Honeyback Hive & The Honeyback Harvester - Reputation & Rewards Guide

By Buuloki Updated: 2025/11/09

Honeyback Harvester's HarnessAlliance onlyGetting Started

You need an Alliance Character - The rewards from the Honeyback Hive are only obtainable by Alliance. The Honeyback Harvester's Harness cannot be used or obtained by Horde. The only notable rewards available to the Horde are the Butterfly pets, which can be bought on the Auction House.

You need Bumbles or Seabreeze Bumblebee - One of these pets is required to unlock the Honeyback Hive faction. The Seabreeze Bumblebee can be purchased on the Auction House, and Bumbles can be obtained from the Let's Bee Friends achievement.

Flying is strongly recommended - The reputation grind itself is made a lot easier with flying. The jellies are spread throughout the entirety of Stormsong, and while it is doable without flying, it's strongly recommended that you have flying before attempting to reach Exalted.

Unlocking the Honeyback HiveStep One - Bumbles or Seabreeze BumblebeeSeabreeze BumblebeeBumblesLet's Bee FriendsSeabreeze BumblebeePolished Pet CharmStorm's Wake

Obtaining Bumbles

Complete the questline starting with Mayhem at Mildenhall Meadery, and ending with Back to the Lab.
Farm Bumbling Bee, Enraged Swarmer, Flowing Honey, Bubbling Mead until Annealed Honey Amulet drops. This may take a while.
Once you have the Annealed Honey Amulet, find Rosaline Mildenhall in Boralus. Her locations are below.
Bring the letter she gives you back to Ancel Mildenhall at /way 68.8, 65.1.
Accept Bumbles the Bee. Raimond's Secret Ingredient can be found at /way 73, 72. Return to the basement and complete the quest.

Now, repeat these steps for 7 days. It does not have to be in a row.

Pick up Let's Bee Friends from the basement.
Farm Vial of Honey Slime x8 from any enemy around the Meadery.
Click on the vial on the table and receive Mildenhall Growth Formula. Feed this to Bumbles every day for seven days, and you'll obtain both Bumbles and Let's Bee Friends.

Rosealine Mildenhall Locations:

/way 51.5 48.0 Scribes & Nobles
/way 55.5 62.5 Goldman's Cafe
/way 58.1 66.3 Inaccessible building
/way 72.4 73.3 Unnamed shop
/way 72.9 73.3 Upper unnamed shop

If she is in the Inaccessible building, bind a key to interact and /tar her.

Step Two - Finding BarryStep Three - Follow the TrailMany Painful StingsStep Four - Appeasing the HivemotherThin JellyNote:Earning Reputation and Collecting Jellies

Thin Jelly - 20 reputation / 5 friendship.

Rich Jelly - 80 Reputation / 20 friendship.

Royal Jelly - 160 Reputation / 40 friendship.

How to Earn Reputation - StrategyPasteTomTom

Kill Honey Smasher every day - Honey Smasher gives 500 reputation with Honeyback Hive upon killing him and a chance to obtain Jelly. He also drops some cosmetic items, such as the Crimson Skipper battle pet, and items to dress up your bee pets, including Minuscule Fez, Tiny Dapper Hat, and Little Princess Cap. You can kill Honey Smasher once per day. He has a short respawn. He is considered a Rare Elite, though he can be soloed if you have decent gear.

Do Honeyback Harvester events - These are found in multiple locations. You can do Honeyback Harvester events multiple times per day. Create a /tar macro and fly around the zone spamming it, or see the map below. Once you find one, you will be able to do an 'enemy-wave' type event for rewards.

Search for Jelly Deposits - Turn 'Ground Clutter' to 1 under System Settings. This will help you see the Jelly Deposits. Use group finder to phase hop if you see groups in Stormsong Valley and your phase is too crowded. Monel-Hardened Stirrups allows you to loot while mounted.

Buy Jelly from the Auction House - You can purchase all Jelly on the Auction House if you are looking to speed things up.

Feed Jelly to the bee - You progressively raise reputation with Honeyback Harvester, from Nascent Harvester, to Mature Harvester, raising it to leave the hive.

Obtain this item as soon as possible - Beeholder's Goggles will help greatly with efficiency. You could also buy Alluring Bloom; however, you are often going to end up back at the hive regardless, especially if you have flying. Use all other Thin Jelly on reputation. Jelly Magnet will help too.

Jelly Deposit LocationsRich JellyRoyal JellyJelly Deposit Locations

/way Stormsong Valley 33.1, 71.6
/way Stormsong Valley 31.7, 74.5
/way Stormsong Valley 28.2, 74.8
/way Stormsong Valley 63.2, 28.4
/way Stormsong Valley 61.4, 22.3
/way Stormsong Valley 58.8, 30.8
/way Stormsong Valley 55.1, 31.2
/way Stormsong Valley 54.0, 31.2
/way Stormsong Valley 55.7, 27.9
/way Stormsong Valley 56.0, 37.1
/way Stormsong Valley 53.3, 43.1
/way Stormsong Valley 49.8, 36.7
/way Stormsong Valley 56.2, 28.9
/way Stormsong Valley 58.5, 28.4
/way Stormsong Valley 63.2, 22.2
/way Stormsong Valley 61.4, 55.9
/way Stormsong Valley 55.2, 41.0
/way Stormsong Valley 56.6, 20.3
/way Stormsong Valley 56.4, 18.7
/way Stormsong Valley 47.3, 25.4
/way Stormsong Valley 37.3, 37.2
/way Stormsong Valley 35.7, 31.3
/way Stormsong Valley 46.5, 41.9
/way Stormsong Valley 66.9, 63.5
/way Stormsong Valley 64.2, 52.4
/way Stormsong Valley 62.0, 46.1
/way Stormsong Valley 58.2, 21.3
/way Stormsong Valley 56.1, 26.0
/way Stormsong Valley 52.5, 39.1
/way Stormsong Valley 63.1, 51.4
/way Stormsong Valley 58.3, 54.2
/way Stormsong Valley 54.7, 48.4
/way Stormsong Valley 56.2, 58.7
/way Stormsong Valley 66.4, 70.3
/way Stormsong Valley 69.7, 75.9
/way Stormsong Valley 71.3, 67.2
/way Stormsong Valley 66.0, 58.2
/way Stormsong Valley 68.2, 55.4
/way Stormsong Valley 61.4, 51.9
/way Stormsong Valley 64.0, 37.2
/way Stormsong Valley 62.5, 22.7
/way Stormsong Valley 53.9, 27.7
/way Stormsong Valley 52.3, 27.0
/way Stormsong Valley 49.2, 35.5
/way Stormsong Valley 58.0, 27.4
/way Stormsong Valley 63.6, 25.6
/way Stormsong Valley 31.4, 60.1
/way Stormsong Valley 60.5, 29.1
/way Stormsong Valley 63.6, 28.2
/way Stormsong Valley 57.8, 28.5
/way Stormsong Valley 57.5, 30.0
/way Stormsong Valley 55.2, 38.4
/way Stormsong Valley 53.3, 43.1
/way Stormsong Valley 44.6, 49.2
/way Stormsong Valley 44.2, 50.9
/way Stormsong Valley 40.3, 47.3
/way Stormsong Valley 36.7, 47.6
/way Stormsong Valley 35.5, 52.3
/way Stormsong Valley 35.1, 64.4
/way Stormsong Valley 33.2, 67.8
/way Stormsong Valley 33.3, 71.9
/way Stormsong Valley 29.8, 76.1
/way Stormsong Valley 25.5, 67.1
/way Stormsong Valley 56.2, 30.5
/way Stormsong Valley 53.0, 36.0
/way Stormsong Valley 40.9, 42.2
/way Stormsong Valley 38.8, 63.5
/way Stormsong Valley 45.8, 64.4
/way Stormsong Valley 72.1, 74.1
/way Stormsong Valley 67.6, 56.5
/way Stormsong Valley 63.6, 28.1
/way Stormsong Valley 63.8, 19.6
/way Stormsong Valley 46.4, 47.6
/way Stormsong Valley 41.1, 46.3
/way Stormsong Valley 31.3, 31.6
/way Stormsong Valley 35.7, 29.4
/way Stormsong Valley 35.8, 36.9
/way Stormsong Valley 37.9, 51.2
/way Stormsong Valley 33.6, 53.1
/way Stormsong Valley 27.6, 64.3
/way Stormsong Valley 28.0, 69.3
/way Stormsong Valley 27.5, 72.9
/way Stormsong Valley 62.7, 75.1
/way Stormsong Valley 71.1, 71.8
/way Stormsong Valley 70.0, 66.5
/way Stormsong Valley 67.3, 53.9
/way Stormsong Valley 63.1, 31.3
/way Stormsong Valley 66.9, 40.7
/way Stormsong Valley 55.0, 27.6
/way Stormsong Valley 44.7, 39.1
/way Stormsong Valley 42.5, 51.1
/way Stormsong Valley 32.0, 59.6
/way Stormsong Valley 30.9, 63.0
/way Stormsong Valley 49.1, 75.3
/way Stormsong Valley 52.3, 75.5
/way Stormsong Valley 63.1, 76.5
/way Stormsong Valley 72.1, 75.2
/way Stormsong Valley 56.0, 75.6
/way Stormsong Valley 56.3, 76.1
/way Stormsong Valley 64.0, 75.2
/way Stormsong Valley 60.9, 54.4
/way Stormsong Valley 59.1, 56.2
/way Stormsong Valley 47.0, 55.9
/way Stormsong Valley 48.9, 54.8
/way Stormsong Valley 49.1, 63.1
/way Stormsong Valley 44.0, 65.3
/way Stormsong Valley 37.0, 62.7
/way Stormsong Valley 36.4, 59.7
/way Stormsong Valley 26.4, 65.4
/way Stormsong Valley 26.9, 71.6
/way Stormsong Valley 26.2, 77.3
/way Stormsong Valley 53.2, 76.6
/way Stormsong Valley 53.5, 73.4
/way Stormsong Valley 52.2, 74.0
/way Stormsong Valley 63.4, 73.6
/way Stormsong Valley 68.1, 68.2
/way Stormsong Valley 61.1, 29.4
/way Stormsong Valley 60.0, 19.5
/way Stormsong Valley 55.1, 20.9
/way Stormsong Valley 59.7, 23.5
/way Stormsong Valley 57.4, 27.8
/way Stormsong Valley 45.1, 27.6
/way Stormsong Valley 46.7, 22.7
/way Stormsong Valley 47.6, 29.3
/way Stormsong Valley 44.2, 41.4
/way Stormsong Valley 56.0, 37.1
/way Stormsong Valley 37.1, 38.8
/way Stormsong Valley 35.2, 32.1
/way Stormsong Valley 32.9, 32.7
/way Stormsong Valley 30.5, 60.3
/way Stormsong Valley 32.1, 57.9
/way Stormsong Valley 33.5, 63.3
/way Stormsong Valley 38.8, 44.1
/way Stormsong Valley 41.1, 46.3
/way Stormsong Valley 41.6, 40.2
/way Stormsong Valley 43.4, 45.0
/way Stormsong Valley 43.8, 34.3
/way Stormsong Valley 44.8, 26.2
/way Stormsong Valley 45.2, 42.1
/way Stormsong Valley 48.5, 30.0
/way Stormsong Valley 55.3, 25.6
/way Stormsong Valley 56.5, 42.2
/way Stormsong Valley 57.5, 22.2
/way Stormsong Valley 57.7, 24.3
/way Stormsong Valley 57.9, 49.7
/way Stormsong Valley 58.3, 61.4
/way Stormsong Valley 59.7, 31.5
/way Stormsong Valley 60.0, 19.5
/way Stormsong Valley 60.0, 21.5
/way Stormsong Valley 60.7, 32.8
/way Stormsong Valley 61.4, 17.3
/way Stormsong Valley 61.6, 18.6
/way Stormsong Valley 61.6, 29.3
/way Stormsong Valley 62.1, 39.6
/way Stormsong Valley 63.2, 29.9
/way Stormsong Valley 63.9, 36.4
/way Stormsong Valley 64.2, 29.0
/way Stormsong Valley 64.4, 31.0
/way Stormsong Valley 66.8, 34.5
/way Stormsong Valley 69.1, 66.8
/way Stormsong Valley 71.9, 66.6

Honeyback Harvester LocationsJelly AggressionPotential RewardsPapiPapiSunsoaked FlitterSunsoaked FlitterJelly MagnetTechnique: Glyph of Dire BeesSuper Sticky HoneyHivethief's Jelly StashGurg the HivethiefUsurper's Scent GlandHoneyback UsurperHivekiller StingerThe HivekillerEnvenomed Spider FangTrapdoor Bee HunterOld Nasha's PawOld NashaSpiral Yeti HornYorag the Jelly FeasterHoneyback Harvester Locations

/way Stormsong Valley 25.66 72.24
/way Stormsong Valley 63.01, 21.31
/way Stormsong Valley 61.89, 31.95
/way Stormsong Valley 33.05, 32.43
/way Stormsong Valley 57.17, 51.25
/way Stormsong Valley 40.93, 62.14
/way Stormsong Valley 72.32, 52.24
/way Stormsong Valley 66.30, 70.00
/way Stormsong Valley 43.00, 33.00
/way Stormsong Valley 47.00, 32.00
/way Stormsong Valley 69.00, 70.00
/way Stormsong Valley 72.10, 52.30
/way Stormsong Valley 47.45, 32.12

Earning the Honeyback Harvester Bee MountHoneyback Harvester

Raise the Honeyback Harvester into a 'Mature' Honeyback Harvester, which is the equivalent of Exalted.

Reach Exalted reputation with Honeyback Hive.

Complete a short quest chain, ending withLeaving the Hive, which will reward you with your mount.

Comments

Comment by Storytelling

Terrific guide. Thank you.

Comment by KaydenG

How do we get the glyph for the dire bees?

Comment by booitsme

Received a Little Princess Cap drop from Honeysmasher today, also recieved one from a jelly deposit.

Comment by Snlckers

Anyone know what the respawn time on the Jelly Deposits is?

Comment by Reckish

Jelly Magnet just dropped from Honey Smasher

Comment by DougFM

Where do you go after Barry says "Maybe we can do something to convince her to let us in?". The best I can get in General is "slightly south of the hive".

Comment by sirloper

What's up with all the Alliance-specific stuff? I suppose I'm just whining, but there really should be a horde-only equivalent for this faction, mount and pets. I don't mind having to either level and play an opposite-faction toon to get stuff (or wait until someone else does and buy it on the AH) so long as I can do the same for my own faction, not unlike what they did with Polished Pet Charm purchasable pets. But an entire new faction that includes a mount and pet that has no counterpart? Seems like a pretty huge oversight. This is unless I'm missing something?

Comment by Snlckers

Little Princess Cap found from Large Jelly Deposit :)

Comment by PedroBlaK

Thanks for the guide.

Comment by daenerys37

Perhaps I'm just blind, but when you say "Feed Jelly to the bee " Where the hell is the bee that I can feed jelly to?

Comment by Kaimeline

One last step not mentioned, you'll have a thin jelly in your bag. Use it on the spot directly in front of Barry. You'll get a little rep and he'll walk out. Now you can gather rep and nodes outside.

Comment by Hidroxila

I did everything on the guide to unlock the faction, I even have it in my bar already, But I cannot find a suingle Jelly Deposit and the rare did not gave me rep. Does anyone know about this?

Comment by Leobentobox

Someone was kind enough to tell me that I could use the bee pet from the Storm's Wake vendor in lieu of Bumbles, so I bypassed that 7-day time-gate altogether! Can confirm, you don't need Bumbles. Although I DID do all the quests already that led up to the point in that process where you had to farm for the Amulet.

The Storm's Wake one costs 250 pet charms. Or I suppose you could buy it off the AH (?)

Comment by amphyx

What a great guide, really came in handy. Thanks!

Comment by Sarthorius

I'd like tell you great job on this. Just a headnote: you can include the /cway line below TomTom+Paste macros so wherever you are, the first Waypoint arrow will point to the closest one (cway= closest waypoint).

EDIT: Found new Jelly deposit at:
/way 60.06 19.55
/way 55.11 20.9
/way 59.75 23.54
/way 57.44 27.81

Comment by mobhunter

I had the faction unlocked, but received no rep for killing the Honeysmasher. I did receive a "Bee Bee Gun" as loot.

Comment by Daraximus

Honey Back Harvester @ 72.32, 52.24

Comment by Elfizm

I picked up the Thin Jelly, I offered it to the Hivemother, spoke to Barry, they did their dance and now I can enter the cave.

I clicked on the Nascent Harvester which gave me Neutral rep 0/3000 with Honeyback Hive. There is no dialogue option with the Nascent Harvester to offer the Thin Jelly. I tried clicking on the jelly with the Nascent Harvester on target, nothing happened. The Thin Jelly I'm offering is the same one I offered to the Hivemother.

So my confusion is, the guide says you have to offer the Jelly to the Nascent Harvester to get an initial 20 rep and then you can see the jellies. But, if I can't get the Nascent Harvester to take this Jelly because I've already used it on the Hivemother, then how do I 'see' jellies to pick up a fresh one to give to it?

Also, I did the rare and got no rep so obviously until you get the initial 20 rep you not only can't see the jellies but you get no rep for anything.

So how do I get past this point?

EDIT: Just in case anyone else gets confused by this; to be able to offer the Thin Jelly to the Nascent Harvester you must complete the dialogue with Barry. THEN you can feed the Nascent Harvester and rep begins.

Comment by Jcrewjim

Found a Thin Jelly at
/way 45.17 27.68
/way 46.71 22.79
/way 47.62 29.34
/way 44.27 41.48
/way 56.00 37.18

Comment by Joinktoink

So now that this is on live I collected 500 thin jelly and transferred over to the PTR several times to transfer it to one character.

The only trigger for the mount is completing the friendship bar for the two bees. The first bee is 3500 friendship. The second bee is 7000 friendship.
If you want the mount the only thing you have to do is collect 2100 thin jelly (non human) thin jelly honey (human)

Reputation gives you a chance to get higher quality honey when looting in the zone.

Comment by Healthycat

Received a jelly magnet from honey smasher

Comment by Incandio

Thanks for the guide. At step 4 you might want to add you need to speak to Barry yet again before you are able to feed the jelly to the Nascent Harvester.

Comment by megasquid

More Jelly

/way 62.93 20.04
/way 62.34 47.00
/way 61.12 41.50
/way 60.39 48.69
/way 35.04 38.46
/way 34.74 63.01
/way 32.46 58.65
/way 33.67 51.76
/way 34.00 43.62
/way 30.45 45.38

Comment by Molton

Found a Honeyback Harvester at 66.30, 70. Also had the Little Princess Cap drop from a Jelly Deposit like the other 2.

Comment by Firstborndragon

We just got a new harvester fight, the o in warfang hold. Sorry don't know exact co-ordenates, realm restarted.

Comment by Jessiehope

I am at the step where you talk to Barry and then feed the Nascent. However before I could talk to Barry he disappeared and can't be found in the cave, beside the cave, in front of the cave, back at Mildenhall. I have reloaded, relogged, gone back to Boralus and logged. He is nowhere to be found, and I can't feed the nascent because Bazza is goneskies. Has this happened to anyone else?

Comment by SFFCorgi

Two jelly deposits not on the list:
37.15, 38.81
35.21, 32.14

Comment by Molton

Might want to fix your Bloodfang Bracers listed in Honey Smasher's drops. Should be Jelly Magnet, right?

Comment by KaydenG

If it is night time and you are struggling to see the Jellies on the ground due to it being....dark. Use the toy Jar of Sunwarmed Sand which is available in the caverns of time for i think 500 timewalking tokens. It changes the 'time' to mid day and makes it much brighter and easier to see. 24hr CD but it lasts for 2 hours :)

Comment by astolate

Had an event spawn at 43, 33 this evening. Wasn't on the list so I thought they put in the wrong cords in general but sure enough when I went there the event was happening.

Comment by kassia1213

Close to others, but I just found a jelly at 32.99, 32.78.

Comment by 1859189

Had a harvester event at /way 72, 52 .

Comment by 1859189

Another harvester event at /way 47, 32 .

Comment by gnooms

Found Jelly Deposits at:
/way 30.59 60.36
/way 32.13 57.98
/way 33.50 63.32
/way 38.80 44.15
/way 41.11 46.35
/way 41.68 40.23
/way 43.41 45.00
/way 43.88 34.37
/way 44.87 26.25
/way 45.29 42.12
/way 48.56 30.06
/way 55.34 25.60
/way 56.59 42.28
/way 57.52 22.29
/way 57.73 24.32
/way 57.95 49.74
/way 58.38 61.43
/way 59.71 31.59
/way 60.07 19.53
/way 60.08 21.51
/way 60.73 32.85
/way 61.44 17.36
/way 61.62 18.68
/way 61.67 29.37
/way 62.14 39.64
/way 63.24 29.93 (in the water)
/way 63.93 36.41
/way 64.27 29.00
/way 64.45 31.03 (on the side of the tree trunk)
/way 66.89 34.55
/way 69.14 66.86
/way 71.97 66.68

Note that most of these were in 'safe' areas, but some of these deposits do spawn in enemy territory.

Comment by demona3

I can confirm, I got Jelly Magnet off of Honey Smasher this morning.

Comment by oozie

seems u need to be level 120 to do this

Comment by jodmos

Even though you may have the bee pet to start this you still need to be level 120 which I haven't seen mentioned in any guide for this. So don't bother flying your lower level characters to Stormsong to try and get extra jelly

Comment by quarny

Did Jelly Deposits get buffed or was I just unlucky? After getting Beeholder's Goggles within 15mins of using it I got 2x Jelly Magnet 2x Rich Jelly 1x Royal Jelly from Jelly Deposits, hidden effect of the goggles maybe?

Edit: people are reporting Honeyback Hive rep level is what is actually improving drops from Jelly Deposits.

Comment by bastler

Rich Jelly gave me 80 Rep. on feeding.

Comment by Lazey

The waypoints for Hive won't work... should be comma-separated, there is another decimal point. Thanks anyways.

Comment by BrightBrown

So I am now looking for Harvester events... made one circuit, notning, tried it again. Came upon what I surmise was an event in progress, so I joined in. Lotsa 1M+ HP mobs to deal with. Nothing to click on, got nothing by the time the group flew away. So I take it one can NOT simply join in a fight in progress, correct? So 2 full circuits and if I see something in progress, it's a waste for me. Is THIS how it was meant to be? Or is it ONLY about joining up in PUG groups?

Comment by Uroshnor

The list of Jelly Deposit Locations is not formatted correctly. There are 9 entries near the bottom of the list that have no comma separating the coords. There is also an entry with 3 digits after the decimal, though I don't know if that makes a difference.

Comment by slerp

Great guide, thank you! I'm absolutely head over heels with this mount and can't wait to start working towards it! I really hope they remove the faction restriction on mounting though. I'm an ally main but there's no reason to not let horde use the bee, especially when we can mount Kua'fon.

Comment by Snlckers

Is the loot from the fresh jelly deposits once a day?

Comment by VersaiRage

The guide mentions a /tar macro. What am I trying to target when flying around? Just /tar Honeyback Harvester or can we also /Tar Jelly Deposits and Honey Smasher? Anyone have a good macro already?

Comment by jacatola

I wrote a GatherMate2 plugin to include the jelly deposit waypoints so the common GM2, Routes, Farming HUD setup could be used. It's hosted here. I'll keep it updated with the Google Doc. Hope people find it useful!

Comment by meganerd18

"You don't have to stand in the clouds" don't worry, it doesn't seem to do anything anyways.

Comment by Snlckers

I've gotten Rich Jelly from the Jelly Deposits, and it seems more frequent after hitting Honored. I wonder if you're more likely the higher your rep is?

Comment by Karsciyin

I talked to Barry, then the bee, to hand in my first jelly, but I only got 13 standing (including Human racial), not the 20 this guide says.

The guide also says that doing so unlocks jelly nodes; I'm using the waypoints but no jelly is spawning at all, so I'm worrying my character got bugged out somehow and now can't get any standing ever. Anybody got something similar? How to fix?

Comment by cassiadawn

There's a Honeyback Harvester event @72.1 52.3

Comment by SFFCorgi

Harvester event at 66, 70 - just south of the Mildenhall FP. We had an Ettin as the final boss/rare.

Comment by Laraven

You can obtain the Jelly Magnet without the goggles.

Comment by Souperman

Monel-Hardened Stirrups Can be handy farming Thin Jelly

Comment by Crossless

Technique: Glyph of Dire Bees dropped for me from a Honeyback Harvester event at the end in the Fresh Jelly Deposit.

Comment by HolgerDK

Jelly Deposit at 56.3, 22.3

Comment by ljgard

don't do what I did and beeline straight for the rare the moment you unlock the rep. you will get 0 rep if you are 0/3000 for some stupid reason

Comment by Deimos666

To made it easy to spam events i made this macro that suits me.

/run local p='player';p=C_Map.GetPlayerMapPosition(C_Map.GetBestMapForUnit(p),p);SendChatMessage(("Honeyback Hive Event Close to - %s - %.2f, %.2f"):format(GetMinimapZoneText(),p.x*100,p.y*100),"CHANNEL",nil,1);

Where this macro just get the player position and send the message to the general channel (that is the /1) if your channel number is different tan 1 change the number at the end of the macro.

Comment by datgrl

Does the rep show up on the Reputation tab of the character window? When do you start accruing rep? Is it during the 7 day period where you are feeding Bumbles? Or once you complete the dailies and have Bumbles in your stable?

Comment by Smithfan

I adapted a macro I use when farming rep items, it shows 1. how many more Thin Jelly items you need until you get exalted, and 2. what percentage you're at in case you're aiming for 5% per day or something idk. Also shows the number of Thin Jellys in your bag.

#showtooltip Thin Jelly
/run local n,i,min,max,val,x = GetWatchedFactionInfo(); print( ( ( 42000-val )-GetItemCount("Thin Jelly")*20 )/20 ) print((val/42000)*100)

Comment by comi

Be sure to grab Monel-Hardened Stirrups , so you can collect while mounted...

Speeds up the process quite a bit.

Comment by murph0613

Just found a jelly at 58.39 19.53

Comment by hbcht

It seems the Honey Harvester Events are only doable every 20-25 Minutes.
If you do it more frequently there wont spawn a lootable honey deposit. Can others confirm this?

I guess thats Blizzard`s way to prevent people from getting the mount to quickly by realm hopping from event to event.

Comment by Lornaa

Is the "Lush Flowerbed" the Honeyback Harvester event or is that something else again?

Comment by nertho

Please note that the Seabreeze Bumblebee also works for this quest. It can be purchased for 250 pet charms at the Stormsong quartermaster.

Comment by Hunnypii

So i have Bumbles but can't see Barry by the boat..do I need him? Is there a way around this? I've filed tickets with Blizz but nothing so far..very frustrating!

Comment by spumpy

Anyone know the total amount of jellies needed? I'd like to just buy them.

Comment by jodmos

Rep items drops from rares whether or not they are the last wave. I've had two rares during an event an each gave the rep quest item.

Horde can loot the honeycomb at the end of an event they take part in. I've got non jelly related items dropped (basically the vendor stuff). Possible that the pets can then be looted by horde (I think I saw this mentioned somewhere from the PTR so was checking- haven't had a pet form Horde or alliance yet though) similar to how my horde characters get non-jelly related loot from Honey Smasher.

Comment by Gershuun

I made a weakaura for the Honeyback Harvester events that shows the timer remaining on it, and emotes for others to see:

https://wago.io/RkfQNxgSe

Comment by Fieora

I'm unable to purchase the Seabreeze Bumblebee from the Auction House... I've completed the Meadery questline, revered with Storm's Wake... Any ideas why?

Comment by Sarthorius

I know how we could farm the rep faster: EVENTS. DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT START ANY EVENT, BEFORE GETTING 20+ PEOPLE AT LEAST AT THE AREA. THE EVENT, ONCE STARTED, LASTS UP TO AROUND 5 MINUTES. YOU GOT 5 MINUTES TO GET AT LEAST TO WAVE 15 (YOU CAN SEE THE COUNT BY THE MOBS'S STACKS) WHERE IT SPAWNS A RARE (GREY ICON, NOT THE YELLOW ONES FOR THE ELITES AT 5 AND 10 WAVES). THIS RARE MIGHT DROP AN ITEM THAT START A QUESTS THAT GIVES 750 REP.

Sorry for the caps but it gets on me nerves seeing people keep starting it even if you spam chats not to, to WAIT for more people. The Jelly deposit that drops on ground comes on EVERY event, and you may get it or not, but the RARE DROPS loot itself, if killed in enough time (at least within the 5 minutes, once event is started).

Also, I dunno if it is a bug, but I've seen EVEN HORDE PEOPLE STARTING THE DAMN EVENT. Way to go blizz, if they can't get the jellies, they should'nt be able to even talk to the Event's bees.

JFC*

Comment by Kaellah

For those wanting to check which reputation items you've turned in and which you need:

Yorag the Jelly Feaster – Spiral Yeti Horn
/script print(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(56475))

Old Nasha – Old Nasha’s Paw
/script print(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(56144))

Trapdoor Bee Hunter – Envenomed Spider Fang
/script print(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(56473))

The HiveKiller – HiveKiller Stinger
/script print(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(56474))

Honeyback Usurper – Usurper’s Scent Gland
/script print(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(56091))

Gurg the Hivethief – Hivethief’s Jelly Stash
/script print(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(56092))

Comment by Caileron

How often do the harvester events happen. I have not seen one after hours of flying around.

Comment by lovethegang

Exalted Reputation does NOT count towards 100 Exalted Reputations!
I heard these speculations yesterday and I thought they were trolling. Turns out they're right.
I just got Exalted, statistics say "max reputations at Exalted: 100" but no achievement.

Comment by wowdm6

so how much rep, friendship do you get for the different types of jelly when you feed them to the harvester, is it better to buy/use thin jelly or do you get more for handing in royal jelly. You can buy 8 thin jelly for one royal and 1 royal for 8 thin.

Comment by Mearilyns

The Honeyback Harvester event have a loot lockout, it seems to reset when a new hour begin so if you get loot 10.05 you can get loot again after 11.00 = you can technically do the event 24 times in a day.

If you are eligible for loot your minimap will show a huge star/loot cache at the event location.

(This is why you sometimes finish an event no Fresh Jelly Deposit spawn. You can always loot the mobs)

Edit: I've found that many in the general chat does not agree with my theory so I'm trying to test it properly. Very interested in input.
I did this with VM ON and the same character:
- 12.20 - Got loot
- 13.59 - Got loot (But another player said they did it 50 min ago and didn't get loot)
- 14.12 - Got loot
- 14.23 - No loot
- 14.30 - No loot
- 14.53 - No loot
- 15.10 - Got loot
- 15.15 - No loot
- 15.31 - No loot
- 15.48 - No loot

Please upvote if you try this and it works for you.
Will update this post if I learn something new.

Comment by kirirumoji

You can speed up farming process a lot if you find a person with Beeholder's Goggles . Usually they don't circle around but fly from point to point and find Thin Jelly in difficult places. Even if they don't want to make a team you can just mark them up with Skull or something and fly behind. Monel-Hardened Stirrups saves time and helps to stay on tail.

Comment by Argus00

Twice now, I've gotten no loot from the Honeyback events - nothing to click on.

Once, the mob vanished mid-fight, ending the event.

Buggy AF.

Comment by mazejaker

I'd recommend not even using the Jelly Magnet. It gives you maybe 1 extra Jelly every 5 deposits. Also upon activating it it seemed to remove all Deposits from the map, as I barely found more than 4 in the first 10 minutes. Then I landed funny and the game disconnected me (Good to see this bug still exists 4 years later) and it removed the buff from me, with 15 minutes left.

Comment by karlithra

I've made this macro to see which, and if any, event rares you still need for the 750 rep weekly.

/run local t={"Yorag",56475,"OldNasha",56144,"Trapdoor",56473,"Hivekiller",56474,"Usurper",56091,"GurgHivethief",56092}for i=1,#t-1,2 do print(t,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(t)and "\124cff00ff00Completed" or "\124cffff0000Not completed")end

As for the event loot: It seems its once every hour - not since last, but it resets once clock hits the next hour. Still testing.

Comment by meganerd18

Beevents don't actually grant reputation, in and of themselves. They just drop lots of jelly, and of course the minibosses with their relevant quest items (which also seem to be 1-time only).

Comment by mazejaker

Second attempt using the Jelly Magnet, actually did what it was supposed to this time. 125 Thin Jelly + 6 Rich Jelly in the half hour duration. This is including 1 Fresh Deposit from an event. (Well I should say in the 25 minutes, as for the last 5 I don't think I successfully gathered from a single Deposit, they all despawned while I was casting gather or before I managed to click them, thanks again for that Blizz)

Compared to my first time using it where I gained about 4 extra Jelly in the 15 minutes I had the buff, this was much more on-par with how it should work. (15 minutes were lost because I landed next to a deposit and was disconnected from the game, upon reconnecting no more than 30 seconds later, the buff was removed)

It's worth noting I am Honored, so have a slightly higher chance to get more Thin Jelly/Rich Jelly anyway, and also do not have the Beeholder's Goggles.

Comment by booitsme

Tome of Hex:Living Honey received from Honey Smasher drop.

Comment by Arkmenhah

Can you remove the "stormsong valley" from the tomtom macros? I don't play in English, so my tomtom never adds any of those waypoints at all.

Comment by ysterath

Got Tome of Hex: Living Honey from Honey Smasher today

Comment by Evolyn1877

Jelly Deposits come in 3 types

Jelly Deposit (small, can be found on trees, three graphical representations)

Large Jelly Deposit (ground only, bigger than normal)

Fresh Jelly Deposit (largest size, reward after bee event)

Comment by noctusmirus

Lessons Learned on Proudmoore (US) Realm

Only waves 5/10/15/etc count for loot
All waves scale up to 40 people tagging.Scaling Note: 40 was when the scaling was introduced. Rumor has it that's been dropped to 30 or 25, which may explain why the last 10 added to the group make a big difference. Also it's open world so anyone can join. By grouping over 30 people you basically discount lower DPS by getting above the scaling.
To manage Mob Health, most groups say that under 20k dps burst should not touch non boss wave (see list first item -- example: my lock can do 25k dps on bosses, but not trash, he only touches waves 5/10/15/etc)
Stack in flowers to allow area of effect dps to be more effective; this makes melee burst much higher and the suggested people to burn down non boss waves. Note for WARLOCKS: Do not use your tank pet. That is less dps.
Note for HUNTERS: Growl is fine, as long as your pet is parked in the flower bed so melee have minimal movement
Grouping for buffs helps; This is not quested therefore raid groups allowed and suggested (even between events)
You may only get loot once an hour, event is roughly every 20 minutes. (timer for next seems to be 20 to 30 min from start
~~Using the proper timer and starting on bee send off shows you the first 5 min (event time) and when you can loot again (timer runs out). proper timer~~ UPDATE: A friend and I tested. Those who say resets on the hour marker appear correct. You can only loot once per hour marker in game server time. Timer for event: /timer 300
Legion Priest knife chain causes phasing on some event locations
As tested with a friend at low attendance event: tagging one increases health to all mobs in wave. This means ST v AOE is based on class/spec. Do whichever you get higher burst with.
Papi was obtained by a shaman i know with Friendly Reputation on an event that ended on Wave 8.
The tradeable 250 charm Seabreeze Bumblebee works to start open the faction and often asking politely gets you the loan
If you want to buy, you need 263 Royal Jelly before you start, or if they are cheaper, 525 Rich Jelly or 2100 Thin Jelly. Each type stacks to 250.

Hope this Helps. Also to help, I made a WeakAura: https://wago.io/naQP3w8bo Three preview images are available.

Loads only for Alliance Characters that are level 120 in Stormsong Valley
Shows your x and y coord for callout to users with tomtom or such and subzone for those without
Shows your number of Rep Items (Blizz function return nil if you haven't had a change in your bags since load in)
Shows Faction and Friendliness left (when greater than 0) & how much is in your bags
Shows Weekly/Daily quests yet to do
Shows useful information about events
Well Commented. look at the Name return to turn off parts you don't want

Also, I am looking for the fresh jelly deposit quest so I can display the Bee Event Reminder only when you are loot eligible. Please let me know if you find it out.

Edits for updates have occurred

Comment by NinjaFlibble

According to comments on their main pages, the Tome of Hex: Living Honey drops from the Honey Smasher, and the Super Sticky Honey and glyph drop from the Harvester events

Comment by Noytron

Can you kill Gurg the Hivethief before he disappears? solo.

And if yes. Then is it time based? from the moment he appears or from the moment you start the Honeyback Harvester Event?

First time i encountered it he took off as soon as i hit him. Leaving behind some Jelly.

Second time i encountered him i stunned him instantly and got around 30 seconds to actually fight him before he once again ran off this time without leaving anything behind.

Both encounters was on the same day so i don't know if you can only do this event once per day for a reward or if i got unlucky he took off without leaving any jelly behind.

Apologies if this has already been discussed somewhere else or above :)
Replies appreciated either way.

- Noytron

Comment by Snemoonster

Hey.

i need the pet papi, and sonsoaked flitter
how can i get thesse pet, its a really low drop or?

Comment by Iceman3317

I don't know if it is a bug or not, but this faction doesn't count toward 100 Reputations.

Comment by Iceman3317

I don't know if it is a bug or not, but this faction doesn't count toward 100 Reputations as of October 2nd, 2019.

Comment by ToughGirl

I am surprise no one has listed waypoints for Bee Events, I guess either i am blind or i will be the first one to make a listing. :)

I highly recommend to install the AddOn called CopyPasta and TomTom, after doing so paste in these /way points spawn points in the CopyPasta AddOn.

/way 57.15, 51.29 (Windshorn Hills))
/way 47.43, 32.20 (Gale's Rest)
/way 33.12, 32.69 (Saber Island/ Jeweled Coast)
/way 72.29, 52.18 (Mariner's Strand)
/way 40.93, 62.15 (Roaring Highland)
/way 66.21, 69.84 (Near Mildenhall Meadery)
/way 63.07, 21.21 (Behind Bee Hive)

I also recommend to run this script code while at Bee Events, very hand. It will show what landmarks are near the Bee Events Locations along with the Cords of where to go.

/run local p='player';p=C_Map.GetPlayerMapPosition(C_Map.GetBestMapForUnit(p),p);SendChatMessage(("Honeyback Hive Event Close to - %s - %.2f, %.2f"):format(GetMinimapZoneText(),p.x*100,p.y*100),"CHANNEL",nil,2);

( where it says 2) at the end of the script simply edit that to the chat channel you wish to announce. For my case i set my General chat 2, so if i we're you i would edit to 1) like so...

/run local p='player';p=C_Map.GetPlayerMapPosition(C_Map.GetBestMapForUnit(p),p);SendChatMessage(("Honeyback Hive Event Close to - %s - %.2f, %.2f"):format(GetMinimapZoneText(),p.x*100,p.y*100),"CHANNEL",nil,1);

I also reccoment to Install WeakAura From Twitch For Bee Event Timer,
Copy and Paste Code from the given link here ( https://wago.io/RkfQNxgSe ) Once done so, Import into the WeakAura AddOn.

Bee Event Timer will not announce The Remaining time left unless you arrive at the Bee Event before it has started.

Comment by franchy

I killed Honeyback Smasher with 1 other person the first day the patch dropped and the Papi pet dropped for my friend, but it's not listed on his loot table for some reason.

Comment by ysterath

Can confirm Technique: Glyph of Dire Bees drops from the Honeyback Harvester events from the Fresh Jelly Deposit at the end. Got mine today.

Comment by Alieru

Found another deposit at 55.28, 49.45

Comment by Synsyn

So I did multiple Honeyback Harvester events in the last 24 hours and got the questitems from the "bossmobs" ONCE. They don't drop anything since then, only some of them drop 5 Jellys. Plus I don't get the Jelly loot after the event sometimes (like 50%).

Is that normal?

Comment by rodalpho

Rep bonuses like the human +10% do work on the baby bee "best friends" type reputation.

Comment by datgrl

Does anyone have an statistics on the drop rates and loot from the events? Aside from not having enough people to manage all phases within the time limit, how many times an hour can you receive loot? Is by the hour, at the top of the hour? I've heard tons of speculation.

I got the goggles as soon as I could and have only used them twice. I don't see any difference between using them and not using them. I don't get multiples with them on or see nodes more frequently. I feel like the jelly I used would have been better spent on rep.

Comment by Spuggs

Is there a bugged cutscene when doing the final turn-in for the mount? My screen faded to black then the saddled bee appeared at the entrance of the cave.

Comment by tuhmanuunuu

I havent seen this anywhere here

BUT reaching exalted with the "Honeyback Hive" Dont mean you will get the Bee mount. You still need to get his friendship bar full. Now with DMF buff i got exalted with the faction but still miss 2100 rep with the bee itself

Comment by BMHunterMain

guide is definitely wrong just in the intro steps, which sucks for such a confusing thing. unlock steps wrong in a few places, no rep for killing that boss, etc

Comment by Evenuel

Can You please edit the guide, that this rep is only available to level 120 characters (You can't start Step Two of the guide with lower char).
And also mention that one can farm Smasher on alts, to send jellies to main, but also, only if alts are 120 (lower alts don't get jelly drops).

Comment by Bonamassa

Seems being exalted doesnt count to my total. Anyone else have the same? Looking for another grind to get to 100.

Comment by Wexen

I think this is one of the most confusing guide I've ever read. Couldn't figure out where the step begins how to start. Rewards before the How To, and other things all mixed and stuffed in tabs...

JUST DO THIS;

- Buy the pet from the Stormsong rep vendor. Go to the Barry location (69,64) and head to north following the green patches, and don't enter instantly inside the cave.
Bring the honey patch near the cave, give it to the Queen, wait all the speech, and talk again to the Queen, not to Barry.

Handle all the honey jelly to the bees.

END OF THE GUIDE, fast, simple, clear.

Comment by vananyask1

I found another jelly deposit at 54.59, 19.03. Terrific guide, by the way! I'd have been completely lost without it!

Comment by JohnCrichton

4800 from 7000 rep atm :) today will get my mount hehe :)

Comment by Jdekik

If you are like me, after following the green circles and then stuck in the entrance of the cave and nothing happens nor when you talk to the Bee Queen/Barry, you need to find an item around 63.28 and give it to the Bee Queen and then talk to Barry to have him continue talking and then have access to the cave and start to unlock the new faction.

Comment by Fezgig

You need to make sure once you open the cave, that you continue to talk to Barry and then offer the jelly in your bags to the larvae. This will cause Barry to leave the cave and assume a position of vendor outside. Without doing this, you will find yourself with the Harvester rep bar opened up but you won't be able to loot any jelly from any of the world events. It took me 5 days of doing events and getting nothing but bee hats before I put in a ticket with Blizzard and support let me know I needed to move Barry outside the cave. Cheers!

Comment by Erithmael

Found more jelly at

/way 31.77 62.12
/way 35.72 28.78
/way 47.52 39.19

Comment by RedXian37

I should point out that the 15th Anniversary Experience buff will get you to exalted sooner, however that 15% does not apply to the Nascent/Juvenile Harvester when you feed it. So you might get Exalted before the bee matures.

Comment by RedXian37

Comment by Firestyx

It should be noted that you can do the quest line to obtain Bumbles however you must be level 120 to open and earn Honeyback Reputation.

Comment by Firestyx

It should be noted that you can do the quest line to obtain Bumbles however you must be level 120 to open and earn Honeyback Reputation.

Comment by Starlynk

Thanks for the guide... really helps...

Only problem is that I found is in the beginning to get Bumbles, you have Rosaline Mildenhall spelled incorrectly. Was using /tar macro and wasn't working... found her and figured out why with the mispelled name in the guide.

Comment by Starlynk

Comment by Icelyn

Anyone have a macro for REPEAT jelly turn ins?

Comment by Krowi

Looks like Honey Smasher is bugged right now and not giving rep without an eta for a fix: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/248824.

Comment by kroneckerij

If anyone wonders the reputation buffs give you more friendship with the bees. So during the 15th anniversary event and Darkmoon fair you get +25% reputation, which means you get +50 friendship for a Royal Jelly. This decreases the required Royal jellies from 263 to 210! A Thin Jelly yields +6 friendship which means the required Thin Jelly decreases from 2100 to 1750, which is 219 Royal Jelly. Make sure to transform the Thin Jelly to Royal Jelly during this period. Cheers.

Comment by archdruidbook

🅱

Comment by Mewington

"when I was playing on my shaman the other day..." the tome of hex dropped from honey smasher :)

Comment by Cleophas

I found that theres a thin jelly at:
45.68, 24.15
48.82, 50,61
36.74, 51.54
31.35, 64.59
59.98, 73.27
59.95, 71.83
62.09, 71.88
64.50, 76.90
65.94, 69.87
72.96, 74.01
64.02, 52.48
49.24, 53.89
64.68, 38.51
48.44, 24.00
43.61, 27.77
35.26, 43.01
34.87, 69.14
51.82, 78.24
34.26, 26.70

Comment by Dasorhunter

Is this mount still faction looked for the alliance?

Comment by Smorcus

The song I hear in my head every time I'm hanging out with my bee friend:
https://youtu.be/3pM0yccsZWo

Comment by meowcey

Thank you for the guide! It was very helpful, especially with first getting started.

Comment by Kyphala

You can always feed the jelly to the bee no matter if you got a reputation buff or not.
Reputation is only a side need to buy the item from the queen.
Most important is Friendship to the bee you are feeding.
You need so much jelly for friendship that reputation comes automatically also without any buff.

Comment by JClay

I hit exalted with the rep, but the bee "friendship" is only like 340 into the second phase of 7000. How is this possible? Should they not be even with each other?

Comment by Jyotsna

In case anyone was wondering, the friendship is NOT affected by reputation buffs such as the current "Impressive Influence" or Darkmoon Buffs

Comment by TheGrandmaGamer

I think it is strange that the bee and the faction did not progress at the same rate.

When I hit exalted with the faction, my bee still had a little over 3000 to go to reach mature and friendly. How difficult would it have been to make them reach exalted and mature at the same time?

Comment by emmezeta

Hi, thanks for this great guide.
I found new Jelly deposits at:
/way 46.68, 40.28
/way 44.50, 37.44
/way 45,40, 31.19
/way 46.26, 22.49
/way 48.47, 33.23
/way 55.89, 40.44
/way 56.59, 40.08
/way 60.23, 27.51

Comment by neognos

Anyone else notice the near constant torrential downpour of rain at Honeyback Cave? I can understand every once in a while, given the region's name, you know Stormsong, but sheesh, enough is enough!

Comment by gurbe

got the bee pet, but barry does not interact, came to him with the bee, then without the bee, got the bee, no differents

Comment by Arkthus

Can someone tell me why sometimes, when I find a deposit, I click on it, cast, and then I have an error message saying I can't loot this? It's frustrating...

I don't know if it's a bug or if it's because someone took the deposit before and it despawned at the exact moment I looted it, because there was nobody around...

Comment by toedels

what to do if the dialogue with barry at the hive not take place?

Comment by alipica

I think I've cracked the code for how often you can do the honey harvester event. It seems that you can do one per hour, but the timer for that hour is not when you last did one; it's a minute after the actually hour (so 1:01, 2:01, 3:01, etc)

I've been farming the event every 20min on my horde toon (I know that sounds strange), so I couldn't join premade groups because horde side obviously doesn't have any for harvester. Every 20min I logged on and found the bee and waited for someone to start the event. A few of those times I didn't get loot, but here are the two events that made me realize it resets on the hour:
1. I found the harvester at 12:52 and my rare alert didn't go off since I wasn't eligible for the event. At 1:01, my rare alert went off.
2. I joined an event at 3:55 knowing that my rare alert didn't go off, but I decided to test it anyways. at 4:00 the last bee came to drop off the honeycomb and it was invisible for me. At 4:01 the honeycomb appeared and I actually could loot it.

So I think maybe that will clear up the discrepancy on why some people report being able to do it more often than once an hour.

P.S. I'm not one of those horde jerks that starts the event while an ally group is waiting to form. I'm just trying to get the inscription recipe. I'm also farming the mount on my main ally toon. Good luck to all.

Comment by fraggerr

Just confirmed today that Honey Smasher and the quest items from the Harvester events ARE given a bonus from the Darkmoon Whee! buff.

Quests gave me 825 rep
Smasher gave me 550 rep

In case it makes a difference, I did have the carousel buff and not the hat buff. (I know they SHOULD be the same, but there could be some differences)

Comment by Zore

Also found a jelly deposit at 57.45 41.93

Comment by niffboy

This guide skips a pretty important part: how you actually unlock the faction. You don't unlock it just by bringing Bumbles or Seabreze to Barry. You have to go to the new hive which is at 62.93, 26.58 where you will find the Honeyback Hivemother. You have to get Thin Jelly from 63.20, 28.44 to give to the Hivemother. There is some RP between Barry and the Hivemother and then she will become neutral to you and go into her cave. Go talk to her and then you are officially neutral with the Honeyback Hive. Talk to Barry again and then feed the Thin Jelly to the Nascent Harvester and you will get your first bit of rep with the faction.

Comment by Lisq33

Here are some new coords 63.84 70.72 / 27.13 75.88 / 35.77 63.68 / 49.40 69.03 / 52.05 77.13 / 59.15 59.38

Most of the coords from 1st post are incorrect (jellies were like 50 yards away of them) or there were no jellies at all. Some coords (jelly or event) are directly in the middle of mobs, for instance 69 70 coord - how can there be an event?

Comment by casonator

It's currently at the end of BfA, and probably the best time to simply buy your way to this mount. On Borean Tundra (med pop server) it only cost me ~70k to get enough to complete this mount. After people stop farming I'm sure the cost will rise.

Comment by PyRoFyRe

Just want to mention to anyone that is currently doing this grind towards the end of BFA - while the "impressive influence" buff is live, there is a good chance that you will hit exalted with the Honeyback Hive before the juvenile harvester that you have been feeding hits maturity! This just happened to me and it took me a little bit to figure it out.

Good luck out there jelly friends!

Comment by TunacanJones

I am trying to troubleshoot an issue that my wife is having with the intro quest. We were in a group and approached Barry with our Bumble pets summoned. We were able to follow the pheromones to the Hivemother. My wife didn't see them after her Bumbles investigated initially. She never saw them even though I could see them when I followed them. She did see the Hivemother with me though. I was able to look for the honey/honeycomb and turn that in and complete the intro. She is absolutely stuck with the angry Hivemother. She can't find the honey/honeycomb that Barry refers to. We have dropped group, logged in and out. We are at a loss. Blizzard Customer Service wouldn't help. So we turn to the "Hive Mind" (see what i did there?) Thank you for any help you can give!

Comment by Josamean

There’s a lot of information here, but it’s really quite simple:

1) Get Bumbles (via quest) or buy Seabreeze Bumblebee from Rep vendor. TIP: You can cage and trade/sell Seabreeze.

2) Talk to Barry near Mildenhall Meadery flight master. Make sure you have your bee pet out. He’ll blah-blah and you’ll see green gassy clouds on the ground, which leads to the Honeyback Hive. Or you can just fly there: 62.93, 26.68.

3) DO NOT ENTER HIVE at first. She and Barry talk and dance. You need to find a jelly deposit to bribe her with (er, show good intentions). A few yards away from the hive entrance is the first jelly @ 63.20, 28.44 . Look for a honeycomb on ground. It does NOT sparkle or show up on minimap.

4) Enter hive and give your first jelly to the Nascent Harvester, which is the baby bee encased in jelly to the left as you enter hive.

5) Now you should be able to see jelly deposits around Stormsong Valley and start the numbing grind. Start collecting jellies. Nascent “goo bee” eventually hatches from the honey, and you continue to feed him. Do the Honeyback Harvester events and kill Honey Smasher every day. These give you extra rep and extra jellies/toys/stuff.

6) You’ll need to reach EXALTED with the Honeyback Hive faction and raise your friendship with the baby bee until it turns into a Mature Honeyback Harvester. This did not happen simultaneous for me. Barry will give you a short quest, “Leaving the Hive”, which will reward your mount.

TIPS:

Turn your ground clutter System setting to 1. This will allow you to see jelly deposits from a pretty far distance.

The jelly deposits are like any other gathering node - mostly random but show up in same general areas. Nodes can show up in grassy areas, on rocks, in tree knots, next to an outhouse (true story). Sometimes near or in the middle of hostiles.

If you have more than one toon, take your toughest/best geared. On many occasions, my DK took on the giant Honey Smasher and Honeyback Harvester events alone.

Get or make some Monel-Hardened Stirrups (can craft at level 50 Blacksmithing). They make gathering in general easier.

Hazelnuttygames has a quick video that shows you some of the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-PwqRPwRBc&t=294s

Comment by AySz88

Found ones not currently in the doc:

At 42.3, 40.9, almost covered by the bush; might only be visible if it's a "big"-looking jelly, and hard to see if it's one of the one-hex ones.
At 39.5, 64.1, rock against the cliff near where the Stormsong Hunter NPC stops.

Comment by Gingasaurus

I need help here. I have the seabreeze pet bee. I approached berry, nothing. I dismissed the pet and brought it back out, nothing. I caged it, resummoned it, nothing. I went to the hive, nothing. I went inside and got kicked out, nothing. I went back to Barry and repeated all of this: nothing.

What am I missing here?

Comment by Heathcote

So after obtaining the Pet and trying the get the Rep Intro I later discovered that no one had said

ACTIVATE YOUR PET BEFORE YOU SPEAK TO BARRY.

Now you can start

Comment by Wulfig

Get the goggles as soon as you can - it might cost the equivalent 80 thin jellies, but it's well worth it. I got nearly halfway to exalted in the first hour of using them.

Comment by Eillesthis

Honeyback Harvester doesn't show up as one of your reputation factions like Honeyback Hive. Rather, when you interact with the Nascent Harvester, there's a red progress bar at the top of the window showing how much you have fed it.

Comment by Jonae

As of now, the HoneyBack Harvesters now count towards your 100 reps!

Comment by jesta777

is the minimum level to talk to Barry and start grinding rep now 50?

Comment by WolfmanXX77

Thank you for this guide, I am looking to get a pet from the jelly deposits, but I'm on step 4 of your guide and there is no jelly at 63/28 or anywhere nearby for that matter.

Comment by himynameiswill

If you're coming back to this in later expansions and just wanting to buy jelly on the AH, I needed 213 Royal Jelly to go from Neutral to Exalted with no rep bonuses.

Comment by ballearther

Today I found the event at The Jeweled Coast, roughly 33, 34 and I couldn't reach it, my character would change to a phase where there are just some naga spawned and no event. Does anyone know why is that and how do I stop this phasing?

Comment by Illidana

Let's make it clear, your Harverster baby bee will give you its Honeyback Harvester's Harness so you can mount it once you feed it and it becomes an adult. Reaching exalted with the Honeyback Hive will do nothing. You will need a total of 263 Royal Jelly to grow your baby Harvester to an adult (Nascent Harvester 3,500 and Juvenile Harvester 7,000. Each Royal Jelly awards 40 growth points).
Once your Harvester becomes an adult, it'll give youLeaving the Hive which rewards the mount. You will reach Exalted with the Honeyback Hive rep sooner than your baby Harvester reaches adulthood because you'll probably kill the daily elite who awards 500 rep points toward the hive, but not the baby bee.

TLDR
Feed your Nascent Harvester 263 x Royal Jelly to reach adulthood and get it as a mount. Don't worry about the Honeyback Hive rep.

Comment by BigDizzle

Not sure when this change occurred, but this reputation now counts towards 100 Exalted Reputations. This gives Alliance 1 extra reputation to earn compared to Horde.

Comment by siley

I bought 263 Royal Jelly from the auction house, with the human racial each turn-in came out to 176 rep per. Easiest rep I've ever grinded, and it looks like it counts towards the reputation achievements.

Comment by Abracastabya

When you pump in the jellies and finally hit exalted don't be concerned if you can't get the quest to get your mount. You may have hit exalted but you still have to pump in a few more jellies to get your bee to fully mature before the quest is offered. Had me wondering for while, hope this helps someone.

Comment by phreakwithanf

I wonder if the pet Buzzworth can be used as well for the first part of this?

Honeyback Hive & The Honeyback Harvester - Reputation & Rewards Guide

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