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Comment by qagmire

This quest is for the Alliance faction only.

Horde players will have to follow this quest:
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=7321

Comment by laalarse

Soothing Turtle Bisque (Quest) tloc 69,13 (The whole river up and down you can find the turtles)

Comment by laalarse

You can get Soothing Spices in Southshore. 48, 55 from Micha Yance

Comment by Phrosty

The turtles have a somewhat highish Frost Resist, by the way.

Comment by Achillius

Those meats have a nasty droprate, i got the meats in around 50 kills..

Comment by Vlad

1) Kill turtles (Snapjaw) along the river east for Southshore:
http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=2408

2) Buy the spices from Micha Yance:
http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=2381

Comment by parvu

Definitely a slow drop rate - but you get a ton of clams which offer up tangy clam meat to cook with as well as the occasional iridescent pearl to auction - I got 3 of them during the time I got 20 turtle meat; which was basicallly following the river from the ocean all the way up into Alterac before it turns east.

Comment by mdramige

A cooking skill of 1 is required to pick up this quest

Comment by Loveshack

An AMAZING grinding quest if u like to grind, as im typing this im at 2/10 after 25 minutes and like..how ever many kills ive gotten so far.
Unless your a real lucky person I suggest skipping this quest unless you feel like grinding for a while.

Comment by Finallight

U have to go to the lake past Alterac, You wont get any meat from killing the ones by the river near by... trust me... i know.

Comment by Monkeycat

Well kind of bad droprate, but some of the turtles drops 2 meat. so. did go pretty fast. Have to take the turtles in the Lordamere Lake though.

Comment by Mitsurice

I hope the person at Blizzard who determined the drop rate of the meat dies by turtle meat poisoning, or gets bashed in the head by a turtle shell.

Comment by LionarChoGall

The location given in the quest log has a much better droprate than the river. Head to the lake north of Dalaran, i got all 10 pieces of meat in 16 kills. Also it is untrue, as of July 20, 2007, that you need 1 cooking skill to acquire this quest, i have yet to train cooking and just completed it.

Comment by LionarChoGall

This statement is false!

Comment by Luciferi

Falsehood confirmed lol. I do not cook and picked this up no prob.

Comment by Luciferi

idk i dont think the drop rate was that bad.. i killed about 6 now and have 4 of em... 2 of the turtles dropped 2 each. finding these ones starting from where the road from southshore meets the river.

Comment by Suhov

Meat drops from turtles who are located north of Dalaran. Drop from ones in Hillsbrad are very low. However quest tells you to hunt turtles at north Dalaran.

Comment by mwahahaha86

i suggest grinding the turtles in the shimmering flats near the thousand needles. the drop rate there aint all that nasty and besides, on the mirage raceway, there are quests to be done and everything is found on the shimmering flats itself. watch out for higher level turtles between lvl 34-35. kill those lvl 30-31 turtles. located on the northwestern part of the shimmering flats!

Comment by jcsmit

maybe im just incredibly lucky or, more likely, blizzard has tweeked the quest, because i got a 1/1 (!!) drop rate on the turtles in the river just east of Southshore, between the waterfall near the shore and the rocks a bit upriver. I even got 2 turtle meat from one.

Comment by Appolonia

Easily soloed this quest
lvl 30 feral druid
done in less than 15 minutes
Used the river just east of southshore

Comment by W1z4rD

The river on the east of southshore drops more than the other places, I got turtle meat with every turtle I killed, and I even sometimes got Turtle Meat x2.

Comment by Siushahme

The river on the east gave almost a 1 for 1 drop rate.

Comment by Kayleex

Actually, not true. I did this quest just a little while ago and didn't even have to leave Hillsbrad. The river to the east has plenty of mobs to finish this quest in no time.

Comment by cryptoengineer

Got 10 meats in 5 mobs, in the river just east of
South Shore. Super easy quest if you can handle
single lvl 30-31 mobs

Comment by moonasha

When you pick up the soothing spices, be sure to grab the other recipes the guy sells. You can put them on the AH and make some money.

Comment by dyerdome

The turtles you kill for this quest are simply godly for Cooking, from about 110-225.

First, they occasionally drop Bristle Whisker Catfish for 100+ Cooks. The turtles also drop clams which have Zesty Clam Meat for Goblin Deviled Clams. Farm enough clams to get to 175 and you'll have tons of Turtle Meat for the quest and to skill up -- not to mention some Irridescent/Small Lustrous Pearls and Heavy/Medium leather (if you're a skinner) to boot.

The Turtle Bisque recipe doesn't even turn yellow until 215, so you can easily do your entire stretch from 150-225 this way.

Comment by thetaxzombie

They were dropping 1 or two meats everytime and about 30% of the time got a clam besides. Was skinning besides for medium to heavy hides. Easy quest.

I just hunted up the river, then went around the falls and continued up river till I found the mountain lions for that quest and completed it also.

Comment by thetaxzombie

Pick up Costly Menace before doing this one. Every turtle dropped at least one meat, often two. Worked my way up river to Chillwind point to do Costly Menace. By the time I reached there I had 38 meats, 9 thick scales and 7 speckled shell fragments, along with 10 tasty clam meats and an irridesent pearl. Ended up killing 19 lions for which I got 7 lion meats, 3 briskly whiskers, a retractable claw and a large fang. Love this quest.

Comment by Backwell

Make sure you are at the spot mentioned in the quest text, near Dalaran is 100% drop rate.

Check the chat log in this screenshot, you can see I got over what I needed in under a minute.
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9070/wowscrnshot021608203304pr4.jpg

Comment by anivyl

this is in response to everyone who suggested the area in dalaran gives more turtle meat - this is false. i have done this quest (or forms of it) both as a horde and as an alliance, through about 6 characters and both sides of the map (since April 2007) gives about the same quantity of turtle meat (between 1-2 from memory). So there's really no need to run all the way up north and then come back down to finish up a quest "quick".

Comment by BladeMaster0182

I don't know about anyone else, but as a level 30 frost mage, the turtle I fought resisted half of my spells making them a pain to kite. Thought I'd make mention of this.

Comment by stijnherreman

A good idea is to do gather the meat in Dustwallow Marsh while doing Mudrock Soup and Bugs.

Comment by wowaddikt

Although this is an alliance quest I as horde was able to complete it in 5 min. I went to the river near tarren hill killed the snapjaws and went into tarren to buy soothing spices from the cook. spent just over 1 silver for it. Got 30 and felt it was worth it.

Comment by Roguish

I just did this quest and I went to Lake Lordamere (Lake north of Dalaran) and got a 167% droprate. Most of them were dropping 2 meat at a time. I highly recommend this spot, (15,54).

Comment by Ozell

Ok i have a problem i got my turtle meat and soothing spices but for some reason i don't get the continue button on quest.
Any ideas at to whats up, is it a bug or am i missing something.

Comment by Vuurvliegje

When i started the quest, i got the message: Shutdown in 13:00 and i was able to finish it before it said Shutdown in 9:00 So this is a very time-wasting quest and i will never ever do it again.

EDIT: this quest ( turned in at Shutdown in 6:00) gave me 250 SW rep wich is very handy as i want my horse, i am lvl 30 now, and i got 17938/21000 rep into revered with SW wich i think isnt that bad....

Comment by Sonikk

As of 12th of June 09 this vendor no longer sells Soothing Spices, only Simple Flour and Mild Spices.
Looks like anyone doing this quest will have to try to remember bringing a Soothing Spice from elsewhere..
After some research I discovered that Soothing Spices was removed from the game in patch 3.1, so i wonder how this quest should be completed..

Comment by that1kid

i had to laugh at myself because after hours of searching crystal song for lake lordamere i found it was north of darlan crater in the alterac mtns lol

Comment by lettie97

Watch out for the Defias Assasin by the river!

Comment by Arthran

I did this quest long ago before I started cooking, and I sold the recipe quest reward. Now of course Chef Jessen won't even talk to me. Is there another way to get to cooking 200?

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[DEPRECATED] Soothing Turtle Bisque

This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

Bring 10 pieces of Turtle Meat to Chef Jessen in Southshore.

	Turtle Meat (10)

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If there's one thing you'll learn about Southshore it's that we have some of the best cuisine north of Stormwind!

Take my secret recipe for Turtle Bisque, for example. I've known folks to travel from as far as Darkshire just to enjoy a bowl. Speaking of which, I haven't been able to make any lately. I used to head up past Dalaran to Lake Lordamere myself to hunt Snapjaws but it's just too dangerous now. If you bring me some Turtle Meat from the Snapjaws up north, I'll whip some up!

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You will receive: 30

	Recipe: Soothing Turtle Bisque		Soothing Turtle Bisque

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

5,460 experience
250 reputation with Stormwind

[DEPRECATED] Soothing Turtle Bisque

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