The Absent Minded Prospector
Quest #943
Level 24
Wetlands
no runs yet
Available in: TBC Anniversary details not known yet Classic Era details not known yet Forever details not known yet · compare
What to do
Archaeologist Flagongut in Menethil Harbor wants you to bring him the Stone of Relu and Flagongut's Fossil.
Objective by objective
- Collect Stone of Relu item #5233
- Collect Flagongut's Fossil item #5234
The quest's own structured objectives. How many of each you need is set by the game when you accept it, so it is not stored here – the sentence above is the quest's own wording.
The quest giver's words
Prospector Whelgar now holds the original fossil at his site in the Wetlands. When I discovered the Stone of Relu, I believed it to be the key to unlocking the mystery of the fossil.
While I traveled on the road to meet Whelgar, I was attacked by raptors and the relic was lost. I don't know which one of the mottled beasts swallowed the relic but if you can retrieve it, I can unleash the power of these artifacts.
Bring me both the Stone of Relu, and the original fossil he holds.
Progress
With the Stone of Relu I will be able to release the hidden secrets of my fossil as well as Remtravel's fossil from Darkshore, <name>.
Completion
Most excellent, <name>!
Now to see if I can use the stone to decipher the powers of the fossils.
Category: Darkshore.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Skullchipper
item #5626 · Uncommon · item level 20 · sells for 17s 17c
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Relic Blade
item #5627 · Uncommon · item level 20 · sells for 13s 79c
- Money
- none
- and 14s 40c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 2,400
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at level 29 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 15–29 2,400 100% 30 1,900 80% 31 1,450 60% 32 950 40% 33 480 20% 34–89 240 10% 90 none 14s 40c more money The game pays the full figure up to five levels above the quest, then 20 % less for each level more, down to a tenth, and none at the level cap. A bonus of your own (a guild perk, a holiday) comes on top.
Reputation
- Ironforge +350
Who it is for
- Faction
-
- Race
- Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Draenei
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 24, requires level 15
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Absent Minded Prospector #942 · any one of these
After this
Nothing follows it.
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Archaeologist Flagongut npc · Wetlands at 0.108, 0.604
- Hand in to
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- Archaeologist Flagongut npc · Wetlands at 0.108, 0.604
- pick up
- turn in
These two markers are the quest giver's and the hand-in's own positions – not where anybody was standing. The recorded positions are further down, under the community data.
Relevant locations
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Wetlands
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Archaeologist Flagongut
Starts the quest · 10.8, 60.4
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Archaeologist Flagongut
Hand the quest in · 10.8, 60.4
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Mottled Raptor
Quest objective · 37.0, 43.4
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Mottled Screecher
Quest objective · 24.2, 53.2
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Mottled Scytheclaw
Quest objective · 32.4, 50.8
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Mottled Razormaw
Quest objective · 34.6, 47.2
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The pins are the game's own map markers; the coordinates are the game's 0–100, as
/way takes them.
What players recorded
Everything below this line is a different kind of knowledge from everything above it. Above: what the quest is, the same on every realm. Below: what actually happened when people played it, uploaded by them, with the number of runs printed against every figure. It is an observation, not a fact about the quest.
Nobody has completed this quest with telemetry on yet, so there is no timing. Everything below is drawn straight from the 0 recorded attempts the hub has.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 0 runs by 0 players – low confidence. Every upload of this quest sharpens it: the hotspots tighten, the order and the timings settle, and the parts below unlock as the sample grows.
- Where to go – pick-up, objectives and hand-in needs one recorded run not yet
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 0) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 0) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 0 from 0) not yet
Timings
Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.
Same 0 runs.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills.
The route
An early route: drawn from the first runs and sharper with every upload. Pick-up, hand-in and the objective hotspots are where the quest is, so they are shown from the first run.
Map coordinates are the addon's own 0–1 zone coordinates (Wetlands), origin top-left, x to the right and y downward. Drag the zone map to pan, ctrl/⌘ + scroll or the buttons to zoom; the grid lines are tenths of the zone.
- Pick up
- Not recorded yet.
- Turn in
- Not recorded yet.
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
No objective progress has been uploaded for this quest yet. Once somebody plays it with the addon on, the objectives and their hotspots appear here automatically.
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
No runs recorded yet.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.