The Absent Minded Prospector
Quest #942
Level 20
Darnassus
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
Take the mysterious fossil to Archaeologist Flagongut in Menethil Harbor.
The quest giver's words
This fossil bears a striking resemblance to one I once saw in Ironforge. An archaeologist by the name of Flagongut brought it to our annual Explorers' League conference. He believed the fossil had a power which could be unlocked somehow.
Last I heard Flagongut had holed up in the Deepwater Tavern in Menethil Harbor, awaiting escort to the Whelgar Excavation Site. Seek him out and show him Remtravel's fossil. Perhaps he can reveal the secrets of the past.
The ship to Menethil departs from Auberdine.
Progress
What ya got there, friend?
Completion
Oh my! You say this came from the distant lands of Kalimdor?
Amazing! Simply amazing!
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Mysterious Fossil
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 9s 60c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 1,550
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at level 25 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 15–25 1,550 100% 26 1,250 80% 27 925 60% 28 625 40% 29 310 20% 30–89 160 10% 90 none 9s 60c 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 +100
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 20, requires level 15
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Absent Minded Prospector #741 · any one of these
After this
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Chief Archaeologist Greywhisker npc · Darnassus at 0.312, 0.845
- Hand in to
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- Archaeologist Flagongut npc · Wetlands at 0.108, 0.604
- pick up
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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Darnassus
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Chief Archaeologist Greywhisker
Starts the quest · 31.2, 84.5
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Wetlands
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Archaeologist Flagongut
Hand the quest in · 10.8, 60.4
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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 (Darnassus), 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.