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“Bristlepine can be dangerous, but most stay far away from wolvar. Wasps on other hand not fear the Frenzyheart… they even kill some of our hunters. I know Rakjak want wasp queen dead, but no wolvar want to go into her hive. You go kill wasp queen in Sapphire Hive to southeast and get stinger for Rakjak.
Me bet Rakjak like that.”
-Elder Harkek
Bring the Stinger of the Sapphire Queen to High-Shaman Rakjak at Frenzyheart Hill. If you lose Dajik’s Worn Chalk, 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: Elder Harkek at Frenzyheart Hill [55, 69]
Objective: Kill the Sapphire Hive Queen and bring the Stinger of the Sapphire Queen to High-Shaman Rakjak at Frenzyheart Hill.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
Head to the Sapphire Hive entrance at [59, 79], southeast of Frenzyheart Hill. Despite being called a “hive,” this is actually a giant hollowed-out brown tree trunk that opens to the east. The path inside is linear. Clear through Sapphire Hive Wasps and Drones as you go (which also counts toward The Wasp Hunter’s Apprentice if active). There’s a shortcut halfway through where you can jump through a window-like gap in the hive wall.
The Sapphire Hive Queen waits at the back of the hive. She’s level 78, not elite, and soloable by most classes. Dajik will help fight and heal you. Loot the Stinger of the Sapphire Queen when she dies (97% drop rate; if unlucky, she respawns quickly).
Rogue Warning: Do NOT use Shadow Step or Killing Spree against the Queen. There may be a bug inside the hive where teleport abilities can shoot you through the world geometry, sending you falling above the clouds to your death. Stick to ground-based attacks.
Return to High-Shaman Rakjak at Frenzyheart Hill [55, 69] to turn in.
Bestiary: The Sapphire Hive Wasps
The Sapphire Hive wasps are a colony of giant blue-hued insects that have established their nest in the southern reaches of Sholazar Basin. Despite sharing a model with the silithid wasps of Ahn’Qiraj and Silithus, they are NOT silithid. These are a separate species native to Sholazar’s ecosystem.
The Queen herself has two combat abilities: Enrage (increases attack speed by 30% and physical damage by 10% for 10 seconds) and Poison Stinger (nature damage burst plus a DoT ticking for 10 seconds). She has approximately 11,770 HP. Watch for the Enrage and use defensive cooldowns if it overlaps with Poison Stinger.
The wasps are one of the few creatures in Sholazar that actively threaten the Frenzyheart Tribe. As Elder Harkek puts it: “Bristlepine can be dangerous, but most stay far away from wolvar. Wasps on other hand not fear the Frenzyheart… they even kill some of our hunters.”
No wolvar hunter has been willing to enter the hive to deal with the queen, which is why you’re being sent in.
Lore & Secrets
Dajik’s Reaction
After you kill the Queen, Dajik has a hilarious moment of panic: “No! You killed queen thing! What have you… wait, nevermind. Sorry, that okay.” Apparently, even he wasn’t expecting you to actually go through with it.
Easter Egg: Deckard Cain
When you click on Elder Harkek at Frenzyheart Hill, he says “Stay a while and listen.” This is the iconic greeting of Deckard Cain from Blizzard’s Diablo series.
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“No wolvar want to go into her hive,” Elder Harkek had said.
The hive’s entrance pulsed with waves of wingbeats, a constant droning. Inside, everything glowed with ethereal blue light and the walls were coated in luminescent honey that dripped in thick rivulets.
She waited in the heart of her domain. The Sapphire Queen. Her carapace gleamed like polished armor, wings spread wide. Those mandibles could snap a wolf in half.
She struck first, launching herself forward. I dove into a roll to avoid her stinger, springing up behind a crystallized honey formation. Her next strike shattered it completely.
I used a protruding honeycomb as a springboard, vaulting over her as she charged. My axe scored a hit across her wing joint. She pivoted, stinger whipping around, forcing me onto one of the chamber’s natural pillars.
I pushed off, twisting mid-air to avoid the thrust while bringing my mace down hard on her thorax. The impact finally cracked her carapace. One final strike, and the Sapphire Queen’s reign ended.
The stinger made an impressive trophy. Getting it back to Frenzyheart Hill took most of the afternoon. There is no dignified way to carry a wasp stinger longer than your own leg, and I stopped trying somewhere around the river.
“You smell like wasp things,” Rakjak said, before anything else. Then he saw what I was dragging. “You killed queen wasp! You stronger than Rakjak thought. Maybe wasps go away now and stop attacking Frenzyheart hunters.”
Worth it.
The wasps were headless and Rakjak had revised his estimate of what his slave could handle, which was unfortunate timing, because something had gotten loose down at the hill in Flown the Coop!.
