Do as Badfish says and you'll gain 10,200 xp as of 2.3

Quest bugged for me now, one week ago it worked. Here's the differences:

A week ago: I entered the big building first and clicked the cabinet. As nothing happened I checked here on wowhead what to do, went to the barn, clicked diary. Went to back of barn, killed Wandering Skeleton, used outhouse, killed mob, to cabinet and all fine.

This time: I entered barn first, while clearing the last two mobs the Wandering Skeleton spawn on me. I kill him before clicking the diary, then I wait for a repop. Scarlet humanoids attack him, I go all out nuke on him while he's at 92%, I take him down almost full but no loot for me. Waiting for repop, he spawn, I kill him and get key. Now I can't interact with the outhouse, just like people described here.

I'll send a GM ticket right away with the exact same info I wrote here. Assuming you are not allowed to hit the Wandering Skeleton before you used the diary?

Edit; GM replied just 10 mins after petition. Here's part of the dialogue:
GM: We are aware of this issue yada yada.
me: ok thanks. Hope the information I provided can help solve the quest (as I noticed a difference from where it work/doesn't work).
GM: Yes this also seems to happen if Farmer Dalson is killed too far away from the outhouse.
etc..

All in all; if what the GM says and my own recent experience from two alts is correct, this quest will work if you don't kill Wandering Skeleton before you have used the diary, and if you kill Farmer Dalson next to the outhouse.

After I did the quest with the diary, I saw a note in my log: ""Mrs. Dalson' Diary"" -- completed. I was a little confused but the skeleton will wander INTO the barn after about 4-5 minutes, if you want to just wait there. I would say it was about five minutes. The key dropped from the skeleton and I proceeded to open the outhouse. Killed old Farmer Dalson, waited for the disease to wear off (so I could stealth) and went up to the cabinet. Wallah!

For those of u wondering of the exp, u will get awarded at the end of the chain (10200xp)

The quest seems to be fixed now, or at least it wasn't bugged for me just now.

In case it is still bugged, and I just happened to get lucky and do it the ""right"" way, I'll do my best to describe exactly what happened. I read the diary after killing off all of the mobs inside of there, and then I went outside and killed the group of scarlet mobs because I accidentally aggro'd them. A few moments after I had killed them, the wandering skeleton aggro'd to me while I was drinking a few steps out the door to the barn. I killed, him, looted the key and started to make my way to the outhouse. I got feared into a ton of mobs so I ended up running far past the outhouse to drop aggro and heal up. Afterward, I walked up, right clicked the outhouse, went through a complete quest window, and then the farmer spawned on top of me.

Keeping the Scarlet units cleared allows you to see the Wandering Skeleton patrolling in and out of the building. It seems the Scarlet units were placed there to take out the Wandering Skeleton, just as with the Gibbering Ghoul and that set of Scarlet units in the Felstone Field.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=8430146171&sid=1 http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=8430146171&sid=1

This pretty much clears up the situation with a funny story to boot

I thought I should warn anyone trying to stealth in to get the quests in their respective buildings.

Watch out for the ->""Rotting Cadaver's""<- , they have a passive aura-AoE disease that knocks you out of stealth.
I found that out the hard way, and was pummeled to death by a not-so-fair-amount of mobs :/

Cheers ^^

so yes this quest is bugged but if you open a ticket a GM can fix it for a few minutes...thats what they did for me

Just did it today on live. No problems.

I accidently killed the wandering skeleton before reading the book, and the skeleton did not kill the book. Read diary, waited on respawn, got key on 1st kill. no problem.

Just to put in my $.02 there is a patrol of humans that wanders around the front of the barn where the book is found, they periodically engage with undead in the area and, if you wait for that, you can enter without problem from them.

However, when entering the building, be aware that there are 4 ghouls/skeletons in there. Two are toward the back so you may just be able to get the front two alone. Anyway, have a potion ready and do your best to drop the two front baddies, rest up, and then finish off the back.

Best of luck to you!

what a sad story about her hsuband turning undead

i'm horrified how hard it was in Vanilla WoW, and more horrified how #$%^ed up it is now. I had to log my 80 to clear the !@#$ place cause I kept getting ganked over and over, and i'm just a mage

My info: (56 rogue at the time of post)

I noticed in earlier an post, someone had a issue when killing the https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=10816 Wandering Skeleton before reading the diary.
This is exactly what I did. I had killed the Wandering Skeleton, no key.
Went in the barn (which when by the outhouse facing the field, is the building on your left side),
read https://vanillawowdb.com/?object=175926 Mrs. Dalson's Diary, came out and waited for him to respawn.
Killed him again and he dropped the key.

(Bear in mind this whole time waiting for the respawn I was standing directly behind the outhouse between it and the bushes right next to the tree stump; as to not run into the ""too far from the outhouse"" issue once Dalson was spawned.)

After accepting the outhouse quest, https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=10836 Farmer Dalson appears.
*Note: For me there was two https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=4475 Blighted Zombies levels 53 and 52
(one behind each of the buildings closest to the outhouse)
And a https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=1785 Skeletal Terror level 54 (between the buildings) which all three aggro along with Dalson.

Killed Dalson and vanished (I didnt want to bother with the adds).

Went upstairs of the ""inn"" (building on your right, not the one with the diary)
and turned in the other https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5060 Locked Away quest.
Happy Hunting.

Did this with no bug...either it's fixed or I was lucky...anyways, a few pointers:

The scarlet crusade patrol can be a jerk if you're lower level (I was 52 ret pally). I delt with it by aggroing them and then running into the barn. The skeles and the crusade killed me, but when I respawned both sides were equally dead, and it was fun watching the two in ghost form slapping each other's faces.

And if anybody makes a reference to xkcd.com from my pointers comment he/she shall be shot on sight with a shotgun. In fact, the shotgun I just got from this questchain.

counts for loremaster of eastern kingdom

Counts towards Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms.

This is bugged for me in a way that I haven't seeen mentioned.

The diary simply doesn't have a yellow ! for me. I know for a fact I haven't done the quest, everyquest doesn't have it marked as done, and frankly I would have remembered doing it. I did kill the wandering skeleton before checking for the quest, but I think I'd have seen it on my minimap if it had been there.

I've gone back a few times hoping something changed, but nothing has changed. After the next server reset I'll give it another try and edit this post with my results, on my way to the Battle fo Darrowshire.

Paging a GM isn't an option, petitions take a week to be answered on my realm.

Edit: The reset did nothing. There's still no yellow ! above the diary. The wandering skeleton still is not dropping the key for me. I do have low-level quest tracking on, and I did click on the book to make sure - it is readable, there is just no quest available. Oh well, at least I did the Battle of Darrowshire.