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Comment by Banduin

Use the empty jars on the oozes after you kill them. Just make sure to loot them first.

Comment by 10587

As of patch 2.0 this quest gives 375 Gnomeregan reputation.

Comment by iceeagle

40,66 - cursed ooze
40,46 - tainted ooze

Comment by 21478

Due to a server lag spike, the vial I was trying to use disappeared and I was left one short of what I needed to finish the quest... When you pick up this quest from the gnome in ironforge, I would recommend abandoning it once and accepting it again so you have two sets of vials. That way, if something goes wrong, you don't have to go all the way back to Ironforge like I did.

Comment by McKizz

You will need to travel to Felwood for this quest.

You will receive a box with the jars in them. If you are having inventory troubles (full inventory, etc) leave them in the box until you are ready to do the quest. After you open the box, you will receive 2 sets of 6 jars. One set for the Tainted Ooze, one set for the Cursed Ooze.

The Tainted Ooze can be found at the two ponds in Jaedenar. The coordinates are 40, 59 and 40, 55 for those two ponds.

The Cursed Ooze can be found just south of there at two other ponds. The coordinates for those two ponds are 40, 67 and 40, 71.

After you kill the Oozes, be sure to loot them. Then, select their dead "body" and use the appropriate container (Cursed or Tainted, depending on what you just killed) to fill the jar with ooze.

When you are finished, you will need to fly back to Ironforge to turn in the quest to Laris Geardawdle in the Hall of Explorers.

Comment by Bayer

This is the follow-up quest : http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=4513

Comment by 104571

As of 2.3

-9150 Exp.
-350 Gnomeregan Exiles rep.
-And 75 silver
at level 51.

Comment by serpentea

A funny note for anyone who happened to quest in Menethil...

"I helped a lady in Menethil find her bag not too long ago--it was eaten by oozes." the quest giver says this refering to http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=470

I found this to be slightly humorous...

Comment by 92734

1. Open the box you get from the questgiver.
2. Kill Cursed Ooze(40,66) or Tainted Ooze (40,46). (Felwood)
3. Use the empty vials on the corpse of the Ooze.

Gives 9150 Exp in 2.3

Comment by Impulse725

This quest did NOT count towards Loremaster of Kalimdor for me.

Comment by Nimrod

Just killed a single Muculent Ooze in Un'goro, and filled 10 jars (all 6 Tainted, 4 Cursed) from the corpse. Couldn't fill up the last two Tainted, but that was because I was attacked by a Diametredon and the ooze despawned whilst I was killing it.

Comment by 80158

Just did this quest, I think, can't turn it in and don't know why else the jars would have been in the bank. Had a similar experience with tainted ooze, filled a 'cursed ooze' jar while I was fighting it, then did another etc. It does seem to currently work though I only filled my cursed jars with tainted and then finished filling tainted jars with tainted.

Comment by 555897

Just to confirm. I filled all the jars from cursed oozes and it was fine when I handed it in. This counts for Loremaster too.

Comment by 233336

Just did the q, and you can use the wrong vials on wrong oozes, while they are still "alive".
I think this vial thing is all about oozes and not about which ones...

Comment by Thomassi

Listen guys: You can use all 12 jars on 1 mob, in Ungoro crater, any slime. :P Done it in like 1 min.

Comment by Krisshawnee

Interesting fact. This can be done right in Dun Morogh. The ooze can be collected from the Irradiated Invaders on the way to gnomeregan instance.

Comment by 630295

Counts toward Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms!

Comment by hazzegame

This quest is bugged alot I was in tanaris and did the quest with the "uldum" discs and killed a mob there (a big stonethingy) and I could all fill my vials from that mob without either the corpse despwaning neither was it the right mob! XD

Comment by Rikkard

There's no need to go all the way to Felwood. Apparently this quest is bugged, so every mob can be used to fill the jars, of both types. I killed a rabbit in front of Stormwind and filled all twelve.

Same for next-in-chain quest.

Comment by Tesal

Good sad news ... it is still bugged 'n u can even fill it from alive targets

" I hope we could fill it from Quest giver :)

Comment by Tomkin

No longer bugged as of Patch 4.0.1. Also I'd like to point out that if you cancel the quest the quest jars don't go away. Caused some confusion for me.

Comment by 724683

I believe this quest should really be downgraded to a level 46 as all the mobs are.

Comment by 941288

Tried to complete this quest but all I get is 'Invalid Target'

Time to abandon quest

Comment by 924646

Didn't find any bugs here and just killin something outside of Ironforge didn't do it either. So, just did the roadtrip n got a little preview of Kalimdor or could've changed my chars leveling to there. Lotsa work passed on while on the way to the slimes once I got to Felwood tho. 49 Dwarf Rogue with a ton of patience and took the trip for the hell of it n hearthed back to I-forge. Took just about 45 minutes includin the rent-a-grif rides n boat from Menethil Harbor and a little run down the road to the slimes south from north Felwood. Mined about 20 Mithril ore on the way tho in Felwood, a late 40s level place, so no prob there either. Peace!

Comment by Kanariya

One of the few vanilla quests that survived the Cataclysm. Most other quests like this were deprecated and replaced in 4.0.

Comment by 777538

As of Patch 6.2.0:

Laris now provides a satchel containing 10 vials. They are all one type, no longer differentiated as for Tainted or Cursed oozes.

There may be more than one place for finding oozes. Laris hints at both Felwood and Un'goro Crater. I tried Felwood first but received an "invalid target" message on all the oozes I tried there. In the southwest area of Un'Goro Crater called the Terror Run, I successfully collected from all the oozes I killed, no matter what kind. Filled all ten vials, then returned to Ironforge and turned in.

The mechanics of collection are still the same: kill the ooze, loot the ooze, target the ooze's remains and use the vial.

Comment by Wachassa

Doing this in 2021, 9.0:

1. Travel to one of the marked locations on Felwood.
2. Open Package you received when taking quest.
3. You will find a lot of Tainted Oozes in the green pools around 41, 54. To progress you must kill a Tainted Ooze, target the Ooze corpse and use one of the Empty Tainted Ooze Jar, repeat till you fill the 6 jars.
4. Same procedure with the Cursed Ooze Jars, you can find Cursed Oozes in a large pool around 41, 66.

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A Little Slime Goes a Long Way

Bring 6 Filled Cursed Ooze Jars and 6 Filled Tainted Ooze Jars to Laris Geardawdle in Ironforge.

	Filled Cursed Ooze Jar (6)
	Filled Tainted Ooze Jar (6)

Provided item:

	Package of Empty Ooze Containers (1)

Description

But the thing I've studied most is ooze. I know it sounds odd, but they're all over!

I helped a lady in Menethil find her bag not too long ago--it was eaten by oozes. I've seen members of the Royal Apothecary Society from Undercity collecting samples of the stuff. I want to know why! Where does it come from?

I've heard of more in Felwood. What I need are samples of the oozes there so I can further my research. I'll give you containers, you use them to collect a sample from the deceased creatures.

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

350 reputation with Gnomeregan

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(4512))