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Rethu's Pick

Rethu's Pick is a quest for level 10-45. It is step 8 of 12 in the Legion Mining storyline. It rewards 6,150 experience.

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"

Rewards

You will receive:

Experience6,150 XP

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Known issues

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
e5ordie+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

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).

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

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
e5ordie+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

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).

3
dsiacono+1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

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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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,150
Where it comes from
Objective areaHighmountain1 mapped point
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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.

Highmountain Objective area 1 mapped point
Highmountain map showing where to go for Rethu's PickObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #650 55.1 84.0

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

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Legion Mining

Part 8 of 12.

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

  1. 1Leystone Deposit Sample
  2. 2Leystone Seam Sample
  3. 3Living Leystone Sample
  4. 4The Highmountain Tauren
  5. 5Where Respect is Due
  6. 6The Legend of Rethu Ironhorn
  7. 7Rethu's Journal
  8. 8Rethu's Pick
  9. 9Rethu's Horn
  10. 10Rethu's Lesson
  11. 11Rethu's Experience
  12. 12Rethu's Sacrifice

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

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.

Related
Rethu's Experience
Rethu's Horn
Rethu's Journal
Rethu's Lesson
Rethu's Sacrifice
Reticent Evil
Retraining the Trainees
Retreat!
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