick or Kidney Shot the Ooze. The spell seems to have a 10 second or so cooldown.

Carefully pick where you plan on fighting and expect to spend close to an hour on this quest.

Comment by 34371

Really Annyoing!
The ozoo's dont respawn! its driving me crazy!
i have been patroling the ozoo area for 2 hours and still no ozoo's...

Comment by 38714

I noticed that the Ooze's and the Hypogriphs in the area share the same spawn points.
Might be worth it to kill the hippo's when you're waiting anyway, it repopped Ooze's for me ;)

Comment by katn

old method but still very useful
set a macro /target Forest Ooze
bind the macro to a hotkey

get on mount , then running around and spam the hotkey
u will get one every 20 sec

stealth , kill and loot

Comment by Kurogane

What I did as a lvl 50 BE rogue was to first pickpocket the Ooze's and then attack them. I got from one Ooze's 4 fragments after pickpoeckting around 5-8 of them I got all the fragments.

Comment by Fostex

THESE OOZES SUCK!
respawn sucked and they were very rare took me and hour+.
i should have tried killing the hippogriphs prolly would hve helped consierably

Comment by Googles

I've noticed an improvement in drop rate as of April 19th, 2007. I've gotten about 6 Encoded Fragments in 10 minutes of Pick Pocketing/Killing the Oozes far north east of Azshara.

Comment by 41698

I went to the cords that were mentioned, and only found about 5 oozes. I pick pocketed them and got 2, and another from one acorss the area. The spawn rate sucks and so daoes the "drop" rate.Plus there is the 53Elites running around and other 52+ stuff flying around. I got too 3 tonight and gave up. This quest is so annoying.

Comment by 16014

I wouldn't get too excited if you get the first 5-6 in a short amount of time. For me, it was the last 3 that took about 30 minutes or so to get. Seemed very random though, about 1 every 10 minutes.

Comment by 23096

One method you might want to try if your all alone, and you don't have to worry about them being killed is to join a group and use the raid target icons to mark all the oozes you find. Then once your done spotting them go from ooze to ooze pickpocketing them. Once you pickpocket em all wait a couple minutes for their pockets to respawn then do it all over again. Again only do this if you don't have to worry about other people killing your oozes.

Comment by 47643

Make sure to pick pocket before owning the poor oozes, since there's a slight chance to get one, and even two, Encoded Fragments. Also wear gloves so your fingers don't get slimy!

Comment by Thottbot

Look up "Forest Ooze" on Thottbot, the oozes with the decent respawn rates are in that northeastern area. Run around spamming a macro "/target Forest Ooze". Also, kill any chimeras you come across - they share the same spawn as the oozes.

I got them all in about 30 minutes.

Comment by Thottbot

Kill every flying thing you see, and pickpocket all of the oozes. There's a chance to get one from the picking and on to drop, not that hard. Also, make a macro to target the ooze;

/target Forest Ooze

Some of them like spawning in the cracks of hills and crap...so look hard. Also, best place to farm for them is the very northeast section of Azshara. If you look on your map there are two hill/mountain clusters, just walk around those two and spam the macro every so often, kill the flying crap along the way. Keep going in circles with this method, not needed to mount either, as you will be killing things all the time. Pick-pocket, kill, easy.

PS: For the people that do not know, when you get Sturdy Lockboxes, DO NOT TURN THEM IN! You will make more money by opening them and taking whatever is inside. As the quest that wants you to turn then in gives you NO REP AND CRAPPY THROWING DAGGERS! They sell for crap as well.

Comment by Thottbot

GOD this quest is a pain in the ass (if you dont know the trick). i spent more than 2 hours wandering through the north-eastern part of azshara and all i found were 3 forest oozes, one of them dead. after three attempts a read about this /target and mistwing thing and today, i got all 10 fragmanets in about 30 minutes.
here is what i recommend: get the /target forest ooze macro. the are 2 hills in the eastern part of the bitter reaches, which you can see on the map. now here is what i did: run around the hill to your right hand and spam the macro. kill every mistwing ravager on your way. pickpocket every ooze you find and kill it right after. after your first or second round, you should know the spawn points, so you�ll get about 4-5 oozes every round. when i did it, the oozes just spawned when i reached them, so you should have no downtime and get the fragments in 30-40 mins.

tips: watch out not to run into those giants or most-annoying-of-all hippogryphs and gryphons.
use kick to interrupt the oozes cast of this most-annoying-of-all disease which slows you down to 70%.

happy hunting, this quest sucks big time, but the reward is quite nice.

Comment by Thottbot

lvl 50 Rogue - on Archimonde
25 mins and quest is done and i even killed a few allies along the way. :) Took the advice of others and did this:
1. Made macro - /target forest ooze
2. threw it on the hotbar and spammed the hell out of it.
3. killed all Mistvale Ravagers
4. Pick pocketed before every ooze kill.

Too easy!

Comment by Thottbot

http://avtii.dsl.ge/oozes.jpg

Worked like a charm.
Just kill Mistwing Ravagers if you are getting low on Oozes.

Props to that GM.

Comment by Thottbot

I was frusterated but when pickpocketing you almost always get 2.

Comment by Thottbot

I came here, started to search oozes. No where, no1. Then a friend showed me.. after that read some usefull info here 'bout the 2 mountains.

Pickpocketed 3 yet - 6 fragment received.

no macro, no coordinates.

Know the respawns now, mounting around and pickpocketing em.

Darkshadow lvl 50 rogue - Balnazzar

Comment by Thottbot

Coords: 64,25 - 76,28 forest ooze spawn out there just walk around and u will find em. If you kill em all start killing mistwalker ravagers and forest oozes will take there place in a respawn. once getting to 76,28 turn around and take the path again and again. Took me about 30 minutes to get em all.

Comment by Thottbot

I was at this for an hour--this is the easiest way to do this quest:

Make a macro that says '/target Forest Ooze'.
Get on your mount.
Ride around hitting your macro.

Avoid the giant elites. When you get an ooze as your target, find it, dismount, lose agro from whatever you have by running a lil farther (or vanishing), then stealth. I did it this way solo at level 50. Pickpocket oozes first always. Pain in the butt this quest was, but will be worth it in the end.

Hope this helps! :)

Comment by Thottbot

If you look on the map of Azshara, on the northern Claw tip there's two large mountain peaks. Equidistant between them and a ways south towards the beach there's a little mound that has multiple spawns of Oozes and the ravagers. That's the triangle.

Comment by Thottbot

I found that I kept aggroing those damn oozes when trying to pickpocket, so I would just vanish and try again. I was even using distract to get them to look away... So bring lots of patience and flash powder, this took a full hour for me to get those damn fragments, extremely low drop rate for me unfortunately.

Comment by Thottbot

There's just not enough of these!

Ive combined 2 of the methods there-

macro spamming: /target Forest Ooze

and the piramid map-

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5965/image14sy.jpg

REMEMBER: Pickpicket those slimey suckers!

This takes a bitty of time, but works a treat xD

Comment by Thottbot

lol took me about 20min to do this quest. I kept getting 3 fragments from each slime. Pickpocket 2 fragments, kill the ooze and get another 1. only had to kill like 4 oozes :)

DONT FORGET TO PICKPOCKET THE OOZES!

Comment by Thottbot

5 reasons to hate this quest:
1: Disease
2: Lots of monsters around them
3: Drop not 100%
4: Very hard to find
5: Chimera spawns at their place

this quest sucks!
i do not wish this quest even to my worst enemy.

but i did =]

Comment by Thottbot

You will get a better chance if you pickpocket the ooze then kill it works quicker and takes less time.

Comment by Thottbot

those hypogryphs or possibly more annoying then the quest themselves though

Comment by Thottbot

Just thought I would say that I finished this quest in 20 minutes and only killed 2 oozes. if you look at the quest again it says to kill the creatures of Azshara not just oozes. Got all of my drops off of Mistwing Rogues and the hippogryphs that are out there.

Comment by Allakhazam

I would also like to thank the person that first said that they could be pickpocketted. The whole process sped up as soon as I found that out. I would be done now, but as soon as I got 9 pages, all of Kalimdor died, and has been down for a while.

Comment by Allakhazam

I was doing this quest earlier today and found that you can get the fragments not only from killing the oozes but also from pickpocketing them. You can actually get two from one mob if you pickpocket it and find one and then kill it and happen to find one also. This has only happened once for me but it certainly helps to increase the fragments you get when having to race other rogues for spawns. Good luck to everyone working on it.

Comment by Allakhazam

Have to agree with afragoso; got a fragment with almost every kill, pickpocketed at 8/10 fragments and got 2 pieces. All my kills were in the northern area as described, my only problem was actually finding the oozes, they seemed to be few and far between.

Comment by Allakhazam

i meanaged to get them all in 15 minutes, also i found that if you kill the thunder hippographs they can respawn the oozes faster.....like wat someone said before

Edited, Tue May 9 07:50:49 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

I spent there over an hour. Found only a handfull of goos (maybe 10 or 15 with respawns) and did not get a single fragment... I killed lots more of the other beasts around and finally leveld up to 54. :(

I hate these farming quests. It took me 2 days (maybe 8 hours of gaming) for the metal quest in menethil where you have to kill the murlocs arond the sunken ship.

Comment by Allakhazam

I just finished this part of the quest, killed either 10 or 11 and got all my pages. The /target command helps, killing the ravagers is a must, and you should also memorize where you've seen the oozes and ravagers before, and check there often. I think it took me slightly more than a hour, which seems to be very lucky compared too others. Oh, also, make a path that takes you past spawn areas for ravagers and memorize it, once you've done this just keep following your path and it should be pretty fast and easy from there out.

Comment by Allakhazam

My advice on this.. Sure they're a pain in the ass to find, but save yourself some running around and get an engineer to make you a spyglass it really helps out, and it is a lot easier to pickpocket the item from them too.

Comment by Allakhazam

When i came to do this quest i could only find one Forest Ooze.

So i hid in a group of three trees (72.24) stayed stealthed and pp'd the
ooze about ever 5 - 10 mins.

I didnt get a drop each time but more often enough i'd get 2 Encoded Fragments
and the odd bit of tat.

This is indeed about patience and waiting for the right time.

if you dont have the patience they why on earth are you a rogue?
I'm lvl 52 and yes its been a slow and painful but it has had it's rewards.

Comment by Allakhazam

I did the quest only for 15 min and didnt kill any1. Just pickpocketing. I find 4 mobs on 70.29; 76.24; 72.24 and 80.24. Drob was perfect: furst i pocket 3 times: drop 2/1/2; second: 2/2; third: 1/0 and last1: 0 :) vanish 3 times and sprint onse. Did this on 02.05 WoW time. So dont kill - Pickpocket!

Comment by Allakhazam

After almost 3 hours and only 5 fragments... I just canceled my wow account.

Comment by Allakhazam

Been at it on this quest for 3 hours tonight so far. I've seen 3 minor spawns in southeastern azshara, near the Forlorn Ridge. Since everybody and their brother is doing this quest it seems, the mob spawns are scarce and out of the 20 I killed, I only have 1 page to show for it out of 10. :(

Comment by Allakhazam

In the southern aszhara, near forlorn ridge, forest oozes and mistwing rouges share 3 spawns. they're just north of the blue dragonkin.

Does make for a drawn out quest; hopes it's worth it. I'm sure blizz will fix this at some point by putting so many slimes in the zone you can no longer ride through. Similar to the fixes put in for ungoro and eastern plaguelands.

Hunters have a class quest to kill those mosshoof coursers. Can hardly /spit without hittin' one of those things.

Comment by Allakhazam

I just finished this quest and received a great tip from another rogue in the area. He said the Mistwing Ravagers (Mistwing Ravager are programmatically linked to the Forest Oozes and that we needed to kill them as well.

I thought it sounded silly, but sure enough, after I started killing the Mistwing Ravagers that I encountered, I started finding oozes much faster.

In terms of drop rate, overall I only killed 12 oozes. Between pickpocketing the fragments and getting them as drops, the only time delay was finding the oozes while competing with so many other rogues.

Edited, Wed Sep 14 05:57:23 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

This actually leads to a very nice choice of rewards. You have to go to the Sunken Temple and slay a green dragon (the name escapes me - starts with an "M"?) for an "azure key" which you then bring back to Lord Ravenholdt.

Comment by Allakhazam

Here is my take on this quest. It is difficult because the goos are hard to pickpocket without agroing as you need to be right on top of them and at lvl 50 they see through you quickly. However, that is the way to go as I was averaging 2 pages for 5 goos. Killing them netted me 1 for 5.

The real trouble is that the pathing of the mobs is killer and things are very close together. You will often get adds so bring a friend to help handle them.

It took me about 2 hours to get 10 pages - not too bad.

tiniana

Comment by Allakhazam

I would have to say this is the worst quest ever. 3 rogues doing the same quest with only 6 of the slimes in the whole map, and a drop rate of 1 in 8.

Comment by Allakhazam

worst quest eva! just further makes me belive that blizz hates rogues. drop rate sucks, spawn rate sucks, there are like only 4-5 oozes to begin with, and at lvl 50 u aggro them rock elementals (lvl55-57) everytime u move.

Comment by Allakhazam

You get the quest at 50, suggested quest lvl is 52. You get to where the oozes are and there is elite giants walking all over the place. The level 52-53 oozes are placed in the center of groups of mobs that are 57-58. Alot of rock elementals and different types of flying creatures.

I actually got something when I pickpocked 2 out of 10 times. The drop rate isn't all that well. Bottem line is... IF YOU HAVE A HIGH LEVEL FRIEND to help kill the constant ADDS, bring him along cause you will NEED him!

Comment by Allakhazam

By pickpocketing I got 2 fragments off 2 oozes each, and 1 off another. Thats 5/10 just from pocketing. Just ride around in a big circle and by spamming the macro you will eventually find all the $%^&ty oozes .

Comment by Allakhazam

When I was doing this quest I ran into only 3 oozes and alot of those stag or deer or what ever they are. While waiting for the oozes to spawn i started to kill alot of those deer or Stag or what ever they are and a few minutes later I found a few oozes. I don't know if there is a connection or not but thats what i did and i finished the quest in about 45 min.

Comment by Allakhazam

ive been on coms with my friend for the last 3 hours while he has been doing this. has 9/10.... still searching for oozes which are so far and few between.

Comment by Allakhazam

i've counted 5 of them on the entire map at any given time
this is ^&*!ing retarded and seems like a shallow ploy at making me run up time on my sub
bull#$%^ to the max

Comment by Allakhazam

guess i got lucky with these fragments, got three off the first slime i found - got two from pickpockting, got the third as loot. had to kill maybe a total of ten to get all the fragments, not too bad.

also, finished the next quest last night, killed Morphaz pretty easily. picked the Ebon Mask as my reward - improved crit strike chance by 1%, +36 Attack power, no question which reward i was gonna pick. also got Dire Nail of the Monkey as a drop off of Shade of Eranikus. not a bad run.

Edited, Fri Feb 10 13:46:54 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

Took an hour and a half and I killed 27 oozes to get th e 10 fragments. Just make a round robin on the Northeast part of the map going near the coasts and you'll get a good system of the ooze kills.

Comment by Allakhazam

yea, it's a horrible drop-rate, and no spawns, gg blizz.

also; you're going to get some pvp, other rogues want in on this.

Comment by Allakhazam

this quest took me from 1pm to 21pm to get them all.. and no the ravagers dosen't drop the fragments. only the Oozes dose. And btw the Oozes must gave a respawn-time for like 40 minutes. I scouted for over 30 minutes per Ooze, and then i went lucky at the end and pick pocket 2 fragments. So try and Pick pocket them or kill them if you feel like. This IS the most annoying quest in the history of World of Warcraft.

Comment by Allakhazam

It took less than an hour to do it and the rewards are worth the 45ish minsIi spent doing it. They are called quests people not freebies so stop crying like noobs about it and just do the damn thing. If u dont like the quest dont do it, then see how fast u lvl.

Comment by Allakhazam

I just did this one today. I found out that, most of the time, when you pickpocket and THEN kill them, they drop the thing twice... as well as twice the money. I got 3 fragments from 1 ooze one time.

Edited, Jan 12th 2007 1:42am by teamuffin

Comment by Allakhazam

i cant find any of the oozes only one ,rarely really weird isnt there a place where the concentration of these mobs is high

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest is bull*!@#. Theres hardly any Oozes. Its all birds BIRDS BIRDS! I spent 1 hour so far and i have found 4 and no drops. I quit it. Forget it not worth the effort.

Comment by Allakhazam

That "northeast" sh*t is partially wrong.

The Oozes are along the SOUTH part of the northeast zone of Azshara. Travel from Legash Encampment to Bitter Reaches (more or less from 65,25 to 77,27) and and you will get all the fragments in about 30 mins.

As some have said, pickpoket before killing them.

Edited, Aug 21st 2006 at 5:27pm EDT by Kraderif

Comment by Allakhazam

i hate this Q so much, i PP and kill 6 oozes in row and no damn fragment... im glad its over me...

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest is like the one to get your poisons, it's there to test how well you are using ALL of your rogue abilities (except lockpicking). You are rewarded much more quickly if you stealth and pickpocket to supplement your combat. Even combat rogues need to remember they are not leather fury warriors with backstab. Rogues also need to learn patience and how to recognize and sieze opportunity.

I finished this quest in two hours. I'm 60 and still wearing those boots.

Comment by Allakhazam

tried bashing them for 3 hours... got 2
pickpocketed them then bashing... got 8 in 40 min.

the wyvern share the spawn points with them so:
1 pick pocket oozes
2 kill oozes
3 kill the wyvern
4 goto 1

Comment by Allakhazam

I have to say this wasn't that bad considering my rogue alt is only level 50. Bring lots of flash power and be ready to sprint towards the forest oozes. got 5/10 solo in about 50 minutes and thats despite the fact that I had to stay stealthed to stay alive due to my agro range. At level 50 expect pick pocket to be resisted from time to time.

The rest I got in another half hour with the help of a 60 rogue. It really felt like the spawn rate increased. there are three major spawn locations from what I could tell.

Bitter Reaches Eastern big hill. Western hill and the little hill almost half way between the two large hills to the south.

All three of these are in the bitter reaches area.

If you are under 55ish my suggestion would be to bring 20+ flash powder to keep the Mountain giants from beating you to a pulp.

Edited, Fri Sep 30 12:30:59 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

I dont understand how can this be so hard to you people? It took me exactly 16 minutes to collect all the 10 fragments. Just go to the northern spawn points ( Forest Ooze ) and pickpocket and kill every ooze you encounter. You will get 1-2 fragments from pickpocketing and usually one after the kill. Only 6 oozes will spawn in the northern spots but they will respawn after 5 minutes or so.

Edited, Mon Feb 20 10:54:23 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

It's weird: for the first 45 minutes I went around and killed those few oozes that are there and got about 3 fragments. After that it went fast and sometimes I even got two pieces each time xD

Comment by Allakhazam

it does not matter if u pick pocket this is the worst quest i have done in wow the drop rate sucks the spawn rate sucks the mob rate sucks the pay off is crappy i would suggest anybody to skip this one it is the worst of the wosrt it makes this game as fon a scrabble or chess it is boring boring boring boring boring.

Comment by Allakhazam

Go to the north eastern part of Azshara on the southern shore. I rode up and down the area from 65,25 to 77,27. There seems to be only 3 to 4 oozes spawned at anytime. I was alone and it took me 20 min to pickpocket and kill them for the 10 Fragments. The respawn rate was fast.

Comment by Allakhazam

Took me about 25 oozes to do. First one dropped, then took a good number of them before they started dropping/pickpocketing again. A few had them both when pickpocketed and dropped.

Comment by Allakhazam

very easy quest!

pick pocket, kill, pick pocket, kill, pick pocket, kill, done!

15 minutes to 30... All droped... and got a grinnie too :)

Comment by Allakhazam

Everyone here is right.
Quest is a pain in the ASS.
But do it anyway. Nice gear if you arent in an end game guild. But thats not the point.
Oozes are located in the northeastern part of Azshara, between two mountains, check the map on this sight for more specific directions.
I did circles around the mountains, killing everything I saw (level 52, Once I had made one circle, the oozes were dead and not respawning. I made another circle and killing everything, which respawned fairly quickly, and by the second time around, the oozes respawned. After killing 20+ in 2 hours, no texts yet :(. Logged off and started over the next day, next two I killed dropped 2. Ran into a rogue (50) doing it, and he was getting slaughtered because his equipment was broke. He told me this: The oozes can be pickpocketed and drop encoded texts. JUST DANDY! So I pickpocketed them more and more. Never dropped one. After another hour, I was at 7/10, and had less then 20 minutes before I had to go. Snuck up behind one more and BAM! 2 encoded texts in its "pocket". Killed it, and another dropped.

So 1 out of 30+ pockets had the encoded texts, but thats the same drop rate as 1/15 oozes dropping a text.

Hope that helps

Comment by Allakhazam

Remember it's a rogue quest... pickpocket the Forest Ooze, before killing them... quest done in about 10 minutes

Comment by Allakhazam

Worst quest ever. Even though you can get em reliably from pickpocketing, there are so few Forest Oozes around and so far between that when competing with 5 other rogues (watchout for the ganks) it rather frustrating.....

Comment by Allakhazam

I did this quest at lvl 50, it wasnt that hard you just have to be VERY patient. At lvl 50 u should be able to take most things around here and if not u have vanish. The only enemy in the area to whatch out for r the 52-54 elite giants roaming the area. The oozes can be found in the North Eastern tip of Azshara. I did like many others said to and made a /target forest ooze macros. This helped alot because they are usually hiding on hills or blending in so they are hard to find. Also i made a macros /target mistwing ravenger, because killing these does indeed spwn oozes. The last tip to doing this quest easily is pick pocketing the oozes, often u get a fragment from that. This would be likely easier 52+ but is doable at 50. Also at 50 since u r so low ure pickpocketing often doesnt work. With doing these techniques i managed to do it in an hour, and got a quarter of the way to 51. I hope this information helped.

Edited, Sun Jan 15 19:39:22 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

It took me two days, the first day, I simply pick pocketed.
Then my queue for the BG's came up.
The second day, I killed the first ooze after I pick pocketed only cash. It dropped a Encoded Fragment. So it helps to kill them!

Comment by Allakhazam

Got 3 from a forest ooze. 2 from pick pocket, 1 from looting it after I killed it :) The stategy for this quest is really steal and kill hehe

Comment by Allakhazam

PP all the oozes and do NOT kill them. Make sure to take all the loot from PPing. The PP loot tables will reset in about 5 minutes.

Comment by Allakhazam

I have been doing this quest for over 1.5 hours. I pickpocketed at least 20 of these stupid things and only got 5 fragments. Besides being ambushed by stupid eilites and 57+ rock things. This is the worst quest i have done by FAR. Best bet is stay in one place and just wait for pikpocket loot reset.

Comment by Allakhazam

If you pickpocket the oozes you can get as many as three fragments!

I pickpocketed an ooze, which gave me two fragments, then I killed it and got a third. Of course, it's still a beast to find them before other rogues do...

Comment by Allakhazam

what is the reward for this quest chain?

Comment by Allakhazam

Actually Frankenshank you might find it worth the effort if you take into account, the XP and the reward that this quest(s) leads to

Part 2: The Azure Key i'd do it for the Boots/Cape (stackable on safefall)

Comment by Allakhazam

Pick and then kill the oozes in the northeaster part. Kill the oozes where they are and also kill all the flying mistwing ravagers becuase sometimes the oozes respawn as these. If you kill them then they hopfully respawn as oozes. I don't know the ratio, but I spent a good deal of time too and finally observed this. Hope it helps you go faster.

The reward for all of these quests are either some sweet boots, cape, or the best of all the Ebon mask. Check it out. Ebon Mask Thu Oct 13 23:22:37 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

how many times do you have to posT?

Comment by Allakhazam

this sucky quest takes about a week O.o

Edited, Sat Feb 11 15:04:22 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

I believe the hippogriffs are on the same spawn table with the oozes and the ravagers. I became bored and frustrated with the difficulty of finding the oozes and started killing the hippogriffs, and three oozes spawned shortly afterwards in that area.

Comment by Allakhazam

ashraza is shaped like a "C" upper and lower ends of the letter, tons of forest ooze. pick pocket them before u kill em. if u cant PP em, then respec or reroll. i got this done in 45 minutes.

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest seems to be all about luck. The first 4 I pickpocketed gave me 5 fragments, one pickpocket even yielded 2. After that I pickpocketed and killed these things fro about an hour and no fragment dropped, lplus since I am only level 50 I kept aggroing everything around (thankfully I just respecced to combat, so blade fury kept saving my life).

So, if you are doing this quest, hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Turn on the television, chat w/ your guildmates, cause this could be a long haul.

By the way, I found the best spawn rates to be in Northern Azshara, alon the ridge closest to the shore.

Comment by Allakhazam

It took me 25 minutes (after I read this thread) to get all ten. Just 8 kills and 7 fragments dropped from pickpocketing. The target macro helped alot too. I spent an hour killing them before I read this and no fragments dropped. Thanks for the advice!

Comment by Allakhazam

I did it in between AB games, took maybe 3 sessions, 1.5 hours tops. Whoever gave the tip to pickpocket the oozes is a sheer genius. Sped up the process immensely. The only downside is that I'd kill chimeras on my way out to AB, and when I'd come back another rogue would have gacked all the oozes. So I think it can be a done a lot faster than my method.

Still, it's nice having something to do while waiting for a BG to launch.

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest blows by far and near and to make it worst this part is so much fun! WTF! is up with the searching for these goos..like many of the others it took me a long while and i damn near gave up if it werent for my tendacy to truck on! I mean the worthless reward is so much better!THIS QUEST IS THE WORST QUEST IN WOW! BLIZZARD! you should remove this one!

Comment by Allakhazam

I did this in an hour as a 52 rogue. Using the co-ords listed I pickpocketed the oozes and then killed them to recyle them. I stayed away from the high level rock monsters and killed on the otherside of the hill to where they are -there are just to many mobs near the rock monsters to make it safe.

Basically just cleared any wandering mobs (levels 52-54) and then onto the oozes. Made some okay money and a nice drop to boot.

Comment by Allakhazam

Done in 15minutes at level 50. First comment is right, kill Chimera's and pick pocket. Did it at ~2 AM and was the only person there.

Made myself a
/target Forest Ooze
/target Mistwing Raveger

macro and killed whatever I targetted.
Easy

Comment by Allakhazam

Never again. Never again.

Comment by Allakhazam

I did this quest in about 1.5 hours and made a circle from the Legash encampment west along the beach area, then hugged the coastline back to the encampment. I stopped in between the two mountain spots in the middle of the NE part of the map to get a few of the oozes. I ran this route 3 times killing most everything along the way for xp.

I killed my first 5 oozes before I ran into a dryspell but never more than a few oozes between looting them. I killed 27 oozes before I got all 10 fragments.

Comment by Allakhazam

have killed about 10 ozes now WITHOUT A SINGLE DROP! got my first 5 quickly but since then.... man!

Comment by Allakhazam

I HATE THIS Q ! ! ! Takes sooo long time cause no god damn Oozes spawn anywhere. Been runnig around like an idiot for over 1h and found like 6 oozes who dropped 4 of those st00pid Fragments.....

Comment by Allakhazam

The @#$%test ^&*!ing quest ever. I could not even find more than one, which never seemed to respawn. *!@# blizzard, !@#$ rogue quests.

Comment by Allakhazam

I hope that this questline has a VERY nice reward for the headache. I hate Azshara cause of all the farmers. I went grinding there from 50 to 54 and swore to not return. Guess I lied to myself.

Comment by Allakhazam

i did this quest last night and found that a simple macro helped a ton. put "/target forest ooze" into a button on your skill bar. i was able to just ride around spamming the macro button every few feet to locate oozes easily. there is tons of aggro around the area but if you stay mounted you are fine. just vanish if they stun you.

i got 9/10 in about an hour then for some reason they stopped spawning. 20 minutes without seeing a single ooze so i just logged. ill get the last one tonight...

Comment by Allakhazam

when you kill every mob you meet, ozies will respawn more quickly...
pickpocketing gave me sometimes 2 piece of fragments ;)

Comment by Allakhazam

guys, btw you can picpocket the fragments from those oozes. so the "drop" isn´t that bad after all ;)

Comment by Allakhazam

took me 10 min to get all the pieces cause i went to the top rught hand side of the C and pickpoketed and killed like 7 slimes ... in 10 minutes btw i am lvl 51

Comment by Allakhazam

4 hours...pick pocket then killed 27 oozes.....right where everyone says they are...almost gave up at one point. By far the worst most time consuming quest i have ever done.

Comment by Allakhazam

got all my fragments from pickpocketing the oozes, although quest says to kill them

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 Tocino

I've cancelled my suscription to wow for this q.
Try not to do it, its quite annoying

Comment by Henderman

Macros make it easy!

1. Use this macro to find and focus your ooze:
/cleartarget
/tar forest
/cleartarget
/run SetRaidTarget("target",2)
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

2. Stealth

3. Then use this macro to pick their pocket and open combat:
#showtooltip Garrote
/cast Pick Pocket
/cast Garrote
Replace "Garrote" with your favorite opener

Comment by Varu

lost 1h30m for this quest, drop rate @20% and few slime, slow repawan

Comment by samuelvvv

If you try to do this at 50, bring plenty of bandages, healing potions, and flash powder. There are birds and elementals everywhere to knock you out of stealth. The elementals even come at you as a group in formation sometimes, making it impossible to dodge them. The oozes give you a disease that slows your movement and attack speed. Oozes are hard to find, and the drop rate is terrible. I did not try to pickpocket the other mobs.

Comment by BAMFmonkeh

Weird that I didn't see a comment about this, but thunderhead consorts and thunderhead patriarchs can also drop these fragments, probably would alleviate a lot of frustration with this quest.

Comment by GilblinStalker

As someone else wrote, the hippogryphs (thunderheads) can drop the items aswell with a decent drop rate, I farmed them north east of ruins of eldarath, would defi recommend kill these instead of the slimes to the far east azshara which has a higher level. I did this at lvl 50 as rogue and it was goodie.
Good luck!

Comment by Peaches91

The Thunderhead Stagwings north of the Ruins of Eldarath had a pretty good droprate for me

Comment by Filthy80

Confirmed that pickpocket still valid for SoD. 4/9/2024.

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Encoded Fragments

Bring 10 Encoded Fragments to Archmage Xylem in Azshara.

	Encoded Fragment (10)

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Lord Ravenholdt has asked a favor of us both. He wishes to remove the enchantment from this bag.

Unfortunately, some of my books on the subject of dispelling were taken recently, only to be destroyed by savages. The remains of my books are still valuable to me.

If you can bring me enough of the encoded fragments, I can piece them back together. Your best chance is to kill forest oozes, since they have a tendency to pick up just about anything. You'll find them in northeast Azshara.

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100 reputation with Ravenholdt

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/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(8235))

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