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1.	Boiling Blood
2.	Apothecary Antonivich
3.	A Burden of Souls
4.	The Demoniac Scryer
5.	Report to Nazgrel
6.	The Foot of the Citadel

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Comment by Blayde

Cursed Cauldron = 65,71

Comment by 1783

Mobs are in Zeth'Gor. Cauldron is in front of zeth'gor, about where the Z is on the map.

Comment by 12690

It's worth noting that the drop rate on this quest is somewhat less than desirable, so if it's taking you forever, it's probably not because you're doing anything wrong. I killed a whole lot of these guys before I got all my blood. Also, there is a 'bug' or perhaps a feature that some mobs in here spawn instantly after they're killed. Not quickly, but seriously, instantly. There was this one caster in a hut that I killed, the ones with the two skeletons, and every time I killed that caster it would immediately show up again, before I could kill the two skellies. This of course left me with 4 skeletons and a caster, and that was a pain. :(

They must be trying to make sure that they don't run out of mobs, which I appreciate, but it was a little crazy making.

Comment by brianjz

When you use the Cauldron, make sure you clear the surrounding area. Every time you boil 1 blood you get a mess of "Cursed Scarabs" that come out. Most of them are harmless, but a few are "red." They're easy kills, but annoying.

Comment by Orik

A good way to escape from the bugs is just run up the hill right when you boil the blood. Wait for them to despawn then go do it again. It takes about 5-10 seconds for them to despawn.

Comment by briyan

Tip: if you stand at the very edge of the little hill near the cauldron, you can boil your blood out of range of the scarabs that spawn.

Comment by 40816

Drop rate is really low

Comment by 2610

Pre-req: https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10450

Comment by orcishincubus

As a shaman, you can throw down your stoneclaw before boiling the blood, and then throw down your fire nova after the bugs spawn. Kills em.

Comment by 702

You can do two other quests at the same time because Zeppelin Debris for

In Case of Emergency:
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10161

And Hellfire Spineleaves for

Preparing the Salve:
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=9345

All spawn in the same area:
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/npc=16907

Comment by 73695

Can also be done in conjunction with

Wanted: Worg Master Kruush
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=10809

Comment by krojack

Now gives 9550 XP

Comment by porti

exp: 9550
rec: 80s
rep: Thrallmar +250

Comment by 113107

1) Watch out for the Fel Reaver here

2) The scarabs disappear after a few seconds - boil a blood, back away quickly, watch out for other mobs, and wait for the cursed scarabs to die out. Easy as pie.

Comment by 119934

the peons around zeth'gor seemed to drop more blood and were easier to kill

Comment by 61412

The blood you need to collect:
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=30425

Comment by Szili0

One of my most annoying quest what i've ever done in wow, the drop rate is very low, and thoose annoying scarabs -_-

Comment by 151989

Definitely the worse quest in WoW, at least that I have ever seen. The blood isn't THAT hard to get. I picked up a few, and then I grouped with some people in the area. They had a real hard time trying to get it but I didn't have too much of a problem. But, one problem that seems to arise is that if you are in a group, if you try to loot a corpse and it has the quest item on it and you DO NOT take it, trying to get your group member to take it seems to result in them not being able to loot it despite it being there.

The mobs aren't that bad. But like everything else in Hellfire they are tightly packed. However the other major problem with this quest is the cauldron you need to boil the blood in has several Necrolyte mobs around it. These guys cast fireballs that hit for several hundred fire damage and have what seems to be an army of skeletons at their command. These guys are extremely annoying, especially soloing. Not to mention that constantly patrolling the area are grunts or the mobs on wolves. So it wouldn't be hard to imagine you trying to kill a Necrolyte and wind up with a wolf, his rider and a grunt all trying to kill you.

Oh but wait there's more! Yes, because after you get all of the blood you need to boil it ONE AT A DAMN TIME. YES, TWELVE times. You don't just toss it all in at once and it says 'quest complete'. No you must clear away all mobs, put the blood in one at a time, wait for the scarabs to dissapear or kill them, then repeat eleven more times. Don't even think of doing more then one at a time because the scarabs that spawn will end up killing you. And let's not forget if you didn't clear all the fel orcs they could easily be aggroed by the scarabs.

If in a group then each of you needs to do this boiling, individually, for each one. However you may, "MAY' be able to get away with two members doing theirs at the same time as long as you run away from the cauldron. Be warned though there are MORE MOBS in the direction you would generally run (west of the cauldron) so be careful you don't aggro them.

And the reward?

90 SILVER! That didn't even make up for my repair bill on this one. If you really wanna do the chain, approach this quest with caution, a good group, and maybe a drink or smoke to keep ya calm. And watch out for those damned boars to.

Comment by makhael

Neat trick. After I got all my blood, I stood at 65.4, 71.7 on a small rise. I faced the kettle, ran forward and clicked on it. While it shook, I just backed up to my spot. The bugs left me alone, and the roving patrols of orcs on worgs never even came near me. One Grunt did spawn on the hill during the time I was doing the boiling, and a Necrolyte spawned in the purple casting circle. Both were easy kills and spawned once each. Better than fighting tons of orcs to do this quest.

Comment by Allakhazam

Cauldron is at (65,71) for boiling the blood.

Comment by Allakhazam

The coords were correct as stated above ( 65, 71 ) but this quest was very hard for me. ( 59 undead priest) It did seem that the boiling blood was dropping more often off of the "Bleeding Hollow grunts" (however i guess one explanation of why i found it to be so difficult is that my spec is holy but i still seemed to aggro everything and would end up with multi mobs on me) Be Careful Everyone :)

Comment by Allakhazam

this was tedious and i died 6x mostly becuase i was nearby the cauldron and a be paladin would drag all the mobs past me run away and id end up with them agro on me..... then she would put in her blood ...

whata bit

Comment by Allakhazam

Peons had the best drop rate for me, over 50%. The cauldron wasn't that hard, but mostly because a pally and a mage cleared the area and the mage spammed AE to kill the cockroaches :)

Comment by Allakhazam

drop rate for me was around 50% and you can get them off ANY of the boiling blood orcs. You guys must have extremely bad luck, got my stack of 12 in about 20 minutes

Comment by Allakhazam

The drop rate is bad enough but the respawn rate is worse. It seems like it drops more often from the grunts for me.

Comment by Allakhazam

Drop rate for the blood is something like 4%.... great. I have to grind like 2000 orcs...

Comment by Allakhazam

I am in complete agreement, the drop rate on this is terrible.

Comment by Allakhazam

I have yet to finish this quest, just because how rough it is once you actually have to go to the cauldron, but I wanted to say something about the drop rate of the blood.

I might be wrong, but the drop rate increased for me when grinding on the grunts and tormentors (the guys on the wolves), whereas when I just killed peons, the drop rate was pretty horrible.

It makes sense to go after the grunts and tormentors anyway, since you're bound to run into them if you grind on peons.

Comment by Allakhazam

this qst makes me mad....crappy drop rate....roaming guards on dogs.....frig

Comment by Allakhazam

If U R ally player please dont use it i didnt do that 4 U

4 the HORDE!

Hellfire Peninsula

Single Q

Burn it Up...For the HORDE 60,52 54,53
Keep Thornfang Hill Clear! 11,48
Source of the Corruption 13,60
Colosal Menace 14,45
Make Them Listen 55,80
Birds of a Feather 26,77
Magic of Arakkoa 26,77
Trueflight Arrows 28,55
Wanted: Black Talon the Savage 34,63
The Cenarion Expedition 78,62 (in Zangarmarsh)
The Agony and the Darkness 40,35

Chain q

Bonechewer Blood 56,46
-Apothecary Zelana 66,41
-Spinebreak Post 66,43 & 61,81
-Boiling Blood 65,71
-Apothecary Antonivich 52,36
-A Burden of Souls 53,50
-The Demoniac Scryer 44,49
-Report to Nazgrel
-The Foot of the Citadel 47,49

The Assassin 33,43
-Strange Weapon 55,35
-The Warchief's Mandate 54,37
-A Spirit Guide 33,43
-The MAg'Har 55,35
-Messenger to Thrall 31,37 (in Orgrimmar)
-Envoy to the Mag'Har 31,27
-A Debilitating Sickness 34,63
-Administering the Salve

The Warp Rifts 50,80
-Void Ridge 76,66
-From the Abyss 81,78

Falcon Watch 28,60
-The Great Fissure 32,60
-Marking the Path 29,60 34,60 36,65

Arelion's Journal 38,40
-Arelion's Secret (on the road to Zangarmarsh)
-The Mistress Revealed
-Arelion's Mistress 27,62

Wanted: Worg Master Crush 38,73
-Zeth'gor Must Burn
-Stable 68,73
-Barracks 69,75
-Eastern Hovel 69,70
-Western Hovel 67,75

Preparing the Salve
-Investigate the Crash 49,74
-In Case of Emergency
-Voidwalkers Gone Wild 50,80

Ravager Roundup 39,86
-Helboar, the Other White Meat
-Smooth as a Butter 58,70

Deciper the Tome 61,81
-The Battle Horn 54,83
-Bloody Vengeance 63,77
-Honor the Fallen 56,77

The Eyes of Grillok
-Grillok "Darkeye" 66,71

Felspark Ravine 62,40
-Foward Base: Reavers Fall 65,43
-Disrupt the Reinforcments 70,45 75,38
-Mission: Gateways Murketh and Shaadraz
-Mission: Abyssal Shelf
-Return to Thrallmar

Forge Camp Mageddon 65,30
-Cannons of Rage 59,32
-Doorway to the Abyss 53,26
-Cruel's Intentions 43,31

In Need of Felblood 40,37
-The Cleansing Must be Stopped 39,40

Helping the Cenarion Post 15,52
-Demonic Contamination 18,55
-Testing the Antidote 18,55

Crimison Crystal Clue 14,45
-The Earthbinder 15,51
-Natural Remedies 13,39

Naladu 16,65
-A Traitor Among Us 14,36
-The Dreghood Elders
-Morod 13,61
-Aylaan 13,58
-Akoru 15,58
-Arzeth's Demise 14,57

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Comment by Allakhazam

I got approximately 50,000xp through sheer grinding during the course of this quest. And my problem wasn't the droprate - it was getting to the damn cauldron.

The drop rate isn't great, but it's a long way off the worst I've done. I got about one drop off every 6 or 7, with the Riders being the most frequent droppers.

However in the course of trying to get to the cauldron to boil the damn blood, I killed enough mobs to end up with another 5 blood surplus (i.e an extra 30-35 mobs). There was a patroling eye, 4 or 5 separate riders, at least 2 or 3 patrolling grunts, the grunt by the cauldron and the spellcaster with his 2 skeletons. At one point I had 8 corpses littered around the edge of the cauldron, and all I was trying to do was boil the damn blood and get out of there.

If you love grinding towards a quest goal and then being foiled with the end in sight, this is the quest for you. By the end of it I felt like some sorta cliche movie villain ("I'll get you next time Mr. Cauldron!").

If you value your sanity, then either do it in a group or during a peak server time so that more people are there to keep the numbers down (I started doing it at about 3am which probably didn't help with this quest).

Also, you're vastly better off to collect all the blood prior to trying to take control of the cauldron area, then boiling it all one after another (with a brief break each time to stand back & let the cockroach things disperse).

If you stand where the grunt by the cauldron regens & stay as far back as possible, you should substantially reduce how frequently you aggro the patrols. You'll probably have to deal with him regening once or twice, but it beats the alternative.

Edited, Mar 25th 2007 4:05pm by blupache

Comment by Allakhazam

6600xp for that quest, yet earlier quests here that were much easier give you around 9000xp. Something not right. Oh well it's done. Next.

Comment by Allakhazam

thanks for all the coords :)

damn the Alliance Scum!

Comment by Allakhazam

agree'd this item is stackable (bleeding hollow blood)

Comment by Allakhazam

woops, ignore this.

Edited, Jun 16th 2007 1:49am by Foxd

Comment by Allakhazam

For those noobs out there like me that dont read the quest text. You need to go to the area around the cauldron and kill Orcs to get blood. After you get the blood then you need to go to the cauldron to convert it.

Either the drop rate is really low or you can only have one unconverted blood at a time in your inventory.

Comment by Allakhazam

I dunno, just did this quest at Zeth'Gor and the drop rate was like 25% for me, maybe better. Got 12 blood, all in inventory at the same time, in about 25 min.

Comment by Allakhazam

Little bugs will pour out of the thing when you put your blood in there. Just back off a little and they'll despawn. They have almost NO agro range. There's a big rock just to the southwest of the cauldron. That's about where the safe zone is. Watch your back for respawns.

Comment by Allakhazam

People complain about the low drop rate and yes if you are in a hurry to get out of Hellfire then this will hold you up for an hour. Grinding the orcs ain't such a bad thing though and when combined with the other questlines like kill the Worg Master then you will get plenty of blood, XP and loot (2 blues and 3 green BOEs for me so far). The cauldron is tricky but my tactic (having the advantage of being a druid - stealth and travelform) has been to clear the area to the north and slightly west of the cauldron - ingorning most of the patrols but certainly killing the odd roaming boar and the peon at the broken wheels. I then engage the summoner kill him and his skeletons, throw in the blood and run NW to the wheels or due north. The bugs don't aggro and disappear within 20-30 seconds if that. Rinse repeat the trhow-and-run tactic until you are about 8 into the boiling process at which point you will have to clear the respawns. The clearing of the area to the north and west is crucial AS if you aggro one of the many patrols you will only have them to fight. If you run and the boars and the peon and the patrol are all on you then I suggest you stagger to a good spot to die.

Edit: the drop rate appeared to be even between all the various mobs

Edited, Jun 6th 2008 8:33am by dashwoe

Comment by Boxofbeer

To complete this quest you need to use Bleeding Hollow Blood at the Cursed Cauldron to make Boiled Blood.

First of all you need to collect 12 Bleeding Hollow Blood from orcs around Zeth'Gor - Bleeding Hollow Grunt, Bleeding Hollow Peon etc.
After collecting enough of blood samples make your way to the west of Zeth'Gor, there is the Cursed Cauldron below the hill.
Click to the cauldron while carrying Bleeding Hollow Blood to make Boiled Blood. Beware of bugs spawning on every cauldron use.

Coordinates (TomTom):

/way 65.22 71.29 Cursed Cauldron location

Boiling Blood quest video - https://youtu.be/3Ea6vEw3ISw

Comment by tiel

This quest is NOT sharable as marked in wowhead (without doing pre-quests). They have it marked as the first quest of the series, but my party member, who is high enough level, is not eligible.

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Boiling Blood

Use Bleeding Hollow Blood at the Cursed Cauldron to make Boiled Blood. Bring 12 Boiled Blood to Apothecary Albreck at Spinebreaker Post.

	Boiled Blood (12)

Description

That last experiment was not a complete loss -- I did save a small bit of the blood you brought me. Now boiled down, it should be free of whatever curses the Bleeding Hollow witches placed on their people's blood.

I need more for study. Go gather Bleeding Hollow blood from the orcs in Zeth'Gor. When you've gathered the blood, bring it to their cursed cauldron and boil it. Bring me the boiled blood.

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You will receive:

	Bleeding Hollow Blood

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Thrallmar

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10538))

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Horde Hellfire Peninsula Leveling Guide for TBCC Horde Zangarmarsh Leveling Guide for TBCC

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