It Could Be Anywhere!

WotLK Classic Northrend Leveling Guide

Both Factions • Sholazar Basin • Level 76 • Nesingwary Base Camp

Find a Golden Engagement Ring from any creature in Sholazar Basin.

Chad at Nesingwary Base Camp [27, 59] lost his engagement ring somewhere in the basin. Accept and forget. The ring is a zone-wide random drop from almost any mob and will appear naturally while you complete other quests. Venture Co. mobs seem to have a slightly higher drop rate, so pick up Venture Co. Misadventure at the same time.

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Chad needed a ring to propose, and the jungle had swallowed it whole. Vikstone agreed to look, not because a golden circle in a continent-sized basin was good odds, but because some missions don't need good odds to be worth taking.

“When I found out that Miss Boulian was helping Nesingwary with his expedition, I signed up as a deckhand immediately. You see, I’d been meaning to marry her for months! I had it all planned out. I was going to propose the very night of the shipwreck… but now the ring is gone. I’ve searched everywhere!

I know it might sound crazy, but I know the engagement ring is in the Basin. If some Venture Company didn’t steal it, maybe a wild creature ate it. But it’s here somewhere… I just know it!”

-Chad

Objective

LEVEL

76

Requires level

76

Start

Chad

END

Chad

Look for a Golden Engagement Ring on the various creatures in Sholazar Basin.

Golden Engagement Ring

General Drop Insight:
The ring can drop from any mob in Sholazar Basin (excluding critters). Mobs you encounter during standard questing often provide the best opportunity to find it.
While technically a "random" drop, the highest reported success rates are from Venture Co. mobs and rhinos.
Efficient Farming Suggestions:
If you want to actively farm:
Venture Co. Mobs near Wildgrowth Mangal (50, 23) have a slightly higher drop rate and are involved in other quests like Venture Co. Misadventure.
Rhinos near Nesingwary Base Camp (38, 25) are plentiful and easy to kill, with decent drop rates. — **General Drop Insight:** The ring can drop from any mob in Sholazar Basin (excluding critters).
**If you want to actively farm:** Venture Co. Mobs near Wildgrowth Mangal (50, 23) have a slightly higher drop rate and are involved in other quests like Venture Co. Misadventure. Rhinos near Nesingwary Base Camp (38, 25) are plentiful and easy to kill, with decent drop rates.

Sholazar Basin Storyline

Reward

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Cloak of Renewed Hope

Pauldrons of Resolution

Boots of Dominance

Ring of Devoted Promises

You will also receive:

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

31,750 experience

250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

Walkthrough

Quest Giver: Chad — Nesingwary Base Camp, Sholazar Basin [26.9, 59]

Objective: Find a Golden Engagement Ring from any creature in Sholazar Basin.

Quick Facts

Drop Type: Zone-wide random drop from nearly any mob (excluding critters)

Walkthrough

Accept the quest and forget about it. The Golden Engagement Ring is a zone-wide drop that can come from almost any mob in Sholazar Basin: beasts, humanoids, elementals, you name it. Critters do not drop it.
It will drop naturally while completing other quests. There is no follow-up chain, so there’s zero urgency.

Efficiency Tips

Do not farm this specifically. Accept it the moment you arrive at Nesingwary Base Camp and let it sit in your quest log. The ring will drop on its own while you work through other quests.
Venture Co. mobs first: If you pick up Venture Co. Misadventure at the same time (you should), the 15 Venture Co. kills often produce the ring. Venture Co. mobs have a noticeably higher reported drop rate (3-4%) compared to other zone mobs (<1%), though this may be inflated by the fact that most players kill these mobs first. Either way, doing both quests together is a smart play.
Party-friendly drop: The ring is a party-wide loot item. If you’re grouped, everyone with the quest receives it on a single drop.
Addon warning: Quest addons like QuestHelper may send you to a specific mob or location. Ignore it or set the quest to lowest priority. It’s a zone drop, not a targeted one.

Lore & Secrets

A Real-Life Love Story

Chad and Purser Boulian (an NPC also found at the camp) are a reference to WoW level designer Sarah Boulian Verrall and her husband, who got engaged during the development of Sholazar Basin. Her husband had some issue with the engagement ring in real life, and the quest designers working on the zone added this quest as an inside joke. (Source: Blizzard developer interview, 2022)

The thematically named rewards play off the marriage angle: “Devoted Promises” and “Renewed Hope” represent the romantic side, while “Boots of Dominance”.

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

Quest Series (2):

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74 Filling the Cages
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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

2,100 experience

250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

Vikstone's War Journal

Chad’s hands trembled as he told his story.

Vikstone Portrait Act 2 — Illustrated by Christian DiBari and Simon Gough.

“When I found out that Miss Boulian was helping Nesingwary with his expedition, I signed up as a deckhand immediately. You see, I’d been meaning to marry her for months!” His voice cracked. “I had it all planned out. I was going to propose the very night of the shipwreck. But now the ring is gone.”

He gestured helplessly at the jungle.

“I know it might sound crazy, but I know the engagement ring is in the Basin. If some Venture Company dog didn’t steal it, maybe a wild creature ate it. But it’s here somewhere. I just know it!”

I studied the jungle before us. How many creatures? How many Venture Company pockets? One tiny golden circle in all of this.

“I’ll find it,” I said.

The words came easier than expected. Or perhaps I understood, better than he’d ever know, what it meant to lose the symbol of a future you’d planned.

The ring turned up in the belly of a crocolisk two days later. Fitting, somehow.

“You did it!” Chad’s relief broke across his face. “You actually found it! I don’t know… I don’t know how to thank you!”

I handed him the ring. Cleaned of crocolisk bile, it caught the light.

“Ask her,” I said. “Don’t wait.”

He ran toward where Miss Boulian worked among the supply crates.

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Objective

LEVEL

76

Requires level

76

Start

END

Sholazar Basin Storyline

Reward

18 Gold

60 Silver

31,750 experience

250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

Walkthrough

2,100 experience

250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

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