As of patch 2.3, this quest gives 6300 experience.

The object is inside the insect lair. It's deep inside in a big room. Look into one of the alcoves of the room on the ground.

56.71 is right according to both thottbot and my own experience.&nbsp That's the northwest corner of the square room, you'll see a round room north of it, and another one west.

Did this solo as a level 44 Hunter (BM spec) with no deaths (save for my pet, who died once when I had to FD).

Was quite easy, no deaths, just have to move slowly, but steadily. I managed to snag a Truesilver and a Thorium vein :D

Couldn't do this with my 50 SPriest; abandoned it.

Problem was those bugs spawn more bugs and then even more.

It makes casting near impossible. Have fun.

I soloed this as a 47 Mage without much trouble and without dying once. Frost Nova (insta-AOE) helps a lot against the little parasites (sometimes 2 or 3) that spawn after you kill a bigger bug. Follow the steps below to find the objective:

1. Enter the Gaping Chasm region and head for the middle of the purple slime. You'll see the main entrance to the lair near the center of that region, with large raised ridges nearby.

2. When you get to the entrance, there will be two holes leading down into the lair. Take the northern-most hole. In other words, the one to your righthand side as you descend the outer ramp.

3. When you come to the first fork, just inside, take a right which will lead you to an oval-shaped room with just a few bugs between 47-49. Kill the ones in the way and make your way to the opposite side of the round room.

4. From the other side of the round room, you'll find a path that leads to a slightly larger square room. As you enter the square room, stick to the right wall and make your way into the corner guarded by a level 50 bug. The object is there, behind him, and is large enough to target from all the way across the room.

I soloed this with a 45 warlock. After killing the bugs just outside the entrance, I hung around there for a while while I scouted out the inside of the lair with the Eye of Kilrogg, to make sure I had the route down cold. Then I made a kamikaze run for the item: soulstoned myself and ran into the lair, letting my voidwalker take the aggro until it was nearly dead, then sacrificed it and ran the rest of the way. As I'd expected, the bug guarding the item, along with the posse that were following me by then, killed me before I could open it. I waited for the posse to disperse, rezzed myself, and Feared the guard, which gave me enough time to summon the VW again. The VW held off the guard long enough for me to open the item, and then hearthstone out.

To find the gear go down into the hole in the cavern. You will see two tunnels go into the one that's the lowest down after entering turn right (east) as soon as you can and you'll end up in a good sized circular room, go competly through that room following the hall and at the split turn right (south), you'll enter a squarish room and the surveying gear will be in the corner to the west.

Side Note: You'll find several Mithril Veins in these underground tunnels.

The exact local is 55,71 using Cosmos, obviously this is underground also

Was wondering because I killed a ton of the bugs with no drop

I am going to the coords thottbot posted then

Another trick to do this quest and a few others (if the graveyard is nearby) is to scope out the location of where you need to go as a ghost rather than risk triple pulling because of a wrong turn. Good hunting.

Some of the bugs will spawn two more little bugs after their killed. But the little bugs are easy to kill so just keep that in mind.

Just did this quest.

The directions given above suck if you don't have a coordinate mod installed (or, like me, don't want to just know exactly where to go by looking at a number).

The equipment is in the actual underground silithid hive itself, in the 'Gaping Chasm' area of Tanaris.&nbsp The whole place is crawling with various Hazzari Silithids.

The easiest approach I found was to enter the hive in the 'middle' of the Gaping Chasm, at the large central hole.&nbsp There is a spiral ramp leading down go to the left at the bottom of the ramp.&nbsp Follow the tunnels (also to the left, though everything to the right is dead ends) until you reach a large X-shaped room (it's very distinctive on the map it is referred to above as the "butterfly room", and it does sort of look like one on the minimap due to the coloring.)&nbsp The gear is in the alcove in the NW corner of that room.&nbsp It actually looks like a gnomish control console.

There are a lot of 48-50 bugs down there visibility is poor because of the twisting tunnels, and there are a number of patrolling Hazzari Swarmers (who can overwhelm you if you don't have AOE).&nbsp If you take it slowly, you should be able to just fight one mob at a time.&nbsp If you can stealth, and you're at least L45, you can probably sneak in and only have to fight one or two enemies (maybe none if you have a way to CC the one standing by the equipment you need).

(Item #11567) need to do the prereqs which can be done quickly (if not carefully at 50) by anyone with a horse.

The damage shield from Crystal Spire kills the swarmers and parasites in one hit.

You all save many people much time!

also as an FYI as a level 49 warloc I had a real hard time doing this one solo.&nbsp take that for what its worth.

Ok theres this big hole with 2 caves. Walk down the huge spiral. You'll reach one cave first walking down the spiral. PASS that cave and go to the next one.

Once in this cave basically just keep going right and you will enter the "butterfly room." If you look on your minimap this looks like a butterfly because there are 4 curved corners. While entering this butterfly room, go to the forward-right (northeast) part of the room where a metal like box will be guarded by a 49 elite bug.

I'm a 45 mage and I basically used mana shield and ice barrier to run to this point, I rezzed a little in front of the machine and healed up to kill the bug.

As the poster above suggest for hunters, I just did some slow grinding as I worked my way to the room with my lvl 45 hunter.&nbsp Beast build with broken tooth.&nbsp Made it all the way to the room with the machine in it before I got overwhelmed.&nbsp Didn't have any problems with doing 2 at once excet for when I hit the room I aggroed 3.
Ran to the NW corner, got at the opening to the area where the box is, died.
Rezzed just out of range of the bug guarding the box, aggroed the entire room, died, rezzed at healer.&nbsp
At level 45 the XP was the same as the lvl 47 lock who posted all the rewards.&nbsp 4400 for the main quest.

playing a hunter is like easy mode

wow i dont know what all the talk is about, being a rouge this was the easiest quest ever, i stealthed in and never took a hit, if u take the lower cave entrance, just take a right at the fork, continue through the large room, and then take the next right at the second fork, objective is on the opposite side of this large cavern and slightly to the right if you are facing out of the tunnel that leads into the chamer, extremely simple

quest location 55,71 solo easy with level 47 hunter just use feigh death and intimidation. might want to set hearthstone to gadgetzan if possible so you dont have to fight your way back out as they will all be respawned by the time your done also quest is quite some distance away. for some reason i found it alot harder to get out.

Have a druid cast thorns on you, it will make your life a lot easier

Either entrance will work. Just make your way to what looks like a square room on your mini map. The gear is in a box that resembles the buzzboxes from darkshore. This box is located in one of the corners, guarded by a beetle. Watch out for the patrol that comes by though.

Hope these directions are better, others posted are quite confusing...

As a lvl 50 Druid I used cat form and stealthed in, got what I needed and stealthed out.... Easy as pie :)

There are two lairs (cave systems). The main one (with the machine) spirals down starting at 55,68. The other lair starts at 53,74. The main lair has two "cave entances". They both go into the same lair system and both will get you to the machine! Use the photo kindly posted by Koultunami, I will give link again here for your convenience: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/339556...39331_o.jpg
The machine coordinates are 55,71.
Hederahelix is correct that other than squashing alot of bugs theres nothing worthwhile in the rest of the lair.

ice barrier, run in, nova mobs, get goods, run out... cake

Whoever said don't go in as a mage: Found this very easy as mage.

Never had more than one of these on me at a time, which should be easy to do for any mage who is good at pulling. I don't think many are linked at all. Make sure you have Nova/COC/AE ready for the little buggers that attack you after you kill the big ones.

4400 XP

soloed this as a 48 warlock swarmers are a nightmare make sure u have a few potions of health and a soulstone up as they spawn quite quick once u get to the main room take a small area at a time once u get to the equipment stone out to save your sanity
good luck