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Level: 18 Requires level: 13 Side: Both Start: Wharfmaster Dizzywig End: Wharfmaster Dizzywig Sharable
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Miner's Fortune

Retrieve the Cats Eye Emerald from one of the Venture Co. Overseers or Enforcers for Wharfmaster Dizzywig at Ratchet.

	Cats Eye Emerald

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Being Wharfmaster of a busy port like Ratchet, I keep my finger on the pulse of information. I know all about the exchange of goods and money between here and Booty Bay.

The latest bit of news I've heard is about the Venture Company's Boulder Lode mine northeast of the Sludge Fen. One of the miners discovered an emerald the size of your fist. I know a few buyers who'd be interested in getting their hands on something like that, and I'd be willing to go half and half on its sale.

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Reward

You will receive:

	A Sack of Coins

You will also receive: 0

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

1700 experience ( 10 20 at max. level)
150 Reputation with Ratchet

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Rating: +39 [-] [+]

By IbeNewt on 10/11/2006 (Patch 1.12.1)

The mine entrance is at 60, 3 in the far Northeast corner of the Barrens. The Enforcers and Overseers are in the mine, but also all around the area outside the mine.

Only had to kill half a dozen of them or so before the emerald dropped.

The reward is some money as well as a 6 slot bag.

Rating: +27 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/27/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

Let me stress (for I even was stupid enough) that the emerlad can be found at Boulder Lode Mine and NOT Sludge Fen. Boulder Lode Mine can be found North East of Sludge Fen!

Rating: +21 [-] [+]

By warcanon on 03/10/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)

Pretty nice to find an Emerald the size of a hand and get a few silver for the trouble

Rating: +9 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/27/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

In Durotar, head to 61,5. Simple as that. Kill the Overseers in that area. Yes, it can take forever to get the Gem but it will drop. I got it five minutes into killing the Overseers. I got it from the Overseer on the stairs of the first big building on the right when you arrive at 61,5.

Don't listen to those who say you can only get it from such and such enemy--it drops from any Overseer. Stick near the entrance if you don't want to wander far into the area.

Rating: +8 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/27/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

i went to 61,5, killed the first guy i saw, and he dropped it.

Rating: +8 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/27/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

off a green troll at 62,4 on the cliff.

Rating: +7 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/27/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

click on "cats eye emerald" and it'll show you the mobs > click on "map" next to the mobs names.

Rating: +6 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/14/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

the first character i ran this quest on, i got the emerald in about 5 or 10 minutes. this time around, i've spent about an hour killing people around the mine and have yet to get the emerald to drop. seems like the drop rate fluctuates here... some people get it almost instantaneously, some people have to work their asses off.

oh well, as a previous poster said, the xp is beneficial. i'm soloing it as a lvl 14 mage (heavily buffed through spells and alchemy), so the lvl 18 overseers can cause me some difficulty.

Rating: +6 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 07/13/2004 (Patch 1.1.0)

Head straight out the Orgimar Back door (covered bridge leading over the river to the barrens)and up the hill. YOu will see what looks like a ruined orc watchtower. This is a Venture Co. mining camp with nothing but Overseers and Enforcers walking arround. Two of us killed 5 and got 2 Cats Eye Emerald drops.

Rating: +5 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/14/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

It's a random drop with small odds.

Rating: +5 [-] [+]

By joostank on 03/20/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)

I paired this quest with Samophlange Manual http://classicdb.ch/?quest=3924). The mine is a horrible place to go, solo especially, but tightly packed fleeing mobs means you're going to get extra aggro very often. They also respawn pretty fast, from my experience. Boss Copperplug at the end of the mine dropped the Emerald for me.

Rating: +5 [-] [+]

By Garrett on 06/21/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)

If you die near the cave your Spirit will spawn at the Crossroads grave yard, even though on the map the Orgrimmar and Razor Hill grave yards are closer.

This quest takes long enough as it is, the long walk doesn't help.

Last edited by Garrett on 06/21/2008 (Patch 2.4.2) – edited 2 times

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/27/2006 (Patch 1.12.1)

Just my 2 cents.. and I don't mind hitting it for the XP.. keeps high level guys from comming down and camping.. but this is a low drop rate.. I probably killed 150 and no drop so far.. and a couple of us went through the mine.,.. we found no boss.. just a GOD AWFUL respawn of reds spaced close together.. if you die in there, ya may as well just rez.. rez'ing at your body in the mine is suicide..&nbsp

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/02/2005 (Patch 1.3.2)

Some 33 Warrior was killing them all in the area, 1st one I saw was a goblin on the steps of the house....dropped it. Was done in 30 seconds hehe.

*Edit: Also in my bag of coins was a 6-slot bag called old moneybag.

Edited, Sat Apr 2 02:56:34 2005

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 05/27/2005 (Patch 1.4.2)

Well I cleaned out the mine twice and then upon exiting, I found a bearded gnome who kindly dropped the emerald for me - I took out 40+ of these guys to find the right one. The consensus is that the dropper will be outside.

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/27/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

i picked up emerald off of venture co. overseer...inside cave at loc 60,4

Rating: +3 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 10/16/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)

got it from lvl 17 dwarf miner

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By janderbo on 03/08/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)

This is available to Alliance as well.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/27/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)

I killed about 6/7 mobs, it's nice to go into the gave, there is a chest, coords are correct.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/14/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

Took a whole barrel of kills for me to get it. Not that bothered - the XP was beneficial. I received 15 silver, 95 copper. I had enough bags, so sold the six slot container (or old moneybag) for 2 silver 50 to a nearby trader.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 02/20/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)

4 kills at 61.4

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 03/28/2006 (Patch 1.10.0)

I got it from one of the overseers - about the 5th or 6th kill.&nbsp Lucky me. :D

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 03/28/2006 (Patch 1.10.0)

I was killing for about 3 qtr's pf an hr and i finally got the emerald, you dont have to go inside the cave as i first thought,
happy killing.
amadeo lvl 17 rogue

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 06/09/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)

Listen, ANY overseer has the emerald, i found mine at the broken tower, and a friend just arrived after me and he killed a overseer on the ground and ALSO got the emerald

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 07/16/2006 (Patch 1.11.2)

this may be a pain in the ass but you get a decent ammount of money for it! pluss if you're lucky you can do one of the thingimagig manual quest at the same time. (you know what i mean the thing begining with S. i'm not even gonna try and spell it)

15 silver. not too shabby

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 07/16/2006 (Patch 1.11.2)

not that hard, just go around the backside, first one i killed dropped it.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 08/21/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)

all u gotta do is go NE of sledge fen, i got it off my third kill, u gotta be killing the lvl 17s+

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/14/2007 (Patch 2.0.5)

It's as far NE as you can go.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/03/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

61, 5 These can drop off enforcers also, i spent about 30 mins just killing overseers. nice xp though

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/14/2007 (Patch 2.0.5)

i did this quest as a lvl 33 mage, just to discover this map. ran in, agroed 7 of them, frost nova'd, used AOE's till they were dead. 1 dropped it. easy!&nbsp no XP from kills, but meh. i discovered the map. =P

170 xp gained from completion. hahaha

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 04/03/2006 (Patch 1.10.0)

killed about 30 or so enforcers and overseers. i didn't bother to enter the mine. just kept on slaugthering the mobs.

the quest took longer than expected but i did get alot of wool cloth and a nice 2H sword.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 09/03/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)

Well that's odd... you get 15s from this... and that's 50% of a GIANT EMERALD'S total value of about 30s?

That guy ripped all of us OFF!

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/28/2007 (Patch 2.0.6)

Havn't see any coords.. so. if anyone get there ... use that macro and get the coords.

/script local px, py= GetPlayerMapPosition( "player" ) DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(string.format( "(%s, %s) %s", floor(px * 100 + 0.5), floor(py * 100 + 0.5), GetZoneText() ))

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 11/30/2004 (Patch 1.1.0)

I cleared the entire place out 3 times, no emerald. I figured oit was bugged and as I was leaving I had to kill the last one to get out. He's the one who dropped it. Go figure.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 02/14/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)

So does the cat's eye emerald only drop from mobs in the actual mine or does it possibly drop from mobs arond the lake area?

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 08/11/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)

Got mine off one of the little green goblin dudes at the entrance.

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 03/15/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)

But where is ?

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By Anonymous on 01/24/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

Had to kill about 18 of them before one of them dropped it. I had to go into the mines

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 11/27/2004 (Patch 1.1.0)

killed 2 and got it on the second

16 Dwarf Priest

Rating: +1 [-] [+]

By Anonymous on 01/31/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)

I cleared out every single overseer in the area- nothing. Decided to go into the mine then cause everyone posted the emerald dropped outside, but that didn't work for me. Kill the first ENFORCER just inside of the cave and wamo! got it. Don't just kill overseers cause it could come from one of the enforcers too.

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