Gods like Shiny Things

Quest Giver: Lafoo (summoned via Lafoo’s Bug Bag from Make the Bad Snake Go Away) — Rainspeaker Canopy, Sholazar Basin

Objective: Collect 6 Shiny Treasures that Lafoo digs up and bring them to High-Oracle Soo-say.

Quick Facts

• Level: 77
• Chain Position: Concurrent with Make the Bad Snake Go Away. Both must be completed before Making Peace becomes available.
• Do Alongside: Make the Bad Snake Go Away (same area, same companion)

Walkthrough

The treasures are offerings for the Great Rain Stone, the shrine at the center of Rainspeaker Canopy. Keep that name in mind. It is the same monument Soo-say has in mind when he says the Frenzyheart “keep messing with great stones” in Making Peace.

Summon Lafoo

• Use the Lafoo’s Bug Bag in your inventory. This is the same bag you received when accepting Make the Bad Snake Go Away. Lafoo offers this quest automatically once summoned.
• If you lost the bag, talk to High-Oracle Soo-say for a replacement.
• You must be dismounted for Lafoo to dig. He won’t interact with shiny spots while you’re mounted.

Find and Dig Up Shiny Spots

• Look for faint, single sparkles on the ground near Rainspeaker Canopy. These are not the usual loot sparkles or big glowing objects. They’re subtle single glints that flash every couple of seconds.
• Walk directly over a sparkle and Lafoo will start digging. Wait for him to finish before looting.
• Not every dig gives a treasure. Lafoo sometimes uncovers a Sparkling Hare instead. Kill it for a 50% speed boost for 1 minute (helpful for reaching the next sparkle faster). Reports suggest roughly a 1-in-6 success rate for treasures, so expect to dig around 10-12 spots total.

Best Search Areas

• Around the large tree at [51, 52]
• The clearing in Wildgrowth Mangal at [58, 58], where the brown earth makes sparkles much easier to spot
• General area around Rainspeaker Canopy

Visibility Tips

• Lower your graphics settings: Set Environment Detail, Ground Clutter Density, and Ground Clutter Radius to minimum. This removes grass and debris that obscure the sparkles.
• Hide your UI with Alt+Z for a cleaner view.
• Angle your camera downward at about 45 degrees and zoom out. This gives you the best overhead coverage to catch the glints.
• Avoid combat while Lafoo is digging. If you pull a mob during a dig, he may fail to produce anything.

Troubleshooting

• If Lafoo isn’t responding to a sparkle, reposition slightly so he’s standing directly on the spot.
• If sparkles aren’t appearing at all, try abandoning and reaccepting the quest. Some report that this fixes a visibility bug.

Efficiency Tips

• Always do this alongside Make the Bad Snake Go Away. Both quests use Lafoo and overlap geographically. Kill Emperor Cobras and hunt Venomtip while searching for sparkles between digs.
• Fly low over the search area rather than running on the ground. Spot a sparkle, land, let Lafoo dig, then take off again.

Lore & Secrets

What the Shinies Are For

The tarnished bracelets and dull crystals Lafoo digs out of the dirt are not currency or crafting material. They go on a weather shrine, which is what the gorlocs build their settlements around.

On Making Peace, Soo-say’s parting complaint is that the Frenzyheart “keep messing with great stones” and might not know the great stones are sacred. He is talking about shrines like this one.

The Part Nobody Mentions

Several quests earlier, Zepik handed you a bundle of Skyreach Crystal Clusters and had you overload a Mistwhisper weather shrine until it discharged lightning into a gorloc. That was Lightning Definitely Strikes Twice, and it was a strike against the same class of monument you are now digging up offerings for.

Nobody in Rainspeaker Canopy knows. Soo-say treats the sabotage as ignorance rather than malice, wondering whether the wolvar simply do not understand what the stones are. The one person in the conversation who knows exactly who broke the Mistwhisper shrine is you.

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.