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Comment by 5257

While you are at Winterspring buy Fel Elemental Rod from http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=16015 cause you need it in the last part.

Saves time and money :)

Comment by 6274

Find a spot where you can pull the mobs and start by eliminating the trash mobs. Start to kill the mobs you are interested in and during the first fight near the end, drop the distiller (by right clicking it in your bag).

Pull the mobs to the distiller so that you can get as many as possible because the distiller despawns after a few minutes. Goblin rocket fuel isn't cheap and you only start out with 8. If you need more, you have to obtain it yourself.

Comment by lormus

It took 10 rocket fuel for me. 4 - in Winterspring.
In Winterspring its hard to find needed mobs, farmers are there even at 06:00 server time.
In Silithus i could easily solo as 60 druid, you might as well take quest The Spirits of Southwind http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=1125 since you will be killing same mobs. When these spirits die theres a quite tough bug spawning.

Comment by 11002

It took 9 fuel for me. The EP part of it is tricky because the ghosts are somewhat spread out. I recommend you solo everything except the EP part. This also helps save fuel as you find and kill ghosts a lot faster.

Silithus - 5 barrels
EP - 2 barrels
Winterspring - 2 barrels

Comment by jwolfley

i find it amazing that the prior comments fail to make a few critical points:

1. you have to have both the mob and yourself inside the radius of the distiller when the mob dies.

2. you have to loot the mob immediately or the ecto crap will be gone.

jusf fyi.

Comment by Bubbli

If you place the Ectoplasmic Distiller in a good spot, you can get all 12 of each using only 2 rocket fuel in each area

Comment by 66529

The distiller has a 5 minute duration once placed, and collects spirits in a 13 yard radius. See the spell used by the item for more detail.

Comment by Lonkeroinen

The distiller can be planted after you've pulled the ghosts or are in combat. This kind of tactic saves alot of time(duration on the distiller) .

Comment by psxchelly

9550 exp gained at lvl 61.

also, i have found that if you collect Stable Ectoplasm around 61.66ish there are 6 or 7 Hate Shriekers that respawn rather quickly. I only used 1 drop of the distiller.

Comment by Algeo

The mobs you have to kill are:

Silithus: (around 62,52)

Tortured Druid (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=12178)

and/or

Tortured Sentinel (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=12179)

Winterspring: (around 52,42)

Suffering Highborne (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=7523)

and/or

Anguished Highborne (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=7524)

Eastern Plaguelands: (around 60,68 or 77,51 or 71,35)

Eyeless Watcher (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=8539)

and/or

Death Singer (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=8542)

and/or

Hate Shrieker (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=8541)

and/or

Unseen Servant (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=8538)

and/or

Torn Screamer (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=8540)

Good luck with the rest of the quest line!

Comment by 220106

The drop rate of the ectoplasm's isn't as low as mentioned here on wowhead, it's 100% when the mobs are 13 yards (or less) near the Ectoplasmic Distiller.

Comment by drded

Counts for Loremaster of Kalimdor :D

Comment by jlrm365

Stable Ectoplasm:

The easiest place to collect these, for me, was in Northdale (at approximately 66 26, Eastern Plaguelands). As a hunter, I could almost rotate and shoot all of the mobs I needed (Death Singers and Eyeless Watchers). I experienced a 100% drop, from all mobs, while maintaining the Ectoplasmic Distiller's buff. You may have to hit a mob and then back up, until you have the buff on you again.

Comment by 334234

This is a fun quest

Comment by Beatriz

Definitely Northdale. I did this at 80 for loremaster and you can plant your distiller next to the gallows platform in the middle of the village and drag them up to five at a time to you. Did it all on one rocket fuel.

Might be harder at the level intended simply because you can get up to five mobs at a time on the first pull if you aren't careful.

Comment by 336386

It is worth mentioning that if you are a Warlock, and are Soul Stoned; the monsters will NOT drop any ectoplasm, regardless of how close you are to the distiller. I was killing the correct mobs and didn't get any ectoplasm until I cancelled the Soul Stone buff.

Comment by Umega

I had a bit of fun with the distiller after I had some goblin rocket fuel left over. The distiller can be placed anywhere in the world, so I thought about placing it in front of the Ironforge bank just to see people reactions of the object, even some lvl 80s were a bit confused. :P

Comment by 230812

reminds me of the ghostbusters XD anyways... /cheer for more quests for loremaster achievment

Comment by 162721

The comment from Lormus is good advice. Definitely get The Spirits of Southwind http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=1125 before doing the Ectoplasm quest.
To make it easier for folks, this quest comes from Layo Starstrike, who is not in Cenarion Hold. You will find him at 81.8, 18.8, in the far northeastern corner of Silithus.

Comment by disinformatique

The Silithus collection for ectoplasm was easy. I installed the machine in the centre of the village, and kited the souls, got around 9 in my first try. The second time I used it on the top of the slope and kited 3 more.

The Eastern Plaguelands souls were a tough nuts, I got around 8 near the Light's Hope Chapel and remanining 4 at Corin's crossing.

Winterspring also was not as hard, just kited 9 souls in the first try and remaining 3 in the next.

Still has one rocket fuel remaining.

Comment by Katayin

Anyone know if the distiller stays in your bag after you complete the quest?

Comment by 550094

Didnt realize that i had all the rocket fuel in the bag from the other quest, and, after getting %^&*ed off and flying around, i eventually noticed the bag and got the fuels out of it...

Long story short, pay attention to your quests, or feel like an idiot.

Also, the ectoplasms were very easy, once i figured out that I had the fuels...
Only took 3 drops of the device total, and, I got to save the rest to pop in cities, and stand around looking cool.

Comment by 433572

I was so upset that the bag only had 8, and must have spent 100g+ getting the rest of the fuels...all 36 of them. Then I read up on wowhead that you can use the distiller for more than one mob.

/sigh

/feel like an idiot

edit:spelling

Comment by 423314

I just did the Silithus one today and one use of the device lasted until I got all 12 ectoplasms. It seems like they've upped the limit it lasts now, because I didn't pull them very quickly and the mobs were certainly spread far apart. Hopefully this is true in the two other areas, Winterspring and EPL. Happy Hunting.

Comment by 156097

A griefer made this quest hell on me. He'd wait till I tagged stuff, then kill it for me, knowing it was tagged and that he wouldn't get loot, simply to make it die outside of the range of the distiller. EPL cost me 4 rocket fuels when it should have cost one.

Knowing how 99% of WoW players are mean, angry, stupid little kids, I'd suggest camping and playing an alt if anyone, anyone at all, is nearby when you're going to attempt this.

Comment by 513994

I just did this quest at lvl 80, used 4 fuels alltogether. If it wasnt for a crit from a dot leading to a death outside the machines range in winterspring i would've done it on 3 fuels. So noone doing this quest should ever need to farm for more fuel than the 8 that you get for free.

Comment by 696704

So I am pulling all these mobs into the distiller (dropping it before and after I pull), letting them wail on me for bout 10 secs, and just one shot them all with my fists (thinkin that you need to let the distiller pulse a bit on the mobs) and ya zero loot I have gone through 5 fuels already, I am glad i stocked up. Btw this is in silithus. I dont know if its bugged or not. go figure 2 quests away from lore master.

Comment by Arkuda

Are those quest items, you gather from ghosts, supposed to disappear once you run out of the device's range or its a 4.0.1 bug?

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Hunting for Ectoplasm

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

Use the Ectoplasmic Distiller near incorporeal undead to collect 12 Scorched Ectoplasms in Silithus, 12 Frozen Ectoplasms in Winterspring and 12 Stable Ectoplasms in the Eastern Plaguelands. Bring them along with the Ectoplasmic Distiller back to Mux Manascrambler in Gadgetzan.

	Scorched Ectoplasm (12)
	Frozen Ectoplasm (12)
	Stable Ectoplasm (12)
	Ectoplasmic Distiller (Provided) (1)

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A fine piece of engineering, if I do say so myself! You will need to travel a bit, I'm afraid, in order to find the incorporeal undead we require.

You see, different climates lend different consistencies to the spectral fabric of the dead. The tortured night elves of Silithus, the spirits of the highborne from Winterspring and the ghosts and banshees of the Eastern Plaguelands should give us the different types of ectoplasm we need. Be sure to place the distiller nearby before you harvest them!

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