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Comment by Caleb

inside the building mostly, quite fast respawn on the cocoons

Comment by Discord

Cocoons can carry different things - friendly targets, enemies, or just plain nothing.

Comment by 20402

For Hunters: Dont use your pets to break the cocoons, you need to melee them yourself to get anything out of them. I wasted 15mins myself breaking them with my pet and nothing.

Comment by 228314

Actually it gives 21,150 exp and 250 Argent Crusade Rep.

Comment by 8153

This can take a while since the rate for soldiers seemed to be about 6:1. The fastest way to do this is make a single mad run through the temple and use whatever instant cast abilities you have to break them open (DoTs work best). You'll get credit for the soldiers and the enemies will stop chasing after a few yards.

Comment by Backwell

You can see the contents of the cocoon. If you look near the base and it's blue. It will contain a troll, if there is noting but cocoon it will be the npc you're intended to rescue.

Comment by Darkprodigy

It seems when i move up close to the cocoon then back away and kill the cocoon, its a captive footman everytime. But if i kill the cocoon from far away it is a troll and if i kill it up close it is nothing.

Comment by 158255

For ranged, I myself tried releasing the cocoons from ranged 10+ times, 100% of the time a troll came out. Then I decided to use melee, and 3 out of 5 were argent soldiers. So it seems self melee is the only option.

Comment by 273364

Just did this as a 77 mage. When I released the captives with any of my fire spells or by beating them with my staff I always got a troll. Arcane explosion ensured the release of three soldiers in a row after about 20 trolls in succession. Weird.

Comment by 281298

I had to go through about 20-25 cocoons before I got all 3 captives.

Comment by Joensuu

Just open the cocoons with a normal attack! I did 6 cocoons with spells and no captives freeded. The i just used normal melee twice on each coccon and got all 3 in a row.

Comment by 292292

I just did this as a 77 mage, too.

The way you open the cocoons is not important. I got captives when using ranged fireballs, and I got trolls when using my basic melee attack.

I think it's random.

Comment by 278845

Its just like all those other free people from webs it seems, horrible free rate. So far 10 trolls in a row and not one single victom.

Comment by 297479

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Comment by 284480

All around 52,69. Horrible rate of release. Try to do it with other q's from the q givers nearby.

Comment by 197620

It might just be coincidence, but if you have 0 runic power, it always opened for me, with a regular melee attack.

Comment by 99641

At 52, 67 I got all 3 of them in my first three openings, all of them from just one melee swing.

Comment by 88759

Just a heads up: you MUST do Rupert's portion of the Pa'Troll quest (https://www.wowhead.com/cata/quest=12596) before the 3 other quest chains open up here.

Comment by 322555

the drop rate sucks! u hav a 30% chance of getting the guys from coccons

Comment by 327560

Just hit the cocoons and they crack open, they will either be a Drakkari Captive or a Captive Footmen. I opened about 10 or 15 cocoons and of course, 3 were captives. Easy quest over all.

Comment by Superspacemunky

I tried everything listed here to no avail. The zero runic power, checking for the blue base.. etc. Maybe it was just my luck but when I was giving up and headed back to the little hand in area I decided to use Icy Touch on one from its max range and got the captive. Did the same thing for the next two and voila, quest done.

Comment by 66075

All these posts about, 'don't use sinister strike!', 'go close then back up and attack!', etc. are ridiculous. Whether it is a troll or a soldier is determined when the cocoon spawns; there is no internal programming processing 'oh did this paladin have a seal on? how much runic power did this death knight have when he attacked?' it determines whether you have done the 400-or-so damage to the cocoon and whether you are on the quest.

Onyxia doesn't deep breath more. keep your absurd and ineffective hypothesizing elsewhere. it doesn't help.

Comment by 318722

I agree with xtrmntr, but after a couple dozen empty/troll filled cocoons, even the wildest theories start to look good. On a slightly related topic, I wonder why the trolls attack? You save them from being liquified and sucked up by a giant spider and they decide trying to kill you is a good way to repay the favor?

also, on the topic of wacky theories, it seemed to me that when i was able to "kill" the cocoon in one hit I had a much greater chance of getting either a captive or a troll... Prolly not related, but there it is...

Comment by 334755

well having tried a few of the theories put forward here, i can definitely say that it's random. btw as a mage who previously had a staff skill of ~300, it's now at 354. these cocoons are excellent for weapon target practice.

Comment by Eleftheria

I managed to kill exactly 28 trolls (As a warrior using just melee as suggested) before I finally abandoned the quest, save yourself a headache and skip it.

Comment by Cometcow

The theory about the base of the nerubian cocoon, im sad to say i could not confirm that, how ever, as blankace stated that some of these crazy ideas seem to give you a little hope, i have one of these crazy ideas, that somehow worked for me, if no victims come out, just trolls, i had a ratio of 3trolls to 1 victim, simply just make one of the trolls agro you, keep it like a pet, and go hit the cocoons, maybe this will work for you, Hope this helps

Comment by 292926

LOL, i was killing coccons outside the building for half hour and nothing, then i went inside the building and in the first 3 coccons, 3 footman appear! 3/3 inside the building ! :)

Comment by 65322

haha funny how i did this, i got 2 throlls in 5-6 tries, after that i killed about 10 coocons and nothing, so while i was killing the spider i used "killing spree" (combat specced rogue) it killed the coocon and released npc :D

Comment by Feranda

This is weird. I did this quest just a min ago and it was one of the easiest quest I have done this far. First 3 cocoons I destroyed (with Ice Lance and Fireblast) gave me soldiers and quest complete. All cocoons I destroyed were outside buildings.

Either Blizzard changed this or I had luck. Anyways it seems to possible to get good rate outside building too.

Comment by 218650

Think this is bugged at the moment. Opened 35 cocoons (not in a raid group, and have quest in log) no NPCs, only hostile mobs. Gave up and dropped it.

To be honest, any quests which involve random drop rates tend to be a waste of time - the killing X mobs or get Y are the best for XP and levelling.

Comment by 139445

If you don't feel like killing trolls while doing this quest and you have a flying mount. Mount up, land on a pillar or tall thorn branch thing where you can't be attacked. Range the cocoon. If it's a soldier you'll get the credit; if it's a troll it'll evade bug in a few seconds and you can remount and move on.

Comment by 745041

Druids, dont attack in any animal forms. Have to attack as yourself.

Comment by Cromulon

Not worth the time. Avoid it.

Comment by 792202

For WARIORS:
I had most luck on the cocoons when the quest was opened (left click on quest name) and only using ranged weapon.

Comment by Manliness

For me, it was about 1 in 16-18 cocoons contained the footmen. This was such an annoying quest.

Comment by 796590

If you are a hunter you dont have to melee them.
If you melee them you will get a lot of damage from trolls so you just need to put pet on passive and then shoot them and if its a troll just send your pet in.
But you really have to remember to have your pet in passive or else its only trolls you will get

Comment by 864260

For Paladins, turn off your seal!

Comment by godistigger

Anyone else get only dead footmen? Of course, all the trolls were alive so they attacked me. Any time I got a footman, it was a corpse.

Comment by dlbert2000

Had to clear all the 20 something cocoons in the area over 5 times to get just 3 footmen as a warrior

Comment by wowkardy

Its easy go check a caccon base colour blue = Dakari troll .
Don't use any pet, you need to melee attack or else the quest wont "work"
Unfortunately not even hunter ranged basic attack works on this quest .
I hope it helps u =)

Comment by 737472

For paladins: I tried a straight forward way to open the cocoons, and after failing to get even one of my friends out, I used Judgement, and lo and behold, three footmen in a row!
They were all achivied near the great structure in centre of area.
Might have some impact on result. although I opened them on several occasions, to no avail.

Comment by 942770

I just did this on my MM hunter and for whatever reason whenever I used arcane shot to break open the cocooI got a troll 100% of the time. But when I just used Auto Shot I got all 3 of the captives for the quest.

Comment by Azqa

Stupid trolls. I saved them and they're attacking me :|

Comment by Avareal

This quest, like many others, is total chance on how quickly you will be able to complete it.

Some were able to break open just 3 cocoons to get the 3 Captive Footmen, others spent a lot time killing an upwards of 20+ trolls. In my personal experiences it averages out to having to open 8-10 cocoons to complete the requirements for the quest.

You may wish to skip over this quest, however it is a simple one and worth doing in my opinion.

At the end of the day, it is simply just damaging the cacoon to open it up, and either a Drakarri Troll or a Captive Footman will spawn. Rinse and repeat until you rescue 3 Captive Footmen. A headache for some, an easy quest for others. Good luck! :)

Comment by 669065

What is this world coming to? I broke open 14 cocoons. Of the 3 that contained alliance footmen, 2 of them were dead! I still got credit for freeing them, but I sure didn't "save" them. 11 of them had trolls who attacked me. 2 even ran thru spiders to get to me, drawing them along. Surely the trolls could see that I was helping them. ...sigh...I guess that hatred runs deep in their hearts.

Comment by Allakhazam

I opened about 15 with no luck, until I put the pet on passive and used a melee weapon (instead of ranged). 3 of the next 4 were footmen. It was probably a coincidence, but it's worth noting if you're having problems.

Comment by Allakhazam

If you have a pet, but them on passive. Just you attack the cocoon and within 10 minutes of starting the quest.

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Cocooned!

Captain Rupert wants you to open the Nerubian Cocoons in Drak'Sotra and return to him once you have freed 3 Captive Footmen.

	Freed Captive Footmen (3)

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Now that the tunnels have been sealed, our next concern is recovering those who have fallen to the enemy.

With any luck, several of our soldiers are still alive and relatively well inside the nerubian cocoons.

Free them, <class>, while you still can!

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The following spell will be cast on you:

	Captain Rupert Kill Credit

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with Argent Crusade

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12606))

Cocooned!

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