Alien Ecology
Quest #3883
Level 52
Un'Goro Crater
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What to do
Use the Scraping Vial to collect a Hive Wall Sample from one of the Gorishi hive hatcheries in Un'Goro Crater. Look for the chambers with the hanging larval spawns.
Bring the Hive Wall Sample to Hol'anyee Marshal in Un'Goro Crater.
Objective by objective
- Collect Hive Wall Sample item #11131
The quest's own structured objectives. How many of each you need is set by the game when you accept it, so it is not stored here – the sentence above is the quest's own wording.
The quest giver's words
Just because we've suffered a setback doesn't mean that research must stop! We were investigating the Gorishi insects in the southern part of the crater before winding up here. Their presence is alien to the ecology of Un'Goro, and we want to find out why.
In their hive network must be larval hatcheries. You can identify these places by their hanging larval spawns. Use this vial to take a sample of the hive wall near any of the hatcheries. Bring it back to me for study, but be careful!
Progress
Do you have the sample of the Gorishi hive for me to study, <name>?
Completion
Yes, this will do nicely. You've been a great help... I wish I could give you more than this, but being virtually stranded in the middle of a savage land does limit what I can and cannot give. Rest assured though - the research done here would not have been possible without your assistance!
Category: Un'Goro Crater.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Unused Scraping Vial
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 40s
- and 43s 50c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 7,350
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at level 57 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 48–57 7,350 100% 58 5,850 80% 59 4,400 60% 60 2,950 40% 61 1,450 20% 62–89 725 10% 90 none 43s 50c more money The game pays the full figure up to five levels above the quest, then 20 % less for each level more, down to a tenth, and none at the level cap. A bonus of your own (a guild perk, a holiday) comes on top.
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 52, requires level 48
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
This quest stands alone: nothing leads to it and nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Hol'anyee Marshal npc · Un'Goro Crater at 0.439, 0.072
- Hand in to
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- Hol'anyee Marshal npc · Un'Goro Crater at 0.439, 0.072
- pick up
- turn in
These two markers are the quest giver's and the hand-in's own positions – not where anybody was standing. The recorded positions are further down, under the community data.
Relevant locations
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Un'Goro Crater
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Hol'anyee Marshal
Starts the quest · 43.9, 7.2
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Hol'anyee Marshal
Hand the quest in · 43.9, 7.2
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The pins are the game's own map markers; the coordinates are the game's 0–100, as
/way takes them.
What players recorded
Everything below this line is a different kind of knowledge from everything above it. Above: what the quest is, the same on every realm. Below: what actually happened when people played it, uploaded by them, with the number of runs printed against every figure. It is an observation, not a fact about the quest.
Nobody has completed this quest with telemetry on yet, so there is no timing. Everything below is drawn straight from the 0 recorded attempts the hub has.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 0 runs by 0 players – low confidence. Every upload of this quest sharpens it: the hotspots tighten, the order and the timings settle, and the parts below unlock as the sample grows.
- Where to go – pick-up, objectives and hand-in needs one recorded run not yet
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 0) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 0) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 0 from 0) not yet
Timings
Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.
Same 0 runs.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills.
The route
An early route: drawn from the first runs and sharper with every upload. Pick-up, hand-in and the objective hotspots are where the quest is, so they are shown from the first run.
Map coordinates are the addon's own 0–1 zone coordinates (Un'Goro Crater), origin top-left, x to the right and y downward. Drag the zone map to pan, ctrl/⌘ + scroll or the buttons to zoom; the grid lines are tenths of the zone.
- Pick up
- Not recorded yet.
- Turn in
- Not recorded yet.
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
No objective progress has been uploaded for this quest yet. Once somebody plays it with the addon on, the objectives and their hotspots appear here automatically.
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
No runs recorded yet.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.