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1.	The Great Detective
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Comment by Emmahz

A rough idea on how to do this one...
Talk to the three next to the stairs near the story telling stage who are part of <team solid>. Eventually Juddson Rakes will talk so keep on them. Keep getting hints from Maru when possible. Once you've gotten to approximately 48%, you'll need to use Torch of Pyrreth at co-ords 66.12, 40.77 Wavestrider Beach to unlock the next step of the mystery.
Talk to all the people on the beach, maybe go back to Maru if you need to and then talk to the detective at the beach. He will ask who did it and it was the undead guy whose name I can't remember.
Hopefully you should be good after that :)

Comment by Sekhmet

Make sure you're not in a raid. I forgot to leave my raid group so I didn't get any progress when talking to Team Solid

Comment by Dalylah

Talk to Ellanoir, Duryllin, and Juddson Rakes near /way 63.81 51.07. Speak to them repeatedly until Juddson has a dialogue.
At 48% go find Herrkrop's body.
Herrkrop's body is at /way 66.23 40.61, Use the Torch of Pyrreth toy to uncover it.
A boat will come in, and Athalton Jones will jump out. Talk to him.
Then speak to everyone else on the beach, including Scrapes who is sitting on a box.
Once you are at 96% go back to Althalton and tell him you know who it is. Tell him it is Scrapes.

Thank you cathline for the name of the boat guy!

Comment by rachellcupcakes

For the reaching 48% with Team Solid, you need 12% at a time from each NPC. Obviously there are only 3 NPC's, so you'd end up with 36% and no option to move forward. One of the NPC's will reward you with 12% two times, but you have to talk to each them in a specific order.

The suggested order is Ellanoir → Duryllin → Juddson → Ellanoir (again).

Once you reach 12% with one NPC, begin speaking with another - even if they have a second question/prompt available. ONE of them will eventually have two questions to ask, but if you complete speaking with all 3 NPC's back to back (without swapping/speaking with another NPC in the group), you will very possibly get stuck at 36%!

I had to abandon this quest and redo it a few times before it worked for me. Really hopes this helps someone because I was going crazy trying to find an answer other than "keep trying to talk to the NPC's"!

Comment by Jeolene

What the hell does all this have to do with the anniversary?

Comment by Elvenwarrior2001

Horrible quest. No % meter for me and repeatedly spamming "conversations" isn't particularly fun or intuitive.

Comment by aabicus

At 48% once you're supposed to go find the beach, if you fly all the way to the pirate docks (with the two ships), there's a patch of sand you can check between the two docks. It's wrong (just has a crab under it) but I can't fathom who would come this far away from where you're supposed to go, haha

Comment by DennisTheGreat

This is $%^&.

Comment by purenrgy

I got a Tracking Quest which gave me this item Note from Rexxar. You need to equip the Tricked-Out Thinking Cap to find the engineering vessel that takes you to Unu'Pe. /way 68.03, 40.93 its called Pre-Calibrated Goblin Transport Vessel.

Put on Tricked-Out Thinking Cap and go to the dock. It doesn't drop you there for some reason. Dock is /way 78.88, 53.58

Now put in coors /way 77.33, 46.22 and find Rexxar.

Comment by Iceveiled

If you told me they deliberately designed this quest to compel me to not even try and immediately come here and look for how to finish it, I'd believe you.

Comment by Moin

This quest does not exist for me.
What am I missing?
Is it because I am level 20? It says level 10.
Any prerequisites?

Comment by subipants

When i was around 48% on the beach it started spamming me with "you have no target" constantly. I finished the quest and am on to the next one but it's still spamming despite reloading, logging out and back in, and taking off the torch buff. Not sure what is causing this but it's driving me crazy.

EDIT: I talked to Historian Ju'pa to do his daily trivia quest and somehow that made it stop.

Comment by Letanda

This quest bugged for me. I stand next to the appropriate soil with the torch out and nothing happens. Also, I seem to have bugged the quest in such a way that I am being spammed with the "you have no target" error text and accompanied voiceline anywhere in designated Secrets of Azeroth areas. Would appreciate if anyone else is also having this bug, and if there are any known solutions.

edit: not sure if Blizzard hotfixed or what, but I logged in to the character stationed right next to the dirt pile, and the corpse was sitting right there next to me. I think I had the torch out immediately when I logged in, but I'm not sure.

Comment by Ganrokh

Following all of the other comments here, I could not get Herrkrop's body to spawn for the life of me. I got the meter to 48%, flew up to the beach, pulled the torch out, talked to all of the NPCs there, logged out and back in repeatedly, abandoned the quest and restarted it a few times, everything. Nothing was working or allowing me to spawn the body from the mound.

I logged onto an alt and was able to do the quest flawlessly. Weird.

Comment by cuznlar

Im stuck at 84% and can't figure out what to do next.....

Comment by Pluck123

Next quest is tracking quest

Comment by Vaelentine87

Anyone else think Nat Pagle's resting dialogue "Great day for fishin', ain't it? Haha!" is a Viva La Dirt League reference? I had a good chuckle over it

Comment by WillowFae

You will need the Idol of Ohn'ahra and the Torch of Pyrreth toys for this entire investigation. I advise you have them both activated whenever you're not actively flying from location to location. Each step must be followed due to the % nature of this quest; you cannot fly straight to the end, to our knowledge.

- Our missing person was a member of <Team Solid>; his three compatriots are standing in the Story Time theater, near the stairs up towards the Fashion platform. Talk to each one and mind the dialogue to indicate which member to talk to next. Eventually the Gnome will tell you that our missing person went to a nearby beach.
- Scan the beach just south of the anniversary area and you will find a beach chair with an umbrella. A hastily scribbled note will indicate where Herrkrop went next, with 'other side' indicating the northern beachsides of the anniversary location.
- Check the beachside north of the large pirate encampment, with tents littered with the bodies of pirates. Along the coast will be discolored piles of sand that dot the shore from the large pirate camp through the tunnel; the toys must be used to uncover what hides within these piles. The side of the tunnel with a small cornered graveyard is the side you wish to be on to find Herrkrop; keep tracing the piles of sand until you see a fisherman's station. The station will have a few notable NPCs: Nat Pagle, Julia Henning, and Scrapes. Check around it to find where Herrkrop went.
- Solve the case by questioning suspects and examining the camp carefully. Talk to the detective and give him your answer; your percentage should be complete by this point.
- If working correctly, you can now complete the quest back with Alyx.

Comment by Monkspice

Tracking Quest: IS the next part in the series. A simple google search of "Tracking quest wow" should give you the results you need to get there.

Comment by cloakedam

This was a bit confusing, I kept restarting as I was getting hardstuck at 36% - this worked for me.

Pick up the quest and talk to Athelton Jones a 2nd time - your progress bar won't move.

Talk to Ellanoir and follow the prompt she gives you.
Talk to Duryllin and follow both his prompts.
Talk to Juddison Rakes and follow him prompt.
Talk to Ellanoir again and follow her new 2nd prompt.

You should now be at 48%.

Go to the beach at /way 65, 59. Make sure your Torch of Pyrreth and Idol of Ohn'ahra are both on when you click this to read where to go next.

Walk down the beach with both toys still in use, you'll be able to investigate sandpiles to see different things - these won't move up your progress bar. The important part is not anything you find within them, but if you can't see them - you have missed a step. It's a good mid way checkpoint to make sure that you're at the right stage for the next step.

Go to /way 66, 40. Through the tunnel to find the body of Herrkrop - you should now be at 60%. You will see Athelton Jones again, you can talk to him but he won't say anything useful or move up your progress bar. Ignore him saying he doubted anyone here saw anything.

Talk to Nat Pagle and follow his prompt.
Talk to Julia Henning and follow her prompt.
Talk to Scrapes and follow his prompts.

You should now be at 96%

Go back to Athelton Jones behind Scrapes and tell him you think it was Scrapes. Scrapes will then go into the boat and run away - congrats you've completed this quest.

Comment by haunterwing

this said rewards 10x celebration tokens and now moments later it says awards 5x celebration tokens ? o_O

Comment by Nellse

The quests appeared for me when I turned lv 30.

Comment by Adahlinas

At 96%, you can talk to Athelton Jones and he says:

"You think you can outsmart the great Detective Jones?

Fine, I'll hear you out. What's your hypothesis?"

If you select one of: "It was Julia Henning.", "It was Nat Pagle.", "Herrkrop killed himself!" He says: "What evidence do you have? No, no, that can't be right."

If you select: "It was me, I did it!" He says "I admire your confession, but I sincerely doubt that."

If you select: "It was YOU, Detective Jones!" He says "Me? Why, that's preposterous poppycock!"

If you select "It was Scrapes." It triggers the dialog:
- "Yes, of course! Let us confront the suspect."
- "He's getting away!"
- "Damn. Now we'll never find him. Time to call this one a cold case."

Comment by tph88

This quest (and ALL her quests) only appeared for me after I did Benatauk's quests

Comment by Eleila

1) when you get out of the portals towards the stage at Tanaris, talk to the 3 people at ~ /way 66.23 40.61
Especially Juddson until the bar of the quest reaches 48%
2) go to the beach at ~ /way 66.23 40.61 to find Herrkrop's body Use the Torch of Pyrreth to find him
3) a tiny boat will appear, don't care about it for now but remember its place
4) around Herrkrop's body and so "the boat", talk to the locals including "Scrapes" sitting on a box near "the boat" until you reach 96% on the quest
5) talk to Athelton Jones just near "the boat" and tell him it's Scrapes
DONE! Good luck!

Comment by Floranna

This quest can be buggy. Here is a simple step-by-step guide. Thank you to all those who have already posted as it helped. I'm adding some points I discovered that was causing it to bug out for me. I must have restarted this quest at least 10 times.

- Do not use shapeshift during this quest. It bugs it out. For flying to each location, hop onto a regular flying mount.
- Keep checking to make sure you have the Idol of Ohn'ahra and Torch of Pyrreth on. Sometimes they turn off.

1. Open your Toy tab and turn on Idol of Ohn'ahra and Torch of Pyrreth .
2. Accept quest.
3. Talk to Ellanoir. Go through all the prompts.
4. Talk to Duryllin. Go through all the prompts.
5. Talk to Juddson Rakes. Go through all the prompts.
6. Talk to Ellanoir again. Go through all the prompts.

You should now be at 48% progress.

7. Go to the beach at /way 65, 59.
8. Click on the Beach Chair.
9. There are several various sand piles along the beach. You don’t need them. (Example: /way 70, 42)
10. Go to /way 66, 40. There will be a pile of sand. Your torch will destroy it and underneath will be the body of Herrkrop. (If you do not see a sand pile, something went wrong. Abandon the quest and try again.)
11. Talk to Nat Pagle. He will say, “Great day for fishin’, ain’t it? Haha!” (Best tribute to Viva La Dirt League!)
12. Talk to Julia Henning.
13. Talk to Scrapes.
14. Talk to Athelton Jones. Tell him Scrapes did it.

Your quest is now complete!

Comment by dathire

Got to 48% did the chair and then get to where his body is supposed to spawn from the torch but cant get this pile to disappear? All the other piles work except for the one with the body. Anyone know a trick?

Comment by lavandino

I'm doing the quest, I'm at 48%, I have the torch, I have the idol, all the piles of sand open up with crabs and garbage, but when I get close to scratch I see the pile of sand but the torch doesn't activate, I don't understand, I'm stuck, help help , ty

Comment by lavandino

I have tracking active, but the only pile of sand that isn't activated is the one near scratch

Comment by Eillesthis

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This is part 2 of day 1 of chapter 1 of I Saved the Party and All I Got Were These Lousy Hats.
Next: Tracking Quest

Comment by Aestua

Was surprised (and happy) to see this up outside of the Caverns of Time! Presumably this means folks can still get the title so they can get the motorcycle mount from Ratt's Revenge!

Comment by iamgoose

This quest is bugged for the 21st anniversary. So, if you think you're crazy/doing something wrong, just know you're not and Blizzard still can't find devs that know how/care to do their job correctly. It's actually, embarrassing how some of these people are still employed I'm ngl.

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The "Great" Detective

Solve the mystery of Herrkrop's disappearance.

	Ask Maru for a hint (1)
	[DNT] Progress (9)
	Mystery solved (1)
	[DNT] Interrogation 1 (1)
	[DNT] Interrogation 2 (1)
	[DNT] Interrogation 3 (1)
	[DNT] Interrogation 4 (1)
	[DNT] Uncover the body (1)
	[DNT] Talk to Julia (1)
	[DNT] Talk to Scrapes (1)
	[DNT] Talk to Nat (1)
	[DNT] Tell Jones whodunnit (1)

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The missing guest? Yes, some Herrkrop fellow. Not to worry, I've already solved the case. He probably just got lost. Relax, <class>. Enjoy the festivities! Our missing guest will show up soon enough. If you don't believe me, go... I don't know... solve it yourself. Interrogate someone or other.

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You will receive:

	Timewarped Badge		Bronze Celebration Token

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(84237))

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