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Legion Archaeology History of Highmountain Surveying Student Neltharion's Lair: Misdirected

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Comment by Eillesthis

If you enter on the lower level, take the elevator up.

Comment by lordbear

This starts a short quest chain. From here you visit Lessah Moonwater to get Surveying Student. Luron follows you around while you do digs. Yes, as others have noted, the closest digsite, directly east of Thunder Totem, is densely infested with basilisks and can be a pain. (Or a boon for Skinners - tons of Stormscale!) You can go to other digsites within HM.

Next, you get Neltharion's Lair: Misdirected where you go to Neltharion's Lair and recover the Ancient Highmountain Artifact. When you turn that in the reward is Spear of Rethu.

It's recently been fixed so that it should properly appear in your Collections Tab as an Heirloom! It also satisfies the Archaeology achievement Surveying the Land.

HOWEVER -- If you previously did this quest and got the spear and it shows in your Achievements it may not appear as an Heirloom. I was offered the Surveying Student quest a second time and was hoping that I would be able to also get the Misdirected quest and thus the proper Heirloom spear. As of this writing, there was no follow quest and no spear.

Comment by serangel

well this quest come back or was it a one chance quest?

Comment by obbig

Ok not sure whether this is a new pain for this quest or not, but now after you speak to him if you mount up and fly out of Thunder Totem he does not follow. You have to walk or use ground mounts only to get him to follow you anywhere. When he disappeared I just thought he'd appear at the first digsite I used, but nope. Back to Thunder Totem to pick him up again. Talk about a pain in the rear end for somewhere like Highmountain!

Edit: As per sapertink's comment below you do get Archaeologist's Whistle to call him with when you reach a digsite. Doesn't say anything about it in the quest so many won't notice getting it in their bag. Would be nice for the quest to mention it in the text.

Comment by deepspace8

It would have saved a lot of time if you guys mentioned this quest isn't available all the time.

Comment by lloskka

Quest is UP on EU - Dun Modr Alliance

23 09 20

Finished in 30 min to get Spear of Rethu

Comment by Clarial

This is part of the A Keen Eye achievement.

All quests starts at Dariness the Learned in Dalaran(Legion)

Rare Archaeological Finding:	Race:	Starting Quest:
Crystalline Eye of Undravius	Demonic	Bits and Pieces
Starlight Beacon	Highborne	The Reliquary Calls
Spear of Rethu	Highmountain Tauren	History of Highmountain
Crown Jewels of Suramar	Highborne	Worth Its Weight
Imp Generator	Demonic	Fragments of the Fjords
Key of Kalyndras(Black Rook Key)	Highborne	Goblin Archaeology
Wyrmy Tunkins	Domnic	Out of the Frying Pan
Shard of Sciallax = one of the following relics: Glinting Shard of Sciallax(Arcane) Crystallized Shard of Sciallax(Frost) Glowing Shard of Sciallax(Fire) Dark Shard of Sciallax(Shadow) Ardent Shard of Sciallax(Life) Adamant Shard of Sciallax(Iron)	Highmountain Tauren	Unspeakable Power
Prizerock Neckband	Highmountain Tauren	A New Lead
Blood of Young Mannoroth	Demonic	One Step Closer
Key to Nar'thalas Academy	Highborne	Academic Exploration
Purple Hills of Eredath	Highmountain Tauren	Fel Fragments
Spirit of Eche'ro	Demonic	The Right Path

The quest Dariness the Learned offers changes every other week(Every quest is up for 2 weeks), in the same order as they are listed above.

These quests require Legion Expansion and Character-level 45+ and are available to both Horde and Alliance.

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History of Highmountain

Meet with Lessah in Highmountain.

Description

Let's see, one... two... three... oh, hello <name>. Sorry I didn't see you come in.

Things have been hectic around here. I could really use an assistant.

I do have something for you though, a fellow archaeologist named Lessah has been asking for someone to help her in Highmountain.

I thought you'd be the perfect person for the job.

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(41186))