The Big Dig: Traitor's Rest

You can grab this Weekly (without doing any of the Azerothian Archives introduction quests) from Eadweard Dalyngrigge in two locations, or just from your adventure journal:

/way #2024 26.96 46.46 Traitor's Rest
/way #2025 61.57 31.32 Azerothian Archives Thaldraszus

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• Every hour on the half-hour, the public event "The Big Dig: Traitor's Rest" will start in the Traitor's Rest area of the Azure Span and last for up to 12 minutes. You can mouseover the event's horn icon on the map to check for its next uptime or potential rewards for your next participation.
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• The only thing needed to complete The Big Dig: Traitor's Rest is a [npc=208029] defeat!
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• We'll only get the 5000x [currency=2657]s for the first completion of this Weekly per account! (it's supposed to flag hidden quest [quest=79664]). Other characters will see [currency=2003] instead.
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• As for the Community Feast, players need to wait near an NPC ([npc=209134]) to receive solo tasks in the area and when we complete them, we'll add pages to the event's progress bar. (Obviously nothing is exactly solo in heavily crowded events, the few tasks handed out to players AND digging for exposed objects are shared when it comes to their progress)
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• For every time we fill the bar (1000 pages, repeatable during one event), every player in Traitor's Rest will be rewarded with a tome or appendix (shown on the bar) of different rarities with different amounts of [faction=2615] reputation and [currency=2657]s. (e.g. [item=213177], [item=213190], [item=213429])
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• You will get [currency=2657]s on literally everything in the event (e.g. task & dig completions, opening container items, etc.) so I will no longer mention them.
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• Each task completed is worth 50 pages, but you'll see bonus pages based on the number of players in the area: 270 when solo, 120 with two players, 70 with 3 players, 45 with 4 players (never had more players around on PTR to see more values, or too many on Retail to see when the bonus stops). This scaling is there to make sure that a solo player doing 3 tasks (960) will approximately see similar numbers of pages as 2 players doing 3 tasks each (1020), 3 players (1080), or 4 players (1140).
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• While waiting for your next task, you can dig for exposed objects around Eadweard's tent for a smaller number of pages (especially nice when 3 tasks will leave solo players with 40 pages left to fill the bar), but be prepared to fight some hostile spirits (also worth some pages). These dirt piles are all close enough to Eadweard to not worry about missing your next task.
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• After 9 minutes the tasks will stop (while the exposed objects will be there to dig for another 3 minutes), BUT...
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• All our activities around the bones of the two-headed dragon disturbed the Traitor's Rest spirit's peace and we'll see a short spawn event and can then defeat [npc=208029] for more rewards (AFAIK no limit on that, so you could repeat that every hour for 50 rep, and a chance on cosmetics, a mount, etc.)
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• When [npc=208029] is defeated OR the 12-minute event timer is over, another 1000 pages will be added to the bar, so everyone will get another tome/appendix. This also means that everyone who's in Traitor's Rest when the event ends will receive at least one tome/appendix even when no one was actively adding pages.
  (Probably no longer intended or bugged, players (me included) are reporting they didn't get anything but Doomshadow's loot)
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• Even if you don't care about the rewards of this Weekly, as an achievement hunter or battle pet collector you should complete it 6x because every completion will give 17% on Finally At Rest (incl. [item=213134]). This achievement is supposed to take a character 6 weeks (with a new page added to Eadweards journal every week), but right now the Weekly completion of any character will add to that.

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• Surprisingly you can mount up while "channeling" some activities as long as you don't move! (e.g. digging for exposed objects, releasing otters, etc.). Just try it out on different things, it can save you some seconds for the cast time. Unfortunately the Devs felt the need to add a really large no-mount-bubble around Eadweard 2024, February 13 so this is no longer working for digging near the NPC.
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• Similar to the Community Feast you can dismiss your actual task when you don't like/understand one or it feels bugged (on PTR excavating with the fire totem often was). Fly out of the Traitor's Rest area until the event timer disappears and then return to [npc=209134] to get a new one.
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• For some tasks you have to grab hats from a crate and throw them on creatures. The range of that spell is really large, so you can try to stand near the crate and find your targets without any/a lot of movement.
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• When the 9 minutes for tasks are over and your bar is only missing a few (let's say up to 40) pages for the next completion, you could fill that by digging for 3-4x more exposed objects, grab the actual reward, and another one for the 1000 pages for killing the final boss or event being over.
  (I don't recommend that when you wanna go for the rewards of a [npc=208029] kill or the Weekly completion, other players might kill it while you dig, or you could run out of time when you have to kill it almost alone, but you'll get another 1000 pages anyways)
  (Probably no longer intended or bugged, players (me included) are reporting they didn't get anything but Doomshadow's loot)
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• You have to dismount to see the [spell=421550] Extra Action Button near [npc=210078]s for the "Collect Research Clues" task with Hap'he.
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WHen you dig around the basecamp, and there are lots of people there, it can be hard to click on the stones on the ground. A better way is to right-click the blue progress bar! It will start Excavating as long as you are near the dig area. this will save you a lot of stress and time!

Learn from my mistake: If you do not tag [npc=208029] before he dies, you will have to repeat the event!