Patch 6.2 guide to ship equipment for naval missions

So you’ve ran the introduction quest line to patch 6.2, built your shipyard, collected oil and sent a few boats to their watery doom when you realized they don’t have the right equipment to counter the threats on the map. You run down the docks to the equipment vendor, cash in hand, and discover that each piece of ship gear needs a blueprint first. And those blueprints are scattered in different places. All over the Tanaan Jungle. Fortunately, we’ve rounded up the equipment blueprint locations for you in one handy guide.

First, the big picture about equipment slots on ships. When a ship is built it automatically comes equipped with four slots for bonuses. The ship counter slot  is automatically filled to counter another ship type and is based on a rock/paper/scissors system (Battleship > Destroyer > Submarine > Carrier > Battleship) except for the Transport ship which counters a Land Objective threat.

Each ship also has a second slot which is randomly assigned a crew that brings with it their own unique bonuses. These can’t be changed, but two equipment slots can be unlocked (one when the ship is leveled to Rare quality and the second at Epic quality). These slots can be filled with specific counters you can buy from the Naval Equipment Specialist dock merchant for Garrison resources once you’ve found the blueprint for each. Here’s where you can find them all.

Found on Elite Rare Mobs

These mobs spawn in Tanaan Jungle. You can find them by their coordinates below (using the “/way X, X” command where X, X are the coordinates), by looking at your in-game mini-map for skull icons or by using the HandyNotes Addon with the DraenorTreasure extension. Bonus: Killing these rares will also count towards the Jungle Hunter and Jungle Stalker achievements.

Equipment Blueprint: Bilge Pump

• How to acquire: Drops from Belgork. You can find him in an underground building at coordinates 34.9, 47.1 (just NW of Hellfire Citadel in the center of the map.)
• What it does: The Bilge Pump counters Stormy Weather threat.

Equipment Blueprint: Felsmoke Launchers

• How to acquire: Drops from Felsmith Damorka. He can be found standing by his alchemy table at 45.8, 47.0 in the Fel Forge area just NE of Hellfire Citadel.
• What it does: The Felsmoke Launchers counter the First Strike threat.

Equipment Blueprint: Ghostly Spyglass

• How to acquire: Drops from Captain Ironbeard, a skeleton pirate that spawns inside a cave at 37.2, 75.9 south of Hellfire Citadel. This YouTube video shows you how to find the cave. Warning: He will be heavily camped as he also drops the Ghostly Iron Bucaneer’s Hat toy that can transform a player into an orc skeleton pirate.
• What it does: The Ghostly Spyglass counters the Cursed Crew threat.

Equipment Blueprint: High Intensity Fog Lights

• How to acquire: Drops from Xanzith the Everlasting who spawns at 60.0, 21.2 in the eastern part of the Throne of Kil’jaeden.
• What it does: High Intensity Fog Lights counter the Dense Fog threat.

Equipment Blueprint: Ice Cutter

• How to acquire: It’s an 89% chance drop from Cindral the Wildfire. This fire elemental rare is in a forge building between Fel Forge and Ironhold Harbor at 44.6, 37.6. You must first kill the Remnants of Cindral at the same location to get him to spawn.
• What it does: The Ice Cutter counters the Icy Water threat.

Equipment Blueprint: Trained Shark Tank

• How to acquire: Drops from the Savage Whale Shark found in the waters around Ironhold Harbor.
• What it does: The Trained Shark Tank counters the Minelayer threat.

Equipment Blueprint: True Iron Rudder

• How to acquire: 95% drop rate from the named ogron, Zoug the Heavy. He spawns at 37.0, 32.8 at the western dock of Ironhold Harbor.
• What it does: The True Iron Rudder counters the Evasive threat.

Rewarded in quest chain

Equipment Blueprint: Blast Furnace

• How to acquire: Part of Shipyard intro quest chain. The Naval Equipment Specialist vendor sends you down the dock to pick it up.
• What it does: Blast Furnace counters the Swift threat.

Reputation

These blueprints can be bought from your Tanaan outpost faction vendor. They are Shadow Hunter Denjai of the Vol’jin’s Headhunters faction for the Horde and Vindicator Krethos of the Hand of the Prophet faction.

Equipment Blueprint: Tuskarr Fishing Net

• How to acquire: 220 gold with Honored faction
• What it does: Tuskarr Fishing Net will bring back a fish reward on any mission

Equipment Blueprint: Unsinkable

• How to acquire: 900 gold with Revered faction
• What it does: Unsinkable will be consumed to prevent ship being destroyed upon critical mission failure

Raid drops

Equipment Blueprint: Gyroscopic Internal Stabilizer

• How to acquire: A drop from the Iron Reaver, the second boss in the first wing of Hellfire Citadel only on Normal and Heroic mode.
• What it does: The Gyroscopic Internal Stabilizer counter Chaotic Whirlpools.

Collecting and turning in all these blueprints will also earn you progress on the Naval Mechanics achievement. As you can see from that achievement tooltip there are additional blueprints listed that we haven’t covered here. So far they haven’t been found in the game and possibly haven’t been patched in yet. We’ll update the guide when we learn more.