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Level: 52
Requires level: 50
Side: Both
Start: Archmage Xylem
End: Archmage Xylem

Series

1.	A Simple Request
2.	Sealed Azure Bag
3.	Encoded Fragments
4.	The Azure Key

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Encoded Fragments

Bring 10 Encoded Fragments to Archmage Xylem in Azshara.

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10	Encoded Fragment (10)

Description

Lord Ravenholdt has asked a favor of us both. He wishes to remove the enchantment from this bag.

Unfortunately, some of my books on the subject of dispelling were taken recently, only to be destroyed by savages. The remains of my books are still valuable to me.

If you can bring me enough of the encoded fragments, I can piece them back together. Your best chance is to kill the beasts of Azshara, since they have a tendency to pick up just about anything.

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

5100 experience ( 30 60 at max. level)
250 Reputation with Ravenholdt

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Rating: +24 [-] [+]

By shind on 11/23/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)

Pick pocket first. Then kill em.

Rating: +20 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/01/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

Look up "Forest Ooze" on Anonymous, the oozes with the decent respawn rates are in that northeastern area.&nbsp Run around spamming a macro "/target Forest Ooze".&nbsp Also, kill any chimeras you come across - they share the same spawn as the oozes.

I got them all in about 30 minutes.

Rating: +20 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)

http://avtii.dsl.ge/oozes.jpg

Worked like a charm.
Just kill Mistwing Ravagers if you are getting low on Oozes.

Props to that GM.

Rating: +17 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 06/14/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)

There's just not enough of these!

Ive combined 2 of the methods there-

macro spamming: /target Forest Ooze

and the piramid map-

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5965/image14sy.jpg

REMEMBER: Pickpicket those slimey suckers!

This takes a bitty of time, but works a treat xD

Rating: +13 [-] [+]

By fifth on 05/28/2007 (Patch 2.1.0)

After the last patch the quest was changed from just oozes to any beasts in Azshara. Of course I didnt read the quest description first and headed to the ooze spot, killed a hippo and got a fragment. Quest is much easier now.

Rating: +13 [-] [+]

By butlerman on 11/06/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)

Speaking of killing the thunderhead hippogryphs (which was an excellent suggestion). They dropped the long elegant feathers which was an added unforseen bonus which helped with the following hinterlands quest

Rating: +12 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/01/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

GOD this quest is a pain in the ass (if you dont know the trick). i spent more than 2 hours wandering through the north-eastern part of azshara and all i found were 3 forest oozes, one of them dead. after three attempts a read about this /target and mistwing thing and today, i got all 10 fragmanets in about 30 minutes.
here is what i recommend: get the /target forest ooze macro. the are 2 hills in the eastern part of the bitter reaches, which you can see on the map. now here is what i did: run around the hill to your right hand and spam the macro. kill every mistwing ravager on your way. pickpocket every ooze you find and kill it right after. after your first or second round, you should know the spawn points, so you�ll get about 4-5 oozes every round. when i did it, the oozes just spawned when i reached them, so you should have no downtime and get the fragments in 30-40 mins.

tips: watch out not to run into those giants or most-annoying-of-all hippogryphs and gryphons.
use kick to interrupt the oozes cast of this most-annoying-of-all disease which slows you down to 70%.

happy hunting, this quest sucks big time, but the reward is quite nice.

Rating: +7 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 05/18/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

Just thought I would say that I finished this quest in 20 minutes and only killed 2 oozes. if you look at the quest again it says to kill the creatures of Azshara not just oozes. Got all of my drops off of Mistwing Rogues and the hippogryphs that are out there.

Rating: +7 [-] [+]

By renu172 on 05/24/2007 (Patch 2.1.0)

I was looking for oozes and couldnt find many so i checked out wowhead and said kill the hippographs because they have same respawn. Well i started killing the thunderhead patriarchs and they drop the encoded fragments dont know if it is upgrade with patch but made it easier. coords 70,28 aproximent.

Rating: +6 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/01/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

Kill every flying thing you see, and pickpocket all of the oozes. There's a chance to get one from the picking and on to drop, not that hard. Also, make a macro to target the ooze

/target Forest Ooze

Some of them like spawning in the cracks of hills and crap...so look hard. Also, best place to farm for them is the very northeast section of Azshara. If you look on your map there are two hill/mountain clusters, just walk around those two and spam the macro every so often, kill the flying crap along the way. Keep going in circles with this method, not needed to mount either, as you will be killing things all the time. Pick-pocket, kill, easy.

PS: For the people that do not know, when you get Sturdy Lockboxes, DO NOT TURN THEM IN! You will make more money by opening them and taking whatever is inside. As the quest that wants you to turn then in gives you NO REP AND CRAPPY THROWING DAGGERS! They sell for crap as well.

Rating: +6 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 03/10/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)

I believe the hippogriffs are on the same spawn table with the oozes and the ravagers. I became bored and frustrated with the difficulty of finding the oozes and started killing the hippogriffs, and three oozes spawned shortly afterwards in that area.

Rating: +5 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/01/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

lvl 50 Rogue - on Archimonde
25 mins and quest is done and i even killed a few allies along the way. :) Took the advice of others and did this:
1. Made macro - /target forest ooze
2. threw it on the hotbar and spammed the hell out of it.
3. killed all Mistvale Ravagers
4. Pick pocketed before every ooze kill.

Too easy!

Rating: +5 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 02/19/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)

This quest is like the one to get your poisons, it's there to test how well you are using ALL of your rogue abilities (except lockpicking). You are rewarded much more quickly if you stealth and pickpocket to supplement your combat. Even combat rogues need to remember they are not leather fury warriors with backstab. Rogues also need to learn patience and how to recognize and sieze opportunity.

I finished this quest in two hours. I'm 60 and still wearing those boots.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/19/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

I was frusterated but when pickpocketing you almost always get 2.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/19/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

I came here, started to search oozes. No where, no1. Then a friend showed me.. after that read some usefull info here 'bout the 2 mountains.

Pickpocketed 3 yet - 6 fragment received.

no macro, no coordinates.

Know the respawns now, mounting around and pickpocketing em.

Darkshadow lvl 50 rogue - Balnazzar

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 02/24/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)

Coords: 64,25&nbsp -&nbsp 76,28&nbsp &nbsp forest ooze spawn out there just walk around and u will find em.&nbsp If you kill em all start killing mistwalker ravagers and forest oozes will take there place in a respawn.&nbsp once getting to 76,28 turn around and take the path again and again.&nbsp Took me about 30 minutes to get em all.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/13/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

5 reasons to hate this quest:
1: Disease
2: Lots of monsters around them
3: Drop not 100%
4: Very hard to find
5: Chimera spawns at their place

this quest sucks!
i do not wish this quest even to my worst enemy.

but i did =]

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/19/2007 (Patch 2.0.5)

You will get a better chance if you pickpocket the ooze then kill it works quicker and takes less time.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 03/23/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)

very easy quest!

pick pocket, kill, pick pocket, kill, pick pocket, kill, done!

15 minutes to 30... All droped... and got a grinnie too :)

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By kreghx on 12/13/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

Finished as a L50 NE R. Found one ooze with a fragment far North of the 65,25 - 77,27 "good spawn" coordinates...near the shore to the North.

Returned to the "good spawn" coordinates and killed enough oozes to get 8 more fragments. Then the spawn rate seemed to really slow down, and when the oozes did respawn, the didn't drop fragments. Very frustrating. Ended up killing everything in sight (challenging at L50 because of the flight patrol patterns of the NPCs)...and that didn't seem to help either.

1.5 hours after getting the 9th fragment...I finally got the 10th one...at 1 o'clock in the morning. I wasn't quitting until I got it.

Wheew!

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Fostex on 04/15/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

THESE OOZES SUCK!
respawn sucked and they were very rare took me and hour+.
i should have tried killing the hippogriphs prolly would hve helped consierably

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/02/2006 (Patch 1.10.0)

I was at this for an hour--this is the easiest way to do this quest:

Make a macro that says '/target Forest Ooze'.
Get on your mount.
Ride around hitting your macro.

Avoid the giant elites. When you get an ooze as your target, find it, dismount, lose agro from whatever you have by running a lil farther (or vanishing), then stealth. I did it this way solo at level 50. Pickpocket oozes first always. Pain in the butt this quest was, but will be worth it in the end.

Hope this helps!&nbsp :)

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/02/2006 (Patch 1.10.0)

If you look on the map of Azshara, on the northern Claw tip there's two large mountain peaks. Equidistant between them and a ways south towards the beach there's a little mound that has multiple spawns of Oozes and the ravagers. That's the triangle.

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/02/2006 (Patch 1.10.0)

I found that I kept aggroing those damn oozes when trying to pickpocket, so I would just vanish and try again.&nbsp I was even using distract to get them to look away...&nbsp So bring lots of patience and flash powder, this took a full hour for me to get those damn fragments, extremely low drop rate for me unfortunately.

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 12/13/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

lol took me about 20min to do this quest. I kept getting 3 fragments from each slime. Pickpocket 2 fragments, kill the ooze and get another 1. only had to kill like 4 oozes :)

DONT FORGET TO PICKPOCKET THE OOZES!

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 05/08/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

those hypogryphs or possibly more annoying then the quest themselves though

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 02/11/2006 (Patch 1.9.3)

guess i got lucky with these fragments, got three off the first slime i found - got two from pickpockting, got the third as loot. had to kill maybe a total of ten to get all the fragments, not too bad.

also, finished the next quest last night, killed Morphaz pretty easily. picked the Ebon Mask as my reward - improved crit strike chance by 1%, +36 Attack power, no question which reward i was gonna pick. also got Dire Nail of the Monkey as a drop off of Shade of Eranikus. not a bad run.

Edited, Fri Feb 10 13:46:54 2006

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By ekornmeyer on 12/08/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

These took a really long time for me. This was back when my Rogue was level 55, a few months ago. There were other Rogues in the area farming these oozes, and the respawn rate isn't fast at all. But it was worth it! I grabbed the Ebon Mask as my reward, and it lasted a good bit!

I do recommend any non-raiding rogue or pre-60 Rogue to take this quest on.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By SeriusJones on 12/13/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

Kill everything around the Ooze spawn because they share the spawn rate with the other beasts around. They are pickpocketable )

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By dobe13 on 12/15/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

Definitely a low drop rate from just killing, and even from pick pocketing, had to kill/PP around 20 to get all 10.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

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

Make sure you attempt to pickpocket the oozes before you attack them, it will cut down your grinding time considerably.

The chimeras in the immediate area share the spawns with the forest oozes, so if you can't see any forest oozes, start clearing those chimera.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Rizon on 01/13/2007 (Patch 2.0.4)

This was more time consuming than hard for me, at lvl 51 I had to stealth around 74, 28 (Just above the cliffs) dodging alot of lvl 53+ beasts filtering out these oozes.
I found that if I broke stealth I was generally dead, so I pickpocketed all the oozes I came across and was supprised at how quickly I found 10 fragments.
They carry them in lots of 1, 2 and 3.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Maxtro on 03/24/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)

Really annoying quest.
When you first get there odds are there won't be any Forest Ooze's, so you have to go and kill Mistwing Ravager's which are somehow connected to the Forest Ooze spawn. Both are 52-53.

Once you see a Forest Ooze, pickpocket it first then attack. Shortly after your opening move it will try to cast a debuff that will slow your movement and attack speed for 2 min. It's easy to tell when it's casting if you have cast bars turned on or you hear the casting sound and or you see the spell effect. Immediately try to Kick or Kidney Shot the Ooze. The spell seems to have a 10 second or so cooldown.

Carefully pick where you plan on fighting and expect to spend close to an hour on this quest.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Darkmouth on 03/25/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)

Really Annyoing!
The ozoo's dont respawn! its driving me crazy!
i have been patroling the ozoo area for 2 hours and still no ozoo's...

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Ynde on 03/31/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)

I noticed that the Ooze's and the Hypogriphs in the area share the same spawn points.
Might be worth it to kill the hippo's when you're waiting anyway, it repopped Ooze's for me )

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

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

old method but still very useful
set a macro /target Forest Ooze
bind the macro to a hotkey

get on mount , then running around and spam the hotkey
u will get one every 20 sec

stealth , kill and loot

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Kurogane on 04/13/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

What I did as a lvl 50 BE rogue was to first pickpocket the Ooze's and then attack them. I got from one Ooze's 4 fragments after pickpoeckting around 5-8 of them I got all the fragments.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By DemiMoore on 04/23/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

I went to the cords that were mentioned, and only found about 5 oozes. I pick pocketed them and got 2, and another from one acorss the area. The spawn rate sucks and so daoes the "drop" rate.Plus there is the 53Elites running around and other 52+ stuff flying around. I got too 3 tonight and gave up. This quest is so annoying.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Phorathelm on 04/30/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

I wouldn't get too excited if you get the first 5-6 in a short amount of time. For me, it was the last 3 that took about 30 minutes or so to get. Seemed very random though, about 1 every 10 minutes.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Ajaks on 04/30/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

One method you might want to try if your all alone, and you don't have to worry about them being killed is to join a group and use the raid target icons to mark all the oozes you find. Then once your done spotting them go from ooze to ooze pickpocketing them. Once you pickpocket em all wait a couple minutes for their pockets to respawn then do it all over again. Again only do this if you don't have to worry about other people killing your oozes.

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