Sadly, you can't get the scales through skinning.

They are all over 88.30

Took a few kills, but got all 6 in about 25 mins. North of the temple on a beach.

I found a large concentration of Wavethrashers in the bay north of the Temple of Arkkoran (a named landmark on the regular map). Again, just as with the coursers, focus on the higher level beasts to greatly improve the drop rate of the Wavethrasher Scales.

Go for the Wavethrasher (lvl 52-53) not the Young Wavethrasher.

Best location is a circular pattern around the Tower of Eldara to the far east.&nbsp That little penisula around 89, 34.&nbsp On land and in deep water and everywhere between.

Farther NE is a WASTE of time.&nbsp Farther West there are just fewer target mobs.

This WILL help.&nbsp :)

Make a targeting macro it'll help you find them, even outside the tracking zone.

/tar wave

You can go to the tower of eldara (89,33) i found alot of them there took me 10 minutes to finish.. they walk around on land so you dont need water breath potions. I did this as a lvl 50 hunter! Good luck!

The best place to look is the around the Tower of Eldara. I found upwards of 10 around the coastline and you can find them as far out as you can swim. The tower is in the north east part of the map.

I also found 4-5 on land at any given time. Besides the swim up the coast because I thought they were all in the water, once I got up there, it really took no longer than 20 mins to get my drops, picking 1 drop up along the swim up the coast.

If you're just starting this quest and haven't done it before, head straight to the Tower of Eldara area. It will save you a lot of time.

I had no probs with this stage as 52 NE Hunter, farmed the best drop rate left of the Tower of Eldara (in the 87,20's area), didn't need breathing potions in the deep parts, just sent pet down and pulled him back within breathable area and killed, had, I reckon about 3 kills to a drop.

K dont listen to all those other comments go to 86.27 all around that area on the beach

I wasted 2 hours swiming for those stupid things and on my way out of the water I found them along the beach towards the tower do yourself a favor and stay on the land way more there!

I didn't find any wavethrashers at the location detailed on the above map.&nbsp I only found them at the fartherst eastern edge of the upper penninsula.&nbsp They were near the point with the tower, past the areas where the Courser Mosshoofs are found.&nbsp

I can see how it would be very frustrating if you don't expect to be spending some time on it so here's your warning- VERY TIME CONSUMING!
Now that we're past that- I went to the tower like everyone suggested. I probably got a droprate of 1-4, not bad. Start at the south of the peninsula and work your way up to the north and circle through the water down to the south. Rinse and repeat. I got to halfway through the water part and I was done but as I left I noticed the threshers on land had ALREADY respawned. With just half that circuit and the moose part, I walked away with three pearls including a golden, a plate green that will probably auction for 4 or 5g, a plate blue that will sell for 20g, a half level exp, and bags full of vendor trash. I was expecting to grind this level anyways, I found it to be very convienent- MUCH more convienant than trying to make your way through the gobs of aggroing hyppogryphs to the quest giver. I highly recommend a noggenfogger/underwater breathing pot but I survived without. Goodluck.

DO NOT I repeat DO NOT go where this map here tells you to go. There ar about 3-5 Wavethrashers in that entire area and take&nbsp an INCREDIBLY long time to spawn. Go to 83.30 and just walk around in that area. This map is EXTREMLY missleading and should be removed from the site.

I found alot of these around 87,28. About 7 there. Got the quest done easy :)

If this helps any one I went in too the ocean at 57,8 and under the noggenfogger potion the (skeletal) form and hunted the wave thrashers with no outside mob influences and they all dropped with in 15min for me hope this helps lvl 52 hunter

As every body ells says. Its at the northern coast. I got my 6 scales in about 20 minutes. But its a long swim!

go to the north

i was lucky both of the quests (coursers and thrashers) i got them in like max-10 kills :D

it took 2� hours, i killed 18 of them and got:
3/10 from Great Wavethrashers
1/5 from Wavethrashers
2/3 from Young Wavethrashers

yeah, definitely, the hardest part is to find them
i did it at lvl 51

I found it easiest at about 88,31 around the Tower of Eldara.&nbsp There's more of them, and the're on land so you don't have to fight in the water.&nbsp Reasonable drop rate, and plenty of good loot from the other mobs in the area too.&nbsp Came back with a bag of pearls. :)

they can be found between the temple of arkkoran and the tower of eldara in the water a ways out so u will need under water breathing drop rate is ok but not great will have to kill quit a bit to get done

I didn't have much trouble finding these guys once I went farther out to sea. I was on the southern most beach when I started to go out farther and finished the quest fairly quickly, so I would guess they spawn more farther out.

Is this quest and the antler one just for rep for someone? or is there an amount of gold you can get? or is it repeatable? jw...

the drop rate is appalling on this quest just as the previous was, I've killed about 15 wavethrashers 89,27 and still no drop, am i the only one that these quests always take ages with?

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Awful Drop rate. Swim around, that is where I found all but one of mine.

It was all too easy. I ran off the cliff at the northern most point, and fell into the water. Swam from thrasher to thrasher. Sent my pet to do the dirty work, while I skinned the last kill. It took 16 thrashers before I got all 6 scales (kill numbers 2, 8, 11, 13, 14, & 16). The hardest part was getting back up to Ogtinc. If you set your hearth stone to Astranaar (Alliance) or Splintertree (Horde), you can get back faster than swimming around. My hearth was set to Shattrath, so that wasn't feasable. The next quest leads to the Sunken Temple. I'm looking forward to it.

Darkspear 51 Hunter NE

(89,33) That is where I saw the most of them. I just took my time, got all of my scales in about 1hour 30 min just killing them and spamming /target wavethrasher (made a macro) and got it done, on to the next part!

Is it just me or does anyoen else find these extremly Rare. I found one after an hour of running around and watching others kill the normal mobs in that area.

The whole /target wavthrasher thing isnt working..Is there something im doing wrong, or somthing spacific i have to do to make it work?

Another good spot for this quest is along the beach at 70,7, and continuing southeast from there. Just continue walking the beach to the southeast, and you're sure to find enough Young Wavethrashers to fulfill the quest requirement. If you walk the water's edge, you can target the Wavethrashers in the water, and pull them up onto the beach, avoiding having to fight them in the water. Watch out for lobstrocities when you pull the Wavethrashers they tend to gang. I got all six scales this way, and only had to kill about ten of them. They often drop clams which can contain small lustrous pearls, a plus.

Way easy. Ran to the point on the coast around 88,28. First 4 I killed on land dropped. Had to go into the water for the others. First kill dropped an epic mace! Next 2 dropped the rest. Not counting travel time, maybe 10-15 mins tops.
Stay around the Tower of Eldara.

Took me 8 wavethrashers to get 6 scales.. an thats killing the young ones too. The antlers took me forever to get 2. I did the cor. 89.33 an went up the coast an killed the young ones for the last 2 scales. Goodluck an happy hunting.

OK I don't usually post, but these messages lost me a lot of time. 55,41 to the edge of the beach at 81,12 is where I found most of the waves. Any lower or farther has to be a very rare spawn time. They spawned on the beach near the Tower 90,33 much quicker. You will be doing this quest for roughly an hour if you stick around this area, but I listed the other coord unless someone else is questing. Don't forget to SWIM OUTWARD at the Tower AND high on the beach even near the grassland, there's a bunch in deeper water and in these spots by the Tower.

That's all the info you need, don't mess with the young ones or some of these other cords, they lead nowhere to nothing.

Edited, Apr 8th 2007 7:40pm by WrrDnJ

Edited, Apr 8th 2007 7:43pm by WrrDnJ

This quest wasn't too bad, although it says to "track and hunt wavethrashers"...but they aren't trackable... =( I killed 10 total wavethrashers and got all 6 scales, I had good luck finding them in the northeast part of the map, near the tower on the beach.

ps, hunters need aspect of the dolphin or something, swimming is too slooooowwwww.....