Quest

Excavation: Scattered Around the Tower

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

Top Comments

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Alaurynn2024-01-24T06:26:57-06:00+10via Wowhead

Is this thing bugged? I cant seem to interact with the dig, other than to use the totem. I must have used it a dozen times and the percentage doesn't even budge. Suggestions?

Nayaga2024-04-08T11:11:43-05:00+3via Wowhead

Was this quest suppose to be fun? It's not.

Anryn2025-02-16T02:23:32-06:00+2via Wowhead

Had a problem where nothing happened after the totem was cast at disturbed earth. Relogin fixed that.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 70

LocationZaralek Cavern

SideBoth

SharableNo

Added inDragonflight

Quest ID78663

Starting item

Archivist's Earth Totem

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(78663))

Requirements

Quest typeWorld Quest

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

Objectives

Finds Unearthed x 2
Artifact Bunny 1
Artifact Bunny 2
Monster Bunny 1
Monster Bunny 2
Rock Bunny

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

Artifact Bunny 1 (centre of the marked area)Zaralek Cavern 47.4, 48.8/way #2133 47.4 48.8
Objective areaZaralek 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

Antiquated Antics about 20 yards
Surveying the Tower about 20 yards
Hidden in the Midden about 20 yards
Excavation: Gaze of Neltharion about 90 yards
A Tower Yonder about 190 yards
Where There's Smoke, There's Fire about 580 yards
Six Hundred Feet Under about 600 yards
Honor the Flame about 650 yards
Consequences about 670 yards
Take Out the Head 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 CavernAlliance and Horde · about 660 yards south-east
Dragonscale Camp, Zaralek CavernAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards south-west
Obsidian Rest, Zaralek CavernAlliance 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 Zaralek Cavern map

Where this quest fits

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.