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Fuel for the Zapping

Collect 10 Water Elemental Cores from the Sea Elementals and Sea Sprays along the Forgotten Coast of Feralas, and bring them back to Zorbin Fandazzle who is near the dock there.
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Water Elemental Core (10)

Description

If I bet against my own better judgment and stay to run an engineering shop along the Forgotten Coast, I will need to deal with these pesky elementals. Curse the powers of elementalism unchecked, I say!

Fortunately for me, and now for you my hopeful agent provocateur, the elementals represent an ideal source of raw power for my Ultra-Shrinker refinement - give them the what-for I say! When doing this though, be sure to save me the water elemental cores!

Reward

You will receive:
Zorbin's Water Resistant Hat
Also, you get: 70

Progress

While I could bore you with the technical details of the utility behind elemental cores, I will instead tempt you to completion of this important task by offering valuable coin and prizes for doing so. Yon verily, are you finished?

Completion

Scrumdillyriffic! These cores will keep me working for some time. Add to that the benefit of there now being fewer elementals along the coast, and I might no longer cry myself to sleep at the prospect of having set up shop in perhaps the worst place imaginable!

Thank you, <name>, for your efforts on my behalf. While it certainly straps me financially to do this, allow me to show you some gratitude you may understand and appreciate... loot!

Gains

Upon completion of quests, get:

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By halldorr on 09/15/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
Area is packed with the Sea Sprays and Sea Elementals just south of the quest giver. Fairly easy to beat, just watch out for the elite giants in the area. Try to pick up the quest called Zapped Giants and do both at the same time as the mobs are all together.
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By GokuuSon on 08/11/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
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By bawbooo on 12/19/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
They're also immune to poisons for you rogues doing this quest.
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By craaazytaco on 01/29/2007 (Patch 2.0.6)
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By ramen on 10/01/2007 (Patch 2.2.0)
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By Shivacode on 11/02/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)
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By Anvil on 03/17/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
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By Agrithnaar on 03/17/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
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By phantom2341 on 06/03/2007 (Patch 2.1.0)
This quest takes forever. This site says that Sea Elementals and Sprays drop the Water Elemental Core at about a 50% rate. This is not correct, not by a longshot. It took me an hour and a half to get ten Cores... Drop rate was, at the most, 12.5% (one in every eight). A very long, very drawn out quest that will have you running up and down the coast trying to get the Core.
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By Caze on 11/03/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)
Drop rate was not spectacular, but it seemed alright to me.. I remember doing this on my priest a while ago and taking ages. Maybe the drop rate has been upped?

Mages: Use your frost ward, even the ones that don't cast frostbolt use frost damage with their fists. And use fire.. this quest is pain for frost mages -.-
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By Kryz on 04/12/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
I just finished this quest on a 47 pally with little to no trouble in less than an hour. Drop rate was about 50% on the Sea Sprays and about 75% on the Sea Elementals. Just pop on your frost resist aura, judge and seal light, and swing till they die. The sea sprays have a knock back, so keep a finger on your cleanse so they don't get free hits on ya.

Do it with https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=7003 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=7003 as they're in the same area.

Also, leads to https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=7726 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=7726 , which is the same thing again, so hopefully you won't hate it as much as these people. =)
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By bigtexs on 04/13/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
I wasn't getting drops until i got to the cove around 46,52
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By dh1620032003 on 04/18/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
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By linkininki on 06/04/2007 (Patch 2.1.0)
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By al7beeb77 on 05/14/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
confirmed
46,52

as a frost mage
Frost Ward + Arcane Missiles is your key to kill them
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By Gengetsu on 12/06/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
97600 experince gained during this quest (At ""normal"" rest state!).Grinding takes forever (46 Warrior)

Incredibly low drop rate...
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By Jerek on 07/26/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
Really not worth it unless you're already coming here to grind for Globes of Water. Just do the giants quest and only bother with the elementals if you don't mind grinding them a little or if they attack you.

I've been killing them for 30 minutes and not a single drop off the water elementals. I've been thinking I didn't have the quest or was supposed to do something, but it is, in fact, a horrible quest. 3/4 of my kills in this time have been water elementals, 1/4 giants, and I'm 7/15 on giants with 0/10 on water elementals. Oh wait, while I was writing this a giant attacked me and I got another giant residue. -_-
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By Frigo on 06/07/2007 (Patch 2.1.1)
First, as a lvl 47 Frost Mage, doing both Zapped Giants and Fuel for Zapping together, this one started off very tough. All three creatures you're trying to kill (Sea Sprays, Sea Elementals and the Giants) are Frost resistant. Finally created a menu bar consisting of Arcane and Fire spells - things got MUCH easier.

Drop rate was not fantastic. I worked my way down the coast and back up again, killing everything I encountered. I got 15 zapped Giants just about the same time as I got my 10th core drop. Never had to venture into the Cove or go swimming in the water (did get my feet wet though).

As a time saver, you can work this quest with part 2 of The Missing Courier quest series ( starts with https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=4124 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=4124 ) as the rowboat you're looking for is just under the water, and barely offshore at 45,64.
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By dogman1 on 08/20/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
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By Cuphat on 08/21/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
Easy as a level 50 full frost mage. Dampen Magic youself, toss up Ice Barrier. Pull with Fireball, spam down with Scorch. My Ice Barrier usually broke as the second mob died. Repeat.
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By Aevitas on 08/26/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
This quest took me about 30 minutes, drop rate around 12,5% - 15%.
This time I was playing a level 46 Beat Mastery hunter with a cat pet, hardly had any down time to eat/drink, just mend pet, bandage your pet and yourself up, and you can grind non-stop.
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By Shalois on 08/27/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
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By Mediocre on 07/08/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)
Not really hard at all, just takes a while with the droprate. MobInfo listed it at 16.7% for me. But as I said, grinding these and the giants wasn't at all difficult as a 46 full fire mage. Frost ward and I barely had to rest, except drinking every few pulls. Giants were incredibly easy, even the 49's. Pulled with a pyro, fireballed a couple times and i could get them to almost half health before they reached me if i got lucky. Then I'd mini them and kill easily. Good xp for what it was worth.
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By Shayd on 08/09/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
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By gdsmaster on 11/21/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
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By MarkCef on 12/14/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
just did the quest now on my 47 BM hunter and it seemd that almost every single one dropped a core around 46,56.
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By almanach on 12/21/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
at first my drop rate was about 1 in every 10.
then i went down to the south, (46,52) and i got an elemental core on every kill.
46/47 Warlock: easy.
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By bwvbb on 12/22/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
i noticed that i got almost a 100% drop rate from the Sea elementals in the long cove. 48, 52. i never got a drop from the sea sprays. also dont bother with takeing refueling for zappers, it doesnt give any XP after completeion ony 21 silver.
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By z32o on 02/29/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
For the Protection Paladins out there:

I've tried to complete this quest at level 47, but as mentioned before on other comments, the drop rate is pretty low, like 20% I would say.

But the biggest problem is that these elementals only attack with frost, so you won't be absorbing any damage, your redoubt will have no use, either Holy Shield, so it's like fighting when you were a Lv10 Paladin, also your Frost Resistance Aura (Rank 2) will only absorb some of the attack, and it will not absorb completely, you'll still take 98-120 dmg with each attack. It takes a lot of time just to kill one mob, so I gave up on this one, I'd rather kill 284612 boars to level up instead.
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By folajayim on 02/24/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
52 kills resulted in:
10 cores (20% drop rate)
3 1/2 stacks of Enchanted Water (https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=4791 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=4791)
4 Elemental Water (https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=7070 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=7070)
1 Globe of Water (https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=7079 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=7079)

Aside from the horrible drop rate, the quest is quite easy. My 45/46 Hunter had no problems, although my pet had difficulty holding the aggro of the 49 Sea Elementals. But since the mobs are spaced so far apart, it's not really an issue.
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By a124 on 01/06/2008 (Patch 2.3.0)
From what i can tell, the Sea Elementals have a far better droprate then the Sea Sprays.
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By WhiteWalls on 08/06/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)
Never been so frustrated with a quest.

Even as a 49 Prot. Paladin this quest was a beating. The frost ones are still a pain in the ass even with the frost aura on. They kick you back about 30 feet and slow your movement by 50% so it takes forever to keep dealing damage.

Horrible quest for any up-close meleer.
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By Sandwolf on 08/12/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)
For balance druids ur best bet is to stick to the sea elementals,if u aggro them usin ur entageling roots add faerie fire then insect swarm + moonfire followed by starfire/wrath spam they go down quickly and never hit u + considerin the drop rate of enchanted water from them this is quite a good combo to use
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By sonicice on 01/15/2009 (Patch 3.0.3)
Counts for Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement
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By Quickfish on 02/25/2009 (Patch 3.0.9)
Drop rate has been improved a LOT since I first did this quest, they now seem to drop around every 3-5 kills.
Still a fairly long grind but not unreasonable.
They drop some stuff that is usefull or at least worth a bit on AH, like globe of water, elemental water and even aquamarine, I also got a couple of stacks of enchanted water, which is pretty handy.
A good quest to do. Also good to do the giant quest from the same guy at the same time, although the giants seem to be more common underwater while the elementals stick more to the shoreline.
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By Mith on 05/30/2009 (Patch 3.1.2)
This quest *does not* reduce your Bloodsail rep as noted above.
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By Oitsumeru on 01/01/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
Confirmed. Counts towards loremaster of Kalimdor. The drop rate wasn't bad for me. Plus, there's lots of these elementals around that drops 'em.
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By Wolfenpilot687 on 04/05/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
""Add to that the benefit of there now being fewer elementals along the coast, and I might no longer cry myself to sleep at the prospect of having set up shop in perhaps the worst place imaginable!""

I feel guilty for laughing.
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By eXceSSum on 07/14/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
Leads to https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=7726 Refuel for the Zapping which is a repeatable version of the quest but only requires 6 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=18958 cores rather than the 10 that are needed for this one.

Also note that this quest counts towards Loremaster of Kalimdor however the repeatable one does not.
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By Isshin on 07/25/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
I want the schematic for Eng. but have all reps exalted with Bloodsail max honored. If I do this quest does it drop your bloodsail rep also?
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