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The Absent-Minded Prospector

The Absent-Minded Prospector is a quest for level 5-30 in Darkshore. It rewards 4 reward items, 4,100 experience and money.

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Description

Who are you again? <name>? Have we met? If you're here from the League, you can tell them I'm not leaving! Not without my find. I had it, right in my hands! Then the screaming. Then the wetness.

Listen here whos-yer-name, I documented the whole thing in my journal the day the tidal wave hit. And I know just where I left it! The journal. Not the find. Help me get the one so we can get the other! Or vice-versa! Do you follow? Follow me!

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
Top Comments

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Katarinea+25via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

A very simple, humorous quest. The prospector walks around the perimeter of the dig site and makes a few funny comments before returning to the camp you started from.

The only mobs that are fought are the murloc lining the wreckage of the dig.

However, I failed this quest once -- when walking around, near the Master's Glaive, he aggroed a "Spawn of Soggoth" and it was not visible to me. I was certain it was a phasing error, and it was -- later on there is a phased quest in the Master's Glaive. If he aggros this, just run forward into the Master's Glaive, and hopefully it will be visible. It didn't happen the second time, so it may or may not be rare.

This quest would not be hard for someone at level.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
MoneyGold10g 50s

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Hands
Item level11
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor2
Stats+2 Intellect, +3 Stamina
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for4 silver25 copper
TypeLeather Legs
Item level11
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+3 Agility or Intellect, +4 Stamina
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for8 silver70 copper
TypeArmor Finger
Item level11
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+2 Strength, +2 Stamina, +2 Critical Strike
Suited toProtection, Fury, Arms, Retribution, Unholy, Frost, Blood

“Funny. Always seems to turn black around Remtravel.”

TypeMail Legs
Item level11
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+3 Agility or Intellect, +4 Stamina
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for9 silver9 copper

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.

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