What to do
Give the Rattle of Bones to the Freewind Brave at Darkcloud Pinnacle in Thousand Needles.
The quest giver's words
A tauren rattle lays here, exuding supernatural power. Its keepers slain, the artifact is undefended.
Surely the brave will have some insight into its significance?
Progress
The fabled Rattle of Bones, <name>!
Completion
It is true then! What is it doing here, though? And if it is here, that must mean that the writ and the drums are also nearby!
Perhaps there is some link between it and the wind serpent that just appeared? I think that I have an idea what that creature is as well.
Category: Thousand Needles.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- The Rattle of Bones
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 55s
- and 28s 80c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 4,800
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at level 47 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 38–47 4,800 100% 48 3,850 80% 49 2,900 60% 50 1,950 40% 51 975 20% 52–89 480 10% 90 none 28s 80c 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.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 4,800 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Thunder Bluff +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 42, requires level 38
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Together Again #27276 · any one of these
After this
- The Writ of History #27321
- The Drums of War #27326
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- The Rattle of Bones npc · Thousand Needles at 0.434, 0.434
- Hand in to
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- Freewind Brave npc · Thousand Needles at 0.422, 0.483
- 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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Thousand Needles
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The Rattle of Bones
Starts the quest · 43.4, 43.4
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Freewind Brave
Hand the quest in · 42.2, 48.3
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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.
This guide rests on 1 completed run. That is enough to show where people went and not enough to trust the timings – treat them as one player's evening.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 1 run by 1 player – 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 available
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 1) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 1) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 1 from 1) not yet
Timings
Based on 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.
Same 1 run; mean 1 min 41 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 5,280 XP, done around level 42.
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 (Thousand Needles), 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
- turn in
- where players die – not published yet
Where they happened is shown once at least 5 characters from at least two different people have done this quest (now 1 from 1): unlike the route, a death spot is about the player, not the quest.
- Pick up
- 0.430, 0.430 median of 1 recorded accept on Thousand Needles
- Turn in
- 0.430, 0.440 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Thousand Needles
- Deaths during this quest
- 1 death, in 1 run Only deaths between accepting and finishing this quest count. Where they happened is not published yet – see the map above.
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
The analyser has not published tips for this quest yet. These are read straight off the raw runs on this page, with the evidence spelled out.
- Expect to die here – bring food or a friend.Evidence: 1 deaths across 1 run (1.0 per run)
Recorded runs
| Character | Time | Deaths | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
1 min 41 s | 1 | 42 | 55s |
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.