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You're a Mean One...

Locate and return the Stolen Treats to Kaymard Copperpinch in Orgrimmar. It was last thought to be in the possession of the Abominable Greench, found somewhere in the snowy regions of the Alterac Mountains.
Stolen Treats

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A c-c-creature called "The Abominable Greench" is the one w-w-who stole our shipment of t-t-treats, <name>. Be c-c-careful though! He is t-t-the one who turned me into this s-s-snowy mess!

You're g-g-gonna need some help in f-f-facing him. I've seen him w-w-wander all around where the y-y-yeti are; he's s-s-surely here s-s-somewhere! F-f-find the treats <name>, take them b-b-back to Smokywood Pastures in Orgrimmar, and t-t-tell them I n-n-need to be unfrozen!

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Alterac Mountains
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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
  • 3300 experience ( 19 80 at max. level)

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By Vlad on 12/15/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
The new event goes like this:
  • You fight (NPC #54499) and he now has over 3 million health! (Note that he looks nothing like his former self "(NPC #13602)".)
  • You do not need to be in the same group as the one that tagged him, simply fight the boss and when he dies you can loot sacks of the stolen goods in the cave (the one right behind him, stuffed with those Christmas trees, presents and what not.) The reindeer will automatically be credited to you, you can always talk to it too if it makes you feel better.
  • You do not need a tank, a plate DPS can take his hits but I wouldn't solo him because of his large health pool. Still if few in numbers be nice and throw some heal or two on the one taking damage.
It's a daily, each day you do it you have a chance to loot (Item #73797) from the rewarded (Item #73792) -good luck and Marry Christmas!
Old post said:
He usually spawns at 30,60. Sometimes 30,55 then a bit south and closer to the quest giver (Snowman).
It's a random spawn between the 3 locations, but I've seen him spawning mostly at 30,60.

/tar The Abominable Greench
/run local n,t,c="The Abominable Greench","target","YELL"if UnitName(t)==n and(not UnitIsDead(t))then if GetNumPartyMembers()>0 then c="PARTY"end SendChatMessage("-> "..n.." is here! <-",c)Minimap:PingLocation(0,0)end
Make that advanced macro and spam it, once he is up you will make sure you and your
party knows he is up at your location! Just tag him with a low ranked spell and let him hit you until your
party members arrive at your location, as a 70 you can stand there for ages. ;)

He is camped by a lot of 70 so if you are lower level ask a pal for help.. try to group up with 5 others
and camp each spot, tag and tell party he is at your spot. If I am you don't help killing because it might
result you getting killed by a angry alliance party that only half got the loot and the other half didn't
because they were too far away. :P

(Updated, same deal only a bit better.)
Last edited by Vlad on 12/15/2011 (Patch 3.1.2) – edited 10 times
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By november on 12/23/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
The name "Greench", by the way, is a reference to "The Grinch", a character featured in a series of children's poems by Dr. Seuss. There even is a song, "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch", to which the quest name is a direct reference.
Last edited by november on 12/23/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
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By Anonymous on 12/11/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Found him at 30.60
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By Anonymous on 12/11/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Just completed it (I'm level 55), veeeerry easy quest, had to kill one (1) level 36 elite mob to finish it and got 3900 + 4900 exp from it :)
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By Anonymous on 12/11/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
3153
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By Anonymous on 12/11/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
He spawned right alongside the snowman for me.. Takes a while to spawn so make sure your alert.
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By Anonymous on 12/11/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
found near snowman 39,71
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By Anonymous on 12/11/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Greench spawns quickly and all over the place, (saw 2 of his corpses at the same time a short distance from each other) although some spawn locations seem more common than others....quest reward is random and is NOT based on your professions as previously suggested, otherwise my alchemist would've received the recipe for elixir of frost power instead of the engineers' plans for the snowmaker 9000.&nbsp Best plan is to form a group and keep relatively close together (i'd suggest the NW corner outside of the broken keep walls, and nail him quick.&nbsp Forming a group will increase your chances to finish your quest (and quickly) and give others a chance as well once you clear out of the way
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By Anonymous on 12/11/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
32,51
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By Anonymous on 12/11/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Confirmed at 30,64
Spawns on the raised area there. Takes a LONG time to spawn. (looking for around an hour)
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By Anonymous on 02/22/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)
my lvl 39 pally owned him on christmas morning...

the 5000+XP made him lvl 40
so my dedication to get him to lvl 40 by christmas was completed, and I got my free mount to boot!
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By Anonymous on 12/11/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Man there's so many people here waiting to jump him when he spawns it's insane, and since only 5 can get him per spawn as a group it might be better to wait until like 2am to get this guy
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By Anonymous on 12/11/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Slow respawns, and in various places.
Should be decent if you can catch it with all the other players waiting for him to show!
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By Anonymous on 12/11/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
All of this is covered above, but to repeat:

* He spawns everywhere on the mountain there are yetis
* When he spawns he lets out a yell which you can see if you are nearby
* Respawns happen almost immediately (I have seen two corpses at the same time) but, as above, can be anywhere where there are yetis on the mountain
* it's often camped in busy periods, so pick a quiet time to go
* he's 36 elite, so mostly solo-able by people eligible for the quest
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By Anonymous on 12/11/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
did it last year, did it again this year, abiet i waited till 2:30 am server time this time, ate some fruit loops and waited for a large yeti to show up
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By attackfrog on 12/17/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
They Abominable Greench yells "Raaaaaar!" when he spawns, and will sometimes turn you into a snowman, stunning you for a few seconds.
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By Anonymous on 12/17/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
Went to the back side of the ruins and I tagged him as mine less than a second after he spawned. Range on this quest helps since everyone is camping it.
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By Anonymous on 12/15/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Found him walking around at the snowman hes hard to find everybody kills him :(
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By Anonymous on 12/24/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
Why did I get some gay recipe instead of the snowman form when I turned this in...
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By Anonymous on 12/17/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
I got a bit lucky ... doing the Q on my own as lvl39 mage. Had to frost a pryoblast him for several times. Luckyly you can outrun this dude and regenerate. But it's really tough ...
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By Anonymous on 12/16/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
I got to the growless cave area. With the 10,000 ppl waiting for the kill. I was about to give up as soon as i saw the area crawling with Alliance and Hoard. I said f it and stayed. 10 mins later i was standing in back of the ruins. And the abomindable snowman spawned and hit me on the head. I was screaming out loud so loud the dog started barking. Well long story short. I GOT EM!
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By Anonymous on 12/16/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
Got VERY lucky last night - went up there - (with the hundreds camping out - both Alli and Horde) bumped into a couple of Guildies - party'ed up and got him second spawn...

Spawn time 5 minutes ish - BUT his spawn point seems to move - from what I saw yesterday three or four times in same place then moves. Sorry not much direct help - but it was worth it for me - got the schematics for the snowball maker
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By Anonymous on 12/16/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Anyone know what the spawn time of the grench is?
If it helps, he spawned at 6:00 pm server time on Stormrage on December 15th.
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By Anonymous on 12/16/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Thoroughly enjoyable quest. Reminded me of all the spawn camping I did in FFXI. There were about 10 people waiting at behind the ruin (open area of snow) for Greench to spawn. I stayed in stealth until I heard him shout. Looked around, sprint, un stealth, twat it round the head. Think it is all about the practice )
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By Anonymous on 12/15/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Would be a whole lot easier without the bazillion Alliance camping the entire area. XD
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By Anonymous on 12/16/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Good luck getting him with the three hundred assorted night elf hunters with bad names in the way.
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By Anonymous on 12/16/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
I can only imagine how awful this quest is on a PVP server... :/
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By Anonymous on 11/18/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
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