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Apply This Twice A Day

Quest 5 of 5 in the Crystal Vice Chain (Finale)
Alliance • Dragonblight • Level 74 • Crystal Vice
Deliver Zort's Protective Elixir to Ko'char the Unbreakable in the Crystal Vice.
Find Ko'char patrolling the canyon and speak to him. He refuses the elixir but lets you keep it. Keep the elixir. It protects against jormungar corrosive spit and is specifically recommended for the upcoming Really Big Worm quest. Completing this unlocks Worm Wrangler from Zort and Really Big Worm from Ko'char.
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Ko'char regarded Zort's elixir with the enthusiasm of a man being offered poison. Goblin ingenuity, rejected by frost giant pride, but the protective mixture would find a use soon enough.

“This elixir should protect against their spit. Offer it to Ko’char for me, will you? Tell him there’s plenty more where that came from if he’ll return the favor.”

-Zort

Objective

LEVEL

74

Requires level

72

Start

Offer the elixir that Zort has prepared to Ko’char the Unbreakable.

  • Zort’s Protective Elixir (Provided)

 

Quest Giver: Gargok, an Ice Giant located near 57, 12 in Ice Heart Cavern.
Objective: Apply Healing Salve to Gargok's wounds.
Follow-Up Quests: Completing this quest unlocks Worm Wrangler and A Really Big Worm.

Reward

You will also receive: (if completed at level 90)

5 Gold

60 Silver

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

20,750 experience
350 reputation with The Kalu’ak

Walkthrough

 

Quest Giver: Zort — The Crystal Vice, Dragonblight [59, 18]

Objective: Deliver Zort’s Protective Elixir to Ko’char the Unbreakable.

Chain Position: Quest 4 of 4 — Stiff Negotiations → Slim Pickings → Messy Business → Apply This Twice A Day

 

Walkthrough

  • Pick up the quest from Zort. He’s brewed an elixir from the corrosive spit samples you collected in Messy Business and wants you to offer it to Ko’char as a peace offering, hoping the giant will fight the jormungar in return.
  • Find Ko’char the Unbreakable patrolling the Crystal Vice canyon and speak to him.
  • Ko’char refuses to use the elixir (“I do not trust this mixture, and I will not use it”) but lets you keep it instead.

 

Reward: Zort’s Protective Elixir (usable item that protects against jormungar corrosive spit). Hang onto this for the upcoming Really Big Worm quest, which specifically suggests using it.

 

Unlocks: Completing this quest opens Worm Wrangler from Zort (trap 3 Jormungar Spawn in crates) and Really Big Worm from Ko’char (kill the brood mother Rattlebore, suggested 3 players).

 

Good to Know

  • Ko’char’s progress dialogue (“The runt wants us to fight for him I assume. This is my surprise face.”) is a fan-favorite line.

 

Explore Dragonblight’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Dragonblight Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
20,500 experience
250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

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“This elixir should protect against their spit.” Zort handed me a vial, the contents murky and faintly luminescent. “Offer it to Ko’char for me, will you? Tell him there’s plenty more where that came from if he’ll return the favor.”

Vikstone Portrait Act 1
Illustrated by Christian DiBari and Simon Gough.

Return the favor. Meaning: fight for Zort in exchange for protection against the acid that was killing his people.

Ko’char the Unbreakable regarded the vial in my outstretched hand with the enthusiasm of a man being offered poison.

“The runt wants us to fight for him, I assume. This is my surprise face.”

A frost giant with deadpan sarcasm. I hadn’t expected that.

“I will be blunt, little one.” He pushed the vial back toward me. “I do not trust this mixture, and I will not use it. Keep it.” His eyes flicked toward where Zort waited in the distance. “If you find more trust in the green runt than I do, perhaps it will be of use to you.”

I pocketed the elixir. Zort’s diplomatic overture had failed spectacularly, but the protective mixture was still good, made from the acid that had burned holes in my armor, designed to protect against more of the same.

I’d find a use for it.

 

Zort has found another use for a man willing to crawl into dark places, which makes the next job Worm Wrangler.

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