TheWoWDBThis quest seem to suffer from the same bug as the intro quest where you learn how to do these digs. If someone else is currently doing it, it can fail. You get to 100% but can't pick up item. Trick seems to just wait until others are done and dig it solo.
Quest
Surveying the Cliffside
A World of Warcraft quest in The Forbidden Reach. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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If you're struggling with what to do on this quest, you have to keep dropping the totems next to the swirling dirt, then click the totem, and then wait for the elemental to do it's thing. Dragging the elemental to the piles won't do anything.
If you get stuck at 1/2 digs, check across the broken bridge
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Quest facts
Quest ID77100
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(77100))
Description
Nothing like brisk ocean air to get you in the mood to dig! We're standing in the rubble of an ancient dragonkin fishing village. These dragonkin were ancestors of the blue dragonkin that live on the island today. Humble as it is, the remote location means it's gone relatively undisturbed by treasure hunters. If there's anything left that hasn't fallen into the sea, we'll find it!
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #2151 17.2 16.3
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Forbidden Reach 17.2, 16.3
/way #2151 17.2 16.3 - Objective areaThe Forbidden Reach 14.2, 15.0
/way #2151 14.2 15.0 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Forbidden Reach 15.2, 15.0
/way #2151 15.2 15.0
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 The Forbidden Reach map
- The Scary Vault of Ur about 1,240 yards
- Zskera Vault: Az about 1,240 yards
- Zskera Vault: Ix about 1,240 yards
- Zskera Vault: Kx about 1,240 yards
- Wings of Mercy about 1,480 yards
- Return to Viridia about 1,490 yards
- Stemming the Irontide about 1,490 yards
- An Eclectic Accord about 1,490 yards
- Return to the Reach about 1,520 yards
- Sending Stone: Protest about 1,530 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Forbidden Reach, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Forbidden Reach:
- Morqut Islet, Forbidden Reach
- Morqut Village, The Forbidden Reach
- Wingrest Embassy, The Waking Shores
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
- Objective area
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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Money28 gold9 silver
Experience9,500 XP
Storyline
Azerothian Archives
Part 29 of 44.
Previous: Excavation: Winglord's Perch · Next: The Cache in the Crag
- 24Surveying the Tower
- 25Hidden in the Midden
- 26Antiquated Antics
- 28Excavation: Winglord's Perch
- 29Surveying the Cliffside
- 30The Cache in the Crag
- 31A Taste of the Past
- 33Technoscrying: Dragonskull Island
- 34The Fate of Scalecommander Abereth
- 35Without Honor
Showing steps 24 to 35 of 44.
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.
- Excavation: Winglord's Perch
We've discovered an ancient fishing village in the Forbidden Reach! It's this humble isle off the northwest coast with its own crumbling bridge and everything! I'll be there if you're looking for more dirt to dig up!
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Cache in the Crag
<This barrel is salt-encrusted and buried amongst the rubble but remarkably intact. It looks like the sort of mundane cache that villagers would use to store goods, but no one has lived here for thousands of years. Could there still be something inside? Roska will want to have a look at this!>
The storyline at a glance
Azerothian Archives has 44 steps, from To the Archives! to Graduation Day.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Thaldraszus (14), The Forbidden Reach (9), Zaralek Cavern (8), Ohn'ahran Plains (4).
Other storylines on The Forbidden Reach map
- Evoker Tablets
- A Creche Divided
- Adamanthia
- The 5th Essence
- Technoscrying: Dragonskull Island
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.