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Comment by Falcore

The quest reward from this is actually the cooking recipe Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=21025

Comment by 8670

You also recieve a 20 stack of http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=25659 as a reward and trust me this food makes all the difference.

Comment by 154581

how much it heals doesn't matter.. the 25 stam gain is what counts.

Comment by 203949

Yeh, I have this recipe on my hunter. Its great! The Rocket fuel can also be made by engineers.

Comment by strifeseh

Actually, engineers only provide the recipe to make goblin rocket fuel, an alchemist of at least 210 skill is required to actually produce it.

Comment by llagrok

Is it possible to do this quest if the AQ gates have been opened?

Comment by rooter

What is the starting quest to get this recipe? It's not Never Ask Me About My Business.

Comment by schizix

it should be noted that the quest requires you to be at least Neutral with Brood of Nozdormu in order to get the quest...

Comment by Gorbal

There is quite an involved chain required to get this recipe. It is part of the chain required to open the gates to Ahn'Qiraj, but it is still possible to complete even after the gates have been opened. It begins in Silithus with Baristolth in Cenarion Hold.

Part 1 - Getting Neutral with Brood of Nozdormu
1) What Tomorrow Brings - talk to Anachronos in Tanaris
2) Only One May Rise - kill Broodlord Lashlayer, 3rd boss in BWL. The head can now be looted by everyone present.
3) The Path of the Righteous - collect Silithis Carapaces. Repeatable until Neutral.

Part 2 - A Bit of History
1) Anachronos - talk to Anachronos
2) Long Forgotten Memories - go to Silithus, find a crystal
3) A Pawn on the Eternal Board - watch event, return to Anachronos
4) The Charge of the Dragonflights - opens three quest chains. We want the Blue Shard chain.

Part 3 - The Blue Shard
1) Azuregos's Magical Ledger - begins in Azshara with Azuregos (or Spirit of Azuregos, if Azuregos is dead)
2) Translating the Ledger - talk to Narain Soothfancy in Tanaris. Opens 3 more quest chains. The one we want is:

Part 4 - The 500 pound Chicken
1) Never Ask Me About My Business - talk to Dirge Quikcleave in Gadgetzan
2) The Isle of Dread! - go to the Isle of Dread in Feralas, kill (lots of) stuff
3) Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops - bring dirge some rocket fuel and deeprock salt (yum!)

Finally, you are rewarded with Recipe: Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops!

Post-4.0 update: Sadly, this excellent quest chain was removed with Cataclysm. This is still the only Epic-quality cooking recipe in the game. The only way to get this recipe now is by acquiring it from someone else who had already completed the chain; as the limited supply has dwindled, the auction house prices have risen quite high! If you are a collector, this will soon be almost impossible to acquire - you can always replace the gold you need to buy the recipe (if you can find it), but no one can farm more of these recipes.

Even more sadly, the Isle of Dread has sunk (as it's only purpose was as part of the Scepter of the Sands quest chain), and it is no longer possible to obtain the Chimaerok Tenderloins needed to cook these delicious chops (as they only dropped from mobs on the Isle of Dread). Count yourself lucky if you've had the chance to sample some!

Comment by toastcat

I would like to point out that this isn't just a long quest chain, its pretty much impossible to do solo. So if you're going for just the recipe, be aware that at some point along the way, even at level 80, you'll need at least a healer to help you out with Broodlord Lashlayer.

Comment by horz

http://www.wowwiki.com/The_Scepter_of_the_Shifting_Sands_quest_chain

See here for the complete AQ quest chain.

Comment by colar

I finally got this book after about 6 months. When 3.0 first came out and I saw the achievement system, then researched here (Gorbal's post above would have saved me a lot of time!) and realized I had a long way to go. For one thing I started WOW during BC and never got into any AQ raids and skipped Silithus completely.

There was a few PUG AQ40 but the reps return back then was lousy due to being level 80 (diminishing reps was removed a few patches later GRRRR) and ended up doing various quests both outside and inside including token turn ins and old token tier armors. It was still slow going until Blizzard dropped the diminishing reps gain, then I rocketed to neutral, and jumped through friendly to mid part of honored when I was allowed to complete the token quests. That was about a month ago. But a BWL raid stalled me.

Today I got into a BWL PUG that wasn't fail, and got the head. Later afterward, I finally got down with free time and decided to try and finish the whole thing. 5 hours of zone hopping, switching between WOW and Wowhead.com for references, several hearth stones to dalaran for quicker routes, I finally got the book!

The hardest part was getting the 500 pound chicken stuff. Lakmaeran's Carcass was a tad easy but slow for level 80 moonkin in half PVP half heroic gears. I used innervate once, healed myself twice, but I didn't need to use potions. Getting 20 Chimaerok Tenderloin also took some time, I had to do 2 clears of the island to get all 20, about 40 minutes total (10 minutes clearing, 20 minutes before the first ones respawned, then 10 more minutes clearing again). The drop rate for the Tenderloin was about 1 in 3 despite what Wowhead says.

Now off to giggle like a school kid with key to candy shop. 162 recipes learned in my cook book (thistle Tea being the only one I don't have for obvious reason) I also posted in suggestion forum to make learning this recipe a FOS achievement because it takes so long, required multiple zone hopping, reps grinding with old world rep, raiding in another old world dungeon to get it. Anyone who rolled after BC expansion's release is not likely to have the reps with Brood of Nozdormu required to start this chain of quest.

With the exception of BWL raid, everything could be soloed but I do suggest going for AQ40 raids whenever possible as the reps are much faster than spending couple hours farming bugs. (plus chance at 4 more mounts toward mount achievement, a FoS achievement for red mount, and more quests done toward loremaster!)

Comment by Hoddie

This is the Scepter of the Shifting Sands quest chain as ported from wowwiki, with wowhead links added for ease of use. Full credit goes to original author(s).

Notes

This epic vanilla WoW quest chain no longer exists. May it rest in peace.

Chain

What Tomorrow Brings
Only One May Rise (requires Blackwing Lair raid)
The Path of the Righteous (repeatable for Brood of Nozdormu reputation)
Anachronos (available only when neutral with Brood of Nozdormu)
Long Forgotten Memories
A Pawn on the Eternal Board
The Charge of the Dragonflights

To continue the chain you need to collect the Green, Red and Blue Scepter Shards.

Green Scepter Shard

Eranikus, Tyrant of the Dream
Tyrande and Remulos
The Nightmare's Corruption (outdoor raid)
The Nightmare Manifests (outdoor raid)
The Champion Returns

Red Scepter Shard

Nefarius's Corruption (requires Blackwing Lair raid)

Blue Scepter Shard

Azuregos's Magical Ledger
Translating the Ledger requires you to collect the following:

Narain's Scrying Goggles

Stewvul, Ex-B.F.F.
Scrying Goggles? No Problem! (requires Molten Core raid)

500 Pound Chicken

Never Ask Me About My Business
The Isle of Dread! (outdoor raid)
Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops (this is how you get Recipe: Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops)
Return to Narain

Draconic For Dummies: Volume II

Love Song for Narain (optional)
Draconic for Dummies
rAnS0m
Decoy!
The Only Prescription (requires travel to cross-faction city and raids to Onyxia's Lair, Blackwing Lair and Molten Core)

The Good News and The Bad News
The Wrath of Neptulon (outdoor raid)

Conclusion

The Might of Kalimdor
Bang a Gong! (available only within the first 10 hours of the gates opening; awards the Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal mount and the Scarab Lord title)
Treasure of the Timeless One

Comment by DeathMaster

Counts towards the Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement.

Comment by Icelandic

I wouldn't suppose anyone knows if this reduces reputation with the Bloodsail Buccaneers? I'd like to know whether or not to start it before I tank my Ratchet rep, build up Bloodsail, then build up Goblin again through 'Free Knot!'

I found my answer on this wowhead page. I figure that it will serve quite handily to do my Loremaster quests before I start my Bloodsail grind ^_^

Comment by 297982

For my fellow rep farmers out there:
I did the 500 pound chicken today, and was rather afraid when I saw the Gadgetzan rep roll about. I can confirm the rep gained does not affect your Bloodsail rep, nor does it affect the other Steamwheedle factions. Only Gadgetzan.

On a sidenote, the AQ chain is largely soloable these days. I highly recommend anyone to do it for the lore and the quirky conversations many of the npc's tell (Azuregos is awesome).

Comment by Gwalchgwyn

Does anyone know if this or the previous quest will lose you Bloodsail Buccaneer rep? Ive just finished the grind to exalted and would take me days to get that rep back to where it was :/

Comment by Lombra

For the Volatile Rum, which is an ingredient in Goblin Rocket Fuel, I can recommend paying Shely Steelbowels in Icecrown Citadel a visit, if you have access to it. He spawns after having defeated Deathbringer Saurfang (possibly only for alliance), and sells up to 20 rum.

Comment by 663495

I have completed the Charge of the Dragonflights, where do I get the quest to start the blue scepter shard line?

Comment by Billyray

They are removing the Gates quests in Cataclysm. Probably in patch 4.0.1

Comment by 632461

After seeing the recipe sell for 10k gold on my server, I realized I need to do this quest before it gets removed from the game. Getting neutral with the Brood to start the chain took me two AQ40 full clears (kill all the trash and turn in all the insignias, if you're in a pug just aggro as much extra trash as possible so people are forced to kill it) and the first couple quests in the chain before you need to talk to Anachronos. After that it was just a few hours of solo questing and now I have the only epic cooking recipe in the game.

If you're reading this and you have an 80, do this ASAP and save the recipe in your bank. It'll sell for stupid amounts of gold in cata when no one can get it anymore.

The rest of the quest chain is mad fun too. I'm gonna finish it this week just to do it.

Comment by Jepperdepper

You're dumb. The more people you tell to do this, the more recipes there will be. The more recipes, the lower price. I suggest you delete your stupid comment.

Sorry, that i'm being an ass, but logic says you keep business secrets for yourself. Ofc I know many know about the recipe already, but telling more people is just shooting yourself in the foot.

Fail.com

Comment by 632461

By that logic why do we even have Wowhead? We should keep everything secret so we can be better than those other scrubs who can't figure it out for themselves.

Besides, even if 10 people from my server read this and do the quest at the last minute, I'm pretty sure we'll all still be able to get ridiculous amounts of gold for the recipe a year from now.

Comment by sfen

Confirming that I still have this in my bank and Dirge is not selling it, as of this posting time.

Comment by mstrbean

I have one of those Frostwhisper-EU, if anyone is interested.

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Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops

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

Dirge Quikcleave in Gadgetzan wants you to bring him 20 Goblin Rocket Fuel and 20 Deeprock Salt.

	Goblin Rocket Fuel (20)
	Deeprock Salt (20)

Description

My recipe is complete! What I need from you now is some rocket fuel and deeprock salt. I'll handle the spices and the meat you brought me will cover the rest.

After you bring me what I asked for, the chicken will be ready to take back to Narain.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Recipe: Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops		Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with Gadgetzan

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