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Kommentar von 18643

35,84 for those with coords!

Kommentar von 54511

https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=731 is the next quest

Kommentar von 34297

The quest didn't call him an absent minded prospector for nothing......

Kommentar von Thottbot

Southwest corner of zone to the west of the Temple. Loc 31,84

Kommentar von Thottbot

WEST of the Temple of the Moon.. I spent soooo long searching for him east.. got me annoying :P

Kommentar von Thottbot

Found him @ 35.83

Kommentar von Thottbot

What happens if you fail the quest?

Kommentar von Thottbot

From Auberdine, travel south past the Grove of the Ancients until you come to The Master's Glaive. It's filled with lvl 18s but you can simply walk around it. To the west of the Master's Glaive, you'll find Remtravel's Excavation. I found Remtravel right at the entrance to the excavation.

The excavation has a lot of annoying 19s & 20s. The quest you get from Remtravel is to accompany him around the excavation while he looks for his underwear or something... Not a solo unless you're 20+ but could be done by 2 16-19s. Very annoying but 1150XP for finding Remtravel & lots more later in the series.

When you get to the excavation, just ask if anyone might be willing to help you. If you're on a busy server, there will probably be someone near doing another quest (in the Grove of the Ancients there are about 3 or 4). Worked for me.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I failed this quest, so abandoned it and headed back to Hollee. However, can't get the quest from him now. :( How can I retake it? Is the only way to join a group that already have the quest? Or will even that work?

P.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I have yet to complete this quest. This is due to the fact I am only level 18. If I were you I would wait until I was at least level 21 before trying it solo. There are a lot of lever 19 and 20 monsters that the dumb-ass prospector picks fights with.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Btw, is Cosmos illegal?

Kommentar von Thottbot

Found right out side of sight. died once because it gets ahead of u. if u heal HEAL. prospecter is only lvl 16.

Kommentar von Thottbot

If you're a healer type, I imagine that you can keep the prospector healed. However, I'm a solo Hunter (level 22) and failed the first time even though I had gone through the site beforehand and killed off all the golems. The problem was the ambushes by the Gnolls (or whatever) when the prospector entered the tents and other spaces while looking for his fossil. Two level 20s jumped out at him and one of them killed him while my pet was drawing aggro from the other.

The golems respawn so fast that by the time you clear out the camp, they have already started respawning again.

So unless you can heal or are very lucky, I recommend a group.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Soloed as a 18 Hunter, Use First Aid and/or potions ( realy helped ALOT ) ;-)

Kommentar von Thottbot

The Absent Minded Prospector: 35,83

Kommentar von Thottbot

I tried to Solo as a lvl 23 Rouge. The Golems are easy, just dont loot the bodies, and it should stop them from rezzing faster.The Gnolls or whatever appear when the prospector is searching. Couldnt kill then fast enough before one killed the prospector..Not that hard, but a group or Hunter/Warlock should be able to do it solo.

Kommentar von Thottbot

another easy quest....high teen and low 20 level.....the correct coords this run are..(Darkshore: 35, 83)

Kommentar von Thottbot

..becouse i have done solo 2 times as a Pal_22and during that walk u need to take care of 1 out of 4 Ravager groups beside golems..the only 1 trully dangerous is lurking on the dead_end/turnover path..the Ravager is fire based

the rest is like poem =J

Kommentar von Thottbot

If you failed the first attempt wait for the prospector to show back up... it takes a little while but he will show back up. Once he is back abandon the quest and he will offer it to you a second time.

Kommentar von Thottbot

hmmm from reading what your saying i wont do it yet then,im only lv 15 ¬__¬ it says obtained at 14 wtf argh oh well i know were he is i just cant get to it its by grove of ancients.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Can anybody tell me where to find the Flagongut's Fossil please in the Wetlands.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Everyone I have encountered is very annoyed by this quest. I was too because just like any other 'lead the meat-puppet around' quest; they wander around and agro lots of stuff at always the wrong time. My suggestion, (which will make you very popular) is to share it with a whole group and do it. That way, it is still annoying but a lot of people get it done fast. Sure, the xp may not be as good or you wont get as much stuff etc. BUT the pay-off is worth it by making fast friends (who will help you in Blackfathom Deep later...) and getting this quest off your list. We did it (me lvl 19 NE Rogue) and 3 other lvl 13/16/19 NE Hunters and one lvl 20 Warrior. Cake walk. And we were all STILL complaining about the annoying little prospector! Ha! Bunch of whiners but it took less than 15 minutes vs. long solo play that will drive you batty! (oh! be aware there are big metal monsters but he will agro goblins too! so keep an eye on him..little booger!)

Kommentar von Thottbot

I dont know where is it , can Somebody Print SCREEN where it is ?

Kommentar von Thottbot

itsays need 2 people,makesureyou bring3-4

Kommentar von Thottbot

actually he's at 35,83 not at 31,84

Kommentar von Thottbot

35.83 correct, lil dude with pick in his hand standin by a rock.

Kommentar von Thottbot

OK, I'm a mid 20's Shaman. this quest is 'green' for me so it's gotta be a piece of cake, right? Nada. This is the most annoying quest in RPG history (dating back to when neanderthals invented the genre by moving about human figures made of reeds held together by feces).

I think I've actually gotten to the point where I would rather sit through back to back screenings of 'Titanic' and 'Pearl Harbor' (without beer) than attempt to solo this quest again.

Oh yes, you heard me right, Decaprio followed by Affleck, no beer.

See, this prospector will wander every inch of the camp and aggro every Stone Behemoth throughout this 'small area' quest. These golems will respawn approximately every 60-90 seconds, so pre-culling the area is not very effective. On almost every location the prospector checks, one or (usually) two level 19-20 Gravelflint Scouts will appear, all making a bee-line for the Prospector. While fighting them, Behemoths will respawn and target him.

If acting as a healbot, the healing spells draw aggro from only one of his attackers (if 4 are attacking him and you heal him, 1 will divert to you, other 3 will stay on him - same seems to go for dropping shaman totems, the drop aggros only 1 of his attackers).

Advice - Snag someone in the area to lend a hand. Minimum is one to heal the Prospector and one to tank attackers. Optimum is ignoring the whole thing and go have more fun somewhere else (such as getting tied to a stake and having people throw sharp rocks at your face).

Kommentar von Thottbot

Hi Ozone,

You are funny. I was just about to go solo on this quest, how hard can it be I thought. Then I read your comment on going solo and decided not too. Thank you.

Still laughing...

Kommentar von Thottbot

I soloed the escort quest you get from Remtravel after this as a level 21 Hunter. Tricky, but doable. Here's how it works:

1.) Set your pet to passive.
2.) Let the little bastard you're escorting take the lead: as much as possible, you want HIM to be the one to aggro baddies, because that means he'll stop to help fight.
3.) As soon as you or Remtravel aggros a mob, set your pet on it. If you aren't being attacked by anything else, assist your pet. If Remtravel just keeps walking, feel free to assist your pet, but make sure to keep an eye on Remtravel and be ready to assist him.
4.) If more than one mob is aggro'd, set your pet on the first and deal with the second yourself. You and your pet should both generate more threat than Remtravel, so any mob should turn its attentions to you within one or two hits, keeping Remtravel's health high.
5.) The important part: once you've killed a mob, DO NOT loot it.
6.) Continue to follow Remtravel as he wanders aimlessly around the stupid freakin' site. If you stay just a bit behind him, he shouldn't end up aggroing more than two mobs at any given time.
7.) Once the escort part of the quest is done, THEN, if you so choose, you may venture back into the excavation to loot your dead mobs. (Although some of them will probably have respawned and you'll have to kill them again, at least you won't have a useless NPC to babysit while you do it.)

In a nutshell:
1.) Let Remtravel aggro mobs so he assists: don't try to clear his path.
2.) Attack any mob as soon as it's aggro'd on Remtravel so that its attentions turn to you.
3.) Split any attacking mobs between your pet and yourself.
4.) Don't waste time looting.

Kommentar von Thottbot

35,83

Kommentar von Thottbot

coords 35,83

Kommentar von Thottbot

Lol, i did it solo, and i did it in like 5 minutes. the thing is, you have to kill the mobs fast. just go 1vs1 with the mobs and you'll be fine.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Soloed it as a level 20 Druid.

Just go in and kill everything.

Then get him and all you have to do is worry about the Flintstone dudes.

ezpz

Kommentar von Thottbot

i followed what it said to to and i found it ok a lil hard to find but it was rite there, but i had two other people with me one that had to do the qest and one that was coming so we didnt get messed up

Kommentar von Thottbot

Unless you have someone with you, just skip this quest. It's really not worth it. For just a little over a thousand exp, it's not worth the headaches and frustration.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Hi I did the escort part no probs. But now he wants me to find the Stone of Relu and the Flagongut's fossil. I dont know where they are can anyone help?

Kommentar von Thottbot

Ok, pretty easy. I just solo'd it at 19 w/ my pet on aggressive and attacking everything for aggro.

Question I have is, are you supposed to get anything after you escort the old fart around? He just walked back to the beginning when we finished. He never did anything after that. No xp, no chat etc. Just stood there at the beginning.

Kommentar von Thottbot

As I've already mentioned elsewhere HEALING does NOT heal him. You get the standard msg that you've healed him but it doesn't work on the ammount of dmg done to him. He can only take a set number of hits whether he is healed or not.
The only way to do this quest properly is with 2 people - one stays with him ALL the time the other mops up random golem spawns UNTIL he gets to the last bit before he heads back. Here one of the spawns starts throwing fireballs and the other attacks him melee. At this point the guy mopping up takes out the ranged mob as fast as pos and the other one kills the melee mob. You will get more golems as he heads back but they shouldn't be a problem.
At no point should you waste time looting or healing.

This is not the end of the quest so I'm really not sure why it's listed as 2 step quest.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I've solo'ed this quest a few times on toons that were mid 20's. I found the following tips helpful.

1. Don't clear the area out first. My original temptation was to go clear the area so that we would have some space to work with. The stone dudes respawn too fast and the prospector is too slow for that to work right. A stone guy will wind up respawning at the wrong time causing you lots of trouble.

2. Watch for the mage after he goes up the ramp in the larger area. One of the magically appearing mobs that pop up during the escort is a mage. If you don't grab the aggro for him quick you will fail the quest. It seems that about two fireballs is all it takes to kill the prospector. So, when the prospector goes up that ramp, run to the ledge to the left of it. As soon as you see the mage appear hit him hard. Once you have his attention you can try to grab the other guy's aggro. The prospector should be able to take a couple of hits from the other guy, though, without too much trouble.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Even if you can skip to Step 2, this step is worth 1150xp basically just for finding the guy. So I wouldn't recommend missing out on that.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Ok, once completed, he remembers that he gave the item to Hollee, check with her.
Where do you find her?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

The key is to start not from the miner but from the other side of the pit. After slaughtering all the wood/stone robots, you can talk to the miner and then it's easy for two ppl to guard the old guy around the pit when he is studying the thing.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Listen to redoo. Also, i found that i had to kill most of the stuff in the pit for him to appear. That maybe that someone had just completed quest before i got there. Not sure.

In addition, its good to have about 3 people in grp...because as you are fighting the mob the miner aggros, it will switch aggro to you, then he will start moving again...so while you are killing he will aggro another mob, so the mob he aggros another member shud steal aggro from him so he wont die, so on and so on. kinda like leap frog.

If you are over 20lvl you maybe able to kill mobs fast enough to keep up..dunno i wasnt....

In addition, if he dies, you can get quest again from him. Kill the mobs in pit again then run back to entrance and shud have returned

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Anybody have any additional info on where to go?

- Sabriel -

Kommentar von Allakhazam

*edit*

Meant for next quest in series (reposted in proper thread.

Edited, Thu Jan 12 11:03:38 2006

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I've been having the same problem, I go and kill all the stone people, but the professor is so slow, they aggro too fast and then the stonesplitters come, so you need more than 1 person to handle this quest. One question though, does anyone know where the fossil is? Does the professor have to find it or can the player? Just wondering, but if he has to find it, he sure takes his time.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

It's been so long, I've forgotten . . . Hollee is in Auberdine.
Case closed.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

If you're coming from Auberdine, the excavation (called Remtravel's Excavation), is on your right side, the west side - closer to the sea.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I abandoned this and now can't get it back. Is there anyway to restart it?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Solo:ed it at 20, just let him agro the golems, then attack, he'll help.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I want the dagger at the end of this series of quests, can I start the chain at 25? I believe grey quests are not even given to a player anymore

Kommentar von Allakhazam

stay on the grass rightbefor the sand and run the southern most of darkshire, youl run intot he excavation sight and hell be standing right infront of a big stone, cant miss him or the site the golems are level 18-20 i am a level 20 mage using my fireball i kill in 3-4 nukes per golem so easy kills, and at level 20 i got no less then 132 exp for a kill and no higher then 145 exp so its great exp too if your up to just fight for exp and not quest

Kommentar von Allakhazam

No he does not have the fossil, but you have to complete the mission to find it

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Go south towards Ashenvale. See the map below.

Ausgrabungsleiter Wirrbart

Kommentar von Allakhazam

loc 36, 84

Kommentar von dirkraft

He died in 4 hits to a single mob. Take aggro asap.

Kommentar von Restomagus

I am trying to pick this quest up, I am level 22. The quest giver Archaeologist Hollee does not have any quests to offer me. What am I missing? Anyone?

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Der geistesabwesende Ausgrabungsleiter

Reist nach Süden und seht nach Ausgrabungsleiter Wirrbart.

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Was war es doch für eine Ehre, als Meister Grauflaum mir auftrug, unter der Führung des großen Ausgrabungsleiters Wirrbart zu arbeiten. Jeder an der Akademie in Eisenschmiede kannte Wirrbarts großartige Entdeckungen.

Aber der Ausgrabungsleiter ist sich nicht so recht... ähm... bewusst... was um ihn herum so vor sich geht.

Wir hatten Hinweise auf eine große Kultur entdeckt. Schreckliche Golems brachen aus dem Boden hervor und überrannten die Grabungsstätte. Wirrbart schien gar nichts bemerkt zu haben. Ich rannte nach Auberdine, um Hilfe zu holen.

Bitte reist nach Süden und seht nach, ob es dem Ausgrabungsleiter gut geht!

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/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(729))

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