Tried this several times today and can't kill the one that paths along the back. Was able to get it to around 20% a couple of times but then it flees - FAST. Can't catch it to kill before it regens health. Then it either comes back to fight and flees again when low, or it bugs out and "forgets" it is in combat, quickly regenerating health and not attacking while resuming it's normal path. Edit: now it runs even when health is high. It won't fight but instead engages for a few swings and then goes back to pathing.
The middle fish (swims front to back) is sometimes able to be killed but it never seems to drop the quest item (corpse). I had maybe 7 kills (edit: 3 more kills - no corpse) on 2 different characters. Not wanting to become KOS to the guards, I gave up on this spawn before getting the drop thinking that maybe it only drops from the back fish. Edit: Just tried the middle pathing fish and it did the same thing as the back one... got to low health, fled, then dropped out of combat and ignored me, returning to it's original path. (If you chase it, you can sometimes catch it for 1 hit as it turns or swims past you. If it doesn't reset you have a slim chance to kill it.)
I was doing this both times with a L2 Pally to preserve faction on my main. But given the problems a low level melee class toon can spend a lot of time getting nowhere with this. Need to 1-shot it or maybe I'll try making a caster so I don't have to stay within melee range.
Edit #2: Figured that the Regurgitonic quest couldn't take longer than trying to get a corpse from one of these fish in N. Qeynos. So after going to Surefall for the Nitrates and then the zoo in Ak'Anon for the Regurgitonic, went to W. Karana where Frostbite happily took the drink without barfing. STILL no fish.
Edit 3: I found posts about the Regurgitonic saying that sometimes you got a "bad" (ineffective) batch. As a druid I don't have the Identify spell to check it but hitting L24 I now having the port to Steamfont so decided to give the tonic another try. I had bound myself in N. Qeynos a while back since it is such a pain to run through the Karanas. Steps were really pretty quick this time:
1. Gate to NQ, run thru Q. Hills to Surefall to get the Flask of Nitrates.
2. Port to Steamfont and run to Ak'Anon to swap the Nitrates for the Regurgitonic.
3. Gate back to NQ, run thru Q. Hills to W. Karana.
4. Run down to give Frostbite the tonic (not far to run).
I found this to be MUCH easier than fussing around making an alt, leveling it to 2 and then struggling with an infrequent drop on an uncooperative fish. For the non-druids I know it will be much harder to get around. Maybe find someone to port you around or stick with the fishy method.
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