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Study of the Elements: Rock

Find 10 Small Stone Shards and bring them to Lotwil Veriatus in the Badlands.
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Small Stone Shard (10)

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Here in the Badlands I've stopped to work on my latest project: my shackles of elemental binding.

When complete, they will allow mages to summon even more powerful elementals for use in even greater capacities. To start things off, I need small stone shards to test some of my newest offensive spells along with a few gizmos I've pieced together.

The shards are easily collected from the lesser rock elementals to the west of here. Could you bring me some?

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
  • 2850 experience ( 17 10 at max. level)

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By Anonymous on 09/25/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
Make sure you don't confuse the Lesser Rock Elementals with the nearby lvl 40 Rock Elementals. The lvl 40s don't drop the shard. Only the lvl 37, 38, and 39 Lesser Rock Elementals drop it. I wasted a bunch of time killing 40s and getting nothing. Once I realized my mistake, it only took a short time to get all the shards.
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By Anonymous on 01/29/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)
I got 2850 XP for this at level 40, when the quest is green. There are no reputation changes for completion of this quest.
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By Anonymous on 09/25/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
23,43 for all u that just want to do this quest in les than 5 minutes.&nbsp all the elements u need to kill are right here.&nbsp took me 5 minutes.
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By Anonymous on 03/27/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)
OK, really I should post this in a bunch of quests that these two gnomes give, but I think this is the first, so:

These two will send you multiple, seperate times to buy things that essentially you will end up having to buy at AH, etc. Very frustrating, considering they are in the middle of bumscrew and its a long ride back to the city, so if you want to do all of them you'll end up needing:
Frost Oil, Patterned Copper Bracers, Gyrochromaton, Lesser Invisibility Potion, Healing Potion.

Am I forgetting anything?
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By Ormriss on 11/25/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
Not only is the drop rate horrible, but you'll also likely have to deal with farmers who are trying to get elemental earth. Please, if you want to farm elemental earth, try the regular elementals. You will also have to deal with competition, as this quest is available to both factions. The drop rate is so bad, one player will likely need to wipe out all the lesser elementals at least two or three times before getting the 10 drops.

Horde players should pick up the Badlands Reagent Run quest as well before doing this one, just to save time and aggravation.
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By kreghx on 12/18/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
You can find him around 21, 48. Good Luck! :D
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By gamepin126 on 04/11/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
I don't know what you guys are talking about, but I started this chain for the trinket for heroics. Really nice trinket. Anyways, the Less Rock Elementals dropped the item 10 of 10 times. Sometimes they dropped nothing but the shard. The Rock Elementals don't drop it.
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By Anonymous on 02/18/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)
The actual location for the Lesser Rock Elementals is around 20,47
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By kaitos on 08/03/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
Lesser Rock Elementals are located just west of the quest mob - they range from 18,45 to 19,43. They are normally between 37 and 39th lvl and move farely slowly and don't hit very hard.

The drop rate is around 25%.

Note: If you head northwest you will find the 'Rock Elementals' which do NOT drop the small stone shards.
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By Anonymous on 09/25/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
23, 44

8 lesser rock elementals here
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By Anonymous on 02/02/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)
The drop rate for this quest is brutal.
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By Anonymous on 12/14/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
got my second drop on my third kill :)
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By Anonymous on 02/20/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
not a fun quest. drop rate about 1 in 15 for me. good luck.
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By Anonymous on 09/12/2005 (Patch 1.6.1)
killed over 100 of these guys, haven't even got 1 quest item.
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By Anonymous on 10/15/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
damn, what a horrible low droprate. (
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By Anonymous on 06/29/2005 (Patch 1.5.1)
arround 21,48
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By Anonymous on 03/12/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
I just killed 17 without a drop and then i got 4 in a row... i don't know what is going on with this quest.
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By Anonymous on 02/15/2007 (Patch 2.0.7)
I got a drop at about 1 in 4, didn't take too long, and they are right next to the quest giver. they are immune to nature spells
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By Anonymous on 03/09/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)
ive gotten 1 every kill lol...
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By Anonymous on 11/27/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
If it wasn't for my Obsessive/Compulsive nature, I would've ditched this quest long ago.

Started @ Lv42, 144 total XP, 0 rest.

Current: Lv42, 23872 XP, 3 Stones dropped.

If I figure the XP gain average correctly, that's 177 XP per kill (approx) so…

23,872 total xp
-144 starting xp
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23,728 earned xp
÷177 ave xp per kill
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134 kills (±15 kills margin of error)

I believe this quest gets my vote for "F**K ME NOW quest of the year"

I'll edit this later once I finish.

Edited, Nov 27th 2006 12:56pm by Lorielae
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By Anonymous on 10/29/2005 (Patch 1.8.2)
27th one dropped the 1st, #30 dropped the 2nd... guess the quest isnt broken like i was beginnig to think
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By Anonymous on 04/13/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
Just finished this quest as a `lvl 41 shaman. Location: 21,48. Got 50% drops for the first 4. Overall, I got a 40% drop rate (killed 25 for 10 total shards). Took me about 10-15 minutes to complete. I also wandered around a little while they respawned.

Be sure that you're going after the LESSER rock elementals, instead of just the rock elementals (other than the name, they look identical). The rock elementals will not drop the shards, which could be the problem that some are experiencing with a nonexistent drop rate(?).

Received 2850 experience when I turned in the quest. For me, the quest was well worth doing, but I also had a decent drop rate.

Edited, Apr 13th 2007 12:09pm by photojenic
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By Anonymous on 06/27/2005 (Patch 1.5.1)
hi! where can i find the questgiver (Lotwill Veriatus)? And where can i find the elementals? I just planning to go to Badlands now....
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By Anonymous on 11/28/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
The drop rate was horrible yesterday but I just got the last 7 I needed in no longer than 10 minutes. It wasn't very busy, so that helped. Try to go early or later than the rush I guess.
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By Anonymous on 07/15/2005 (Patch 1.6.0)
the worst droprate ever, got my first at my 17th kill
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By Anonymous on 03/31/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
Finshed This Quest with LVL 44 Human Mage, Received:

Experience Gained: 1700

Leads to next quest...
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By Anonymous on 06/11/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)
Have killed about 50 of them atm. Zero stones. lots of crap and exp though :)
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By Anonymous on 10/05/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
Drop rates werent great, but I got 1 in about every 5. Mabye from the new update they got better?
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By Anonymous on 04/11/2006 (Patch 1.10.1)
Took me a while but I got 2850xp for this quest. Must have killed about 40 of the elementals
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By Anonymous on 05/04/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
YEEEEES at last....it took me 41 @#$%ing kills to get 10 shards.....worst drop rate ever!
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By Anonymous on 02/19/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)
Just to chime in on the drop rate, I solo'd this step, and it took me 36 kills to get the 10 drops.

It was worth it though, as they also drop lots of other stone type loot that ended up being decent vendor sells.

Edited, Sat Feb 19 11:25:31 2005
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By Anonymous on 08/10/2005 (Patch 1.6.1)
Was able to get 10 in 36 kills as a 36th Paladin.
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By Anonymous on 12/14/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
i got my third drop on my fifth kill :)
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By Anonymous on 01/20/2007 (Patch 2.0.5)
Made this in lvl 42. I think it will be easy. Killed near 70 "elementals". Very unusualy drop this stones. Too long quest. 3150 xp, no reputation.
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By Anonymous on 02/10/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)
They must have tweaked the drop rate, 15 kills 10 Small stone shards.
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By Anonymous on 12/14/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
got my first drop on my second kill :)
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By watwereallabout on 07/23/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
I Found the Drop Rate For these guys now bad, i think i might of killed about 15 and got all the items. No farmers either now-a-days coz the elemental earth aint worth crap anymore.
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By Shaneg on 08/26/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
Danm the drop rate is terrible but a great grind for this quest... 15% is right, and if you do this quest have fun it might take long but u get incredible Xp after the whole thing is done since u gotta kill a ton of these elementles
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By Gilgadean on 08/28/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
I have done this quest 3 times on 3 different characters. The drop rate seems to have improved since the first time I did it, but the sheer amount of bugged elementals has increased. The ones near the large stone pillars (21,43) west of the gnome camp are usually unresponsive or are "out of range".

The quest is awful, especially if you have a class that uses elemental/nature spells (see: Shaman).

EDIT: Farmers should not be a problem post-expansion.
Last edited by Gilgadean on 08/28/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
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By Celwindia on 12/09/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
Did this quest tonight 12/9/2007
Drop rate, was actually rather bad, started off worse than it finished.
I went 26 kills before my first one dropped, bringing me to around 3.8%, I picked up my second drop on my 44th kill, moving me up to 4.5%. About 30 minutes all total, but I went 75 kills, to get 10 drops, to finish at around 13.3% drop rate, not great.

Was done on a 41 SPriest, and with rest, I gained 15,000XP killing though =P
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