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Study of the Elements: Rock

Find 10 Small Stone Shards and bring them to Lotwil Veriatus in the Badlands.
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Small Stone Shard (10)

Description

Here in the Badlands I've stopped to work on my latest project: my shackles of elemental binding.

When complete, they will allow mages to summon even more powerful elementals for use in even greater capacities. To start things off, I need small stone shards to test some of my newest offensive spells along with a few gizmos I've pieced together.

The shards are easily collected from the lesser rock elementals to the west of here. Could you bring me some?

Progress

This area's perfect for-- Could you hold these in place for a moment? Yes, just like that, along the vector normal. Now, what was I... Right. Perfect for testing my latest project. The raw materials, the open space... what more could an intelligent and enlightened practitioner of the arts ask for?

Completion

These shall do nicely, <name>. Thank you. Hmm, a bit more sand than I'd anticipated. Have to adjust the coefficient of friction. No, wait; it should still be negligible with the frost oil.

<Mumbling to himself, Lotwil puts one fist into the palm of his other hand and stares at them as if fascinated.>

Gains

Upon completion of quests, get:
  • 285 experience (17 10 at max. level)

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By Ormriss on 11/24/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
Not only is the drop rate horrible, but you'll also likely have to deal with farmers who are trying to get elemental earth. Please, if you want to farm elemental earth, try the regular elementals. You will also have to deal with competition, as this quest is available to both factions. The drop rate is so bad, one player will likely need to wipe out all the lesser elementals at least two or three times before getting the 10 drops.

Horde players should pick up the Badlands Reagent Run quest as well before doing this one, just to save time and aggravation.
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By kreghx on 12/17/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
You can find him around 21, 48. Good Luck! :D
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By moonasha on 06/02/2007 (Patch 2.1.0)
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By gamepin126 on 11/03/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)
I don't know what you guys are talking about, but I started this chain for the trinket for heroics. Really nice trinket. Anyways, the Less Rock Elementals dropped the item 10 of 10 times. Sometimes they dropped nothing but the shard. The Rock Elementals don't drop it.
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By Galava on 10/04/2007 (Patch 2.2.2)
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By junga on 06/14/2007 (Patch 2.1.1)
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By frychappers on 06/20/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)
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By arega on 04/06/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
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By watwereallabout on 07/22/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
I Found the Drop Rate For these guys now bad, i think i might of killed about 15 and got all the items. No farmers either now-a-days coz the elemental earth aint worth crap anymore.
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By kaitos on 03/07/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
Lesser Rock Elementals are located just west of the quest mob - they range from 18,45 to 19,43. They are normally between 37 and 39th lvl and move farely slowly and don't hit very hard.

The drop rate is around 25%.

Note: If you head northwest you will find the 'Rock Elementals' which do NOT drop the small stone shards.
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By Huberser on 08/23/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
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By Shaneg on 08/25/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
Danm the drop rate is terrible but a great grind for this quest... 15% is right, and if you do this quest have fun it might take long but u get incredible Xp after the whole thing is done since u gotta kill a ton of these elementles
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By Gilgadean on 08/27/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
I have done this quest 3 times on 3 different characters. The drop rate seems to have improved since the first time I did it, but the sheer amount of bugged elementals has increased. The ones near the large stone pillars (21,43) west of the gnome camp are usually unresponsive or are ""out of range"".

The quest is awful, especially if you have a class that uses elemental/nature spells (see: Shaman).

EDIT: Farmers should not be a problem post-expansion.
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By Epoch on 09/28/2007 (Patch 2.2.0)
19 Lifeless stone's, 9 Jagged peice's of stone, 9 Deep rock salts, 6 Smooth Stone chips, and 6 Elemental Earth's later, at an astounding drop rate of 28% out of 36 Elementals.

Took my lv 40 lock about 20 min.
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By willethe1 on 03/11/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
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By Celwindia on 09/11/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
Did this quest tonight 12/9/2007
Drop rate, was actually rather bad, started off worse than it finished.
I went 26 kills before my first one dropped, bringing me to around 3.8%, I picked up my second drop on my 44th kill, moving me up to 4.5%. About 30 minutes all total, but I went 75 kills, to get 10 drops, to finish at around 13.3% drop rate, not great.

Was done on a 41 SPriest, and with rest, I gained 15,000XP killing though =P
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By Kaynos on 12/11/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
Drop rate for me was around 1 in 3. This quest now as 2.3 give 3700xp.
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By candaheata on 04/30/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
First quest 10/22 dropped. Not terrible, just have paitience. It was all worth it as the second quest had a 3/3 drop. Easy, quick exp. All in all I got about 5 bars in 20 minutes.
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By sumcaper on 01/17/2008 (Patch 2.3.2)
The drop rate is alright (not great but not aweful). They are really a pain as a Shaman because they are immune (or at least have a very high resist) to nature damage.

EDIT: The drop rate just got worse as I went on. Sometimes they wouldn't drop anything. Not even vendor trash.
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By mdz187 on 02/14/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
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By DavronM on 05/31/2009 (Patch 3.1.2)
They changed the drop rate I think. 80% drop chance for me.
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By cymonium on 09/07/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
These NPC's should give gnomer rep imo....
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