So, “Scarab Lord” is one of those achievements I’ve always wanted to try. I was playing back in the day when the first server (Medivh pride!) opened the gates of AQ, but nobody knew there would be some crazy exclusive mount associated.
Well, I can be a pretty driven player when I was want to accomplish something. I’m genuinely thinking I might take a week off work whenever AQ drops, purely to pursue Scarab Lord, which sort of feels like it could be the last time it’s ever available.
It’s not the personal investment that worries me, though. It’s the “social” aspect.
I love playing with other folks, but I’ve never had the most dominant personality. I get nervous tanking, and I could never even imagine trying to form a guild, let alone lead one for any length of time. I wasn’t playing Classic or SoD whenever those AQ gates opened, so I really don’t have any idea what things are like during those times. Are pugs just open-rolling the quest items? Or are they typically soft-reserved? Have there ever been community efforts to try and get as many people as possible through as possible?
For that matter, if I focused purely on making gold through tradeskills, do groups “sell” those quest items? Or how would you even complete the quest in Moonglade, which looks to require at least 40 players, maybe more?
I’m totally willing to jump through whatever hoops I can to get that, but I’m worried that ultimately the quest is entirely outside of my control, without already being the head of an already successful and hardcore raiding guild.
I know it’s easy to just dismiss the notion like “if you don’t already have a guild, there’s no point in trying”, but it would just be nice to get a little more clarify about what to expect.
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Based on this post, I can confidently tell you that you have 0% chance.
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Essentially impossible for almost anyone… nevermind a “less social player”
You need an entire raid group with you for most of the steps… and about 50 hours of no sleep bug killing with at least a dozen deputies all not sleeping as well farming for you.
Long way of saying. Don’t bother. You will never get it. Just let it go.
Not a single part of the scarab lord grind is “solo player” Legit every single step is raid / group farming. Every part of it.
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To even remotely have a shot:
- Expect to pay a minimum of 25k gold for a broodlord head the first week
- Expect to pay 60-100k gold on scarab frags
- Find a competent team willing to follow you around killing mini bosses. If not friends, you’ll need mercenaries and that won’t be cheap
- Pay for some goggles from MC
- Pay for a Nef kill
- Hope that all of these services will actually be available because the rights on them haven’t already been sold off
In summary, telling you that you have no shot would be unrealistically optimistic.
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Paying 25k for brood head? What? Lol.
If a guild isnt getting a SL then the head is pointless… so why would it be worth 25k?
Yeah good luck finding guilds handing out broodlord heads “because they won’t use it” 
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that still doesn’t make it worth 25 friggen thousand gold.
25k? Come on. You could probably get some crap guild to give you the head for like 1k
Absolutely not when people will already be conditioned to pay big numbers. And nobody that’s serious about scarab lord is putting their lockout into the hands of a “crap guild.”
OP, don’t worry about Scarab Lord. It won’t happen, and you can’t change that outcome.
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The problem is most guilds will think they have a chance so someone will want it, even if they really don’t. There simply wont be that many out there, but even if you could find one and get it free, the quest simply isn’t very viable for someone without a guild behind them thats wiling to jump in and do raid level events in a relatively short timeframe, and a lot of the steps are extremely tedious like farming the dragon packs.
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I have no idea about Scarab Lord but after reading these replies i wouldnt want to do it either. Sounds like a horrible experience.
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Well put.
Also questions for OP to consider:
Do you have all the mats needed to complete the quests?
- 20 Arc bars
- 10 elementium ore
- 10 azerothian diamonds
- 10 Blue sapphires
If even these 4 items above feel like something you cannot easily accomplish… this is like… .001% of the effort needed. So if these items feel like a stretch… thats your sign that its over.
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Probably the only horrible part of its, the initial gathering of the shells. Most of it simply is designed around raid requirements though which make it difficult for someone who doesn’t have a guild or raid behind them.
No it’s not for a casual player.
The scarab lord title and scepter questline is one of the worst social experiences and grinds the game has ever had.
Usually a hardcore guild will choose one person to get the sceptor and then the rest of the guild helps them farm the items they need, while other guilds do the exact same thing in the exact same areas, across both factions and in contested territory. It takes days of nonstop guild/group farming, and once someone has completed thier sceptor and rings the gong, everyone who hasnt completed theirs has 10 hours to do so or lose the ability to make thiers/ring the gong forever. There will be a faction and guild war over the scepters and gong. If you arent favored in your guild you have no chance, and if your guild isnt hardcore about farming it then you have less than no chance.
This isnt mentioning the month long war effort grind to get to this point either.
AQ is one of the low points in the game. the raid is ok but everything following up to it is just garbage and the reason why so many people stop playing for that phase.
There is plenty else to do inside and outside the game.
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You had another post about Scarab Lord.
This is the ultimate prima donna achievement. I don’t think anything else in WoW has ever required so many other people’s devotion to one player to get anywhere near it. If you were a very popular streamer or a rank 1 player in a top guild you would be in a realistic spot. Normal people you can forget about it.
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We had 5 people who quit their jobs and went on welfare in order to play 24/7 for this originally. Even then it was not enough as we probably needed over 300 people doing the nonstop killing.
that sounds extraordinarily based… why hate on social events? you can just not participate.
Okay, here’s the part I find frustrating with a lot of the replies;
It’s just various flavors of “it’s impossible”.
Does anyone here have any ACTUAL experience with seeing how it was handled in the past?
What prices for various items/stages of the quest were going for in the past?
Giving blanket “it’s impossible” statements isn’t helpful or informative without some kind of information to support those statements. It comes across as baseless negativity, and entirely dismissive of any amount of effort.
It seems several people said it requires quitting your job and spending a month online nonstop with many others.
Seems like it may require amphetamines. shrug