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Comment by 3phase

A simple hand-in quest for 700 artifact power.
To get there quickly.
- Stone to Dalaran.
- Use Wyrmrest Temple Portal in the Chamber of the Guardian.
- Fly to the Azjol'Nerub Meeting stone.
- Kilix the Unraveler is standing right beside it.

Comment by BananaBomb

And here I thought that I would finally see one, after capping islands on 12 characters the week of Nerubians on Skittering Hollow, but nope.

Comment by Genesh

I got this from Nerubian mobs. I killed a rare that was actually named Vorus'arak.

Comment by Galaxyg1rl

This seems to have a very low drop rate :(

Comment by angeleyed

I can confirm that if you kill the rare named Vorus'arak this item drops for the entire party at the end of the island. Vorus'arak looks like anub arak.

Comment by Sarthorius

This week we have Skittering Hollow with Nerubians, SPAM THE HELL OUT OF IT, hoping for a Nerubian invasion and the rare spawning in the pit.

Comment by Nezrok

It's up this week too. Time to grind Island Expeditions!

Comment by Doloria

Vorus'arak's Carapace drops from the Swarm Lord, Vorus'arak in Skittering Hollow. Check Wowhead weekly News to be sure the Nerubians (giant spiders) are up in Skittering Hollow.

Locations posted for Vorus'arak(Click on name to see post)
Kronatan	no special spawn point. He can appear in many places . So use macros "/tar Varus" and check every boss point.
Doloria	We found him inside a cave at 50.04, 54.30 in the middle of the zone map. I think this was near the edge of the pit - the black area on the left of the map.
Jezartroz	He was found in the "pit" in a cave filled with Nerubians.
Aurecante	I had a macro "/target Vorus" and after 5 or 6 Skittering Hollow where it wasn't there, we found it in a little cave (coords 47 53).
Todesfeuer	I can confirm – /way 47, 53 Vorus'arak finally got Skittering Hollow to pop today and got it right away.
Dahustler	I found him around 35 37 standing in the open after around 10 HC Skittering Hollow today.
Elodeon	When I finally found Vorus'arak, he was in the middle of the pit (not in a cave like others have found him).
MatekFX	I done like 20+ skittering hollow HC this week and nothing, done ONE normal and he was there (left bottom corner of map).
Tunney	I found Vorus'arak in the northern part of the pit. He looks like a giant scarab beetle.

From reading other posts, I knew each of us had to tag Vorus'arak to get the quest Vorus'arak's Carapace. We killed him, but no one received the quest. As we were leaving Skittering Hollow at the end of the Island Expedition, the quest popped up in large type in the objectives section on the screen for each of us. (Island Expedition difficulty was Mythic.)

The turn-in is in Dragonblight in Northrend. Go to Dalaran via the Crystalsong Forest portal in the Mage Tower or the Pathfinder's Den in the Main Gates of Orgrimmar. Check the map of Northrend - you'll see a large yellow question mark in Dragonblight. Turn it in to Kilix the Unraveler in an ice tunnel below ground at 26.2, 50.6. Fly down the large hole in the ground.

Vorus'arak's Carapace is required for the Achievement Tell Me A Tale.

Comment by Karzeian

Did this with some guildies. Spent 8 hours straight. Sanity was waning...
Spammed normals. First heroic he spawned.... We live....

Comment by Elodeon

Over two days, I entered 54 island instances on two characters to get Vorus'arak's Carapace. When I finally found Vorus'arak, he was in the middle of the pit (not in a cave like others have found him). I alternated normal and heroic difficulties and finally found him on normal. The quest item then dropped at end of instance, as expected.

I noticed:

Whenever I abandoned an instance because it was the wrong island, then queued again after debuff expired – if I queued again on the same difficulty, I would get the same wrong island which I last abandoned on that character. I saw this 9 times, without exception. The chance of this happening randomly would be around 2.6%.
Whenever I completed an instance and queued again on the same difficulty, I would get a different island than the one I just completed.
The only times I got the same island again that I last completed on the same character was when I switched difficulties.

Putting this together, I suggest:

If you abandoned an island because it was the wrong one, then after debuff expires, queue again on a different difficulty. This way, you might have 1/3 chance of getting the right island, instead of a likely 0% chance.
If you completed an island and it was the correct one, queue again on a different difficulty. This way, you might have a 1/3 chance of getting the right island, instead of a likely 0% chance.
If you completed an island and it was the wrong one, queue again on the same difficulty. This way, you might have a 1/2 chance of getting the right one, instead of a 1/3 chance.

Comment by BeerWolf

Finally showed up. After having done an absolute ton of Heroic/Mythic Runs with a premade group, switching to Normal it was up on the first normal run. Absolutely disgusting spawn rate...

Comment by Spifty

And on the 7th day (of the Skittering Hollow with Nerubians week) he rested! I can't even count how many runs I did, but probably around 50 hours worth of farming across multiple characters and multiple accounts -- over 8,000 dubloons. I tried every difficulty. In the end, he spawned on Normal. Interestingly, my afk character on the boat did not receive the item, just the one that killed Vorus'arak. Best of luck, all.

Comment by Klausnomi

Just got mine on the last day of Nerubian Skittering Week. The grind was unreal. I did the alternating normal/heroic strategy after getting a Skittering (as @Elodeon's comment in here suggested). But eventually I gave up on that and just ran normals. I found that the extra AP needed to complete the island, and the health increase of the mobs, didn't seem worth it to me.
According to my rarity I did just under 150 islands, and I believe it added up to about 24 hours of play time. Since a lot of players are leveling now, I did get quite a few islands with low level players using heirlooms.
In my estimation, it is definitely not worth giving yourself the deserter debuff to abandon an island that isn't Skittering Hollow. You have to wait 30 min to requeue, and you could just complete the island in 10 minutes or less. What's worse - if you abandon an island - you condemn your fellow farmers to queue into your freshly empty spot that isn't a Skittering.

Vorus'arak was in the lowest level of the pit for us. We waited for the full 3 man to tag.
Good luck.

Comment by danteboz

Seems like an incredibly low spawn rate. Spent a solid 20 hours farming normal / heroic islands over the past several days.

I encountered Vorus'Arak exactly once, unfortunately it was when I loaded into an island 90% completed where he had just been killed. I did not receive the quest item, as I expected as I was not present to tag the mob when he died.

Comment by Crestafore

This week we had Nerubians in Skittering Hollow and I obtained the item. This item was my last of the two items I was missing.
Words can not describe my resentment for the Tell Me A Tale achievement.

Since the criteria for getting some of the other items are still vague people say Vorus'arak's Carapace is one of the "easier" ones to find because it is well known/confirmed that it drops from Vorus'arak , so your only goal is to find the rare. However, I found my journey to obtain the item quite frustrating. I did about 100+ island runs in 4 days and 30+ runs of Skittering Hollow until I found Vorus'arak. Most probably some of my brain cells died in the process.

Here's some tips that might help some poor lost soul who is after the achievement, I'm going to state even the obvious stuff:

1. Vorus'arak has a chance to appear when Nerubians invade an island which can only happen if they are the enemy of the week, meaning you can't spam random islands hoping they invade if they are not 1 of the 3 active enemies that week. They can only appear as enemies of Skittering Hollow.

2. Which enemy appears as enemy of the week is random, there's no rotation or criteria. This means that it might take months for Nerubians to appear, which was the case for me this year.

3. Immediately when the island expedition begins if Vorus'arak is not up he won't appear later in that run.

4. Vorus'arak and Nerubians in general can only appear in the pit / left area of Skittering Hollow. Don't bother search the forest part of the island.

5. The exact location I found Vorus'arak was: 39, 53 some screenshots: https://imgur.com/gLQH7MY and https://imgur.com/BI5G286

6. Each run inside the pit I spammed the macro:
/tar Vorus'arak

7. Doing islands in Shadowlands means that you can only do random normal / heroics because there are no pug groups for mythics anymore, unless of course you have friends willing to spam mythics with you or you can try discord. Also I don't know how mythic islands look like after the 9.0 scaling.

8. Doing random islands I would most of the time be matched with low level folks who were most of the time new players and had no idea what they were doing. It is cute but also means you would probably need to finish the whole island on your own.

9. Reading this comment helped me very, very much. Basically: if you get island A that means the next time you queue on the same difficulty you would either get island B or C. To counter this you switch difficulties normal / heroic every time you are put in Skittering Hollow and you will have a 1/3 chance to get Skittering Hollow again on the new difficulty.

10. Listening to podcasts / chill playlists on Spotify helped me preserve my sanity in the process of doing the islands.

Think that's all. Hope some of these tips help someone.
Stay strong and good luck!

Comment by Lughnasadh

This week (25 Jan 2022 reset) we had Nerubians in Skittering Hollow and I was finally able to get this.

Comment by Barotz

Since 9.1.5, players are able to queue solo from the friendly NPC close to the table. Queue an island, and if it's not the one you're looking for, you can get out and queue again. You will get a different island 100% of the time! This way you can just enter Skittering Hollow, check if Vorus'arak is here, and if he's not (like most of the time...) just leave and re-queue.

Have a good farm!

Comment by ChefeSousa

Skittering Hollow with NERUBIANS Available this Reset on EU 01/11/2023

Best Method for me: Do 1 Normal Private (That is not Skittering Hollow); Than just Queue, Normal Privates which will cycle between Skittering Hollow, and the other Island you haven't done;

When you're in Skittering Hollow just spam a macro ( /tar Vorus'arak ); he will allways be in the pit area, if he isn't there right of the start, just leave instance and requeue; 1/2 chance it will be Skittering Hollow again.

Got my item in about 30 minutes of trying. Good luck

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