What to do
Defeat Arikara.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Arikara NPC #45447
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
I am familiar with these artifacts. I believe that they were brought here by Magatha Grimtotem herself. But she's not amongst the Grimtotem on Darkcloud Pinnacle. She disappeared right after she arrived, and no one knows where she is now.
Maybe we can find out.
Take the rattle, the writ, and the drum out to Arikara 's Needle. If my guess is correct, the wind serpent will appear again. You'll have to defeat it to gain knowledge of where Magatha is hiding.
Progress
Only by subduing Arikara will you discover where Magatha Grimtotem is hiding.
Completion
So, she's been taken prisoner by the Twilight's Hammer. I can't say that I feel sorry for her, but she might prove even more dangerous in their hands.
Category: Thousand Needles.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Shu'halo Artifacts
The reward
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Windsong Rifle
item #63644 · Uncommon · item level 43 · sells for 2g 21s 74c
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Mantle of Invocation
item #63645 · Uncommon · item level 43 · sells for 93s 28c
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Wind Serpent Bracers
item #63646 · Uncommon · item level 43 · sells for 62s 89c
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Ring of the Subduer
item #63647 · Uncommon · item level 43 · sells for 50s 47c
- Money
- 1g 20s
- and 37s 50c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 6,300
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at level 48 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 38–48 6,300 100% 49 5,050 80% 50 3,800 60% 51 2,500 40% 52 1,250 20% 53–89 625 10% 90 none 37s 50c 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 6,300 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Thunder Bluff +350
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 43, requires level 38
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Captive Bride #27358 · any one of these
After this
- Trouble at Highperch #28085
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Lakota Windsong npc · Thousand Needles at 0.392, 0.258
- Hand in to
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- Lakota Windsong npc · Thousand Needles at 0.392, 0.258
- 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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Lakota Windsong
Starts the quest · 39.1, 25.8
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Lakota Windsong
Hand the quest in · 39.1, 25.8
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Arikara
Quest objective · 38.0, 35.4
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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.
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 7 min 53 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 6,930 XP, done around level 43.
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.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.390, 0.260 median of 1 recorded accept on Thousand Needles
- Turn in
- 0.390, 0.260 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Thousand Needles
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
Order published by the analyser from 1 run.
Objective 1 — needs 1
Players finish it about 4 min 22 s into the quest (median over 1 run, low confidence). order not certain yet
Go to (published hotspots):
- 0.380, 0.350 weight 1.00, 1 point
1 recorded position in Thousand Needles.
- hotspot centroid (numbered by weight)
- where players were
- pick up
- turn in
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
| Character | Time | Deaths | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
7 min 53 s | 0 | 43 | 1g 20s |
Community notes
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