Quest

Rethu's Pick

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

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e5ordie2016-06-25T05:59:54-05:00+7via Wowhead

Must have completed The Legend of Rethu Ironhorn (quest chain starts with The Highmountain Tauren) for [item=124493] to drop. This mining pick drops from a leystone seam.
Similar quests include:

Rethu's Journal which is started by mining [item=124492] from a leystone deposit and

Rethu's Horn which is started by mining [item=124494] from the corpse of a leystone creature.

The felslate equivalents require completing Darkheart Thicket: Nal'ryssa's Sisters (quest chain starts with The Felsmiths).

unclevinny2022-09-16T23:51:05-05:00+2via Wowhead

In case it helps anyone, I didn't see this quest item drop until I was at Legion Mining 77/100.

dsiacono2025-12-11T18:01:22-06:00+1via Wowhead

I thought I'd never see this quest. For a long, long time I was flying above the water in Azsuna around - Nar'Thalas Academy mining for Leystone Seam and Felslate Seam. After completing several other quests with Highmountain, I was about to turn in the quest Step into the Dark to Navarrogg in the Stonedark Grotto cave (Coordinates 42.6 - 25.3) when I saw more Leystone Seam on the wall of the cave. After mining that, this quest finally came to me.
I'm not sure if it's important but my current mining level is at 82.
Sadly, once you turn in the quest to Ronos Ironhorn, he does not give you the next quest in line: Rethu's Horn.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-45

LocationHighmountain

CategoryMining

Quest ID38790

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(38790))

Description

This seam has been mined before - it bears the telltale diagonal ruts of a miner's pick. Looking down, that pick now lays on the ground - handle broken, pick-point dulled with use and years. Carved into the haft is a familiar name: "Rethu"

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 areaHighmountain 55.1, 84.0/way #650 55.1 84.0

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 Highmountain map

The Highmountain Smiths same spot
The Firmament Stone same spot
Maw of Souls: Hammered By The Storm same spot
You Are Not Worthy about 30 yards
Leystone Mastery about 30 yards
Ironhorn Leysmithing about 30 yards
Honor the Flame about 40 yards
Demonsteel Armguards about 40 yards
Demonsteel Waistguard about 40 yards
Demonsteel Pauldrons about 40 yards

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Highmountain:

Ironhorn Enclave, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 130 yards east
Obsidian Overlook, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 550 yards west
Skyfire Triage Camp, StormheimAlliance · about 750 yards east

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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Spell: Mining Technique: Leystone SeamFurthers your understanding of how to mine leystone seams more efficiently.

Experience6,150 XP

Retraining the Trainees

Retreat!

Storyline

Legion Mining

Part 8 of 12.

Previous: Rethu's Journal · Next: Rethu's Horn

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.

Rethu's JournalLevel 10-45
Tucked in between a few pieces of rubble, a scrap of paper catches your eye. Mining carefully, you uncover the tattered remains of an old scroll. The tauren handwriting is archaic, but one word catches your eye: "Rethu".

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

Rethu's HornLevel 10-45
The corpse of the rocky beast yielded an unusual treasure: a battered chunk of tauren's horn. It is clearly very, very old, but something about its color and curve reminds you of Ronos Ironhorn at the Ironhorn Enclave.

The storyline at a glance

Legion Mining has 12 steps, from Leystone Deposit Sample to Rethu's Sacrifice.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Highmountain (8), Dalaran (2), Darkshore (2).

Other storylines on the Highmountain map

Legion Blacksmithing42 steps, starts with Strange New Ores
The Bloodtotem Tribe14 steps, starts with The Bloodtotem Tribe
Rivermane Tribe13 steps, starts with Keepers of the Hammer
Allies of the Horde: Highmountain18 steps, starts with Walking in Their Footsteps
Legion Leatherworking45 steps, starts with Skin Deep
Snowblind Mesa10 steps, starts with Battle of Snowblind Mesa

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.