So, after reading all of the confusion here, I was concerned that this would take a while.&nbsp

Nope, and here's how -

A short distance outside of the city you will see a banner (Mining Banner with Blue Symbols), off the right side road, and beside a gap in some hills.&nbsp Turn right and go through that gap.&nbsp There are some Raptors milling around just past the gap, just hang out there and kill those.&nbsp You will usually get the drop in 1-4 kills at most.&nbsp Then, look to your left and you will see another flag and a path leading up the hill.&nbsp Take that all the way up until you reach the cave, go inside.&nbsp There, ON THE GROUND is the fossil, click it and head on back.&nbsp Took me 10 minutes, tops.

So don't be confused by all this jibbajabba, just shibbashabba like I do.

This quest also goes great with https://classicdb.ch/quest=873 because it requires you to kill Screechers and Raptors, obtainable from a man outside the cave for the Stone.

I killed off 20-30 raptors yesterday without the damn thing dropping & today it came right off the 2nd raptor I killed. I can definantly recommend that you do this one along with the Omer's Revenge.

Prospector Whelan won't give you his quest until you hit level 25 (as of 10th Jan 2006) so it might be worth waiting until then before you head to the excavations to do this series... at level 25 you can solo this quest, Whelan's quest, and the guy outside his cave (follow the left-hand wall all the way up the hillside path when you enter) pretty easily if you advance slowly and keep good awareness around you.

An important point that hasn't been mentioned so far is that when you finish the series, Whelan doesn't give you the final fossil part that you need - it's a large flat rock on the cave floor in front of him which you can interact with only when you've done all of the prerequesites.

If you do the associated series for the dwarf outside, you'll end up having to kill the named raptor - this is fairly easy at level 24 (for some classes) if you make sure you split the nearby unrelated razorgaw pop carefully (ie. when it's wandered away from the named). As a hunter I then placed a fire trap between me and the named, pulled with my DoT sting attack, sent the pet in as he crossed the trap (getting the DoT from that on him too) and then just blasted away making sure to control aggro. I believe it would be a tough fight for a mage or warrior to solo at that level as the named is level 29.

The stone seems to be a fairly rare drop (I killed about 20-30 of these guys yesterday and didn't get one, then got one on my first kill today).

The razormaws tend to be 25-26 and the razorgaws are 26-27, neither have very many hp, but they hit hard and fast, and they are very social.

Be very careful of the repop time in here because it's easy to get swarmed by 3 or even 4 raptors and end up back at the graveyard with a tough CR ahead.

Good luck!

coords are 38.52, inside the cave for the fossil

Try this:

I've often found that unless the quest is very detailed, ("dire mottled boars in front of Orgrimarr", ect.) and you get the chance between two or more levels of beast in which the item(s) drop from , then it usually, not always, drops off of the higher one. For instance, Raptors range from 21-27 or so inside the Excavation. In https://classicdb.ch/item=3065 , although probably inacurate, this is proven for most.

Good luck.

This quest consists of killing a bunch of level 23-26 raptors very close to MENTETHIL HARBOR.

If you are in Menthehil it will take you 30 minutes or so if you do it as part of the other Excavation quests.

If you want to stay in Ashenvale, this will suck the life out of you, wait until you move to the wetlands

The directions for both the Raptors and the cave that are printed above are accurate.

Wetlands (39,52) - Fossil
It is in the cave on the floor, all you need to do is click on it.

All around Wetlands (34,41) - Stone (rare drop from Raptor) If you are doing the various killing raptor quests in the area, you should get the Stone while finishing up your Raptor Genocide.

i got it from Mottled Razormaw
doing it together with Ormer's Revenge
and i didn't kill any extra..
got it after killing 30 Mottled

got it from motled scythclaw lv25 inside the site on fifth kill

I got the stone of relu from a mottled raptor (had to kill about 7), then proceeded to whack the raptors in the excavation site...until I was told where the fossil was. It was sooo easy, just go up the hill and the cave at the top. I walked in, no mobs (maybe because there were a few high level chars around), and got the fossil.

Good exp too, 2000.

Stone of Relu drops from the raptors on the way up the road to the prospectors cave which is on the left hand side of the dig site as soon as you walk in. There are only two raptors on the way up they seem to always spawn in the same spots.

It really is a piece of cake, no need to run around killing 15,000 raptors for this one.

Exact coordinates Fossil 38,52

the entrance to the excavation site is&nbsp about 34,40

The Stone of Relu is NOT a rare or random drop, though you cna get it by a lot of grind-work...

All you have ot do is go to the excavation site and pick up Flagongut's Fossil.&nbsp When you start to walk back down the ramp a raptor will run up at you seemingly out of nowhere.&nbsp Kill this raptor and he drops the Stone of Relu.

After getting the quest from Flagongut in Menethil Harbor, go to Whelgar's Excavation Site in the Wetlands. When you get there, go up the ramp to the left and into the cave. In the cave you'll see Whelgar, on the ground near him is Flagongut's Fossil- pick it up.

Next run back down the ramp and start killing some raptors. WIthin five kills I got Relu's Relic from looting a Mottled Sytheclaw.

After you have both relics in your pack, go back to the Harbor and see Flagongut.

After getting the quest from Flagongut in Menethil Harbor, go to Whelgar's Excavation Site in the Wetlands. When you get there, go up the ramp to the left and into the cave. In the cave you'll see Whelgar, on the ground near him is Flagongut's Fossil- pick it up.

Next run back down the ramp and start killing some raptors. WIthin five kills I got Relu's Relic from looting a Mottled Sytheclaw.

After you have both relics in your pack, go back to the Harbor and see Flagongut.

my husbands lvl 17 mage was able to pick this part of the quest up.

After you hand in both stones a ghostly gian by the name of Aman apears and warns you of digging to far into the past? =P

the raptor is just as u walk up the hill his name and lv will be green!

man...i have been doing this quest for 3 days now trying to find the fossil. i got the stone with in the first 5 mottled beast i killed. now i think my count is up to a total of 8hrs and 200 mottled beast killed so far. I have been up and down the path from MH to LM and even went into the excavation site still no fossil.

OMG...im so stupid. Just so ya know the fossil in a cave atop the hill at the excavation site. The mottled beast only drop the stone.

Edited, Mon Dec 19 13:39:39 2005

mine dropped by a mottled screecher all the way west at the bay - I had all but given up, and needed to repair and sell. My armor was down 80% and I just had 1 more - and he dropped it!

Ths stone is not on a Raptor it's on a mottled razormaw

lol ur going to kill me but for the hell of it i killed a rapter miles away from the site and i gt the drop :P

Coordinates are about 36,40. Completed this in about 10 minutes as a lvl 21 hunter. Little tip for those of lower levels the stone drops from the raptors outside the excavation site and they range from lvl 22-24. Much easier than the 25-26 inside the site

flagonut's fossil is in a rock ... open it :) it is beside whelgar in the cave, wait for it to appear :)
Lusi

Ok, has Blizzard failed to complete this series of quests? That ghost Aman comes and warns you of digging up the past. Something about even your creator being fallible? And then there is no follow up quest!

Ok the Fossil is next to Whelgar in the cave. The Stone of Relu can be found off of any of the mottled raptors, really. It was my fifth Screecher. My 19th raptor though.

Man!
I cann't get up the hill to the cave. At certain point i'm blocked like a do not enter area.It suck!

I did this with my level 20 hunter (are hunters overpowered or what?)

As per the other comments, go up the ramp and see the guy... BUT the raptors near the town (20,45)-ish in the wetlands dropped the Stone of relu. I was expecting the guys in the excavation site to drop it (they look like raptors), i tried to take one on (it was level 24 and killed it), then tried a level 25 and after going back for my corpse decided to hunt next to the town and one of the 22/23 raptors there dropped it (altho, it was at least 12 of them dead before it dropped). I wasnt expecting it and caught me off guard a bit.

These raptors are not very near the excavation site.

As a side note, the raptors drop tooths that sell quite nicely to the npc's (in my vastly limited experience)

Took me around 40 kills to get the stone, i was like "Woo!" when i got it

Ok so how do you get the original Flagengots relic back?
It is removed after you accept the new quest and it is supposedly at the excavation site, but I have yet to find it.

stone of relu drops off Mottled Scytheclaw too

After killing hundreds of raptors all over the map, I have yet to find the Stone of Relu. Something is wrong with the quest?

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Edited, Tue Mar 1 18:25:11 2005

took a bit of slaying but a mottled screecher finally dropped the stone, co-ordinates 24,52