Excavation Site: Wetlands: WoW Forever dungeon level, bosses and quests
One of the nine new Forever dungeons in Wetlands. Beta figures, each with the page that printed it · checked 2026-10-22.
final boss is level 31
Bosses
Saltspine
Boss 1 of 3Abilities: not published yetShadetooth
Boss 2 of 3Abilities: not published yetRelic Guardian
Boss 3 of 3Abilities: not published yet
Quests
- Daily Delivery
- Horrors in the Highland
- Lost in the Thicket Things
- Lost Relic Carry
- Songblade Search
- Changing Tastes
- Elder Knowledge
- Dragonmaw Rumors
What the sources print
- Level, Blizzard
- 24–29 (Blizzard’s table of the nine new dungeons) Blizzard
- Level, wiki dungeon page
- 26–32 on the dungeon page Warcraft Wiki
- Level, wiki Forever list
- 24–29 Warcraft Wiki
- Level, dev notes (Beta)
- Blizzard’s 1 October dev notes print 26–31 Blizzard beta notes
- Group
- 5 players; a Forever-only dungeon Warcraft Wiki
- Entrance
- In the Wetlands; summoning stone and instance line at 53.4, 65.3, reached through Whelgar’s Excavation Site Warcraft Wiki
- Setting
- A mysterious excavation site above Whelgar’s Excavation Blizzard
- Quests
- Quests from level 24, but the final boss is level 31, so do not go in early. Alliance quests start in Menethil Harbor, Greenwarden’s Grove and Lakeshire; Horde quests in Orgrimmar and Hammerfall. The final boss drops a quest-starting item for both factions Warcraft Wiki
Level range
13 → 60 scale- Blizzard dungeons post (20 Oct)24–29
- Warcraft Wiki24–29
- Warcraft Tavern list24–29
- Blizzard beta dev notes26–31
Where sources disagree. Blizzard’s dungeons post of 20 October, the Warcraft Wiki and the Warcraft Tavern list all print 24–29; Blizzard’s earlier 1 October beta dev notes print 26–31. The newer official table sides with 24–29 — treat all as beta.
WoW Forever dungeon loot: hidden until it drops
“We’re actually obfuscating all items in the game. So you will not see an item’s stats until it drops for you, until it drops for someone on your server.”
- There is no PTR for raids and no dungeon journal at first: players will not know the bosses before they go in. Source
Not published yet
we add them when a source prints them- Pull-by-pull routeNo route has been published for this dungeon yet.
- Boss abilitiesNo ability list has been published yet; there is no dungeon journal at first.
- MapNo map is shown: we do not use game maps.
- Keystone / timed runsNo source we checked prints a timer or keystone for Forever dungeons.
Other WoW Forever dungeon pages
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