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Level: 48
Requires level: 43
Side: Both
Start: OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon
End: Homing Robot OOX-09/HL

Series

1.	Find OOX-09/HL!
2.	Rescue OOX-09/HL!

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Find OOX-09/HL!

Take the distress beacon to Oglethorpe's homing robot at the head of the river in the Hinterlands, near Skulk Rock.

	OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon

Provided Item:

	OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon

Description

You have uncovered some sort of strange, egg-shaped device made from metal. Fiddling with one of its knobs springs the egg to life, as it opens up into some sort of gnomish robotic contraption! A voice from inside the robotic egg crackles to life.

"My name's Oglethorpe Obnoticus, and my homing robot has crashed! I will reward you for its recovery; please take this beacon to the robot!"

"I now have computed the coordinates of the robot for you; it crashed at the head of the river near Skulk Rock!"

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

4400 experience ( 26 40 at max. level)
100 Reputation with Booty Bay
-500 Reputation with Bloodsail Buccaneers

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Rating: +30 [-] [+]

By powdahound on 09/30/2006 (Patch 1.12.1)

You can find the robot at 49,38 in the Hinterlands. It's in the lake that lies west of Skull Rock.

Rating: +28 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/14/2006 (Patch 1.10.1)

49,37 :))

Rating: +26 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)

He's at 49,38

Rating: +21 [-] [+]

By JohnJSal on 04/08/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

I'm going to post this message on all three of these "Find" quests, just in case someone doesn't see it on one of the other two.

If you plan to do these quests in a group (which is very helpful, as any escort quest) everyone must first have completed the "Find" part of the quest, which means you have to find the chicken, choose "Complete" and then be *offered* the next part of the quest, which is the actual escort part. But do not accept this part until everyone has done the "Find" part, otherwise it won't be offered to them as escort quests normally are, because technically you are not on the same stage of the quest yet.

So just complete the "Find" part, then when the next part is offered, decline it until everyone is ready to accept it.

Rating: +21 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/30/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)

The robot looks like a chicken. It is sitting on top of the western most island in the lake at the head of the river at loc 49,38. It's a little northeast of Agol'watha. Don't go all the way to Skull Rock.

Edited, Sat Jan 29 19:08:24 2005

Rating: +15 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 08/01/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)

First off, I would like to say that this is by far one of my favorite quests. It's rather funny, and its quite challenging, so I decided to create a small guide to help everyone survive (or help the chicken survive for that matter) in this escort.

- You can find this quest off a drop on any mob in the area of the Hinterlands. I would not recomend farming in the Hinterlands for this quest, simplly go around questing in the Hinterlands, it will most likelly come up on its own.

- I recomend you are either a higher level than the quest (aka the quest is written in green) or you have a freind help you. No matter how good you may be at your level, it will still be easier if you are higher than it.

- The chicken is located dirrectlly west of Skulk Rock and is perched ontop of a mound in the pond. The little yellow dot on your mini map should also help finding it.

- Right Click on the chicken to hand in the quest, and recieve your experience. You should now be eligable for the escort. Accept its escort quest and the chicken should be on its way.

- There are 2 quest mobs you will be encountaring, along with any sort of mobs that may be roaming around and in the chickens way. Stay slightlly behind the chicken and try not to agro the mobs yourself, if the chicken agros them, attack the mob, then run at the chicken so it will aid you and also stop it from going any further.

- The first quest mob you fight are 3 moonkins, each level 47. You should have 2 moonkins attacking you, and let the chicken tank the other. After taking out only one of the moonkins attacking you, start attacking the one the chicken is tanking, and kill it. Now you are left with one left, finish off the mob.

- The next is slightlly harder, as it is not on the road and sometimes you get interference with another non-quest mob. If there is not a non-quest mob interfering, there will be 3 trolls approaching you, repeat what you did to the moonkins and you should be fine. If there is a quest mob do your best to only have one thing attacking the chicken at most. Do not assist the chicken, because if you do the mob will immediatlly bounce right to you, as you are the one that will be doing more damage, thus generating more agro. Instead let the chicken attack its own one mob, while you do your best to take out 3 (this is why I said to be a higher level than the quest). Pop your cooldowns, drink pots, do whatever you can to stay alive, just make sure the chicken does not die as well.

- After completeing this quest mob (if you did) the chicken will run to the shore, and surelly enough, activate his cloaking system and you will have sucessfully completed the chicken quest. Hand in this quest to the goblin at Booty Bay, the yellow dot should easilly guide you to him. If you complete all 3 chicken quests, you will get a chicken of your own! (No it is not just a rumor, I have one) It is rather small but made me laugh.

- Good luck, and have fun!

Rating: +15 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 03/27/2005 (Patch 1.3.2)

Completing this at level 52 (when it's green) got me 4400 XP and an increase in my Booty Bay reputation.

Rating: +13 [-] [+]

By Rinkai on 01/23/2007 (Patch 2.0.6)

You can actually complete these quests at quite a low level as a hunter. You don't need to fight the groups that show up.

I found that when the chicken says "Incoming threat detected" or whatever it says, if you plant a frost trap infront of it, multi-shot the 3 incoming enemies, have them activate the trap, the chicken keeps running and you run with him, you can either keep planting forst traps as you walk to stop them catchign you, or leave your pet behind for them to attack.

I do the second, my pet is auto-dismissed for being out of range long before he dies.

Rating: +11 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 08/26/2005 (Patch 1.6.1)

It must be a matter of special know-how! I tried the kiting technique but they rushed past me to the chicken. In the end I enrolled a lvl 45 mage and that did the trick...

Rating: +6 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 11/19/2005 (Patch 1.8.3)

I love how blizzard puts these kinds of quests in just to mess with us. I also love the sence of humor they have with their quest systems...unlike other games, wow is very enjoyable despite oftentimes being hard. If you wanna complain about these quests, that obviously means youve tried them a few times, which makes the game even better. If all quests were easy and predictible lvling would be sooooo boring. To enjoy the chicken fully:

1.If your chicken won't prompt( start moving) its probably because someone else is doing the quest, not because blizzard is dumb >.<

2 stay a good distance behind your target chicken, if there's a single mob that starts running after the chick, it will evade, however if you catch aggro....the chicken will ignore you as well!

3. Have lots of pots and bandages, the spawned mobs are not random and are always in the escorts usually in groups of 3. You cant heal your chicken but you can heal yourself!

4. Everyclass has good crowd control, use it to your advantage and usually your able to solo!

Rating: +5 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)

When you escort him you'll fight:

1 46-47 slime
1 46-47 slime
3x 47 Big Birds + 1 48 wolf (sometimes)
3x 47 Troll + 1 48 Wolf

Here is the trick -
Follow him at a good distance
WHen the birds ambush, you can follow him and they will follow him as well and if YOU dont get hit, he will keep going.

This didn't work with the trolls.

Also, at the end he walks right into the level 48 turtles.&nbsp Just stay back, and it will complete.&nbsp Then the turtles will kill him, but you really dont care at that point.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/25/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)

I soloed the quest quite easily as a level 50 pali but imagine that a 49 or 48 pali could do just as easily (I left it a couple of levels because I kept getting ganked by horde)

The only tips that I can add to what has already been said above is:

1. You have to go to Booty Bay to cash the quest in, so you might as well collect the [50] Whisky Slim's Lost Grog quest to collect 20 pupellyverbos port bottles on the beach before you start the quest. The battle chicken escort quest ends where the bottles are.

2. If you follow the chicken at a safe distance behind, there are mob that are not apart of the quest that may attack it. It will continue running and the mob will return to the spawm position so you will not have to kill them.

3. If you get a chance, loot the quest mobs. The first slime is a quest mob - it dropped a (superior blue) mountainside buckler. I only got silver from the trolls and owlbeasts.

4. I changed from a two handed polearm to shield and one handed mace and found that even though I was doing less damage my health was not significantly dropping as much. More armour when taking on 4:1 mob at roughly the same level gives more time to self-heal.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/14/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

lol Toxic101 is a huge liar if he easily solo'd without pots at lvl 44 unless his minion took aggro off the chicken or he just kept fearing them off. The chicken is weakly armored and will die quickly if attacked by more than one npc. Doing the quest alone won't be too bad if you were a hunter or a lock but I would definately have someone assist if you aren't in the higher 40's. lol, some people just love trying to make themselves look better than they really are.

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/25/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

Some complain that the chicken doesn't move.&nbsp The prevaling theory is that it's because someone else is already on the quest.&nbsp A query in general chat of the zone should confirm this.&nbsp Whether someone responds or not, wait a few minutes and try again.

The beacons are random drops in the 3 zones where the quests are (OOX-09 drops in Hinterlands, 17 in Taneris, 22 in Feralas.)&nbsp If you are going to try and 'farm' these, my suggestion is to grab some of the quests that require killing in the specific zones and then by the time you finish a few of them you should have seen the drops.

I did these as a 51 feral druid, which is probably the easiest class to do it with.&nbsp I simply followed the crazy mechanical contraption in kitty form stealthed.&nbsp While you are stealthed, some MoBs ignore the chicken, these you guys can walk past.&nbsp Some MoBs will jump the chicken and it will fight back, I killed these staying in cat form.&nbsp Some of the pre-staged 'ambushes' walked right past us when I was stealthed.&nbsp Other ambushes did attack the chicken, when this happened I quickly switched to bear, dem roared and proceeded to swipe them down (with imp LotP healing me, this was pretty simple although the troll ambush in Hinterlands was probably the hardest.)

If you aren't a druid with imp LotP or above 50, I would suggest you find others wanting to do the quest and do it together.&nbsp Some sort of tank class would be preferable to have, since they can take aggro off the chicken, and someone with healing abilities is helpful below 50 as well.&nbsp A decent 45 war/ 45 priest combo should be able to do any of the OOX escorts, higher levels or other classes combined or a 50+ that can pull aggro and heal (pally, imp LotP dru, war w/ 'sader?) or most 55+ should be able to finish these.

Don't forget that WoW is an MMO so there is bound to be somebody besides you who also has these beacons and grouping with others will make the escorts a lot easier.

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 08/20/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)

When i got this i read thorugh all the comments and thought this owuld be a tough quest (wasnt going to do the mount thing) and i was dissapointed..

As a 46 Hunter i walked through this quest with absolute ease, the 2 groups that pop were rather easy, didnt even need to heal my pet, and the chicken barely got hit (my ape took all agro with one thunderstomp)

Maybe for certain classes it can be a pain, but as a hunter it was very easy, a nice easy set of EXP :)

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)

There is a battle chicken body laying on top of one of the islands in the lake East of Agol'Watha. After you bring the artifact to it, you have to escort him to the overlook cliffs. The chicken follows the main road and gets ambushed by those huge Owls. At the time of writing this I'm a lvl 45 Rogue and I can't solo it yet, so bring buddies when you do this quest :)

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)

Was definitely easier then the Chicken Escort in Tanaris. There are 3 of these quests. One in Feralas, Hinterlands & Tanaris. I have yet to find the one in Feralas. In anycase, this is all I fought.
1 L46 Slime
3 L46-L47 Savage Owls & 1 Wolf
3 Trolls.

After I killed the troll the chicken walked down the path and to the river. Then he cloaked himself and the quest was over. Thank god L48 Elite Gammarita didn't show up.

I did this at L57 which make it very easy for me. The lowest health I got down to was 800hp, but I had plenty of potions and bandages.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 05/02/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

Hinterlands: 49,37
For those of u without coords, it's at the lake NE of AgolWatha

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 05/20/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

Solo'd as 47 prot pally.&nbsp Holy shield and consecrate until they all die.&nbsp Easy as pie!

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)

There's a body of a Battle Chicken on one of the small islands inside the lake east of Agol'Watha

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)

level 49 warrior and can't solo it, he spawns 3 owl beasts that aggro on him.&nbsp he is on the south island at the river's head and you take him out to the beach.&nbsp found my starter on one of the lvl 42 trolls in the hinterlands.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)

If you do all 3 chicken escort quests (Hinterlands, Feralas, Tanaris) you get a chicken of your own from the owner. Search thottbot for "find OOX" and the 3 missions should come up.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)

That's the name of the quest you get for finishing all three OOX quests. Guy in BB gives you a chicken of your own. Can't find the quest on Thott, but it shows up on Anonymous.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 11/19/2005 (Patch 1.8.3)

Failed this because I stopped to fight one of the mobs and the chicken just kept running!&nbsp I expected him to stick around like he did when the first enemy showed up, but he ran away and I failed the quest...

Other than that I think this quest is pretty funny I still wanna finish it.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/14/2006 (Patch 1.10.1)

I failed the quest twice and now I couldn't talk to the chicken but I still have the quest. I'm sure I won't be able to do it again without the item that starts the quest unless if I'll get the item again.
Any ideas what happened to my quest?

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/14/2006 (Patch 1.10.1)

I failed first time. How can I get quest again? The Beacon thing is gone now. Will I be able to find one again as a random drop like i did before? I have tried to find another in the area but no luck so far. Anyone know how it works if you fail? TY :)

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/14/2006 (Patch 1.10.1)

If you keep your distance from the chicken, it will not fight and will ignore any mob that comes up to it.

Sure, he will get hit and may even get dazed/stunned, however, as long as it sees that you're safe and not fighting it will just keep on truckin' along until it gets to its destination.

It's very important that you maintain a consistent distance from it, perhaps 20 yards away. If you get any closer, it will go into "protect" mode and start fighting. That has been my experience anyway.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/14/2006 (Patch 1.10.1)

I solo'ed this as a lvl 46 druid in bear form and stayed right with the chicken the whole time as opposed to following from a distance behind as other posts have suggested.&nbsp The only part that is tough is when the owl beasts wave comes.&nbsp What I did then is not use any of my rage and once I got down to 50% health, used my frenzied regeneration ability which converted all my rage into health and essentially allowed me double hit points.&nbsp After the owl beasts, the rest are simple.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 05/20/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)

This quest is bugged.&nbsp I can't get the chicken to move at al.

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By Anonymous on 10/13/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)

49.37

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By Anonymous on 05/02/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

im lvl 46 hunter first 3 owlbeasts was easy then 3trolls and 1wolf was a little harder.. my pet died and i had to use 1 Superior Healing Potion.
after that there is no mobs back you just walk to the beach to complete quest

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 11/03/2005 (Patch 1.8.2)

Joke. Anyone could do this that has a mount. Get on, follow slightly ahead of the chicken, grab agro, run around like a chicken with its head cut off. Only once did I actually have to dismount and fight a 47 wolf.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/01/2005 (Patch 1.8.3)

ive tried to do a similar q in feralas. Arrived to a cave full of yeties, accepted the q, but the chicken didnt move a bit.

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By Anonymous on 02/03/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

Sweeping Strikes and Intimidating Shout are your friends if you're a warrior. The mobs come in sets of three and the chicken also likes to go straight at anything along its programmed path too. Stay ahead of it and draw as much HATE as you can from the mobs and you should be ok.

Much easier with a group though...

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By Anonymous on 10/27/2005 (Patch 1.8.2)

What mob in hinterlands has the best chance of dropping this darn becon, been farming and farming for it for my husbands 45 priest and I can't get it to drop for him.

Edited, Thu Oct 27 15:07:10 2005

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By Anonymous on 02/24/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)

The mount trick still works...just be careful to not let the mobs you are kiting have even one hit on you...if they do, then the chicken auto-aggros onto them. Also...watch out for the stealthed wolves, they screwed up my kiting attempts a few times.

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By Anonymous on 05/03/2005 (Patch 1.4.0)

Drop rate on this damn thing sucks for me. The others dropped in no time in the other zones. I have completed every quest at least twice in this zone (helped some guildies) and still not one drop for any of us.

I would really like to finish this third one just so I can move on....

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By Anonymous on 06/09/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)

49 38, chicken on a small island.

Like the other said , this is piss easy even when yellow , just get a mount stay ahead of the chicken and get the mobs out of its way. Pack a potion or something just incase you get stunned and your mount goes away. But other than that you should be fine.

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By Anonymous on 12/01/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)

Wasn't hard at all... Level 46 hunter with a lvl 46 Sabretooth, and I'm Beast-specced. Nobody could kill me, my pet or the chicken!

Troll powah! *lol*

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By Anonymous on 09/28/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

As with all the other chicken quests, stealth if you can and the mobs run right by you and the chicken. Didn't have to do anything but follow to complete.

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