Recipe: Thistle Tea
Defias Tower Key
Klaven Mortwake's Journal
Gallywix's Head
Cache of Zanzil's Altered Mixture
Hinott's OilRogues do not buy Poisons from a trainer in WoW Forever. At level 20 you earn the skill through a class quest: sneak into an enemy tower, steal something under the nose of an elite and get back alive. Alliance and Horde have different chains. Both end with Poisons and Recipe: Thistle Tea.
Quick facts
| Alliance | Horde | |
|---|---|---|
| Start | Master Mathias Shaw, Old Town in Stormwind | Shenthul, Cleft of Shadow in Orgrimmar |
| Target | Klaven’s Tower, Westfall (east of Sentinel Hill) | Venture Co. tower north of The Sludge Fen, The Barrens |
| Level | 20 (tower quests listed at 24) | 20 (tower quests listed at 24) |
| Lockpicking | 70–80 | 80 |
| Key elite | Klaven Mortwake | Grand Foreman Puzik Gallywix |
| Reward | Poisons, Recipe: Thistle Tea | Poisons, Recipe: Thistle Tea |
Alliance: Klaven’s Tower
- Mathias and the Defias: from Master Mathias Shaw in Old Town, Stormwind.
- Klaven’s Tower: go to Agent Kearnen in Westfall, turn in and read Kearnen’s Journal.
- Pick Pocket the Malformed Defias Drone outside the tower for the Defias Tower Key. Do not fight the Drone; it hits very hard. If Pick Pocket fails, Vanish or Sprint away.
- Sneak to the top floor. Deal with the Defias Tower Patrollers on the way (Distract and Ambush, or Gouge and Backstab).
- Sap Klaven Mortwake, an elite, at the top.
- Pick the lock on the Duskwood Chest and take Klaven Mortwake’s Journal. Opening the chest can give you Touch of Zanzil.
- Return to Mathias Shaw to learn Poisons and Thistle Tea.
Cure for Touch of Zanzil (Alliance): Shaw gives The Touch of Zanzil. Visit Doc Mixilpixil in the Stormwind barracks cellar and /lay. He needs Simple Wildflowers, a Leaded Vial, a Spool of Light Chartreuse Silk Thread and a Bronze Tube. He then makes Eau de Mixilpixil to cure you.
Horde: the Venture Co. tower
- The Shattered Salute: from Shenthul. /salute him, turn it in and take Deep Cover.
- Meet Taskmaster Fizzule near a big tree east of the tower. Fire the Flare Gun twice when he is in sight, then target him and /salute. Get the order wrong and he turns hostile.
- Mission: Possible But Not Probable: Pick Pocket Foreman Silixiz outside for Silixiz’s Tower Key.
- Clear the inside: kill two each of Mutated Venture Co. Drone, Venture Co. Patroller and Venture Co. Lookout.
- Kill Grand Foreman Puzik Gallywix (elite) at the top and loot Gallywix’s Head. Open Gallywix’s Lockbox for the Cache of Zanzil’s Altered Mixture.
- Return to Shenthul. You get Recipe: Thistle Tea and Hinott’s Assistance.
- Take the sample to Serge Hinott in Tarren Mill, Hillsbrad Foothills. Zeppelin to Tirisfal Glades, then travel south.
- Second Hinott’s Assistance: wait while he makes the cure. Turn it in to learn Poisons, then use Hinott’s Oil to remove Touch of Zanzil.
Rewards
- Poisons (the skill). Instant Poison is known once you finish. Crippling Poison is available at 20, Mind-numbing at 24, Deadly at 30 and Wound at 32, all from the rogue trainer.
- Recipe: Thistle Tea: needs Cooking 60. The tea restores 100 Energy on a 5-minute cooldown.
- Poison reagents come from the poison vendors: Jasper Fel in Stormwind, Rekkul in the Cleft of Shadow.
Tips / common problems
- Get Lockpicking to 80 first. Train it on lockboxes before you start, so the chest or lockbox does not stop you at the end.
- Pick Pocket before you open anything. You need the tower key first.
- Sap failed or broke early? Vanish resets the fight. Use Evasion if an elite catches you.
- Gallywix: open with Ambush, which takes a big part of his health. Then use Evasion, or Vanish and Ambush again if you are 22.
- Touch of Zanzil lasts seven days and survives death. Get it cured before you level further; no Stealth is a big loss.
- Horde chain is the harder one. It has more fights and a long trip to Hillsbrad. Bring a friend if you are under 22.