I suggest to be at least level 50 to do this quest solo, also you will need flame of light for it, divine might can help, but I did the quest without it, so it is not necessary.  However, if you are below level 50, you should bring a tracker with you or another tank. Two people lvl 45 should also be able to do this quest, but one of them will have to be a tracker (Druid or Ranger). Even if you want to do this quest solo, you will need someone to port you to Wakening Lands (if you already have the tooth of that place) or bring you through Kael Drakkel.

I suggest first to get A strong wooden branch from Holgresh Elementarists, Holgresh Conjurers or Holgresh Elders in Awakening Land.

If you have a tracker, you should hunt for conjurers through the zone, they don’t nuke as hard as the elementarists and they also drop the branch. If you have no tracker, you will have to go to the holgresh cave.

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You can get there by following the right wall from Skyshrine zone the zone entrance is at loc: -3500 2000 be sure you either are lvl 50 yourself here or have someone lvl 50 to pull for you, because you won’t want to aggro more than one of the holgreshs. It usually takes about 20 holgreshs untill you get a strong wooden branch.

NB Pathing in the caves is atrocious according to Wyvernwill. Pulling outside sometimes ends with the Holgresh becoming stuck underground. Attacking them in the cave is the way to go he says.

Once you get the branch, go to skyshrine zone. Left outside from the zone there is a Tigeraptor camp. The Tigeraptors were peanuts for me at lvl 50, so you should not have problems killing them.

NB Beware of the named Tigeraptor that spawns there called Rapticor, he is really tough and a lvl 49 Ranger and had to reverse kite (fear it and beat on it while it runs) it. I also took it with a lvl 53 warrior, Rapticor beat the Warrior down to 1 bubble of hp, I hope that’s enough of a warning for you guys ;) However Rapticor is a placeholder for other raptors, so if you got the people to kill him its worth it. I am not sure if he also drops the strong raptor gut but it could be since he also drops all the stuff normal raptors drop. The gut seems to drop more frequently than the branch does, so this should be rather easy, half an hour and you should have a strong raptor gut.

Once you got both the items you were looking for, get someone to port you out of Wakening Lands and move to Iceclad ocean. Find a Snowfang Fisher and talk to him, if he tells you something about a “curse” and that he needs some gifts, he is the guy you want to talk to to complete the quest. Go through the stuff he tells you and at the end he tells you he needs strong raptor guts and a strong wooden branch (he wants to make a fishing pole) hand the two items in to him and right after you completed the trade, a enraged walrus will spawn right next to you. The fisherman and all guards around will attack it. Once you killed the walrus, a irritated gnoll will spawn. (note he will replace the fisherman, so if you accidently attacked the fisherman, he will despawn now and the irritated gnoll won’t aggro you, happenet to me hehe) hail him, he tells you something about a magic item, tell him “I want the magic item” he then will despawn and on your curser there will be a chapter P  put it into your backpack and run to the gnome igloos near the docks where the ship arrives. Give the “chapter P” to Ami, she is a female gnome standing outside an igloo in the small village, pretty easy to find her. As reward she will give you The Pirate Book give that to Nilam the chef, he is sitting in an igloo next to Ami.

Once you turned it in to him, you will receive an ice forged shackle stats: ac 10, str5, dex5, agi5, hp30 , if you right click it, it procs velium shards, a 12dd spell with a 3 second cast time which you can only use in melee range. ENJOY!