World of Warcraft: Cataclysm - Creatures - Gorged Gyreworm

World of WarcraftCataclysm: Deepholm NPCs - Gorged Gyreworm
Where to find Gorged Gyreworm: Gorged Gyreworms look like worms made of many independently rotating, free floating rings of stone. They have crystals within this structure, especially at the mouth and tail and have a strong blue glow. These creatures are spread throughout the Crumbling Depths of Deeplhom. You can click the numbers by the thumbnail above to view screenshots of Gorged Gyreworm.

World of WarcraftCataclysm Gorged Gyreworm Stats
Gorged Gyreworm are level 80-83 Elemental Gyreworm type npcs with 1 special ability to use. This NPC was originally added in patch 4.0.1 of World of Warcraft.
Health Points: 64,417; Mana: 0
Ability - Earth Spike: The Earth Spike ability is a 40 yard range, 3 second cast spell that causes a spike to burst forth from the ground at the targeted location, inflicting nature damage.
NPC ID: 42766

World of WarcraftCataclysm Gorged Gyreworm Related Quests
Elemental Goo - Collect the quest drop item Elemental Goo from any Cataclysm creature and turn in 10 of them to receive an Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token.
Fear of Boring- Kill 10 Gyreworms for Therazane reputation.
Underground Economy - Collect the quest drop item Deep Alabaster Crystal from Gyreworms in addition to other items for Therazane reputation.

Resource Nodes: Killing a Gorged Gyreworm and looting its corpse leaves you with a mineable resource node that players with the profession can extract items from much like skinners do for beast corpses.
Requires Mining: 450 (lvl 80), 455 (lvl 81), 460 (lvl 82), 465 (lvl 83)
Drops: x1-2 Shimmering Shards, x1-2 Volatile Earth, x1-3 Elementium Ore

World of WarcraftCataclysm Gorged Gyreworm Drops
Average droprates of items are in ()
Average Value: 24 Silver, 73 Copper

Scintillating Crystals (81%)
Poor Quality (Grey)
Item Level 1; Item ID: 62421
Junk Item - Vendor Trash
Vendor Price: 22 Silver, 22 Copper
Icon Image: inv_datacrystal07

Conductive Shards (19%)
Poor Quality (Grey)
Item Level 1; Item ID: 62435
Junk Item - Vendor Trash
Vendor Price: 37 Silver, 27 Copper
Icon Image: inv_datacrystal03