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Comment by 14596

You don't have to kill the Larva before it's finished with the metamorph, they will still be able to drop their Silkwing Cocoon

Comment by monstar

Just kill larvae, the cocoons have a small chance of dropping irrespective of whether they spawn a Silkwing, which they will if you don't finish them off fast enough when their health is low

Comment by Heathcliff

If you fear them when they start to metamorph, they won't spawn the butterfly.

Comment by Farmbuyer

I've killed 27 larva, with 1 quest drop.

No rewards, no quest chain, no rep? Screw this, and screw the companion silkwing quest as well. *Maybe* at 70 for gold, but not now.

Comment by 27300

takes a while to kill them, but do it with the other quest "The Softest Wings"

Comment by Boroxxar

When I first got this quest and the "The Softest Wings" quest I tried for over an hour with ony one drop.

I found when I left the area for a few days and came back I was getting a drop for both quests almost every second kill.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Comment by 69112

I found I had a better drop rate on the cocoons after i completed The Softest Wings quest.

Comment by 77638

I found the silkcocoons at 65% at the silkwing laves in lvl 66 and only 33% on those in lvl 65, maybe is it just a coincidense..

One more note, the Silkwings only spawned 4 times og of 20.. witch means they have 1/5 chance..

Comment by Basmothel

My best lucked seemed to be with letting the Larva metamorph and split open. Not only did the drop rate for the cocoons seem higher for me then, but the Silkwings that emerge in this event drop the Iridescent Wings for http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10618, allowing you to complete both quests with more efficiency .

Comment by 48238

Save yourself the trouble and don't do this quest. No rewards, horrible drop rate...makes you really hate wow. Killed 14 in a row...only 2 drops.

Comment by 88582

while the droprate might be horrible, the gray drops are really nice. all the dung that has no use for anyone, I havent even completed the quest, had to empty my bags and sold their carapaces etc to vendor... about 20 gold worth that dung. :D

Comment by 84502

Quickest way I found to do both this q and The Softest Wings is to just let the larvae hatch and kill the silkwings that spawn, since these only seem to have about 3k hp and you can get the Iridescent Wings from them

Comment by 87741

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Comment by 125160

This quest has a horrible drop rate.Took me about 25 mins finishing this quest and ''softest wings'', wich is a good quest to do at the same time.

Comment by 25141

As a druid, I saved up 5 combo points, got the mob to 25%, then hit em with maim. Wait for some energy then try to kill them extremely quick before they have a chance to say the message. Took me 30 minutes to get 2/8, doing this tactic I got 6 in a row in about 3 minutes.

Comment by 135718

Drop rate was considerably better after turning in "The Softest Wings". 25% or so.

Comment by 131770

I found that if I was able to kill the larva within ten seconds it would drop the cocoon. And that was pretty difficult even as a mage. I suggest you get someone to help if you want to get it done quick.

Comment by 59431

Something neat I discovered. You still get XP if the cocoon turns into a moth (about 800 with rested) as well as you get some XP after killing the moth itself (around 400 rested). Killing the cocoon that didn't spawn a moth gave me 1014 xp. So therefore, you get about 200 extra XP for killing both the moth and the cocoon. Pretty good considering how easy the spawned moth dies.

Comment by 131451

to my fellow MM hunters, when the cocoon starts to transform, scatter shot works magically if you dont want it to.

Comment by 158912

The faster u kill them the more chance the drop the cocoon. Also: the more u pull the better, it goes a lot faster with AoE. By the way, whoever made this damn quest is going to burn in the fiery pits of HELL!

Comment by 174016

its a good idea to take the other q "the softest wings" when you are doing this quest, because the silkwings that the mobs turns into, got a well drop rate for the "indescent wing" wich you need in the quest

Comment by 222744

Someone said that after the did The Softest Wings the cocoons had a better drop rate, it actually has a worse.

Comment by Moklar

This quest has changed in 3.x

The drop-rate is now 100%.

The same goes for "The softest wings" the drop is now 100%.

Makes these quest very fast.

Comment by Beace

This quest acted really weird for me. I had picked it up last night, without getting started. Today when I logged on to do it, the quest items refused to drop. They didn't even show up as a quest drop when hovering over the mob.

After abandoning the quest and restarting game completely, it was fixed.

Comment by nurseferatu

This quest is like a lot of the older content, it gets buggy if you are using any current add-ons. I had to log off, disable add-ons, and log back in.
Larva never showed the quest on their mouse-over.
Drop rate was NOT 100%, my monk's Touch of Death is an instant kill and I was getting about 50% drop rate with that.
Kill does have to be FAST as noted in other comments, which makes for a rather long and aggravating time killing bugs. You decide if it is worth the hassle ;-)

Comment by Tyerr

Just to let you level 90's to know that the Silkwing Cocoon drops even if you just instant kill it. I wasnt fully sure until one dropped since I thought it had to make itself to a cocoon first! (Maybe just me who were a bit dumb!)

Comment by 1099819

No cocoon's dropped at all until I completed and turned in the Quest: 'The Softest Wings'.

Comment by 1440987

Silkwing Cocoons http://youtu.be/OYu9o9gzUDw

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLUy85dgDOw&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Ainhin

I went from level 67 to level 67.5 just by trying to complete this quest.

Comment by Damballa

i had better luck getting the quest item to drop by removing all gear then hitting with Soft Foam Sword then punching to death

Comment by Liyka

I got one cocoon whilst having the quest The Softest Wings and as soon as I hand that quest in and kill the larva they all drop them one after the other.

That's some very strange interaction with these two quests causing the larva to change too fast whilst on the quest but very slow whilst not on it

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Silkwing Cocoons

Collect 8 Silkwing Cocoons from Silkwing Larva.

Kill the Larva quickly or they will turn into Silkwings, ruining their cocoons.

	Silkwing Cocoon (8)

Description

The silk from the cocoons of the silkwings are used for all manner of things in the village. We can never get enough, and we never have enough.

It is difficult to harvest the cocoons from the larva once they begin the process of metamorphosis.

Our warriors are occupied with the assault on our village. If you could gather these for us, that would be helpful.

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10617))