The drop ist completely random. Stop posting these esoteric approaches like... I bite on my left side of my tongue and drink 5 drops of my own blood and then it drops with a 50% chance when using no melee weapons and holding breath for 35.3 seconds.

Last nite I smoked at least 100 mosshoof geezas but not one crappy antler thing dropped. Well, it's a decent grinding area anyway, a few 60ies farming dreamfoil could gank you as usual but thats no big deal.

If you please just avoid posting how lucky you were, this makes me eat my bow and each of my arrows... one by one.

Oh, did I mention it? Like it was said in Good morning Vietnaaaam... These kind of quests suck the balls of a dead man dry.

I found it hard to believe that Blizz would intentionally put anything with THAT bad of a droprate in the game, especially as a normal class quest, so I looked for an answer.

The *way* one hunts is decidedly inconsistent, as is the case with hunters. Some are meleers, some only use ranged, some use guns, some mix it up. This didn't seem like it could be an answer, since Blizzard is pretty consistent in allowing us to play our classes as we wish rather than "the right way is our way" like some MMOs. Next idea...

The idea that enragement had something to do with it was certainly interesting, yet again didn't bear out in posts or practice. People got their drops regardless of the timing of the mob's enrage, and I find no correlation here.

The one consistent thing I noticed on various sites and in tons of posts was "I hunted in place X forever, got nothing, then moved to Y and got both right away." Now here was a theory I could test, and test I did, on 3 different hunters. The results were successful! On my own hunter, I killed Coursers south of the ruins (40,70) for almost an hour and got nothing. Then I rode up north and at 47,26 I met my first Courser, which I killed the exactly same way I had killed all the others down south. The difference was, it dropped a Perfect Courser Antler! I almost fainted for real. heh Then I killed another, and nothing, but the very next one I killed (at 48,19) dropped my 2nd Antlers!

I had looked carefully at each Courser I killed, and there was no difference in markings, antlers, size, or any other distinguishing factor. The method I used was exactly the same, since I was testing, I was very careful to use the same kill technique on all these mobs (mark, then pet atk with all special attacks and growl ON, then CS, then SS, then AS, rinse, repeat till dead).

Thinking it was indeed coincidence, I asked two friends with hunters to try out my theory with me. One of them is level 60 and had never bothered to do the quest, and the other is 53. Both experienced the same success I did using this method. One is a pure meleer and never used ranged, and the other is pure ranged and never melees, so it was perfect for this test. We tried lots of different combos of traps and such at first, and got nothing for at least an hour. Then when we moved to the opposite end of the zone, we got both Antlers within 5 kills.

If I'm not right, it's one heck of a coincidence, and my "scientific method" is flawed. At least using my method, you don't try to only kill them using some silly ass method like standing on your head and only hitting the mob with a puff pastry. You HUNT, what we're supposed to do, and like all good hunters, you move around until you find what you're hunting for. :)

killed 32, got 2, and i got 2, also got 2 stacks oh rugged and 1 stack of thick leather.

LOCATION
if you look at the map, the bay looks like a C.&nbsp If you look at the highest part of the C, they are there.
here is a pic
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/9507/courserdeer5qj.jpg

This is one of those quests I feel I could go out on the street to murder someone. Normally I have patience, but this is just silly. Hopelessly annoying to try to avoid the stupid gay deers while putting down traps to get a chance to find a distance to shoot the M.F down. And as people seem to have stated a single hit from it ruins the chance of getting that perfect antler... Impossible?

I'm gonna try scare beast now and see if that could help.

Well, I returned to just trying to grind myself to death on them by killing, I've killed them for two hours soon. Soon I abandon quest, because the rewards aren't really worth this. I might also cancel my WoW subscription in protest to Blizzard for making such a garbage quest.

Wow, after nearly two hours the first god damn perfect antler drops, I don't do any of above told tricks to get them drop and it's just a stupid idiotic quest were you have to kill mobs until you become a gray haired gorilla.

Conclusion: Just kill kill kill, the perfect antlers will drop sooner or later. Or I won't blame you for simply abandoning the quest either, I was nearly doing that also.

Second Perfect Antler dropped 10 minutes after the first one dropped, I did nothing but firing normally. Almost out of ammunition though :-)

The "l33t" tricks mentioned above are of no help. It's only a very bad drop rate in this quest!

I grinded over 24k of XP, not rested (at level 52), before the quest items dropped within 3 kills of each other. Horrible drop rate. :(

This quest has NOTHING to do with whether or not you use melee, or whether you use only normal shots. It is a simple kill and loot quest. After being unsuccessful for a while, I tried all the suggestions above and noticed no difference, so reverted back to my normal way - using melee and many shots, and eventually got them.

I kiled randomly, and the antlers drop no matter how you kill the deer. But, it really is a relaxing quest, if you enjoy hunting deer. Ted Nugent would really dig this quest!

First I killed 200 with no antlers, then I did a backflip IRL and it dropped twice in a row.

Actually I killed around 30, got one on 31st, another on my 33rd. THERE IS NO SPECIAL TRICK

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I had a horrible time trying to get the antlers to drop. I've killed 40 something of them so far and I still only have one. Horrid drop rate :/

I found them at51,31!

there are loads of them tehre btw!
At first i thought i could kill any moshoof but wen i read the quest properly it has to be the courser one... derr!

I've gotten two level's killing these stupid deer things and I have gotten no antlers. It's starting to get really irritating. I think I might just wait until 60 to do it, that way I can kill the stupid things faster. Killing them now is a waste of time.

The stupid antlers don't drop, and those of you that they did drop for, you've got better luck than I.

Velliaind 52 hunter Suramar

Part of the point of this quest is that it can take awhile.&nbsp When you turn it in, he says flat out that it had to take great patience to get them.

So start slaughtering.&nbsp It took me about 20 minutes at level 51.&nbsp If you're weak at melee, simply drop a frost trap, and utilize your "intimidate" and "bestial wrath" spells (if you specced beast mastery).&nbsp I didn't even need bestial wrath, this was very easy.

I know it can be frustrating, what with our instant gratification culture, but sometimes there's no short cut, and it's just grind, grind, and grind some more.

I can confirm this.

received 5100xp @ 57
leads to: Wavethrashing

notes: didn't have too much trouble @57, but it is tricky to avoid aggro. Just head to the east tip and back and by that time, you should have managed to make about 20 kills. If the antlers will drop for you.. well, that's another story.

For this and the Wave Trasher quest after, go for the higher level mobs. In the case of these, the coursers, focus exclusively on the level 53 coursers. The levels of the coursers are not evenly dispersed. The stretch extending northwest from the blue dragons contains primarily level 52 coursers. You find more concentrated level 53 coursers by heading east or northeast, but watch out for the giants. It will still take a long time, but more like 30 minutes instead of two hours.

This was very easy, took me 30 minutes to do.&nbsp I used melee, pet and ranged.&nbsp easier then some collecting quests.&nbsp
Anymal 50 Hunter on Staghelm.

After grinding for about two hours, I must've killed a thousand of these damn coursers and got nothing.&nbsp I even tried the no pet/no melee tactic (the most damage I was able to do before having to use melee was about 40%, so either I'm not a very good hunter, or it can't be done...)

Since I was out of ammo and feeling like it couldn't be done (especially after reading the posts above) called it a night.

The next day I came back and tried again.&nbsp I starter my timer when I started grinding.&nbsp I used my pet, melee weapons, everything.&nbsp I got the first set of perfect antlers at 8 minutes, and the second at 20.

Hang in there, it can be done.&nbsp Just bring lots of ammo and patience.

Well that was easy. Found perfect antlers at 40,74 and 41,73, killed only 8 Mosshoff Coursers. I listened to the comment to play it like a hunter and used range and then meleed them using all melee spells. Easy as....off to hand it in. Lvl 51

it easy 2 antlers in 2 kills just never touch it meele noe even with pet just kite it

L50 orc hunter, got one on my 3rd kill...and with that kill was getting hastled by one of the giants so had to kill quick...1 gnomish deathray later..crit for 2560k and it was dead...the perfect hunter...! lol! and the perfect antler!

It took me ages to find out how to get them so i just started mucking around then i thought of killing them b4 they become enraged & i got 1 straight away maybe it was just lucky but try it if ur having problems

I spent ages killing these to no avail.&nbsp I then used my explosive trap and used feign death and got them instantly. 2 kills 2 antlers yay.

Dont know whether this helps anyone

agree with the guy before me...spent 3 hours getting 2 antlers...then got all 6 wavethrasher scales in 30 minutes...go figure

took me two hours to get w/ a 70 lock !

This quest has a stupid drop rate.

Also, be sure to have Beast Tracking up. With the 2.3 changes, they will now show as a yellow dot on your screen among the several red.

I killed 3 total...no joke. Got the drop on my 1st and 3rd kills. I guess I was just lucky. Good luck to the rest of you!

killed about 25 for both the antlers

well as a lvl 51 hunter with a lvl 44 pet i dropped 5 coursers to get 2 perfect antlers in about 20 minutes...south of ruins

This quest is SO DAMN ANNOYING.

The deers are surrounded by huge ammounts of hippogryphs, spawn rarely, and have tons of people doing the quest too. AAAAAAAAH!

I agree with bbbalson. I was hunting for antlers in the northeast section of the map and got 0 drops after like 50 kills. Then I headed to the southern part of the map and got two antlers in 3 kills.

I am 50 hunter on bloodhoof, (killercuho), me and 48 priest killed 6 guys and got drops. we killed the ones in the south (around 40,70). It is not true that u cant melee or use pet or get hit vs them, i used pet and got hit and only used melee on all of them. good luck

Grinding for 1 day straight now and only one antler. yes im grinding the right ones, yes im doing it in the south, so now im ehaded north. The scales better not be this damned hard to find!

picked up antler needed on 3rd and 4th kill at (47,26)

40,72

Killed 8 Mosshoof Courser to find my 2 perfect antlers...dont know what the fuss was about

I got mine on 8 kills =P

I just did this as a lvl 50 dwarf hunter. The first antler dropped on my 3rd kill, the second one by maybe may 9th or 10th kill. I was in the area around 40,72. I guess it's just random.