I agree with everyone who suggests to keep the rod. This quest is well worth the trouble of doing to the part where you get the unlimited-charged rod to grant you the ability to turn into a furbolg.

Consider that people pay tons of gold on savory deviate delights or Nogenflogger elixirs that turn you into something (not always guaranteed) for an hour or so and then wears off forever. This is because there aren't many silly things available that lets a player change their appearence so dramatically.

THIS rod has a 1 minute cooldown and lets you transform into a furbolg for 3 minutes! How cool is that!&nbsp I wish a Horde quest had something like this!

stop
breathe
ask urself -
why the hell would u trade the ring for ur cute n cuddly furby form?
its amazingly, stupendously kewl!
: )

Keep the rod. It really has ulimited charges. I use it all over, especially on boat rides between Kalimdor and Azeroth and it really entertains the people on board ) It's a real pity you can't do emotes in this form like dancing. This will always lead to back transforming you.

Anyway, there seems to be a another quest for the Alliance where you can transform into a skeleton. You may have seen this on boats too )

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keep the rod

Okay, here's the drill. If you are making a lvl 19 twink that can use two handed Maces, turn in the quest and get the Glacial Stone. The Frost proc, in addition to Crusader, is GODLY because the weapon's slow speed means that both effects will proc on like, every other hit. I am making a twink warrior, and I will have this weapon. However, if your class cannot use Maces (like a Hunter), or if you are planning to level your character beyond 19, then do whatever, I don't care.

There is already simple way to keep Dartol's Rod of Transformation without destroying anything.

As mentioned above; do Raene's Cleansing(10th step) and turn it. After successfully completed 10th step, Krolg will give you 11th step of chain. Just don't accept new step and keep rod.

The exp, rewards, money for this quest are nothing special, all can be made up for with another quest, and the rews WILL be replaced soon, but you will NEVER find an item like that again, completely free too, people spend huge amounts on orb of deception.

I started this quest at level 20-ish and finished it at level 60 purely for this rod.

this rod is greatest!

i have started this quest chain at 58 lvl only for this rod. abandoned just gotten rod.

reward for quest may be cool for WSG 10-19, but it is NOTHING. In two weeks you will forget about such crappy reward forever!

But rod will be cool always, even on lvl 70.

and btw
DON'T FINISH QUEST! or you will lost rod, forget about this quest. you have greatest rod!

KEEP THE ROD, HOW OFTEN DO U GET TOO TURN INTO A FURBOLG AND ALSO ITS AWESOME TOO GO INTO WSG IN FURBOLG FORM
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Umm... This Quest is bugged to me. I Changed into the Furbolg(sp) and talked to him. He presented me the items, but i couldnt choose what i wanted. I pushed accept then nothing happend. I didnt recieve any items and the quest is still flagged for me in my Quest Book. Contacted Gm, but no reply so far

As a level 28 I got: 3050 exp, 165 rep points with Darnassus and 2 crappy items.

Is this series of quests worth it imean iwant to keep the rod of course bbut imean is ashenvale good place to lvl from 31-33 or so? because idont like desolacee much and idont wanna waste much time because ican run Sm alot once i hit 32-33 with guildies so iwas wondering if the quests get good exp but im gonna keep the rod :D

This quest is a waste of time. I mean it. No real reward and 3050 XP @ lvl 27. YES! 3050 final after 2 hrs of running all around Ashenvale! THIS IS A JOKE!

If you wanna do this line - just stop as soon as you reenchant that rod. THAT is a cool reward - insta-furbolg-change. Then just hit abandon quest. Really...

Damnit! I used up all of the charges too! I'm screwed! This blows.

Does state pretty clearly in game and on the website to. They didnt read either one!

Oh yea and if your out of charges... pretty sure you have to abandon and then start over..though it wasnt that hard..took two minutes to complete..not positive if anything else you can do

Edited, Tue Jan 4 00:48:48 2005

SO IF U COMPLETE U CANT GET FURBLOG?

bah...what good is this last quest. The rod is awesome. By the time I use one of the reward items...something else will be replaced. Rod is not replaceable. Awesome piece to have to change into.
Keep the Rod!

This quest really bugged me, for one, through this entire quest you're running up and down ashenvale, as far down as near the barrens (seriously, didn't know that the ooze things dropped the chest, so I spent about an hour in the barrens trying to find it, at least I got the guy on dreadmist for that quest, but kind of annoyed me seeing that there was a 25'ish mixed in with all those level tens, think of all the hordies he must have under his belt, but that's a different quest). Second, through it all, you'll kill a BUNCH of furbolgs, corrupted though they are, but not one satyr (remember xabbraxis and the blackwoods, plus the guy at the end of the exalted level timbermaw quest is, so I've heard, another satyr). And, 3rd of all, you lose your furbolginess for two crap items, which I now regret, guess I'll have to wait till 60 to furbolgify. Ughh. /cry I really hope in a later expansion furbolgs become a playable race, but I wonder if dartol's rod would just be a way of changing colors, hmm.

OK so I turned this in as a lvl 34 Druid because I wanted to get it out of my quest logs and i got

2250 xp
250 darnassus rep

Edited, Jan 12th 2007 1:08pm by tekrebel

Edited, Jan 12th 2007 1:10pm by tekrebel

Well, because of my idiocy, I'm out of charges for Dartol's rod of transformation. Is there any way to get it recharged? I've tried checking back at the hidden shrine, the dryad, and the quest starting npc, but nothing has worked yet. Am I hosed? I tried to contact a GM on this, but haven't received a reply yet.

Some people are saying it has unlimited charges and others are saying it does not. Does it or does not have unlimited charges? I'm asking because I want to keep the rod for Furblog changing.

Edited, Oct 31st 2006 at 6:13am PST by whuck

Well, when I killed Bloodtooth for the first time I somehow missed to take his skull, so I had to go back and kill him again. Not a real problem at lvl 31 except from all the wolves and spiders which are rather hard to avoid. Killing them all along the way (and back) is rather boring because I won't get any points and even skinning the wolves doesn't help much to raise my skills.
Getting to Bloodtooth is much more a task than actually taking him out and it's really a pain in the ass without much gaming fun.

Rainhold & Mushikater 31 Hunter

The Glacial Stone is probably the best twink warrior/paladin weapon.

These rewards are great! u guys are forgetting taht u can finish this at lvl 18. That mace is easily the best 19 warrior/pally twink wep. AND u dont have to pay 100 or even 50 gold

I now have a lovely magical wand and I can smile like a Furbolg.

A long run but you find many a short cut in Ashenvale.

The hardest part was the shrine to get the wand charged...I expected something bigger not a glowing rock.

Still I have now by lovely magical wand.

I didn't waste any charges before reaching the named furbig, and not uptill I finished the quest, but then I just went berserk and kept remaking myself Furbig whenever I could. It's extremelly cool to "change" into travel form as a forbig since you just get a running forbig :)

Then I proceeded to Hearthing to IF, and made myself Forbig about 5 more times. The rod doesn't seem to ran out.
That is why I wanted to keep it, and didn't hand in the quest yet (32lvl Druid).
So I wonder, is there a way to keep it? Are there really no charges anymore so I can use it forever?

Some points regarding the quest itself:
1.First It's such a long quest! when I started it I had no idea it'll just drag and drag with multiple especially draging activities like looking for stuff you don't really know where to look for (and even if you do find a path, it just has to be THAT long to follow, right?)
2.Secondlly, Do not make any mistakes:
A. The RIGHT furbig is the one that has a path leading towards it, near the end of the path you'll see burning torches, a fallen tree on a lake, and a small Furbig hut with a lvl 9 Named Furbig near it. Be Carefull not to kill it!
This place is right next to Merit Lake (as told in the quest), and is quite closer then the other place where you might get, which you need to reach later.
B. The second place, is about South of the first place, If you can see on the map it's in a closed permieter. Anyway, you just need to go round the mountains and then go south.
When you kill the leader, it DOES'NT say you need the skull, but it drops from him, and moving the curser on it 'reveals' that it's a quest item. Be sure to take it so you won't have problems completing the quest.
Upon returning and talking to the Furbig, he says you need to go "to your tribe" to receive the rewards, since you don't have one, the quest text says to return to Raene in Astranar.

Edit: What is it with this area (Darkshore,Ahenvale,BlackFathom Deeps) with +X SPIRIT +1 STAMINA ring rewards?
-in The tower of Astranax (or whatever the name) series you can get a +3SPI +1STA ring (or a staff which is downright useless).
-in BlackFathom Deeps, the IF brought Quest: Knowledge in the deeps gives you a +4SPI +1STA ring.
And this quest, gives you a +6SPI +1 STA ring.
all of those genuinelly suck, and appearantlly suppose to replace each other? Couldn't they at least make the last ring add +2 STA?

Edited, Tue Aug 2 06:26:58 2005

We all just abandon the quest at the end. Keep the awesome rod! The rewards suck anyways

Just completed the quest.
Pretty easy and the XP was worth it.
People were complaining that the rod had a charge count, but when I did the quest it was unlimited...oh well.

after you kill the named and 4 guards you return to the lvl 9 furbol transform talk to him and hit accept. Then if you READ THE QUEST. It states quite clearly to return to Raene with the skull and rod to recieve the rewards. The furbol DOES NOT give rewards.

makes me laugh to see all the people complaining on the rewards for the last couple parts of the quest...i did this quest a 28, and that's all the xp this quest should be worth...this was a breeze...but i'm a rogue..:D

This quest.. Is insane! If you are twinking out some warrior/paladin get Glacial Stone, its the best :)