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Azerothian Archives To the Archives! Excavation 101 Your First Find Hands-On Experience Technoscrying 101 A Practical Test I Can See Through Time! Excavation: Riverbed Surveying the Riverbed The Body on the Banks Do Rites by Her Technoscrying: Observatory Attune to the Observer A Link to the Past A Window into the Future Nirobin and the Office Living History Lab Partners with a Squirrel A Research Thesis Worth Publishing Back to Headquarters! Finally, An Archivist! Excavation: Gaze of Neltharion Surveying the Tower Hidden in the Midden Antiquated Antics Excavation: Winglord's Perch Surveying the Cliffside The Cache in the Crag A Taste of the Past Technoscrying: Dragonskull Island The Fate of Scalecommander Abereth Without Honor The Hidden Hand Technoscrying: Igira's Watch The Tools of the Dragonkillers An Unlikely Proposal The Scale of it All Back to Headquarters! Again! Graduation Day Azerothian Archives - Excavation Sites Excavation: Riverbed Surveying the Riverbed The Body on the Banks Do Rites by Her Excavation: Gaze of Neltharion Surveying the Tower Hidden in the Midden Antiquated Antics Excavation: Winglord's Perch Surveying the Cliffside The Cache in the Crag A Taste of the Past Excavation: Back to Eadweard!

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Comment by arisen1

If you're confused like I was:

1) Talk to the NPC to get started
2) Go to a yellow dot marked on your map
3) Put down the totem by clicking the icon in your quest log
4) Now, click the totem you just placed on the ground to begin the excavation mini-game

Don't feel bad. This is really poor quest design.

Comment by Byllam

One of the WORST designed quests EVER!

Comment by Jihyo

To also knock out doing "When a rock is just a rock" achievement at the same time, pick up quest, talk to Roska that you'd like to start digging, then head just down the path to 48,50. This unearths a rock every time. You can just abandon quest and pick up again. Rinse and repeat until the achievement is done!

Comment by lirrienne

Full Explanation - use the green Archivists Totem near one of the disturbed earth mounds that shows up on your mini-map. Click on the totem. Your Helpful Earth elemental will scan the mound and your bar will start moving toward the Earth symbol. Little lavas show up around you. Once the bar starts to get a bit too earthy, RUN OVER THE TOP OF A LAVA. Just one will probably be fine. Once you can keep the bar relatively balanced you'll find you can CLICK ON THE MOUND TO EXCAVATE. Watch the bar, run over another lava now and again and you'll get to 100%.

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Surveying the Tower

Speak with Roska to start the dig, then excavate artifacts from around the tower.

	Tell Roska to start the dig (1)
	Finds Unearthed (2)
	Artifact Bunny 1 (1)
	Artifact Bunny 2 (1)
	Monster Bunny 1 (1)
	Monster Bunny 2 (1)
	Rock Bunny (1)
	Major Find Unearthed (1)

Provided item:

	Archivist's Earth Totem (1)

Description

Get a load of those rock formations! Surveying doesn't get much better than this. This tower has been here for ages. The black dragonflight used it for some seriously dark stuff, but that's not why we're here. After the dragons left, a troupe of niffen bandits took shelter in the ruins and robbed the place blind. But they left a bunch of trash everywhere. Imagine what we could learn about the niffen from that trash once we get digging!

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(76026))