The Easiest way to complete this quest is to make the inn at stormwind your home, accept the quest then fly to booty bay, go NW up the coastline until u see a cold eye basilisk, kill him pickup the item (droprate is 100%) then warp to stormwind...I finished w/18min 35 sec left

Ok so I read the mob level was 34-40 and thought it would be easy until I got there and had a rude surprise.

Just became a level 35 Dranei Mage. Thankful for all the tips here I set off on the FP (SW-BB takes about 3 mins) I decided to swim along the coast with occasional "blinks". Stay away from the heavy duty mobs of all sorts along the coast here, particularly the bloodsail lot, especially if you are already as unpopular with them as my mage is!!

I got to the part of the coast populated with Cold-eye's with the clock ticking at 20 mins remaining. Immediately noticed they ware all level 40's! Feeling a little cheated, I skirted along the coast a little more and made landfall, heading for the road, expecting for the mob level to reduce when I got to it. IT DIDN'T! Yikes! What's more, as I passed through the jungle on my way to the road with my mana shield full on, I attracted the unwanted attention of several level 39 and level 40 Cold-eye basilisks. maybe it's because I am a frost oriented mage and they fancied a piece of MY icy haunch? It took a while to shake them all off. I came back to them, still looking for something lower level. While looking, I aggroed two stealthed shadow panthers. Grrrr. More running. I decided to bite the bullet and go for a level 39 Cold-eye basilisk.

With ice armour on, elixir of greater defense, well fed on sagefish delight i still feared the worst. I hit him with three frost bolts, he was extremely sluggish and I was surprised to see that it lowered his health by about a third. As he reached me, I set a frost nova down and he stopped while I backed up a few steps and sent another couple of frost bolts. Man! This was going to be one well preserved haunch, if he dropped it! Drop it he did, in response to my cone of cold!! My bonus frost damage btw is 43. With 10 mins remaining, I teleported back to SW mage quarter and handed in the q with 9 mins to spare.

Without these posts I would have been lost....but look out for the mob level guys and gals. Umm is it my imagination, or does the head chef have a crotch bulge?? My, what a big messy cleaver he has, too!! LOL.

just finished this quest as a 36 pally had 9 mins left 6550 exp 1g50s very easy

Coordinates are (36,41). Right next to the road.

Also the text about "must not release your spirit" appears to be misleading. I got ganked by a horde along the road, clicked the "release spirit" button to go to the graveyard, and ran back. Figured the quest was Failed, but it didn't show as failed and the timer was still running.

So I finished it anyway (killed the basalisk and teleported back to SW). Was going to re-Accept the quest but instead he said thanks and it was Completed!

Certainly for a mage. But, really any class, just set your hearth in SW. Head to the area, kill a couple (just needed one kill here), and hearth/port back. BTW, I found flying into Westfall was pretty quick. Had over 20 mins left on timer, and that included queing for AV along the way :))

At level 60:

+500 rep SW
1g 78s

Good stuff

Edited, Jan 3rd 2007 4:43pm by Imake

Very simple, Did it with 43 priest. made Stormwind City Inn my home, flew to Booty Bay. Walked(or if your like my Mounted) to 27,43 then I hearthed out after I killed it. with 15 mins left. While I messed around for the first 5 mins.

Did this in 15 min with a mounted 40 pally and SW hearthstone, using info in thread: fly to BB, run just north of Gurubashi Arena then off path to left the Cold Eye Bassies are 39-40 and drop the haunch right away, then hearth out. The rewards were rich, as described.

Horde gankers are always a risk in SV, so be prepared. I passed several mounted and unmounted Horde, but my mount is a fast warhorse and nobody bothered me this time. Lots of traffic on the road, as it was a weekend.

Edited, Oct 20th 2006 at 10:49pm PDT by Bretwalda

Did it with 19 mins to go

got this on the 1st drop and got myself 4700xp and 200 SW rep increase!

I died 2 times on this quest at level 47 because a ?? undead mage on lightninghoof Doofers who is proabbly a level 60 decided to be a ***** and killed me on my way to the Basilisks and on the way back from killing a Basilisk. If I wasent a nightelf with a carrot on a stick and Mount speed eanted gloves I would have never been bale to do this quest.

That was the easiest 1.5g I've ever made. And I got 4700xp (I died, so I had to abandon after I got the Haunch, and I restarted it right away, then turned it in and recieved 4.7k! Sweet.).

I just finished this quest at lvl 39 with no mount, no hearthstoning to SW, and with five minutes left on the timer. I was fairly surprised that I was able to finish it as most of the time STV is a big Horde gank fest on Bonechewer. If you were 40+ with your mount and your hearthstone set to SW then this quest would be much too easy to pass up.

Gryph to BB POP just N of Arena to the left afer Panthermaws. Make Stormwind your Inn first of all.
Kill the darn thing had 10 mins to spare at LV 41 druid.
Easiest G I ever made. LOL

if u happen to die... release spirit... just proceed with the quest.. you'll still be able to get the quest item. return to angus, abandon the quest and take it again..

as a 41 rogue I went from angus to the gryphon master to darkshrie, then right to where teh coldeye baslisks were. I went all the way back to darkshre, too the gryphon and went to angus.
I had exactly 7min 1sec left sprinting as fast often as I could.
If I had to do it over again I would hve gone to BB because its a might bit closer

One of the rules to this quest is that you can't release your spirit.

After I killed the basilisk, I used my hearthstone to get to Ironforge, and hopped on the tram to go to Stormwind. Unfortunately, the quest failed as soon as I went through the tram portal.

Perhaps it's because you get a loading screen that the quest thinks you're releasing your spirit? Whatever the case may be, I'd suggest setting your hearthstone to Stormwind when doing this one.

Edited, Fri Jan 21 03:14:52 2005