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Comment by SylveRv1

How i can use this item? Is this even usable right now on dragonflight?

Comment by Thecurt

If you're standing right next to a Large Lunker Sighting sign, you can use 5 of these and it spawns an enemy that you can use your Iskaaran Harpoon on to grip and fight. Gives 50 rep but seems to only give rewards once a day.

I tried twice at Grimtusk's Fishing Hole and once at River Mouth Fishing Hole, and the only time I got rep was the first time at Grimtusk's Fishing Hole.

I invited someone to my party for the second spawn and they got a toy and rep for the kill after I spawned it.

Comment by roots84

As others pointed out already, the loot is pretty underwhelming for the work. When used at /way #2022 65.58 74.06 it spawned Moth'go Deeploom. Loot was 50 Rep for Iskaara Tuskaarr, 1x Centaur Hunting Trophy, 2x Maybe Meat, 18x Dragon Isles Supplies and 1x Large Tail Spikes. Rare had 2.3 million life.

The item / rare also seems to be somewhat bugged. Had to use the item twice (item has 60s cooldown) to spawn the rare.

Comment by Amalio

I used the item at the sign, but nothing happened. No rare spawned. Still got the achievement for summoning two larger lunkers. Did this happen to anyone else?

Comment by cindythedeer

You can spawn Lunkers by using 5 Ominous Conch at a Large Lunker Sighting.

I spawned two Lunkers at /way 65, 74 in The Waking Shores.

Number one spawned Moth'go Deeploom
Number two spawned Gigantic Thresher

The Thresher only spawned a fish and a grey trash item.

But Moth'go Deeploom dropped:

- 1x Centaur Hunting Trophy
- 1x Grey trash item
- 18x Dragon Isles Supplies
- 1x Iskaara Tuskarr Commendation (50 rep with the Tuskarr)
and
- 1x Bonesigil Shoulderguards 356 Leather Shoulders

Another note:
I spawned Moth'go after I saw the following in chat while fishing at the waking shores fishing hole:

"You hear a rustling nearby..."

Comment by Jet2014

You need to head to the Large Lunker Sighting sign which is located at /way 65.58, 74.06 in The Waking Shores. Once there, stand next to it and toss 5 conches in the water. This will summon either a Moth'go Deeploom or a Gigantic Thresher. Not sure if there are others. Also, I think this can only be looted once a day but not sure on that either.

Comment by Caeli

Being 2 people using the Iskaaran Harpoon on the Gigantic Thresher and pulling it up to land gave us the achievement It Takes a Tuskarr Buddy

Comment by Shaabhekh

There is an Elite Rare that you can find using the Conches - a Water Elemental called Seereel, the Spring

Does hit fairly hard - save your interrupts for Suffocation Bubble!

Comment by Luftwig

I think this is what is meant to be our "community" fishing for Dragonflight, akin to Fisherfriend of the Isles from Legion.

Conches mostly seem to drop in open water, and you get a higher drop rate by fishing them at the fishing holes, which also happen to contain the Large Lunker Sighting locations to throw the conches back. You can also receive conches as loot from the lunkers, and looting one seems to have a chance of spawning another lunker, so this creates a feedback cycle where players receive more conches by catching lunkers in a group. You can get the achievements It Takes a Tuskarr Buddy, It Takes a Tuskarr Family and It Takes a Tuskarr Village by bringing lunkers to shore in a group.

You can find a Large Lunker Sighting at the following locations, and spawn rare lunkers at each by throwing 5 conches at the sighting. It is not guaranteed to spawn a rare, so this is best done by fishing at the sighting, throwing conches as you go. Note that whilst all the lunkers are a part of Adventurer of The Azure Span, some of the lunkers spawn in other zones.

Each Large Lunker Sighting only seems to be available when the Tuskarr Fishing Hole is active in that location. They seem to rotate on some kind of weekly basis.

The Waking Shores - River Mouth Fishing Hole /way #2022 65.62, 74.10 Large Lunker Sighting

Seereel, the Spring
Moth'go Deeploom
Swog'ranka

Azure Span - Grimtusk's Fishing Hole /way #2024 58.81, 32.60 Large Lunker Sighting

Ravenous Tundra Bear (common)
Snufflegust

The Waking Shores - Burning Ascent Fishing Hole /way #2022 33.89, 64.46 Large Lunker Sighting

Skald the Impaler

Ohn'ahran Plains - Roaring Dragonspring Fishing Hole /way #2023 80.81, 77.70 Large Lunker Sighting

Astray Splasher (common)
Seereel, the Spring
Moth'go Deeploom
Swog'ranka (unconfirmed, but likely given the other groupings)

Thaldraszus - Tyrhold Fishing Hole /way #2025 57.36, 65.40 Large Lunker Sighting

Things to bear in mind whilst lunker fishing:

The killing blow must be dealt by "drowning" them on land in order for everyone with an attached harpoon to get loot. Killing them regularly will follow normal tapping rules with 5 players at most getting loot.
Looting or fishing an Ominous Conch will begin a 12 second channeled spell Looking for Lunkers. Run to the waters edge whilst channeling, and you will spawn another lunker. With a big enough group, you get enough lunkers spawning that you never even have to cast a fishing line. Casting anything (including fishing) will cancel the channel, so be careful not to interrupt it. (Thanks to Siak for pointing this out.)
Because of the chance of lunkers spawning when you loot, I recommend only looting once the water is clear of existing lunkers - otherwise you can have larger lunkers stuck behind a sea of smaller ones.
Rares cannot be drowned, and should be killed normally. They can be looted by everyone.

Edit: I just did this through LFG ("Conch Fishing"), we had 10 people fishing in the open water by the Large Lunker Sighting in The Waking Shores and were getting a rare lunker every 20 minutes or so. We only saw the first 3 rares mentioned above as confirmed sightings, before seeing repeats (which cannot be looted, being on the daily rare lockout).

Comment by Taliesen

Summoned Swog'ranka when used at the large lunker post near the fishing hole (65,74 in Waking Shores).

I summoned a lunker twice, got Swog'ranka both times, and only received loot off the first one.

Comment by siak

Fishing up an Ominous Conch causes your character to cast "Looking for Lunkers" until a Massive Thresher spawns. It can be harpooned and dragged to shore.

Massive Thresher can drop Ominous Conch that also triggers "Looking for Lunkers". They also drop Copper Coin of the Isles.

Casting fishing cancels "Looking for Lunkers" and the mob does not spawn.

Comment by Portalrunner55

Used in grimtusks encampment. Spawned a Ravenous Tundra Bear. The harpoon mechanic killed it after fishing it out of water. It dropped: (junk) pristine beast fur, (common) burly bear haunch, Dragon Isles Supplies, (uncommon) Centaur Hunting Trophy
(Rare) Highland drake: Maned head, Khaz’gorite-infused Resin
It also rewarded 50 iskaarian rep.

Spawned it twice in a row. The second time it only dropped a (Junk) Primal Beast Claw

Comment by Tompi3

Three ways these are useful -

1 - When appearing in your fishing loot table, after looting them they will give you 5 seconds of "looking for lunkers". This willappear as a cast (depends on WAs etc). Which if you dont recast your fishing line, a lunker/thresher will spawn for you to kill/loot. Recast if you just want to fish and not be interrupted.
-----Ps --------- Currently IF YOU LOOT THE CONCH it will not allow you to loot any other items. Its a little buggy. so if you see a coin. Always go for that.

2 - As everyone says, throw 5 in to summon a Large Lunker at the Large lunker locations (marked at fishing holes by a "sign" (tuskar looking object thats next to the water. When you hover over it will have a tooltip). These Large Lunker locations swap weekly.

3 - When you throw 5 in, there is a chance a rare will spawn. There are multiple rares this could be. And they seem to have a daily loot lock out per named rare. This loot is scalable Purples, and a rep token for Iskaara

Comment by Userblast

In The Walking Shores you can find another totem at /way 33.87, 64.46, Using 5 Ominous Conch summoned Skald the Impaler for me the first time, a normal elite the second time.

Comment by thebl4ckd0g

Do not waste yours if you are by yourself, bc it's near impossible to get the thresher out of the water.

Comment by Eldarias

I hate that looting these can interrupt my semi-afk, two-button fishing process and put me in combat. So I found a way to completely prevent Looking for Lunkers from casting. You just need to be sitting while fishing. I also like to toss back my Scalebelly Mackerel as I get them for the buff, but doing so causes your character to stand up. So I made this macro to do both:

#showtooltip Fishing
/use Scalebelly Mackerel
/sit
/use Fishing

Comment by Damagel

item seem to never drop for me at all , i fished all the way up to 100 and never got 1 , I killed dozens of massive/large threshers and never got any , I only get them from the daily net quest . not sure if that has something to do of me never finishing the WQ in that are .

Comment by dokeefe1986

if you have joined one of the lunker farm groups that are currently getting more popular in game, here is a helpful macro that will allow you to spam one button and not interrupt your lunker sensing channel, which triggers automatically when you loot an ominous conch.

#showtooltip Iskaaran Harpoon
/cast Iskaaran Harpoon

Comment by Gielnik

You NEED level 7 renown with the tuskaar to be able to loot or fish these. Do not be like me and waste your time fishing for hours gawking at the low drop rate.

Comment by Carpie

Not sure why they make these things soulbound. I'd happily give mine away as I have no interest in messing around with this ridiculous nonsense. I can't believe anyone actually finds this unnecessary complexity "fun".

Comment by Jonesy4

To get this item from Threashers you need to use the Iskaaran Harpoon, not the harpoon that shows on the extra action bar for the world quest.

Comment by solitha

A tip for getting these when you're alone at a small fishing area.

I've been at one of the highland holes where Prismatic Leapers spawn, hoping to get upgrade components. Every once in a while, of course, I catch an Ominous Conch and search for lunkers.

I discovered that they tend to pull in the same direction. Go to that side and you will have a MUCH easier time landing them. Trying to haul against their pull direction results in a very long tug-of-war the lunker may just win.

Comment by XThunder

I have been fishing for these Ominous Conch from the pools around the Waking Shores - River Mouth Fishing Hole (90%+). I have not caught any of the Ominous Conch from the fishing holes. I then tried the open water in this area and have been catching them. At the time of the catch a Massive Thresher will spawn, killing it and skinning it will give crafting reagents. I have been using the Anglers Fishing Raft, 100 fishing with the Draconium Fisherfriend. Hope this helps someone....
I have now gotten more then one at times and looted one from the Massive Thresher, which can take a few seconds to spawn.
Also, I have have caught Dull Spine Clam for the Ribbed Mollusk Meat - cooking reagent, and have gotten Rainbow Pearl from the clam.

Comment by Theodicus

I think the "Large Lunker Sighting" totems are most certainly up whenever these is a fishing daily at that very location. I went to all the "Large Lunker Sighting" map coords provided that should have the totems but the only ones that were up were those ones that had the Fishing Daily Quests.

On Proudmoore server, there seems to be the only three spots that have been spawning every day for the past few weeks.

Large Lunker Sighting
The Waking Shores - River Mouth Fishing Hole /way #2022 65.62, 74.10
The Waking Shores - Burning Ascent Fishing Hole /way #2022 33.89, 64.46
Ohn'ahran Plains - Roaring Dragonspring Fishing Hole /way #2023 80.81, 77.70

Comment by Bathrezz

Once you have Otto the mount, and all Tmogs/drake designs from rares, it is safe to delete all conchs.

Comment by spamasu

If you have fully upgraded harpoon, you will notice that the cooldown on this thing is way too long, as you only need about 20 sec to get the giant thresher out of the water solo.

Comment by Wyo1

make sure the harpoon is in your bag and not auctioned in the AH. TSM put it on auction for me, i didnt even notice that. You wont be able to fish the conches otherwise. Also: If you fish up a conch and you are outside range of the large lunker sighting area, press conches on bar or inventory. This will spawn a tresher and count towards achievement. No conches are consumed, seems bugged, but worked for me and saved tons of time.

Comment by Cleeve

You can cancel the annoying lunkers from spawning by pressing Escape - very useful if you are rogue or druid and don't want to be knocked from stealth when that fish will spawn.

Comment by mislav031

Can get these from Tuskarr Tackleboxes

Comment by maryalice

I really wish they would make this item sellable on the AH, or at least sell to vendor. ALL my characters have stacks of these, and although I love fishing I have zero interest in competing with other people over fishing spots - fishing is relaxing time for me, competition is NOT relaxing.

Comment by Wowvocate

As of 10.1, the chance to get these from tackleboxes appears to have been severely reduced, to something close to a 1 in 50 chance. Seems the only reliable way to get them now is proper fishing.

Comment by Emmaleah

If you should need these., cuz you were late to the party and trying to do the quest in Forbidden Reach for instance, you can get 5 from doing any of the other Fishing Frenzy WQs

Comment by Bathrezz

In Dragonflight 10.1.5, 2023.

Due to hard nerfs concerning drop rates from fishing and basically all sources such as; open water, pools, Tuskar boxes, fishing nets, lunkers, questing, there is no efficient way to grind Conchs at this stage of the game.

The best way to farm conchs so that you spawn the rares, is by fishing via LFG Lunker groups but these have been non-existant for a while.

Drop rate from personal experience is 1 conch per 20-50 casts. It is not time efficient, it is not worth it. I spent about 50 conchs over many alts, no rares spawned, all the lunkers that spawned did not drop any Conchs for my main or 2nd account.

Comment by Rogueflax

I have fished now in more then 100 pools and about 4 hours on open wather around fishing events, Not a single lunker has spawned and I am down to 3 Ominous Conch. I have a Draconium Fisherfriend equipped. I haven't got a single Ominous Conch either from doing this. What am I doing wrong? and yes. I do have the Iskaaran Harpoon

Comment by Mortizzle

Has the drop rate for these plummeted to almost unusable?

Comment by GammaGuru

After fishing pools, fishing open water, and searching for Tuskarr Tackleboxes, I finally found a reliable source of Ominous Conchs. Disturbed Water pools in Loamm (Zaralek Cavern) provide an Ominous Conch every 20 casts or so. The other loot is random fish from normal pools, coins, trash, clams, and Zaralek Glowspores.

I use the buffs from Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole, Nat's Hat, and tossing in a Scalebelly Mackerel each cast (macro below). Not sure it makes a difference, but I also use the Squeaky Duck bobber.

Macro used:
#showtooltip Fishing
/use Scalebelly Mackerel
/cast Fishing

Comment by Tequima

After carrying around 200+ of these in my bag for months (and running severely short of bag space due to Druid gear, Naxx, Rumble, secrets and assorted bag clutter), tried to use them to solo fish up the lunkers.
Don't. You have difficulty pulling them to land without at least one other person and, after a short while, the line appears to break and it dives away and disappears.

Ended up deleting the lot in pure frustration.

I wish the developers would remember that, over time, interest falls off sharply in Community activities. After each patch, they should review the content and make it soloable.

Comment by Pookins

You MUST have a Iskaaran Harpoon in your inventory to be able to catch these from fishing!

Comment by Mendicant

Been fishing for a few hours in prismatic leaper pools. getting tackleboxes between pools. I have seen zero conches.

Can someone who is farming these since the nerfs please help?

I've joined a "lunker" raid and killing the threshers doesnt seem to drop any either....

Comment by Fynmulg

I have 160 of these in my bag, if yall need me to use them let me know.

Comment by Mcitra

I started fishing in Loamm located in Zaralek Cavern after i decieded to get Otto. I stood at the pool next to Niffen Linecaster
I fished with 100 fishing skill, Crystalline Phial of Perception and Khaz'gorite Fisherfriend (Not sure it's needed but mention it)

I fished up 17 Ominous Conch within 15 minute of fishing. Seems like a good spot for that!

Comment by Hefalumpy

For soooooo long with these taking up spaces in my bag, I accidentally sorted the bags with an addon an realized that they now stack up to 200! It makes it a LITTLE less obnoxious to hang on to some now... just in case. I'm sure I'll find a reason to use them again, right? Maybe make a group for people to get the achievements one day!

Comment by Thedd

I know this is absolutely sick... but I had a rare (Swog'ranka) that was summoned using the ominous conch, I provided screenshots showing it was summoned, and then mid-fight I was phased. I was not in a group, I did not join/leave a group, nothing... it just shifted for no apparent reason. With my ticket, Game Master Risticohe stated that if it phases mid-combat, that it is DESIGNED to do this and working as intended! I cannot believe that 1. Blizzard/Activision would do that to players and 2. That they would willingly admit to it. I should note, that since they intend for summoned rares to cause a phase shift so you do not get credit/loot... they will not provide any drop items, items used to summon, or anything else, even when providing proof that the rare was engaged and they noted that according to their logs I did not get the kill on the rare, but I had several kills of Astray Splashers that had been previously summoned while trying to get a rare, so they were aware that I did summon the rare and could not finish it, and exactly how many ominous conchs I had used while trying to get the rare. I asked that the ticket be escalated, and they closed it out and sent me to a survey. I just want to make it very clear... blizzard support stated that this was INTENTIONAL! And they wonder why so many people get frustrated with the game and become so toxic...

Comment by Edellis

The best I've found to farm these as of Patch 10.2.6 is Tuskarr Tackleboxes. The fishing spot in ZC also gave me a few, but I found the tackleboxes to be a bit faster.

Comment by TheWasteland

i think the fastest way to get a bunch of these is to farm them from Tuskarr Tacklebox

Comment by Bootysmasher

The drop rate of Ominous Conch was significantly reduced cause of the new achievement. They simply drop much rarely from fishing and the tuskar boxes.

Comment by Raethal

Do yourself a favour and just join a Lunker farming raid group. I got 15 Lunkers worth of conches in under two hours farming the Forbidden Reach fishing hole. At peak there was a full raid group of us and the Lunkers just don't stop appearing. The best part was getting scrolls for Scroll Hunter and recipes in a bottle as well as Coins of the Isle.

Comment by Satyr80

In my experience the fastest way to farm these is to open Tuskarr Tacklebox. Just put tracking fish on and be sure to have a Iskaaran Harpoon in your inventory. Follow this route in Thaldraszus: start from 35 68 south of Valdrakken, then move to 49 59 in the area of the timed rifts, then go to 56 80 at The Temporal Conflux. Fly around these zones and loot every Tacklebox you find, at the end take the fly to Valdrakken and repeat again. In 3/4 hours I made 150 Ominous Conch, 20k Golds selling trash, some Copper Coins of the Isles and many fishes (60 Isefin Dorado that goes 70 golds each on my server). Hope this can be usefull, GL with your farming.

Comment by Stardawn

Today around lunch time, I found tons of these in Tuskarr Fish Boxes. Tonight, I have opened 30+ of them and none dropped.

This either feels like there's a daily cap, or Blizzard stealth nerfed it during the day.

Comment by BlazeStryker

If you are like me, don't read comments and cant seem to find a single tacklebox no matter how hard you try.... turn on fish tracking. The boxes do not show up in your minimap if you are not tracking fish, which makes no sense since they have the normal treasure symbol instead of a fish one.

Comment by edellea

the drop rate of these now is just ridiculously low. i used to get so many from the tuskarr boxes that i would throw them away but now ive looted a lot of boxes trying to farm these again and killed a few lunkers and have gotten zero...not even ONE and we need 5 for one summon... the fishing quests that do give a conch also give just a single one as a reward too... just why? this doesnt make the achievement harder or special, just extremely annoying and tedious. the boxes seem rarer too since im assuming other people also try to farm them, making it all even more annoying. bad call if it was intentional.

Comment by Dittani

Having the Iskaaran Harpoon in my bag increased the chances A LOT! I was opening Tackle Boxes for HOURS yesterday and then I read edellea's comment today and I found 6 in 5 minutes!

Comment by meganerd18

I sure can't seem to get them purely from fishing. It's weird, I swear I got loads of these in the past and I just got rid of them cause I didn't need them, but now I can't remember how I got them/

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Ominous Conch

Item Level 1
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Use: Cast 5 Ominous Conchs near a Tuskarr "Large Lunker Sighting" to summon a BIG lunker.. (1 Min Cooldown)

Max Stack: 200

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This item can be fished in The Waking Shores (48), The Azure Span (47), Thaldraszus (32), Ohn'ahran Plains (31), The Forbidden Reach (13), Valdrakken (5), Zaralek Cavern (4), Dragon Isles (2), Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope , Emerald Dream , and Vault of the Incarnates .

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