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Comment by ph0tek

After picking up the climbing gear, look straight UP. You will see a crevice in the ceiling that you can latch on to.

Comment by alliana00

Got the bag hanging off the rock easy peasy…but how in the world do we get to the cache? I see a grappling hook above the cache in the upper den when I climb up there, but can’t get to it…

Comment by Talionus

After climbing almost to the cache, look for a rock on the opposite wall. After grabbing that rock, the hook above the cache is targetable.

Edit: Once one has retrieved the cache, venture close to the edge and look to the left. The first hook might be targetable but If it is not rotate the camera view until the hook is visible. Then click on it. You can then release as your character will be closer to the ground. Thank you all for your feedback!

2nd Edit: I've found rotating my camera view to look upwards helps navigate amongst the stalactites and rocks. This should reduce the time the annoying bats hit you with whatever they throw.

Comment by bigtimeweenfan

Grab the climbing backpack and look straight up. You'll see a shiny grappling hook. Click it.

Face north. Now head WEST towards the first stalactite you can grab. Keep clicking stalactites until you've gone around to the other side and started grabbing onto wall rocks. Make your way around, and start looking for the bag with the key. Get close enough and click it.

Now drop down to floor, use the same grappling hook again, but this time, head EAST, clicking stalactites until you get to the climbing rocks. Click the climbing rock on the opposite side of the wall you're on for the last step, the look back towards the other side where you'll see a chest and a new grappling hook. Click that new hook, but DO NOT drop off. Click the chest while you're on the grappling hook to complete the quest.

HINT 1: Do NOT use 1st person camera, for some reason some of the stalactites clicks do not register in 1st person camera mode.
HINT 2: Watch out for the bat patrolling around as you click around.

Comment by nomsidious

Blizzard finally came up with a climbing quest that made me give up on it.

Comment by capwhanda1

I have same problem i see the cache but there is no way to get to the grappling hook.

Comment by avm1997

This is not intuitive at all, but after a lot of trial and error this is how you get the final chest.

Keep climbing on all the rocks on the same wall with the chest, eventually you will be able to jump to a rock that is on a wall ACROSS from the cove with the chest. Land on that, and use the grappling hook.

Comment by Shanaraen

Pick up the pack, look up and grab the grapple point in the ceiling.
Go to the right all the way around the back side of the pillar where you got the pack
There will be a key bag hanging at the last rock.
Go back the way came or drop and go back to the grapple point.
Once there go left across the teeth and then to the rocks on the wall chest side.
At the last one look back and jump to that rock then click the grapple above the chest
Once there click the chest while still hanging on the grapple above it.
PS no Primalist Scriptures involved, just the key.

Comment by Spilledstars

SPELUNKING IN TWO CHUNKS
Part Zero - Where Is The Climbing Gear? And The Cave In General
/way 43.8 60.8 Spelunking Den with rare and climb quest

The cave entrance is decently huge, and is not on the very top of the mountain, basically about a quarter of the way down from that.

As you come in the giant cave entry, there's a little backpack behind a wide pillar at floor level.

The slyverns are sparse and relatively OK if you only have to fight one at a time.
Bad news, THIS AREA CAN PROC AN ELEMENTAL RARE (Bonesifter Marwak) and they are a mean one with floor damage and so on.
Good news, if it pops a bunch of people will show up to help.
Great news(?), it drops loot worthy of a heroic grade fight, including BoA gear tokens for catch-up iLvl 385.

Part One - Getting the Key To Use Here
Not to be confused with the epic'ly useful Zskera Vault Keys, this one is just a regular quest-item key in a tiny pouch hanging off a rock. In the Style of extra loot in climb quests it hangs just below a reachable rock.

Ugh, you are about to ask, what rock, I can't tell where to start climbing. LOOK UP. Til your neck hurts virtually. There's a grapple hook there (somewhat square, hanging off the ceiling).
(credit: ph0tek, bigtimeweenfan.)

Position yourself with your back to the climbing gear and your face to it; you need line of sight to grapple. That fact becomes important in the end of Part Two.

Be ready to use your "prevent hazard" button, (button 1 in your climbing gear, thanks Vaelor for asking) the slyvern breath weapon is a fluffy white swirl in midair and not very big, but it will detach you from the stalactites or rocks. You won't need Rupert's hand.

Your vehicle-bar for this includes various Dragonscale Expedition features. when you mouse over them they have a tooltip for their features, but people with alternate-mice methods might not easily get that info.

Button 1 seems assigned to some sort of "hang on real tight" feature which in a variety of climbing quests is used to give you one evasion of a hazard.

So you can press 1 if you see the swirl of white, or maybe try hitting it when you see a baby slyvern flying around, as the effect is a teeny-tiny breath weapon from them.

Grab that hook. A long rope will carry you up there. grab-hand stalactites - and eventually rocks - to the clockwise direction (your right initially, if you faced as I said, but you might have turned your camera around to feel like you can see what you grab). There's rock, stalactite, rock again. GRAB THE LITTLE SACK, it contains the key. Don't hearth, don't quit, don't leave.

Fall off. Re-equip the Climbing Gear.

Ignore the spiral stair-ramp, it has no value to this quest.
The chest that is the prize is in an extra nook up there.

Part Two - Claim Your Prize
Look up again. Grab that hook again. Go the other direction.

You are gonna be somewhat "spider man" using your climbing-gear hand between the full size chunks of ceiling all these stalactites or rocks are attached to. WHEN YOU CROSS THIN AIR THIS WAY THE SECOND TIME there are two rocks and it looks like you're soooooo close. You can see that second hook off the top of the cavern, taunting you.

Click the rock that looks nearest it. Grab the rock to its right that seems farther from it, or slightly higher and therefore maybe the same distance? Its line of sight is broken and you cannot grab the hook from there. Turn your camera; there is another rock just behind your shoulder, on the rock across air. Grab that. Turn your camera the other way.
(credit: Talionus "on the opposite wall", avm1997 "it is not intuitive", Shanaraen "last one look back")
NOW YOUR LINE OF SIGHT TO THE SECOND HOOK WORKS.

Once you've grappled to that, while hanging from here you can cursor the chest that sits in that nook.

Edit to add: Unless you're in a Raid Group. Then you can't, until you get out of the raid. Thanks Raima

Edit to add: (thanks ArashiFaustes) Oh my, now I'm stuck in climbing gear, how do I get out? It counts as a Buff. You can remove it the same way you remove a Buff which is normally to right-click the buff icon in your list of buffs.

TL;DR get used to changing your camera angle. :(

Comment by Zyrusha

If you do not read quests like me you will be stumped when you get to the chest and can't figure out why you can't open it. Go the other way and find the small loot bag with the key then go back to the chest.

you're welcome

Comment by cuyukostas

Chest is bugged and untargetable... will wait for the reset

Comment by arisen1

The best way to do this quest:

1) open your quest log
2) click abandon

Comment by JDLKY

1) At the first grappling hook go right for the Key. Then later left for the chest,

2) The !@#$% climbing gear does not go away until you leave the cave and jump off the cliff.
This is really stupid.

Comment by ArashiFaustes

You can right click the climbing gear buff to remove it.

Comment by Lepto

I struggled with this as my camera angle was never working. Then I discovered the control key. When I look up, to keep looking in that direction, I can just hit the control key to lock my camera in that view. Same with looking to the side.
This has made this quest so much easier!

Comment by Ehayen

What a stupid idiot I am, going in the direction of the quest objective.

Stupid, stupid me. I'm such an idiot.

Comment by Ehayen

Once you get to the last rock it will look like you're too far away to get to the grappling hook but this is one of those special situations where Bliz makes an exception to a rule because they feel like it. Click the hook, go up, then click the chest while still on the hook. If you drop off the hook and try to loot the chest it won't work because, again, Bliz.

Also you can't leave the climbing vehicle until you move far enough away from the quest area.

Comment by heretic21

This quest nearly made me uninstall the game

Comment by GreenWithEnvy

This quest is proof that Blizzard does not evaluate the playability of their game.

Comment by Tali0226

This quest requires you climb (using grappling hooks, stalactites and ordinary rocks) to first get a key, then find the chest. I found the loot bag containing the key on the back side of the pillar where you pick up the climbing gear. Find the gear (don't pick it up yet) and go around the pillar to the other side. Look up and you should see the key bag. Go back and pick up the gear. As others have said, once you pick up the gear, the first grappling hook is behind you. Turn around 180 degrees and look up. You'll see the grappling hook on the ceiling. Go grab the stalactities going clock wise around the pillar, grab the key bag, then start going back around, counter clockwise, until you get to the where you can see the treasure chest. The last rock is on the wall opposite to where you are. Once you hop across the gap, then turn around to face the chest again and you'll see another hook in the ceiling (it's not targetable from the rocks below it, you have to be on the rock on the opposite side for it to be in line of sight). Once you grapple over and you're hanging above the chest, you can open it if you got the key first. If you didn't, you will not be able to interact with the chest at all.

Comment by Zkajavier

YOU NEED THE KEY FIRST, or you won't be able to interact with the chest. And you'll think the chest is bugged.
The key is the other way, to the left when you first grapple the hook.

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Spelunking the Den

Explore the Skyfox Den's ceiling using Dragonscale Expedition climbing gear inside the cave.

	Climbing Gear (1)
	Grapple onto the Expedition Climbing Hook (1)
	Primalist Cache Key (1)
	Primalist Scriptures (1)

Description

Did you have a chance to visit the Skyfox Den? A very exciting place, from what I've heard. Expedition's spelunkers started surveying the cave and even installed a few grappling hooks on the ceiling, but they were scared away by violent slyverns. Can you do me a favor? Get inside the Skyfox Den, grab the abandoned gear, and check the ceiling for any hidden crevices. Who knows what could be hidden inside?

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Elemental Overflow

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with Dragonscale Expedition
350 reputation with Dark Talons
350 reputation with Obsidian Warders

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(74118))