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“Gorillas and wasps are boring! Big-tongues the only thing fun to hunt. While we mess up rain shrine, we kill lots of mist big-tongues. That sure to make them not want to come back to village thing.”
<Zepik nods to himself confidently.>
-Zepik the Gorloc Hunter
Zepik the Gorloc Hunter wants you to kill 12 Mistwhisper Gorlocs. If you lose Zepik’s Hunting Horn, speak to Elder Harkek in Frenzyheart Hill.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: Zepik the Gorloc Hunter (summon with Zepik’s Hunting Horn if needed)
Objective: Kill 12 Mistwhisper Gorlocs in Mistwhisper Refuge.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
While you’re at Mistwhisper Refuge sabotaging the weather shrine, Zepik also wants you to thin the gorloc population. Kill 12 Mistwhisper Gorlocs in the village area around [44, 37]. Both Mistwhisper Warriors and Mistwhisper Oracles count toward the objective. They’re level 76-77 non-elites scattered throughout the village, especially near the small central lake.
Stay off the beach. There is a phased elite NPC (Mistcaller Soo-gan) on the beach area who is technically friendly to the Oracles but can still attack Frenzyheart-aligned players. You can take massive unexpected damage near the water’s edge. Stick to the village paths and elevated areas to avoid this.
After killing 12, summon Zepik with his horn and turn in.
Efficiency Tips
Lore & Secrets
Zepik’s Backhanded Compliment
Zepik’s completion text is classic wolvar ego: “I stab those big-tongues good. You did okay I guess.” Then, as if catching himself being nice: “No, I just kidding! You good hunter. I glad to hunt with you.”
He’s the warmest of the three wolvar companions, sitting between Goregek’s bragging and Dajik’s quiet politeness.
The Mistwhisper Tribe
The Mistwhisper tribe is one of several gorloc subtribes that make up the Oracles faction. Their settlement at Mistwhisper Refuge is built around weather-controlling shrines powered by Skyreach Crystals. The gorlocs you’re slaughtering here will later become your allies if you choose the Oracles over the Frenzyheart at the end of the chain.
This quest is one of the first moments where the game subtly asks you to consider whether the wolvar are actually the good guys.
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.
Vikstone's War Journal“Gorillas and wasps are boring!” Zepik said. “Big-tongues the only thing fun to hunt. While we mess up rain shrine, we kill lots of mist big-tongues. That sure to make them not want to come back to village thing.”
He nodded to himself, confident in the plan.
The Mistwhisper gorlocs scrambled as we came up out of the reeds, and their mist-shrouded village was about to become considerably less peaceful.
Mace in one hand, greataxe in the other. The trick has never been the striking. It is the recovery. Two hafts that heavy want to keep going wherever you sent them, and a man who forgets that ends up swinging at the ground while something puts a spear in his back.
The first gorloc barely had time to croak a warning before the mace took him in the chest, and the axe caught the one behind him on the follow-through. A defender charged, summoning weather magic. I turned his spell off the flat of the axe, drove the mace into his ribs, and kept moving. Another tried to flank me. Amateur move. I pivoted and let the greataxe’s backswing catch him across the shoulder while the mace was already coming around for the next one.
Zepik fought at my hip, his spear going into whatever gaps I opened. “You hit them good!” he shouted somewhere behind my elbow. “Make them bounce!”
The last defender went down in the shallows.
“We best hunters of basin! I stab those big-tongues good.” Zepik considered me for a moment. “You did okay I guess.” Then, quickly: “No, I just kidding! You good hunter. I glad to hunt with you.”
Coming from a Frenzyheart, that was high praise.
Two shrines broken, a village emptied, and Zepik calling him a good hunter without taking it back, which meant the Frenzyheart had one more job for their tall problem in Hoofing It.
