TheWoWDBFor those that are having trouble with this quest, put the totem on the dirt pile or as close as you can. Click the totem and then you will be able to click the object in the dirt pile several times until it is fully unearthed.
Quest
Your First Find
A World of Warcraft quest in Thaldraszus. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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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.
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 meFor 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.
Quest facts
Quest ID78762
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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.
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-inTurn-inTurn-inTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaIn-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
- The Shadowflame Axe about 10 yards
- Handling It about 10 yards
- Technoscrying: Back to Eadweard! about 10 yards
- Excavation: Back to Eadweard! about 10 yards
- The City of the Dead about 870 yards
- Keeper of the Ossuary about 900 yards
- The Judgment of Tyr about 1,120 yards
- On the Trail Again about 1,290 yards
- Veiled Trouble about 1,360 yards
- Veiled Ossuary Chaos about 1,360 yards
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, Thaldraszus
- Veiled Ossuary, Thaldraszus
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 3 of 44.
Previous: Excavation 101 · Next: Hands-On Experience
- 1To the Archives!
- 2Excavation 101
- 3Your First Find
- 4Hands-On Experience
- 5Technoscrying 101
- 6A Practical Test
- 7I Can See Through Time!
- 8Excavation: Riverbed
- 9Surveying the Riverbed
- 10The Body on the Banks
- 11Do Rites by Her
- 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 101
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 Experience
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
- Thaldraszus
- Dragon Isles Emissary
- Time Management
- Valdrakken, City of Dragons
- Rebel Resurgence
- The Blue Dragons
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.