After you loot the thing at the top of the swarmed tower you have to kill the Hive'Ashi Ambushers and one of them drops the Encrusted Silithid Object.

I'm not sure what the Silithid Goo is used for that is found in the Hive'Ashi Pod.

You will have to go to (60,52). Go into into the high tower with the wasps surrounding it. You will see it no matter what.

What i did: If there are no one questing in the area, there are standing 2 Tortured Sentinels around the entrance. Clear a bit of the area so you can kill them. As a 55 Mage, after clearing some space, i killed one of the Sentinels and the following Silthid 'wasp' that sometimes spawn when you kill the tortured mobs around the area (they are&nbsp both pulled). Then i got out of combat, then came back and killed the other one (the silithid didnt spawn that time).

Then you should take off all your equipment(if you dont have so much bag space you can leave some of the high stamina gear on you - and remember to keep 2 bag spots free so you can loot the quest items)

Go in to the tower, put on your shields or what you've got (blessing of naruu etc), walk through the three invisible Silithid Drones that attack you. Run to the top. If you can, maybe try to loot the Silithid Goo from they gooey thing you can press on, otherwise just die. Rescurrect your corpse a little lower on the stairs so you aren't too close to any of the mobs and can buff yourself up.

Take on your gear again and go to roof. Try to kill ONE of the silithids! If you can kill them all then do that, but otherwise just loot the quest item from the dead silithid and jump down if you have enough HP (youll get around 800-900 damage from jumping down).

The 2 quest items i am talking about is
1. The quest item you need to complete the quest(dropped from one of the silithids)
2. The Siltihud Goo... Which i don't know where you can turn in - but its a quest item xD

Mana shield as I ran to top, died, rezzed at top, healed up and buffed, shielded then took on 2 l 57 bugs, used psychic scream to reheal in battle, killed 1 then grabbed drop and ran, didnt need to kill other one

• Get naked, run halfway upstairs (far enough to be out of aggro range when ressing)

• die

• run back

• eat/drink/buff/put on eq

• kill one, loot it, shield yourself and jump out of the tower.

• run back

The reason to get naked is of course to avoid breakage on equipment when you die.
It is also important to res out of aggro range from both groups of mobs. Midway up should do it.

And one more thing I had a quite large mana pool for my level, which came in handy as the insects 3 lvls above you are quite resistant.

Sacrifice pet to mobs at bottom of tower while you run to top, then Feign Death.
Rez pet, set on passive, lay ice trap next to pod, open pod.

It will most likely spawn 2 mobs at first.&nbsp Ice trap catches one, sic pet on the other and start hitting/shooting the same one.&nbsp Kill it, loot quest&nbsp item.&nbsp Sic pet on second mob, jump off the tower, run out of range and your pet will disappear before getting killed.

Okay, i just did it easely, but you have to die at least 1 time (2x for me perhaps for a bad move).

Soulstone yourself, summon WV, mount and get in the place. Head for the tower and dont stop.
Run up to the stairs and stick in a corner and...yeah wait to die.

Let the bugs go away.

Rez, summon again VW, and get full mana and health back.

Loot the thingny, 2 spawns will pop. Kill one, loot the quest item then jump down the tower (dying again).

Get back to corpse, rez, mount, get out. :)

Note:
I thought that i could just kill them both but it seems they keep on spawning. I should have sacrificed the VW prior to jump down... maybe i Wouldnt have died.

If you're a lock, try this and it will work just as I said. Happy hunting :P

Read earlier that a 55 warlock soloed this quest, after having done it myself I think that that's pretty much impossible.

Anyway, after wiping about 6 times trying to do this one I found what I think is a foolproof warlock tactic.&nbsp It goes as follows:

1.&nbsp Make sure you have a soulstone active on yourself.
2.&nbsp Set your Voidwalker to tank all of the mobs at the bottom of the tower.
3.&nbsp Run into the tower and up the ramp whilst this is happening.
4.&nbsp Add will spawn, sacrifice and keep running as far up as possible.
5.&nbsp Once you reach the top of the tower you'll either be pretty much dead or getting that way fast.&nbsp Let me kill you and don't touch the hive at the top.
6.&nbsp Once you die, let the adds lose agro and return to the bottom of the tower.&nbsp Now use your soulstone, summon voidwalker, demon armour, drink, etc.
7.&nbsp Activate the hive.
8.&nbsp Kill one of the spawning mobs whilst having your voidwalker tank.
9.&nbsp Loot the mob and get the quest item.
10.&nbsp Sacrifice the voidwalker and jump from the top of the tower.
11.&nbsp RUN!

That should pretty much do it, can't really imagine that failing for anyone as it's all fairly easy.

Use your talents warlock, they are powerful in their own right&nbsp )

I'm a 58 Druid. Simple as this:
- Stealth in as far as possible (coords are 60, 51 as stated above)
- probably get tagged immediately by about 3 bugs, keep running up the stairs a bit and die.
- come back to that spot and res. No aggro, so you can heal, buff and stealth.
-continue to the top and loot the goo. A couple of bugs spawn. Focus on and kill one. Loot it. You'll get what you need. Futile to try to take them all out as they keep respawning from the nest.
-cat form, jump off tower and haul ass.
-quest done. 6000 XP.

Invisibility potion, run up, loot the goo, retaliation, loot the encrusted thing, jump out the window, take 1k damage.. run till you're out of combat, easy.

I'm rogue so i didnt have to run in and die. but all u need is to get the Silthid Goo, and then 2 or 3 mobs spawn.. Kill one of them, and loot, then u can just jump down from the tower and run. Worked for me

Solo'd the Undead, and survived the spawn. Holy spec'd w/ BOW, Seal of Wisdom, Seal of Light, used Mark of Resolution, and no potions. Got goo from pod, then jumped..lol now i have to go up and do it again to get the encrusted object

Not too difficult. Stealthed up the stairs, took the goo, and vanished when the two mobs spawned. snuck around, ambushed one of the bugs (I made a critical), evasion rose up my combo points, CB+ 5-point eviscerate, looted the thing, jumped down, and sprinted to the exit. Nearly dead, but I managed to get away alive. If you have that trinket from the quest in Western Plaguelands, it's good to activate when you're fleeing from Southwind.

For druids, the trickiest part is to get past the drone that hovers on the ramp just above the floor level. You don't see him until he sees you. The secret is to freeze in place until he loses interest and turns his back.

Once at the top, I found it easy to defeat one of the spawns, but quickly learned that they will keep spawning forever if you stay around. This is a situation in which battle loot is possible, so just kill the nearest bug, loot it, go back to cat and jump.

Pretty easy, really.

I soloed this quest line at lvl 54 feral druid.
It was worth it I made over 20000xp and over 350 cenerion rep.
Did as I had read, ran into tower naked, died on stairs, rezzed, focused on killing lower lvl bug and keeping healed, looted changed to cat jumped and halled ass.

Shields up scottie!
Run in, up the stairs as far as you can get and die
Ghostwalk back to TOP of tower
Rez, buff, mana to 100%
Click object
kill ONE bug
shields up
loot dead bug
levitate
jump off and wave bye bye to other bug(s)

5 minute quest

I ran to the top of th tower died, rezzed at the top and opened the goo thingy. Two wasps spawned, killed one then died. I got back up and turns out yet another wasp spawned. So I loot the corpse of the wasp I killed, and jumped off the tower. Yelling "You'll never take me alive" and the impact from the jump killed me. So in this quest, I've discovered that the cenarion circle is made up of druids who want me dead.

It seems that you only need to open the pod to get the silithid to spawn and item drop you need, NOT pick up the goo from the pod! Apparently as long as you have the goo in your inventory it'll keep attracting silithid until there's enough to kill two level 58 warlocks (in other words, infinitely).

I was with a group that was one step ahead of me in the chain, so I helped them do the quest and they did it right. I however did not understand what I wasn't suppsoed to do so I looted the pod and...yeah. TONS o' spawns.

In short: open the pod, don't loot the goo (and don't be fooled by that 'quest item' tag).

wrong thread...

Edited, Sun May 1 14:13:35 2005

they do stop spawning after a while, me (lvl 56 hunter) and a lvl 56 pally did this quest, must have been around 30-40 bugs killed on top of the tower, at the end, we ALL (including bear) had under a quarter hp and no mana for either of us

unfortunately as soon as they stopped spawning their lootable bodies disappeared :( just got the quest item in last one, wasn't rlly much time to go looting during the fighting hehe

cud have been so much loot...

Stealthed up to the top... Then got the silithid on me, wasnt sure on the quest so just killed all the bugs that spawned, for me 8 spawned in a row, always 2 at a time attacking, was easy in bearform :D then looted and ran :)

If you plan on looting just one corpse & jumping off the top as a druid dont forget to go catform, you will take a lot less fall damage.

soloed this quest as a 57 priest , u dont need great fighting skills at all to complete this quest.

what i did was, shield up , enter tower , run to the very top, die, resurrect, restore health,mana, open chest fight spawn pick up quest item. done!

Horde too. Not just Alliance. Just got this one.

one of the most annoying quests.

First when you enter the town the tower is to the right. Right when you enter.
Before you enter the town mount run straight to the tower, run up till you get to the top of the tower and let them kill you. Them would be the two druids and 3 bugs at the bottom of the tower. Then run back to your body and res. buff if needed. Then open the basket and 2 lvl 56s will spawn, you only need to kill one of them. Loot him then jump off the side of the tower and run out. Very Easy! I soloed it with a lvl 55 priest.

As a hunter I ran as fast as i could (without aspect of the cheeta for stun reasons) as far up the ramp as I could without dying then Feign Death. Waited for agro to leave then stood up, bandaged myself and summoned pet. Got the goo and decided to kill a few just in case the first one didn't drop it =). Jumped off the ledge and ran home.

BTW I was lvl 56

Edited, Wed Nov 16 14:37:08 2005

Here's what I did as a lvl 58 rogue.

I threw a distract into there for the NE, but as soon as I set foot in there 3 insects spawned. One of them spawns right on the ramp. I went ahead and started running all the way up the tower. When I reached the top, I vanished, dropping all the aggro.

I let Vanish cool down, then proceeded to open the pod. After opening it, two ambushers spawn. I killed one, looted the quest object from it, then Vanished again before walking to the edge of the tower. Another insect quickly respawned.

Jumped from the tower and rode off.

Did this as a 60 Tauren Warrior. In addition to everything else that has been said the Silithid spawns are infinite. I put on all the HP/5 gear I had and sat on Shield Block once I had taken the Goo and fought for a good hour.

The first bug drops the Object, so just grab it and run. Completion gives 100 Cenarion Circle rep.

~ G

Edited, Sun Jan 29 11:13:03 2006

Did this as a 58 Rogue.

Ran into the tower, let mobs at bottom aggro, once up at the top, I hit vansih and mobs went away. Looted the object at top, both mobs spawned. Started attacking one, hit Blade Fury, killed both, looted and turned in quest. Very easy.

soloed the whole q chain with my lvl60 shammy. resto specced so it took forever but it was easy.

Sneak into town as a kitty via the main road - tower is the one on the right with all the bugs flying around the top.

Sneak into tower and hug left wall - keep moving and you wont agro anything.

Once at the top, open the chest - you'll receive some kind of goo and two or three bugs will spawn - change back to kitty form and jump off the tower, then run back to the road till you're out of combat.

Heal up and sneak back in again - the bugs will be at top of tower still - backstab the nearst one and tear it to peices then loot it imediately - it will have the shell you need - jump off the tower again and you're set,

heh....

all i did was throw a distract in there to make the night elves turn around... was gonna try and sneak by... the distract by itself spawned the 3 bugs.

You CAN still pull the elves out without the bugs even after they spawn, however. But forget about stealthing past, one of them is positioned right on the stairs and doesn't move.

Oh and by the way this quest is also available to Horde even tho it just says alliance

Edited, Fri Aug 5 08:59:03 2005