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Comment by Boxofbeer

Are they have multiple locations such like in Forbidden reach?

Comment by Pr3vention

All treasures have been found! Thank you to everyone who helped fill in the gaps to find the last few treasures.
Noteworthy finds and accreditation. Please upvote these comments and/or authors:
Lazey - Discovered the use of Seething Orbs and chest location. See Seething Orb for original post.
Ryack - Finding the Chest of the Flights. See their comment here
Ribs-Zul'jin - Providing info to WoWhead for the Blazing Shadowflame Chest
Chrysippus - for observing the one hour respawn time on Seething Orb. See their comment below.

Chest of the Flights

Name	Coordinates	Loot	Tracking ID	Information
Ancient Zaqali Chest	36.69 48.80	Flightstones	73697	Use a nearby Bottled Magma on the chest
Blazing Shadowflame Chest	28.52 47.94	Blazing Shadowflame Cinder	72986	Found at the base of a lavafall. Requires you to wear the Onyxia Scale Cloak to open it
Bloody Body	42.97 60.40	None	75232	Most likely requires In the Wake of the Ashes to phase the dragonscale expedition camp. Loot the body for Sheridon Hastle's Effects to start Fallen Effects then complete the quest
Charred Egg	30.06 41.93	Flightstones	73706
56.03 3.07	Flightstones	75187	Observe the colors of the flight stones on the banner from top down, then click the stones on the ground in the same order. Red > Black > Blue > Bronze > Green.
Crystal-encased Chest	36.40 74.26	Volatile Crystal Shard	74986	Interact with a purple crystal at 37.75, 68.85 and a yellow crystal at 39.41, 73.27, then return to the chest for it to open.
Long-Lost Cache	62.71 53.75	Flightstones	75019	Very well hidden behind crystals under water
Old Trunk	43.06 82.56	Drogbar Rocks	74995	Requires Old Trunk Key to unlock. To get the key, you need to catch the Thieving Rock Mouse 5 times. The creature can be easily found using /tar Thieving Rock Mouse
Seething Cache	32.33 39.35	Seething Slug	73410	Around the Zaqali Caldera region, you'll find Seething Orbs that give you an 1 hour debuff. Find 3 orbs before the debuff falls to make the chest visible to you. When the chest is looted, all the orbs disappear and don't spawn again for several hours. The cooldown for orbs respawning has been observed to be 1 hour.
Well-Chewed Chest	29.76 40.55	Flightstones	73395	Just under the Massive Corebeast's head is a Scorching Key (coords 30.12 40.75). Loot the key, then you can open the chest.

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/way #2133 36.69 48.80 Ancient Zaqali Chest
/way #2133 28.52 47.94 Blazing Shadowflame Chest
/way #2133 42.97 60.40 Bloody Body
/way #2133 56.03 3.07 Chest of the Flights
/way #2133 30.06 41.93 Charred Egg
/way #2133 36.40 74.26 Crystal-Encased Chest
/way #2133 62.71 53.75 Long-Lost Cache
/way #2133 29.76 40.55 Well-Chewed Chest

/way #2133 42.98 82.57 Mouse 1
/way #2133 42.14 80.15 Mouse 2
/way #2133 41.71 81.45 Mouse 3
/way #2133 42.78 82.21 Mouse 4
/way #2133 43.71 83.86 Mouse 5
/way #2133 43.06 82.56 Old Trunk

/way #2133 28.75 55.30 Seething Orb
/way #2133 29.05 42.50 Seething Orb
/way #2133 29.95 47.97 Seething Orb
/way #2133 30.17 40.01 Seething Orb
/way #2133 32.73 52.62 Seething Orb
/way #2133 34.41 45.71 Seething Orb
/way #2133 37.62 46.63 Seething Orb
/way #2133 32.33 39.35 Seething Cache

Comment by Shkar

The Ancient Zaqali Chest can't be opened in combat, and other players can loot the chest (which relocks it), so do not use the Bottled Magma on it if the nearby enemies are alive.

Comment by Ryack

Chest of the Flights - /way 55.88, 3.36 (Up near Aberrus)
It's in a cave that is a little tricky to get to.
When you enter the cave, there are gems on the ground.
You need to click them in order - Red > Black > Blue > Orange > Green
Nothing special in terms of loot, I got Whelpling's Shadowflame Crest Fragment x6

Blazing Shadowflame Chest - You need to be wearing an Onyxia Scale Cloak, the one from Vanilla in order to be protected from the shadowflame and open the chest.
Reward: Blazing Shadowflame Cinder

Comment by erro3

To loot Blazing Shadowflame Chest at 28.52 47.94:
Onyxia Scale Cloak is needed to loot Blazing Shadowflame Cinder from the Blazing Shadowflame Chest.
Fortunately, the cloak is BoE and can be found on the AH if you do not have a toon that can craft it.

If you want to craft the cloak but are missing the recipe, it requires 300 Classic Leatherworking and you must first kill Onyxia on your leatherworker and turn in Head of Onyxia (A Most Puzzling Circumstance/A Most Puzzling Circumstance) followed by The Journey Has Just Begun/The Journey Has Just Begun. Once you have the recipe, you will also need to buy or create Cindercloth Cloak with a tailor (290 Classic Tailoring) , gather/buy a Scale of Onyxia, and buy a Rune Thread.
Remember, to craft this, your leatherworker needs to be 300 *CLASSIC* Leatherworking. Onyxia was updated for WotLK, but the pattern is still a Classic/Vanilla pattern.

Comment by shatime

Just dropping in to let people know that even though this achievement isn't marked as 'account wide progress', looting the Seething Cache on any character will mark it as complete on all characters.

I used an alt on a dead realm to get mine, and figured i would have to go loot all the other treasures again on the alt to pop the achievement, but the achievement completed when I simply logged back on to my main who had looted all other treasures.

Happy Hunting!

Comment by Cima

Has anyone had the problem with the bloody body and it not being there, despite a completed campaign or did I miss something?

Comment by schnizol

due to the seething cache, this achievement should be worth 10 or 15 points

Comment by blackbean1471

The last "treasure" I needed for this achievement was Bloody Body, which just never appeared for me despite completing the campaign. As it turns out, I had to advance a nearby side questline at the Dragonscale Camp, involving Rupert the Gentleman Elemental and the Buried Vaults subzone.
Only when I received the quest A Tower Yonder did the body of Sheridon Hastle appear, allowing me to interact with it and complete the achievement.

Hope this helps, this is my first WoWhead comment in 15 years of playing this game >.>

Comment by Giacomo

As of June 16, 2023, looting Blazing Shadowflame Cinder does not seem to be account wide.

My main had all other items completed, but only an alt of mine still had the cloak. I looted the toy on my alt and it did not complete Treasures of ZC.

I ended up getting a new Onyxia Scale Cloak on my main in order to complete the achievement Treasures of Zaralek Cavern.

Comment by xenions

Just looted last chest on this, no achievement rewarded. Checked the criteria and it's all been reset with patch. I've put a ticket in to hopefully resolve this, but wanted to post here incase has happened to anybody else, will update with result.

UPDATE## Got an automatic reply that wasn't that helpful, so re-opened ticket. Logged in this morning and ticket was still open, but had achievement fully earned. Looks to be fixed.

Comment by Furplay

To unlock Bloody Body (Fallen Effects ) you must have finished the ZC Dragonscale camp Quests - "The Dragons and the Scale Expedition" up and including Respite After I finished those quests I was able to see the body.

Comment by RevengeV

EDIT: As of 3/27/24 this awful awful chest is no longer required for the meta achievement! The Seething Chest is now separate from the Treasures achievement! The tips still stand for the most part though if you are looking to obtain this mount!

~~I wanted to warn people looking to do this for the overall The World Awoken Meta:~~ This one is going to hurt. I personally would say it's more frustrating then anything from Back from the Beyond ever was. IMO The difficulty and frustration of the Seething Cache treasure is astronomically higher then anything else on this list.

Chest only spawns every 2 hours? Check.
Can only be looted by ONE person? Check.
Need to compete with others to be the first to find 3 Seething Orbs that blend into the environment? Check.
Said Seething Orbs don't always spawn enough Orbs because the Orbs have a separate respawn timer from the Chest? Check.

This one treasure just about made me smash my hand through my desk in frustration at the number of times I "Almost" got it. The comments from people saying they just "went in and got it" are all pre-announcement of the meta. It's not like that at all now. Now you get to suffer and walk the path of the damned as I did. Here is some tips to make it *slightly* easier. I'm going to assume you at least know the basics:

Your doing this in War Mode. Anyone telling you otherwise is a fool. It doesn't matter if your ilvl is 1 or 1000. Most people are too afraid/lazy to go into WM. Don't mess with the Horde/Alliance and for the most part they will leave you alone.
If you can do this on a dead server all the better. Kael'thas for me unfortunately merged with a high pop, so it wasn't an option for me.
Your doing this late at night. If you aren't a nite owl then chug some 5 Hour Energy and a Red Bull, because this is when the least amount of competition will be on. 12:00 or later is best. I got mine at 3:30AM in the morning screaming at my Paladin to loot the chest faster.
You need to have some form of addon to track all the locations. You are not Tony Stark. You are not going to remember all 20+ locations while flying around panicking. I personally just used TomTom.
Make macros of all the locations on every Seething Orb, Slug, and Cache post here on Wowhead. Yes. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. You will need to make multiple macros that make points you can see on your Mini-Map. That is fine. Just put them on your action bar where you can spam them in case something goes wrong and you lose a spawn location. Make sure to test that they work ahead of time.
Use a normal flying mount. Go get Pathfinder. Don't be lazy. Your just going to get shot down by the angry fire people if you Dragonride while collecting Orbs. If your Bird People be a bird.
Find a place up high where you can easily get to multiple orbs quickly and safely. This may take you a few tries to figure out. I personally liked perching on top of the World Bosses shrine.
Zoom out your mini map all the way. You want to quickly and easily be able to see where your next possible spot is. Do not have your full map open. Please.

Now your ready to sit and suffer. (Or just come back every 2 hours. Your choice.)

Figure out when EXACTLY it spawned. Usually it will be like 12:05 or :15 or :10 . You need to be online and ready at least 15 minutes before hand. Stay at your perch 15 minutes before and wait until it spawns. If it spawns at a weird time not the same as last time? You probably got sharded due to too many people.
Do a test run of you landing in the Seething Cache's location. You will probably be dismounted in mid air so make sure you have some kind of immunity/ extreme damage reduction while your character sails into the chest. Make note of what mobs aggro onto you or what you crash into trying to get there.
You are eventually on one of your attempts aggro something or it gets dragged on you by a jealous competitor. It happens. Have some way to instantly delete the mob or get out of combat. Hunter Feign and 2 handed users Leggo Axe ability both are great.
There is an orb hidden behind the tower. Behind next to the plants on the right side of the tower.
If a Horde or Alliance does some form of Stun or Disorient: IGNORE THEM. DO NOT FIGHT THEM UNLESS THEY KEEP ATTACKING. If they keep attacking do whatever is necessary to disengage from them and get back up in the air to the next one.
You got all 3 orbs and out of combat? Congrats. Mount up on your smallest Dragonriding mount (We are Dragonriding. Sue me.) Hop into the air and immediately use the surge ability towards the cache. You are probably going to get dismounted in the air about 3/4ths of the way there. Get near the cache and time your dismount/forcible dismount so that you fly through the air via forward momentum into the lava pit. Yes, it is Looney Toons nonsense. It is also how I got there before 2 Mages, another Paladin, a Druid, and a Hunter all on normal mounts. You could try to crash into the lava with the Dragonriding mount, but I think it would be very difficult to do so while surging.
Immunities. You are going to be coming in for a crash landing and will more then likely aggro every damn mob around you while your in lava trying to loot the chest. I personally was able to loot the chest through Paladin Bubble and got it. I am unsure about other methods. Bare minimum you need to be able to survive slamming into the lava and 5-6 fire people and other angry opposite faction members wailing on you for 4-5 seconds.

Once you loot the chest you will probably die. I did, but I didn't care because I was too busy yelling and waking up a very annoyed gf and 4 cats. I hate this treasure. I hate that I had to stay up until 3:30 in the morning while sick with COVID to get this stupid treasure. Please send Feedback to Blizz to fix this. Making it a 2 hour spawn timer is not a "fix". Making it 30 minutes, ~~removing it from the Meta~~, or making the Orbs and Chest personal is. Good luck. You will need it.

Bonus tips:

Psychological Warfare: Other people will tell you this doesn't work. Those people do not have a slug mount. /wave at EVERYONE who flies past you. Everytime. It doesn't matter if they /spit on you or whatever. Be friendly. It gets under some peoples skin and creeps them out.
Psychological Warfare Part 2: Figure out what your rarest mount, title, weapon and armor set you can transmog are. You can look at your profile here on WoWhead to see what your rarest stuff is. Example: I went with the Awakened Mindborer, The Chosen title, and a full set of T3 Paladin armor with the Mage Tower Weapon appearance. Most people this isn't going to have an effect on. However, the people who do know are going to look at you and think you are absolutely insane/obsessive and might decide they'd rather try later. One less person is one less competition. Bonus points if you have one of those big old Glad mounts. (Salute to you guys. Even I'm not that insane.)
Personally, I don't like this but I had it done to me so it goes on the list: Obnoxious toys placed on peoples more favorable perch positions to make them give it up.

Comment by Hefalumpy

The seething cache requirement was removed today (March 27, 2024), allowing people to get this achievement if they did not complete that one but have everything else completed. I logged in and immediately received the achievement for Treasures of Zaralek Cavern. Then, since it was the last one I needed for the Meta achievement, I also received Que Zara(lek), Zara(lek).

Comment by PriestessAur

This achievement Treasures of Zaralek Cavern has been hotfixed as of today (3/27) and no longer requires Seething Cache. I logged in to have this achievement pop as well as Que Zara(lek), Zara(lek)

Comment by Buffy3883

I just got this achievement today and my Calescent Shalewing without doing the Seething Cache (not because i haven't spent hours and hours trying), in fact when i look at this Achievement, Seething Cache is not listed at all anymore and it's only showing 9 items instead of 10

Comment by Tippolas

Looks like they removed Seething Cache from this achievement.

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Treasures of Zaralek Cavern

Discover the hidden treasures within Zaralek Cavern.

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	Ancient Zaqali Chest (1)
	Bloody Body (1)
	Chest of the Flights (1)
	Long-Lost Cache (1)
	Well-Chewed Chest (1)

	Blazing Shadowflame Chest (1)
	Charred Egg (1)
	Crystal-Encased Chest (1)
	Old Trunk (1)

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