There were a couple “interesting” things I have encountered while doing this Netherwing stuff that kind of annoyed me, but I couldn’t do much about the annoyance because it seems to be that the Netherwing Ledge area is a little buggy.

First off, was doing the A Slow Death quest, which involved collecting 12 Fel Gland from animal mobs in Shadowmoon Valley, then taking those Fel Glands up to Netherwing Ledge, and in combination with a piece of mutton that the quest-giver gives when you pick up the quest (and takes it away when you turn it in, but at least tomorrow’s mutton activates on your action bar the same way as today’s, no need to re-action it), you go to a camp of Dragonmaw Peons around the crystals, put down the meat, and voila! They’re supposed to do something like this:

Part One - Dragonmaw Peons Actively Mining

Part Two - Meat Dropped, Dragonmaw Gather & Cheer

Part Three - Dragonmaw Peons Eating Tainted Meat

Part Four - Dragonmaw Peons Scold, Then Die

Unfortunately, it seems like some of the Dragonmaw Peon camps either aren’t hungry (and thus they keep working after you put down the meat and you’ve wasted a Fel Gland), or they’re already bugged out from a previous person and now they’re just waiting for someone who is working on the pre-requisite quests to opening the Netherwing rep entirely, so they can be killed and reset.

As a result, when you’re doing this reputation grind, I advise you to either bring more than 12 Fel Gland with you when you leave Shadowmoon Valley and hit the Netherwing Ledge, or that you be prepared to make a couple of trips in between doing other things.

Bug #2 - Bad Loot Lag - The Not-So-Friendly Skies

For some reason, out on the floating rock-island-thingies while hunting for Netherwing Relics off of the Dragonmaw Transporters that fly by overhead, loot lag is HORRENDOUS! And it’s not even that it only lags when you’re getting a Relic, either - noooo… sometimes it lags and times out two or three times before allowing the looting to finally go through.

While this is annoying at the best of times, it’s particularly annoying when your movement is limited in terms of snagging the next mob (for which there may be competition as well). Thankfully the loot-timeout only seems to be 10 seconds or so, so it’s not like we’re sitting there for 30 seconds each time it decides to crap out.

It only seems to be on the islands that the loot lag is bad - in the mines, on the Ledge, in Shadowmoon… it’s all fine.

So, when it happens to you, know that it’s “normal”. I started to party up with a morning-daily-quest-runner after I hit Revered and the first time my loot lag hit, he was sure to let me know that he’d had the same trouble, and that the Ledge was a little bit buggy, so it ain’t just me!

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