There are 100 steps to this quest. Step 1 is to get 59 of your closest friends and get them to agree to be online farming bugs for 16 hours a day for 7 days straight, and giving you every single thing that drops. Let us know when you’ve got that covered and we can move to step 2.
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What more information could you possibly need? The task is Herculean at best, impossible at worst.
The steps, and how its handled, have already been described by other posters. Not social? No chance. Not popular? No chance. Not unemployed? No chance.
If the result is failure, regardless of intent or hopefulness, then the impossibility of the task is all that needs to be said.
You stated you are not a social player. That’s a non-starter.
I was on Azgalor, Ravens of Strormwind, you?
Alliance side the only people that might have been able to ‘solo’ it was Lilgem, or Mav. Because everyone was in love with them.
Scarab Lord I think is only attainable if you completed the Scepter Questline and rang the gong when you do both, I think. Which is a very hard thing to do, especially since several versions of classic have passed and the questline was removed past Cata. At least that’s how I think it works.
It’ll be hard to solo even if it is possible. You need raid groups for a ton of the quests and they need to know you need certain items from the quests, other items to help along the questline won’t be approachable without help as well. Even at 80 I doubt it’s soloable unless you’re an absolute unit of a Paladin or Hunter Maybe. But, I only know these things from searching forums and youtube for the same answer you’re looking for. But, being as that is little more than wikis and word of mouth, don’t take my word on it, there’s gotta be a pug group out there willing to do the questline. But, I don’t know if Scarab Lord is attainable.
But, man, I really wish that quest was still around. Blizz, answer my prayers and add a classic version of azeroth to live for timewalking campaigns, I’d drop everything and take this Warlock on all the adventures I couldn’t do.
I’ll try and post a link to the guide for it:
Bang a Gong! Scepter of the Shifting Sands Quest Chain Guide - WoW Classic - Wowhead
Pretty sure the post on Reddit with the same whiny “don’t tell me it’s impossible because I want it to be possible in my mind” sentiment is the same dude too.
OP isnt even responding… clearly a bait thread.
Didnt realize we were on Twitter where ppl are getting paid for their bait engagement farming.
Holy crap, i just looked… he has hundreds of nonsense posts. What the heck is even going on… He just posts and doesnt respond.
The forums are his own diary i guess
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You need to pay or have an army of simps to farm the rep for you. Its the only really hard part.
So either you’re rich or sociable. If you’re neither there’s 0 chances.
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My experience with it is from the original run of WoW. My guild was the only guild even capable of it as the disparity between the top guild (the guild I raided with) and the next was enormous. I say that to say we had no competition for the things that we needed from the overworld and thus there were no prices for anything. Just a lot of time investment.
We did a /roll for who got to put together the scepter and thus who opened up the gate. It was a female human mage named Gemina (I believe that’s spelled correctly, been a hot minute) who was either French or French-Canadian.
As to these other posts, some may come across as negative but trust me, they aren’t nearly as dismissive as you seem to believe. Heard plenty of horror stories about how Scarab Lord went down in Classic. People paying real money (or large sums of gold that they purchased using real money) to practically bully others out of collecting the things needed was perhaps the worst of it.
Being entirely realistic when I tell you this. Without a guild at your back that is perfectly happy to assist you in this endeavor, you’re not going to be ringing that gong. You can look up the questline yourself on wowhead or wherever else to get an idea of just how extensive it is. More than a few steps absolutely require a raid.
The only way I could possibly see someone who isn’t backed by an actual guild getting it is if you were an extraordinarily popular streamer who has a legion of sycophants ready and willing to do your bidding but as you are presenting yourself as a less social player, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that this isn’t the case.
Don’t misunderstand me. The quest line is an absolute blast and some WoW friends and I went through it in TBC Classic for funsies. If memory serves (my memory does some really wonky things) I believe you can still at the very least obtain the cooking recipe that comes from one of the questlines involved. If that’s the case and you fancy yourself a collector/completionist then it may still be worth shooting for at a later time. If it were up to me (and I am approaching this strictly from a collector/completionist perspective) I’d make the event an annual thing. Scarab Lord and bug mount for everyone. As far as I am concerned, it’s nothing more than another checkmark on a list of things to collect.
Yep if you really want to buy one, find a guild now that is willing to sell it and negotiate a price for the entire quest line.
hey guys does anyone know what my odds are of discovering atlantis?
i haven’t ever really explored before in my life, and i don’t really like the ocean that much, but i’m just wondering what it would take for a guy like me to make a groundbreaking discovery like this?
serious answers only please
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I was in Blades of Vengeance, Horde.
Mav rings a bell, but pvp was pretty active on Azgalor at the time. We’d always meet Green Mountain Militia at Blackrock Mountain north gates for MC/BWL. Tarren Mill and Southshore was active almost all the time.
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outside delusion or trolling, i dont understand how you dont understand why people say its impossible. YoU. HaVe. To. HaVe. A. HaRdCoRe. GuIlD. to help you farm up the materials for the scepter. you cant do it alone, it isnt designed to be able to be done solo.
You are trying your best to fit ignorant optimism into that keyhole, but it just wont turn this time around.
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(2019 Classic) My guild was going for it for our MT. I was playing 12-15 hours a day for 2 weeks during covid. And another 30 hours on the weekends.
It is not worth it, at all.
It was fun to work together towards that. I will admit that. And PvP was epic.
… The guy has 1000 TOPIC POSTS (not comments) on these forums and replies to none of them. Hes also posted on this topic a number of times.
its literally all bait dude…
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It’s easier to do on low pop servers. The opening is generally delayed and less chance of being ganked.