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Data Gathering
Data Gathering is a quest for level 10-80, added in Dragonflight.
Quest Objectives
- Wildlife scanned x 10
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Was scanning away happily when the Scan button disappeared after 7 scans. Couldn't find any way to restore it so finally re-logged and button came back.
December 2023 reference for Open That Door! being stuck:
First I dropped the quest, left the area, reloaded UI and it didnt fix it.
Complete the nearby quest marked as "Objectives" Monument Maintenance - which requires you to get two pieces of a crumbling statue for repairing the middle statue. There is a piece located both on the north and south stone ramps going up to the vault door. These pieces you have to carry by hand and cannot use a flying, ground, or dragonriding mount.
Monument Maintenance ITEMS:
/way 58.63, 72.48 Arm and Weapon
/way 62.72, 72.43 Head
/way 62.35, 69.47 OrbComplete the nearby quest marked as "World Quests" Data Gathering - this quest requires you to use a scanning beam which shows up as a special item similar to other quest use items on the bottom middle of your screen. You have to scan the nearby yellow/passive creatures. You may have to fly around a bit to find them, you cannot scan the same one twice. These seem to have a 1/5 chance of becoming aggressive when you scan.
After you complete these, the quest should continue but you may need to drop the quest and restart it or reload UI.
Side note:
This may be a bit late but for anyone playing catchup, as of December 2023:This quest was stuck for me, Rannan wouldnt move and the quest wouldnt continue. A previous comment mentioned some of this info but I want to be more specific.
When on this you get [npc=204575] following you around, extra action button [spell=411428], and buff [spell=408867].
| Objective area | Zaralek Cavern | 1 mapped point |
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Where to go
Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2133 60.5 69.3
Coordinates
- Objective areaZaralek Cavern 60.5, 69.3
/way #2133 60.5 69.3
Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Nearby on the Zaralek Cavern map
- Save-A-Mole about 80 yards
- Collating Their Research about 80 yards
- Future Aspects about 80 yards
- Whose Vault Is It Anyway? about 240 yards
- Charging Up about 240 yards
- Open That Door! about 260 yards
- Sundered Flames about 260 yards
- The Upper Hand about 330 yards
- Singed about 340 yards
- Aspects of Our Legacy about 670 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Zaralek Cavern, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Zaralek Cavern:
- Loamm, Zaralek Cavern
- Dragonscale Camp, Zaralek Cavern
- Obsidian Rest, Zaralek Cavern
Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.
First seen in build 12.0.7.68887 (Midnight patch 12.0.7, the oldest build in our datamine).
Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Zaralek Cavern map
- Zaralek Cavern
- The Ancient Bargain
- Sundered Legacy
- The Dragons and the Scale Expedition
- Breaking Ground
- Inevitable Confrontation
Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.
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