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Series

1.	Find OOX-17/TN! Find OOX-09/HL! Find OOX-22/FE!
2.	Rescue OOX-17/TN! Rescue OOX-09/HL! Rescue OOX-22/FE!
3.	An OOX of Your Own

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Find OOX-17/TN!

Bring the distress beacon to Oglethorpe's homing robot.

	OOX-17/TN Distress Beacon (Provided)

Description

You have uncovered some sort of strange, egg-shaped device made from metal. Fiddling with one of its knobs springs the egg to life, as it opens up into some sort of gnomish robotic contraption! A voice from inside the robotic egg crackles to life.

"The name's Oglethorpe, and my homing robot has gone missing! I will reward you for its recovery! Please take this beacon to the robot. Excellent, I now have computed the coordinates for you! It crashed near the Gaping Chasm in Tanaris!"

Progress

Completion

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

6,290 experience
250 reputation with Booty Bay
-250 reputation with Bloodsail Buccaneers

Comments

Comment by PhogHawk

This leads to a rescue quest. The actual thing you need to find is the southermost "dot" on this map: http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=7784. Make sure you have another person if you're around the level that this quest is designed for, several adds are spawned at once in some cases and as a 46 mage I cannot take four scorpids with 2500 health each at once.

Comment by urmurbile

Solo'd as a 48 demonology lock using the voidwalker with no problems at all. A fun and very easy quest.

Comment by Lizir

The location of the chicken is 60, 64.

Comment by akmdw

The path that the robot takes is right through a group of 3 lvl 47 scorpids. Fortunately you can take them out beforehand. When you get near Steamwheedle port, a group of 3 wastewanders spawn, but they're all lvl 45.

Comment by virginkiller

Its not that hard just let the chicken to be in front and get the aggro so u cna have time to rest if the mobs are more than 1 kill them 1 at time i soloed it at 47lvl shaman

Comment by Choperos

Actually the quest gives 5450 experience and 350 rep...Completed on the 25/3/07 as a lvl 49 warrior...

Comment by SimonPip

With the opening of TBC, this quest seems to be close to impossible to finish on pvp servers without a 70 along to kill the gankers.
Two tries, headed there to see if my luck is better now. Otherwise, I suggest doing this between 4 and 6 am, where the only other ones online are bots. :)

Comment by JohnJSal

I'm going to post this message on all three of these "Find" quests, just in case someone doesn't see it on one of the other two.

If you plan to do these quests in a group (which is very helpful, as any escort quest) everyone must first have completed the "Find" part of the quest, which means you have to find the chicken, choose "Complete" and then be *offered* the next part of the quest, which is the actual escort part. But do not accept this part until everyone has done the "Find" part, otherwise it won't be offered to them as escort quests normally are, because technically you are not on the same stage of the quest yet.

So just complete the "Find" part, then when the next part is offered, decline it until everyone is ready to accept it.

Comment by Polly

This chicken is located at 60,64 in the mountains.
I did this quest 4 times...
at first i failed it when the 3 scorpions spawned around us...
second time i failed because more mobs were wandering around this time...
and third time i failed because of the 3 wastewanders that spawned around us after the scorpions...
the fourth time i managed to complete it with hardly any mobs around.
The trick to completing it for me was to kind of try and roughly remember the route that chicken takes, if you can do that then you can kill any mob around that area before taking on the quest - then you can easily escort it with no trouble.

I did it with my lvl 50 Human Warrior, it was tricky even at that level...but another trick to doing it in one go especially as a warrior is to use intimidating shout for the 3 scorpions quickly kill one and if you have a good healing potion drink it and kill the other two...same applies to the 3 wastewander girls.

I'm sure many people do this quest differently but i hope this helps :)

Comment by panicjv0013

i tried solo'in this quest, but i died when the first scorpions appeared im a lvl 44 NE hunter , will i need a group or do i need to lvl more

Comment by Sservis

If you want to solo these quests and need help, you can get Tooga to help if you haven't completed his quest (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=1560). Just be careful when the scorpians and bandits pop not to lose the chicken. On the scorpians, the adds all went on Tooga and the chicken continued on its merry way. I stayed to finish the adds and mounted to catch up, but I was a long way behind.

Comment by caver

Do you only get 1 shot at this? As when I died, I no longer had the quest item.

Comment by Therax

Map location of the (chicken) Homing Robot: http://www.wowhead.com/?maps=440:599640

Comment by Returner99

solo'd as 43 prot pala. Got 2 extra mobs on the scorpions so i had to pop a mana pot, lay on hands and bubble since i hadn't got time to rest before the chicken ran into them.

Comment by Xier

This quest awarded 6300 experience, 250 Booty Bay reputation, and -250 Bloodsail Buccaneers reputation when I completed it today (12/02/2007). Part of the 2.3 changes.

Comment by SehliN

Where can i find the Distress Beacon?

Comment by Breakfirst

Hehe... I did this... Was not to hard... But then again, I cheated... Since I did it as a Hunter, and as allways that's ez-mode...

Concentrate on 1, The multi-shoot, and feign death, if u run out of life.. (Well, ALMOST out of life), you should easily be able to finish them off then.. But remeber to look for mobs strolling around ur path.. ;)

And a few bandages + Health pot never hurt any1... Good luck... Rest is as posted, reguarding position etc., and the reason the quest item is gone, is that the quest is completed, once you find the chicken.. The Escort-quest is the follow-up... Just abort, and go back to chicken start-position, if you die.. ;)

Comment by lilwolfy

Be sure, that the chicken always enters combat when you fight. Just get close to the chicken, and let it aggro the mob.

Otherwise, it might run forward, and you fail the quest.

Not a bad idea to do this together with the Tooga's Quest There you have to escort a turtle, but the turtle is following you, and will help you in fight. In this case the quest is easily soloable by anyone.

Comment by Abstruse

For many ppl they seem to think that the chicken is walkin, he doesnt thats the travel route he does rock, you will find him in the cliffs as ealier co-ords verify

Comment by Padimai

Ok now spawn on this thing is really long and annoying.

I got there and someone was walking away with it. I must have waited 10-15 minutes for it to spawn again. But there i was having a snooze and someone else got it. Then 2 minutes later, when he was long gone, i realised i could have just killed him.

So yes spawn is very annoying

Comment by ryanderasp

Ok that map you put on there is not even close to the right thing... heres the map with the exact location it will be every time... yes i said it every damn time.... http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r152/ryanderasp/quest.jpg

it's on photobucket cus i dunnoo if you can upload maps on this site

Comment by Zervin

Exact coordinates are: 60.23, 64.73

Soloed with 46 hunter.

Comment by qillerdaemon

Just did, as 56 resto druid. The first time, unfortunately, as we got to the scorpid spawn point, we also had a hyena, another scorpid, and a basilisk on us. Six beasts is a bit tough, and we both died. But on the way back to retrieve my corpse, I found the three spawned scorpids still there. After rezzing, I took care of them, plus the other nearby scorpid. Then I went back and restarted the escort. When we got back to the scorpid spawn point, no scorpids!

The last ambush was three wastewanderers, one a caster. Focus on him, and the other two will go down fast. Also had a rogue wasterwanderer aggro on us at the end. I swear, we had probably another 20 mobs on us at one time or another. Stupid chicken! :D

The chicken seems to aggro beasts from a mile away, and you can't buff him. Keep an eye out!

Comment by Freeaze

Soloed this quest EASY as lvl 46 tauren druid!
Nothing was hard on the whole quest (exept find the chicken).

Comment by gingergod5

well i managed to do this solo as a lvl 49 feral druid.
pretty simple up untill the 3 scorpid's which in turn aggroed a basalisc.
for all the druids out there, just stealth, do as much dps as possible before u get to low health, switch out to bear form and use the regen ability, u should be able to get a few killed and then switch back to caster and use barkskin followed by regrown etc, finaly go in cat and rape some mobs :P

the 3 human mobs towards the end were easy to kill, cat form all the way but remember to kill the caster first.

60, 64 is the correct cords

Gingez

Comment by dyazge

idn if its just me but im exactly where im supopse to be and there is no robot chiken thing. ive logged in and out and restarted WoW but it just isnt there. i cant seem to find it, is this quest bugged?

Comment by orion121

Solo'd as a 44 Enhancement shaman, just stay well behind the chicken and let it tank as you eat and drink, I managed to get it to trade agro with me when ever it spawned a set of mobs and take them down. Consumed about 3 sweet nectars and a mana pot in the process but for the most part it wasn't too hard.

Comment by WTTGM

I Looked over 5 or 6 times in the spot its supposed to be and I still haven't been able to find it.

Comment by firecaster

wtf i dont know were to pass in this quest.i got the egg from a mob and i accepted the quest from there i dont knowq were to pass it in!

Comment by firecaster

some1 please tell me! my caricters name is firecaster in the realm lethon were do i pass it in?

Comment by carnelian

hay guys i just wanted to tell you if your on the server "frostmorn" don't do this quest it is bugged and the chicken is not there so to save time and worry just abandon it, and there is no point telling the gm thay will put you in the jail on gm island for an hour or 2

Comment by innovacious

I cant remember which of these escort quest ive done on one of my chars. Anyone know if there is a way to tell? I know ive done atleast one but i dont know which. I dont wanna spend hours grinding the item to start the quest to eventually realise ive already done it

Comment by Tlachtga

I found this quest really really easy, on a pvp server my only fear was horde ganking me on the long ass run, heres my spec:

Class: Druid
Level: 49
Spec: Ferel
Armour: 4445
Health: 3448
Buffs: Thorns, Mark of the Wild, Spirit of boar

Tactic: I started this quest in Dire Bear Form and stayed this way right to the end... tanked the 3 scorpids, hyina and a lizzard and used a Regrowth and Rejuvenate only once, i use Swipe to kill the mobs,,,, did this for the rest of the mobs on the way.... very easy quest.

Comment by detonation

Did it a a level 43 frost mage, was pretty easy

Comment by yunusual

This quest and the its followup count for the Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement.

Comment by silverutopia

If you can't remember which (if any) of the OOX quests you have done,a GM should be able to tell you,as long as you give the quest names in your request.
Also,the two letters at the end of the name indicate the location (in this case TN=Tanaris),something I hadn't noticed till the GM I spoke to pointed it out to me.
GM wait times are pretty long atm,so have patience,and ask nicely :P

Comment by Dreadpasses

This robot chicken distress beacon is dead, so what you find on the npc map it isn't true. It is in one place as Lizir said 60,64. The next quest shows truth in the map, so if you want to know where he'll be walking (which you'll be walking as well because you have to guard him) you can look at it. Remember, if your under level 45 then get some help that is a level 45 or higher.

Comment by FeyGyrl

Confirmed, if you fail the escort once, you may go back to the robot chicken & accept the escort quest, again. 60.3/64.7 in the mountainy range near coast is where to find the chick to take the escort quest. At level 62, it wasn't oo bad at all, but I did fail it miserably at the caster/void walker combos the first time, when I was lev 44 pally. And I wanted the chcik badly enough that this time I used my bubble. ;0)

Comment by Zeferint

Don't forget if you don't want to do the escort part or you are unable to at the time you can at least find the robot turn in the quest and still get a nice chunk of XP. You can always go back to the escort at a later date to do the actual escort. Great espcially if you want to get that dumb beacon out of your bags =]

Comment by dirktooth

Easily soloed at lvl 42. But the quest the ckicken givens you is a little harder. But with a little help from healing posions i only died once! ;)
Must be waaaaaay to easy at lvl 48

Comment by Atrixer

I CAN'T FIND THE BLOODY CHICKEN GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I LOOKED WHERE THE CORDS SAID BUT ITS ON A MOUNTAIN AREA AND I CAN'T FIND ANY PATHS TO ANY CHICKEN

Comment by kybotica

I was having some serious issues finding this chicken after having failed and abandoned the escort way back at level 40-ish. I asked a GM about it and was told that the chicken can spawn at one of many locations, which doesn't match up to what I read here. I wasn't sure if anybody else can confirm or deny this comment. Also, the GM gave me a handy tip, use the "track low level quests" ability from your tracking button to find him more easily.

Comment by Maliander

This quest, along with the other chicken rescue quests, has been shortened significantly in patch 3.2: After the first ambush pack has been defeated, the chicken will fly off and you will complete the quest. No more hikes through half of Tanaris, fending off multiple ambushes!

Comment by cinl

did this on a 44 Tauren Shaman...right when we got to about 59,54 the chicken put out some dialogue and then flew off and the quest was completed

Comment by Huard

when i go there the chicken(who's laying on the ground) dosen't give me the quest(same for the one in Feralas)
theres no !
i tried once the one in Tanaris and failed it but not the one in Feralas
but no trouble whit the one in the Hinterlands
i need help... =D i want that pet hehe

Comment by Grendalsh

Just did this quest, and the chicken.. er.. homing device.. took off after we got to the entrance to the Caverns of Time. Either it bugged or Blizz significantly shortened the escort portion.

Comment by Tiffle

If you happen to ask an ingame GM for clues to which Beacons you have done, be sure to ask which chickens have the quest already on them aswell (as in, found the beacon but didnt do the escort). My Gm responded with "just hinterlands" (amidst a heated discussion about the contagiousness of gnomism) and i ended up having to go to tanaris and feralas aswell because i had those beacons but didnt do the escort.

Logically the GM was right since i asked "which beacons should i still search for".

All in all: SPECIFY YOUR QUERY :>

Comment by DaBigBadMojo

are you all sure the scorpids that spawns are that high lvl?

Comment by Bodda

Okay, I was searching that tiny chicken for about an hour now... but underground, at the insect swarm. I didn't know that it isnt there -_-

At all: It is at 60,64, but NOT UNDERGROUND ! ;D

Comment by beachboy

If you're a high level character and can't remember which quests you've done, you should first check the chicken before blindly farming mobs in Zul'Farrak for hours. It turns out I completed the beacon part back in the day but never finished the escort part. The beacon and escort parts are technically two separate quest lines.

Comment by crydin

i did the escourt one with the scorpions, and the first time me and the chicken died....i tryd it agen and walked stealthed with him so i could ambush the spawned mob. but when he sed he detected danger or what ver he waited a while and flew away and i could turn it in. som1 els sed they did the same so if ur a roug i recomend trying this

Comment by Aniko79

Just to reiterate what was mentioned in previous comments,
Find OOX-17/TN! and Find OOX-22/FE! must be completed before starting the escort quests. However, Rescue OOX-09/HL! can be completed without having done Find OOX-09/HL!
Hope this clears up any confusion. :)

Comment by Carrotmage

Went to do this today and the chicken wasn't there, if someone is doing this quest or the chicken is dead he may disappear for 5 minutes or so.

Edit: Ok after accepting this quest the chicken begins to walk his usual route, when he gets near COT an event spawn is supposed to happen but since someone had done the quest just before me, no mobs spawned and after about 30 seconds the chicken rocket packed back to safety and the quest completed. Much easier escort, only 1 encounter and it bugged, very easy 18k exp (finding + rescue).

Comment by rosemwelch

To pick up this quest, you have to kill mobs until one of them drops this.

Comment by hockeytownrox

I went back and followed many of the posters' directions for these and found this to be true:

In work on the Tanaris one...I went back and noticed that years ago I had completed the "FIND" part of this quest. But I never rescued the thing. Odd, I know. So I was wondering if that meant I could just go find the robot that used to be in the mountain area south of COT and there he was. I just had to click on him and escort him and done. I did NOT have to farm drops for this drop to star the rescue component...not sure if you have to if you've never done the find part. They are two different quests.

Comment by Grukam

Find OOX-17/TN! Best place I found to farm for these is in ZF As a lvl 85 warrior I found 33.85, 7.12 the bottom of some steps that are covered with Sandfury of all types the area below the steps is also. Real easy pulls into groups and quick drops at least at my lvl. Do the steps in a zig zag starting bottom right and on up to the top and pull all done to about mid point. they will all pretty much stay as one big group this way and are pretty cooperative about staying mostly in front. AoE and your best group shots will drop all pretty quick. The ones down below best pulled as 2 or 3 small groups or they all won't pull together. The ones you don't pull won't pay any attention to you while you loot. Just watch for the Axe Throwers as they tend to stay back and well, throw axes at you.

Did one run through to fill all of my 22 slot bags and no quest drop. Went to the little camp outside of ZF to empty my bags roughly 15 gold and many stacks of silk and mageweave cloth which are going to AH. Went back and on my first pass on the stairs I found 5 of the quests had been dropped plus one more down below. You can only carry one at a time but this was a very profitable way as well as quick to find this quest.

Find OOX-22/FE! Best pickings I found for these are was while farming the whelps in Feralas for Tiny Emerald. Usually never fails to pick up one within less than 100 whelps.

I'll try to update on the Hinterlands one after I finish up the ZF find and get on out to look for it.

Find OOX-09/HL! OK as I said. I went to Hinterlands to Jintha'lor as this area showed the most of the Vilebranch which drop this little beauty. I didn't even get to clear the place by much more than half and found one.

If you're trying to do these as you lvl up they are going to be considerably harder. Having flying skills and mount makes them much easier to get to as well as dealing with the mobs. I recommend to wait until lvl 70 with flying mount and do them all as one group. I've been reading about whether or not you did one already and bugs due to patch changes etc. This would be pretty easy to do all in one morning/afternoon after lvl 70.

Do Feralas and Tanaris first and second then head to Hinterlands as the last one finishes in Stranglethorn and the final turn in is in Booty Bay.

Final note. Took all 3 completed to Booty Bay and turned in without a glitch.
Hope this helps.

Comment by seitori

For those of you working on reputations, you can get a little (or a lot, depending on your luck) with the Steamwheedle Cartel reps by farming the Southsea pirates for your beacon. There's a bunch of them on the outer edge of the Caverns of Time mountain.

Comment by sandyra

For those trying to hunt down:

OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon from The Hinterlands (Personal stats: Killed some stalkers, some trolls, some owlbeasts (about 20 all told)... Then killed my first ooze at Skulk Rock, and it dropped)
OOX-17/TN Distress Beacon from Tanaris (Personal stats: Went into Zul'Farrak like all other posters recommend, killed some twenty or thirty trolls and scarabs, and it dropped from one of the troll corpses)
OOX-22/FE Distress Beacon from Feralas (Personal stats: As recommended by many other posters, Feral Scar Yetis - dropped on my first kill)

Only available if you have not already completed the quest.
Yes these still drop in Mists of Pandaria.
Yes it can drop off ANY mob in the respective zone, however OOX-22/FE Distress Beacon has the highest drop rate from Feral Scar Yeti IF you haven't already done the quest.
It WILL eventually drop - some days RNG is your best friend, other days you want to repeatedly punch a kitten (or other obscenely fluffy creature) just to illustrate how cruel the universe can be.
The command to check if you have completed ANY of the distress beacon quests is here (special thanks to MrsSushi for locating the updated version of this as of 5.0.3):

/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{25475,25476}})do print(z)for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\\124Hquest:"..q.."\\124h\\124h" ,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE)end end

You will see lines of dialogue that look like this:
Tanaris
#1 Complete
#2 Complete
Hinterlands
#1 Complete
#2 Complete
Feralas
#1 Incomplete
#2 Incomplete
After completing all three escorts, you can then acquire the quest An OOX of Your Own and get your Mechanical Chicken.

Happy hunting!

Comment by Mathaylla

I went to find the quest item on my feral druid - as people have suggested, I tried farming in ZF, at ~33,7 where I can just swipe my way through the dozens of mobs on the stairs. After 300 mobs, the beacon still wouldn't drop. Considering that prior to that I spent 3 days decimating the population of Hinterlands for the OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon (which as of this moment still hasn't dropped) - I was about to start ripping my hair out. I ran the macros that I got in this thread, double- and triple-checked the quest IDs but it kept showing me that I have not completed these quests yet.
So I decided to go to Feralas since that drop rate is almost guaranteed - and indeed, I got the OOX-22/FE Distress Beacon on my second yeti kill. So today I figured I need to try Tanaris again - I landed on the ZF stairs, swiped across a couple dozen mobs and the 2nd mob I looted dropped the beacon. Go figure.

Comment by Pandoraslegacy

Can someone screenshot the macro? For whatever reason, it will not work for me for the life of me. I've tried the chat box and a macro icon itself.

Comment by cswidow

If you have picked up this quest before but abandoned it, go to 59,64 in Tanaris. The chicken there will have the quest.

Comment by katiejean91

Sandyra you helped me so incredibly much! I am a big pet collector and I have been trying to figure out how to get this guy for months and I got him in about 2 hours thanks to you. Easiest to understand and most helpful comment on here by far!

Comment by janan2

I have found that when doing the quests to rescue the chicken, make sure it is far enough ahead to pulll the mobs to him and not you. Once they start to attk him you can join in the fight when necessary. If there are more than one then do what you can to pull one off for you to fight and then they don't all aggro on you. Worked for me as a lvl 49 hunter.

Comment by Selket85

Sandyra, your scripts worked great! Thanks!

Comment by Vlad

If you got lost and not sure what you did, or have to do, use this macro to figure out where you currently stand:
/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{25475,25476}})do print(z)for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\\124Hquest:"..q.."\\124h\\124h",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE)end end

Comment by Archanger73

After looking through all the content out there and trying alot of it this is the best information That worked for me. Hope this helps others.

Macro
/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{25475,25476}})do print(z)for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\\124Hquest:"..q.."\\124h\\124h" ,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE)end end

1)Hinterlands
Mod Coordinates-OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon-75.4,65.8-Saltwater Snapjaw
#1 Complete-FIND OOX-22/HL!--coordinates 49,38
#2 Complete-ESCORT OOX-22/HL!
2)Feralas
Mod Coordinates-OOX-22/FE Distress Beacon-55.6,56.2-Feral Scar Yeti
#1 Incomplete-FIND OOX-09/FE!--coordinates 52,57
#2 Incomplete-ESCORT OOX-09/FE!
3)Tanaris
Mod Coordinates-OOX-17/TN Distress Beacon-33.85, 7.12-Sandfury of all types
#1 Complete-FIND OOX-17/TN!--coordinates 60.23, 64.71
#2 Complete-ESCORT OOX-17/TN!

Comment by CurtisTheGreat

Not sure if this matters, but figured I would throw in some input here.

I ran the ZF INSTANCE 4 times with no drop... but I started in Tanaris and flew into ZF (the non-instance) and killed the mobs at the bottom of the stairs, I got the beacon on the first kill.

Could have been a coincidence, or maybe not. Worth a shot if you're having trouble.

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