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Comment by 5617

Leads to Unraveling the Mystery (https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=8314).

Comment by Thottbot

Ashi is at 50,26
Zora is at 36,63
Regal is at 53,100

Comment by Thottbot

Hive'Zora glyphed crystal location:

Take the cave entrance at the most south-eastern corner of the hive. Once you're in the cave, finding the crystal is simple; follow the cave right through to the eastern most end. The crystal is in the center of the round room filled with non-elite wasps. Easily soloed as a rogue, but I have no idea for other classes.

Once you're standing at the crystal, the aggro range on the wasps isn't large enough for them to see you (they are round the outside of the room), so you won't need your vanish cooldown.

Comment by Thottbot

Note: All glyphs have no cast timer. As long you click it, you get the item. This means so long as you can solo one elite bug, you can solo the entire quest.

Hive Ashi - Hive entrance at 48,25. Go to the very bottom hive entrance. Turn right. Crystal is in front of you 50,26.

Hive Zora - Hive entrance at 27,66.
Continue down the hive all the way east. This glyph is deep within the hive. The hive terminates in a circular rooms with about 15-20 wasps. The glyph is inside at 36,63

Hive Regal - Enter the Hive at 55,87. Go around the bend and head south. Continue heading south ignoring all forks until you reach the termination of the hive. The glyph is gaurded by 6-7 elites + Natalia at 53,100

Comment by Thottbot

50,25
61,98
27,70

all are approximated, and i use this only to show which entrance you enter within each seperate hive. Usually you need to find the 2 largest rooms.

Comment by Thottbot

I tried duo-ing this with a 60 war and me (60 priest). We got to the night elf without much trouble, but she kept MCing the war or me and tried twice to kill her, both failed. (At least we didn't get ported to Westfall)

Anyways, came back with a 60 lock and us two, and pwned her fine. The warlock DoTed her and kept her feared. She has about 28k health, and will heal herself when she has about 15% health, so be prepared to stop the heals.

Also, you might want to grab the two quests from Bronzebeard camp before you do this quest. He gives you a rubbings quest that you complete right next to her and a drop quest from any of the hive elites.

Comment by Allakhazam

Leads to "The Calling" raid quest.

Comment by Allakhazam

did it alone (rogue60) very very easy just combine distraction with stealh.

Comment by Allakhazam

Hive Regal...51.99 is the crystal
Entrance is SW of Regal sector

Comment by Allakhazam

did it alone (rogue60) very very easy just combine distraction with stealh.

Comment by Allakhazam

How about some ACTUAL COORDINATES, rather than "South"?

Here, I'll start.

Hive'Zora is at 37,62, take the most southeasterly entrance (tunnel entrance is at 27,65). Bring a mage or warlock for the 4-wasp swarms surrounding it. It's very hard to stealth around them, and very hard to beat them without AoE spells.

Edited, Thu Oct 20 15:16:39 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

Hive'Regal Glyph is in the south west hive entrance, at the end where the level 62 elite Night Elf Priestess is. It's good to do the "Into the Maw of Madness (Elite)" quest at the same time.

Hive'Zora Glyph is in the south hive entrance in a similar position to the Hive'Regal Glyph.

Hive'Ashi Glyph is in the eastern entrance.

Comment by Allakhazam

Dont take the chance on the sap, if you got other options at hive'Regal the !@#$% killed just broke the sap almost instantly and feared me and another rogue into the mobs, in other words she feared us into the rest of the mobs

Comment by Allakhazam

Hive Ashi
coordinates at 50,26. go in the top tunnel of the spiral, it's a straight path to it. clear a few in the room.

Hive Zora
Coordinates at 37,62. there's some of those triple flying wasps in there, at 60 we pulled the first group, then carefully got up to the crystal and got the rubbing. no need to clear them all. Same cave system as Hive Regal. by system, the same pattern of tunnels

Hive Regal
Corrdinates around 55,89. Same type of cave system as Hive Zora. Clear the room of adds. bring atleast 2 friends, Natalia must be killed to get to the crystal, as mentioned, she's the target of another quest, so you might as well get it too.

Comment by Allakhazam

Hive'Ashi crystal is in the eastern chamber

Comment by Allakhazam

only the reason for doing this is that from The Calling u get leggings that have +25 nature resistance and something crap.. for AQ40 =)

Comment by Allakhazam

ive had this damn quest so long, and i never knew they lead to some awesome rest druid NR pants

as soon as my buddies come on, im goning to get the last rubbing i need to finish this damn quest, and got those sweet NR pants

Comment by Allakhazam

did it alone (rogue60) very very easy just combine distraction with stealh.

Comment by Allakhazam

All three can be stealthed fairly easily.

In Hive'Regal, Natalia can be sapped. Rogues should use distract so they can sap from behind. Druids should refer to the following paragraph.

In all three cases of glyphs to transcribe, the mechanism for the quest is merely to click on the crystal which brings up a window immediately. There isn't even an "Opening Container" casting time-it's instantaneous. Click on the only dialogue option, then start running. Vanish is handy, but, alas, druids don't get that.

Hive'Ashi's glyph is in the tunnels closest to Cenarion Hold.
Hive'Zora's glyph is in the southeasternmost tunnels.
Hive'Regal's is in Natalia's tunnel. I think that was the southernmost one. I might be a bit off.

Comment by Allakhazam

Refer here for the questline description.

Desert Bloom Gloves a mod to update the prereq/leads to data)

Edited, Tue Dec 27 21:17:14 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest, as far as I know, is indeed possible for a rogue to solo. I did it at 59.

Basically, you concentrate on using Distract to move past all the mobs in your way. While it might not be necessary, I recommend you wait for Distract to cool down before progessing past a mob (you might think it's time-consuming to do this, but you must realize, it's easier to do this than it is to even get 3 people to succeed at killing their way through).

You should be able to make it to the glyphs without aggro from a single mob. Getting the rubbings is somewhat more difficult. However, it is made much easier by the fact that collecting the rubbings is not done in typical quest fashion. There is no progress bar that appears as you attempt to collect the rubbing (were this the case, you'd be interrupted in the process by the aggroed mobs, and probably quickly killed).

Instead, the glyphs act like NPCs might. When you click on them, quest text appears on your screen and you're given the opportunity to accept the objective. If you have instant quest text enabled, this process will take about one second. This is more than enough time for you to collect the rubbing, and then Vanish should that be necessary.

Hive'Ashi: This glyph is surrounded by several elite mobs. At lvl 59 I aggroed them all. After gathering my rubbing, I Vanished with about 60% health left.

Hive'Zora: This glyph is surrounded by several non-elite mobs. At lvl 59, I did not aggro them except when one of them approached close enough to attack me, thus drawing all the others. I imagine that in some cases, you would be able to re-enter stealth without drawing aggro at all.

Hive'Regal: This glyph is "guarded" by Natalia, a NE priestess who was corrupted after exploring the hive with an exploration party. She later returned there and became friendly with the silithid there. My experience with this glyph is abnormal, because when I entered the room, a group was in the process of defeating Natalia. After helping them out I gathered my rubbing. I imagine that since she is humanoid, she can be sapped. This would allow you plenty of time to gather your rubbing, then Vanish.

I hope this helps any rogues interested in doing this quest solo.

Comment by Allakhazam

This is very easily stealthed as a 60 druid as long as you understand that you're going to die. Take off all your gear that has durability. No point in accruing a repair bill.

I aggro'd nothing stealthing in to the glyphs. In Ashi, there are elites too close to the glyph to avoid when you unstealth, so pop up and click on it quickly. Click the chat text in the window to get your rubbing and then move to a place where you can recover your body before the elites kill you.

In Zora, if you pop out of prowl standing right on the glyph, you won't aggro any of the mobs in the chamber.

Do Regal last. The glyph is guarded by that NE chick, but you can pop and get your rubbing before she kills you. Again, try to die somewhere along the wall where you think you can recover your body. Run back, recover your body and then stealth out. If you do Regal last, you'll be near the camp to turn in the quest.

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Glyph Chasing

Rutgar Glyphshaper at Bronzebeard's Encampment in Silithus wants you to venture to Hive'Ashi, Hive'Zora, and Hive'Regal and recover Glyphed Rubbings from the Glyphed Crystals of each hive.

Use the Geologist's Transcription Kit to make a reasonable facsimile of the ancient glyphs. Return to Rutgar Glyphshaper when you complete this task.

	Hive'Ashi Rubbing (1)
	Hive'Zora Rubbing (1)
	Hive'Regal Rubbing (1)
	Geologist's Transcription Kit (Provided) (1)

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After our initial foray into the hives and Mistress Mar'alith's subsequent madness the three hives have been spewing out bugs! The increased activity might be tied into the glyphs covering those strange crystals.

We must get a rubbing from crystals in all three hives. If we can get those rubbings, we might be able to make sense of this madness.

Take this transcription set and some buddies and hit those hives, <name>. Don't come back until you've gotten copies from each hive.

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The following spell will be cast on you:

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

100 reputation with Cenarion Circle

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(8309))

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