Inspecting the Ruins
A verified Blizzard quest record from Dustwallow Marsh. Use the archive brief, rewards, and linked research to finish it without losing your place.
Who gives Inspecting the Ruins
1 recordThe NPC, object, or item that starts this quest, with the first known coordinate when available.
- Captain Garran VimesNPC #4944Dustwallow Marsh · 68.2, 48.4
Where to turn it in
1 recordThe NPC or object that accepts the completed quest. Phasing and alternate-faction versions can produce more than one endpoint.
- Inspector TaremNPC #23567Dustwallow Marsh · 29.6, 47.6
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What To Do
Complete the quest objective shown in your tracker in Dustwallow Marsh, then return to the turn-in NPC.
Quest Text
Poor James never recovered from the destruction of the Shady Rest and the murder of his family. The boys and I are doing what we can to find the monsters who did this. I've sent our best investigator, Inspector Tarem, out to the ruins, but this is too big a job for any one man. If you'd lend Tarem a hand, we'd appreciate it. Light knows, we'd all like to be out there helping. The main road will lead you to the inn, but take care. Your journey will take you beyond the protection of my soldiers.
Plan the run before you travel
Check the quest area, faction, and level range before you travel. If this quest is part of a chain, finish nearby campaign quests in the same zone first.
Check the exact quest giver and turn-in records above first. Use this page's community comments for phase changes, cave entrances, spawn timing, and corrections from the live game.
No group size is listed by Blizzard, so this is usually soloable unless the objective text says otherwise.
Pin the quest in-game, enable objective outlines, then use the exact-title references in the archive for NPC or object coordinates. Add a correction below if the live game differs from this record.
Objectives and map pin
Blizzard's public API publishes a quest's text and rewards but not its objectives, its own level, whether it can be shared, or any map coordinate. Nobody has synced quest 27249 yet, so there is nothing to show here rather than a guess. Running the WowGodSync addon while you play contributes those fields for everyone.
Check it in game
Quest completion is stored per character on Blizzard's side and is not in the public API, so paste this in your chat box and it prints true or false for “Inspecting the Ruins” on the character you are logged into.
/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27249))/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompletedOnAccount(27249))A false also comes back for a quest id the client does not know, so it means “not recorded as complete” rather than proof the quest exists on your account.
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Rewards
- Experience
- 3,100
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