TheWoWDBI'll echo that this quest is easily soloable. The five dwarf NPCs can easily handle any roaming mobs, and the boss, with your help alone. All you have to do is stay in the middle of the circle (so that they get aggro before you) and help with anything they go after.
The dialogue from the quest is priceless, though, and worth transcribing.
Chief Archaeologist Letoll says: Aright, listen up! Form a circle around me and move out!
Chief Archaeologist Letoll says: Aright, <race>, just keep us safe from harm while we work. We'll pay you when we return.
Chief Archaeologist Letoll says: The dig site is just north of here.
(The team moves out to the dig site.)
Chief Archaeologist Letoll says: We're here! Start diggin'!
(The team spreads out and starts digging.)
Chief Archaeologist Letoll says: I think there's somethin' buried here, beneath the sand!
Chief Archaeologist Letoll says: Almost got it!
Chief Archaeologist Letoll says: By Brann's brittle bananas! What is it?! It... It looks like a drum.
Explorer's League Researcher: Wow... a drum.
Explorer's League Researcher: This discovery will surely rock the foundation of modern archaeology.
Explorer's League Researcher: Yea, great. Can we leave now? This desert is giving me hives.
Chief Archaeologist Letoll says: Have ye gone mad? You expect me to leave behind a drum without first beatin' on it? Not this son of Ironforge! No sir!
Explorer's League Researcher: This reminds me of that one time where you made us search Silithus for evidence of sand gnomes.
Explorer's League Researcher: Or that time when you told us that you'd discovered the cure for the plague of the 20th century. What is that even? 20th century?
Explorer's League Researcher: I don't think it can top the one time where he told us that he'd heard that Arthas's "cousin's" skeleton was frozen beneath a glacier in Winterspring. I'll never forgive you for that one, Letoll. I mean honestly... Arthas's cousin?
Explorer's League Researcher: Explorer's League Researcher: I dunno. It can't possibly beat the time he tried to convince us that we're all actually a figment of some being's imagination and that they only use us for their own personal amusement. That went over well during dinner with the family.
Chief Archaeologist Letoll says: Shut yer yaps! I'm gonna bang on this drum and that's that!
<Chief Archaeologist Letoll bangs on the drum, a Bone Sifter spawns.>
Chief Archaeologist Letoll says: IN YOUR FACE! I told you there was somethin' here!
Chief Archaeologist Letoll says: Don't just stand there! Help him out!
<You fight the Bone Sifter.>
Chief Archaeologist Letoll picks up the drum.
Chief Archaeologist Letoll says: You've been a tremendous help, <race>! Let's get out of here before more of those things show up! I'll let Dwarfowitz know you did the job asked of ya' admirably.
Quest
Digging Through Bones
A World of Warcraft quest in Terokkar Forest. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Am I the only one to see this?
Letoll - Leto II - God Emperor of Dune.
I love the dialogue on this quest
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
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What to do
Description
Oy! You look like you can take care of yerself, {race}. Me and the crew here are looking for a bodyguard to watch over us while we hit a dig site to the north. The pay is pretty good and all you gotta do is make sure no nasty creatures kill me or any of my employees. If you successfully make it back without any casualties, Dwarfowitz over there will pay ya.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #108 31.0 76.2
Coordinates
- Turn-inTerokkar Forest 31.0, 76.2
/way #108 31.0 76.2 - Objective areaTerokkar Forest 29.4, 72.2
/way #108 29.4 72.2 - Objective areaTerokkar Forest 31.1, 76.1
/way #108 31.1 76.1
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 Terokkar Forest map
- Don't Kill the Fat One about 750 yards
- The Impotent Leader about 820 yards
- Success! about 820 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,450 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,460 yards
- Of Thistleheads and Eggs... about 1,660 yards
- A Secret Revealed about 1,880 yards
- Special Delivery to Shattrath City about 1,880 yards
- Warchief's Command: Terokkar Forest! about 1,940 yards
- Hero's Call: Terokkar Forest! about 1,940 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Terokkar Forest, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Terokkar Forest:
- Stonebreaker Hold, Terokkar Forest
- Allerian Stronghold, Terokkar Forest
- Shattrath, Terokkar Forest
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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.
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Other quests on the Terokkar Forest map
Reward details
Reputation: Lower City +250
The refugees of Shattrath come from diverse backgrounds and races. Word of helpful deeds spreads quickly among the Denizens of Lower City.
Reputation group: Shattrath City.
Other quests in Terokkar Forest that reward Lower City reputation: Recover the Bones (+250), Helping the Lost Find Their Way (+250), Veil Skith: Darkstone of Terokk (+250), The Tomb of Lights (+250), Vengeful Souls (+250), The Eyes of Skettis (+250).
Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.
Storyline
Terokkar Forest
Part 73 of 78.
Previous: Evil Draws Near · Next: Fumping
- 67Taken in the Night
- 68For the Fallen
- 69Terokkarantula
- 70Return to Sha'tari Base Camp
- 71The Dread Relic
- 72Evil Draws Near
- 73Digging Through Bones
- 74Fumping
- 75The Big Bone Worm
- 76An Improper Burial
- 77A Hero Is Needed
- 78The Fallen Exarch
Showing steps 67 to 78 of 78.
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
Before this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Evil Draws Near
Now you must use the Dread Relic in a foul necromantic ritual if you wish to challenge Teribus the Cursed. To the northeast, beyond Auchindoun, is the Writhing Mound, a place where necromancers gather.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Fumping
How would you like to do a little more work for the Explorers' League? These bone worms have us all quite intrigued. I've got a drum right here that you can use out in the Bone Wastes. Just bang on the damned thing and see what you get.
The storyline at a glance
Terokkar Forest has 78 steps, from Vessels of Power to The Fallen Exarch.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Terokkar Forest (77), Shattrath City (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Terokkar Forest map
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Nagrand
- Netherstorm
- Burning Crusade Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.