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Comment by MissSpiders

If you're lost like I was, the actual quest area is in a cave, not on top of the landscape. The entrance is located at 41, 14.6.

Comment by Moppentoff

For whatever reason when I placed the gems the Brinestone Elemental spawned about 20 times and murdered me.

Comment by Grim32

Badly written quest:
You need to mine around the area for the items (Brinestone shards from Black Ore items); you then place each item on the pedistal. The items to mine are not on the minimap, but simply in the cave.

Seems the quest can bug sometimes, try relog / go to a different realm

Comment by LittleMissFilth

Placed stones and a bunch of the elementals spawned and instakilled me.
No objective or quest completion when I came back to my body.
Abandoned quest and picked it back up (item in backpack).
Objective area appears, but stones are still placed so unable to complete objective, again.
Bugged quest.

Update: Ticket opened. Reply says that Blizz are aware and it will be in a hotfix shortly.

Comment by Dagnet

Anyone else having problems finding the stones to mine? Is this a mining only quest?

Comment by Terrahawk

I am able to mine the different coloured shards but not getting credit for picking them up...

Comment by anthonyg70

Multiple spots on map to mine nodes, but they do not show on the map for quest. What crystal drops from the node is random. I had submitted a screenshot of a node.

Here are the waypoints.

/way 35.28, 13.74
/way 35.36, 11.92
/way 35.74, 10.80
/way 36.59, 9.56
/way 36.17, 13.16
/way 35.59, 14.39
/way 34.51, 13.65
/way 34.52, 12.27

So this quest does bug out. I had it, made the post above when nodes were blank, etc. After getting all the gems, and not having the quest complete, I gave up. Here is what I learned.

If you started the quest and when entering the area and see crystals floating above small rocks in the pond -- then it is bugged for you!

I dropped the quest, left the zone, relogged, etc. and nothing allowed me to finish the quest. I decided to drop the quest and do other quests; this went on for about an hour. I ended up back in the area for another quest and decided to open the quest again. Finally, no crystals showing on rocks in pond, the nodes clearly showing on the map, etc. Relief, I was finally able to finish the quest in a couple of minutes.

TLDR: If you get to the area after accepting the quest and see gems on rocks in pond, drop the quest and come back later.

Comment by wolframwow

If you do not see the rock with yellow contour (like quest items are) just relog. You shouldn't also see the crystals on the pedestals.

Comment by Oceandust

The first time you do this quest it is meant to be a tutorial. So you won't get rank 2 the first time you do it. You must wait for dailies to reset and do a second event for the recipe to drop.

Comment by Meldana

Quest was bugged for me yesterday (june 26). Went back in today (june 27) after reset and was able to see the ores clearly (highlighted), interacted with crystals with no problem. They fixed it! :D

Comment by Teenytina1308

Once you mine the five ores, and place them where the ghostly orange shards indicate, in a circle, a silver-portrait with two adds spawns. Unfortunately that is all I can add at this time because as an ice mage, he flattens me. I can't escape it, and after 317g in repairs, I'm waiting for some other sage to help, or eventually I'll form a group to take him out I guess.

Comment by Tequima

This initially bugged for me at the last stage (Brimstone Core, after killing Avarius - note you need to interrupt the heal it does as often as you can). I left the area, came back and a Brimstone Elemental had spawned in the circle of stones. Killed it, and it dropped the core.

Comment by Chocopie

How do you get this quest? I have the Brinestone Pickaxe but the summoning circle is just five rocks with nothing in the middle and I have no quests associated with this pick or this area. Only thing in this area are the Chitterspines, that one Chitterspine Elite and a blue orb looking thing that pulsates. I can mine the ore that's around here but it only gives crystals that can perform certain effects.

I came across this quest by seeing how to get Rank 2 Mining. I just wait for someone to spawn Avarius and tag. Eventually, both the Recipe: Osmenite Deposit and Recipe: Osmenite Seam drop.

Comment by Sipder2

How complete What Will It Mine?

1. drop Brinestone Pickaxe (i got it from Kil'karrok Scavenger)
2. collect 5x Kill Credit: Brinestone Shards collected cave entrance /way 37,08, 14,53
3. place 5x Kill Credit: Brinestone Shards placed coords /way 36,86, 11,35
4. kill Brinestone Elemental

Video guide: https://youtu.be/0s1Wg4dfcR8

Comment by Ghyndui

I did this just now, and as Ixion87 mentions above, first time seems to be a tutorial; nothing major spawned. If nothing else, Horde can complete A Little Edge

Comment by Aisenfaire

If you have What Will It Mine? in your quest log, you will need to complete it in order to see the world quest Hungry Hungry Hydras in that spot.

Comment by camshasgirl

Great quest, Blizz, and a month since you said you were hotfixing. Bugged like nuts, and so many frigging constantly spawning crabs you can't even res sometimes. Awesome.

Comment by phreakwently

So I had problems with this quest and reached out to a GM. Hopefully their response can help.

Can confirm that the drop rate IS NOT 100% :\

This is Game Master Ascadalrik at your service! (￣^￣)ゞ
You can call me Asca for short and it rolls off the tongue better :P

The Rank 2 recipe is not 100% drop rate and you will need to have the rank 1 recipe in-order to obtain the rank 2. (which you do have!)

The pickaxe for this quest can drop quite often from rare, caches and other treasure chests: Brinestone Pickaxe
You will be able to obtain another one!

But to re-do this quest, you do need to wait for the daily reset though :/
So please do wait for the daily reset, summon Avarius again and defeat him for a chance to obtaining the rank 2 recipe.

Hope this helps you out :)

To determine if you have completed "what will it mine?" to be able to see the Brinestone to mine, you can run this command in game

/run for k, v in pairs({ QuestCompleted = 55531}) do print(format("%s: %s", k, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v) and "\124cff00ff00Yes\124r" or "\124cffff0000No\124r")) end

The source / explaination for the above run command is from https://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-guides/542824-check-if-you-already-done-specific-quest-more.html and the 55531 relates to the quest ID which can be found in the URL of this page.

Hope this helps someone.

Comment by Lilyoptra

Miserable quest for alts...way too many crabs that mob you.

Comment by stonefish

Today on 2 of my alts the daily quest "Hungry Hungry Hydras" disappeared while doing the "What Will It Mine?". When the quest is finished (reported in newhome) then the daily reappeared. But you need to cross the map again to get there. :(

Comment by greencatspryte

Hi, maybe it's been fixed: yes there was a bit of running and dying mining for the shards, but you can avoid the chitters for at least 3 of them. Once you have the shards, from the entrance 38 / 13, stick to the middle of the path to the pool where the crystals are to be placed, pull chitters from the pool one by one until you clear the pool (about 5 or 6 of them actually in the pool) and by sticking to the middle-ish of the path, you won't pull the others outside to the left and right in the cave. You have time to tap the 5 crystals and grab the Brimstone core in the centre before they spawn again, just be quick about it. :)

Comment by NikNovi

I was a little bit confused what to do after placing the shards. But there is nothing left to do, quest is completed and it can be turned in to Artisan Okata.

Comment by Xemnuz

Anyone know what happens if you deleted this quest but have the brinestone axe? Do you have to delete it to try get it again?

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What Will It Mine?

Complete the Brinestone Cove event.

	Brinestone Shards collected (5)
	Violet Brinestone Shard (1)
	Fiery Brinestone Shard (1)
	Jade Brinestone Shard (1)
	Azure Brinestone Shard (1)
	Amber Brinestone Shard (1)
	Brinestone Shards placed (5)
	Azure Brinestone Shard slain (1)
	Fiery Brinestone Shard slain (1)
	Violet Brinestone Shard slain (1)
	Jade Brinestone Shard slain (1)
	Amber Brinestone Shard slain (1)
	Brinestone Core (1)

Provided item:

	Brinestone Pickaxe (1)

Description

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Osmenite Ore		Prismatic Manapearl

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

50 reputation with Waveblade Ankoan
50 reputation with The Unshackled

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(55531))