Feedin’ Da Goolz

Quest Giver/Turn In: Gristlegut (Abomination) — Reliquary of Agony, Zul’Drak [19, 75]

Requires: Active Ensorcelled Choker disguise (you must be in Scourge form to interact with Gristlegut)

Objective: Use the Bowels and Brains Bowl (provided) next to 10 Decaying Ghouls.

Quick Facts

• Chain: Part of the Drakuru infiltration (Ebon Blade) storyline. Available after completing Dressing Down (Alliance) or Suit Up! (Horde).
• Faction: Both.
• Counts toward The Empire of Zul’Drak achievement.
• Next quest in chain: Infiltrating Voltarus

Walkthrough

• Make sure your Ensorcelled Choker disguise is active before approaching Gristlegut. He will not interact with you in your normal form.
• Accept the quest and receive the Bowels and Brains Bowl (quest item, goes in your inventory).
• Find Decaying Ghouls wandering around the Reliquary of Agony area near Gristlegut. You do not need to target them. Just stand near a ghoul and use the bowl. It places a bowl of food on the ground with no cast time, and the ghoul runs over to eat it. You can keep moving while dropping bowls.
• Repeat for 10 ghouls, then return to Gristlegut to turn in.

Warning: Vendor Item Trap

• Gristlegut is also a vendor. He sells a food item called “Bowels and Brains” that has a similar icon to the quest item. This vendor item does NOT complete the quest. The quest-provided Bowels and Brains Bowl (already in their inventory) is the correct item. Check your quest items, not your purchased consumables.

Hazards

• Blightguards are the only enemies in the area that see through your Scourge disguise. They will attack on sight, breaking your disguise and causing all surrounding ghouls to turn hostile. Keep your distance from them. Warlocks with Detect Lesser Invisibility can spot Blightguards more easily.
• Cockroach swarm: If you drop the bowl directly in front of Gristlegut, swarms of Plague Roaches spawn and attack you. Drop your bowls near the wandering ghouls, not in camp.
• If your disguise drops mid-quest (Blightguards attack, buff expires, or it fails randomly), run out of the area, kill anything chasing you, then re-equip the Ensorcelled Choker out of combat to reapply it.

Do Not Skip This Quest

• If you advance the Drakuru chain all the way through Betrayal without completing Feedin’ Da Goolz first, you will permanently lose access to it. The Ensorcelled Choker is removed upon completing Betrayal, and while you can normally get replacements from Stefan Vadu at Ebon Watch, completing the chain removes that option. Pick this up as soon as Gristlegut offers it.

Story Context

You are deep undercover as a Scourge ghoul, working for the Knights of the Ebon Blade to infiltrate Overlord Drakuru’s operation on the floating necropolis Voltarus. The Reliquary of Agony sits below Zeramas (a different necropolis from Voltarus, despite the visual similarity) and is infested with Scourge and pools of blight.

Gristlegut is an abomination who speaks in a broken, phonetic dialect and treats the feeding like playtime. His gossip text is equally charming: “Awww… look at da purty lil’ gool. Jump, lil’ gool! Jump! Ha, ha, ha…. Attsa guud lil’ gool.”

The grotesque reward names (Soiled Trousers, Redigested Mail Scraps, Aged Abomination Tripe) are a running joke. Your “payment” for Scourge work is repurposed undead refuse.

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