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Return the Statuette

Return the Statuette is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-30 in Wetlands. It is step 15 of 40 in the Wetlands storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Wetlands at 11.1, 57.8. It rewards 4 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 4,100 experience and money. Completing it counts toward 1 achievement.

Description

<After pulling the barrel free from the muck and opening it, a silvery figurine is found packed in fine straw. It depicts a young, long-haired paladin with hammer upraised.

This must be the Menethil statuette! You must now return it to Karl Boran in Menethil Harbor.>

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money21 gold
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationStormwind +350
Top Comments

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

1
203685+27via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

You cannot get and therefore complete this quest if you have completed the equivalent quest before Cataclysm.
(I don't know the link to the former quest, sorry)

I just spoke to a GM about the issue. He told me that I had already completed the quest before cataclysm hit. He explaned to me that they took the old quest and made it to the last part of this questline. So theoretically you completed the last part of the quest chain before the other quests. Sounds funny and to me is very odd storywise but technically it makes sense to me.

I hope this information is useful to others.

2
528983+9via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Are you guys doing these quests with your old characters? Because I've run into it numerous times with my lvl 80 main (who already has Loremaster, but I'm a completist). The issue seems to be that when they revamped certain quest chains not all parts of them were changed. So for example the last part of this chain is probably the same quest as before - meaning I've already done it.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold21g
ReputationStormwind+350

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeMail Shoulder
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor8
Stats+3 Agility or Intellect, +4 Stamina
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for14 silver56 copper
TypePlate Chest
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor17
Stats+4 Strength or Intellect, +6 Stamina
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for18 silver98 copper
TypeLeather Shoulder
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor5
Stats+3 Agility or Intellect, +4 Stamina
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for14 silver16 copper
TypeCloth Waist
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Stats+3 Intellect, +4 Stamina
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for9 silver22 copper

Reputation: Stormwind +350

One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Wetlands that reward Stormwind reputation: When Life Gives You Crabs (+250), Claws from the Deep (+250), Reclaiming Goods (+75), The Search Continues (+25), Search More Hovels (+75), The Cursed Crew (+250).

Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapWetlandsTurn-in marker at 11.1, 57.8, 2 mapped points
World Map

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.

Wetlands Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Wetlands map showing where to go for Return the StatuetteTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #56 11.1 57.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inWetlands 11.1, 57.8/way #56 11.1 57.8
  • Objective areaWetlands 13.9, 34.8/way #56 13.9 34.8

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 Wetlands map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Wetlands:

  • Menethil Harbor, WetlandsAlliance · about 80 yards south-west
  • Ironforge, Dun MoroghAlliance · about 1,100 yards south
  • Whelgar's Retreat, WetlandsAlliance · about 1,300 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 640 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Wetlands

Part 15 of 40.

Previous: Search More Hovels · Next: The Third Fleet

  1. 10Assault on Menethil Keep
  2. 11When Life Gives You Crabs
  3. 12Reclaiming Goods
  4. 13The Search Continues
  5. 14Search More Hovels
  6. 15Return the Statuette
  7. 16The Third Fleet
  8. 17Cursed to Roam
  9. 18The Cursed Crew
  10. 19Lifting the Curse
  11. 20The Eye of Paleth
  12. 21Dinosaur Crisis

Showing steps 10 to 21 of 40.

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.

  • Search More HovelsWetlands · Level 10-30

    This grouping of murloc hovels, after a thorough inspection, reveals nothing. ...but you're certain that the next clue you find will be fruitful. One of the hovels to the north must have the Menethil statuette!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Third FleetWetlands · Level 10-30

    I was once First Mate on the Wave Mistress, ship-of-the-line in the Kul Tiras Third Fleet. The Doomed Fleet. Doomed, for on its last voyage the fleet was attacked by red dragons. Dragons controlled by orcs!

Quests that require this one

Also counted by Wetlands Quests

Its criteria name 16 quests; others include:

The storyline at a glance

Wetlands has 40 steps, from Fight the Flood to The Battle of Thandol Span.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Wetlands (40).

Other storylines on the Wetlands 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.

Achievements

Completing this quest counts toward this achievement.

Wetlands QuestsComplete the Wetlands storylines listed below.10
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Return the Comb
Return the Filter
Return to Acherus
Return to Adrestes
Return to Alysra
Return to Amani'Zar

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Database

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