Quest

Excavation: Gaze of Neltharion

A World of Warcraft quest in Zaralek Cavern. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

Quest facts

LevelLevel 70

LocationZaralek Cavern

CategoryAzerothian Archives

Quest ID77486

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(77486))

Description

A Niffen colleague of mine gave me the underground info about an underground tower. It's decrepit and smack-dab in the middle of Zaralek between Loamm, the Djaradin, and that ghastly lab of Neltharion's. Grab your favorite shovel and meet me there!

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.

Coordinates

Turn-inZaralek Cavern 48.7, 48.4/way #2133 48.7 48.4

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

A Tower Yonder about 140 yards
Six Hundred Feet Under about 530 yards
Honor the Flame about 580 yards
Raked Over the Coals about 610 yards
The Endless Burning Sky about 620 yards
Where There's Smoke, There's Fire about 640 yards
A Worthy Ally: Loamm Niffen about 670 yards
Tougher Down Under about 680 yards
Orientation: Loamm Niffen about 690 yards
Welcome to the City of Smells about 700 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 turn-in marker on Zaralek Cavern:

Loamm, Zaralek CavernAlliance and Horde · about 590 yards south-east
Obsidian Rest, Zaralek CavernAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards north
Dragonscale Camp, Zaralek CavernAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards south-west

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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Money2 gold80 silver

Experience1,200 XP

Examples to be Made

Exarch Maladaar

Excavation 101

Excavation: Back to Eadweard!

Excavation: Riverbed

Excavation: Winglord's Perch

Excelsior

Excising the Incursion

Storyline

Azerothian Archives

Part 23 of 44.

Previous: Finally, An Archivist! · Next: Surveying the Tower

Showing steps 18 to 29 of 44.

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.

Finally, An Archivist!Level 70
So you've got your bearings now? You've felt the dirt? You've smelled the history? Why not celebrate this glorious moment of above average success with... a cap! That's right! Take this token to our beloved provisioner, Aristta.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

Surveying the TowerLevel 70
Get a load of those rock formations! Surveying doesn't get much better than this. This tower has been here for ages. The black dragonflight used it for some seriously dark stuff, but that's not why we're here.

The storyline at a glance

Azerothian Archives has 44 steps, from To the Archives! to Graduation Day.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Thaldraszus (14), The Forbidden Reach (9), Zaralek Cavern (8), Ohn'ahran Plains (4).

Other storylines on the Zaralek Cavern map

Zaralek Cavern72 steps, starts with The Land Beneath
The Ancient Bargain16 steps, starts with Where There's Smoke, There's Fire
Sundered Legacy11 steps, starts with Future Aspects
The Dragons and the Scale Expedition11 steps, starts with Medicinal Fungi
Breaking Ground16 steps, starts with The Land Beneath
Inevitable Confrontation10 steps, starts with Fading Embers

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.