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Comment by 100507

He is locked in the outhouse at 48,49. The key to the outhouse drops off the mobs around it.

Comment by Mystz0r

Not entirely accurate. First you need to read Mrs. Dalsons diary (https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=5058), found inside the barn. After that, you need to find the "Wandering Skeleton", who patrols around the barn. He will drop Dalson Outhouse Key (https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=12738), which you use on the Outhouse behind the barn. That will spawn the zombie of the old Farmer, who drops this key.

When opening the closet, you complete the following quest and get a nifty 10,200xp for your efforts: https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=5060

Good luck :)

Comment by Thottbot

This line starts inside the barn. Kill your way in there and on the floor you will find Mrs. Dalson's Diary. Right click on it and it hints that Farmer Dalson has the cabinet key on him, and that she locked him up safe somewhere after he died.

Around back from the House and Barn is an Locked Outhouse. Right clicking on it tells you that you need a Dalson's Outhouse Key. This drops from a Wandering Skeleton (54-55). He wanders around the farm. He pathed near the outhouse for me.

After you have the Key, clicking on outhouse spawns Farmer Dalson, a 56 Ghoul (the outhouse hasnt been good to him). Kill him to get Dalson's Cabinet Key.

Now, fight your way into the house. Up on 2nd floor in back room is a locked cabinet. Clicking on it will give you:

Dalson Family Wedding Ring- +13 sta
Farmer Dalson's Shotgun- 25.8 dps gun
2g 50s
7050 exp

I solo'd this as a 56 warrior. While clearing house and barn you will have to be able to deal with pulls of 2 52-54 mobs per pull.

Comment by Thottbot

You must finish the quest in the diary before the key will drop for you.

Comment by Thottbot

Solo'd this one with my level 52 NE Druid without any problems. You can stealth safely in cat form past the zombies and Scarlet Crusade patrol into the barn and house (for the diary and the cabinet), and the occasional mob duo (52-54) and Farmer Dalson (level 56) can be healed to death with a Druid, as always :) Very nice experience (7500 points) for a level 52 character - I recommend to do this quest as soon as possible.

Comment by Thottbot

She seems to walk a path between the outhouse and the diary. As I was getting ready to stealth out of the barn, in she Wandered. Whole thing took all of three minutes from diary to opening the cabinet.

Comment by Thottbot

I did this with a lvl 57 rogue (me 54 mage) we killed the scarlet and went into the barn to read the diary, the second i had read it the wandering skeleton came in. The hard part of this quest is getting into the barn past those scarlets. The rest is piece of cake, nice experience and reward

Comment by Thottbot

Great little side-story. Less than 10 minutes from start to finish. With the new exp-to-gold conversion, over 6g and two nice items to disenchant. How can you go wrong?

Comment by Thottbot

You just need to know the mentality of the Scarlets.

To start with to get in you just need to get past them, they don't enter the barn unless you draw them in, so wait until they are fighting a mob that has wandered to close by and run in, be prepared for several mobs inside, probably 3 or 4. After killing the mobs read the diary.

Now the trick to getting out of there. Unless your lucky and find that the scarlets are busy with another mob or dead run as if your life depended on it, because it does.

My suggesting is to turn left out of the front door and try to sneak past, its possible sometimes, if you can't, make a run for the nearest undead and then make a run towards the path to the east of the barn, hopefully the scarlets will give up fairly easily and re-target the undead getting both them and the undead (which if your lucky wont be the wandering skeleton) you just agro'd off your back.

Once they are gone hang out on the east side of the barn, this is where the skeleton sometimes pops

Comment by Thottbot

This was a fun quest... On my first attempt i died after running into the barn cause i pulled all 4 mobs at once.

When i respawned the scarlet patrol was right at the door fighting one of the mobs inside..

i ran in.. pulled the 3 others out and ran away... waited awhile and the scarlet patrol had killed everything inside for me :D

Comment by Thottbot

The respawn on the zombies is ridiculous. While this makes for some decent XP, it also can catch you out with low mana and health.

Be aware that I saw respawn times inside the house itself of less than 2 minutes. Could be troublesome if you don't plan for it.

I solo'd this with a 55 Paladin, no issues, except the aforementioned spawn rate. Was caught fighting 4 guys, then 5, as they appeared around me when I was downstairs checking out the map. Rough last bit, but pulled it out.

Pally's own undead, btw. If your a Paladin, and level 50? Get to Plaguelands as fast as you can. The XP and quest runs here are fantastic. Easily take a quest 3-4 levels over your current, due to the undead spells that typically you are unable to use. I did 4 quest in about 1 1/2 hours, each with a reward of over 7000, just to give you an idea. That's obviously not including the kill ratio. Sleep up, get your rest, come in with 1.5 levels of double XP, and you'll get up several levels here, really easy too.

Loot so far has been below average, but that could just me my luck. Quest runs more than make up for that, though. GL, peace.

Comment by Thottbot

how the hell do i do this? iv got the key and the Q but i cant right klick on the outhouse. whats goin on? please help me

Comment by Thottbot

Just spoke to a GM, this quest is bugged you can't click on the outhouse - and they're working on it.

Comment by Thottbot

The Scarlet crusade guys keep killing the wandering skeleton :(

Comment by Thottbot

if you're stealthing into the house be careful.
the Rotting Cadavers seem to have an aura that does dmg in about a 5 yd radius.
if this hits you it will pull you out of stealth and you could potentiall get gang raped by everything around you

Comment by Thottbot

the respawn rate is pretty bad. But it is the fears that can really mess things up here - way too easy to suddenly wind up with 6-10 mobs.

Another cheer for a well-geared, low 50s pally, backed by a holy priestess & warlock. If you are soloing, I wish you the best of luck. If you are in an at-level/below level group, try to move fast on these.

oh - we also had 2 chest spawns in that time - 1 under the stairs inside; one out back, behind house, close to outhouse.

Comment by Thottbot

lol litterally took me 2 mins to complete

Comment by Thottbot

oh ye i forgot to answer your question, he walks behind the houses...

Comment by Thottbot

the gun sells for 2g 47s 25c, the ring only sells for 81s 9c

Comment by Thottbot

The outhouse part can be bugged. The outhouse will have a blue question mark over it with no way to select or click on it. I opened a ticket and a GM had to kill Farmer Dalson before the outhouse would reset.

Comment by goldenguyz

Doing this chain as a 55 warrior is a pain in the ass. I wouldn't bother starting it as one unless you have very good gear for your level or you're with a friend.

Comment by bizzozeron

Note: You do not have to unlock the cabinet in the house. You can simple right click it like a quest-giver and complete the quests for the rewards (instantly).

So go ahead brave Paladins! Bubble into the building, get your loot and prepare to say hello to the spirit healer before your short walk across the plaguelands!

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