Kommentare

Kommentar von DarkRyder

Many people believe that all three OOX beacons are are more likely to drop off humanoids than other mob types. The drop rates are very low whatever the case, but if you sort the "Dropped by" list according to drop count, you can see that humanoids do seem to drop it about twice as often as other mobs, at least for the Hinterlands beacon. If you're farming for this beacon, focus on one or more of the Vilebranch camps in the area.

Kommentar von chrysolite

Seems like they became bugged on the last patch because I cant pick them up. The "looting this item will bind it to you" window sticks and wont come of until u loot the next time.... mucho wierd

Kommentar von 25585

works fine, just did this on my alt

Kommentar von 50558

That only means that more drops have been recorded from said mobs. Yes, they may "have dropped" this item "about twice as often" - but you have to consider they've been killed about ten times as often.

I find it unlikely that there is any magic to this other than that this item is a zone drop - as random as a world drop, but limited to the zone (with of course rares slightly more likely to drop it because they will always drop a green quality or better item from their loot table).

Kommentar von 31648

After doing every single quest available for horde, getting 2 BoE blue drops and over 30g worth of humanoid farming, this finally dropped right when I was leaving the zone. Dropped from vilebranch headhunter in jintha'alor

*edited for mob correctness*

Kommentar von Zettaraid

It took me a long time to find this, the other beacons are easier. After getting 2 epics and a few rare items, it finally dropped off a green sludge at the sludge camp (46,42). Good luck!

Kommentar von katora

According to the Wow Armoury http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=8704 this has an equal drop rate of 1-2% of almost everything in the zone, so I'd say any deviation from this can just be put down to chance. That said, I picked up the other 2 easy enough, and have managed to do every quest in Hinterlands without seeing this on my lock.

Kommentar von jodel

doing all three of these and turning them in will give you a BUNCH of xp. just the last quest where you get the pet mechanical chicken gave me 10500. (correct me if i'm wrong). it's kind of time consuming, but worth it and really good for the xp, i think. the drop rate of the beacons isn't really that bad if you're doing quests in the area(s). i had all of them drop for me at least two or three times.

Kommentar von 167468

I hate this quest soooo much. I've been waging war upon the Hinterlands for hours and not a single hint of this item.

Kommentar von 163484

to save everyone alot of time. this item is NOT only found in the hinterlands. i recieve this item while doing the quest chain http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=4135 i was stealth drop down and became unstealth, while waiting to restealth i was attack by one of the flying wasps and after killing it, it dropped http://www.wowhead.com/?item=8704 soo yea..good luck :D

Kommentar von Redcrosse

Actually, you probably found OOX-22/FE which, while similarly named, is a completely different object that drops in Feralas.

Kommentar von kingluciuslucre

I don't know if anyone has said this but if your in a group everyone get this beacon in the group off the same mob. FYI

Kommentar von Contay

After spending 4 hours destroying the entire troll population of the Hinterlands, I picked off a Silvermane Wolf that randomly aggro'd me, and it dropped the beacon.

I also recieved 2 world BoE Blues, a rare-qualityLeatherworking pattern, an uncommon Jewelcrafting design that yields a rare-quality ring, and enough Wildvine Recipes to make a bonfire in-game (if that was possible) leading up to the aquisition of this beacon.

Moral of the story: It can drop off of anything, don't try to dedicate farming time to getting the beacon. Just quest like normal (aiming for the Loremaster achievement while you're there) and you're bound to find it eventually.

Kommentar von 237350

Luck be damned, I just had to give up. According to the achievement system, I have killed 893 mobs in the Hinterlands - No drop.

I'm coming back at 80, and I'm tearing that zone apart.

Kommentar von Steerclear

Unsure if there is a link to a mobs unique-ness and the drop rate of this item, but I DID get mine off Morta'gya the Keeper...and she IS said to have a slightly higher drop rate. Still seems PRETTY random, but I wish you all good luck!

Kommentar von Cassandrart

If you loot this item and find the chicken, turn in the q but then don't do the escort quest, you don't have to re-loot the beacon if you decide to do it later. The chicken will wait for you with the escort quest.

Kommentar von 245214

I spent 3 days farming for this, confused because none of the others were this hard.

Then I realized I'd found it at level 45 and never completed the escort. I'm dumb.

If you're a high level like me going back to complete this quest, make sure you haven't found it already. You can kill all the mobs you want and it just won't drop. Do yourself a favor. Don't be like me.

Kommentar von 240252

Does anyone know if there's a specific order these are done? Like Tanaris first, then Hinterlands, etc? Or will any of them drop in any order depending on your luck?

Kommentar von 269354

I find that the best way to get this to drop is to simply kill as many mobs as fast as you can without bothering to concentrate on one in particular. Kill, kill, kill... and this will drop.

Happy hunting!

Kommentar von Gaould

I was here yesterday at the temple lvl 73 and dropped 2 times at first run at top lvl and 1 lower... Must be lucky. Don't know if it is a share drop tho... :) 1 in the cave and 1 on one lower lvl north side at the end.

Kommentar von RedwoodElf

I second that...I've done every quest, starting at level 49, and killed enough wolves to almost completely fill our guild vault with meat, not to mention killing anything else that moves. doing almost NOTHING but that, I'm now level 54...and still no beacon.

I think I'll start doing a /cry every time I loot a mob without getting it...I should be in Azshara or Outland, for crying out loud, not spamming turtles in the Hinterlands!

Kommentar von 256123

I was doing this on my DK to get the mechanical chicken for my main, as I had forgotten which of the OOX quests i hadn't done. I farmed on the wolves and Witherbark trolls for about 10 minutes a piece and nothing, then I went over to the Vilebranch trolls and got this off of my fourth drop.

Kommentar von deadca7

Killed the trolls for 3 hours, then I went to 18.6,49.5 and killed one single wolf, and got it >_<

Kommentar von 252059

It is entirely possible that the mobs that are killed for later quest chains have an understated drop rate due to their being killed by a higher percentage of people who already found it.

Kommentar von 313851

I had been farming for the beacon all over the place for a few days. I decided to read people's comments and was excited when someone gave coordinates. I knew the chance of it showing up in the same place twice was probably as likely as lightning, but I tried anyway. Lo-and-behold, 5 mintues of farming led to a wolf at 18.5, 49.8 dropping the beacon. The first time I checked the location nothing dropped, but after a re spawn it did. perhaps a patten..?

Kommentar von Surefired

Countless stories have been told of people killing hundreds of slimes, trolls, and wildkin. As some people have posted they have gotten kills on random worgs. The Mangy Silvermane in Western Hinterlands is the best place to get this.

A few people have stated they got their Distress Beacon after only a few minutes of killing these. I saw this and personally got mine after killing the 9th worg.

Happy hunting! =]

Kommentar von 323040

mine just dropped of a wolf aswell after 2 hours of farming

Kommentar von 293880

I got from an owlkin just west of the lake with the chicken after about 10 mins of farming mostly wolves.

Kommentar von 209573

I am now on a mission: To kill all of the Hinterlands.

I hunted and quested there all through my 40s and early 50s. I came back several times in my 70s. I returned last night at 80 and killed Jintha'Alor twice (once on the way up, and on the way back down.) I have yet to see my beacon. My tailor was giddy about the tons of Mageweave I threw her way, but my beacon is as of yet undiscovered.

So tonight, I shall start at Aerie Peak, and start killing things one by one, moving from one creature to another, slaughtering all things in my path and leaving behind a bloody swath of destruction until that damn beacon drops. Do you hear me, Blizzard? You have been warned, and now the Hinterlands will face my wrath!

::EDIT::
Okay, so not only does my luck SUCK, apparently I'm bugged or something. I was farming the daylights out of this place with my husband's DK, since he's never done the chicken-escort quests before. Ten minutes of killing things, and it drops for him off of one of the coastal turtles. I was right next to him when it died, but I COULDN'T LOOT THE BEACON. D:

We tried to kill stuff in Feralas for another beacon, to see if I could loot that one or not and see if it's just THIS beacon that's bugged, but got nothing for an hour. He hadn't yet turned in the completion for the Hinterlands bird in Booty Bay, so we're not sure if that "disqualified" him or not, so we're gonna go back and kill more stuff in Feralas/Tanaris and see if he gets another beacon and I do/don't. If I don't get the beacon when another drops for him, I'm gonna put in a GM ticket and see what's up with that. :-\

Now if you all will excuse me for a bit, I'm going to curl up under my desk and gibber quietly to myself...

::EDIT2::
*Facedesk!* *Facedesk!* *Facedesk!* *Facedesk!* *Facedesk!*

So, I was out in Feralas about a half an hour ago, killing a bunch of things for one of the Feathermoon quests, going for my Loremaster title. What drops? A beacon! But I was sure that I'd completed the Feralas escort quest. So I find the chicken, lead him to safety, and turn in the quest at Mr. Obnoxious. What does he have for me now? A chicken for me! I'd already done the Hinterlands one! No wonder the stupid thing never dropped for me, and I didn't get it when my husband did. The chicken is now mine and the Hinterlands is free from my wrath. So, as a lesson to you all, if the drop rate seems to suck, go to one of the other two locations and start killing things, just for kicks. You tend to forget things when you haven't done something in 40 levels and two years........

Kommentar von 329300

OMG, I have been killing stupid Mangy Silvermanes for the past couple of hours, and yet no drop. I have gotten all kinds of rare green drops, but no beacon. Also, I have been killing the whitherbarks in the nearby camp with no luck. Before that, I was farming the soothsayers near the Alter of Zul. What am I doing wrong?

Kommentar von 275508

I don't know if it matters what order you do these in, but I farmed this particular beacon for days...and I do mean DAYS, with no luck. I decided to give up and do the Feralas one to have it over with, and upon returning to The Hinterlands I had the beacon drop twice in about five kills.

Kommentar von xerae550

A little thing I noticed in the name that probably everyone who's come across this or the other two distress beacons noticed; in the name, HL means HinterLands, like on OOX-17/TN, TN means TaNaris, or on OOX-22/FE, FE means FEralas.

Kommentar von 236368

Just started at Aerie peak and killed everything in my path.
An hour later it dropped off a random troll all the way at jintha'alor. If your farming this Good luck, your gonna need it

Kommentar von podnov

Jintha'alor has a high concentration of mobs. I'd recommend starting there.

Kommentar von Starlet

if youre unsure if you actually did the escort or not, i just asked a gm, they said which ones i completed and which ones i had not so i wasnt out farming for hours. hope this helps <3

Kommentar von 84722

Ditto. GMs will tell you which quests you have completed.

Kommentar von 359656

I farmed for an hour, killing tons of mobs, then ported back to Ironforge to empty my bags, train and sell stuff. I came back and on my first pull 2 beacons dropped. So if you seem to have hit a "dry patch," try to exit the zone then come back.

Kommentar von 89799

I've just killed my 100th Mangy Silvermane and not a drop.

Update: Now 200 Silvermanes, plus a couple of Owlbeasts and all the green slimes at Skull Rock .... NADA!

Kommentar von 89799

OK, by my count it was in the low three hundreds of Mangy Silvermanes killed along with the other incidental mobs mentioned above. So for me it was a random drop, much lower than the 1 % drop rate that this site shows, more like a drop rate of 0.3%. But now I can get my own OOX!

Kommentar von 38539

Took about 1:30 hours grinding the elites to get it on my death knight :-)

Frozeneko - Dentarg EU

Kommentar von AmadiaHS

Purely coincidental? I've farmed this on two separate character and have killed hundreds of mobs in Hinterlands: both times it dropped from Vilebranch Raiding Wolf within 5-10 mobs. Luck? Coincidence? Probably. But it's worth a try to test my luck I suppose. Happy hunting!

Kommentar von 366270

farmed this on many toons across a ton of servers...

first 2 beacons dropped faster then i recall. 2% sounds about right.

this one i killed enough wolves to make a red meat boat to go to stormwind and feed every toon there.

i then read comments, i been in hinterlands 4 days.. grinding on EVERYTHING.. going back and forth..nadda

then i decided to go hit the slimes at the camp nothing..

so then i get so frustrated and bored... i go to green sludge at the sludge camp (46,42)

and just go nuts killing and slaying masses.. the screen was a glittering.. and bam.. 3rd sludge the beacon dropped...

its there.. just takes time.. i believe its very random.

:)

but it makes us engies very VERY happy.

Kommentar von olania

Well after spending the better part of 3 hours farming Mangy Silvermanes...

http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=17236 - one kill, got it.

Your mileage may vary, of course.

Kommentar von Thaag

When I did this whole chain on my main, I was lucky as all get out. I usually had the beacon within 10 minutes and the whole chain done in an hour.

Doing this on my alt...pain and suffering. What's more, I'm doing this for a friend, using a toon that really would not want this pet at all (yes, I'm an RPer). It took two hours of destroying Feralas. Three complete razings of Zul'Farrak. I'm afraid of what will befall me in the Hinterlands.

Kommentar von sitegod

OK... i have just started doing these now as i am very close to 75 pets...

I grinded for about an hour for the one in Feralas yesterday.... andf also sent a ticket to a GM to find out what if any i have done...

GM said i had handed in the hinterlands one but not done the escort...

So i headed to hinterlands and done it.... then went to tanaris to do that one as it was the nearest.... got the beacon on the FIRST kill....

I am wondering if you can't get a second beacon if you have not compoleted one of the other escorts?

Heading to felaras soon to see if i get the drop quicker this time ;)

To sum up.... deffo ticket a GM to see what you have done before and make sure you have completed the escorts before you head to the others :)

Yeah, just got it on 5th kill of the ogres near the cave :))

VERY happy now ;)

Kommentar von 405756

I decided to see if I could find this beacon. I have the other two. When I read that someone got it from a turtle on the coast of the Hinterlands, I went there since I can use the zesty clam they drop. After a while of slaughtering, a Saltwater Snapjaw dropped it at 81.6/43.4. I was surprised since I'd forgotten what I was there for! LOL. My gnome mage is lvl 50 and the lvl 49-50 turtles were good for grinding.

And, if you must toss something from your bags during this, toss the tails. The grey item scales bring in over 45s for a pile of 5 while the grey item tails bring in just over 7s per 5. I made quite a chunk o' change! The zesty clam went into the Clamlette Magnifique which raised my cooking about 15 points by the time I was done. The turtle meat went into the Soothing Turtle Bisque (which didn't raise my cooking but I like to use it). I also got several black pearls and a golden pearl and a blacksmithing recipe.

Also meant to add that there's an island to the north. I went there for giggles and found a clickable object called "Lard's Picnic Basket". It is a Horde quest but Alliance can still click on it. However, this makes 2 lvl 49 Vilesomething Kidnappers appear. They don't drop anything and there was nothing in the basket, at least not for my Alliance toon.

Kommentar von mouton

Perhaps I was lucky, but I find that the drop rate for this should be the same as the other beacons. There just happen to be fewer quests in the Hinterlands than the other two zones

Kommentar von jessika

I started questing in this area on a new alt who had NEVER been here before. The other two beacons dropped for me within 15 minutes of being in the zone. I have now been questing here for upwards of four hours and it has not dropped for me yet. Frustrating. =/

Kommentar von Aranyszin

After completing every quest in the zone, and still not seeing this item drop, I set my timer and kill counter and started grinding. I wiped out the Saltwater Snapper population, killing the named twice, then set out to commit war-crimes level genocide against the Vilebranch trolls. After an hour and three minutes, and over 250 kills, it finally dropped off a Vilebranch Wolk Pup. Couldn't decide if I was angry or happy.

Kommentar von 251272

After 3 hours of doing every quest in that area and grinding everything and anything the Distress Beacon still has yet to drop for me.

Kommentar von seebs

There's an obvious reason for which the drop rate recorded is higher on the lower-level mobs:

This never drops after you've gotten the quest. So if it's equally likely off each mob, then you're more likely to see it on the first mobs you kill than on later mobs. So people probably see it more off the mobs near aerie peak.

Kommentar von 357255

I don't believe the drop stats for this on Thottbot. I spend ages killing Vicious Owlbeasts and found nothing. I went over to Jintha'Alor and the second troll I killed dropped it. Of course, this could just be concidence - it is possible the stats are correct.

Kommentar von Uglius

Same happened with this one as with other two OOX.
After first wave chicken launches rocket engines and fly away and escort complete.
My guess is that it changed in patch 2.3.

Kommentar von 225343

This quest, as well as the other two OOX escorts have gotten much shorter. Originally, the quest had you escort the chicken through three ambushes to The Overlook Cliffs. Post 3.2, you only have to go through one ambush, decreasing the length (And frustration) down to a third of what it used to. The quest ends directly south of Skulk Rock along the road.

This was an un-noted change in the latest patch.

Kommentar von burns91

I contacted a GM before I started farming for the beacon because I couldn't remember if I had ever gotten it before. I did check the chicken beforehand and there was no quest. The GM said I hadn't done the Find or Rescue of OOX-09HL so I went ahead and started farming.

I started with the Mangy Silvermanes since there were a lot of people that said they had good luck with them, plus on the statistics it said they were one of the highest drops. I spent about an hour farming and no luck.

Later, I came back and read about trying the wolves and trolls in Jintha-alor, and after about an hour of farming (and getting ganked once and spending about 10 minutes trying to find my way back off the east coast), the beacon finally dropped off a Vilebranch Soul Eater troll.

After going back to the chicken, the escort itself was easy - only had to kill 2 slimes and then the 3 owlbeasts that spawn on the road. Then the chicken takes off and the quest is complete =)

Kommentar von DarthOej

I got the Tanaris beacon off of the 3rd mob I killed. The Feralas beacon took a bit longer but I didnt go out of my way to get it.

Ive went through the Hinterlands and did about 90% of the quests and farmed for about 2 hours before I gave up. Waiting for a GM to see if there is an issue.

Kommentar von NightKnight

I got the opposit problem
Tanaris was after 10 mins I got it
Hinterlands 5 mins
Feralas I been grinding for three hours straight before I gave up

Kommentar von Bryrida

I spent 5 min killing turtles for this when it FINALLY dropped! Geesh...

Kommentar von Conceited

Farmed in Jintha for well over an hour before deciding to try wolves. Got it within 5 minutes ><

Kommentar von 151424

Doubtful that anyone will read this far down on this page, but Mangy Silvermane is the way to go.

Kommentar von DocLithius

I shouldn't complain, but four hours to find this specific beacon is ridiculous for a green item. >_o; Still, I ended up getting it from a Saltwater Snapjaw, like a few people here. This coming from killing about 100 Mangy Silvermanes and countless trolls of various levels. Heh.

Kommentar von Emikserui

The whole mangy silverwolf thing is kinda creepy. I showed up ready to hunt for an hour or two... 10th kill.

Kommentar von Eccentrica

Like others, I spent hours farming this thing. I gained an entire level (53-54), filled my bags with Green items, cloth, wolf meat, vendor loot, vibrant feathers and large eggs. I also found an epic world drop , before I finally scored the beacon.

I farmed wolfs of all kinds, Owlbeasts, Slimes and Trolls. I cleared my way up Jintha Alor and back down again. It is quite possible I killed every living thing in the Hinterlands twice over. It finally dropped off a Vilebranch Soothsayer (Skull Rock region).

The beacon is definitely a zone drop, and your chances of getting it to drop are the same regardless of what you target. If you are determined to find it, and want to profit off of the time it will take you (be it 1 kill or 457) do not limit yourself to farming the wolves. The humanoids (Owlbeasts and Trolls) and the Oozes will at least add coin and items to your bags as you hack and slash away.

As a side note, all of the Homing Robot escort quests have been simplified. You only have to escort the robot chicken a short way, and encounter one ambush. The robot will then activate it's boosters and fly away.

Kommentar von 507144

I'm a lvl 64 Blood Elf Warlock, I got the Feralis becon earlier today (100 woodpaws and 30 orges) and I just got this one and I'm here to report the specs of my "mission".

20 mangy silvermane, 20 witherbark, 8 vicious owlbeast, 3 razorbeak gryphon, 20 highvale, 3 silvermane wolf, 7 primitive owlbeast, 7 silvermane howler, 6 vilebranch (west), 3 jade ooze, 6 green sludge, 20 savage owlbeast, 2 razorbeak skylord, 13 silvermane stalker, 5 vilebranch (east), 5 saltwater snapjaw, 20 vilebranch (south east)
Total 168

I have never had luck ever in my life and I got 2 becons in 1 day (FE from orge and HL from vilebranch in the south east), so I am here to say IT CAN BE DONE.

Also, I only had to kill 8 things for the actual quest which was completely different than the Tanaras one when I was in my 40s (I died several times).

Kommentar von Vanerius

Took me about an hour to farm it today, I was farming mostly in Jintha'Alor, many mobs there so went pretty fast :)

Kommentar von 413787

8 days of just mass grinding mobs for this, went through 3 lvls and probably killed over 1000 mobs to get it, finally dropped of a pat that attacked me while i was reading about others misfortunes with it.

Kommentar von Goatsee

I add my vote for the Mangy Silvermanes in Western Hinterlands. After clearing Jintha'Alor twice, and no drop, went and killed a few of those, and BAM.

Kommentar von 317824

I loaded up on the quests expecting it to drop at some point... there are a lot of quests there. Decided to do Gammerita first... she dropped it, first kill in the zone.

Kommentar von 299735

Feel free to either rate up/down this post upon confirmation as I am speculating. I spent 8 hours in the hinterlands killing literally every mob in sight with no drop. Well over 2,000 mobs. Before attempting to farm the beacon, that particular toon had never set foot in the hinterlands. Not even for the FP. So finally i decided to test out a theory. I went and picked up all the quests from aerie peak and 3 kills later the beacon dropped. If you've never obtained a single quest for the hinterlands i would advise having them in your log while you farm the beacon. Even if i'm wrong you can instantly abandon them later, and when it comes to farming rare/uncommon drops it's better to be safe then sorry.

Kommentar von 536511

Got mine in 20 kills :)

Kommentar von rkaycom

Farmed Mangy Wolves for about an hour, decided to go to Jintha'Alor and farm it up and down, came across a Vilebranch Wolf along the way and heard people on here say that they had luck with those, killed the wolf and... Well I think you all know what dropped ;-P

Kommentar von 532928

Was just about to give up getting this drop, after being in The Hinterlands for a solid 4 hours, killing EVERYTHING on sight.

I saw two Mithril veins in Skulk Rock and decided to kill every single Ooze in the cavern - the very last one alive dropped the beacon for me.
So dont give up guys, your time will come!

Oh and, I'd like to add that the first two hours I spent farming was _only_ at the Mangy Silvermanes, south of Aerie Peak, so there is not a better chance of getting the beacon at the Wolves - it's all RNG!

Kommentar von 534631

I got mine from Mangy Silvermane.

Kommentar von 358609

Like others, I was extremely skeptical about what Surefired had said, but I gave this a shot. Trekked all the way across to the western Hinterlands just for the Mangy Silvermane. Sure enough, third kill. I'm a believer.

Kommentar von skevans

I have just received this drop from a Green sludge. I spent a while hacking and slashing at Mangy Silvermane's, and then read the advice below, that I may have done part of the quest many moons ago. So I headed over to the robot at 49, 38 and was naturally disapointed to find that I clearly hadn't located the damn thing some time in the past.

Then as if by magic I killed the first Green sludge that crossed my path and the beacon dropped!

Hmmm, I wonder why they call them random drops?

Kommentar von 296787

I'm just gonna say...

I've been farming for the last 4 hours, and I've gotten countless greens. I've dented the wolf, owlkin, high elf, and troll populations enough to make them endangered species. The stupid thing just won't drop!

And just to rub it in my face -_- an epic Robes of Insight drops BEFORE this stupid quest item. The character I'm grinding this for has only done the Feralas portion of these quests :( seeing as she's only lvl 52, and I just got out of Feralas last night.

/endrant -sadpanda-

EDIT: Got it after clearing Jintha'alor for the 15th billionth time :D

Kommentar von Shadowjack

I also had problems getting this to drop. I cleared the whole zone about 4 times.

Things that dropped before I got the Beacon:

Plans: Wicked Mithril Blade which made my Blacksmith cry
Robes of Insight
Gut Ripper

Finally a troll ended the madness and dropped the beacon.

Good Luck.

Kommentar von WARBOSZ

58th kill the OOX-09/HL dropped off a vicious owlbeast. I limited myself to the vicious owlbeasts and mangy silvermanes around 16.52 the western area south of the pathetic dwarf area of Aerie Peak - killing off the odd Witherbark troll in the area but not counting them. Good luck not too hard maybe 15-20minutes grinding at lvl80. I also killed a named owlbeast or something in the area but just dropped a green. Found out about this drop reading up on the distress beakon that drops in Feralas. Should give me all three so I can do the fourth one Ein eigener OOX

Kommentar von 627505

This was my last distress beacon to find for my mechanical chicken and took far longer than the other two. It finally dropped from Morta'gya the Keeper at the Altar of Zul.

If you are grinding kills for this, I recommend going to Jintha'Alor. It seems to have a much higher population density than the other areas. You will also collect a decent amount of mageweave cloth which can be sold for a high profit (in my server, if not yours).

Kommentar von Defensive

Not only does it not drop if you have completed it, but it is also Unique - so drop rates are screwed a bit.

Kommentar von 260150

Does anyone else believe they call this "Distress Beacon" because of how much distress it will cause you if you actually want it to drop?

Edit: As has been noted before, the troll ruins are good places to farm because of the proximity of subsequent pulls. If you would like to farm in a location that's safe to go AFK, the turtles on the east coast are quite nice (but beware Gammerita, the sole hostile turtle).

Kommentar von blacklapine

Okay, after about 20 minutes working on the mangy silvermanes, I went over to Jintha'alor as was recommended above. Got the drop in less than 5 minutes. I am now a proud owner of a Mechanical Chicken :)

Go to Jintha'alor. Very populated; better chance of a drop. Also, great way to farm for mageweave, or if you're an herbalist, purple lotus.

Kommentar von justwowstuff

After an hr or so on both mangy silvermanes and Jintha'alor, I went back to kill some more wolves. After wiping them out, I decided to kill a random Vilebranch Scalper and see if I got some luck off them this time.

It dropped :D Seems like it can drop from any mobs in the area rather then just 1 kind :)

Kommentar von 596221

So I'm doing Loremaster Achievement and started to kill Mangy Silvermanes after killing about 50 I started to kill Trained Razorbeaks and it drops on #3.
I guess its pretty random

Kommentar von Necropenguin

After obliterating everything in Hinterlands for three hours I finally did, indeed get this to drop off of my thirteenth Mangy Silvermane. I didn't want to believe, and sort of half-heartedly wanted to prove the claims wrong via my own horrible luck, but sure enough it dropped.

I started off farming the slimes by the river for about an hour because I wanted to be close to the chicken when the quest item dropped. (Yeah right). Decided to move on to Jintha'alor; completely cleared that place several times with no luck. Went and killed the turtles on the beach with no luck. Killed indescrimnate random stuff running around the zone. Went to check the robo-chicken to see if maybe I hadn't completed the quest when I was actually questing there five freakin' years ago, but I hadn't.

So, in desperation I came here and I read about people having luck with Mangy Silvermanes. So, I gave it a whirl, and it worked. I realize that it is really all still just anecdotal; it may not work for you, but it worked for me.

Kommentar von Sunilrem

I know its all luck, but I cleared out Jintha i'd say 3+ times and no beacon. I go down to the turtles (small area with less mobs and more spread out) and only had to clear them out twice to get the drop, turtles do work as well!

Kommentar von 695853

Snores comment is great, and still works in patch 4.0.1 with only the following change:

It will work once per login. If you want to use it again - even if you complete one of the quests - you must logout and back in, and then repeat the command.

- Shad

To make this simple for everyone.

This is how you find out which quests you have not done.

/run local function f() t={};GetQuestsCompleted(t); l={485,836,351,648,2766,2767,3721};for i=1,7 do if not t]
then print(l) end end end;x=CreateFrame("FRAME");x:RegisterEvent("QUEST_QUERY_COMPLETE"); x:SetScript("OnEvent",f);QueryQuestsCompleted()

Copy & paste this into the WoW chat.

Now you will see a few quest IDs, there are the quests you have not completed yet.
This is how you can read the IDs:

485 = Find OOX-09/HL! - Sucht OOX-09/HL!

836 = Rescue OOX-09/HL - Rettet OOX-09/HL!

351 = Find OOX-17/TN! - Findet OOX-17/TN!

648 = Rescue OOX-17/TN! - Rettet OOX-17/TN!

2766 = Find OOX-22/FE! - Findet OOX-22/FE!

2767 = Rescue OOX-22/FE! - Rettet OOX-22/FE

3721 = An OOX of Your Own - Ein eigener OOX

Please note that you can only use this macro once per minute. So if you want to check the quests for another character you would need to wait a minute.

/Snore

Kommentar von Gerelos

Killed my way across the Hinterlands on my 80 warrior, took about 30 minutes but got my beacon off of a Silvermane Howler just east of Quel'Danil Lodge. Killed every Worg, Moonkin and Troll in my path. Happy Hunting!

Kommentar von Fangoria

Thank you for this macro. It has been a while and was unsure what I needed. It worked perfectly!

Kommentar von 325953

I literally had to exterminate all of Jintha'Alor to get it to drop. Everyone from the bottom of the steps, their pets, their raiding wolves, all the way up through Princess Hexx. I ruined an *entire tribe of people* for this thing.

And the rest of the quest took 3 minutes. Their sacrifice was not in vain.

Kommentar von 198619

after 3 evenings of killing in hinterlands it finally dropped from a troll :D

Kommentar von Sephiroth

I've been farming the silvermane wolves everyone talks about good luck with, and not having any luck with them. Over an hour and still no drop, including random owlbeasts and trolls that get in my way. Also spent some time on turtles with no luck. Going to continue to farm until I get this final quest drop for my robot chicken!

Kommentar von 707784

Is this still obtainable since 4.0.3? Tried for a couple hours with no luck and many of the NPCs with a higher drop rate on this list are nowhere to be found.

Edit: After taking a break I went back to try again and after about 15 minutes it finally dropped. Around 2 hours 15 minutes of grinding.

Kommentar von Emmeno

I got 2 out of 3 really easy but this third one just won't drop for me, cleared jintha'alor 3 times and many wolves and other creatures.

Kommentar von 486262

It still drops as of 4.0.3a, also it dropped killing just a few Jade Oozes after farming many many trolls, wolves. and owlbeasts.

Kommentar von 718814

I got mine off a Silvermane Howler even though wowhead doesn't list them as mob that drops the beacon.

Kommentar von hitaltair

i got mine in the 22nd drop of a silvergray mane where in the same loot included the schematic:Bright Eye Googles.

Kommentar von 152049

I've been grinding mobs in Hinterlands for over 5 hours. I've focused on trolls, slimes, alliance dwarves, moonkin, and wolves. I've killed at least 200 of each group. I've got stacks of small eggs and wolf meat. Lots of cloth. Quite a few greens. No beacon.

I only started grinding AFTER I had completed every other quest in the zone. I want to continue questing, but I don't want to leave the zone before finishing it. I'm starting to seriously consider the posibility that it is not in game. Even if it is, Blizzard needs to fix this drop rate NOW. It's not a rare pet or a mount. It's just a quest like thousands of others. To have to grind for hours to get it is inane.

Edit: ...

So after 6 hours of farming, it finally dropped. It dropped off of a troll, but that's irrelevant. It's a stuid-rare zone drop. If you're farming for it, take solace in the fact that it DOES still drop. It's just stupid hard to farm.

Kommentar von 553646

10 minutes farming! i got this on Ravantusk Hexxers and Stalkers near Shaol'watha (71,52) - very fast respawn mobs here is helpfull

Kommentar von Fauvist

I've been farming for this for a good 5 hours now. I checked to see if I've already done it, I haven't. Checked my bank, checked my bags, checked the chicken to make sure I haven't already done the escort. 5 different BoE blues have dropped in the mean time. Still no Distress Beacon.

O.o I'm going to go insane!

Edit: Gan'dranda is the best to camp if you're Alliance. After 7 hours of farming anything that moved, I decided to settle down and just camp this guy, seeing as he has a 1½% drop chance, and he respawns after like 40 seconds! Got it on like, my 12th kill of this guy.

So if you've been farming for 7 hours straight like me, just kill Gan'dranda over and over and save yourself the frustration.

Kommentar von 574598

For me, the Hinterland beacon dropped from a rare mob named The Reak, on top of skulk rock. New for Klysmic quest revamp, maybe?

Kommentar von Devisaur

Just as a precaution I would suggest flying over where the chicken is at in case you turned the egg in but didn't do the escort. Must of spent 20 minutes farming the egg only to fly over it and see I already turned it in.

Kommentar von Defca

Got my chicken today. To summarize:

1. Yes it does drop after Shattering.
2. Yes it does a very low droprate even for a zone-drop item.
3. It doesnt matter what to farm, i farmed turtles just because they are turtles and must die.
4. Make sure to use macro mentioned before to determine what exact quests you are missing.
5. Make sure to redo Feralas escort because it has been changed after Shattering. Thankfully, those Yeti drops it pretty fast, not like Hinterlands population.
6. Dont give up, its completely random, zone drop is zone drop you cant do anything with that.

Wish you a good luck and happy hunting.

Kommentar von Izzak

Just got my beacon, it took me around 35 minutes killing any random monsters on sight.
I started from west to east killing wolfs, wildkin, trolls, more wolfs then i went into Jintha'halor and i got the drop after killing 5 trolls.

Pretty glad this chicken insanity is done done :D One more pet !

Kommentar von 791031

lol Started to farm Gan'drandla, and thought I'd kill the trolls in the area waiting for the respawn, and it dropped off one of them. Thanks. Happy Hunting! xP

Kommentar von wowZhenek

got it after 217 wolves.

Kommentar von 834721

Farmed it for about three hours, def. just luck of the draw and a pure zone drop. After killing just about everything in the zone I got it off a troll. took about 800 kills, gl!

Kommentar von 829815

How cruel can Blizzard be...

After the "1-hit wonders" that were the other two beacons (litteraly, the first enemy I killed in those zones dropped the beacon...), this one put the W back in WORKING FOR IT!

I farmed for 2 hours, killed 300+ creatures, did a ton of quests to make it less boring, ganked a woefull horde lvl 33 warlock a few times (he was in the way of my lvl 85 pally, and I needed to vent some frustration...) and still the thing would not drop. I gave up, did one last quest (gathering suply crates from Skulk Rock), and it finally dropped from a sad little green slime...

The drop rate of this thing is insane! And the reward being a small ugly "mechanical" chicken? Not worth it...

Kommentar von grahamiam

I thought I'd be smart and farm this from the oozes for a chance at a Disgusting Oozeling, but it looks like their drop table is outdated since Cataclysm - none of the oozes in Hinterlands appear to drop the Oozing bag.

So farming JA is probably best for the cloth to AH. Not much incentive, but better than nothing. I got Lorekeeper and spent an additional 4 hours pure grinding as an 85 before getting my OOX beacon.

Kommentar von 746407

A spot I personally liked farming for this was Jintha'Alor, directly west of Revantusk Village, south of Stormfeather Outpost. Plenty of trolls about, and they all have a chance of dropping the beacon. Just patrol up and down the place, awhile killing trolls along the way.

Kommentar von Shashos

Spent about 2 hours farming anything and everything from Mangy Wolves to the Trolls atop Jintha. Just as I was about to give up and go do something else, it finally dropped off one of the trolls.

Man, and I thought the days of grindy-grindy quests had ended with Cat. Not so much! :p

Checking my multiple alts that I've quested/farmed mats through Hinterlands since Cat dropped (and that did not already have the chicken pet pre-Cat), I've only had this particular beacon drop once. Incredible, heh.

Kommentar von Tom258

Done this quest chain today !

Feralas - droped from yetis with 100% chance
Tanaris - droped in ZulFarak on first run from Zombie aus Zul'Farrak (Zombie :P )
Hinterlands - droped after 45mins from Jade ooze.,but its trully random :)

I dont know which quest I done on my Main so i completed this quests on alt and then send pet to main :P

Hope you will enjoy your pet soon

Kommentar von 597045

If you're stuck for something to farm for this I suggest wolves (not Mangy Silvermane) or owlkin.
The wolves drop Darkmoon rep tails and the owlkin's bones and beaks vendor for a fair bit. (Over 1g a stack)

Kommentar von Kiingy

Best place I have found to grind for this is Shaol'watha. Next to Stormfeather Outpost.

If you're alliance kill the Trolls.
If you're horde kill the Dwarfs.

Mobs there have a really quick respawn timer, around 10 seconds to a minute (there is always something you can kill).

Kommentar von 230503

Found this one today the same way I find it every time. If you start at the bottom of Jintha'alor and work your way to the top, killing and checking everything, you should find it before you reach the top. Either way, keep starting from the bottom and working toward the top and you'll get it. I've never had a time when I didn't find it in one run, but others may not be so lucky.

Kommentar von 877828

I have been farming for this quest for 4 days and have killed everything in all of the Hinterlands at least 3 times and still no drop. Don't know what to do! RAGE!

Kommentar von 879561

lies......

500 kills

423 lean wolf flank

245 ruined pelts

136 soft patch of furs

98 grays

23 greens

3 blues

2 OOX-09/HL Distress Beacons

overall not a very good drop rate :(

Kommentar von Nattfodd

I've been at this for two days. Killed hundreds, if not thousands of saltwater turtle bastards, trolls, owlbeats, wolves, ooze, marmots, DEERS! MAGGOTS! ALLIANCE!
Set fire to Hinterlands and let this place turn to delicious ASH!

Kommentar von Nattfodd

SPIDERS AND GRYPHONS!

Edit: Good News everyone! I found it! Made about 800G farming for it, killed every creature a hundred times and got it off a wolf.

Kommentar von shroxari

Dropped from a Jade Ooze after an intense 3-4 hour farm across the Hinterlands.

Kommentar von mixe89

The beacon intend to have a high drop chance from the wolfs in the western area

Kommentar von nerz

PRO TIP FOR HORDE:
Between Stormfeather Outpost and Shaol'Watha you will find 3 Wildhammer Shamans @
- 71.73, 50.15
- 71.56, 51.36
- 71.09, 49.77

They share the same Spawn Point, when you kill one of them, anotherone will insta respawn (often the same one you just killed). Got my beacon after 10 Stacks of Silk Cloth...

Kommentar von 75673

I found Shaol'watha, a very good place to farm this little chicken. Every time you kill a mob, a new one spawns near you.

Also Gan'dranda spawns here every 1-2min, and it seems that he have a 1% chance of the drop.

Kommentar von sandyra

For those trying to hunt down:

OOX-09/HL-Notsignalgeber from The Hinterlands (Personal stats: Killed some stalkers, some trolls, some owlbeasts (about 20 all told)... Then killed my first ooze at Skulk Rock, and it dropped)
OOX-17/TN-Notsignalgeber from Tanaris (Personal stats: Went into Zul'Farrak like all other posters recommend, killed some twenty or thirty trolls and scarabs, and it dropped from one of the troll corpses)
OOX-22/FE-Notsignalgeber from Feralas (Personal stats: As recommended by many other posters, Feral Scar Yetis - dropped on my first kill)

Only available if you have not already completed the quest.
Yes these still drop in Mists of Pandaria.
Yes it can drop off ANY mob in the respective zone, however OOX-22/FE-Notsignalgeber has the highest drop rate from Wildschrammyeti IF you haven't already done the quest.
It WILL eventually drop - some days RNG is your best friend, other days you want to repeatedly punch a kitten (or other obscenely fluffy creature) just to illustrate how cruel the universe can be.
The command to check if you have completed ANY of the distress beacon quests is here (special thanks to MrsSushi for locating the updated version of this as of 5.0.3):

/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{25475,25476}})do print(z)for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h" ,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE)end end

You will see lines of dialogue that look like this:
Tanaris
#1 Complete
#2 Complete
Hinterlands
#1 Complete
#2 Complete
Feralas
#1 Incomplete
#2 Incomplete
After completing all three escorts, you can then acquire the quest Ein eigener OOX and get your Mechanisches Huhn.

Happy hunting!

Kommentar von Cielos

I started getting a little annoyed trying to find this beacon. I spent about 45 minutes killing the Saltwater Snapjaws outside of Revantusk Village, to no avail. I decided (since I was going for Loremaster anyway) to just pick up some quests to make the grind seem less tedious. The beacon dropped for me while I was in Jinth'a'alor, thankfully. I suggest if you're finding it annoying to go up and down the coast mindlessly killing the turtles, try questing for a little bit. It really helped the grind seem less tedious, and I got some gold out of it from completing the quests/vendoring items.

Kommentar von 604211

I read comments about the wolves being skeptical but decided to give it a shot.

Seems that I was right :(

Kommentar von 777245

one shot and zbam^^ killed one primitive owlbeast near Homing Robot OOX-09/HL and it drops :)

Kommentar von Jaycoop

I've been killing mobs in Hinterlands for 2 days, then I decided while I'm at it I could do all quests there as well, after that I countinued with killing for another two days. Then I saw first comment on this page and thought a bit about it. I got Feralas beacon from one of the yetis that roam around chicken on multiple of my toons. Maybe droprate is higher from mobs that are closer to that cursed chicken. So I tried that strategy. Killed few wolves around Skull rock and moved onto Primitive Owlbeasts, and it dropped from 2nd Owlbeast. So if you lose all hope try this strategy. Maybe it's just luck but maybe there's something more.

Kommentar von Epicskillz

Can the Beacon drop while in a raid?

Right now i have been in a pug waiting for some last people for 30 mins, and farming this while waiting.

Kommentar von DrGerm

If you kill half the Hinterlands and get frustrated "why won't this thing drop?"

Then, go over to 49.38 and just check to see if maybe you (apparently) turned it in already and the second step of the quest is patiently waiting for you...

Kommentar von Artay

Found mine after about 20 minutes. Dropped from Shadraspawn Venomspitter. Good luck.

Kommentar von Aglaia

Worst droprate of the 3 distress beacons.
I tried at several spot (Skulk rock, Agol'whatha, Stormfeather, ...)

At the end it dropped after more than 80 kills from a Wildhammer warrior between Stormfeather outpost & Shaol'whatha. Although i don't think that the spot increased or decreased the chance of the drop.

Don't give up grinding - the drop needs its time!

Kommentar von Aquifel

I find that when searching for this one, its helpful to just go for the Hinterlands quests achieve, by the end, i usually get it (trying to farm up a mechanical chicken on each of my alts).

Kommentar von 635583

I highly suggest downloading the addon npcscan. Two out of the three beacons I found were picked up from rares that the scanner alerted me to while I was farming randoms mobs in each area. Happy hunting!

Kommentar von Guy19

Others have already left guides, but I'd like to point out you need to get all 3 different beacons and do all 3 escorts to get the pet. Each beacon works for the corresponding homing chicken-bot, which is in the same zone as where you found the beacon. The 2 letters after the / in the beacon's name denotes the location it's from. Some posts were misleading in only saying that you need to get the beacon once, you need to get all three once. :P

Kommentar von Aranyszin

I don't know if this is "good luck" or an indication that the drop rate has been improved, but here's my most recent experience:

I landed at Revantusk Village with my paladin and started killing turtles. It dropped on my 12th kill, about 2 minutes after I started.

This might be useful - my paladin was (at the time) level 46, well above the level rate for the area. So maybe the drop rate is higher if you overpower the zone.

Kommentar von Krelgosa

A handy addon to have for those seeking the distress beacons is EveryQuest it lets you know if you have completed a quest, where to pick up quests and where the best drop rate is for mobs.

For me in the Hinterlands it suggested I go to skull rock and kill jade ooze underground, I did so I got my distress beacon off o The Direglob inside the cave.

Good luck everyone!

Kommentar von paularcher24

If you are like me and have'nt a clue where to start killing mobs to try and get this beacon i killed several different mobs with no look until i tryed killing the primitive owlbeasts around ( 52.4 - 55.6 ) The Hinterlands , towards the lower centre area of map .There is lots of them in the area. I got the distress beacon after the 5th one i killed and the robot you need to escort is not far away from that location . goodluck

Kommentar von Yuxakii

I swear - I got the Time-Lost Proto-Drake faster than this... I'm still farming :(

Kommentar von 1015976

For ranged classes that have instant spells with no CD:
- If you're trying to farm the Wildhammer Shaman, stand at 71.82, 50.38 and face West.
- Then create this macro:
/tar Wildhammer Shaman
/cast Ice Lance
(replace "Ice Lance" with whatever your spell name is)

Enjoy killing about 100 mobs / min :D!

P.S.: I've killed more than 300 of shamans and still no quest item :(

**EDIT**
After trying all the other mobs in Hinterlands: spiders, wolves, oozes, etc... I went back to the Wildhammer Shamans! And used the macro to kill a LOT of them, then looted and got it. Imo, it's the fastest way to farm it.

**EDIT 2**
When MoP's gonna come out, you'll be able to AoE loot xD! That would be pure pwnage!

Kommentar von dchriest25

PRO TIP FOR HORDE:
Between Stormfeather Outpost and Shaol'Watha you will find 3 Wildhammer Shamans @
- 71.73, 50.15
- 71.56, 51.36
- 71.09, 49.77

For Alliance people, there's some Raventusk Trolls in this same spot. This did the trick for me after killing everything in Highlands literally for hours. 10 minutes of killing the Trolls in this area where there's a little war between Wildhammers and Raventusks I got the beacon. Yay!

Kommentar von 1021755

skull rock seems to be the hotspot....cleared the rock a few times over, started to kill owlbeasts and trolls, overall about an hour btwn skull rock and random mobs, went back to skull rock for the third time and got it on my first kill

Kommentar von Vlad

If you got lost and not sure what you did, or have to do, use this macro to figure out where you currently stand:
/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{25475,25476}})do print(z)for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE)end end

Kommentar von 7731

Random being random, there is no way for me to confirm this, but for what it's worth:

I leveled in The Hinterlands from 32 to 37 by simply running from end to end killing mobs and looting the bodies specifically for this beacon. Then I decided to take a couple quests before they got out of range just to grind a little guild rep and the beacon dropped on the third kill. Unbelievable!

If you are just grinding for the beacon I suggest picking up a quest, it may just tip the odds in your favor.

Kommentar von Krakatua

Just got:
17 stacks of silk cloth;
2+1/2 Wool cloth;
3 jade;
11 greens;
1 enchanting recipe.

And no beacon... that was more then 500 kills...

my farm spot was the one with Warhammer shamans. Maybe ill get it next year...

Kommentar von 1076296

I just started collecting battle pets and realised that I'd done the other two quests without really realising it. So I've been trying to get this one.
On three different occasions I've been in the area.
I've killed countless numbers of green gooey things, turtles, moonkins, trolls...
No luck yet!

I also tried taking the quests as the previous poster mentioned...

I did find the chicken and was wishing we could go back to the patch were we could do the quest without finding the distress beacon!

Ah well, any other tips I'd be glad for!

Kommentar von 1076296

Update!

Went back today and got the quest on lucky turtle number 13!

Another update- was in the area with my alt- and got the quest from one of the trolls while questing!

Kommentar von Avalionis

this has to be one of the worst quest items to find. on Alliance, I pick up a quest to fight Trolls, and boom. drops on the first kill. on Horde, I pick up the quest to fight Dwarves, and after going past the 10 needed for the quest, it finally dropped. needless to say, RNG is a fickle mistress sometimes.

Kommentar von 1128962

I spent about 2 hours in the Hinterlands killing EVERYTHING I came across. Slimes, trolls, wolves, turtles, even Owlbeasts and NADA, ZIP, ZERO, no drop. I even had to take a break and log off to watch TV. I come back and decide maybe if I do some quests in the zone it will drop. I pick up the quest to kill trolls and bring back some guys head and kill 5 each of some other troll and the beacon drops on the 4th dead troll. So if you are searching for this beacon, get the quest to kill some trolls, might have better luck!

Kommentar von 1108240

Dropped from Wolfswelpe der Blutfratzen

Kommentar von Syn6661

Confirmed still dropping in 5.4

Kommentar von 839525

It does still drop, i know this because i have seen other player escortng that damn chicken over the past 3 months i've been trying to get this damn beacon to drop! I've killed hundreds of different kinds of npc in hinterlands except for anything that would mark me pvp. Hinterlands makes me physically ill i could vomit at any time! Don't bother doing the quest chain for a hope it drops from shadra she's no longer lootable unless it's just bugged i tried it twice.

Kommentar von 1212289

It is confirmed that all 3 beacons are still a drop (even at Lvl 90) so the chicken does not give quest itself.

OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon - Dropped from Oozes in cave, including boss, but varied on how many kills were done and how long it was farmed due to there being two of us farming for it. One of us did receive it within 5 kills, however, the other did not until at least 30 minutes later but both received quest within an hour. We tried farming for it with the Trolls (for an hour) but had no luck.

OOX-22/FE Distress Beacon - Dropped from Yetis near the chicken in and around the caves. It didn't take but maybe 15 minutes for it to drop.

OOX-17/TN Distress Beacon - Dropped from graves near a boss in the Zul'Farrak run. Took us as long as it takes you to get to the graves.

*Not sure if this made a difference but we did have our Dungeon Difficulty set on "Challenge Mode" while farming all three areas especially the run.

Kommentar von selmicek

level 90, killed around 50 Jade Ooze dropped :)

Kommentar von Evynet

I stood only 14 min to get it :D

Kommentar von kwmkwm

I originally quested in the area about 3 years ago. Now I want the mechanical chicken pet, so I need the beacon. I've been trying for a while but can't get the beacon to drop. Is it possible that I might have done something back then to prevent it from dropping now? Maybe it dropped back then but I deleted it, would that cause a problem?

Kommentar von flyingfig

Still dropping after 6.0. Cleared Skulk Rock of oozes three times before it dropped in the cave.

Kommentar von Boxofbeer

Zone drop, starts Sucht OOX-09/HL!
Video Find OOX-09/HL!

Kommentar von pepeu

This is the one beacon that ruins the quest chain for me on several characters. Feralas and Tanaris is usually farmed in minutes, but freckin' Hinterlands just refuse to drop.

Five characters have had to spend a ridiculous amount of time there to get them. The worst one, was my warrior who had to spend 30+ hours until it dropped. And that was after I've chatted with a GM that said that everything was just fine and dandy. I doubt it was, and that they did something to "reset" the item for me. Just after that chat with the GM it dropped. Coinkidink, I think not.

I hate Hinterlands, just because of the buggy drop rate on the beacon there. :O/

Kommentar von Damballa

Didn't take long to find it killing the trolls at Jintha'Alor. Lots of mobs there and a reasonable respawn rate.

Kommentar von Wesi

Farmed this from the "Vilebranch" NPCs in Jinthaalor. Took me a while ;(

Example these NPCs Kopfjäger der Blutfratzen

OOX-17/TN-Notsignalgeber Tanaris/ Zulfarak
OOX-22/FE-Notsignalgeber Feralas
OOX-09/HL-Notsignalgeber Hinterlands

If you want to check you status on these Quests use this Chat Command. (thanks Vlad)

/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{25475,25476}})do print(z)for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE)end end

Kommentar von Romanizor

they have increased the drop rate. got them all in one day

Kommentar von Nexus439

A more recent update:
I finally got the beacon after an hour of farming the trolls in Jintha'Alor. They're not elite anymore, so it's an easy grind, and they drop lots of silk cloth. Just have to be a little bit patient.

Kommentar von Weetu

Amazing place to farm these is at 72, 50.
Very fast respawn on Revantusk Stalkers that do drop OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon

Did this in 25 minutes here (72, 50).

Edit. Forgot to add that I am Alliance.
Edit2. Tested this again and it still works.

Kommentar von Shaddy421

As lvl 110 horde player I started farming from oozes at Skulk Rock. After 20 minutes of farming, no beacon but from Oozing Bag I got Disgusting Oozeling. Hope was restored, that if I wont get Beacon then maybe more Oozeling pets will drop. 20 minutes later, no pets, no beacon. Started to go 51,30 and killing everything on the way. When I started killing Wildhammer Dwarwes and after 10 minutes Beacon dropped.

Kommentar von Duballday

it only took loremaster of the hinterlands and 3 hours of farming to find this... finally got it off of the wildhammer mobs to the north east who are fighting the trolls at coord 70, 48

Kommentar von ToOurRoots

Finally got this to drop today from Wildhammer Warriors. I had both of the other OOX quests in the quest log complete, but not turned in, when it dropped. So no need to turn anything in, it's just a really rare drop. Keep hunting and good luck!

Kommentar von Can7ona

Got it today from farming slimes in skulk rock, took me about an hour. It dropped, me happy.

Kommentar von Molthazar

Did this today and can confirm, 72,50 is an excellent spot for farming the beacon.

Kommentar von Krotchey

Still drops in shadowlands.. dropped off of Krieger der Wildhämmer for me after about 10 min

Kommentar von Fehu

I just went to the Hinterlands and searched for this beacon. For nearly an hour I killed pretty much everything that got in my way (including a couple of rares) until it finally dropped from Giftspucker der Shadrabrut at around 49, 53 just after a handful of kills!

Kommentar von MrMeeSeeks02

With the introduction of Shadowlands, the script to run checks on quest completion has been deprecated. I have updated the script to work for Shadowlands.

/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{25475,25476}})do print(z)for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h",C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q))end end

Kommentar von ArcticBools

I got 2 of them within a 5-pack of Shadraspawn Venomspitter's.

Kommentar von Ehall671

This took me about 2-3 hours to farm AFTER I had completed all the quests in the zone. This was the last beacon I needed.

Level 55
Tried farming:
Oozes at Skulk Rock
Trolls at Shaol'watha
Various other mobs in zone including rares.

As soon as I moved to the CAVE at the top of Jintha'alor with the Spawn of Shadra spiders it dropped after 3 kills /way 59, 79.

To sum up: It took awhile, but still drops. Good luck!

Kommentar von Mirades

I first did every quest in this zone and then farmed for another hour with chromie time active.
then i remembered i can just turn chromie time off to have it easier (since i was Level 49 with xp stop) and mobs there are 30 without chromie time.
when i came back i got it on the first mob? no clue if it was the most crazy RNG in my life or if you can only drop it without chromie time.

Kommentar von Paladinbro

Okay im kinda out of ideas now. I Checked the droprates and for most of the mobs it says around 0,5-1%, right?
So by that logic, it SHOULD drop at around 200 mobs which have 0,5% droprate, and around 100 mobs with 1% droprate.

Now here is what i did:
I went to the east to the Jinthaalor city/camp and cleared that whole area from the mobs. I did pulls with around 3-5 mobs each pull and i did idk... 50 pulls in the first hour or so. So thats a 150 mobs on the low end. I cleared the whole camp around 2 maybe 3 times. NO DROP

I said okay, now lets switch tactics, lets kill the wildlife mobs. THen i started roaming around the land randomly killing owlbeasts and other stuff. I did that for another hour. I did again 3-4 mob pulls, one pull every minute. Thats again 150 ish mobs on the low end.

Then i started to get desperate, looked online where did people loot this piece of ****... some comments said they got it from the orcs drop it at "Shaolwatha" camp. I went there, cleared the area of the orcs, around 20-30 mobs there, cleared it 2-3 times. Nothing. No drop. Thats again 75-100 mobs.

What the hell is this? I have a full inventory of 32 slot bags full with random loot from mobs and still nothing. WTF?

How can something NOT DROP after like close to 500ish mobs, that SHOULD drop in between 100-200 mobs killed? Am i stupid? Wtf is wrong with this?

Kommentar von Entheojinn

After a while you're just like, "FOR THE LOVE OF THE LIGHT, JUST GIVE ME WHAT I NEED SO I CAN STOP MURDERING YOU."

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