WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (2024)

WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (1)

Wailing Caverns is a level 17-25 dungeon in WoW Classic. It is located in The Barrens. Wailing Caverns is the first non-linear dungeon in the game.

This WoW Classic Wailing Caverns quests guide explains where you can find the Wailing Caverns in WoW Classic, which Wailing Caverns quests are available, and what loot drops in Wailing Caverns.

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📅 Last updated on December 21, 2023.

Table of Contents

  1. How to Get to the Wailing Caverns in WoW Classic
  2. What Wailing Caverns Quests Are Available in WoW Classic?
    1. Serpentbloom
    2. Leaders of the Fang
    3. Smart Drings
    4. Trouble at the Docks
    5. Deviate Hides
    6. Deviate Eradication
    7. The Glowing Shard
  3. What Loot Drops in the Wailing Caverns in WoW Classic?

How to Get to the Wailing Caverns in WoW Classic

The Wailing Caverns are located in The Barrens. The entrance to the Wailing Caverns is in the Lushwater Oasis southwest of Crossroads. You can see the exact Wailing Caverns location on the map below:

What Wailing Caverns Quests Are Available in WoW Classic?

There are two Horde-exclusive quests in the Wailing Caverns and five quests for both factions. These are the following quests:

  • WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (3)WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (4)Serpentbloom
  • WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (5)WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (6)Leaders of the Fang
  • WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (7) WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (8)WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (9)Smart Drinks
  • WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (10) WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (11)WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (12)Trouble at the Docks
  • WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (13) WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (14)WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (15)Deviate Hides
  • WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (16) WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (17)WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (18)Deviate Eradication
  • WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (19) WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (20)WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (21)The Glowing Shard

Serpentbloom

The Wailing Caverns quest WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (22) WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (23)Serpentbloom requires level 14 and is sharable.

  • Starts and ends at Apothecary Zamah in The Spirit Rise in Thunder Bluff (23,21).
  • The task is to deliver 10x WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (24)Serpentbloom. WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (25)Serpentbloom can be found in the Wailing Caverns. It looks like a small green flower. It might take a few runs. The WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (26)Serpentbloom always seems to spawn in the same places.
  • The item reward is WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (27)Apothecary Gloves.

Leaders of the Fang

The Wailing Caverns quest WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (28) WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (29)Leaders of the Fang requires level 10. It is sharable if the prerequisite quests have been completed by the other players.

  • Starts and ends at Nara Wildmane in The Elder Rise in Thunder Bluff (75,31).
  • Requirements: Completion of a quest series, 5 quests in total. The series starts with WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (30)The Forgotten Pools at Tonga Runetotem in Crossroads in The Barrens (52,31). As you progress, you can then accept the quest WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (31)Hamuul Runetotem, which ultimately leads to WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (32)Leaders of the Fang.
  • The task is to collect the following four gems from the Leaders of the Fang:
    • WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (33)Gem of Cobrahn
    • WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (34)Gem of Anacondra
    • WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (35)Gem of Pythas
    • WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (36)Gem of Serpentis
  • All leaders can be found in the Wailing Caverns. On the map below you can see where the leaders are located:
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (37)
  • As an item reward you can choose between WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (38)Crescent Staff and WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (39)Wingblade.

Smart Drings

The Wailing Caverns quest WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (40)Smart Drinks requires level 13 and is sharable.

  • Starts and ends at Mebok Mizzyrix in Ratchet in The Barrens (62,37).
  • Prerequisite: You get the quest from Mebok Mizzyrix after you have completed the quest WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (41)Raptor Horns (also starts and ends at Mebok Mizzyrix).

Trouble at the Docks

The Wailing Caverns Quest WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (42)Trouble at the Docks requires level 14 and is sharable.

  • Starts and ends at Crane Operator Bigglefuzz in Ratchet in The Barrens (63,37)
  • The task is to take a bottle WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (43)99-Year-Old Port from Mad Magglish in the Wailing Caverns.
  • Mad Magglish can spawn in various locations in the caves leading to the Wailing Caverns (i.e. outside of the actual instance):
    1. Enter the cave and keep right. You will come to a kind of intersection. There is a small niche on the right where he can be.
    2. Instead of going into the alcove on the right, continue straight ahead and jump down over the cliff at the end.
    3. Instead of going right into the alcove or continuing straight ahead, keep left and go into the water. Once in the water, keep left where you will enter a cave.

Deviate Hides

The Wailing Caverns quest WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (44)Deviate Hides requires level 13 and is sharable.

  • Starts and ends at Nalpak (46,35). This is how you find it:
    • When you’re at the entrance to the Wailing Caverns, walk back a bit and look at the entrance. You can see that it is a skull. Nalpak and Ebru, another quest giver (see next quest), are standing in a cave in the left eye of the skull (when you look at it).
    • Climb the mountain, then work your way down to the nose and skull and from there into the eye.
  • The task is to hand in 20x WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (45)Deviate Hide. You can complete the quest by looting any Deviate mobs inside or outside the instance.

Deviate Eradication

The Wailing Caverns quest WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (46)Deviate Eradication requires level 15 and is sharable.

  • Starts and ends at Ebru. She can be found next to Nalpak in the skull’s eye cave (see previous quest).
  • The task is: to kill 7x Deviate Ravager, 7x Deviate Viper, 7x Deviate Shambler, and 7x Deviate Dreadfang. All mobs can be found INSIDE the Wailing Caverns.
  • As an item reward you can choose between WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (47)Pattern: Deviate Scale Belt, WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (48)Sizzle Stick, and WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (49)Dagmire Gauntlets.

The Glowing Shard

The Wailing Caverns quest WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (50)The Glowing Shard requires level 15 and is not sharable.

  • WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (51)Glowing Shard starts the quest. It drops from Mutanus the Devourer, the final boss in the Wailing Caverns(drop chance around 68%).
  • You have to take the shard to Sputtervalve in Ratchet (63,37), near the flight master.
  • He refers you to Falla Sagewind. You can find her in a tent on the mountain where the Wailing Caverns are located (48,33).
  • From Falla Sagewind you will then get the follow-up quest WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (52) WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (53)In Nightmares or WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (54) WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (55)In Nightmares.

What Loot Drops in the Wailing Caverns in WoW Classic?

In the Wailing Caverns dungeon in WoW Classic you can get the following loot from bosses:

ItemDroppt vonDrop-Chance
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (56)Mutant Scale BreastplateMutanus the Devourer22.84%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (57)Slime-encrusted PadsMutanus the Devourer29.22%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (58)Deep Fathom RingMutanus the Devourer30.41%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (59)Seedcloud BucklerVerdan the Everliving38.97%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (60)Living RootVerdan the Everliving38.05%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (61)Cobrahn's GraspLord Cobrahn18.01%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (62)VenomstrikeLord Serpentis17.04%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (63)Stinging ViperLord Pythas29.64%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (64)Serpent GlovesLord Serpentis19.46%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (65)Savage TroddersLord Serpentis23.03%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (66)Armor of the FangLord Pythas54.77%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (67)Sporid CapeVerdan the Everliving19.65%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (68)Leggings of the FangLord Cobrahn17.82%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (69)Footpads of the FangLord Serpentis21.38%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (70)Tail SpikeSkum46.39%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (71)Glowing Lizardscale CloakSkum45.92%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (72)Robe of the MoccasinLord Cobrahn54.51%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (73)Belt of the FangLady Anacondra9.62%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (74)FirebelcherDeviate Faerie Dragon41.77%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (75)Feyscale CloakDeviate Faerie Dragon44.99%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (76)Kresh's BackKresh13.24%
WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (77)Gloves of the FangDruid of the Fang2.39%

In our overview of the WoW Classic Dungeons you can find out which other instances are available in WoW Classic and what level requirements they have.

WoW Classic Wailing Caverns: Quests, Loot & Location (2024)

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