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Comment by Zeshar

These quest objects severely confused me. Most of the time the larva would "split open" on me, despite my best efforts. The molting doesn't seem to be timed, as the larva would molt at different times no matter what my DPS was.

So then I thought it was based on a percentage of hitpoints... but that proved wrong as sometimes the larva would molt at 50% and other times they wouldn't molt at all (even if I let them live for upwards of one minute).

Either way, I collected just as many cocoons from split larva as I did from unsplit larva... so don't worry about what the quest tells you, just kill them and expect a fairly low drop rate.

Comment by 24732

The drop rate for these is crap, and as pointed out, the larva quite frequently spawn a Silkwing moth as well. Plus the larvas themselves are quite tough little buggers.

As the quest doesn't lead on to anything else, and the reward is just some gold, I quickly abandoned this quest when it became clear that it's not worth the hassle. Do it if you've got nothing better to do (or you want the xp), otherwise, don't bother.

Comment by 76735

I was also very dissapointed with this quest and decided to let it down and do soft wings first. After I completed it and give it in (the softest wings) I decided to give it a second try. The drop rate for silkwood cocoon was increased to 100%. I still need a confirmation about that.

Comment by 4854

i was doing both quests at the same time and i had like 11 wings and 6 cocoons, after i finished the wings i delivered it at once to see if anor's comment was right, it may not increase the drop rate at 100% but i got them on the 2nd and 3rd larva i killed, but maybe it's because i only had 2 left.
but if you're gonna do these quests make sure you do them at the same time.
and as many already said it doesn't matter if the larva morphs or not you can still get a cocoon before or after, some larvas don't morph either, stopped dps so it could morph to get a wing from the moth that spawn but i was kiting it on 1% for about a minute and didn't morph at all, so it's really all about luck on the drops

Comment by 93453

I think they must have increased the drop rate on this quest - this time around it seemed much better than it used to be.

Comment by 30800

I'd definitely say they've increased the drop rate... My xp of them was close to what wowhead says the drop rate should've been

Comment by 63703

When the mob did not start to metamorphose at all drop rate was 100%

Comment by Piroko

Can confirm that the not metamorphose doesn't make a difference.

Tried stunning em, tried to aoe em, tried to 2man em, whatever I tried, the rate is crap...

So far 47 kills, 6/8...

This quest just sucks. :)

Comment by 184689

From my experiences of this quest, I killed a total of 36 of them to make my 8, I guess I got lucky? :D

Comment by 222881

near 100% drop for me: 66 firemage

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