Pandaren Fishing Spear

This spear spawns directly behind the Pandaren Uncle Deming, on the central south beach in Krasarang Wilds.

As with the other lootable treasures, make sure you're not attacked, and keep an empty bag slot, and finally, don't move while you loot it! You can see it once per character, once it has been looted, successfully or not, it will despawn. However, you can loot it again on other characters, so you can have more than one in your possession.

Container: Pandaren Fishing Spear
Looted Item: Pandaren Fishing Spear

Barrel of Banana Infused Rum

This recipe is found in a barrel that spawns on the ship where Spriggin, the rare Hozen spawns, in Southern Krasarang Wilds on the island of Unga Ingoo.

It will give you the recipe for Banana Infused Rum. Sadly, you can't move as a piratified hozen...

Container: Barrel of Banana Infused Rum
Looted Item: Recipe: Banana Infused Rum

Tablet of Ren Yun

This tablet spawns on top of Mount Neverest in Kun Lai Summit, right next to the statue of Ren Yun the Blind. When looted, it will give to able cooks the recipe for Four Senses Brew.

Tablet of Ren Yun

Container: Tablet of Ren Yun
Looted item: Tablet of Ren Yun

Staff of the Hidden Master

This pretty staff is found in the bamboo forest in Western Valley of the Four Winds, where the Hidden Master himself resides.

Staff of the Hidden Master

As with the other lootable treasures, make sure you're not attacked, and keep an empty bag slot, and finally, don't move while you loot it! You can see it once per character, once it has been looted, successfully or not, it will despawn. However, you can loot it again on other characters, so you can have more than one in your possession.

For TomTom users, the coordinates are as follows:

/way Valley of the Four Winds 15.4 29.1 Staff of the Hidden Master
/way Valley of the Four Winds 17.5 35.7 Staff of the Hidden Master
/way Valley of the Four Winds 19.1 37.9 Staff of the Hidden Master
/way Valley of the Four Winds 15.0 33.7 Staff of the Hidden Master
/way Valley of the Four Winds 19.0 42.5 Staff of the Hidden Master

Container:  Staff of the Hidden Master
Looted item: Staff of the Hidden Master

Ghostly Pandaren Craftsman

This ghost spawns next to one of several trees just East of the Heartland in the Valley of Four Winds. You have to interact with him, and make sure that you have one slot of bag space. He will give you the rather useless Ancient Pandaren Woodcutter after a short conversation. Once someone has spoken to him, he will despawn, so only one person can get the charm at a time. Moreover, there are some rampaging virmen in the area, make sure that you clear the area surrounding the craftsman before talking to him, as he may despawn when you get attacked during interaction.

 As he is an npc, you can add him into NPCscan, his ID is: 64191.

Ghostly Pandaren Fisherman

This ghost spawns on the shore of Cattail Lake in the Valley of Four Winds. You have to interact with him, and make sure that you have one slot of bag space. He will give you the Ancient Pandaren Fishing Charm after a short conversation. Once someone has spoken to him, he will despawn, so only one person can get the charm at a time.

Ancient Pandaren Fisherman

As he is an npc, you can add him into NPCscan: his ID is 64004.

Ancient Pandaren Mining Pick

Location: Jade Forest, inside Greenstone Quarry, the cave north of  Dawnstone Village.

The map of the cave

The cross marks the locations inside the quarry, where the mining pick can be found.
For TomTom users, the coordinates are as follows:

/way 33.53, 77.85
/way 64.40, 59.41
/way 46.26, 23.14
/way 37.21, 23.93
/way 64.33, 59.44

Make sure you activate them when you're inside the cave!

Container: Ancient Pandaren Mining Pick
Actual looted item: Ancient Pandaren Mining Pick

The Relic Hunter: an Introduction

As promised, I will feature all the rare objects and npc's of the Pandaria continent that belong to a series of achievements that, ultimately, will grant your character the title: "[Name], the Relic Hunter".

Now, becoming a relic hunter is not hard, all you need is patience. The items that account for the achievements used to have a long respawn timer, but that timer has been considerably shortened a few weeks ago. What I did, and what I suggest, is having a look every now and then, or when you happen to be in the area. You can also keep a character in one location, or log off in a location of an item you want to find. Sooner or later, you will have found them.

But first things first:

How do I become a relic hunter?

A good starting point is knowing the location of the treasures. There are a lot of helpful maps around, and wowhead guides are generally a good start. I will be making maps as this blog progresses, but for now, I will point you to the excellent guide of Balgair on Wowhead:

 One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure: Riches of Pandaria

There are a lot of locations to remember, but luckily, there is an addon that adds them all to your map:

 Handynotes: Lost and Found Plugin

Now that you can see them on your ingame map, you can create yourself a route with the addon Routes and just link them all together, so you have a line on the minimap guiding you from one location to the other.

However, some of these rare treasures come in the form of npc's, which you can add to _npcscan:

• Jade Forest: Jade Warrior Statue: NPCscan ID: 64272
• Dread Wastes: Glinting Rapana Whelk: NPCscan ID: 65552
• Kun Lai Summit: Frozen Trail Packer: NPCscan ID: 64227
• Valley of the Four Winds: Ghostly Pandaren Craftsman: NPCscan ID: 64191
• Valley of the Four Winds: Ghostly Pandaren Fisherman: NPCscan ID: 64004

What do I need to keep in mind? 

 

When you mouse over one of the items, your cursor turns into a cogwheel. Before you right-click to loot the item, make sure that you cleared the area from any mobs that can attack you, and don't move at all while you loot: else the loot window that appears can close and the item despawns and is lost. 

You can also only loot (and see) an item once on a character, but you can loot it multiple times on different characters.

Which achievements are there?

 

You start off small, and move your way up:

1. Lost and Found 
2. Finder's Keepers 
3. One man's trash... 
4. ...Is another man's treasure 

That's all to know to start, happy hunting!

Bombyx

Bombyx

With the arrival of patch 5.1 also comes Bombyx, a unique-coloured dark red caterpillar (err, silk worm), who loves silkweed! He's quite large, as you can see on the screenshot where he passes a Saurok, but shrinks down considerably when tamed.

Well, till now, we've been following tracks that had a beginning and an end. Not for Bombyx. His tracks look just like smaller silweed plants! And since silkweed grows on the borders of the waters anyway, you'll get a bit of a hard time tracking him down.

Bombyx roams the general middle area north of the Temple of the Red Crane, about where the lake splits into two rivers. I have not included a map with his path, this is because he is confined to a relatively small area, and turns and circles and pauses along this path! What I suggest is just throwing flares down where you see a lot of his tracks.

Heavily-chewed silkweed

Tracks: Heavily-chewed silkweed
Level: 90

This is a rough map of his whereabouts:

And here is a video by Kalliope featuring Bombyx:

Tagging Alani

 Sky crystal not tagging Alani

Update: Yay for hotfix (Patch 5.0.5) October 19

It is no longer possible for other players to tap Alani in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms while the Sky Crystal is being channeled.

Source: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/7207170

Alani-tagging is back to how it is supposed to be. I'm glad the issue got sorted so quickly!

Old post

Just a head's up:

If you're one of those people who grinded sky shards for hours, and finally created their crystal, be mindful when you decide to pull Alani.

I feel very sorry for this guy, you can hear his disappointment in his voice -  I mean, grinding these shards for hours and then getting her stolen away like that...

If this isn't a bug, here's two things to pay attention to:

• Don't announce in trade/general/even guild that you're going to use the sky crystal.
• Find a quiet time on your server, early hours etc., find a spot that's away from the daily hubs, and then pull Alani.