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Your First Find

Your First Find is a quest for level 70. It is step 3 of 44 in the Azerothian Archives storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Thaldraszus at 61.6, 31.2. It rewards 9,500 experience and money.

Description

We've got a find on our hands! Looks like this might be one of my books from undergrad. Hah!

Now, your job is to get all that dirt off of it, but you have to be careful. The artifacts we handle are very fragile, and the only thing worse than them staying in the ground is them breaking on the way out.

Empowering your elemental will only get you halfway. You'll need to use your environment to keep things in balance so that it's safe to excavate.

Rewards

Money28 gold9 silver
Experience9,500 XP

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Known issues

Top Comments

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

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Celimbrimbor+71via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I hate this quests sorry, bugged or what I dont know, it took me 30min to click randomly, stand in the water, click fire totem, man, wtf blizzard. I mean sure, eventually it randomlly gave me 30%, I have no cooking clue what I did. Then I wa suddenyl at 100%, and then gave me a new quest, screw this lol, fix it pls Blizz.

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Check whether you have already completed it in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(78762))

Top Comments

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

2
Celimbrimbor+71via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

I hate this quests sorry, bugged or what I dont know, it took me 30min to click randomly, stand in the water, click fire totem, man, wtf blizzard. I mean sure, eventually it randomlly gave me 30%, I have no cooking clue what I did. Then I wa suddenyl at 100%, and then gave me a new quest, screw this lol, fix it pls Blizz.

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reRoute+34via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

For people that are still stuck and nothing worked to get the encounter bar and the progress bar over the "artifact", I think this is an old bug when you are phased in a different shard than the quest.
Go to Valdrakken and turn PvP Mode On and go back and see if that helps. This is what fixed the issue for me

For people that continue to tell people to balance things or check the encounter bar or whatever, please stop and say that you do not have a fix or did not encounter that issue, you are not helping anyone, there are times when people are more bugged than you.

Hope this helps some peeps like it helped me.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP9,500
MoneyGold28g 9s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapThaldraszusTurn-in marker at 61.6, 31.2, 6 mapped points
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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.

Thaldraszus Quest turn-in 6 mapped points
Thaldraszus map showing where to go for Your First FindTurn-inTurn-inTurn-inTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #2025 61.6 31.2

Coordinates

  • Turn-inThaldraszus 61.6, 31.2/way #2025 61.6 31.2
  • Turn-inThaldraszus 61.6, 30.0/way #2025 61.6 30.0
  • Objective areaThaldraszus 61.3, 30.3/way #2025 61.3 30.3

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 Thaldraszus map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Thaldraszus:

  • Algeth'era, ThaldraszusAlliance and Horde · about 630 yards south
  • Veiled Ossuary, ThaldraszusAlliance and Horde · about 830 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 70 yards north-west
  • Objective areaabout 70 yards north
  • Objective areaabout 70 yards north-west

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

Azerothian Archives

Part 3 of 44.

Previous: Excavation 101 · Next: Hands-On Experience

  1. 1To the Archives!
  2. 2Excavation 101
  3. 3Your First Find
  4. 4Hands-On Experience
  5. 5Technoscrying 101
  6. 6A Practical Test
  7. 7I Can See Through Time!
  8. 8Excavation: Riverbed
  9. 9Surveying the Riverbed
  10. 10The Body on the Banks
  11. 11Do Rites by Her
  12. 12Technoscrying: Observatory

Showing steps 1 to 12 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 101Level 70

    So, you want to learn how to excavate artifacts? You came to the right orc! Turns out being able to shape the earth is useful when you're trying to get stuff out of the ground. And given how much the elements affect our work, it helps having an elemental to lend a hand.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Hands-On ExperienceLevel 70

    Great job on that small find! Now, are you ready for something big? More often than not, shaking up the small stuff will shake up something even BIGGER just below the surface. Another little rumble, and we'll have a major find on our hands, I can feel it.

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 Thaldraszus 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.

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