How to become a SCARAB LORD in Vanilla | Classic WoW Quest Guide

hey what's up guys it's tips and today I'm gonna be showing you how to become a scarab Lord in classic Wow the scarab Lord quest chain also known as the scepter of the shifting sands quest line is in arguably the most prestigious and exclusive quest in WoW history now because the scarab Lord quest chain is so long I'll be doing this video a little bit differently than my other quest guide commentaries instead of commenting on each individual step within the chain I'll be saving my thoughts and opinions until after we've gone through the step-by-step process so without further ado please allow me to guide you through this quest step 1 speak to borrow stealth of the shifting sands to begin the chain borrow stealth is located in Cenarion hold and gives you the first quest what tomorrow brings the quest requires you to find the bronze dragon and a Chronos he's located at the entrance of the caverns of time in tenaris when you approach Anna Chronos for the first time he will be read to you do to your hostile status with the fruit of his door mu but don't worry about that return to borrow stealth once you've located Anna Chronos step 2 only one may rise bara stoltz second quest requires you to earn the trust of the brood of his door mu by slaying brood Lord lash layer in black winged glare and retrieving his head brood Lord is the third boss of bwl and is located right after the suppression room he has a few basic abilities that I could break down for you but if you don't already have bwl on farm by the time this question is out you probably won't finish this chain first a quick note brood lord only drops one head parade regardless of how many people in your group may be on the quest so you know that only one person can loot the quest and continue on it that week when you've killed them make sure you give the head to the person that you think most likely will succeed with the quest then head back to borrow stole for the next quest step three the path of the righteous this is the first big bottleneck quest that will weed out much of the competition for the Scarab ler title in order to gain the favor of the brood of miss door mu bara stole directs you to the three prominent silithus hives to kill the Silla there and loot their carapace bara stealth initially asks for 200 carapace but many many more are required to gain neutral standing with the brood of nough storm oh you'll have to form a total of 42,000 carapace fragments to attain a neutral reputation level and progress in the chain to put that into context each silithus mob level 60 elites by the way can only drop between 1 and 4 fragments at a time and because this quest is located out in the world and not in an instant's dungeon you'll be competing with everyone else on your server for these Cara pisses who would also like to become scare of Lords good luck with that now the saving grace of this quest is that after each 200 carapace is turned in bara stall to reward you with an item called the proxy of miss door moon which will allow you to empower one additional faction member to collect these Cara pisses alongside you this means that by the end of your rep grind several of your friends and Gil Dee's will hopefully be farming these fragments with you that's the key to finishing this quest quickly you'll need help from as many friends and guild ease as possible not only to grind the mobs with you but to also defend you from the opposing faction and to out tag your fellow faction members I can tell you right now if you don't have at least 20 people helping you with this quest you won't be getting the scarab lore title and most servers will require even more help but once you've farmed enough carapace fragments to become neutral to brood and hate it with your guild mates borrow stuff will give you the next quest in the chain step 4 Anna Kronos in this quest bara stealth asks you to speak with Anna Kronos for further directions again Anna Cronus is located at the entrance of the caverns of time speak to him and he will give you your next quest step 5 long forgotten memories Anna Kronos will require you to locate a crystalline tear in silithus and gaze into its depths the crystal is small in size and red in color and is located on the ground just before the gates of Ahn'Qiraj right-click on the crystal to complete the quest when you've done that you'll receive the next quest in the chain step 6 the pawn on the eternal board this quest requires you to witness in our pee event that reveals additional lore and context surrounding Anna Chronos and the scepter of the shifting sands if you don't care about spoilers I'll play the RP for you in the background if you'd like to skip the RP I've left a timestamp in the description for you to skip ahead [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] once the RP finishes you will automatically receive credit for the quest head back to Anna Kronos to turn it in step 7 the charge of the dragonflights this is where the quest of urges into several long paths enter Kronos tells you to seek out three dragons I ran a kiss of the green flight valus draws of the red flight and azure ghosts of the blue flight each of these dragons holds with him a shard of the scepter and all three shards are required to assemble it Anna Chronos doesn't give you a formal quest to complete he merely tells you to find these dragons the order of which you seek out the Dragons is up to you but assuming you finish your carapace farming in the same week as your brood Lord killed in step 2 you'll have to wait for the next rate lockout for the veil of straws objective this means that your only two options this week are iranica sand Ashur ghosts and because iranica s-- is easier to get to we'll start with him step 7 a the charge of the Dragonfly it's ironic is ironic is the final boss of a sunken temple dungeon of the swamp of Sorrows however if you're on this part of the quest chain whenever you approach him the visage of Malfurion will appear a small RP event ensues anagen Malfurion giving you a quest to recover the green scepter shard step 7 a one ERA NICUs tyrant of the dream malfurion's first quest requires you to speak with his agent just outside Darnassus if your alliance this is simple to do if your horde you'll have to ninja your way onto a ship and dark shore to take you to teldrassil even if that's easy for you you'll still have to run through Darnassus to get to the quest turn in so group is advised here once you get to the outer wall of Darnassus you can find malfurion's forest wisp to the north for the next part of the chain step seven a two Tyrande and REM you loose the forest wisp asks you to make your way to moonglade and speak to someone named REM ulos who will help you summoner a NICUs and retrieve the green chard he gives you the next part of the chain step seven a three the nightmares corruption REM ulos tells you that he needs four fragments of nightmares corruption in order to summon iranica s-- these fragments drop off of the dragon can mobs that patrol each of the emerald dream portals in Azeroth assemble a group and head to each portal keep killing the Green Dragon can elites until they drop their respective portals fragment as a side note these portals are home to the four dragons of nightmare world bosses so you might see some competition and PvP in this quest once you've retrieved all four fragments return to REM ulos and turn in the Qwest step 7a for the nightmare manifests with the shards in hand ramya loss is ready to summoner Anika's this step will require a 40 man raid group your objective here is to defend moonglade from the attack but not to kill iranica s' do not kill or Anika's do not let Ramya low sky defend yourself and to wait for Tyrande to come in to finish the RP event once you've defended night Haven from the attack and Tyrande save the day turning the quest to Romulus who will give you a piece of epic nature is this gear that will come in handy in a queue along with the green scepter shard that concludes the hunt for the green scepter shard and leaves us with just the blue and the red ones to hunt down step 7 be the charge of the dragonflights Asher goes now assuming you finish your green chard quests within your brood Lord kill in step 2 you still won't be able to do the red chard quests so head to azshara to speak with Azure ghosts instead for the blue chard as ragosa's world boss that is on a random 4 to 7 day spawn timer but if he's dead you'll still be able to speak with the spirit to continue the question he tells you that he's lost the blue shard and instead gives you a ledger that can be translated by Naren sooth fancy and tenaris delivered the ledger to Naren who was located in a steam wheedle port and he'll give you the next quest Naren tells you that in order to translate as ragosa's letter you will need his scrying goggles a 500 pound chicken and vol 2 of Joe Connick for dummies these items are located all over the world and require raid groups to retrieve them we'll start with the goggles cuz they're the easiest step 7b to Stu Ville ex-bff Naren tells you to find his ex BFFs to Vil who stole the goggles from him Stu was located in an inconspicuous crate at the gray main wall and silver pine right-click on the crate to speak to Steve all who says he doesn't have the goggles anymore he lost them in the molten core take his new quest get a raid group together and head to MC step 7b 3 scrying goggles no problem the goggles can drop off of any trash mob at MC so just keep killing trash until they drop for you make sure to save your guild MC lockout when this whole quest chain becomes active so you don't have to wait an additional week before you can do this part do not kill Ragnaros either also loot any and all deep rock salt as it will come in handy later once you find the goggles loot them and return to Naren it's turning the quest step 7 be for never ask me about my business Naren second quest never asked me about my business requires you to speak with dirge slave Engadget Sam talked to dirge and I'll give you the next quest step seven b5 the Isle of dread dirge tells you that a 500-pound chicken carcass can be located on the Isle of dread and Fairless the carcass dropped from the raid boss lord LACMA reign on the Isle so have a group ready to head there and kill him additionally dirge requires twenty-two Marin tenderloins which drop off in the Chamara leads on the island kill them and loot them until you get twenty tenderloins then head back to dirge when you're done step seven b6 dirges kick in chimera chops in order to prepare his recipe dirge needs twenty goblin rocket fuel and 20 deep rocks salt if you look at the deep rock salt from MC earlier you should have enough already to finish this quest if not the salt can be looted from elementals throughout the world or it can be bought from the auction house the Goblin rocket fuel is also easy to get it can be created by alchemists with the recipe into ten alchemy once you have the salt and the fuel return to dirge who will tell you a funny gnome joke and gives you the quest to return to Naren and give him the chicken then on to the third and final quest Shane given by Naren step seventy-seven draconic for dummies jacana for dummies is the most difficult and time-consuming quest chain offered by Naren the first step of the chain requires you to locate the book on an island south of lands and beach and tenaris unfortunately the eyelid is too far away to swim too naturally so need some help getting there Naren doesn't give you explicit directions on how to reach the island but I will head to Lands End Beach once you get there swim about 75 yards off the southeastern coast and you'll find a Naga with a quest icon speak to the Naga and pick up the quest step 78 love song for Naren the Naga named Meredith tells you that she's in love with Naren and wants you to deliver a love letter to him unlike blizzard Naren does not have a tentacle fetish and tells you that he isn't interested in meredith he doesn't give you a follow up quest but if you return to Meredith you'll find that you now have a Chad option unlocked with her click on the chat bubble and she'll give you a 3-minute swim speed buff that will give you the speed required to swim to the island where Naren lost his book swim south until you see the island which is visible from a pretty long distance once you arrive on the island you'll find a dirt mound with the shovel in it we're in a rain Barry's book right click on the mound which gives you the next part of the chain step 79 ransom the next step ransom reveals to you that the book has been stolen return to Naren to give him the bad news he has an idea to retrieve the book step seven b10 decoy you'll need a group for this next part Narang gives you a gnomish costume and wants you to pose as him during a ransom drop off operation put on the disguise and head over to winter spring to the drop-off point indicated on the map given to you by the book Nappers if you're not sure where that is it's a hidden Hill located just northwest of frost whisper Gorge on the precipice of the hill you'll find a grave use the bag of gold given to you by a Naren right on the edge of the grave to trigger the quest event the event has dr. weevil send a giant Yeti named number 2 after you so be ready to take it down with your group when you've killed the Yeti head back to Naren and deliver the bad news step 7 be eleven the only prescription the next quest is one of the most iconic in the entire scepter the shifting sands adventure Naren tells you that dr. weevil has torn out eight chapters of his book and that you'll have to recover those lost chapters yourself and bind them together in order to translate Azure doses letter yeah remember that the only clue you have is that dr. weevil is behind all this so head to a Lacasse island off the coast of dustwallow marsh and kill him you'll need a raid group for this part as outcast Island is covered with the leads and dr. weevil himself is pretty tough once you kill him he will drop two items the first is draconic for dummies chapter one leaving you with just seven chapters left to recover the second item is the diary of dr. weevil which gives you clues as to where the remaining torn chapters are located chapter two drops off a fellow guard elites in the tainted scar and blasted lands bring a large group with you for protection and start killing the demons until chapter 2 drops chapter 3 drops off of hindering elites and entering Slayers and dark whisper Gorge and winter spring chapter 4 is on a table in the magic quarter of Undercity so if your alliance good luck chapter 5 is located on a pillar in the Stormin library so if your horde good luck chapter 6 drops off of Onyxia so you'll need a raid chapter 7 is located on the table and Blackwing Lair near fire moths patrol paths so you'll need a raid and chapter 8 drops off a frakkin roast in the molten core so you'll need a raid once you've collected all eight chapters use the magical book binding that naren gave you to bind the chapters into volume 2 of Drew Connick for dummies return to naren to complete the quest step 7 be 12 the good news and the bad news this next step requires you to get Naren 20 arcanite bars 10 Elementium or 10 Azeroth Ian diamonds and 10 blue sapphires the bars can be trans muted by an alchemist the or drops from Blackwing Lair technicians and bwl the diamond drops off of elites in Azshara and the sapphires can drop off a variety of high-level mobs in the world when you're 10 getting the mats returned to Naren and turn in the quest step 7 B 13 the wrath of neptulon located in the Bay of storms off the coast of azshara is a whirlpool and some wooden objects use the arcanite buoy that naren gave you here to fish up a monster called Maz and kill him you will need a raid group for this once you've killed Maz the blue scepter shard will finally drop take it back to Anna Chronos and the only shard that remains now is the red chard step 7c the charge of the dragonflights valus draws the final scepter shard is the red chard this is by far the easiest shard to collect simply speak to veil of straws and Blackwing glare and he will give you a quest called a nefarious corruption step 7c one nefarious corruption the objective of this quest is to clear BWL within 5 hours if you're successful and kill no Farion within the 5 hours he will drop the red scepter shard luda and return to enter Chronos and tenaris to turn it in for some shadow resist year and finally step 8 the might of Kalimdor once all three shards have been handed over to anna Kronos he gives you a quest called the might of Kalimdor you can complete the quest instantly to receive the scepter of the shifting sands now even though you have the scepter you still have to wait for the aq war effort event to finish on your server before you can ring the scare gong this means that the armies of the Alliance and the Horde must arrive in silithus after all of the aq war effort supplies have been received on your server once the armies of the Alliance and the Horde have arrived you will receive step 9 called bang a gong all you have to do is right-click on the scarab Gong in front of Ahn'Qiraj and you are officially dubbed the scarab lord across your entire server and you will receive your legendary scarab mount the black qiraji battle tank but we're not done yet we still have one final step step 10 treasure of the timeless one it's an auto complete quest that allows you to pick one of four epic weapons the cherry on top to this truly epic quest chain if you've managed to finish every step of this guide before anyone else on your server or within the 10 hours after the first scarab Lord rang the gong then I say to you congratulations scarab because you have earned my respect and that my friends is how you become a scarab Lord in classic Wow so as I said at the start of the video I wanted to leave my commentary on this quest for the very end here having done this shame myself and looking back on it I honestly cannot believe this ever made it to live servers I've just never seen a quest chain so packed full of epic raid quests non fazed RP quests and directionless mystery quests it seems so antithetical to what World of Warcraft has become on top of that there is not a single quest in Wow mr. e that required this kind of guild wide effort I mean you have to have everybody in your guild on the same page and working towards a single goal otherwise you are not going to be able to progress in this quest a chain that requires this much effort and bears this much exclusivity just is not done anymore in MMOs like nobody does stuff like this anymore probably for good reason but honestly its quests like these that create a sense of epic feel and wonder to the world and give players who aren't able to finish quests like this something to strive towards something to to latch on to a carrot on a stick but a meaningful carrot not a mindless carrot that's randomly generated depending how many times you run mythic + dungeons and even though only a couple hundred players actually completed this quest out of millions I still think that adds to the mystique and charm of vanilla even 14 years later and is a loud vanilla to have this robust and magnificent legacy that's endured throughout almost a decade and a half but thanks for watching guys if you liked what you saw sub it up and stick around because we got more coming if you want to see more of this type of content from me then please consider supporting the channel on patreon it takes a really long time to make videos like these so your support is really appreciated and if you're interested in learning more about vanilla or classic or if you have any questions for me you can check me out live on stream at twitch.tv slash tips out baby all the links are in the description below but aside from that have a wonderful day fellas and as always tips out baby [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 19min 50sec (1190 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 19 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/JohnCavil]

Absolutely insane quest line. I can't believe Blizzard put this much work into something that only very few people would ever get to experience. This is the kind of magical and mysterious shit that just makes a world feel real.

Also I cannot imagine doing this back in the day with how difficult information was to come by back then. Nowadays it's a lot easier, but knowing all these little details, where to go, what to do, it must've been so confusing for most players. Honestly a shame we can't recreate that part.

[u/tethysian]

I don't care much about the title or the mount but this kind of insane grind really appeals to me.

[u/tipsoutbaby]

Hey guys,

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Since I released my Onyxia attunment guides, a lot of people have been requesting the Scepter of the Shifting Sands quest in video form. I'm glad to have that here for you today.

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Check out the longest and most prestigious quest in WoW history, and hopefully you'll be able to prepare for your own Scarab Lord title come Classic WoW!

Take care, guys.

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-Tips

[u/karspearhollow]

I'm so curious about how this will play out in Classic.

• How quickly is the War Effort completed on private servers? I assume that, armed with the knowledge of which materials will be needed, they can complete it immediately upon release.

• If a guild can earn its first completed scepter in two weeks, could it theoretically complete another one each week thereafter?

I have had trouble finding information on how quickly the average retail realm opened the gates. The best I've found is a list of the top 5 realms to do so. Judging by those dates, the fastest realm did it in 3 lockouts, but every other realm would have opened it in 4 or more. That's a big difference from the 2 lockouts I'm assuming it takes on private servers.

I have to be honest: one of the only changes I would like to see made to Classic is the material requirements of the War Effort. It just seems like knowing them in advance violates the spirit of the whole event. If it's cut short by guilds farming the materials in advance, not only does it deny a realm a cool moment in time where they can band together (or make some gold) opening the gates, but it restricts the guilds completing scepters moreso than in retail. It seems to me that there aren't many things in Classic that can be metagamed in this way.

It also seems like there is so much potential strategy if you're looking to achieve Scarab Lord yourself. That's the kind of discussion I would love to see on this sub.

[u/JRHThreeFour]

I'm going to be crazy and undertake this grueling, immensely long, and just insane questline. I am obviously not going to be able to get the Scarab Lord title, but I just want to be able to experience the gate opening event I never got to see before it got removed permanently in Wrath.

[u/lestye]

If we're talking about possible changes, Scarab Lord wasnt an actual title until 2.0, right?

[u/Hycran]

I actually got a decent way through this while doing the quest “solo” but still not even close. Got the red shard without much issue, got 7/8 draconic books and no where near the remaining shard.

People need to appreciate that even though it will be easier for future scarab lords due to them being able to anticipate the needs of the quest, people who got it back in the day were truly special. The Eranikus fight was basically impossible due to the lag in the zone and needing to protect Eranikus from the shades when everything was lagging and alliance players were dpsing it down. Maws was so far out of the way that it wasn’t as bad but it was still a relatively difficult encounter. Also, by participating in the quest, you basically didn’t get any benefit from the war effort as you didn’t have any time to participate. And to top it all off, unless your guild was really dedicated there was absolutely no incentive for anyone other than you to do any constituent parts of the quest.

Imagine trying to get a raid together when you’re the only person in the guild actively pursuing the quest. “Hey guys, do you mind if 40 if you come to this island in the middle of nowhere to kill Doctor Weevil?” Also then go to another island to kill these giant beasts for chops. Also if someone can sell me some arcanite bars for a discount (I just learned I need a shitload) that would be appreciated.

Simply put, unless a large group of people decide to help you and selflessly sacrifice their time and mats and repair costs for you, there is an unequivocal 0% chance you will succeed. Absolutely batty.

[u/HaywoodJablowme12]

It's actually easy to do now, on private servers. The problem is just picking somebody who's going to actually do it on the server, usually the GM of the most hardcore guild. However the quest itself isn't even hard, just clearing a bunch of shit you already clear and no life farming.

[u/superdyu]

Amazing video Tips!!!