Quest

Excavation Liberation

A World of Warcraft quest in The Ringing Deeps. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Hogri2024-09-17T14:52:55-05:00+26via Wowhead

To unmount from the [npc=219163] remove this buff from yourself: [spell=439174]

brionl2025-09-06T21:10:44-05:00+1via Wowhead

Nooooo! Not the baby moles!
Run away little dudes!

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 80

LocationThe Ringing Deeps

SideBoth

SharableNo

Added inThe War Within

Quest ID83538

The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(83538))

Requirements

Quest typeWorld Quest

Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.

Objectives

Defeat 17 targets in The Ringing Deeps
Defeat hostile creatures and retrieve earthen tools
Complete 17 objectives in The Ringing Deeps

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

Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Ringing Deeps 56.7, 86.9/way #2214 56.7 86.9
Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Ringing Deeps 56.2, 89.5/way #2214 56.2 89.5
Objective areaThe Ringing Deeps 55.6, 91.9/way #2214 55.6 91.9

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 The Ringing Deeps map

Haywired and Hostile about 30 yards
Hey, What's Going On? about 30 yards
Tired of Tripping about 420 yards
Put it Back, Put it Back! about 420 yards
A Little Off the Top about 430 yards
Bat Versus World about 430 yards
Good Help These Days about 440 yards
Built to Blast about 440 yards
It's Sabotage about 560 yards
When Opportunity Explodes about 610 yards

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Ringing Deeps, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on The Ringing Deeps:

Opportunity Point, The Ringing DeepsAlliance and Horde · about 500 yards north-east
Gutterville, The Ringing DeepsAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards east
Camp Murroch, The Ringing DeepsAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards north

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 Ringing Deeps map

Where this quest fits

Other storylines on The Ringing Deeps map

By Candlelight20 steps, starts with Into the Deeps
Trust Issues18 steps, starts with When Opportunity Explodes
Kobold Culture and Integration20 steps, starts with Dripsy Forgot Her Candle
The Machines March to War14 steps, starts with A Mysterious Signal
Fearbreaker11 steps, starts with A Hint of Fear
Dark Revelations10 steps, starts with A Wrench in the Works

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.