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Quest 2 of 6 in the Zivlix Chain
Alliance • Dragonblight • Level 74 • Nozzlerust Post
Collect 12 Thin Animal Hides from Jormungar Tunnelers or Dragonbone Condors near Nozzlerust Post.
Both mob types are plentiful in the Dragon Wastes around [53, 25] with near-100% drop rates. Tip: Tunnelers leave a Nature DoT on death that stacks dangerously. Condors are lower level with no death DoT, the safer option if undergeared. Skinners should focus Tunnelers exclusively: skinning the corpse yields a second hide, cutting the requirement to 6 kills.
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Vikstone skinned jormungar and condors across the Dragon Wastes so Zivlix could wrap his ice shrapnel in something soft enough to spread on detonation. When he got back, the ice had a different plan.

“I need some new packaging for the shrapnel bombs. All the stuff I have is too hard and the shrapnel doesn’t spread when it bursts. What we need is some really thin animal hide. Those jormungar tunnelers to the west might work… or perhaps the condors sifting through the dragon bones. Go get me whatever you can find.”

-Zivlix

Objective

LEVEL

74

Requires level

72

Start

END

Collect 12 Thin Animal Hides from the Jormungar Tunnelers or the Dragonbone Condors near Nozzlerust Post. Once you’ve located the hides, return them to Zivlix.

  • Thin Animal Hide (12)

 

Prime Farming Spot:
53, 25: Near the dragon’s bones, southwest of the quest giver, is the best area to find Jormungar Tunnelers and Dragonbone Condors.
This area contains about 20 Tunnelers and 10 Condors, offering plenty of mobs to complete the quest efficiently.
Both mob types are plentiful in the Dragon Wastes around [53, 25] with near-100% drop rates.

 

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: Zivlix — Nozzlerust Post, Dragonblight [55, 23]

Objective: Collect 12 Thin Animal Hides from Jormungar Tunnelers or Dragonbone Condors near Nozzlerust Post.

 

Quick Facts

 

Walkthrough

  • Head west/southwest from Nozzlerust Post to the Dragon Wastes area around [53, 25]. Both mob types are plentiful here near the dragon bones.
  • Jormungar Tunnelers (level 73-74) are worms that burrow through the area. They leave a nasty Nature DoT on death, so don’t chain-pull too many at once. The DoT is manageable on a single pull but stacking multiple can get dangerous.
  • Dragonbone Condors (level 71-72) are carrion birds scavenging the dragon bones. They’re lower level and don’t have a death DoT, making them the safer option if you’re undergeared.
  • Both mobs have an effective 100% drop rate for Thin Animal Hides, so you need exactly 12 kills if every kill drops one.

 

Skinning Bonus

  • Skinners should focus exclusively on Tunnelers. You can skin the corpse after looting for a second Thin Animal Hide, meaning you only need 6 kills to hit the 12-hide requirement. Skinning also yields Jormungar Scales, a leatherworking material.
  • Dragonbone Condors cannot be skinned, so they offer no Skinning bonus.

 

Story Context

Zivlix needs thin hides to wrap his shrapnel bombs. Harder materials don’t let the shrapnel spread on detonation, so he needs something flexible. Upon turn-in, he discovers his ice shards from Shaved Ice are melting, which sets up the chain’s final quest.

 

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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“I need some new packaging for the shrapnel bombs,” Zivlix said. “All the stuff I have is too hard and the shrapnel doesn’t spread when it bursts. What we need is some really thin animal hide.”

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Illustrated by Christian DiBari and Simon Gough.

So the ice shards would spread more effectively when they detonated inside someone?

“Those jormungar tunnelers to the west might work,” he continued, “or perhaps the condors sifting through the dragon bones. Go get me whatever you can find.”

The Dragon Wastes offered both in abundance. Jormungar Tunnelers burrowed, their segmented bodies covered in hide that was surprisingly thin given their bulk. The Dragonbone Condors flew overhead, picking at the remains scattered across the landscape.

I worked through both. The tunnelers fought back with acid and crushing coils. The condors dove with talons extended, screeching fury. Neither proved difficult, just tedious. Skinning in the cold, fingers going numb, gathering hide for bombs I’d never see deployed.

Zivlix barely glanced at the pile I dropped on his workbench. “Good… good… these should do fine. The shrapnel bombs are almost finished. Wait… what happened to my ice shards?”

He stared at the puddle where the elementals’ shards had been.

“Narf told me shards from those elementals should be enchanted, but they’re melting just like the ones hanging from Narf’s grumpy chin!”

 

The hides are sorted and Zivlix’s ice shards have a melting problem, which is what carries the chain along to Something That Doesn’t Melt.

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