46,19 and I had them all within 10 minutes...literally....I timed it. Maybe I was lucky but this quest was super easy

This quest can be done at the same time as the Goblin Sponsorship (Part 5 of the quest chain beginning with Load Lightening https://classicdb.ch/?quest=1176). It is worth it to do both if you care about your Booty Bay reputation, and it will save you some running to get it done all at once.

Wasn't bad at all for me - got my 8 in 18 kills, just stuck to geologists outside (didn't catch the advice below about the singing crystal quest).

As the quest log says, the goblins with the crystals are around the Big lake in the center of the map. You'll find them a little west of where Bhagera spawns, in the goblins clearcut and factory.

This is quit an easy quest. You can take 1 by 1 all the way. And they respawn very fast.

After reading all the comments here, I decided to take my own little sample.

34 Rogue
29 kills
8 crystals
4 deaths

Done deal.

very easy quest.. the far north geologists dont drop as well as the south geologist in my opinion.&nbsp so far the south geologists drop 100% for me.&nbsp Very easy quest for my lvl 33 NE priest.&nbsp Each geologist gives me 5 reputation for booty bay too =)

drop rate for geologists- 32%
found- 43,18
note- they also drop green pages and north of them are stranglethorn tigers.
&nbsp &nbsp - i solo as 36 warrior and it was very easy.

These Venture Co. Geologists cast Lightning Bolt that deals ~140 nature damage, Quick Fire Ward, which makes them immune to fire damage for some seconds and Fire Shield II, which deals fire damage to enemies in melee range.

They also run away when they're low on HP.

3500xp as of 2.3. Drop rate was improved a lot on that quest. I remember doing it last year and it was aweful. Now i got my 8 in about 10 kills.

Quest clearly states that the geologists are very interested in these items, hence they drop it the most.

You don't have to go all the way to 43, 17 to get the Tumbled Crystals - I stayed around 43, 22 and still finished the quest.

Drop rate for me was pretty much 1 for 1. 8 kills, 8 crystals.

Drops from level 35-36 Venture Co. Geologist, caster mob, at 44.20. That's right of 'Lake Nazferiti' on the map. They drop 1-2 silver mostly, and sometimes some silk cloth as well.
Watch out for the patrolling Venture Co. Shredder (L37).
They also grant +5 reputation with Booty Bay.

The droprate for Silk Cloth was 35-40% for me.

Average value: 1s 68c.

It took me 14 kills for 8 crystals.

The main camp is at 43,19 but there are plenty more up and around the area.

The drop rate is about 1 in 4 or 5.

Should be done together with [37] Goblin Sponsorship as Foreman Cozzle who you need to kill is right up there.

To everyone saying this is an easy quest... you must not be on a pvp server. This is taking FOREVER because of idiots on horde, not to mention the drop rates are horrible.

The cords. from above are correct, of course if you dont have cords. on your map you can download off of cosmos.&nbsp Im a lv 34 warlock and this quest wasnt too bad. the geologist seem to repop pretty fast so i just camped out and killed the same five and i got all i needed pretty fast.&nbsp I approached from the south side of the camp off of the path.&nbsp The geol. are harder to spot because of their color so dont go running in :)another thing. attacking the big mechanical things is pointless, they dont drop anything. As said above in another comment they have a big aggro range so be carefull.&nbsp hope this helps.
and i love when ppl criticize each others oppinions on this website... its useless, it takes up space and this isnt what the site is for, there are a bunch of different classes and lvs doing this quest so of course you are going to have different methods of doing it... Grow up you bunch of nerds!

- Killing the geologists by the south road is pointless, the never drop anything. At a guess, I'd say this is true for the outliers all around the camp.

- The closer you get to the buildings, the more likely a geologist seems to be to drop. By the time I was killing the geologists right around the foot of the buildings, it was virtually a 100% drop rate.. I find it plausible that you could do this in less than 10 minutes, all you'd need to do is charge the mobs in the middle.

- While the geologists have a fairly wide ranging patrol area, they still stay within zones... however these zones overlap at the edges. If you either attack them directly in the middle of their zone or while they're at the edge overlapping with a geologist you've already killed, you should have absolutely no probs with aggro spread. Just keep an eye out for the shredder's patrol, they can make things irritating.

Oh, and like many/most of the quests in Stranglethorn this one's easy for hunters - found it pretty trivial with a lvl 32/33 hunter (admittedly on a non-PVP server, and I wasn't trying for a new land speed record).

did this as lvl36 druid solo. Cords: 43/20. Not that hard if you just stay on the outside. Also note that these guys are small and can blend into the environment so there are times you might get two instead of one on you. I used human tracking to find those that where a bit away from the others. It was hard to pull just one as they stay once attacked and use range attack on you. They will flee at about 25% health left so watch for that. Drop rate for me was about 1-8 after I got 2 right off the bat. Also there are a few stealthed tigers roaming about.

YOu gotta be kidding me. I killed about 38 and i only got 3 crystals.

Abandoned >.<

And yes, they were the right ones.

28, 8 is not correct. Either that or I am just having a bad day. Had the quest and decided to grind around there. Killed over a hundred and not a single drop.

the guy who said location 50,90 does to much crack. 50,90 put me right in the middle of the south seas.

the drop rate on the tower is apalling

What the hell are you talking about? The droprate was great.

As others have said, the coords at 42,18 are correct. The drop rate at first seemed horrible, but once I'd gotten a couple, it seemed to speed up. I probably killed less than 30, although I didn't keep track.

28,8 I think these cords are better for this quest. It is where the geologists mine.

hi, if you go around the area of 42,19 drop rates are fabulous killed 9 geos for 8 stones. Before i was at co-ords 28,8 and drop rate was yukieeeee.

%^&*TY DROP RATE! very &*!@ty!

The geologists are goblins, not gnomes

Best place I found was 42,19

Quest is evil. These goblins are evil. Every single one at the lake wanders constantly, and they have the attack range of Michael Jackson at a petting zoo. And the worse part is, they blend in with the terrain with their green skin and brown clothes. Bastards.

The drop rate for the crystals is really not that bad. They dropped roughly about 1 crystal for every 3 or 4 goblins I killed. Not too bad, not to mention that I got about 425xp per kill (rested), so I was able to get some good grinding out of it!

Happy hunting!

Yea the drop rate sucks but whatever I'm still getting exp from killing these.

My drop rate sucked too. About 10 % I would say. Boring quest.

Excellent discripton... i would say that every third one dops the itme

enjoy :)