Retail quest

What Came First, the Drake or the Egg?

What Came First, the Drake or the Egg? is a World of Warcraft quest for level 20–30 (Alliance only). Rewards include 4,100 experience and item rewards.

Blade's Edge Mountains

Quest text Requirements and rewards

Quest text

What the quest giver says.

‹name›, ‹class› and ‹race› stand for your character’s.

I'm researching the applications of drake essences to my work as a physician. I think they could be a panacea for a host of maladies! I need someone to go south to the Singing Ridge and get me some. Willing to take my temporal phase modulator and use it on the nether whelps that hatch from the nether drake eggs? Retrieve the essences from whatever they turn into. Which, I might add, I'm not certain of what that will be as we're using some pretty dicey, time and space modifying tech here.

Requirements and rewards

What it takes, what it gives.

Requirements

Level 20–30
Alliance only

Rewards

4,100 experience
10g50s
Medicinal Drake Essence

Choose one of

Clocktock's Jumpers · Holy, Protection, Fury, Frost, Blood, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms
Devolved Drake Girdle · Augmentation, Preservation, Devastation, Restoration, Elemental, Enhancement, Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, Survival
Precise Gloves of Alacrity · Balance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Windwalker, Assassination, Outlaw, Subtlety, Guardian, Feral, Vengeance, Havoc, Brewmaster
Fizit's Mantle of Drake Hunting · Frost, Discipline, Holy, Shadow, Affliction, Demonology, Destruction, Fire, Arcane

Source

Where this data comes from.

Read from Blizzard's official World of Warcraft API.

Data from Blizzard’s official World of Warcraft API, retrieved Oct 5, 2026, 1:35 PM UTC. World of Warcraft and its game data are © Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. NeedBeforeGreed isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard.

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