The Angry Dwarfs

I was revered with the Sporeggar folks for quite a while, just because I totally forgot that they have a pet availaible on exalted. And I even have that pet on my hunter… Anyway, yesterday I was counting my pets and updating my list at WarcraftPets, so I started to look for an easy way to get another 14 of them (darned achievements, I tell ya). And since I’m a rogue, farming [Fertile Spores] is very boring. Luckily as a level 80 you can easily get loads of [Sanguine Hibiscus] from Underbog – which is an alternative and much faster way to gain Sporeggar rep.

Here’s a little guide. It took me 12 minutes to get 16 flowers, and that’s with killing some mobs that I didn’t need to kill at all and making screenshots, so it can easily be reduced to 10 minutes. The flower count is a bit random, but if you run through the whole instance, you shouldn’t have less than 10 – and that’s 1500 very easy reputation points.

You can probably do the similar thing if you’re not a rogue – the mobs in normal Underbog are level 65 elites, and when you’re a level 80, you have to run straight through them to get them aggroed. And even if you do, it’s really easy to kill them even if you’re not a prot warrior. Just try not to pull a whole room. ;]

Detailed information after the cut, just don’t laugh at my sloppy, mouse-drawn arrows. ;]

Step 1 – Preparation

1. Check your AH for both Hibiscuses and Fertile Spores. People still level in Zangarmarsh, so there’s a chance you can get some for the start.
2. Make sure you’re at least friendly with the Sporeggar folks, as it’s the requirement for the turn-in quests.
3. Check WoW Reputation Calculator to see how many flowers you need – it shows how many times you have to complete the turn-in, so just multiply that by 5. I wish the author would update the site for Northrend reputations, it was a massive help for me back in TBC, and to be honest, it still is.
4. Make sure you set the instance difficulty at normal – no need to make things harder than they could be, we’re not in a contest who can solo a level 70 heroic here.

When you’re all set, make your way to Zangarmarsh and lets start!

Step 2 – Before the Nagas

This is the first half of the instance. As I said before, you can stealth through, or you can just run around and kill whatever attacks you. This doesn’t really matter, it just makes the run few minutes longer – and if you choose to kill mobs, they have a chance to drop additional Hibiscuses. They have about 25% drop rate though, so it’s your call if you want to bother with that.

After the first two mobs, you arrive at the pack of 3 little elementals (they look a bit dead here, as apparently they didn’t like me taking pictures). Look to your right – there’s a chance that there will be a flower spawned in the back of the corridor. Don’t forget to look around the big room for them – there should be at least 2 more, and they can be pretty hidden sometimes.

After getting what you can from the big room, go on the left where the Bog Giant is walking, and follow the corridor around. There’s a patrol behind the ramp, and a few more Hibiscuses on the way. You should be back in more or less the same place when you do that, so go up the ramp and to the first boss. He has two mobs guarding the entrance – just walk through them and onto the bridge. There’s a chance for some more flowers spawning on the next “island”, so keep your eyes out.

This is the end of the road if you don’t have stealth and sap. There’s usually a Hibiscus behind the Giant on the right, so you should now have about 10 of them, maybe more if you chose to kill stuff. You can now go back to the entrance, reset the instance and start again, or you can pop stealth and go on.

Step 3 – Mrglglglgl…oh wait, they’re not Murlocs.

Ready to continue? Pop stealth and avoid the two Nagas patrolling the bridge. The two Sentries at the top see through stealth, but you can easily Distract and Sap them, or pull both to the side and kill them. I prefer to Sap, because I’m not sure at what exact moment the second boss comes up. If you stealth all the way, you can safely jump from his platform, and he will continue swimming in circles around the pool.

The water does not hurt you – after all this is Underbog, not Serpentshrine Caverns. Swim to the wall and go through the crack. Turn on your stealth and avoid the packs of Fen Rays and wasps. There are two more Hibiscuses near the packs, they’re quite easy to get without aggroing anything, and you can always Sap the Fen Rays if you want to be perfectly safe – one of them has a habit of getting quite close to the flower.

Another boss, and most of the times he guards a flower. Stealth right to the back, and if you stay close to the wall, you shouldn’t get aggro. There’s not much of the instance left, so let’s quickly wrap it up.

Here you might want to be a bit careful. The Underbog Lord that is patrolling through the corridor doesn’t see stealth, but he has a quite long aggro range for a level 65 elite, so it’s pretty certain that you will have to either kill him, or use Vanish and continue. Either way is fine.

And we’re at the end. Avoid the boss, grab the Hibiscus that is located behind him, and jump down for a shortcut back to the entrance. From there, you can safely go out, reset the instance and go in again. After all this, you should have about 15 flowers in your inventory. Enjoy your easy 2250 reputation points! :]

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