What to do
Colvin Norrington at Dorian's Outpost wants you to take 5 Hydra Sputum Samples and kill 5 Bittertide Hydra.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Bittertide Hydra NPC #28003
- Kill or interact with Bittertide Hydra NPC #28003
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
There's no more caustic material in all of the basin than bittertide hydra sputum. I've got special containers to collect just such a thing for Archmage Pentarus' studies. Now all I need is a brave, um... collector.
You look like a hardy, adventurous <class>. How'd you like to make a bit of money and aid Dalaran's cause at the same time?
All you need to do is take this container with you to Bittertide Lake, to the southwest. Engage the hydra and use the container to sample the sputum they shower you with.
Progress
Did you get those samples?
Completion
Wonderful! Here's your payment, as agreed. And, uh, a bit of advice: you might want to enjoy long, hot baths the next few days if that 'burning sensation' persists.
Category: Sholazar Basin.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Sample Container
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 6g 50s
- and 1g 29s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 21,400
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at level 82 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 76–82 21,400 100% 83 17,100 80% 84 12,850 60% 85 8,550 40% 86 4,300 20% 87–89 2,150 10% 90 none 1g 29s 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 77, requires level 76
- 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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- Colvin Norrington npc · Sholazar Basin at 0.421, 0.287
- Hand in to
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- Colvin Norrington npc · Sholazar Basin at 0.421, 0.287
- 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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Sholazar Basin
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Colvin Norrington
Starts the quest · 42.1, 28.7
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Colvin Norrington
Hand the quest in · 42.1, 28.7
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Bittertide Hydra
Quest objective · 35.2, 36.4
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Colvin Norrington
Quest objective · 42.0, 28.6
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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 (Sholazar Basin), 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.