Note to solo druids. Cheetas are great pets in this zone, high hp and high damage brings down mosts mobs in the zone with little more than a scratch to the pet! Or course when they turn on you it can get ugly , but a good druid knows how to evade an oversized pussycat, hehe.
Goldleaf Darkwood 52n
I assume the faction in question is Norrath's Keepers, and have updated the quest as such. Please let me know if it's a different faction (e.g., Firiona Vie).
I tried to get mine from the bloodguards in Torigan and could not get it to drop. Based on my logs I killed 86 bloodguards, no pure blood on any of them.
Frustrated, I went to Nadox. 15 luggald abominations and 9 luggald initiates later, one of the abominations dropped it.
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