General Notes:
You need to pull the ghosts into the blue glow before you kill them otherwise you dont get the drop.
Also make sure no member of the party gets to far from the device or it disappears.

Silithus: SouthWind Village. Used 3 fuels. Brought a friend for the extra spawns.

Winterspring. Lake sw of town. Lots of farmers around the lake make it hard to get a good spot. Soloable. (easiest of the 3 sets) Used 3 fuels.

E. Plaguelands: Did this in northdale. Tons of ghosts. Its a bit tricky though because the shriekers fear you and you dont want to get too far from the machine. Also there are a number of invisible mobs that pop while youre running around. Used 4 fuels.

Overall used 10 fuels. Had to make 2. Its possible to do it with 8 but very hard due to low mob density, farmers, death, etc. Bring a couple extra fuels so you dont need to make runs to IF.

*TIPS*
First, and most important, bring a friend!&nbsp Yes, you can solo this quest, but no, I don't recommend it.&nbsp Doing it solo would inevitably be much more expensive and much more annoying.

According to the timers on my buffs, the distiller lasts about 5 minutes.&nbsp I've heard wandering too far or dying can de-spawn it, but I've been lucky enough to avoid such problems.

The distiller seems to be pretty forgiving with its despawn range.&nbsp I tried to test the range after collecting the ectoplasms in Silithus.&nbsp I got to about 2 times the usual casting/shooting range and the distiller did not despawn.&nbsp I would have pushed the limit farther, but there was a cliff in the way.&nbsp Later my brother went to about this distance to pull some distant ghosts in winterspring.&nbsp Both times, however, one of us stayed at the distiller.&nbsp That being said, I recommend only going as far as needed to pull, and make sure you and the mobs are inside the blue glow when they die.

Bringing a hunter along can be a great help for this quest, particularly in EPL and Winterspring, so bring a hunter if you can.&nbsp The hunter can send his/her pet out to pull distant enemies, then order it to return to bring them into range for the distiller.&nbsp That way you can pull enemies from farther than anyone can shoot or cast spells.&nbsp If you can't find a hunter, a warlock would probably be just as good.

*DETAILS*
I did this quest with my brother's help.&nbsp I have a lvl 60 druid, he has a lvl 60 hunter.

First we did the one in Silithus, at Southwind.&nbsp We placed the distiller just outside the building in the ceenter of the villiage, and pulled from there.&nbsp The hardest part was keeping aggro on the bugs that spawned and keeping both of us alive at the same time.&nbsp We got 9 of the 12 ectoplasms the first time we placed the distiller, then easily finished off the last 3 with the second.

Next we went to EPL, since our hearthstones were set to IF.&nbsp We considered using Corrins Crossing, but between a few people farming it and all the unrelated mobs, we decided it would be a difficult spot to work with.&nbsp So we went and set up the distiller right at the edge of Northdale, where the banshees started.&nbsp We pulled them one at a time, and killed them quickly.&nbsp The only challenge here was dealing with their fear ability.&nbsp It usually hit us both, but fortunately it only last for about 3 seconds, so we just had to make sure we got back into the glow before we continued fighting.&nbsp We placed the distiller twice, managing to gather 6 ectoplasms each time.

Then we went to Winterspring, and set up the distiller on the island in the middle of Lake Kel'Theril.&nbsp There were a few people farming the area, but we got lucky with the timing, and they were way over at one of the edges when we started.&nbsp The difficult part was getting enough of them pulled into range, but my brother did an excellent job using the pulling technique described above to pull enemies that were not close enough to be seen from the distiller.&nbsp I took aggro each time and soloed them while he went out for more.&nbsp We placed the distiller once and just barely managed to collect all 12 ectoplasms before it ran out.

I hope this information helps anyone who has yet to complete the quest.&nbsp Just get a good friend to help, pull carefully, and plan ahead.&nbsp If you can use TS, great, if you can be in the same room as your friend, even better.&nbsp Good luck all!

In this quest you need:
12\12 Scorched Ectoplasm 12\12 Frozen Ectoplasm 12\12 Stable Ectoplasm

Part 1:
go to silithus .. 62,53 are the co-ords
Drop the machine, and start kiling
mobs 55-57 regular mobs
When the mobs die, with the new patch only 1 mob comes to attack you.
loot the body for this ectoplasm (simple enough)

Part 2:
go to Winterspring to the ice lake {54,42}
Once again put the machine on the ground and kill ghosts in the blue circle it puts out.

Part 3:
Now you're off to the Plaguelands!
to kill ghosts, the same way as before.
This part is fairly easy, will require anywhere from 3-6 fuels, i would suggest going to plaguewood.(It's in the NW corner, by the plaguewood tower ((bit of a duh moment there)))

I hope this makes the first post a bit easier to understand. thnx for all your help, ---hunted out

Jumping on the 'this is entirely soloable' bandwagon.

Did this is under 1.5 hours with my shadow specced priest (60) wearing green and blue +dmg gear. I used 7 fuels.

I went Silithus --> Winterspring --> EPL

Silithus - Used 3 fuels.&nbsp I placed the first distiller about 3/4 of the way up the ramp to the main entrance to Southwind and got 4 ectoplasms.&nbsp

I placed the next distiller in front of the first tower (to your right from the entrance) and got 3 ectoplasms.&nbsp I only got 3 this time because each tortured night elf spawned 2 bugs upon being pwned.

I placed the final distiller on a nice mound of infected dirt about 50 yards north of where the previous distiller was placed.&nbsp It is about 20 yards southwest of the first house where you may remember getting the Reliquary of Purity for a previous quest.&nbsp I was able to get the remaining 5 ectoplasms from this nifty perch.&nbsp 2 night elves did not spawn bugs.&nbsp 2 spawned 1 bug.&nbsp The final elf spawned 2 bugs but I looted the elf corpse before engaging the adds to be sure I completed this portion of the quest.

Winterspring - Used 1 fuel.&nbsp This part was quick and fun.&nbsp Fortunately no one was farming the area.&nbsp I just placed the distiller in the middle of a bunch of spirits and went to town.&nbsp Got 12 ectoplasms in no time and left with about 5 seconds left on the distiller.

EPL - Used 3 fuels.&nbsp I went to Northdale as recommended by other posters.&nbsp This was done much like Winterspring except

a) the mobs are kind of spaced out more
b) there are invisible mobs that spawn constantly*

* Point b) actually made this easy to do with the given fuels.&nbsp Without the extra mobs popping up this part may have taken 5 fuels due to randomly placed other ectoplasm droppers.

Overall this was a fun quest in a so-far fun and rewarding questline.

Thanks to the other helpful tips.

The distiller has a 5 minute duration once placed, and collects spirits in a 13 yard radius. See the spell used by the item for more detail.

this is easy to get if ur are level 60.
first,go to southwind village in silithus,i think this is the hardest part of the quest since there are 1-3guards respawned when u killed the undead.but i took this easy as a level 60rogue.fuel used:3
then go to lake kel'theril at winterspring.this part took me some time to finish.i am at a PVP server and 3 horde were there when i reached there and got killed one time and i didnot attack them back ,so got it easy:)fuel used :3
the last one part is at EP,go to northdale,there are many ghosts there .fuel used:2.
Hope this is helpful to others.

It was pretty easy, took 4 fuel to get all 12. I think if I had had better death luck with the druids, I probably could have gotten away with 3. They kept popping 2 bugs on me, kind of annoying. Don't need to run away, just bear them down.

Try not to get into fights with 2 druids at the same time, though, that gets annoying in a hurry.

It took 10 rocket fuel for me. 4 - in Winterspring.
In Winterspring its hard to find needed mobs, farmers are there even at 06:00 server time.
In Silithus i could easily solo as 60 druid, you might as well take quest The Spirits of Southwind https://classicdb.ch/?quest=1125 since you will be killing same mobs. When these spirits die theres a quite tough bug spawning.

I went to 72,32 in epl and killd it esey just usd 2 fuel's on the quest But only if you kill the gost fast. so it's not so hard as ppl want it to be=) Love Deka Stormscale

The distiller can be planted after you've pulled the ghosts or are in combat. This kind of tactic saves alot of time(duration on the distiller) .

The stable Ectoplasms are the easiest to get. Just go to Northdale (68,30) and it is a town full of ghost and banshees. Easy to kill and easy to pull as they are the only ones there. Watch out for the ghost though that are the Stealth eye types.

For those mages out there trying to do this quest, some advise from someone who did it.&nbsp Get help in silithus, its a waste of rocket fuel if you don't, 6 for me.&nbsp The frozen would have only taken me 1 if the game hadn't bugged.&nbsp And THE BEST PLACE for the stable stuff is NORTHDALE.&nbsp It is almost like norhtdale was built for this quest, death singers are everywhere!

Used only 6 fuel in whole quest.

Silithus, Southwind village. 2 fuels. Just go where are the most druid ghost easy to kill them, they are plenty of monsters to pull, I used 2 fuels because time, not because I run out of monsters.

Winterspring, Lake Khel'Theril. 2 fuels. I used one in center of the lake and pulled all mobs I found reachable. The other one in the Ruins near there, have a few more.

Eastern Plaguelands, Northdale. 2 fuels. ALOT of ghost to hunt, all very close of each other but easy to pull them one by one, 2 fuels because time.

At least, this is an easy SOLO quest for a lvl 60 druid.

While you are in Winterspring go get the rod for the last part of the chain.&nbsp It will save you a lot of flying time.

Tiaran - Lvl 60 Warrior Detheroc

2 fuels in Southwind Village in Silithus
2 fuels in Lake Kel'theril in Winterspring
4 fuels in Corin's Crossing in EPL

Just place the beacons where you can aggro the greatest number of the target mobs without getting very far away from your beacon... AND in EPL... clear out the other mobs as well, so they don't swarm you when the unseen servants attack and call for help... or run a long way away.&nbsp (Would have used 3 in EPL were it not a PVP server and horde interrupted)

Being a Mage, I like to have as much distance between myself and my enemy as I can get.&nbsp Now... my first couple of kills I got no drops, even though the enemies were right on the blue aura.&nbsp After a quick experiment, I realized that we BOTH have to be in the aura.

So a quick tip to those who are getting the kills inside the aura but still not getting drops:&nbsp Make sure you're in the aura with the enemy.&nbsp I bet that's the problem for 90% of the people who aren't getting drops when they should be.

If you are using your pets (hunters and warlock) to tank to the mobs in the circle while you kill them from ranged they will not drop the ectoplasm you must be within the circle when the mobs die in order to get the ectoplasm to drop. I don't know why this info hasn't been posted yet this was the most frustrating quest so far in the game for me until I figured this out because I was only getting about 20% drops and didnt know why.

Buy the Fel Elemental Rod in southern Winterspring to complete the 5th part of the chain and save yourself a round trip from Gadgetzan to Winterspring.&nbsp I got for 40g as part of the quest line, but some people had to pay 50g for whatever reason.&nbsp I guess if it's 50g when you are on step 3, it's probably worth the extra trip to save a buck.

The 4th part of the quest line is more or less trivial if you've got the FP to Burning Steppes, so don't worry about having to hang onto a quest item for forever.

since patch 1.12 only 1 bug spawn from druids in silith.

winterspring was HELL. there were 6 bots running in circles killing all ghosts for me.. spent 6 rocketfules there.. im gonna cancel myaccount if blizzard doesnt start banning people.. the same bots has been there for weeks

in silithus you go 62.51
me as lvl 60 warrior went there
i used 4 fuels because it takes longer to kill because of the spawns and i needed to heal or eat

there are 6/7 mobs to pull
but when you killed the last one the others are already spawned ^^
dont pull out the house it makes a big mess and die fast
dont need anny help&nbsp
btw: i got only spawns of 1 wasp over there

Silithus is soloable using only two goblin fuels.

First, kill at 60,57, being fire specced mage will help since you have a longer range to pull from.&nbsp I was able to get 8 ectoplasms until the machine stopped.&nbsp Then, I went inside and got the remaining four - time was not a problem.

Some have mentioned of remaining in combat - I've noticed you sometimes go back into combat if you loot the mobs, so drink/eat before looting if you need to.

As always, bandages and mana gems help compromising situations.

GL fellow mages~

I didn't have any hard time with it.

Sillithus is definitively the hardest, and since it was closest from gadgetzan I started here. It helps that now only one bug spawns per ghost, I used 3 fuels there, one on the outer wall, and two inside, 4 ghosts each.

Then I went to winterspring, the ghosts there are rather easy and I didn't have any problems getting them all, 2 fuels used, 8 on the first fuel, 4 on the second. I used one on the island in the middle of the lake and started pulling ghosts from both sides, another one near a ruins that was the first place I found 4 ghosts nearby that was all I needed.

Last is EPL, I found the best place to do this on northdale, since there are only banshees and the invisible black ghosts there, both drop ectoplasm. I just looked for a place right outside of town on the opposite side of the lake (to avoid the elementals there) where I had enough ghosts nearby and started pulling in. Between the banshees and the black ghosts I got all the ectoplasm with only two charges, and would have been easier if the first charde hadn't run out in mid fight, so I placed it again in the same place, and had to pull ghosts farther away.

At least for me (level 60 feral druid) was rather easy, it all came down to location, finding a place with enough nearby ghosts to pull one by one before placing the machine.

Hunting for Ectoplasm Mini Walkthrough.

If you run out of fuel during this quest don’t line the farmers pockets buying at the AH Goblin Rocket fuel is an easy thing for an alchemist to make, 1 part Volatile Rum (drops in the pir8 compound in tannaris) & 1 part firebloom (grows in the tannaris dessert & searing gorge) grab the mats and get a friend to make it for you!

What & Where!

Winterspring:

Go to lake kel'theril and find the friendly highborne ghost in the ruins & put the Ectoplasmic Distiller down besides it there are highborne mobs all around. Just pull em in and gank em it's easy.

Eastern Plauglands:

Go to Corrins Crossing if you're careful you can go to coordinates 62,73 and pull aprox 4 Hate Shriekers & occasionally some Unseen Servants per use of Ectoplasmic Distiller without anything else! Be careful the mobs here pack a punch and you can quickly become outnumbered whilst soloing. Also watch out for the crimson courier who’s men will clear the path for you if your clever!

or

Go to Browman Mill near Lights Hope Chapel and pull the Death Singers this is a bit more difficult as this area is farmed on some servers.

Silithus: (not possible solo you must be in a group)

Head to southwood village and simply put down the Ecto Machine in front of the gates and pull the near by tortured druids and give them a good kicking unfortunately when they die they spawn an increasing number of hive bugs (Hive 'Ashi Drone, L58) to come give you a kicking so be ready! on the last few you kill it spawns 4 bugs at once!

Edited, Thu Mar 30 18:45:57 2006

To do this quest you first open your little green bag and loot the goblin rocket fuel and then when you get to the area where the monsters are you throw down your distiller which emits a big blue aura that gives you a 2 second buff that refreshes as long as you stay in the aura. Pull and kill the monsters inside the aura and you can loot the quest items. Distiller disappears after a couple minutes so do it quickly or expect to have to buy fuel.

I did EPL fine/SIlithis FINE

CANT DO WINTERSPRING, im killing ghosts and ectoplasm isn't dropping, tried with like 4 distillers...and just gave up.. it it bugged?

all they drop is some gold/runcloth

this quest was made easy by first post, i completed it solo (60 mage) and im not epic'd out. very nice quest !

ok so its been basic from here on out, getting the Chared Ectoplasm is the hardest. when you kill one of the senitals or druids they spawn bugs, big bad bugs. sometimes 2 normally 1. there lvl 56 i think, not easy no matter what class. youwil need at least 2 people to help you. the frozen OMG easy! thee wimps!
and the sable. well its inthe middle. its quicker if u have help. they can be hard to find.

now you need to kill Lord bokk. hes in the burning steeps south of blackrock mountain, hes not easy to miss.look on the map and hes in the ferthest west lava red mark on the map. now i thought i needed helkp cos he owned me the first time.
with skill i got him good on my own, but its quicker with help.

getting the Fel Elemental Rod, finding the place is easy, at the bottom of winterspring on the map, ah ha! theres a catch!the places is guarded by lvl 60 deamons. im lvl 60 so i didnt agro much and could just sneak into the cave, the cave isnt hard to find. and you get the rod for 40g is ur friendly for gagetzan. 50g if not.

you then have the machine ready you return to the lady, and she give you the quests that lets yopu bring her belt and gaulnets for me its valor and she'll make en Heroism.

Celimus...hope it helps

As a lvl 59 shadow priest I did this easily with the 8 fuel provided.
Ofc Winterspring is the easiest, just find a place with 6 undeads in range and kill them to get half your ectoplasm. Then repeat that amd you whould ONLY use 2 fuel on these.
EPL is very easy as well, I choose Corins Crossing because they are lower lvl, find a place with 4 banshees in range and start killing the other mobs so you dont have to battlethose while collecting the ectoplasm. So you should aim at getting 4-5 extoplasm on each fuel. If theres is no good spot with enough banshees try killing the other mobs and hope for banshees to spawn instead.
Silithus is the most annoying, but staying outside the actual city you should be able to get at least 4 on each fuel.
So use 3 in Silithus, 3 in EPL and 2 in Winterspring.

Happy hunting

Silithus segement took me 5 rocket fuels due to the wasp things that spawn after each kill.&nbsp I used 2 fuel in Winterspring easy just go to the frozen lake down the hill from Everlook and farm the Highborne near the first building to the left.&nbsp I was able to kill 8 before the distiller ran out.&nbsp Other's insight in EPL very good! Go to plaguewood (same strategy).&nbsp Good Luck!

I don't think you can get the ectoplasm drop from the ghost undead in the Eastern Plague Lands while wearing your Argent Dawn Commission trinket. They won't drop both ectoplasm and scourgestones. Take off your trinket to be safe.

Worst part is EPL... there they dont are in very large groups, so u have to walk, and use more fuel... all other places is a pice of cake

I'm a 60 druid with no epics.&nbsp I had absolutely no help and finished this part of the chain in less than half an hour.&nbsp
Place the distiller in a good spot and you're good to go.

Fuel can be made by Alchemist players, just ask or look on AH.

Easy quest at lvl 70 with my shaman. Used 1 rocket fuel per area. In silithus just placed distiller in the middle of the ruins and got 12 pulled/killed in plenty of time.
In Winterspring i placed distiller on island in middle of lake. Pulls were farther, but still had plenty of time to get 12. Same in EPL at Northdale, just placed distiller in middle of the small town area, and 12 pulls were quick, EPL was the easiest cause the invisible mobs came from everywhere and dropped ectoplasms too.