Cataclysm Daily Quests, Part 2: Deepholm and Therazane

Welcome back to our Cataclysm Daily Quest Guide series! In Part 1: Daily basics and profession dailies, we went over the basics of daily quests and why to do them, and we reviewed the Stormwind and Orgrimmar profession dailies. This time, let's delve into the dailies targeted at high-level players, beginning in the very depths of the elemental plane of earth: Deepholm.
Deepholm dailies
The daily quests in Deepholm are associated with the Therazane faction. In terms of rewards, Therazane is the new Sons of Hodir; they're the non-scribe's source for Cataclysm shoulder enchants and thus should be high on any raider's priority list in terms of gaining exalted reputation.
However, unlike the Sons of Hodir, Therazane does have a tabard that you can wear in dungeons in order to gain reputation. Therefore, it is entirely possible to get to exalted without doing a single daily quest. Why do the dailies, then? Aside from the general reasons to do dailies that we discussed last time, doing the Therazane dailies will give you an alternate source of reputation, allowing you to use a different tabard in dungeon runs and thereby work on more factions at the same time. There are also a number of achievements associated with the Therazane dailies, one of which awards an adorable pet.
Unlocking the Therazane hub
In order to unlock Therazane dailies, you must complete the entire quest chain in Deepholm. There is no way around this. Just start at the beginning of the zone, follow the quests as they appear, and the bread crumbs will eventually lead you to the Therazane faction.
Although you start out at hated, the non-daily quests will shoot you all the way up to honored reputation. This means that you don't have to worry at all about the friendly reputation required for the tabard; by the time you are able to see the Therazane quartermaster, you will have more than enough rep to purchase it.
The quests
Once you've unlocked the Therazane quest hub, various NPCs at Therazane's Throne will offer a total of five daily quests per day through honored and six after revered. Some of the quest offerings seem to be fixed, while others rotate; there are a total of 10 daily quests associated with the faction. Note that one of the quests, Underground Economy, is actually picked up inside the Crumbling Depths rather than at the Therazane's Throne quest hub. If you can't find all five (honored) or six (revered) dailies, chances are you have to go to the Crumbling Depths to pick this one up.
The possible quests are as follows.
Crumbling Depths quests Three of these five quests will be available each day. The first two are fixed, while the last three rotate; only one of them will be offered on any given day.
- Fear of Boring Kill 10 Gyreworms (in or around the Crumbling Depths); fixed daily quest.
- Motes Collect 10 Painite Motes from the Crumbling Depths; fixed daily quest.
- Beneath the Surface Recover a Ruby Crystal Cluster from the Crumbling Depths. The crystals are at the back of the dead end tunnels. They spawn a mob when clicked that will drop the quest item. Rotates with Underground Economy and Lost in the Deeps.
- Underground Economy Use Ricket's Ticket to blow up four specific rock types and collect three of each type. Note: The rocks you're blowing up are not the spiky ones on the ground, but the large crystals. There is one type of crystal in each main room of the caverns. Rotates with Beneath the Surface and Lost in the Deeps.
- Lost in the Deeps Escort Pebble out of the Crumbling Depths to safety. The achievement Rock Lover is earned upon completing this quest 10 times, awarding the companion Pebble. Rotates with Beneath the Surface and Underground Economy.
- Soft Rock Kill 8 Fungal Behemoths in the Crimson Expanse.
- Through Persistence Obtain a Bag of Verlok Miracle-Gro from Verlok in the Crimson Expanse. Any type of Verlok can drop this item.
- Fungal Fury Destroy 10 Freshly Sprouted Mushrooms in the Crimson Expanse. There are four types of mushrooms, visually different but with the same name: Sprouting Crimson Mushroom. Three of them give 2-minute buffs upon destruction, while the fourth will knock you back and deal damage. There is an achievement for possessing the three buffs at once and then blowing yourself up.
Rotating quest at revered Once you hit revered reputation, the Therazane hub will offer one additional quest, which will be either of the following.
- Glop, Son of Glop Slay Fungalmancer Glop. This is the daily version of Wrath of the Fungalmancer. If you complete the daily version without taking damage from Glop's Boomshrooms, you will receive the achievement Fungalophobia. If you complete the daily 10 times, you get The Glop Family Line.
- The Restless Brood Strike the Pale Resonating Crystal and defeat Aeosera. This is the daily version of Resonating Blow. If you complete the daily version within 90 seconds, you get an achievement. Note: This quest can be very irritating when many people are trying to complete it. If you strike the crystal and don't get thrown onto the rocks, keep hitting it until it's your turn. Then jump up the series of rocks to kill the Broodmother at the top.
The rewards
Each of the Crumbling Depths and Crimson Expanse quests awards 250 reputation with Therazane, as well as 10 gold at level 85. The revered-level quest awards 350 reputation and 17 gold. As your reputation increases, you will gain access to items sold by D'lom the Collector, the Therazane quartermaster. He's located at the throne. He sells four blue shoulder enchants at honored, four blue rings at revered, and four purple shoulder enchants at exalted.
Stay tuned next time for Tol Barad daily quests!
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Angus Jan 7th 2011 9:18PM
Random quest is random. Keep at it, eventually you will get it.
Cyno01 Jan 7th 2011 2:36PM
Another note, if youre a collector its worth picking up "Underground Economy" and NOT completing it. The bombs have a powerful knockback that if used in the right spot, lets you access another small cave in the crumbling depths.
Theres a rare spawn mob at the back named "Jadefang" that has a 100% droprate on http://www.wowhead.com/item=64494/tiny-shale-spider, a BoP non combat pet.
nymrohd Jan 7th 2011 2:46PM
Might I also add that it is a unique skin for hunters, a green shale spider.
Pyre Jan 12th 2011 7:51AM
There's also a semi-rare world chest that can spawn at the back of that same grotto; I've gotten Binding Promise (http://www.wowhead.com/item=67037) and a lvl 81 wand out of it.
(Note: not sure of the spawn frequency of the chest, I've been in there at least once daily since Underground Economy was first available to me and only seen it twice, but who knows how many times I wasn't the one to get it?)
Cyrus Jan 7th 2011 2:56PM
Can anyone confirm that Rock Lover achievement tracker is working? Or the achievement The Glop Family Line? I know the trackers aren't showing progress, but some people seem to think that it is being tracked behind the scenes. Has anyone got them yet?
As for The Restless Brood, like people have said, it's easy to make the timer if you just let someone else summon the dragon and then hit the crystal after killing it. I'm kind of surprised they don't hotfix that; there's no way they meant it to be that easy. (Maybe, of course, it's the kind of thing they can't fix in a hotfix, and it'll have to wait for a patch. But anyways.)
Cephas Jan 7th 2011 3:01PM
I can confirm that the tracker isn't working, but the achievements are working. That is to say, I've gotten Glop Family Line, and I would assume that Rock Lover also works.
dmrobertson2 Jan 7th 2011 3:17PM
I dislike the Pebble quest. I have tried for a whole week to complete it but the giant Gyreworm keeps eating me. I think I will resign to the fact I will never finish it and just do the other 6 dailies.
And I will vouch for the Broodmother kill, it can be achieved even when someone else summons her. You just need to hit the spire with the hammer and fly up.
crazyhunter Jan 7th 2011 3:42PM
I've done this quest a number of times. Just mount up and ride out after the worm has passed. Pebble will keep up.
Bluelightning Jan 7th 2011 4:00PM
You know you can mount up in those caves right? No reason for that giant worm to ever catch you if you let him pass then make your escape.
BlindWorg Jan 7th 2011 5:24PM
Is it just me or does the link at the end direct you to a page where there is only this one article on daily quests? Theres no part 1 as far as i can tell :3
ctishman Jan 7th 2011 5:40PM
Glop, son of Glop is genuinely disturbing to me. Chasing somebody into their home and beating them to death over the sound of their cries for mercy isn't something that sits well with me, moreso than the Borean torture quest.
For that matter, using napalm bombs to light 100 soldiers on fire and watching them plunge to their deaths isn't exactly moral high ground either (nor is subjugating the Egyptians' disturbingly semitic-looking Pygmy slaves with hammers), but it's not quite as personal as Glop's confusion and panic.
Fletcher Jan 8th 2011 3:00AM
If you mean that one daily quest from Nomarch Whatshisname, I'm pretty sure those are thieves, not slaves. There doesn't seem to be any indication that the Tol'vir practice slavery, unlike the Egyptians their culture is based on.
Pocky Jan 8th 2011 3:15AM
And those are any better than the one where you have to kill the baby drake, cut off it's head, strip off it's skin, scoop out it's brain and eyes, then plop the empty skull on its mothers dinner table to lure her out and make her mad so you can kill her, all the while taunting her with a "Hey! Here's your kids head! Does that make ya angry? Well, does it?? What do you think of that??"
Yeah... there's some real gem quests in this expansion. lol
Autumn Jan 7th 2011 5:59PM
There's seven quests at revered, unless I'm mistaken. Not six. Fear of Boring, Motes, Soft Rock, Fungal Fury, and Through Persistence are 5 constants. Then the 2 variable quests.
Playallnite Jan 8th 2011 7:28AM
I wish I were able to do the dailies in deepholme. I'm stuck at 88 quests with no quests available. I've flown all over the zone several times and can find nothing. I researched and found several others with the same issue but they had closer to 110 quests. I opened a GM ticket hoping for answers.. I'm guessing I'm in a phased state which makes quest givers invisible to me. Anyone else ever have this issue?
kriedman Jan 14th 2011 9:38AM
I'm in the same situation as Playallnite. I can't find any other quests here. Any help?
Gath Mar 16th 2011 8:45AM
yeah what's with this crap anywayz, about these so caLLED RANDOM DAILYS...OMFG WAHT A PAIN IN MY ASS...BIG TIME...I PAID 1KG TO HAVE A LOK BLAST ME UP ONTO JADEFANGS LEDGE, THE NEXT DAY I PAID A PRIEST 400G TO DO THE SAME THING, SO I COULD GET HER KID...RANDOM DAILY? MY ASS...I THINK BLIZZARD KEEPS THIS DAILY FROM US ON PURPOSE, SO THAT WE ALL HAVE TO WORK THAT MUCH HARDER TO GET JADEFANG OR HER KID. SO, HERE YA GO bLIZZARD, SINCE YOU HAVE NOT DROPPED THAT DAILY EVEN once FOR ME IN OVER A WEEK, THEN YOU WILL BE THE FAIL, NOT ME, i INTEND TO SELL FOR MUCH GOLD BLASTS TO PPL WHO WANT TO TAME HER OR TAKE HER KID....AND I WILL MAKE THOUSANDS YOU HEAR ME BLIZZ? I WILL NOT ever TURN IN THAT QUEST "UNDERGROUND eCONOMY" AND WILL KEEP RICKETS TICKERS IN MY BAGS FOR ever AND ever, ONCE I GET THAT BOMB? YOU AIN'T never GETTING IT BACK BLIZZ, SO HA HA HA EAT THAT AN TAKE YER DAMNED DAILY AND SHOVE IT WHERE YER BOREAN MOSSE BALLS HANG. JERKS...I USED TO LIKE THOSE PPL AT BLIZZ, NOW I PRAY AND PRAY EACH DAY THAT A GREAT EARTHQUAKE, HITS CALIFORNIA AND THE ENTIRE STATE FALLS INTO THE SEA, I HOPE IT HAPPENS IN MY LIFETIME, I WOULD LOVE MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN LIFE, FOR BLIZZ TO CRUMBLE, LIKE THE CRUMBLING DEPTHS.