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Comment by Kaynos

Drop rate ain't too bad. Killed 34 to get my 12.

Comment by 13910

You get the quest from Mudcrush Durtfeet at 34,38(A bit south of Brackenwall)
You can find a small tribe of the murlocs at 56,22 but there's a much larger bunch on this peninsula at 58,15.

Comment by 26161

The drop rate isn't that great. I'm a frost mage and I've been AOE'ing these guys for a bit. I'm at 7/12 now with about 30 kills. However, the money isn't horrible and you can get some greys and cloth drops.

Comment by 35616

For my level 37 Shaman, the droprate wasn't that bad at all. It wasn't 1:1, but at least one out of every five or six would drop a head.

There's a nice little group of murlocs a smidge Northwest of "Swamp Eye" Jarl. They walk around a lot but they're spread out. They also respawn very quickly so you never have to pick off the tethered ones nearest the huts. I didn't notice if the head dropped faster from one kind of murloc than another.

Comment by 37128

57, 21 Only problem about this place is that you can aggro more than one (2-3) Since they're so close together.

As a Warlock, Im glad I have my Voidwalker to take *most* of the hits, I tank the other 2 while he takes on two. Oh, make sure you use Curse of Recklessness too, these guys run around and aggro the rest of the mobs. =_=

Comment by Hoshi

There are no longer murlocs in the area, there are ghosts and such.

To complete this quest go to the beach just over the mountains (straight over) and kill them on the coast and islands.

57,17

Comment by 106523

I found the Murlocs around 57,17.

Comment by 108684

killing Razorspine it dropped every time. he's also easier to kill than the other ones and respawns quite quickly. sounds silly but that's how i finished it...

Comment by 97259

Blizzard was retarded when they made this quest.
"Let's make this quest, where the players has to kill murlocs, which has an instant respawn, they need 8 heads from the murlocs, but obviously not every murloc have a head, so let's make the drop rate 1 out of 10."
Comon Blizz..

Comment by 40925

Just killed Razorspine and it didn't drop. So, he doesn't drop it every time.

Comment by 46090

How can the droprate for HEADS not be 100%?

This is %^&*ing me off.

Comment by 141940

I say not worth it. I've been killing these things for over an hour and only got two heads. And by the way, they are only found on the peninsula, if you still want to do it.

Comment by 114935

Drop-rate seems to have been up'd.

Drop rate was much better with the Murlocs then with the Coastrunners. My drop rate was about 66% from the Murlocs.

Comment by 152871

The actual coordinates of Mudcrush Durtfeet are I'm standing in front of him right now. As for the droprate of the Mirefin Heads, I would say it's about 30% but you can check obviously. The Mirefin Murlocs are along the coast, I killed most of mine around I did this quest as a level 35 Warlock, I only died once, thank god for my Soulstone. I actually got level 36 during this quest so I was happy. Hope this helps.

Comment by 102951

He is hungry! Like me!

Comment by 138320

murlocs found near the shores only, 57,17 and such. droprate is around 20% enjoy

Comment by 163976

i believe the drop rates have changed, i killed 9 murlocs and got all 8 heads, the first one didnt drop.

Comment by 170344

Solo'd as a 42 rogue, in the big groups just sapped and threw knive at one, and usually two come but I could handle both. I got the best drop rate at the small outpost at 54,14.

Comment by Bladesman393

I ground these on the Island approx 57,16 as a 38 Warrior. Taking two at a time was no problem using Demoralizing shout and Thunderclap to debilitate them while throwing the odd Cleave into the mix. However this still took me a while.

I found the drop rate on these to be pretty poor, so you might want to "zone out" and do some "mindless" grinding for a while, put some good tunes on and the like. Or, if you feel you don't want to do this, then don't there is no follow up.

However the amount of Murlocs you kill trying to get the heads, and adding the reward on top the total Exp you gain from doing this is rather significant.

Comment by 33503

Killed 10+ on the shore, no drops. Went to the island and got mine with ease.

Comment by BMHunter

After I read these comments I decided not to do the quest, so I abandonded it while standing next to the guy. He aggro'ed and ate me just like he said he would in the quest details...scarey.

Comment by 205176

If you melee, do yourself a favor and use some kind of DoT when they get close to 200 HP, because when these things run in fear, they can easily aggro other mobs on you. And they fear kinda high for how densely they're packed north of Witch Hill.

If you're a Rogue, Rupture works -very- nicely with your standard throw, they don't get too far. Chasing after these guys trying to land an Eviscerate you hadn't placed early enough with that slowing debuff is a pain. Just Rupture around 400-500 and you don't have to worry about it.

Comment by Malphator

Did not count towards the Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement as of Oct. 25, '08. Patch 3.02.

Comment by 237140

Blizzard did some kind of hotfix on the 28th (US) and 29th (EU) that seemingly fixed many of these quests. I tried this quest today after servers came back up, and it did count, increasing my quests from 717 to 718.

I strongly recommend anyone who hasn't done this yet, and still is missing quests for the Loremaster, to do this one now. I'm going to check up on a few RFK quests as well that I've cancelled.

Comment by darkhail

yeah this quest is for the alliance also im a lvl 50 human rouge and i can get this quest so someone needs to change the horde to both unless its glitch and i can do it sweet other wise its both

Comment by Kresiam

I can confirm on 05.01.2009 this quest DOES count towards the Loremaster achievement as i wastched my count increase when i handed this quest in.

Comment by 211544

You better do this quest.

Trust me, you do NOT want to be eaten by an Ogre.

Comment by 347628

I have absolutely no idea why I thought this would be a fishing quest. Perhaps the mirefin heads reminded me of the raw mithril head trouts you can fish right next to the ogre, or maybe it's the final proof that I should stop replacing sleep with pixels. Either way, to anyone else out there that are as dense as me, the aim of the quest is to kill some murlocs and to bring back their heads. No fishing, just good old head hunting.

Oh, and apparently murlocs are distantly related to chickens, as they both seems to be able to run some distance without actually having any heads x)

The quest is not in any way reserved to alliance only as implied by previous posts. I just finished it with my undead face melter (once I stopped trying fishing for the mirefin heads, that is).

The quest do also count towards the Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement, as previously stated.

Comment by Thortok2000

"Me no eat you now."

Best. Quest reward. Ever.

Comment by 353904

Hmm strangely not all of these murlocs have heads.

Comment by midsomer

Definitely counts for Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement now.

Comment by 455179

Hi Folks,

Just a note to all who post on this site, NOT EVERYONE HAS CARTOGRAPHER!
I cant get it working for some reason. It would be helpful if a brief description of locations could be included on the quest locations?

Thanks

Comment by 307126

confirmed, loremaster of kalimdorable

Comment by 461249

There is only about 10 of these things total and a drop rate of about 30%. Lame. My character is sitting on a rock waiting for them to regen while i type this.

Comment by 574388

Fish heads. Fish heads. Rolly polly fish heads. Fish heads. Fish heads. Eat them up. Yum!

Comment by biolan

How i did this quest :

-First went to the little insle @ 63 7 (care cose there is a rare mob in the centre of the insle wich will kill you
- then i started to kill the Mirefin Mwckdweller and Mirefin Coastrunner around the edges . just do round circles of the insland and kill the ones near the water , be prepared to do this about 30mins - 1h depends of your lvl .

Comment by MudcrushDurtfeet

Me still hungry, get me more fishy heads or me go eet sum gnomes!

Comment by Anei

This guy is now famous from Blizzcon 2010. A dude in a black tshirt and hat asked if this NPC's story will be developed in Cataclysm where the answer of 'absolutely' was given. So, expect to see more of this guy in the future!

And, to the guy who asked the question at the con, good job! :-) Made me smile...and, surprisingly wasn't the worst question asked during that session!

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Hungry!

This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

Mudcrush Durtfeet in northern Dustwallow wants 8 Mirefin Heads.

	Mirefin Head (8)

Description

Mud big ogre.

Me hungry.

Go bash fishy. Bring Mud food.

You feed Mud or Mud eat you.

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Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Mud's Crushers		Durtfeet Stompers

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(1177))