Jame's Horde Leveling Guide


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Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Chapter I (21-31)

Chapter I (21-30) - Journey from the Barrens to the Thousand Needles

Changelog

This is v2.0 of the guide. It has been revamped as mentioned in this news post to adapt to patch v2.3 changes. You can still find the old version of the guide here. At the same time, many other improvements have been made:

  • Introduction section shortened to contain the important info only
  • Addon section updated
  • Kill everything on your way rule has been more or less lifted, unless you lack experience compared to the guide's progress
  • Numbers in images now correspond to paragraphs
  • Grinding sessions have been removed
  • Guide doesn't assume you did Hosho's Barrens Guide before, neither does it assume you leveled in the Barrens before, it's now perfectly usable for Blood Elves and people who leveled in Ghostlands etc.
  • Quest from Blood Elf NPCs that were added with TBC have been integrated
  • New quest circuits, new (clearer) maps and additional pictures were added
  • Several minor errors have been corrected and patch v2.3 changes to simplify certain quests and encounters have been integrated

Big thanks to Subere for the beautiful picture/map editing!

Introduction

This guide starts at level 21, if you need guides for any other level range (from 1-21 for example) please take a look at this page.

This guide is made for FAST leveling through the use of Optimized Quest Circuits. With this guide, questing will be very efficient and you'll not waste any second running around and trying to figure out in which order to do your quests. Follow each instruction carefully and you will see for yourself. The quest choices and order to do them are optimal so that you run as few as possible while doing the most possible, turning several quests at the same time. It will be like grinding, because you'll be killing stuff almost non-stop, besides you'll also be completing a bunch of quests at the same time!

Everything described in this guide can be done solo (beside when I say otherwise). You can, of course, follow this guide while duoing, grouping, it's not a problem, it works too.

DISCLAIMER: This guide does NOT take into account tradeskills, class specific quests or PvP. It's 100% focused on getting the most experience possible in the shortest possible time while doing a lot of quests and enjoying as much content as possible. Any race/class combination can do this guide. Any complaints about PvP, tradeskills, or class specific issues will be ignored.


Basic rules

  • Spend your talent points so that you kill things as fast as possible. (e.g: Priest should specialize in Shadow Talents, Warriors in Arms/Fury, etc.

  • Don't waste your time trying to find groups for questing, you can solo everything that is described in this guide unless I say otherwise. Only group with someone when it's not gonna be a waste of time (e.g: meeting the person at the other end of the zone to show him the way to where your quest is, that is a waste of time)

  • Try to always log out in an inn or in one of the major cities when you take a break.

  • When I say you should make an inn your new home location, it's for a good reason, and it will save you much time.


Useful Addons

To get the most out of my guide, you should get an addon which displays coordinates, because I use them to describe locations in my guide (x,y). You can use any addon you like, but here's a very simple one I use.

Recommended

  • DMiniCoords - A simple box which displays coordinates, left-click it to move it where you like.

Optional

Below is a list of other addons I use, this is 100% optional though, it's mostly for people who are curious to know which addons I use:

Side Note: In case you don't know how to install add-ons, simply download an addon from one of the links above and unzip it. Then drag the unziped folder in your Addon folder (full path is c:\\Program Files\\World of Warcraft\\Interface\\Addons). Then, restart World of Warcraft and it should be working.

If it isn't working, you might need to log out to your character selection screen and click on "Addons" in the lower-left corner. Tick the box that says "Load out of date Addons". Re-launch WoW.


Shopping List

  • Deadly Blunderbuss (will be needed at level 26 for a quest). Buy it at the Auction House or bring the materials to an Engineer and ask him kindly to craft it for you.


Color Code
  • Quests
  • Items
  • Locations
  • Quest objectives to kill
  • NPCs
  • Locs

The Guide

Level 21

  • If you followed Hosho's Guide to the Barrens: You should be in Orgrimmar or Camp Taurajo. If you are in Orgrimmar, make the inn your home location before you do anything else. Fly to Camp Taurajo.

    In Camp Taurajo, get the quest [20] Cry of the Thunderhawk, get out of Camp Taurajo and look for a Thunderhawk, there are easy to find all around the camp, kill them until you get Thunderhawk Wings. Go back to Camp Taurajo, turn the quest in and get the quest [20] The Ashenvale Hunt.

    Hearthstone to Orgrimmar, or fly there and set your hearthstone there.

    If you haven't turned in [19] Samophlange Manual and/or haven't learned your new skills yet, do that. [19] Samophlange Manual is turned in at Rilli Greasygob in the Valley of Honor, in the engineer house.

    Fly to Ratchet.

  • If you followed Snowflake's Guide to Ghostlands: You should have [21] Envoy to the Horde, turn it in at Lady Sylvanas at Undercity and get the follow up (will allow us to catch up a little on exp). Take the zeppelin just outside the town. Go to Orgrimmar and set your hearthstone there and sell junk/train etc. Turn in [21] Meeting the Warchief at Thrall in the Valley of Wisdom. Get the follow up. Once done get the Crossroads then the Ratchet flight path:

  • If none of the above is the case: Simply get to Orgrimmar: From Undercity: Just north outside the town you can find a zeppelin tower. Take the zeppelin to Orgrimmar.
    From Silvermoon: Use the translocation orb which you can find at Sunfury Spire in the northwestern part of the zone. You should be in Undercity. Follow the above mentioned instructions for Undercity.
    From Thunder Bluff: Exit Mulgore to the east where you should zone into the Barrens. Follow this map:

    Once at Orgrimmar: Make the inn your home location, get the flight path, sell junk, restock on food/drink etc. Once done get the Crossroads then the Ratchet flight path:


At Ratchet: Speak to Sputtervalve who is right next to the flight master and get [21] Ziz Fizziks. Fly to Crossroads.

From there go west until you hit Stonetalon Mountains. Just about at the border you should see two quest givers. Get [19] Goblin Invaders from Seereth Stonebreak.

Follow the road further northwest to Sun Rock Retreat. On the way, at (59,75) you'll see a wanted poster. Take the quest [21] Arachnophobia from it. Ahead of you there should be a little valley with spiders and spider eggs. Clear your way into it until you see a big orange spider called "Besseleth". Kill it and loot its fang. Get out of the valley and continue northwest until you reach Sun Rock Retreat.

Turn in [21] Arachnophobia at Maggran Earthbinder. Get the flight path (if you don't have it yet) and get [18] Boulderslide Ravine from Mor'Rogal. (He can be reached if you go up this path, looking from the Flight Master)

Once done, follow the main path southeast until you reach Windshear Crag. Before you enter though, at (59,62) you should find Ziz Fizziks. Turn in [21] Ziz Fizziks and get the follow up. Now in Windshear Crag, run to all machine thingies looking somewhat like this:

You'll find Venture Co. Operators there. Kill them until you get Super Reaper 6000 Blueprints. On your way kill 15 Venture Co. Loggers. Once you have them fight your way back to Ziz Fizziks, turn in and get the follow up. Follow the path southeast back to the Barrens. On the way, at (67,88) there should be a little path going into the mountains. Follow it. When you open your map you'll see two caves. Go to the northern one and fight your way through to it. Once you enter the cave you should see shiny purpal crystals on the wall. Gather 10 of them while going deeper into the cave. At approximately this point:

You will get a discovery quest message and you can head back out of the cave. Continue on the path to the Barrens. At the border to the Barrens turn in [19] Goblin Invaders at Seereth Stonebreak. Go straight to the Crossroads. Fly to Ratchet. Turn in [21] Further Instructions at Sputtervalve and don't get the follow up. Now fly to Sun Rock Retreat. Go back to Mor'Rogal and turn in [18] Boulderslide Ravine.

  • If you have the Splintertree Post (Ashenvale) flightpath: Fly there.

  • If you don't have it: Fly to Crossroads and follow the path north until you reach Ashenvale Forest. Go further north until the path forks, there go east until you reach Splintertree Post. Once there take the flight path.

  • If you already have the quest [20] The Ashenvale Hunt, talk to Senani Thunderheart to complete it.
  • If you don't have it, Senani Thunderheart will have another quest also called [20] The Ashenvale Hunt. It is important that you PICK UP AND THEN TURN IN THIS QUEST IMMEDIATELY at Senani, clicking COMPLETE QUEST. If you don't, quest items won't drop in the next part of the guide when we kill Ursanguous, Shadumbra and Sharptalon.
  • For those who have the Zoram Outpost flight path: Fly there.

  • For those who don't have it (yeah I know it's a lot of running at the beginning but we need to get those flight paths, they are important and you will constantly rely on them, even in the future): Follow the road west. Once you see an Alliance Outpost (Astranaar) avoid it CAREFULLY. Continue west until you reach (25,31). There should be a little path leading off the mainroad, going west. Follow it until you see a beach. Follow the beach southeast until you see a little camp. Welcome to Zoram Outpost. Get the flight path.

At Zoram Outpost: Get [19] Naga at the Zoram Strand, ignore the other quests for now. Kill Nagas here on the beach until you have 20 Wrathtail Heads and until you are 1450exp away from level 22. Once that is done, go back to Zoram Outpost and turn in [19] Nagas at the Zoram Strand. To open the clam shells faster use [Shift + Right Click] on them (or tick the auto-loot option in your interface options). If you find any Shredder Operating Manual pages, keep them.

You should be level 22 by now.


Level 22


Hearthstone to Orgrimmar and get your new skills, sell / repair, restock food / drink and buy some healing potions. Put your Shredder Operating Manual pages in the bank.

Get out of Orgrimmar and take the Zeppelin to the Undercity. For those who never took the Zeppelin, just go left when coming out of Orgrimmar, you'll find a tower with two goblins atop, talk to them to know which of the Zeppelins goes to the Undercity (the other one goes to Grom'Gol, in Stranglethorn Vale, a level 30+ zone).

Get off the Zeppelin in Tirisfal Glades and go to the Undercity if you don't have the flight path (that will most likely be the case if you aren't an Undead) and take it.

For Bloodelves: If you have the quest [21] Allegiance to the Horde, use the translocation orb to go to Silvermoon, turn the quest in and come back right away.

Once you have the Undercity flight path, get out and follow the road southwest. Follow it until you enter Silverpine Forest. In Silverpine follow the road until you reach a fork at (51,36), go west here and get the flight path at the Sepulcher, also get the quests [20] Journey to Hillsbrad Foothills from Apothecary Renferrel and [21] Beren's Peril from Shadow Priest Allister.

Get back on the road, go south and follow the road until you are approximately at (58,77), at this point go northeast to Beren's Peril, stay close to the mountain which should be on your left hand, kill any Dalaran dude in your way. You'll quickly find a narrow path towards the mountain at (60,74), go this way and you'll find the entrance to a cave as well as Ravenclaw Drudgers and Guardians, kill 6 of each to complete [21] Beren's Peril.

When done, get back on the road, go east until you enter Hillsbrad Foothills.

In Hillsbrad Foothills, follow the road, you'll quickly come across a guard tower to your right, get the quest [20] Time to Strike from Deathstalker Lesh there. Then get back on the road and keep going east until you get to another guard tower and a crossroad (57,36), go north to Tarren Mill. In Tarren Mill get the flight path, turn in the 2 quests we had and get the following quests:

[22] Elixir of Suffering
[24] Elixir of Pain
[24] Battle of Hillsbrad
[22] The Rescue
[22] WANTED: Syndicate Personel (from the poster infront of the church)
[28] Dangerous! (from the poster infront of the inn)

1. Head east/southeast, from now on kill every bear and spider you see on your way. You should soon find Durnholde Keep, the main entrance is on the south side of it at (76,46), go there. Inside the keep, clear the way over the bridge, then follow the small path up and then left. To the right you should see an orc npc in the distance named Thog'thar, he's chained and needs a key to escape. You will have to find Jailor Marigen and kill him to get the key. Start killing everything in the area until you find Jailor Marigen, loot the key and free Thog'thar, you just need to right click the iron ball.

You should also find Jailor Eston in the area to get the key for the other prisoner, Drull, but if Jailor Eston isn't there he is probably in one of the houses on the lower level of the fortress, and we're going there now.

Once you are sure that Jailor Eston isn't in the area (or have already found and killed him), move back down to the bridge and past it, if you look to your left and down you should see a few wooden houses in the lower court. Follow the ledge until the end and jump down there carefully and start clearing the way to the wooden houses, watch out, mobs run away here. Drull, the 2nd prisoner, is in one of the two wooden houses. Free him and then get out and start killing everything on your way out while also completing [22] Wanted: Syndicate Personnel.

2. Get out of Durnholde Keep and start going back towards Tarren Mill, kill as many bears and spiders as possible on your way. Keep doing that until you complete the quest [22] Elixir of Suffering. This might take a while, the Creeper's Ichor is kinda rare. This should make you ding 23. If you aren't 23 yet either grind on spiders and bears or in Durnholde Keep. If you don't want to grind at the moment you can just continue with the guide but you should kill everything on your way.


Level 23


3. When done, go back to Tarren Mill and turn in the 3 quests. Take the follow up from [22] Elixir of Suffering and turn it in at the little frog named "umpi" right next to the Apothecary. Get [24] Elixir of Pain. Restock food/drink, sell junk, repair (there's a weaponsmith on the other side of the field south of Tarren Mill).

4. & 5. Head west towards the Hillsbrad Fields, kill every Starving Mountain Lion you find on your way, don't worry if you don't get the 10 lion blood, we'll finish this quest on the way back. We'll first focus on the field which is to the northeast, you should see a small house, a tower-like structure and a medium sized house which looks like a barn. Before you start killing stuff, be mindful that every of those humanoids run in fear, so use snare abilities like hamstring when they get low on health.

5. & 6. Clear the way around the small house and inside you should find Farmer Getz, kill him (If Farmer Getz is not in his house, he's either in the field right next to it or in the barn). Then go northwest towards the next field, next to this field you'll find a medium sized house, with a dog named Stanley infront of it. Clear the way inside this house and on the 2nd floor you'll find Farmer Ray, kill him (Farmer Ray can also be found on the first floor of his house, and also around it and in the field next to it). Now just go out and start killing Hillsbrad Farmers and Farmhands in the fields until you have the [24] Battle of Hillsbrad quest finished. Avoid Hillsbrad Footmen, they might be too difficult for your level.

7. Once that is done, head east back to Tarren Mill, and kill as much Starving Mountain Lions as you need to finish the quest [24] Elixir of Pain.
Go back to Tarren Mill, turn in [24] Battle of Hillsbard, get the follow up [25] Battle of Hillsbrad. Turn in [24] Elixir of Pain and get the follow up. Now a new quest should be available to you from Deathguard Samsa, [25] Souvenirs of Death.

8. & 9. Head back to the Hillsbrad Fields, to the house next to the northern field with the dog Stanley infront. Make sure you are full health before turning in the quest to Stanley. Kill Stanley once he transforms, you get 1100 xp or so just for killing him. Now we're gonna head to the southern field, there are many Hillsbrad Peasants in it and also Farmer Kalaba. Kill 15 Peasants and Farmer Kalaba, be careful with runners. If anyone else is killing those peasants you should group up, as they don't respawn that fast, better not fight over them. Don't bother finishing [25] Souvenirs of Death, we'll do that when we come back to Hillsbrad in a couple of levels. After leaving the farmstead you should be more or less level 24 (it depends on how many lions/farmers you had to kill in total to complete your quests). So if you aren't 24 yet either grind here until you ding or continue with the guide and kill everything on your way until you've caught up.


Level 24


10. Go back to Tarren Mill, turn in [25] Battle of Hillsbrad, get the follow up [26] Battle of Hillsbrad. Get the new quest from Apothecary Lydon, [28] Elixir of Agony.

Take a bat ride to the Sepulcher, turn in [21] Beren's Peril. Hearthstone to Ogrimmar. Learn new skills, check the Auction House, we're gonna need that Deadly Blunderbuss soon. It's also time to upgrade to bigger bags, 12 slots at least if you can afford them.

Time to go back to Ashenvale, go to the bank and get all the Shredder Manual Pages you have. First fly to Splintertree post, get the following quests:

  • [26] Satyr Horns
  • [25] Stonetalon Standstill

Get out of the village, southwest until the guard tower where you will find more quests:

  • [24] Ashenvale Outrunners
  • [27] Warsong Supplies

Follow the road a bit further southwest, to the left you should see a small encampment, get the quest [30] The Lost Pages. Now you can bind chapters together when you have the right pages, it will free some bag space.

Go back to Splintertree Post and fly to Zoram'Gar Outpost.

1. Take the quest [23] Vorsha the Lasher from Muglash, he'll walk to the strand, follow him.

2. He'll stop on a small island with a brazier atop. Click the brazier when he tells you to do so and get ready for 3 waves of monsters. You don't have time to loot in between the waves, you just have enough time to drink/eat:

  • 1st wave: 3 Nagas, they are green to you so not so hard, but it's still 3. Let Muglash tank one while you kill them one by one. Muglash is level 25 and can easily take one or two on his own. Try to save your long cooldown abilites and potions for the last wave if possible. As soon as the 3 nagas are defeated, eat/drink fast before the 2nd wave.

  • 2nd wave: 3 nagas again, one of them will be a naga priestess, kill that one first and try to interrupt her heals or you'll be in trouble. Use potion/long cooldown abilities if you have to but try to keep it for the next wave. Let Muglash tank as much as possible again. eat / drink fast right after the nagas are dead.

  • 3rd wave: a level 22 Hydra named Vorsha will spawn and attack you, the hydra hits rather hard for a level 22, so use everything you got. If you die don't release, Muglash should be able to finish off the hydra if you did enough damage to it before dying. Wait until you get the (complete) message, then release and run back to your corpse.

Go to Zoram Outpost and turn in the quest. Get the quests [24] Between a Rock and a Thistlefur and [24] Troll Charm.

3. Time for a little walk, go to Thistlefur Village (30,45), follow the path shown on map.

Kill Furlbog Avengers and Shamans until you complete the first quest, then go north following the path inside the village and pass the wooden gate, then a bit futher along the path you'll see a stone arch if you face north. Go through this arch and you'll soon find the entrance to a cave. Enter the cave and explore it, kill stuff in there until you find 8 Troll Charm, which are in Troll Chests you can find scattered everywhere in the cave.

4. Once you have 8 troll charms head back to Zoram'Gar Outpost. Turn in the 2 quests, don't get the follow up.

Fly to Splintertree Post.

5. Go directly south of Splintertree Post, and on the other side of the road there's an area with Rotting Slimes, that's where you'll hunt Ashenvale Outrunners. They are stealthed. So use abilities like track stealthed or use TAB key while running around to find them, they are mostly next to trees.

6. Once you are done with the [24] Ashenvale Outrunner quest, go west to (68,75), you should see an orc named Torek, with 3 raiders. DON'T take the quest now, just remember where he is.

7. Go further west on the other side of the road you should find a path to Silverwing Outpost (66,73). Kill all the nightelves on the path and inside the house, as soon as this is done, sprint back to Torek and start his quest. The way being clear, he'll directly run to the house. When inside 4 elves will spawn - let the orcs tank them and focus on one, Torrek must survive so kill as fast as you can, and use all the abilities / consumables you have.
Note: If you are a healer this should be easy, you can buff and heal Torek (but only with heals which trigger a buff icon, such as Renew, Rejuvenate, Power Word: Shield).

Even if you die you'll still get the complete message if torrek survives and wins the battle, so don't release immediately if you die. If you fail the quest just wait for the NPCs to respawn and try again, it took me 2 tries to get it down with the first character I did it.

You should be level 25 by now. If you aren't, either kill nightelves here until you ding or continue with the guide and kill everything on the way to catch up.


Level 25


8. Go west across the river, and further west until you hit Mystral Lake (52,70). Start killing Befouled Elementals there, be very careful with your breath as they like to frost nova you while you are under water, so stay close to the surface as much as you can and pull them with a long range attack. Besides killing 12 Befouled Water Elementals you must also find and kill Tideress, a level 27 elemental who roams from the island in the middle of the lake to the eastern tip of the lake.

He's slightly bigger than other elementals and is green instead of blue. Make sure you get him solo and have your cooldowns up or at least a potion ready. On Tideress' corpse you will find a Befouled Water Globe, right click it to start the quest [27] The Befouled Element.

9. Go to the island in the mdiddle of Mysral Lake and walk around the gazebo structure until you get the objective complete message for [25] Stonetalon Standstill. Kill the remaining Befouled Water Elementals you need to complete the quest and then head to the western tip of the lake.

10. Now we're gonna look for the named lvl 25 bear Ursangous, just go to the spot shown on map (40,65). Ursangous always roams around this area, so just kill bears and stags while waiting for him to show up. Kill him and loot his paw. Right click the paw to start a quest.

11. Now go east then slightly northeast (be careful to stay away from Silverwing Refuge's Guards) until you reach Greenpaw Village.

==Warning== There's a level 35 Elite Wandering Protector (some huge treant) roaming in this area, be careful.

Kill all the furlbogs on your way until you get a Logging Rope for the quest [27] Warsong Supplies, that's if you don't have it already.

12. Once that is done, get back on the road to Splintertree Post and turn in the quests:

[23] Ashenvale Outrunners
[24] Torek's Assault
[24] Ursangous's Paw
[25] Stonetalon Standstill
[27] The Befouled Element
and get the follow up [27] Je'Neu of the Earthen Ring.

Fly to Zoram'Gar Outpost. Turn in the quest [27] Je'neu of the Earthen Ring. Hearthstone to Orgrimmar.

Sell/repair, check the auction house. Buy the shredder pages you miss, they go for 15-20s buyout usually, and sell the extras.

Note: Be careful to bind your chapters before you put extra pages on sale, because let's say you have page 8 on sale at the auction house you won't be able to bind chapter 2 (page 5,6,7,Cool, since the game will try to use the page you have at the auction house instead of the one in your backpack.

Also check for a Deadly Blunderbuss, we're gonna need it soon, if you can't buy it, find an engineer who will do it for you, bring him the materials and give him a tip. Restock food/drink and potions and then fly to the Crossroads, take the quest [22] Egg Hunt.

  • For those who have the Camp Taurajo flight path: Fly there.

  • For those who don't: From Crossroads follow the path all the way south until the road forks. Camp Taurajo is right between the two paths. Once there, get the flight path.

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For people who didn't level in the barrens before (Ghostlands etc.): At Camp Taurajo go to Mangletooth who sits in a cage just next to the main building. Take [21] Tribes at War. Go north of Camp Taurajo where you should see Bristlebacks. Now quickly kill 6 Water Seekers, 12 Thornweavers and 12 Geomancers. (The Thornweavers are a bit closer to the mountain and the Geomancers are a bit further to the north, close to the mountain) Once done, go back to Camp Taurajo (don't sell your blood shards!) and turn in the quest. Take the follow up and turn it in right away. Now you can get [25] Betrayal from within from the NPC. Beside you can turn in your Blood Shards for useful buffs like runspeed.

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Get the following quests:

[25] Betrayal from within
[24] Weapons of Choice
[27] Mahren Skyseer
(Those who didn't level in the Barrens can't get this quest, it doesn't matter though, we cought up for the exp already)

1. Head south to the field of giants, look for Silithid Mounds

Clear any bug around it and then click them to gather Silithis Eggs. Rinse and repeat until you have 12 eggs. Then head south staying close to the mountain on your right hand side until you stumble across some quillboar camps. You have to kill Razormane Warfrenzies, Seers and Stalkers until you get a wand, a shield and a backstabber. (The stalkers are stealthed but shouldn't be hard to find at your level). Warfrenzies drop the shield, Seers drop the wand and Stalkers drop the stabber.

2. There's also 3 nameds you must find, the first one is Lok Orcbane, and you can find him on top of a slope at (41,80). Kill him and loot his skull.

3. The 2nd one is Nak, he's further south in between two mountains (43,83), kill him and loot his skull, be careful with all the stalkers in this area, they tend to add while you are fighting Nak.

4. The 3rd and last one, Kuz, roams around the middle camp and a tree with a painted stone at (45,80), kill him and loot his skull.

5. When done with quests [25] Betrayal from within and [24] Weapons of Choice, go east until you hit the road. Then follow the road north and south until you find a tauren npc named Gann Stonespire, he walks up and down this road, from the fork that leads to Dustwallow marsh to Bael Modan, you should find him without problems, get his quest [23] Gann's Reclamation.

6. Head southeast to Bael Modan. Enter the excavation site by the slope on the southern side of the site (46,84). Kill 15 Excavators, 5 Foremans and Prospector Khazgorm who should be at the far end of the excavation site, loot Khazgorm's Journal.

You should be level 26 by now or close (those that have [27] Mahren Skyseer will catch up in a bit, don't grind to catch up if you have that quest).


Level 26


Head out back to Gann, turn in the quest and get the follow up [26] Revenge of Gann.

7. This time head to the dwarven fortress which is just north of the excavation site. Kill dwarves there until you complete the [26] Revenge of Gann quest.

Once that is done, get back on the road and find Gann, turn in [26] Revenge of Gann and get the follow up. Go back to the excavation site, but this time your target is the Helipad with the Gyrocopter atop. The Helipad is midway down the slope going to the excavation site (46,85), go up the helipad and right click the Flying Machine to destroy it, then go back to Gann for the last time and turn in the quest.

8. Run back to Camp Taurajo and turn in the quests:

[24] Weapons of Choice, don't get the follow up.
[25] Betrayal from Within, get the follow up.

Fly to the Crossroads, when there turn in:

[22] Egg Hunt
[25] Betrayal from Within

Fly to Ratchet.

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For those who have [27] Mahren Skyseer: From Ratchet go south along the Merchant coast until you get to the area named the Tidus Stair, turn in [27] Mahren Skyseer and get the follow up [27] Isha Awak.
Go south along the merchant coast until the Northwatch Hold, take a dive and the Isha Awak (some big aquatic dinosaur) should be there underwater at (63,53). Isha Awak can also be found a bit south of Mahren Skyseer, around (66, 49). It should be an easy kill, loot his heart and run back to Mahren Skyseer, turn in [27] Isha Awak. Run back to Ratchet.

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Take the boat to Booty Bay. In Booty Bay, on the docks you should find a crate named "Warsong Axe Shipment" close to Wharfmster Lozgil, loot it. Then go get the Booty Bay flight path, it's on the top floor of the Inn. Once you have the flight path, hearthstone to Orgrimmar!

Sell/Repair, check the auction house for missing shredder pages and take your Deadly Blunderbuss with you. Go learn new skills and restock consumables and food.

Fly to Splintertree Post.

1. Turn in the Deadly Blunderbuss at Pixel to get the Warsong Sawblades.

2. Go west on the road until you reach (56,59). At this loc, go north and then right until you stumble across an area with Laughing Sisters(Dryads) (58,55). Around this camp there is a named cat, Shadumbra. Clear your way around the camp, find and kill the cat then loot its head, right click it to start the quest.

3. From this point go northeast till approximately (64,43), where you'll find a path leading you to Night Run. Go southeast until you find a camp of satyrs (66,56).

Kill satyrs there (be careful at this level though, pull cautiously so as to not get ads especially as there are stalkers around) until you finish [26] Satyr Horns and also find a Warsong Oil, they can be found inside various satyr camps and look like this:

If you're unlucky and don't find a Warsong Oil, there is an alternative: go east, cross the river and keep going east to Satyrnaar (81,52). You will most likely find a Warsong Oil there, but be careful, the satyrs here are a bit tougher than at Night Run.

Anyway, you'll ding while killing those Satyrs which will make it much easier to finish these quests.


Level 27


4. Once you're done, get back on the road south towards Splintertree Post but we have one last thing to do before going there, when you reach the fork close to Splintertree, go south to the Forsaken Camp (75,71). Now you're gonna search around this camp like shown on the map for a level 31 Hyppogryph named Sharptalon. Yes you read correctly, it's level 31. We theoritically can't kill that. But there's a trick. Once you spot Sharptalon keep him in sight and wait till he is close enough to the Forsaken Camp, pull him with the lowest aggro spell you have (a simple bow shoot or a rank 1 nuke) and bring him to the Forsaken Camp. Do nothing, let the npcs there aggro it and take it off you. Once they have Sharptalon down to 90% start attacking him again, you must do as much damage as possible but don't use high aggro spells, help them finish it off. You should normally be able to loot him, and get his claw, which starts a quest if you right click it. Sharptalon roams but he always passes by the Forsaken Camp. If you don't manage it the first time it's ok, stay in the area, kill Oozes and Elves while waiting for Sharptalon to respawn (about 10 mins).

On your way back to Splintertree, pass by the small encampment at (70,71) to the west where you initially got the shredder manual quest. Turn in [30] The Lost Pages.

Also right before Splintertree turn in [27] Warsong Supplies.

At Splintertree Post, turn in the following quests:

[27] Shadumbra's Head
[30] Sharptalon's Claw
and now Selani should have a new quest up for you named "The Hunt Completed". Turn it in immediately.
[26] Satyr Horns

Fly to Sun Rock Retreat. Sell junk, repair and restock on arrows/food etc.

1. Get the following quests:

  • [23] Cycle of Rebirth
  • [25] Elemental War, from Tsunaman. He's located at (47,64), to the south.
  • [26] Harpies Threaten
  • [28] Calling in the Reserves

2. Follow the path north out of Sun Rock Retreat. Continue north until you reach a little lake. All around the lake you should find seeds looking like this:

Gather 10 of them.

3. Once done follow the path going west from the lake to the Charred Vale. Just as you arrive you should start seeing Harpies and Fire Elementals. Kill them until both [25] Elemental War and [26] Harpies Threaten are completed. Also make sure you aren't more than 5k away from the next level. Once done, go to the eastern side of the Charred Vale, where you'll find a path leading back to Sun Rock Retreat (38,67). There, turn in all your quests. Don't get follow ups.

You should be level 28 by now.

If you aren't level 28 yet, here's an optional mini-circuit:

Take the follow ups [26] Bloodfury Bloodline and [25] New Life. Go back to the Charred Vale and while going towards (31,62), search for dirt mounds on the floor and right click them (you'll need to do this 10 times). At the aforementioned location you'll find a Bloodfury Ripper. Kill it and loot its remains. Once you are done with planting seeds as well, go back to Sun Rock Retreat and turn in both quests.


Level 28


Hearthstone to Orgrimmar. Learn new skills, check the auction house, repair and restock consumables etc.

Get out of Orgrimmar, take the Zeppelin to Undercity. From the Undercity fly to Tarren Mill.

1. After landing, head west to the Hillsbrad Fields, this time go to the forge house, which is west of the southern field. Kill 4 Apprentice Blacksmiths and Blacksmith Verringtan, he's inside the forge. Once the forge is clear go inside and loot the "Shipment of Iron", which looks like a big crate. Once that is done, head back to Tarren Mill.

2. Turn in [26] Battle of Hillsbrad and get the follow up.

3. Go back to the Hillsbrad Fields, this time we're gonna go to the City Hall (31,42), it's right next to the forge. Clear your way to inside the house, and clear the first 2 rooms. First pull the 1 mob which is on the left inside the room, go back to the first room and hide behind a wall so that the Councilman cannot nuke you from a distance but instead come to you. Then go to the big room and kill Clerk Horrace Whitesteed. Get back to full health, and kill Magistrate Burnsidethen destroy the Hillsbrad Proclamation

and the Town Registry (a big blue book on the floor).

Clear your way out of the house, kill the remaining Councilmen you need for the quest, and also look for Citizen Wilkes if you haven't killed him already. He wanders to the City Hall and the Forge, so kill stuff around those two areas until you find him. Also complete the [25] Souvenirs of Death quest if you haven't already.

4. Walk back to Tarren Mill, turn in the quests [26] Battle of Hillsbrad, get the follow up.Turn in [25] Souvenirs of Death as well. Sell/Repair and restock up to 2 stacks of food/drink. Make sure that you've got the follow up of [28]Elixir of Agony, from Apothecary Lydon.

5. This time we're gonna go to the mines which are just southwest of the Hillsbrad Fields, on the other side of the main road. There are two entrances to the mine, a lower one and an upper one. We'll enter through the lower one (26,58). After a while you'll see a fork, to the left are Foreman Bonds and Miner Hackett, but for now we're gonna go right and kill the Hillsbrad Miners there so that we'll have 9 or 10 kills of those. Note: Miner Hackett can spawn at various places in the mine, so if he's not where I said check every other area of the mine, it's a nice place to grind anyway so don't worry if it takes some time to find him.

Then go back to the fork and this time go towards Miner Hackett / Foreman Bonds, you should find the remaining Hillsbrad Miners you need on your way to them. Miner Hackett can be pulled solo and is an easy kill, kill him first.
Foreman Bonds is a different deal, the problem is that at 20% health he summons 2 dwarves to guard him, those dwarves can stun and it's very unlikely that you can kill all 3. If you are a rogue it's easy, kill Foreman Bonds and then vanish. For other classes, clear the way behind you towards the exit right before engaging Foreman Bonds, finish him fast and then run for the exit, the 2 dwarves will eventually give up on you. If you die it's not that bad, what counts is that you get the kill on Foreman Bonds.

6. Anyway, once you have killed 10 Miners, Foreman Bonds and Miner Hackett, get out of the mine and back on the road and follow it eastwards until you cross the bridge over the river which splits the zone in two. Right after the bridge turn south and head this direction until you find a field with Mudsnout Gnolls in it (65,60). You have to gather the mushrooms in that field, they're called "Mudsnout Blossoms" and look like giant white/blue mushrooms. Gather 6 of them and then go back to Tarren Mill. Turn in the 3 quests and get the 2 follow ups: [30] Battle of Hillsbrad and [28] Elixir of Agony.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar. Sell/Repair, restock food/drink and consumables.

When you're ready to go again, fly to Camp Taurajo. Take the quest [30] Melor Sends Word. Go south/southeast until the Great Lift (32,22).

1. Turn in [28] Calling in the Reserves at Grish Longrunner and get the quest [25] Message to Freewind Post from Brave Moonhorn. (if you don't manage access these NPCS don't bother with this step and abandon [28] Calling in the Reserves)

Then go down into the Thousand Needles.

2. Follow the road south a little then go east, you should soon see a silver arrow on the minimap showing Freewind Post, following it until you reach it, there is a lift to access it on the east side of it.

In Freewind post turn in [25] Message to Freewind Post and take the follow up [25] Pacify the Centaur. Also take the quests:

[29] Wanted - Arnak Grimtotem from the Poster next to the Inn.
[28] A Different Approach
[26] Alien Egg
[29] Wind Rider

Don't forget to take the new flight path.

3. Get back down off Freewind Post, go northwest until you find the Centaur Village. Kill centaurs there until you have the list of [25] Pacify the Centaur completed.

You should be level 29 by now.


Level 29


4. Go east, stay along the mountain to your left until you find a slope going up at (54,44). Up the slope you'll find a cave, enter it and get the quest [26] Test of Faith from Dorn Plainstalker. He'll teleport you to the top of a peak, look for two wooden planks and jump off from them. Don't worry you won't die from falling. You should re-appear next to Dorn, turn in the quest and get the follow up [30] Test of Endurance.

5. Now we'll look for an Alien Egg

**While going to the 3 locations described below, search and kill 2 Thundering Boulderkins until you have 2 Purifying Earth.**

The egg can be at 3 different spots, and it's always an area crowded by those weird flying serpents. The first one is directly south at (56,50). If it's not there, the next spot is directly south, at the zone wall, you should find a weird hole in the wall, and if you're lucky an Alien Egg close to it at (52,55). If the Egg is not there it will be further west against the zone wall at (38,55). Once you got an Alien Egg and 2 Purifying Earth, go back to Freewind Post.

6. Turn in [25] Pacify the Centaur, get the follow up [28] Grimtotem Spying
Turn in [26] Alien Egg, get the follow up [26] Serpent Wild

Sell/repair, get back up to 2 stacks of food/drink.

1. Get back down off Freewind Post, head west until you reach Highperch (12,32). Get up there and start killing Wyverns while searching for eggs. Keep doing this until you have 10 Highperch Wyvern Eggs.

2. Once you have done that, head to the southeastern corner inside Highperch, you should find a narrow path going up to another plateau, at the end of this plateau you should find a tauren named Pao'Ka with a quest. Take his quest [29] Homeward Bound and escort him out. It's a pretty simple escort quest, shouldn't be any problem.

==Warning== Sometimes there will be a rare-elite named Heartrazor there, and it will most likely be impossible for you to kill it and to do the escort if he's there, unless you are duo'ing or got someone nearby willing to help. However, if you start the escort at the right moment, Heartrazor will be out of the way and the escort NPC will go through without getting Heartrazor's attention.

3. After you complete the escort, go east to Whitereach Post (21,32). Turn in the 3 quests you have here and get the follow ups [27] Sacred Fire, [28] A Dip in the Moonwell and get the other quest [30] Hypercapacitor Gizmo.

4. Follow the road northwest until you reach the loc (12,18). Looking west you should see a slope going up one of those needles. Climb it like that:

Then continue around the needle until you reach a Concealed Operating Panel looking like this:

In your inventory you should have an item called Robotron Control Unit. Dismiss your current pet (if you have one) and right click that item. You'll take control of a little robot looking like this:

Direct it into the moonwell just ahead of you and click pet's ability called "Gather Water". You should get a quest completed message. You can click off the buff icon that gives you control over the robot.

Go back to Whitereach Post and turn in [28] A Dip in the Moonwell. Take the follow up.

5. Go directly east to the small lake you can see on the map, called the Boiling Pool (33,34). Once you are there you must look for 10 plants named Incendia Agave,

they can also be found inside the water.

6. When done with that, get out of the lake and to the western side of the big peak marked on the map as "Darkcloud Pinnacle", you'll find a narrow path going up at (31,36). After crossing 3 wooden bridges you'll be on a plateau with 2 choices, east or south. Go south, cross the bridge and you should be on a large plateau with a mini village with a big totem in the middle.

Go to the Northwestern edge of this plateau, where you will find another wooden bridge, cross it and you'll reach a small plateau with a "document chest"

on it, this one contains the Secret Note #1.

Go back to the big plateau, now on the southern side of this plateau enter the main house and inside you should find another "document chest", inside it you'll find the Secret Note #2.

Finally go to the eastern side of this plateau and find another wooden bridge going east, you'll reach a plateau with the last document chest inside a house, this on contains Secret Note #3.

Now get back on the big plateau, take the northern wooden bridge back to the plateau where we decided to go south last time. This time we are gonna take the wooden bridge going east. We'll reach a plateau with another double bridge choice, we'll choose the one going northeast this time. After crossing the bridge go left, there you should find Arnak Grimtotem, you normally should be able to pull him solo if you wait for the right moment, he will have another tauren close to him, so you might pull him with an add but this should still be manageable, use a health potion and long cooldown abilities if needed. Kill Arnak and loot his hoof.

Next to where you kill Arnak you should see a tauren named Lakota Windsong with a quest [29] Free at Last. You must escort her out. It shouldn't be a problem, Lakota is level 30 and does almost fine on her own. The only risk is that 2 extra taurens spawn to ambush her everytime she reaches the middle of a plateau, so you're safer if you pull the static spawns to her before she reaches the middle. Other than that, it's an easy escort.

You should be level 30 at the end of the escort quest.


Level 30


Once you complete it, run back to Freewind Post.

Turn in all the quests you have, there are no follow ups.

Go to the northwestern part of Thousand Needles. On your way stop at (29,34) where the road should fork. Now patrol between the lift going to the Barrens and Whitereach Post until you stumble on Galak Messenger.

Kill him and loot his Assassination Note. Right click it for a quest. Go to Whitereach Post and turn the quest in right away, take the follow up once you are full mana/hp. Three centaurs will spawn and attack Kanati Greycloud. Help him kill them and then turn in the completed quest. Continue following the path northwest.

Enter Feralas and get on the road, be careful to stay as far as possible from wolves or bears in Feralas, they are way too high level for us. Follow the road until you reach Camp Mojache. Get the flight path.

  • For those who have the Thunder Bluff flight path: Fly there.
  • For those who don't: Fly to Camp Taurajo. From there follow the path west into Mulgore. Continue following the path west until you reach Bloodhoof Village. Go northwest there all the way until you reach Thunder Bluff. Get the flight path.

Go to the Hunter Rise (southern plateau), turn in [30] Melor Sends Word and get the follow up [30] Steelsnap.

As last thing, go to the elder rise (eastern plateau), turn in [27] Sacred Fire and get the follow up [28+] Arikara.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar, train new skills, check the auction house, sell/repair, restock consumables.

1. Fly to Splintertree Post. Make the inn your home. Take [30] Destroy the Legion from Valusha.

2. Follow the path southeast out of the town until you reach Felfire Hill. Kill everything there until:

  • [30] Destroy the Legion is completed.
  • you find Diabolic Plans drops. Right click it for a quest.

Once done, go back to Splintertree Post and turn everything in. Take the follow up [32] Never Again!. Go back to Felfire Hill but this time fight your way even more southeast until you reach Demon Fall Canyon.

You need to kill two bosses here: Gorgannon and Diathorus the Seeker. Let's start with the easy one.

As you arrive, the path in the canyon will fork. Take the way leading to the east. Clear all the way to the end of the path until you see Gorgannon looking like this:

All the mobs around him can be solo pulled beforehand. Once that is done, get full mana and health and take him down. I (as a hunter) used rapid fire because I thought it would be tough but it wasn't, it felt quite easy for a level 32 mob.

Once done go back to where the road forked earlier and go west. Clear everything until you reach a rune. Looking right you should see a slope with lightened stones:

Follow this slope to the top where you should see a camp. Clear to the house of the camp in the back. Once you enter the house you'll see a cave structure. Diathorus the Seeker is somewhere inside. Just clear your way and search for him. Contrary to many comments I've read, he does have different spawn locations. Once you killed him and once you are less than 3350 exp away from level 31, hearthstone to Splintertree Post. Turn in [32] Never Again!.

Congratulations Smiling

End of this guide, stay tuned for chapter 2!

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Original author: Jame
Revamp & Text formatting & Picture Editing: Snowflake
Picture Editing: Subere

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Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Chapter II (31-41)

Chapter II (31-41) - Journey from the Thousand Needles to Badlands

Changelog

This is v2.0 of the guide. It has been revamped as mentioned in this news post to adapt to patch v2.3 changes. You can still find the old version of the guide here. At the same time, many other improvements have been made:

  • Introduction/Addons section has been updated
  • Kill everything on your way rule has been lifted unless you lack experience compared to the progress described in the guide
  • Both big grinding sessions at the start and at the end of the original guide have been removed and replaced by quest circuits
  • Quests that aren't elite anymore have been integrated
  • New patch 2.3 content has been integrated
  • Maps have been remade and a lot of errors have been corrected
  • Detailed map for Shimmering Flats circuit has been added
  • Dustwallow Marsh circuits have been added
  • The guide now takes you to level 41.
  • Overall grinding has been decreased and leveling should be possible at a faster pace than before

Big thanks to Subere for his beautiful map/picture editing Smiling

Introduction

This guide starts at level 31, if you need guides for any other level range (from 1-31 for example) please take a look at this page. This guide is a follow up of the previous chapter of my horde leveling guide, where a lot of pre-questing and flight-path gathering has been done already (especially for Blood Elves).

This guide is made for FAST leveling through the use of Optimized Quest Circuits. With this guide, questing will be very efficient and you'll not waste any second running around and trying to figure out in which order to do your quests. Follow each instruction carefully and you will see for yourself. The quest choices and order to do them are optimal so that you run as few as possible while doing the most possible, turning several quests at the same time. It will be like grinding, because you'll be killing stuff almost non-stop, besides you'll also be completing a bunch of quests at the same time!

Everything described in this guide can be done solo (beside when I say otherwise). You can, of course, follow this guide while duoing, grouping, it's not a problem, it works too.

DISCLAIMER: This guide does NOT take into account tradeskills, class specific quests or PvP. It's 100% focused on getting the most experience possible in the shortest possible time while doing a lot of quests and enjoying as much content as possible. Any race/class combination can do this guide. Any complaints about PvP, tradeskills, or class specific issues will be ignored.


Basic rules

  • Spend your talent points so that you kill things as fast as possible. (e.g: Priest should specialize in Shadow Talents, Warriors in Arms/Fury, etc.

  • Don't waste your time trying to find groups for questing, you can solo everything that is described in this guide unless I say otherwise. Only group with someone when it's not gonna be a waste of time (e.g: meeting the person at the other end of the zone to show him the way to where your quest is, that is a waste of time)

  • Try to always log out in an inn or in one of the major cities when you take a break.

  • When I say you should make an inn your new home location, it's for a good reason, and it will save you much time.


Useful Addons

To get the most out of my guide, you should get an addon which displays coordinates, because I use them to describe locations in my guide (x,y). You can use any addon you like, but here's a very simple one I use.

Recommended

  • DMiniCoords - A simple box which displays coordinates, left-click it to move it where you like.

Optional

Below is a list of other addons I use, this is 100% optional though, it's mostly for people who are curious to know which addons I use:

Side Note: In case you don't know how to install add-ons, simply download an addon from one of the links above and unzip it. Then drag the unziped folder in your Addon folder (full path is c:\\Program Files\\World of Warcraft\\Interface\\Addons). Then, restart World of Warcraft and it should be working.

If it isn't working, you might need to log out to your character selection screen and click on "Addons" in the lower-left corner. Tick the box that says "Load out of date Addons". Re-launch WoW.


Shopping List

  • 1x Strong Troll's Blood Elixir - Needed at level 31 (almost right away), you can either buy it at the AH or buy 2x Bruiseweed 2x Briarthorn 1x Leaded Vial and tip an Alchemist to combine for you.
  • 3 stacks of Silk Cloth
  • OPTIONAL: 9 more stacks of Silk Cloth (you'll probably get this along the way while hunting) This is for the cloth donation quests. When you get to one of the big cities (Thunderbluff, Undercity, Orgrimmar, Silvermoon) you can turn in 3 stacks for some exp. I won't mention this directly in the guide (beside the Orgrimmar turn in) as it might vary strongly from person to person when you get the cloth and when you make a stop at the aforementioned cities. Once this quest is completed you can turn in Mageweave, Runecloth etc in the same way. This is also great to catch up on exp.
    Start checking early for these items, especially the Strong Troll's Blood Elixir.

Color Code
  • Quests
  • Items
  • Locations
  • Quest objectives to kill
  • NPCs
  • Locs

The Guide

Level 31

Before we start, I highly recommend that you get your level 30 mount. There will be more and more traveling the higher in levels we get. It will save you a tremendous amount of time in the long run.

Let's get started! Make sure you're stocked on consumables (food/drink/potions) and fully repaired.

Set your hearthstone to Orgrimmar.

Your quest log should look like this if you followed Chapter I of my guide.

Fly to Freewind Post in Thousand Needles.

1. Get down the lift and follow the road west until Darkcloud Pinnacle, find the slope going up on the northwestern side of the peak (31,36). Go up and across 3 wooden bridges, you'll end up at the top of a peak with 2 bridges, take the one on your left (going east), at the next peak there will be 2 bridges again, take the one on your right (going southeast).

2. You should arrive on a last peak, with a bonfire in the middle named "Sacred Fire of Life". Clear everything on the peak, get back to full health/mana. Right-click the bonfire, it will summon Arikara, a level 28 mob.

Kill it and loot "Arikara Serpent Skin".
Go back the way you came from, until you get off Darkcloud Pinnacle. Make sure your 5 minute special ability is up and that you have health pots ready etc. The next part is best done by 2 players so if you can group up with someone for the kill do so, solo it will be a bit hard, but try it anyway. I soloed this with my beastmastery specced hunter at level 31 using rapid fire and one mend pet.

3. Go northwest until you find a destroyed caravan (22,24) with a panther in a cage in the middle. Open the lock, kill the panther and loot the Hypercapacitator Gyzmo, then go south to Whitereach Post.

4. Go west to Whitereach Post (south if you did the enraged panther quest) (21,31). Turn in the quest [28+]Arikara and [30+]Hypercapacitator Gyzmo if you did it, if not you can abandon that quest.

5. Go west/northwest, we're now gonna look for a named hyena named Steelsnap. Go to the area which is north of highperch, Steelsnap always passes by that spot. Just kill everything in the area while waiting for Steelsnap to show up. I generally find her at (13,28). She's a level 30 hyena with two hyena guarding her. Just kill her quickly and run away, that's the easiest option, but any class can manage it with a bit of strategy. Loot Steelsnap's Rib.

6. Go southeast along the mountain until you reach the harpy cave called Roguefeather Den. Clear your way inside the cave until you reach the bottom, you should see some wooden crates in the corner. When you click them a named harpy will spawn. Kill it and loot Grenka's Claw.

7. When that is done, travel east to the Weathered Nook (54,44), go up the slope and inside the cave to turn in the quest [30]Test of Endurance. Take the follow up.

8. Go to the northwestern part of the zone to (17,37). Kill everything on your way. Rok'Alim the Pounder spawns at that point. Afterwards he roams around in that area a little. Search for him while killing stuff. Once you killed him, loot Fragments of Rok'Alim and go back to the Weathered Nook. Don't get the follow up.

9. Run back to Freewind Post, fly to Thunderbluff. In Thunderbluff go south to the Hunter Rise and turn in the quest [30]Steelsnap, get the follow up [37]Frostmaw, you can destroy the Kodo Skin Scroll you just got from this quest.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar, sell junk, restock, repair etc.

Be sure to have the Strong Troll's Blood Elixir on you. If you can't find any on the AH, just buy 2 Briarthorn, 2 Bruiseweed and 1 Leaded Vial and have an Alchemist combine it for you.

Take the Zeppelin to the Undercity. In the Undercity next to the Bat Handler you should find a quest [36]To Steal from Thieves, take it. Then go to the Apothecarium, find Master Apothecary Farell, turn in the quest [28]Elixir of Agony and get the follow up.

Fly to Tarren Mill, Hillsbrad.

Get [33] Helcular's Revenge from Novice Thaivand.

1. Head southwest until you hit the Western Strand (36,66) with the Murloc Camps. Kill murlocs until you get 5 Torn Fin Eyes.

2. Go east and across the river, until you find nagas at (58,64). Kill them until you have 5 Daggerspine Scales.

3. Go northwest to the Yeti Cave (46,30). Kill yetis until you get Helcular's Rod, which is kinda rare, so just kill a lot of yetis. It might take a long time, so be patient. If it really takes more than 20 minute, try to log out and then back in. For some reason this worked for me a couple of times and the rod dropped on the first few kills after I logged back in, after a 20 minute yeti slaughter with no success.

4. Go back Tarren Mill and turn in:

  • [30] Elixir of Agony, get the follow up [30] Elixir of Agony
  • [33] Helcular's Revenge, get the follow up [33] Helcular's Revenge

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar.

You should be level 32 by now.


Level 32


Train, sell junk, restock, repair etc. Once you're ready to go again, fly back to Freewind Post in Thousand Needles. Get the quest [35] Family Tree from Cliffwatcher Longhorn.

Get down off Freewind Post and go east until you reach the Mirage Raceway in the Shimmering Flats(80,77). Get the following quests there:

  • [30] Hardened Shells
  • [30] Salt Flat Venom
  • [30] Load Lightening
  • [31] Rocket Car Parts
  • [31] Hemet Nesingwary Jr.
  • [33] A Bump in the Road
  • [36] Wharfmaster Dizzywig

You can find everything needed to complete those quests around the raceway. For locations where the quest mobs are often particularly concentrated, please check the above posted map. (Thanks to Jimjimjimmy for the addition). Keep killing stuff at these locations until you complete all the quests and until you get 10 Turtle Meat.

Avoid the level 35 turtles, they are orange to you and might be a little too hard.

Don't sell the Turtle Meat, put them in bank or somewhere in your inventory.

Turn in all the quests and get the follow up quests :

  • [37] Goblin Sponsorship
  • [35] Martek the Exiled
If you aren't level 33 yet grind in this area (turtles, vultures, etc) until you hit level 33.


Level 33


Before we leave, go south and zone into Tanaris. Go to Gadgetzan and talk to the Wyvern Master in front of the gate to get the flight path. Fly to Ratchet, talk to Gazlowe (in one of the houses northwest of the wyvern landing spot)and get the follow up [37]Goblin Sponsorship. Go to the pier and talk to Wharfmaster Dizzywig, turn in the quest but don't get the follow up. Then take the boat to Booty Bay.

In Booty Bay on the docks, talk to Wharfmaster Lozgil and get the follow up [37]Goblin Sponsorship. Go to the Booty Bay Inn, on the 1st floor, get the quest [35]Singing Blue Shards.
On the 3rd floor get the quests:

[32]Investigate the Camp
[35]Bloodscalp Ears
[36]Hostile Takeover
.

Turn in the quest at Baron Revilgaz and get the follow up [37]Goblin Sponsorship.

Take the flight path if you haven't already (we did this in Chapter I of my guide).
Get out of the inn by the other door on the 3rd floor, facing east. In the 3rd house to the left you should find another quest [31]Supply and Demand.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar.

Repair, sell, restock consumables. Get out of Orgrimmar and take the zeppelin to Grom'gol.

In Grom'Gol get the following quests:

  • [34]Bloodscalp Insight
  • [34]Hunt for Yenniku
  • [37]Bloody Bone Necklaces
  • [37]The Vile Reef
  • [37]Trollbane

From now on, whenever you kill something in Stranglethorn Vale, you might find "Green Hills of Stranglethorn" pages, make sure you keep one of each page.

1. Exit the camp from the east side, follow the path until you reach the road. Follow this road north, cross the 1st bridge and keep going until you reach the 2nd bridge, don't cross it, go directly north downhill until you find Nesingwary's Expedition Camp, next to the river (35,10). Turn in [31]Hemet Nesingwary Jr. then talk to the other dwarf, get his quest, turn it in at Hemet again.

This should unlock several other quests. Get [31] Panther Mastery [31]Tiger Mastery and [34]Raptor Mastery. No need to get the Green Hills of Stranglethorn quest yet, it's the page quest and you only need to take it once you have gathered enough pages to complete the chapters. Let's start hunting!

2. Kill River Crocolisks which can be found all along the river in northern Stranglethorn Vale until you find 2
Large Crocolisk Skins. While you search for crocs you can also kill Young Tigers close to the river for Tiger Mastery.

3. Then kill 10 Young Tigers (or as much as you still got left)
Tigers can be found mostly south and around the Nesingwary camp.

4. Kill Young Panthers, they are mostly found on the other side of the river to the east (41,10).

5. Once you have finished the above quests, go back to Nesingwary's Expedition. Turn in Tiger and Panther mastery, get the follow ups [33]Tiger Mastery and [33]Panther Mastery.

6. Go west until you reach a plateau (30,9). Up there you can find Panthers and Tigers. Kill 10 of each.

7. Further southwest on the plateau you should find Stranglethorn Raptors, kill 10.

8. Go south and down the plateau until you find the troll camp at Bal'lal Ruins (29,20).

It should take a while to get 15 Bloodscalp Ears, 9 Bloodscalp Tusks, 1 Bloodscalp Totem and 25 Bloody Bone Necklaces, but it is a nice grinding spot anyway. If you don't have enough trolls there is another camp northeast at the Tkashi Ruins (33,15).

9. Once you've collected all of that, go west to the shore and move along the shore towards the north until you find Crystal Spine Basilisks. If you run short on Basilisks, there is more on the lower plateau to the east along the shore. If there aren't any basilisks just go kill some trolls until they respawn. Kill basilisks until you get 10 Singing Crystal Shards.

10. After that go take a swim until you reach the loc (24,22), right under you should be some ruins guarded by murlocs. Against one of the outer walls of those ruins you should see a big tablet, if you put your pointer over it the cog should appear and it should say "Gri'lek the Wanderer" (it should also sparkle). Dive and click the tablet to loot the Tablet Shard, you should be able to do that without aggro'ing any murlock.

11. Go back to Nesingwary's Expedition. Turn in the raptor, panther and tiger mastery quests, get the follow ups.

Go directly to Grom'gol base camp. Turn in:

  • [34]Hunt for Yenniku, don't get the follow up.
  • [34]Bloodscalp Insight, get the follow up.
  • [37]The Vile Reef (elite)
  • [37]Bloody Bone Necklaces, don't get the follow up.

You should be level 34 by now.


Level 34


Fly to Booty Bay. Turn in the 4 following quests:

  • [31]Supply and Demand, get the follow up [36]Some Assembly Required
  • [32]Investigate the Camp
  • [35]Singing Blue Shards, don't get the follow up
  • [35]Bloodscalp Ears

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar, visit the class trainer, repair, sell, visit the auction, etc.

You should have the cloth stacks from the shopping list by now, if you don't have them, buy as much as you still need from the AH. Go to the Horde Cloth Quartermaster Vehena in the Valley of Spirits in Orgrimmar. Turn in [60] A donation of Silk right away.

Another last thing before you go, if you don't have the cooking profession yet, go learn it. Talk to a city guard and ask him for a cooking trainer. You don't need to level cooking up, you just need to train the profession and to become an Apprentice Cook, it will unlock some cooking quests for easy XP. Grab the 10 Turtle Meat you saved when we were in the Shimmering Flats, and you're finally ready to go again.

Take the Zeppelin to the Undercity.

Fly to Tarren Mill, Hillsbrad.

Get the following quests:

  • [30] Humbert's Sword (Elite)
  • [32] Stone Tokens
  • [32] The Hammer may fall
  • [34] Infiltration
  • [34] Prison break in

1. Go inside the Inn, and get the quest [31]Soothing Turtle Bisque from Christophe Jeffcoat, also buy 1x Soothing Spices from him. Turn in the quest immediately. While you're inside the inn, set your hearthstone to Tarren Mill.

2. Go southeast to the Dwarven Fortress of Dun Garok (69,73). Your first task will be to make yourself a way inside the fortress and find a Keg of Shindigger Stout, they can mostly be found on the side rooms down the stairs.

Then you'll need to find and kill Captain Ironhill, he can spawn a various locations:

  • On the top floors, which is good because he can easily be pulled solo there.
  • On the big middle room down the stairs.

After you've killed Captain Ironhill, keep killing dwarves in the fortress until you've completed the kill list of [30]Battle of Hillsbrad and gotten Humbert's Sword, which is a rare drop from any of the dwarves.

3. Get out of the Dwarven Fortress, get back on the path going northeast and then east into Arathi Highlands.

4. Stay on the road for a while until the location (30,50), north of that point you should see a mound with
some ogres, this area is called Boulder' gor. Kill ogres there until you complete the kill list from [32]The Hammer May Fall.
Note: Boulderfist Enforcers can only be found inside the cave, which can be entered from the east side of the mound.

5. Get back on the road, follow it eastwards until you reach a crossroads, follow the smaller trail going northeast, until you reach Hammerfall, the horde outpost.

Further inside the village go up the stairs and turn in the quest [37]Trollbane, don't get the follow up.
Turn in [32]The Hammer May Fall, get the follow up [32]Call to Arms.

Get the new flight path
Sell, repair, restock food/drink.

6. Head out, go south until you find Witherbark Village (69,60). Kill trolls in there until you finish the kill list of [32]Call to Arms and then grind here until you hit level 35 (if you aren't 35 already). If you find a necklace named Pendant of Myzrael, click it to start the quest, and you may equip it too if you don't have a better necklace.


Level 35


Hearthstone to Tarren Mill. Turn in the 3 quests, get the follow ups:

  • [30] Elixir of Agony
  • [32] Battle of Hillsbrad
  • [30] Humbert's Sword

Go to the inn, on the 2nd floor there's a room with Captured Farmers inside, and a "Dusty Rug" on the floor. Click it and complete the quest for an extra 3650 exp.

Sell, repair, restock food.

1. Head west to the yeti cave. Go inside the cave, and look for the 2 braziers named Flame of Azel and Veraz. Right click them to turn them off.

2. Get out of the yeti cave, go north and slightly northeast, find the plateau named Corahn's Dagger (48,81). You'll find a syndicate camp there, kill those humanoids until you get a Syndicate Missive.

3. Once you have the Syndicate Missive, go west, you should quickly stumble upon a camp with alliance npcs, don't get too close or they will aggro you and you'll die quickly. To the north you should see a narrow path to Alterac Mountains (42,77). Before you go through this pass, kill some lions in the area until you get a Fresh Carcass (if you didn't get one already that is).

4. Once you have a Fresh Carcass, go through the snowy path, you should be able to locate a yeti cave soon at (37,68). Clear yourself a way inside the cave, then click the Flame of Uzel.
Get back to full health/mana, and check if your potion timer is ready, because we're about to summon a level 37 yeti, Frostmaw. When ready, place the Fresh Carcass on the Flame of Uzel and wait a little bit, frotmaw should show up within the next 20 seconds. Kill it and loot "Frostmaw's Mane".

5. Exit the cave, go west back to the plains area in Alterac Mountains and then southwest until you find the Lordamere Internment Camp (21,82).
Kill everything in the camp, including the non agressive undead npcs. You can get stone tokens from the Dalaran Guards and Theurgists, and the Bloodstones from the undead npcs: Ricter, Alina, Dermot and Kergan Darkmar. Kergan is in the other house, on the 2nd floor. He's guarded by a level 36 mob, Warden Belamoore so kill this one first, then kill Kergan and loot the last Bloodstone. You don't need Belamoore's Journal for anything, it is just lore, you may destroy it.

Once you got the 4 bloodstones and 10 Stone tokens, hearthstone back to Tarren Mill.

Turn in:

  • [34]Infiltration, don't get the follow up
  • [34]Prison Break In, get the follow up
  • [32]Stone Tokens, get the follow up [34]Bracers of Binding

6. Now is the time for one of those missions: impossible. Head southwest to the river and follow it until you have the alliance town of Southshore in view. Not too close or you'll get aggro from the guards, they'll see you from very very far. (55,52) is a good spot.

With maxed clip plane you should see Helcular's grave, which is at the eastmost tip of the southshore graveyard. Wait till the 3 guards patrolling close to this area are as far as possible then sprint for the grave, right click it, complete the quest log which just showed up as quick as possible and then run for your life, back the way you came from. You will most likely get aggro and die, but that's ok!

If you have troubles doing this part, I made a quick video of it here:

Helcular's Revenge Video

Go to Tarren Mill.

Fly to the Undercity, go speak to Varimathras, he is in the same room as Sylvana, the banshee queen. This room is behind the Apothecarium, you have to use the gate of the Apothecarium to access it.

Turn in [32]Battle of Hillsbrad, also get the quest [42]Into the Scarlet Monastery if you plan on going to Scarlet Monastary later on.

Sell, repair, restock consumables. Fly back to Tarren Mill.

Go west and then north into Alterac Mountains, as if you were going to the Lordamere Internment camp.

However this time go further north towards those rubbles around the big purple dome of Dalaran (20,77). Kill elementals and the dalaran humanoids in this area until you complete [34]Bracers of Bindings and [35]Dalaran Patrols.

When done, hearthstone to Tarren Mill or run there if it's still on cooldown. Turn in the 2 quests.

Sell/Repair, restock food/drink.

Fly to Hammerfall, Arathi Highlands.

In Hammerfall, turn in [32]Call to Arms and get the follow up.

This should make you ding 36 or you should be pretty close.


Level 36


Talk to the innkeeper and set your hearthstone here. If you have any important skills/spells that you'd like to learn, fly to Undercity and either train there or take the zeppelin to Orgrimmar. Afterwards come back to Hammerfall.

Get the quests:

  • [33] Foul Magics
  • [34] Hammerfall
  • [37] Sigil of Strom

Turn in the quest [34] Hammerfall at Tor'Gan who is standing close to the exit of Hammerfall and take the follow up [34] Raising Spirits

**If you have 225/225 in first aid, you may want to go to the house which is to the left after entering the Hammerfall. The trauma surgeon there will give you a quest to become an artisan in first aid. The quest is done immediately, you have to bandage injured soldiers as fast as possible, prioritizing the most injured ones. It's also an easy 5500 xp. If you fail it, abandon and re start the quest.**

Time to hunt!

Kill all the raptors you find on your way: you need 10 Highland Raptor Eyes.

1. Head west to the Dabyrie Farmstead (57,41). Kill the following mobs:

Fardel should be around the field.
Marcel should be in the stables.
Kenata should be in the small house on top of the hill.

2. Once you've collected the 3 heads, head west to Northfold Manor (35,30). Kill the syndicates there until you have 10 Bloodstone Amulets.

3. Go south until you reach Stormgarde Keep. Kill Syndicates here until you get Sigil of Strom from one of them. Be careful not to get too many adds while you pull.

4. Head back to Hammerfall, make sure you get the last Highland Raptor Eyes you need.

Turn in the following quests:

  • [33] Foul Magics, don't get the follow up
  • [37] Sigil of Strom, don't get the follow up
  • [34] Raising Spirits, get the follow up and go talk to Gor'mul in the northwest corner of the village, turn in the quest and go back to torgan, turn in the quest and get the follow up [37]Guile of the Raptor.

Sell, repair, restock food/drink.

**Kill any Highland Fleshstalker you might find on the way**

5. Head southwest to the opposite side of the zone till you find the Boulderfist Camp (52,72). Kill the Ogres there until you finish what's on the kill list of [38]Call to Arms.

6. Then go to the plains north and west of the Ogre caves, all over that place you'll find Highland Fleshstalkers, kill as many as you still need to get 12 hearts.

After that, go grind on Ogres or Trolls to the east, until you are about 20000xp from level 37.

7. Hearthstone back to Hammerfall, turn in [37]Guile of the Raptor.
Go to Gor'mul (the npc close to the forge), turn in [37]Guile of the Raptor. Wait a few seconds then he will have a quest up for you, take it and go back to Tor'Gan, turn in the quest [37]Guile of the Raptor again.
Go up the stairs in front of the inn and turn in [38]Call to Arms, don't get the follow up.

Fly to the Undercity, when there, turn in the quest [36]To Steal from Thieves, right next to the Bat Handler.

Get out of the Undercity, go take the Zeppelin to Orgrimmar.

First thing you do when in Orgrimmar is set your hearthstone at the Innkeeper. Visit your trainer if you didn't do that yet. Then go to the Cleft of Shadows, and find Craven Drok, an orc NPC who roams in between the two slopes there. Get the quest [30]Alliance Relations from him (it's green so there will be no yellow question mark over his head).
Go to the western exit of Orgrimmar, in the last hut before the exit turn in this quest and get the follow up.

Sell/repair/restock consumables.

Fly to Thunderbluff, go to the Hunter Rise and turn in the quest [37]Frostmaw, don't get the follow up.

This should make you ding level 37


Level 37


Your quest log should look like this at the moment:

[30] Alliance Relations
[42] Into the Scarlet Monastery (Dungeon)
[optional for those who go to Scarlet Monastery]
[35]Tiger Mastery
[35] Family Tree
[36] An Unusual Patron
[36] Hostile Takeover
[36] Raptor Mastery
[36] Some Assembly Required
[38] Panter Mastery
[35] Martek the Exiled (Complete)
[37] Goblin Sponsorship

==Note== Before you move on to the next step, I recommend checking the auction house and buying 2 Elixirs of Water Breathing, unless your class has some sort of underwater breathing spell, or if you're an undead. It will make some of the steps much easier.

Fly to Sun Rock Retreat in Stonetalon Mountains, and go to Desolace. If you don't know the way, here is how:

After entering Desolace, go south and slightly southeast to find Kormek's Hut (62,38), get the quest [39] Bone Collector from Bibbly F'utzbuckle.

Go west to the big tower named Ethel'rethor, next to it you'll find a human npc named Azore Aldamort (38,26), get his quest: [33]Scepter of Light.
Then go southwest of the tower, along the coast you should find a book on a barrel, the book is named "Rackmore's Log" (36,30), click it and get the quest [36]Claim Rackmore's Treasure.

Go southeast until Ghost Walker Post's main entrance (56,56), a bit to the south you should find 2 NPCs next to a small hut, get the quest [33]Gelkis alliance and [35]Khan Dez'hepah.

A little to the north, turn in [35] Family Tree at Nakata Longhorn and get the quest [37]Catch of the day from him.

To the west you'll find the last quest giver of Ghost Walker Post, Takata Steelblade, turn in [30]Alliance Relations, get the follow up as well as the other quest [33]Befouled by Satyr.
Talk to Maurin Bonesplitter who should be right behind you, turn in the quest [33]Alliance Relations and get the follow up [33]The Burning of Spirits.

Go south till you hit the road and then follow it until you get to Shadowprey Village (25,75).

Get the quest [38]Hand of Iruxos from Taiga Wisemane, who should be standing on top of an earth mound, to the right after a couple of huts. Go down to the pier and get the quests [36]Other fish to Fry and [35]Clam Bait.

Go to the end of the pier and get the new flight path.

Start of XP Circuit:

1. From the pier, dive into the water. Use your Elixir of Water Breathing if you have one, it will make this step much easier. Look around at the bottom of the sea for Shellfish Traps

Keep doing this until you have gathered 10 Shellfish.

When you have 10 Shellfish go back up to the pier and talk to the troll named Jinar'Zillen, turn in 5 Shellfish twice to get 2 Bloodbelly Fish(put those aside in your bags, make sure you don't eat them).

Sell, repair, restock food/drink. This is going to be a long circuit.

2. Get out of the village the same way you came from, follow the road eastwards until you reach Magram Village (66,68). Time to slaughter some centaurs! Kill Magram Centaurs until your reputation with the Gelkis Centaurs is Friendly. That means you need to kill 50 Magram centaurs, check your reputation tab ("u" key) to see your progression. Stop killing them once you are friendly with the Gelkis.

3. Go northwest to Scrabblescrew's Camp (60,61), get the quest [34]Kodo Roundup. Find the Kodo Kombobulator Rod in your bags and put it on a hotkey. Go west to the Kodo Graveyard and use the rod on any Ancient, Aged or Dying Kodos, when you got one following you, bring it back to the goblin who gave you the quest, he will say something about you needing to inspect the beast, right click on the kodo you just brought and you should get a quest update. Repeat this step 4 more times and the quest will be complete. Turn in the quest.

4. Go back to the Kodo Graveyard, look for kodo skulls on the floor, they are labelled as "Kodo Bones" on your tooltip and they shimmer. Gather 10 kodo bones, watch out though, clicking the skulls sometimes spawns a Kodo Apparition, which are easy to kill at your level but just don't click a skull if you are low on health.

5. Go east to the Kolkar Village and find their chief, Khan Dez'Hepah (73,47), who stands in one of those high tents. Kill him, loot his head.

6. Go to the horde camp just above and around the Kodo Graveyard, turn in [35]Khan Dez'hepah at Felgor Twocuts (56,59) and [37]Catch of the day at Nakata Longhorn just a bit further north.

7. Go northeast to Kormek's Hut (62,38), turn in [39]Bone Collector.

8. Go northeast to the Satyr Village of Sargeron (75,28), kill all the satyrs you need to complete the quest [33]Befouled by Satyrs.

9. Go west to Thunder Axe Fortress and enter by the main gate (56,29). Look for a "Burning Gem" in your bags, and put it on a hotkey. When you kill the burning blade npcs in the fortress, use the gem on them when they are about to die (10-20% health left or so), you will gather infused burning gems that way. You need 15 burning gems in total, and you will probably gather them while we reach the
other objectives for other quests we have to do here.

Go inside the main building right infront of the main gate, clear the way to the central room, inside of it you should see a big red crystal. Clear the whole room before you touch it. Save your long cooldown abilities and have your potion timer ready too. When you are ready, click the crystal, a Demon Spirit will spawn, it's lvl 37 but kinda hard for this level, so use everything you got if needed. Kill it and loot the Demon Box.

Get out of this building, and go to the guard tower just next to the main gate, clear the two npcs on each side of the hut on the top floor of the guard tower, then get full health before you go in, because 2 npcs are inside. Kill them both and loot the Rod of Light from the seer.
Before you leave the fortress, kill mobs until you get the remaining Infused Burning Gems you need for the quest [33]The Burning of Spirits. You should already have found a Flayed Demon Skin on one of the burning blade npcs you killed, if you haven't stay in the fortress and kill everything until you get one. Right click it to start the quest [33]The Corrupter.

10. Get west to the tower of Ethel Rethor (38,27), turn in the quest [33]The Scepter of Light at the npc Azore Aldamort. Get the follow up [38]Book of the Ancients.

11. Go west to the shore, follow it south until you see the mast of a wrecked ship, sticking out of the water at (33,31). Use an Elixir of Water Breathing if you have one, take a swim, all around this ship you'll find Giant Softshell Clams, open them to find clam shells, which you need to open to find meat inside.

You need to gather 10 Soft-Shelled Clam Meat that way. Also in the same area you'll find those giant lobsters named Drysnap Crawlers and Pincers. Kill those until you find a Silver Key

(takes me 10 kills on average, depending on my luck).

12. Go north of the sunken ship until you find nagas, kill them until you find Rackmore's Golden Key. The key can drop from any naga in the area, it takes me about 10 kills each time depending on my luck.

13. Once you've got the key, swim northwest, kill any Slitherblade Myrmidon, Naga or Sorceress you find on your way, this is a long swim. Keep swimming northwest until you reach Raznajar Isle, and step on the isle by the eastern side of it (30,9). You should find Rackmore's Chest here, at the base of a tree.

Click on it and complete the quest.

14. Go to the northern tip of the isle, you should find a Serpent Statue. Clear the few nagas around it, get full HP/MANA then go click the statue, this will spawn Lord Kragaru, a level 38 naga. Kill him and loot the Book of the Ancients from him.

15. Swim southeast, back towards the tower of Ethel Rethor, kill the remaining Slitherblade you need on your
way back, make sure you complete the quest [36]Other fish to fry. Go to Azore Aldamort (38,27) and turn in [38]Book of the Ancients.

This should make you ding level 38, or you should be close.


Level 38


16. Go southeast to Ghost Walker Post, find Maurin Bonesplitter and Takata Steelblade (52,53). Turn in the 3 quests, do NOT get the follow up from [33]The Corrupter, but get the other follow up: [33]Alliance Relations.

17. Go south, back on the road and follow it south then west, until Gelkis Village where you must find their chief: Uthek the Wise (36,79), turn in the quest, don't get the follow up.

18. Go to Shadowprey Village, turn in the last 3 quests:

  • [35] Clam Bait
  • [36] Other fish to fry
  • [38] Hand of Iruxos, don't get the follow up.

Get the quest [31] Hunting in Stranglethorn from Roon Wildmane.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar, go turn in [33]Alliance Relations at Keldran (in the last hut close to Orgrimmar's west gate)

End of XP Circuit:

Go visit your class trainer, sell/repair, check the AH, restock consumables.

Take the Zeppelin to Grom'gol base camp. In Grom'gol, take the following quests:

  • [36] The Defense of Grom'gol
  • [37] Headhunting
  • [38] Mok'thardin's Enchantment
  • [42] Split Bone necklace

Your quest log should look like this now:

==Note== You should also have [31] Hunting in Stranglethorn and [36] An Unusual Patron.

Time to hunt!

Start of XP Circuit:

1. Go southeast, stop at (35,35), you should be close to the Master Tribal Leatherworker npc, all around this area you need to find Shadowmaw Panthers, they are stealthed. The best method is to run around killing everything in the area while hitting "tab" key alot to target any panther you find on the way. Keep doing this until you have 10 Shadowmaw Panther kills and 8 Shadowmaw Claws, and also a Pristine Tigress Fang. This may take a while so just kill everything in the area until you're done.

2. Go northeast along the river, you'll find Snapjaw Crocolisks soon (39,31). Keep going north along the river to find more crocs, kill them until you got 5 snapjaw crocolisk skin. If you run out of crocs to kill, you can go further to the north and kill the venture co. goblins while waiting for the crocoliks to respawn.

3. Go north to the Venture co. Base Camp, clear yourself a path to the top of the oil rig, which you can access at (42,18). Find Foreman Cozzle at the top of it, kill him and loot his key. Get off the oil rig and go to the small houses just a little south of where you are, inside you'll find Cozzle's footlocker (42,20)

Open it and get the Fuel Regulator Blueprints. Get out and kill Venture Co. Geologists until you have 8 Tumbled Crystals.

4. Go west/southwest to the area which is north of Grom'gol base camp (30,23), you'll find plenty of Lashtail Raptors there. Kill 15.

5. Move north to the Nesingwary's Expedition Camp, on your way you need to kill 10 Elder Stranglethorn Tigers (31,19). When done with that move further north/northeast until Nesinwary's Expedition camp.

At Nesingwary's camp, turn in the 3 mastery quests and get the follow ups:

  • [37]Tiger Mastery
  • [40]Panther Mastery (elite)
  • [41]Raptor Mastery

Also turn in [31] Hunting in Stranglethorn.

6. Go southwest around the plateau and then west until you hit the coast. Continue northwest along the coast until you find the ruins of Zuuldaia (20,12). Kill every troll in the area until you have 20 Shrunken Heads.

7. Go southwest and swim towards the island with water elementals on it (20,22), find the Altar of Naias and use the Gift of Naias which should be in your inventory. Naias will spawn, kill it and loot the Heart of Naias.

8. Go back to Grom'gol base camp.
Turn in:

  • [37]Headhunting, get the follow up [41]Bloodscalp Clan heads
  • [36] The Defense of Grom'gol, get the follow up [37]The Defense of Grom'gol
  • [36] An Unusual Patron
  • [38] Mok'thardin's Enchantment, get the follow up [41]Mok'thardin's Enchantement

You should be level 39 by now.


Level 39


9. Go east to the Ruins of Mizjah (37,31), kill 10 Mosh'ogg Brutes and 5 Mosh'ogg witch doctors.

Go back to Grom'gol and turn in the quest [37]The Defense of Grom'gol.

Fly to Booty Bay, turn in the quests:

  • [37]Goblin Sponsorship, get the follow up.
  • [36]Hostile Takeover
  • [36]Some assembly required, get the follow up [38]Excelsior

End of XP Circuit:

While you are in Booty Bay, check the AH to see if there is any Stranglethorn Lost Pages you miss for sale. The next time we come to Stranglethorn Vale will be the last, so you better make sure to have all 4 chapters complete as soon as possible:

1. Chapter I: page 1,4,6,8
2. Chapter II: page 10,11,14,16
3. Chapter III: page 18,20,21,24
4. Chapter IV: page 25,26,27

Sell/repair/restock consumables and take the boat to Ratchet. Once there, fly to Camp Taurajo. Get on the main road and go south until you reach (46,75). There the road should fork: go east and follow the road until you reach Dustwallow Marsh.

Start of XP Circuit:

1. Just as you enter the zone you should see a burnt down house called "Shady Rest Inn". Take the three quests here:

  • [35] Suspicious Hoofprints
  • [35] The Black Shield
  • [37] Lieutenant Paval Reethe

and follow the road northeast. After a while you should see an arrow on the mini map pointing you to Brackenwall Village.

2. Follow it until you reach the village. On the way at (35,38) you should see an ogre with a quest ([36] Hungry!). Take the quest and continue to the village.

3. Once there take the flight path. If you have First Aid, go to Balai Lok'Wein and buy your First Aid manuals there (if you haven't got them already). Once that is done, make the inn your new home. Then go to Krog (right next to the inn) and turn in the three quests we took at the zone in. Take the follow up and also take [35] Inspecting the Ruins.

Go to Do'Gol and turn in [35] The Black Shield. Take the follow up. Now get the following quests:

  • [35] Theramore Spies
  • [36] The Hermit of Witch Hill
  • [37] Check Up on Tabetha
  • [37] Twilight of the Dawn Runner
  • [39] Help Mudsprocket

1. Exit the village and kill 9 Theramore Infiltrators all around the village (They are stealthed so put on track hidden as a hunter etc). If you have troubles finding the Infiltrators, just use tab while running around (they are non-aggressive so you have to find and attack them first).

A great suggestion from one of our readers:

Quote:
Along the road from Brackenwall Village to North Point Tower (we'll go there in the next step) are two tents with Theramore guards. Right behind them are at least three (2 behind the first and one more behind the 2nd) Theramore Infiltrators, which I found way more easy to localize than the guards around Brackenwall Village. I killed only three guys around Brackenwall in 2 full circles(might be someone else was on the same quest though), then got annoyed and decided to skip, then found the other guys.

There are also 3 more infiltrators on a little island at (41,25) and 3 more around (38,26).

2. Once done, from Brackenwall Village, go east, slightly northeast to (46,24), where you should find North Point Tower. Fight your way inside where you should see a bloodelf NPC called Ithania. Speak to her and follow her dialogue to set her free.

Then fight your way to the top of the tower. There should be cargo lying around, looking like this:

Loot it. Get off the tower.

3a. Now go east to (55,26) where you should find "Swamp Eye" Jarl. Turn in [36] The Hermit of Witch Hill and get the follow up. There is also a loose dirt mound on the ground looking like this:

Right click it to get the quest [35] The Lost Report. Also inside the house or close you should find Mordant Grimsby. Take his quest: [36] What's Haunting Witch Hill?. Now all around "Swamp Eye" Jarl's house you'll find Giant Marsh Frog critters.

Kill them while also killing Risen Husks or Risen Spirits. When they die, they'll spawn spirits (in most cases) which will give you a quest update. Continue doing this until you finish both [35] Marsh Frog Legs and [36] What's Haunting Witch Hill?.

3b. Once done go back to the hut and turn the quests in. Get both follow ups.

All around the hut you will see plants looking like this:

Loot 9 of them.

4. Once done go back to Mordant Grimsby and turn in [36] The Witch's Bane. Get the follow up. Go right outside the hut and while standing on the dock, right click the torch Grimsby gave you. After a few seconds a level 36 demon will appear. Kill it and you should get a quest complete message. Go back to Grimsby and turn the quest in.

5. Go northwest to (46,17) where you should find "Stinky" Ignatz. Take his escort quest and follow him around while he does whatever. (This quest seems to be bugged sometimes and doesn't work. If this is the case for you just skip it)

6. Once the escort quest is done you'll be at around (48,24). Go northeast again and climb over the hill. On the other side of the hill you should see Dreadmurk Shore with a lot of murlocs. Kill those murlocs until you have 8 Mirefin Heads.

7. Once done, hearthstone to Brackenwall Village. Turn in all your quests, don't take follow ups. Go northwest of the village to Darkmist Cavern and kill spiders there until you got 20 Unpopped Darkmist Eyes and 5 Acidic Venom Sacs.

8. After that is done go back to the village and turn in [37] The Black Shield. Take the follow up. Talk to Krog and complete the quest.

End of XP Circuit:

Unfortunately I misclicked and didn't take the screenshot, but it was an amazing xp rate, it was approximately like this:

Time played this session: 1 Hour
Total EXP this session: 51000 XP
XP/Hour this session: 51000 XP/Hour

You should be level 40 by now.


LEVEL 40


Fly to Ratchet. Turn in [37] Stinky's Escape at Mebok Mizzyrix then fly to Orgrimmar.

Train your new skills, sell stuff, repair, restock consumables and check the AH.

When done, fly back to Brackenwall Village.

Start of XP Circuit:

1. Mount up and ride southeast from the village to about (40,36). You should see an ogre there. Take his quest and escort him (a short way) to Reethe, a human npc. Be sure to be full mana/hp because once the ogre is done talking, you'll have to fight off 4 level 35-37 npcs. The ogre can tank one, you'll have to deal with the other three in some way. Use crowd control, potions and long cooldown skills.

2. When you are done, mount up. Go southwest, back to Mudcrush Durtfeet (35,38). Turn in [36] Hungry! then ride to the Shady Rest Inn (at the border to the Barrens) and turn in [35] Inspecting the Ruins at Inspector Tarem. (Just some extra exp)

3. Now ride southeast to (46,57) where you should find Tabetha. Turn in [37] Check Up on Tabetha. In the same house you should find Apprentice Garion. Get [38] The Grimtotem Weapon and [39] The Reagent Thief from him. Just outside the house you should find Apprentice Morlann. Get [39] Direhorn Raiders and [40] The Zeppelin Crash from him.

** From now on kill every Noxious Shredder and Darkfang Creeper on your way**

4. Open your map and take a look at the "island" you are currently situated at. It's called "The Quagmire". Stay on that island and search for Mottled Drywallow Crocolisks. Whenever you see a bunch of them together, right click your Captured Totem from your inventory. Now make sure that whenever you kill a croc, the totem is up or you won't get a quest update.

There is a particular problem for hunters, mages and warlocks for this quest. The mob must have you in target when it dies, or it doesn't work. For warlocks this is less of a problem, just summon an imp and tank yourself while dotting. For mages, just make sure the mob is not frost nova'd when you finish it. But for hunters it's a little different especially if you are beastmastery specced and don't have your weaponskill maxed. In that case, do the following:

Place your totem and stand next to it with your pet. Put your pet on: passive, stay and growl off. Pull a crocodile with distracting shot from as far as possible and try to hit it with as many shots as possible before it reaches you. Once it's next to the totem and once you are meleeing it, sick your pet on it. Normally your pet shouldn't take aggro and until the croc is dead. If it does get aggro though, just turn the pet's attack off (click on the passive icon), move away a good distance, get aggro with distracting shot and finish it off either meleeing or with shots. You must have aggro first though.

5. When you are done move east towards (53,57). On the way you should find a few Noxious Shredders (kill as many as you still need). When you are there, talk to Moxie Steelgrille and turn in [40] The Zeppelin Crash. Take both [40] Corrosion Prevention and [39] Secure the Cargo! from her.

You've probably already noticed that blue lightning rays are being shot at you. Open your inventory and search for Ooze Buster. Put it on a hotkey. This is used to dissolve oozes all around the crashed zeppelin wreck. You can only use the buster while you energized by the blue rays though (which are being shot by power core fragments). The power core fragment next to Moxie always shoots energy at you so stay as much around that fragment and pull oozes to it. Once they are close use your Ooze buster on them. This will dissolve the oozes and you'll get a quest update. You need to do this 10 times.

At the same time loot 8 Zeppelin Cargos in little boxes all around the floor. If you run out of oozes/boxes next to Moxie, just go to the other power core fragments around the crashed zeppelin. The only disadvantage with those is that they turn off and stop to shoot energy every 30 secs for 30 secs. So if your fragment isn't shooting energy at you, wait a little until it switches on again, then dissolve your oozes. When done, return to Moxie and turn in both quests. Take the follow up [39] Delivery for Drazzit.

6. East of you should be some mountains. Follow those mountains north/northwest until you reach a tauren camp called Direhorn Post. Kill 12 Grimtotems here (any). While killing them you'll stumble on an undead npc called Apothecary Cylla. Kill her and loot "Sealed Letter".

Right click it for a quest.

7. When done, return to Tabetha's house. Turn in everything you got. Mount up and follow the path south to Mudsprocket (new town, yay!). Take the flightpath there. Turn in [39] Help Mudsprocket and [39] Delivery for Drazzit. (No need to gather quests here now, we'll come back in a bit)

8. Fly to Brackenwall Village. Turn in both quests and take [37] The Black Shield from Krog.

9. Mount up and ride back to the hermit hut at (55,26). There you should see another quest from the dirt pile. Take it and also turn in [35] Jarl Needs Eyes at Jarl. Take the follow up. Also get the quest [35] The Severed Head from the Loose Dirt.

10. Go north/northeast of the hut to the little passage-way that leads to the murlocs we killed earlier (57,19). Razorspine should be patrolling there. Kill him and loot his blade. Go back to Jarl and turn the quest in.

Hearthstone to Brackenwall Village. Turn in [35] The Severed Head and take the follow up. Fly to Thunderbluff.

Go to the Hunter Rise and turn in [37] The Black Shield. Take the follow up. Go to Melor Stonehoof and get the quest [45] Deadmire.

End of XP Circuit:

Fly to Orgrimmar.

Sell/repair/restock consumables, vist the AH. Make the inn your home again.

Take the Zeppelin to the Undercity, go to the Undercity and take a bat ride to Hammerfall, Arathi Highlands.

Get the following quests:

  • [40] Call to Arms
  • [40] Foul Magics
  • [40] The Broken Sigil
  • [40] The Real Threat

Mount up and ride to Stromgarde Keep. As you enter go left at the first occasion. Clear your way through until you reach a big dark house. Go behind the house and you should be at (29,63) approx. Marez Cowel spawns at that location, in front of the butcher table:

If she is not there, she can also be found on the second level, in a small square-shaped area above the above described spawn point.

Kill her and loot the Befouled Bloodstone Orb from her. Fight your way back to where you went left earlier and go right instead (still on the lower level). You should see two ways now. One going south and one going west. Go west and kill every Stromgarde Defender/Troll Hunter/Vindicator you come accross until you have 5 Sigil Fragments. (They don't drop often, but when they drop you get like 3 at once or so)

Once that is done go back to the intersection from before and instead of going west, go south. You should see ogres and trolls there. Clear your way down then straight until you see a tower. Clear your way around the destroyed houses and search for Or'Kalar. Kill him then kill as many Boulderfist Shamans and Lords as you still need. Mount up and run back to Hammerfall.

You should be level 41 by now.


Level 41


At Hammerfall first turn in two quests at Tor'Gan, take the follow up [40] Sigil of Thoradin. Go to Zengu (on top) and turn the quest in. Don't get the follow up. Also turn in [40] Call to Arms and [40] The Real Threat up top.


Our next stop is the outpost of Kargath in the Badlands, follow the map above to get there: first enter the Wetlands then go south to find the tunnel entrance of Dun Algaz (54,70), keep following the tunnels till you enter Loch Modan.

In Loch Modan follow the path shown on the map until you enter Badlands.

After entering the Badlands:

1. Go south, then southwest and then west while staying close to the mountain to your right-hand side. At some point you'll find a very small camp with a few gnomes in it (25,45). Get the quest [37]Study of the Elements: Rock from Lotwil Veratius.

Go further west while killing every Lesser Rock Elemental on your way, until you find Kargath Outpost (4,44). Get the flight path, sell/repair.

2. Go back to the Lesser Rock Elementals just east of here and kill them until you have looted 10 Small Stone Shards.

3. Go to Lotwil Veratius, turn in [37] Study of the Elements: Rock, don't get the follow up.
Get ready for the next chapter!

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Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Chapter III (41-51)

Chapter III (41-51) - Journey from the Grom'Gol to Tanaris

Changelog

This is v2.0 of the guide. It has been revamped as mentioned in this news post to adapt to patch v2.3 changes. You can still find the old version of the guide here. At the same time, many other improvements have been made:

  • Introduction/Addons section has been updated
  • Kill everything on your way rule has been lifted unless you lack experience compared to the progress described in the guide
  • Grinding sessions removed and instances aren't part of the leveling process anymore (no dependancy on groups)
  • Quests that aren't elite anymore have been integrated
  • New patch 2.3 content has been integrated (Mudsprocket quests etc.)
  • Maps have been remade and a lot of errors have been corrected
  • Dustwallow Marsh circuits have been added
  • Leveling should be possible at a faster pace than before

Courtesy to Wowhead for some of the images!
Big thanks to Subere for his beautiful map/picture editing Smiling

Introduction

This guide starts at level 41. However I hope that you followed the 1st chapter and the 2nd Chapter of this guide as well. Because a lot of pre-questing and flight path gathering is done in it and we will need it for this chapter. If you didn't, it's not that bad, just jump in the guide somewhere close to your level and ignore the quests you can't get, if you are behind in levels it's ok, you'll catch up eventually later, the guide is made that way. If you need guides for any other level range (from 1-41 for example) please take a look at this page.

This guide is made for FAST leveling through the use of Optimized Quest Circuits. With this guide, questing will be very efficient and you'll not waste any second running around and trying to figure out in which order to do your quests. Follow each instruction carefully and you will see for yourself. The quest choices and order to do them are optimal so that you run as few as possible while doing the most possible, turning several quests at the same time. It will be like grinding, because you'll be killing stuff almost non-stop, besides you'll also be completing a bunch of quests at the same time!

Everything described in this guide can be done solo (beside when I say otherwise). You can, of course, follow this guide while duoing, grouping, it's not a problem, it works too.

DISCLAIMER: This guide does NOT take into account tradeskills, class specific quests or PvP. It's 100% focused on getting the most experience possible in the shortest possible time while doing a lot of quests and enjoying as much content as possible. Any race/class combination can do this guide. Any complaints about PvP, tradeskills, or class specific issues will be ignored.


Basic rules

  • Spend your talent points so that you kill things as fast as possible. (e.g: Priest should specialize in Shadow Talents, Warriors in Arms/Fury, etc.

  • Don't waste your time trying to find groups for questing, you can solo everything that is described in this guide unless I say otherwise. Only group with someone when it's not gonna be a waste of time (e.g: meeting the person at the other end of the zone to show him the way to where your quest is, that is a waste of time)

  • Try to always log out in an inn or in one of the major cities when you take a break.

  • When I say you should make an inn your new home location, it's for a good reason, and it will save you much time.


Useful Addons

To get the most out of my guide, you should get an addon which displays coordinates, because I use them to describe locations in my guide (x,y). You can use any addon you like, but here's a very simple one I use.

Recommended

  • DMiniCoords - A simple box which displays coordinates, left-click it to move it where you like.

Optional

Below is a list of other addons I use, this is 100% optional though, it's mostly for people who are curious to know which addons I use:

Side Note: In case you don't know how to install add-ons, simply download an addon from one of the links above and unzip it. Then drag the unziped folder in your Addon folder (full path is c:\\Program Files\\World of Warcraft\\Interface\\Addons). Then, restart World of Warcraft and it should be working.

If it isn't working, you might need to log out to your character selection screen and click on "Addons" in the lower-left corner. Tick the box that says "Load out of date Addons". Re-launch WoW.


Shopping List

  • Level 44: Patterned Bronze Bracers -- If you can't find them on the auction house, find a blacksmith willing to do them for a small tip. The components needed are 5x Bronze Bars, 2x Coarse Grinding Stone
  • Level 44: Frost Oil - Made by alchemists. Components are 4x Khadgar's Whisker, 2x Wintersbite, 1x Leaded Vial
  • Level 44: Gyrochronatom - Made by engineers. Components are 1x Iron Bar, 1x Gold Power Core
  • Level 45: All the Pages for the Green Hills of Stranglethorn quest. They can be found at the auction house in the main cities and also at the booty bay auction.

These items might not always be available at the AH, so start checking early.


Color Code
  • Quests
  • Items
  • Locations
  • Quest objectives to kill
  • NPCs
  • Locs

The Guide

Level 41

First of all, go to Orgrimmar, go to the inn and make it your home location.
Take the Zeppelin to Grom'gol outpost.
In Grom'gol, get the following quests if you don't have them already (if you didn't follow my last chapter):

  • [41]Mok'thardin's enchantment - the one where you must get 10 Jungle Stalker Feathers
  • [41]Bloodscalp Clan Heads
  • [42]Split Bone Necklace

From the previous chapter :

Turn in [35] The Troll Witchdoctor at Kin'Weelay.

From Grom'gol ride north, find a small plateau in between Tkashi Ruins and Bal'lal Ruins (31,17). On top of this plateau you should find Sin'Dall, a level 37 named tiger. Kill it, loot the Paw of Sin'Dall.

Ride northeast to Nesingwary's Camp. Turn in [37]Tiger Mastery.

Go east back on the main road, follow it north, until you enter Duskwoods. Our next stop is Stonard in Swamps of Sorrows.
Follow the road north, turn right at the crossroads, follow it as shown on the map below, make sure to avoid the alliance town of Darkshire.

Go through Deadman's Crossing, follow the path shown on this map:

You should be in Swamp of Sorrows now, follow the road, go right at the crossroads, and keep going until you find Stonard (43,55). Get the flight path and the following quests:

  • [35] Neeka Bloodscar (no exclamation mark will appear for this one because it's marked as low level - Given by Helgrum the Swift at the top of the biggest building).
  • [40] Lack of Surplus
  • [43] The Pool of Tears

They can all be found inside the buildings in Stonard. Don't get the other quests.

1. Go north to the small "isle" shown on map (48,41), stay in this area, kill everything in a wide radius until you have 8 Unprepared Sawtooth Flanks and found Noboru the Cudgel. Noboru is a level 39 "lost one", he wanders in Swamps of Sorrows but always comes to this spot every now and then, you'll find him eventually if you stay in this area, kill him, loot his cudgel, right click it to start the quest [39]Noboru the Cudgel.

2. Ride west to the Harborage(25,31). Turn in [39]Noboru the Cudgel.

3. Ride southeast to the Pool of Tears (65,45), swim down in the pool and look for Atal'ai Artifacts, gather 5 of them. A full turn around the pool should be enough.

4. Get back on your mount, ride southeast to Misty Reed Post (80,80), turn in the quest [40]Lack of Surplus and get the follow up [42]Lack of Surplus.

5. Ride west back to Stonard.

Turn in:
[43]The Pool of Tears, don't get the follow up.

Your quest log should look like this:

  • [38] Return to Krog
  • [45] Deadmire
  • [38] Excelsior
  • [40] Panther Mastery
  • [41] Bloodscalp Clan Heads
  • [41] Mok'Thardin's Enchantment
  • [41] Raptor Mastery
  • [42] Split Bone Necklace
  • [35] Neeka Bloodscar
  • [42] Lack of Surplus
  • [35] Martek the Exiled
  • [37] Goblin Sponsorship

If you didn't follow my last chapter, you probably don't have all quests. It's not a big deal though, just ignore the ones from Thousand Needles and Arathi Highland. However, try to get the ones you miss from Stranglethorn Vale, most of them can be obtained in Booty Bay (beside raptor and panter mastery).

Fly to Kargath, Badlands. If you don't have this flight path, check the level 41 section of the previous chapter, you'll find maps and explanations on how to get there.

Sell, repair, restock food/drink.

Turn in [35]Neeka Bloodscar (he's at the top of the guard tower). Get the follow up [40]Report to Helgrum, also get the other quest [40]Coyote Thieves from Neeka Bloodscar and [40] Unclaimed Baggage from Advisor Sarophas at the bottom of the tower.
Go to the inn and get [39]Badlands Reagent Run

From now on, kill every coyote and buzzard you find on your way.

Start of XP Circuit:

1. Ride east to Lotwil Veratius, get the quest [39]Study of the Elements:Rock

2 Ride further east / northeast until you reach Angor Fortress. Fight your way to the entrance and from there enter on the right side. Fight your way through straight until you reach a room. You should find a weapon rack in this room looking like this :

Loot it. Go back outside to the entrance and this time go left. Fight your way straight through until you hit a room similar to the one we found the weapon rack in. There you should find a barrel looking like this :

Loot it as well. Fight your way back outside.

3. Ride south, around the hill to the Valley of Fangs and find Martek the Exiled (42,52). Turn in the quest [37]Martek the Exiled and get the follow up [39]Indurium.
Talk to the goblin next to Martek, get the quest:

[40]Barbecued Buzzard Wings

4. Go south to Agmond's End (50,65), kill the troggs there until you have 10 Indurium Flakes.

You should be level 42 by now.


Level 42


5. If you plan on going to Uldaman : Go a bit further south, along the mountain you should find Theldurin the Lost (50,76), get his quest [40]Solution to Doom (Dungeon).

6. Just a little to the west you'll find the Mirage Flats, with a lot of Rock Elementals (40,78). Kill rock elementals there until you have 5 rock elemental shards, 3 large stone slabs. You can go kill coyotes, buzzards and troggs too if the elementals are overcrowded.

7. Go northwest of the elementals, there is a vast area with a lot of coyotes and some buzzards (35,72). Kill stuff there until you have 30 Coyote Jawbones and 10 Crag Coyote Fangs.

8. If you still need some Buzzard Wings or Gizzards, go north to Apocryphan's Rest (16,60), there are plenty buzzards there.

9. Ride east to Martek the Exiled (42,52). Turn in [39]Indurium and [40]Barbecued Buzzard Wings. Get the follow up from Martek: [38]News for Fizzle.

10. Ride northwest to Lotwil Veratius (25,44), turn in [39]Study of the Elements: Rock and get the follow up [42]Study of the Elements: Rock.

11. Ride west to Kargath, turn in [40]Coyote Thieves, [40] Unclaimed Baggage and [39]Badlands Reagent Run. Don't get any of the follow ups.

End of XP Circuit:


Note: I had some rested bonus during the first 10 minutes of the circuit. So you can chalk off about 10000XP from the screenshot. However, that still makes about 63000XP in 50 minutes, not too shabby Sticking out tongue.

Fly to Booty Bay.

Get out of the inn and get the quest [43]Akiris by the Bundle from Privateer Bloads in front of the bank.
While you are there check the Booty Bay auction house for any Stranglethorn Page you might still be missing.

From the bank, go up the pier, turn left in the first house on your right-hand side you should find "Sea Wolf" MacKinley, get the quests [41]Scaring Shaky and [45]Stoley's Debt from him.

Head towards Booty Bay's exit and get [45] Stranglethorn Fever from Fin Fizracket who is under a broken boat right on the way. Get a last quest on the way from First Mate Crazz, [41]The Bloodsail Buccaneers.

1. Exit Booty Bay and go left, until you reach a pirate camp by the cove. Clear the camp and find the Bloodsail Correspondence on one of the barrels.

Click it, turn in the quest and get the follow up [41]The Bloodsail Buccaneers.

2. Go northwest across the bridge and further northwest along the coast until you find some nagas. Kill those nagas until you have 10 Akiris Reed.

3. Ride back to the entrance of Booty Bay, this time go on the other side, follow the road north just a little while until you have Mistvale Gorillas on your right (31,68). Kill gorillas until you have gathered 5 Mistvale Giblets and until you get 1 Gorilla Fang.

4. Go north to (35,61) where you'll find a cave with Witch Doctor Unbagwa. Once you speak to him, 3 waves of 1 gorilla will spawn, with 10 seconds in between. You have time to eat/drink between the waves, don't loot though, you can do that afterwards. So after about 10 seconds an Enraged Silverback Gorilla (level 43) will attack you. After killing that gorilla you have another 10 seconds until Konda spawns (also level 43). Kill him as well. Then after another 10 seconds Mokk the Savage will run into the cave (Level 44). Kill him and loot the Heart of Mokk.

5. Go back to Booty Bay. Down the first slope you'll find "Shaky" Phillipe, turn in the quest and get the follow up [41]Return to MacKinley. Further towards the inn, turn in [45] Stranglethorn Fever at Fin Fizracket and [41]The Bloodsail Buccaneers at First Mate Crazz, get the follow up.
Up the slope right after First Mate Crazz, go to the house to your left and find Sea Wolf MacKinley, turn in the quest and get the follow up [44]Voodoo Dues. Go to the top floor of the inn and turn in [41]The Bloodsail Buccaneers at Fleet Master Seahorn, get the follow up.
In the room just before Fleet Master Seahorn get the quest [41]Up to Snuff from Deeg. At the bank turn in [43]Akiris by the Bundle.
Before leaving Booty Bay, find Dizzy One-Eye and get his quest [42]Keep an Eye Out. Dizzy is behind a big building close to the forge, which is actually quite close to the exit of Booty Bay, on the highest floor.

1. Get out of Booty Bay and go east towards the shore named Wild Shore. From there, go southwards while killing any Bloodsails on the way until you reach the 1st camp (29,80). Clear the camp and look for a map thingy named "Bloodsail Charts" or "Bloodsail Orders", If you don't find either, move on further south until you find a small boat ashore, check it for maps as well. Careful, the Bloodsail Warlocks really hurt, make sure you interrupt their shadowbolts if you can, and kill them fast then deal with their pets. If you are a Rogue or a Mage though, I suggest sap / polymorph on the Warlock first, kill the pet and then the Warlock.

2. Go further south until you find a bigger camp at (27,82). This camp will be harder to clear, but it's possible if you do it carefully.
Check the camp for Bloodsail Orders or Charts. Basically, the Bloodsail Charts and Orders can spawn at any of the two camps or at the boat. So check all three until you got both.

2b. (not shown on map) Swim southeast to the pirate ship at (33,88).

Go to the top deck and kill Brutus.

Loot Dizzy's Eye.

Go back to the shore and kill Bloodsails until you get :

  1. 10 Bloodsail Swashbuckler Kills
  2. 15 Snuff (can drop from any Bloodsail)

If you have a hard time finishing the snuffs, you can swim to the ships which are close to the shore. The Bloodsails there drop them too.

3. Ride back to Booty Bay.

You should be level 43 or close by now.


Level 43


Go to the top floor of the inn, turn in [41]The Bloodsail Buccaneers, get the follow up [42]The Bloodsail Buccaneers. Turn in [41]Up to Snuff and get the quest [42] Skullsplitter Tusks from Kebok. Sell and repair, restock food/drink.

Go turn in [42]Keep an eye out at Dizzy One-Eye on your way out of Booty Bay.

Get out of Booty Bay and ride east to the shore. Now we're going to look for a Half-Burried Bottles, which can be found anywhere along the beach if you keep going northeast. Keep opening bottles until one yields a Carefully Folded Note, right-click it to start [42] Message in a Bottle.

Swim southeast to Jaguero Isle and find Princess Poobah at (39,81). Turn in the quest and get the follow up [42] Message in a Bottle.

Go to the southeastern part of the island, where you should find a big gorilla named King Mukla (40,84). Kill it and loot the Shackle Key.

Go back to Princess Poobah and turn in [42] Message in a Bottle.

Now we're gonna do [42] The Bloodsail Buccaneers.
Go to the southwestern tip of the island and swim southwest to a lone pirate ship (34,88)

You should see 2 other pirate ships if you look west:

Start with the lone ship.

Instead of describing step by step how everything is done, I made a video, with explanations inside (the video was made before patch v2.3 but it's still more or less the same, beside that there are less mobs and they are lower level):

Bloodsail Buccaneer Video

Note: The parchment I looted at the bottom of the ship - Cortello's Riddle - can spawn in any of the three ships, so you'll have to check the bottom floor of each ship until you find it. It can also spawn in other parts of the ship, so check every corner of each ship carefully, but it mostly spawns on the bottom floor.

When you pull the middle floor, don't fight in the stairs. As soon as you aggro something, get off the stairs, or you might aggro something from the captain's cabin through the floor, it's an annoying bug but it's easily avoided if you don't fight on the stairs.

Do the same for the other two ships and you should have [42]The Bloodsail Buccaneers complete and have Cortello's Riddle. Right click it and get the quest [43]Cortello's Riddle.
Note: Ignore Brutus, that iron golem standing at the top of the eastern ship. He doesn't drop anything particular and is a pain to kill.

Once done, go back to Booty Bay.

Turn in [42]The Bloodsail Buccaneers.

Fly to Stonard, Swamps of Sorrows.

From Stonard, follow the road west and then go north to the bridge at (23,48). Look under the bridge for a Soggy Scroll. (You'll see a question mark on your minimap)

Click the scroll, turn in the quest and get the follow up [43]Cortello's Riddle.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar.

Visit the class trainer, the auction house, check for Stranglethorn Pages you might still miss. Also check for the other items on the shopping list, we’ll only come back once to Orgrimmar before we need the first few.

Fly to Brackenwall, Dustwallow Marsh. If you don't have that flight path, fly to Camp Taurajo in the Barrens. From Camp Taurajo go south along the road and then east at the first crossroad. Enter Dustwallow Marsh and then go north to Brackenwall Village (36,32).

Start of XP Circuit:

Turn in [38] Return to Krog.

Get the quest [43]Overlord Mok'Morokk's Concern from Overlord Mok'Morokk next to the bonfire, [43]Army of the Black Dragon from Tharg next to the eastern exit of the village, and [43]Identifying the Brood from Draz'Zilb inside the cave.

Fly to Mudsprocket. Get the following quests:

  • [40] Catch a Dragon by the Tail from Gizzik Grimgurgle
  • [39] WANTED: Goreclaw the Ravenous from the wanted poster
  • [39] Bloodfen Feathers from the ogre inside the inn

1. Go south of Mudsprocket and while killing all Searing Whelps/Hatchlings on your way. Loot Wyrmtails until you gather 8 of them.

2. Go northwest until you get to an area called « The Bloodfen Burrow ». Kill every raptor on your way while going west to the cave. There you should see a big named raptor Goreclaw the Revenous. Kill him then clear your way into the cave behind him and you should see a scroll on a stone with a question mark over it. Click it, turn in the quest and get the follow up [51]Cortello's Riddle.

3. Once you have 5 Bloodfen Feathers, ride back to Mudsprocket and turn in all the quests you got. From the ogre inside the inn get [39] Banner of the Stonemaul and [39] The Essence of Enmity.

4. Ride northwest to the area named The Den of Flame, which you can enter by the main gate on the southeastern side of it at (40,67). From now on kill every dragonkin you see. After killing a Firemane Scout, Ash Tail or Scalebane, use your Brogg’s Totem from your inventory on their corpses to get a Black Dragonkin Essence. You’ll need to do this 10 times. At the cave entrance you should find Mok'Morokk's Grog (39,66), which looks like a big pot.
Go inside the cave and keep to the left side until you see a banner with a tiger pelt. Loot the Stonemaul Banner. Now go the other extremity of the cave you should find Mok'Morokk's Strongbox on the floor, which is a rectangular black/steel box.

Loot it and then get out of the cave. Continue killing Firemanes here until you finish [39] The Essence of Enmity and got 5 Firemane Scalebane kills.

5. Go back to Mudsprocket and turn in both quests at Brogg. Get the follow up [41] Spirits of Stonemaul Hold.

6. Go northeast to Stonemaul Ruins (43,66). Kill as many searing whelps/hatchlings as you can find to complete [41] Identifying the Brood. At the same time look for Ogre Remains:

Right click them and Stonemaul Spirits will spawn which you need to kill. You’ll need to free 10 spirits like this.

You should find Mok'Morokk's Snuff dead center of the fortress in plain sight on a metallic floor texture, located at (44,65).

7. Once [41] Spirits of Stonemaul Hold, [41] Identifying the Brood and [41] Army of the Black Dragon are completed go north slightly until you reach this area:

Follow the trail on the wowhead map to find Deadmire (named croc) and kill him.

8. Go back to Mudsprocket. Turn in [41] Spirits of Stonemaul Hold and get the follow up.

9. Go southeast to the area called « Wyrmbog ». Further southeast towards the mountain you’ll see the entrance to Onyxia’s Lair. Pick one side of the entrance and clear all around it, then plant the Stonemaul Banner from your inventory. After a few seconds a dragon called Smolderwing will spawn. Kill it. Return to Mudsprocket. Turn in at Brogg and fly to Brackenwall Village.

Turn in [43]Overlord Mok'Morokk's Concern, [43]Army of the Black Dragon and [43]Identifying the Brood, get the follow up [41] The Brood of Onyxia. Turn it in at Overlord Mok'Morokk and get the follow up. Go back to Draz'Zilb and turn in a last time, don't get the follow up.

Fly to Thunderbluff and turn in [45] Deadmire on the Hunter Rise.

End of XP Circuit:

You should be level 44 by now or close.


Level 44


Hearthstone to Orgrimmar and train/sell/restock on consumables. Also this is your last chance to get the Patterned Bronze Bracers, the Frost Oil and the Gyrochronatom. If any of these isn’t available on AH, ask a crafter to make them for you and buy the mats.

Take the Zeppelin to Grom'gol base camp, fly to Stonard, Swamp of Sorrows.

Get the quest [38]Little Morsels from the Blood Elf female inside the biggest building. On the top floor of this building, turn in [40]Report to Helgrum.

Start of XP Circuit:

1. Go northeast until you find the "Fallow Sanctuary" at (54,28). Look for caged animals of the following type: Captured Crocolisk, Tarantual and Jaguar. Target them and feed them the Fel-tainted morsels you should have in your inventory.
When you have fed all 3 animals, go further east to (63,18) where you will find a destroyed caravan, right next to the caravan you will find Galen Goodward inside a cage, before you get his quest, clear the 'lost ones' camps to the southwest of the cage. Then get the quest [38]Galen's Escape and escort him out.
You should preceed Galen and attack anything that could jump on him because Galen is rather weak. After you have escorted him successfully, go southwest to (47,39). There you will find a small tent and Galen's Strongbox next to it. Open it, complete the quest.

2. Go east until you find Sawtooth Snappers (75,15), they are the bigger version of the crocolisks we killed in this zone last time. Go south from that location to find more crocs, just be careful not to run into those elite dragons. Keep killing those crocs until you have 6 Sawtooth Snapper Claws.

3. Ride south to Misty Reed Post (81,81) and turn in the quest [42]Lack of Surplus at Tok'Kar, get the follow up. Go turn in this follow up immediately at the other orc npc just a bit east of the camp, looking over the shore. Get the follow up [43]Threat from the Sea.

4. Get down on the shore and start killing murlocs. Kill 10 Marsh Murlocs and 10 Marsh Inkspewers, then move north along the shore, where you should find Murloc Flesheaters. Keep killing until you have 10 Murloc Flesheater kills.

5. Go back to Misty Reed Post and turn in the quest [44]Threat from the Sea, get the follow up, turn it in immediately at the other orc in the camp, Tok'Kar.

6. Ride back to Stonard, turn in [38]Little Morsels.

Fly to Kargath, Badlands.

1. From Kargath, go south/southeast to (13,85), where you will find Greater Rock Elementals. Kill them until you have 5 Bracers of Rock Binding. If you run out of elementals to kill, there is another camp to the west of this one (7,80).

2. Ride to Lotwil Veratius (26,45). Turn in [42]Study of the Elements: Rock. Get the other quest from Lotwil, [37]Coolant Heads prevail, turn it immediately - as you already have the Frost Oil from the shopping list. Get the follow up [37]Gyro...What? and turn it in too - you should have the Gyrochronatom from the shopping list as well - Get the follow up [42]This is Going to Be Hard. Talk to Lucien Tosselwrench, who stands behind Lotwil. Get his quest [42]Stone is Better than Cloth and turn it in - as you have the Patterned Bronze Bracers already.

4. Make sure all your cooldown abilities and your potion timers are up, then turn in [42]This is Going to Be Hard, get the follow up and turn it in at Lotwil, get the follow up [45]This is Going to Be Hard. A level 45 Fam'retor Guardian will spawn, kill it and loot Lotwil's Shackles of Elemental Binding. Turn in the quest at Lotwil, congratulations on your first trinket!

End of XP Circuit:

5. Go back to Kargath and fly to Booty Bay.

Get inside the inn and get the quest [45]Tran'rek.

Go down to the 1st floor of the inn and get the quests [41]Venture Company Mining and [44]Zanzil's Secret.
Set your Hearthstone to the Booty Bay inn. While here also check the Auction House for any Stranglethorn Pages you might still be missing :

Here is the list:

  • 1. Chapter I: page 1,4,6,8
  • 2. Chapter II: page 10,11,14,16
  • 3. Chapter III: page 18,20,21,24
  • 4. Chapter IV: page 25,26,27

We'll be needing them soon, so I advise you start offering 50s or even 1 gold for the pages you miss in the trade channel. We still have some killing to do though before we actually go turn in the page quest.

Start of XP Circuit (Optional Circuit included):

1. Get out of Booty Bay and ride north, stay on the road until you reach (39,41), slightly long ride.
At (39,41) go east and you will find Venture Co. Goblins uphill. Kill them until you get 10 Singing Blue Crystals.

2. Go west to the other side of the road, you should find Jungle Stalkers (34,37). Kill those raptors until you have 10 Jungle Stalker Feathers.

3. Ride to Grom'gol, turn in [41]Mok'thardin's Enchantment and get the follow up.

4. Ride north along the shore until you find an Elder Saltwater Crocolisk. Kill it and loot the Elder Crocolisk Skin off it.

5. Ride further northwest/north along the shore until you find the back entrance of the big troll ruins (21,11). Look at this zoom of the minimap to know what path to follow:

You should find Nezzliok the Dire at (24,10) if you followed the map above. Kill him and loot his head. Just a bit further north you should find Gan'zulah, the troll boss of those ruins (23,8 ). Kill him and loot his head.

6. Ride out of the ruins of Zul'Kunda, go east towards Nesingwary's Expedition (36,10).
Turn in [41]Raptor Mastery, don't get the follow up. Also abandon [40]Panther Mastery (elite), because that named panther can sometimes take way too long to be found.

Get the quest [40]The Green Hills of Stranglethorn and then take the four other quests named Chapter I, II, III and IV. Turn them all in then turn in the quest [40]The Green Hills of Stranglethorn.

== OPTIONAL CIRCUIT FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO THE MASTERY QUESTS ==

It can take some time to find these mobs, especially if someone else killed them before you so if you don't want to waste time on this, just skip this circuit. However if you lack exp, this might be a nice way to catch up.

Take [43] Raptor Mastery and retake [40] Panther Mastery.

Tethis has three spawn points (31,43 | 28,43 | 31,40) and roams in the back (west) of the Gurubashi Arena. Kill and loot him.

Bag'thera has three spawn points (48,20 | 48,28 | 46,28) and roams around in this area after he spawns. Kill and loot him.

Go back to Nesingwary's Expedition Camp and turn the two quests in.

== END OF OPTIONAL CIRCUIT ==

You should be level 45 by now.


Level 45


7. Ride south/southwest, back to Grom'gol.
Next to the troll npc named Nimboya you should find a Bubbling Cauldron, get close to it and right click it to have a quest window appear. Turn in [41]Bloodscalp Clan heads, click the cauldron again and take the two quests: [40]Speaking with Neezzliok and [45]Speaking with Gan'zulah.

8. Sell and repair, then ride southeast, across the river, to the Ziata'jai Ruins (42,37). Clear the camp, beware of the patrols roaming this area, there are 2 of them and each contain 3 trolls level 39-40. Once the camp is clear, click on the Ziata'jai Trophy Skulls which stand in the middle of the ruins and loot the Ziata'jai Trophy.

9. Follow the little path northeast until you reach Balia'mah Ruins (45,33). Kill all the trolls there as well. When this camp is clear, loot the Balia'mah Trophy Skull.

10. Follow the path southeast and then south until you reach the Ruins of Zul'Mamwe (47,38), you should find the Zul'Mamwe Trophy Skulls there, loot it.
Now kill all the trolls you find in the ruins (Though avoid the southernmost ones up the plateau, the trolls there are higher level).
If you run out of trolls go back to the first ruins of Ziata'Jai and repeat this cycle - as shown by the arrows on the map - until you get 18 Skullsplitter Tusk, and 25 Splitbone Necklaces.

11. Go back to the Ruins of Zul'Mamwe. Our objective is to complete the quest [46]Speaking with Gan'zulah. All the quest objectives are in the ruins of Zul'Mamwe, so let's just go there and kill everything in the way. Just be careful, there are many patrols and you can get easily overwhelmed if you don't pull carefully.

Skullsplitter Headhunters and Berserkers can be found in the southeastern part of the ruins (48,43) - which we avoided until now - go there and kill what you need for the quest, be careful to avoid the named elite Mogh the Undying.
Now comes the difficult part, we have to kill a level 45 named with two level 44 guards. You can find that named - Ana'thek the Cruel - inside the cave at the end of the path going through the ruins (45,44). Ana'thek and his guards sometimes come out of the cave for a walk, but don't attack them then, you will probably get adds and die. It's safer to wait for Ana'thek to be back in the cave and attack him inside it.

Wait for your long cooldown abilities and your potion timers to be up, clear the area around the cave entrance to have some space, then charge in, kill the named fast, loot him and run away. If one of the guards is a Spiritchaser and you have no way to crowd control it - Polymorph or sap - kill it first, run away and then come back for the named. It's safer this way, because the Spiritchasers tend to heal the named and then things get ugly. I tried it with a rogue - even though I could have just used sap - to evaluate the difficulty, and it was no problem, I could easily take one down, run away and come back for the named without dying.
Once you have looted the Broken Armor of Ana'thek, make sure you don't miss anything on the kill list of [46]Speaking with Gan'Zulah (you might be missing a few hunter kills).

12. Ride northwest, back to Grom'gol.
Turn in [42]Split Bone Necklace. Click on the Bubbling Cauldron and turn in the two quests. Then click on the cauldron again and take the quest [45]The Fate of Yenniku. Speak with Kin'weelay, turn in the quest and get the follow up [45]The Singing Crystals.

Hearthstone to Booty Bay. At the inn, turn in [41]Venture Company Mining, then go to the top floor of the inn, turn in [42]Skullsplitter Tusks. Exit the inn by the top floor side-door, go turn in [38]Excelsior at the "Tan-Your-Hide Leatherworks" (you should see the yellow question mark on the minimap when you come out of the inn).

End of XP Circuit:



Start of XP Circuit (with Optional Circuit included):

1. Restock/repair/etc. Get out of Booty Bay, go to Mistvale Valley and kill the same gorillas we killed earlier in this chapter at (32,68). Kill gorillas until one of them drops an Aged Gorilla Sinew.

2. Get back on the road and ride north for a while, until you reach the Ruins of Jubuwal (33,51). Clear the camp until you can pull JonJon The Crow, he should come with an add, could be a hard fight but it's doable. Loot Jon-Jon's Golden Spyglass, then clear yourself some space around the little ruins just behind where Jon-Jon was, there stands Maury "Club-Foot" Wilkins with two Zanzil Something.
Now you probably can't take all 3 at the same time, so try to kill one of the minions fast then run away, rinse and repeat until you are left with just Maury Wilkins. Kill him and loot "Maury's Clubbed Foot".

3. Go back on the road and just a bit south until (33,53), go east through a breached wall and keep going until you hit the Ruins of Aboraz (40,57) and kill Zanzil Minions there until you find Chucky "Ten Thumbs" inside the ruins and loot "Chucky's Huge Ring" from him. Keep killing Zanzil dudes until you get 12 Zanzil's Mixtures, avoid Zanzil the Outcast himself though. If you run out of mobs to kill, go back and forth from this camp to the other. Any Zanzil Something can drop the Mixture.

4. Get back on the road and ride north and then go northeast at the crossroads of Gurubashi arena. Just after that you should pass a big gate and to the right you should see a small path going into the jungle (37,49). That's our next stop, clear the way towards the cave at the end of that path, the basilisks we need to kill are named Ironjaw Basilisks and are higher level than the ones outside. Enter the cave at (42,50) and kill Ironjaw Basilisks until you have 3 Pulsing Blue Shards. The shards are rather rare, I estimate them to drop about 30% of the time. When you're done, hearthstone back to Booty Bay.

In Booty Bay's inn, turn in [44]Zanzil's Secret. Get out of the inn and turn in [44]Voodoo Dues at Sea Wolf MacKinley, get the follow up [44] Cracking Maury's Foot if you plan to do the optional circuit later.

Fly to Grom'gol.

In Grom'gol turn in the quest [41]Mok'thardin's Enchantment, don't get the follow up. Turn in [45]The Singing Crystals, get the follow up if you are interested in the following items (optional circuit) :
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=4134
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=6723.

== OPTIONAL CIRCUIT ==

From Grom'gol ride straight east until you see an ogre camp/cave (Mosh Ogg Ogre Mound) at (50,28). Clear your way inside the cave until you see Mai'Zoth. Pull him his right guard first then deal with the rest. Once Mai'Zoth is dead, loot Mind's Eye from him. Clear your way out of the cave. Check if you've already looted Maury's Key from one of the ogres. If you didn't, continue killing ogres until it drops.

Ride back to Grom'Gol and fly to Booty Bay. At "Sea Wolf" McKinley turn in [44] Cracking Maury's Foot. Fly back to Grom'Gol and turn in The [46] Mind's Eye at Kin'Weelay. Take the follow up [46] Saving Yenniku.

Ride to the Ruins of Aboraz and find Yenniku at (38,57). Use the Soul Gem from your inventory on him (which will stun him) and talk to him to fill the gem up. Once done, ride back to Grom'Gol and turn the quest in at Nimboya.

== END OF OPTIONAL CIRCUIT ==

End of XP Circuit:

You should be level 46 by now.


Level 46


Take a Zeppelin to The Undercity, train / sell / repair / restock consumables.

In Undercity, go to the Apothecarium and get [45] Errand for Apothecary Zinge from Apothecary Zinge, who is located right in the middle of the outer circle in the Apothecarium.
Go to the inner circle of the Apothecarium and find Alessandro Luca (58,55), turn in the quest and get the follow up.
Go back to Apothecary Zinge, turn in the quest and get the follow up [46] Into the Field.

Hearthstone to Booty Bay, take the boat to Ratchet and fly to Gadgetzan, Tanaris. If your hearthstone isn't up, just take a zeppelin to Orgrimmar and fly to Gadgetzan.

In Gadgetzan:

Turn in [45]Tran'Rek, don't get the follow up.
Turn in [46] Into the Field, get the follow up [46] Slake That Thirst.

Get the other quests:

  • [43]Wastewander Justice
  • [44]Water Pouch Bounty
  • [45]WANTED: Andre Firebeard and [46]WANTED: Caliph Scorpidsting from the wanted poster.

Set your hearthstone to Gadgetzan.

General info about Tanaris, Feralas and Hinterlands:

While killing stuff in Tanaris if you find an item named OOX-17/TN Distress Beacon. Right click it and keep the quest. You'll find beacons in Feralas and Hinterlands as well, proceed equally with those. Each of those beacons start a quest where you will have to find a Homing Robot and escort it. The beacons won't always drop for you, they are kinda rare. The escort quests are hard to do solo especially for certain classes. But if you are lucky to find all 3 beacons you should really put the effort and finish all 3 rescue quests, it will be described when to do them in the guide later on. Anyway, if you don't get a distress beacon, or if you don't manage to complete the rescue quests, it's not a big deal, this is optional, it's a nifty exp bonus but it's not that important.

Sell, Repair, re-supply food/drink (3 stacks).

No map needed for this very short part.

Get out of Gadgetzan, ride east until Noonshade Ruins (61,24), kill all the Bandits you can find there (If it's crowded just skip this part and keep riding east).. Then go further east to Steamwheedle Port even if you still haven't completed Wastewander Justice yet.

In Steamwheedle port get:

  • [45]Pirate Hats Ahoy!
  • [44] Screecher Spirits
  • [45] Southsea Shakedown

Turn in [45]Stoley's Debt and get the follow up [46]Stoley's Shipment.

Ride back towards Gadgetzan, make a stop at Noonshade Ruins and kill bandits / thieves there until you finish Wastewander Justice and have 10 Wastewander Water Pouches. If the place is crowded, there are more wastewander camps southeast of here (63,30).

Go back to Gadgetzan and turn in:

  • [46] Slake That Thirst, don't take the follow up.
  • [44]Water Pouch Bounty
  • [43]Wastewander Justice, get the follow up [44]More Wastewander Justice.

Ride north to Thousand Needles and to the Shimmering Flats at the Mirage Raceway (80,75).

Turn in [38]News for Fizzle at Fizzle Brassbolts.

If you want to go to Zul'Farrak later on get the quest [50]Gahz'Rilla (Dungeon) from Wizzle Brassbolts.
Turn in [37]Goblin Sponsorship at Pozzik don't get the follow up but on the other hand get the quest [41]Keeping Pace from Pozzik. Then go talk to Zamek who is just south of Pozzik, he should have a blue question mark over the head. Start his quest, follow him, he will set up an explosive and distract Rizzle Brassbolt out of his house. While Rizzle is away go quickly loot the Unguarded Plans. Complete the quest, get the follow up [41]Rizzle's Schematics and turn it in at Pozzik.
You can destroy the Sample of Indurium Ore in your bag.

Hearthstone back to Gadgetzan and fly to Camp Mojache, Feralas. You should already have this flight path if you followed the first chapter of my guide (21-31). If you don't have it, fly to Freewind Post, Thousand Needles, then follow the road west until you reach Camp Mojache.

In Camp Mojache get the quest [45] A New Cloak's Sheen from Kreug Skullsplitter near the eastern entrance to the village. Get [43]Gordunni Cobalt from Orwin Gizzmick, a goblin near the wyvern master.
Get [42]War on the Woodpaw from Hadoken Swiftstrider, [46]The Mark of Quality from Jangdor Swifstrider inside the big tent building in front of the wyvern master. [45]A Strange Request from Witch Doctor Uzer'l right outside that tent building.

Go to the Inn and set your hearthstone there.

Get [43]The Ogres of Feralas from Rok Orhan, a roaming orc npc with red armor.

Ride southwest, to the lower wilds, you should soon encounter some gnolls. There are many camps around (71,54). Kill them until you have 10 Woodpaw Gnoll Manes.

Ride north, get back on the road and then go to Camp Mojache, do NOT turn in [42]War on the Woodpaw.

Fly to Orgrimmar and go speak to Neeru Fireblade in the Cleft of Shadow, he stands right next to the Ragefire Chasm instance portal. Turn in the quest [45]A Strange Request and get the follow up [45]Return to Witch Doctor Uzer'i.

Optional: If you did Uldaman and [47]The Platinum Discs quest, then fly to Thunderbluff and talk to Sage Truthseeker on the lower rise, close to the auction house. Turn in the quest and get the follow up [50]Portents of Uldum. Go to the elder rise and turn in the quest at Nara Wildmane and get the follow up [50]Seeing What Happens.

Hearthstone to Camp Mojache, turn in [45]Return to Witch Doctor Uzer'i, wait for him to do his little script and then get the follow ups : [47]Testing the Veesel and [50]Natural Materials.

Finally turn in [42]War on the Woodpaw, get the follow up [43]Alpha Strike, a quest timer will appear.

Start of XP Circuit:

1. Ride southwest back to the gnoll camps. You have to kill 5 Woodpaw Alpha and go back to Camp Mojache before the timer runs out. A very easy task at this level. The camps with Alpha Gnolls are at the following locations: (73,57) (72,57) and (72,56). Also kill any wandering treant on sight.

2. Once you have 5 Woodpaw Alpha kills, ride back to Camp Mojache and turn in the quest [43]Alpha Strike, get the follow up [43]Woodpaw Investigation.

Sell and repair.

3. Ride north of Camp Mojache, follow the eastern bank of the river. At the end of it you should find a path going up the mountain, that's Gordunni Outpost (75,36). Start to explore the whole outpost, kill every ogre you find on your way, and look for the following two things:

- On the floor you should find blue glows scattered everywhere in the outpost. Look in your bags for Orwin's Shovel and put it on a hotkey. Whenever you find a blue glow, click the shovel over it. A Gordunni Dirt Mound should appear, loot it. Keep doing this until you find 12 Gordunni Cobalt.

- The Gordunni Scroll, which can spawn at various places in Gordunni Outpost. I mostly find it in the biggest camp with the cages and the bonfire (75,30), it looks like this:

Loot the scroll and right-click it to start the quest [43]The Gordunni Scroll.
Complete those two objectives and also kill enough ogres to complete the quest [43]The Ogres of Feralas.

4. When done with that, get out of Gordunni Outpost, cross the river and go southwest to the field with Sprite Darters (70,47). Kill them until you have 10 Iridescent Sprite Darter Wings. You can go kill stuff in the Grimtotem Camp West of the sprite darters while you wait for them to respawn, in case you need to.

5. Ride south/southeast to the same gnoll camps where you killed the alpha gnolls. Go to the western alpha camp which is at (71,57), clear it and look for the Woodpaw Battle Map on top of a wooden crate. (72,56)

Click it, turn in the quest and get the follow up [43]The Battle Plans.

6. Ride back to Camp Mojache. Turn in [43]The Ogres of Feralas and get the follow up [44]The Ogres of Feralas, turn in the [43]The Gordunni Scroll and get the follow up [46]Dark Ceremony. Turn in [43]Gordunni Cobalt. Turn in [43]The Battle Plans and get the two follow ups [45]Zukk'ash Infesation and [47]Stinglasher. Turn in [45]A New Cloak's Sheen and get the follow up [45]A Grim Discovery.
Sell, repair and restock food/drink.

7. Ride south/soutwhest to the Writhing Deep, there are two cave entrances. Go to the eastern one (75,60) and you should find Stinglasher there roaming in and out of the entrance, kill all the insects in the area until you find Stinglasher. Kill it and loot Stinglasher's Glands.
Keep on killing every insect in the area until you have 20 Zukk'Ash carapaces.

8. Ride north/northwest to the Grimtotem Village (67,46). Kill the grimtotems there until you have 20 Grimtotem Horns.

9. Get back on the main road and ride west, cross the stone bridge and shortly after to your left you should see some ogres, this area is named Ruins of Isildien (62,54). Kill ogres there until you have killed 5 Maulers and 10 Warlocks.

10. For the Ogre Shamans you will have to go much further south to the big temple at (59,73). Keep doing circles around the temple until you got 10 Shamans dead (there's also shamans inside the building, sometimes you gotta kill the placeholders for them to respawn).
Also kill Gordunni Mage-Lords until you find a Gordunni Orb on one of them, they can be found in the same area as the shamans.

11. Go northwest to the Yeti Cave (55,56). Kill Yetis, ignore the Homing Robot OOX-22/FE for now. Keep killing yetis until you get 10 Thick Yeti Hides.

When you got 10 Yeti Hides, go to the Homing Robot. (53,55)

Now, at this point you should normally have gotten a Distress Beacon with all the stuff you've killed in Feralas already. If you don't, it's not a big deal, just go to the next step. For those who did get a Distress Beacon, right click it to get the quest [45]Find OOX-22/FE! if you haven't already. Turn in the quest.

Don't take the follow up if you are solo, it's an escort quest and it's too hard for almost every class. We will come back to Feralas later on with a couple of levels more and then you'll be able to solo it, so don't worry. If you are a duo or more, read the following warnings before taking the escort quest:

1st Warning: The chicken robot is stupid and doesn't assist you all the time if you get attacked. Let him in the front so he gets the first hit. He has a decent amount of HPs and heals back to full after each fight is over. You can even eat/drink a bit after a fight and let the chicken walk in the front (not too far away though). Don't even think about looting, you don't have time. Don't let the chicken tank more than one at a time, and don't let him tank too long either.

2nd Warning: When out of the Yeti cave, the chicken will take a left turn and go towards the road, at some point 3 yetis will ambush him. Don't panic, you can let one of the yetis be tanked by the chicken at the beginning and deal with the other 2. Just check the chicken's health regularly. There will be a 2nd and a 3rd ambush, be prepared for them. Especially the last one is composed of 4 Gnolls.

12. Go west to the shore (you should already be there if you successfully did the escort quest), and look for Rogue Vale Screechers - those red flying snakes - you should find plenty of them at (46,47). Look into your bag for Yeh'kinya's Bramble and put it on a hotkey. Whenever you kill a Vale Screecher, target its corpse and right click the bramble, a screecher spirit should appear, right click it and you should get a quest update. Do this 3 times.

You should be level 47 or close by now.


Level 47


Hearthstone to Camp Mojache. Get the quest [51]The Sunken Temple from Witch Doctor Uzer'i. Turn in the following quests:

  • [46]The Mark of Quality, get the follow up [48]Improved Quality
  • [45]Zukk'ash Infestation
  • [47]Stinglasher, get the follow up [48]Zukk'ash Report
  • [44]The Ogres of Feralas
  • [46]Dark Ceremony, get the follow up [47]The Gordunni Orb
  • [45]A Grim Discovery, get the follow up [45]A Grim Discovery

End of XP Circuit:

Fly to Gadgetzan. Sell, repair and restock food/drink (3stacks).
Set your hearthstone to Gadgetzan.

Start of XP Circuit:

1. In Tanaris ride to the southeast until you reach Waterspring Field (63,37).You will find numerous Wastewander camps there. Kill Wastewander Rogues (stealthers), Assassins and Shadow Mages. You can also find Caliph Scorpidsting, he wanders between the tower structures, so you should go kill from a tower structure to another until you find him. He has 2 stealthed bodyguards, it will be a hard fight, burn him down quickly and run away is my advice, use long cooldown abilities and potions if needed. Then go back and loot his head.

If you don't find Caliph it's not a problem though, it's just some bonus XP quest, nothing important.

2. Once you got [44]More Wastewander Justice completed, go east to find a tunnel entrance at (68,41). Go through this tunnel which takes you to Lost Rigger Cove.
Now you have a lot of work to do, check the kill list of [45]Southsea Shakedown and start killing Pirates!
Clear your way south toward the main camp with the 3 houses, 2 ships ashore and the boat under construction.

3. Andre Firebeard spawns at the campfire right in the center of the camp. He has 3 Dock Workers close to him but you can pull those 3 without him if you pull the back one, then you have Andre solo. Or you can burn him down fast and run away (or take on all of them :p^^). Anyway, this place is usually crowded because it is a good grinding spot, so you shouldn't have trouble getting help to kill Andre Firebeard if needed.
Then go inside the first house to the right when entering the camp. You might get pulls of 3 at a time inside the house, you will maybe have to use the "Kill one and run away" tactic to get to the top floor of the house if you can't take 3 at a time. On the top floor are crates, click them to get Stoley's Shipment.

Then keep on killing pirates until you complete Southsea Shakedown and Pirate Hats Ahoy!

Bonus: There is a rare spawn named Kregg Keelhaul on the boats ashore. Check for it.

If you find a Captain's Key off one of the pirates, the chest is at the bottom level of the ship which is the most to the east. Another thing, while killing pirates by the dozen you might find a pirate footlocker on one of them (1% chance to drop approximately). In the footlocker you might find a note named "Ship Schedule" (You might also find the Captain's Key inside the locker), right click it to start the quest [45]Ship Schedules, which you turn in in Steamwheedle Port for extra XP. However, you might be unlucky and never get a footlocker, so don't worry if you miss it, it's optional.

4. When done, get out of Rigger Cove and go north to Steamwheedle Port.

Turn in:

[45] Andre Firebeard
[45] Southsea Shakedown
[45] Stoley's Shipment
and get the follow up [45] Deliver to MacKinley
[45] Pirate Hats Ahoy!
[44] Screecher Spirits
and get the follow up [47] The Prophecy of Mosh'Aru (Dungeon)

5. Hearthstone to Gadgetzan and turn in:

[44]More Wastewander Justice
[46]WANTED: Caliph Scorpidsting

Also turn in any stacks of 5 Wastewander Water Pouch at Spigot Operator Luglunket (he has a blue question mark overhead)

End of XP Circuit:

Sell, repair, restock food/drink (4 stacks).

==Note== Now would be a good time to get a group and do Zul'Farrak. Most importantly to finish the quest [47] The Prophecy of Mosh'aru. If you do, go back to Yeh'kinya at Steamwheedle Port and turn it in, get the follow up [50] The Ancient Egg. All of this is however, optional. You don't have to do the instance. But it's a nice exp bonus and it can be great fun. Anyway, when you're done, go back to Gadgetzan.

In Gadgetzan, get the quests:

  • [46]Gadgetzan Water Survey from Senior Surveyor Fizzledowser (he's on a mound of earth behind the houses on the west side of Gadgetzan)
  • [49]The Thirsty Goblin from Maren Noggenfogger
  • [49]The Dunemaul Compound from Andi Lynn (behind the Inn)
  • [50]Thistleshrub Valley from Tran'Rek

Start of XP Circuit (without the optional step):

1. Ride west to the pool of water by the Sandsorrow watch (38,29). Stand by the western tip of the pool and get full health/mana. Search your bag for a black vial named "Untapped Dowsing Widget" and right click it. Two level 48 insects will pop and attack you, kill them or run away from them. It doesn't matter.

2. Go east back to Gadgetzan. Talk to Senior Survery Fizzledowser and get the follow up [47]Noxious Lair Investigation.

You should be level 48 by now or close.

Level 48


3. Go south to the area named "Broken Pillar" (52,45) and talk to Marvon Rivetseeker. Turn in [51]The Sunken Temple and get the follow up [51]The Stone Circle. Also get [48]Gahz'ridian.

4. Go west / southwest to the Dunemaul Compound and clear a path to the cave there (40,56). In that cave you'll find Gor'marok the Ravager, kill him.

5. Go southeast to the Eastmoon Ruins (48,64) (yes, even if you didn't finish [49]The Dunemaul Compound yet.) Start killing ogres there and look on the floor for Gahz'Ridian pieces. They look like white upside down plates. Kill ogres in that camp until you got 30 Gahz'Ridian Ornament. If it's too crowded, there is another camp similar to this one further to the southwest named "Southmoon Ruin" (41,72). When you got 30 Gahz'Ridian ornaments you should also be done with [49]The Dunemaul Compound. If not, kill some more ogres!

6. Optional: If you went to Uldaman and did the quest [47]The Platinum Discs, go southwest to Uldum (38,79). The Dune Smashers have a small aggro range, you can hug the left wall and reach the Stone Watcher of Norgannon, just be careful of the one roamer. The Stone Watcher of Norgannon is at (37,81). Click the Uldum Pedestal under him and get the follow up, then talk to the Stone Watcher of Norgannon who just appeared on the pedestal. Go through his dialogue and you will complete the follow up. Then click the Uldum pedestal again, complete the quest and get the follow up [50]Return to Thunder Bluff.

7. Go west (northwest if you went to Uldaman) to Thistleshrub Valley (28,67). Kill Gnarled Thistleshrubs and Thistleshrub Rootshapers until you get 8 kills of each. Also kill Thistleshrub Dew Collectors until a Laden Dew Gland drops (rare drop).

8. Go north to the Noxious Lair (31,51). Kill Centipaars there, Stingers, Wasps, Tunnelers.. until you get 5 Centipaar Insect Parts.

9. Ride east to Broken Pillar and talk to Marvon Rivetseeker, turn in [48]Gahz'ridian.

10. Hearthstone back to Gadgetzan.

In Gadgetzan turn in:

  • [49] The Thirsty Goblin at Marin Noggenfogger, get the follow up [49] In Good Taste.
  • [49] The Dunemaul Compound at Andi Lynn
  • [50] Thistleshrub Valley at Trank'Rek
  • [49] In Good Taste at Sprinkle, get the follow up [49] Sprinkle's Secret Ingredient
  • [47] Noxious Lair Investigation at Alchemist Pestlezugg

Get the quest:
[48]The Scrimshank Redemption from Senior Surveyor Fizzledowser.

End of XP Circuit:

==Note== This circuit should have yielded much better results, because I got slowed down a lot at the ogre camps and in thistleshrub valley, which were both extremely crowded.

If you didn't do the Uldaman instance, skip to the next paragraph. If you did Uldaman, fly to Thunder Bluff. Go to the Elder Rise and find Nara Wildmane, turn in [50] Return to Thunder Bluff, get the follow up [50] A Future Task. Now find Sage Truthseeker (35,48), he is on the Lower Rise, directly west of the wyvern tower. Turn in the quest.

Fly to Orgrimmar, sell, repair, restock consumables.
Visit your class trainer.

Go to the Darkbriar Lodge, find Uthel'nay, a troll standing inside the mage building and turn in [47]The Gordunni Orb.

Go to the drag, take the stairs to the left immediately after entering the drag and keep going until you see a yellow question mark on your minimap, go there to turn in your quest [48]Zukk'ash Report.

While you are in the drag, go find Dran Droffers, he is in the house named "Droffers and Son Salvage", which is close to the path to the Valley of Honor. Get the quest [48]Rippled Recovery from Dran Droffers, turn it in at Malton Droffers and get the follow up [48]Rippled Recovery.

Go to the Valley of Honor, find Belgrom Rockmaul (75,34), he's standing infront of the battleground masters' building. Turn in [45]A Grim Discovery.

Leave Orgrimmar, take the Zeppelin to the Undercity.

In the Undercity go to the Magic Quarter, find Oran Snakewrithe, she stands next to some bookshelves close to the inner circle of the Undercity (73,33). Get the quest [47]Lines of Communication.

Fly to Tarren Mill, Hillsbrad Foothills.

Ride southeast to the pass which leads to the Hinterlands (84,32).

Ride northeast to enter the Hinterlands.

1. Our first stop is Shindigger's Camp. To access it, you must go directly east of Aerie Peak, follow a small path while staying close to the mountain to your left, just be careful not to aggro the Aerie Peak guards. You will find Shindigger's camp at (26,48).
Talk to Gilveradin Sunchaser and get the follow up [48]A Sticky Situation.

Ride south to get off the cliff, then east. Whenever you find an owlbeast on your path, kill it, loot it then target the corpse and right click the Wildkin Muisek Vessel, which you should have in your inventory, put it on a hotbar.
Keep going east while doing that. You can stop once you have 10 Wildkin Muisek.

2. Mount up and go east/northeast, along the river until you reach the waterfall named The Overlook Cliffs (79,48).
Aim for the water down there and jump, you won't take any falling damage if you hit the water first. Dive and look for Cortello's Chest at the bottom of the sea, close to where the waterfall hits the bottom.

Click it and turn in the quest for 8800 xp and a 14-Slot bag.

3. Swim south and get back on dry land. Ride south along the shore. and keep going until you find Revantusk Village (77,77).

Get ALL quests beside [51] Wanted: Vile Priestess Hexx and Her Minions, [51] Job Opening: Guard Captain of Revantusk Village, [50] Separation Anxiety, [51] Kidnapped Elder Torntusk! and [50] Dark Vessels.

Get the flight path at the end of the pier.
Sell and repair, restock food/drink (4 stacks, very long circuit)

Start of XP Circuit:

1. Go north of Revantusk Village, kill Saltwater Snapjaws, 15 of them. At the same time look for Gammerita, a level 48 named turtle that roams the shore. Kill her as well.

2. Go up the path at (77,61).

3. Once you are up, go north towards Shaol'watha (73,54).

** Kill any silvermane stalker - they are stealthed - and silvermane howler you find on your way from now on. To find the stalkers easily, I suggest to turn the sound on, you should hear the stealth sound effect everytime a wolf is nearby, then use the tab key while looking around to find it. **

At Shaol'watha, look around in the ruins to find Slagtree's Lost Tools. They look like this

They can spawn at various locations though, so if you don't find them, move on, we'll find them in the other camps.

4. Kill all the trolls you find in and around the wooden bunker just slightly north of Shaol'watha.
There's another bunker just northwest of this one, go there and clear it.

5. Southwest of that bunker is a forest area (60,50) with 3 types of monsters we need to kill:

- Savage Owlbeasts
- Silvermane Stalkers
- Razorbeak Skylord (kinda rare)

Kill everything in a wide radius in that area. If you run out of things to kill, move on to the next step, we'll come back later to that "forest area".

6. Go north to Skulk Rock (58,43). Clear the slimes and go to the top of this mound, look amongst the ruins for Slagtree's Lost Tools. Don't worry if it's not there, we'll check the other areas.

7. West of Skulk Rock you should find another of those wooden bunkers (54,40), clear it.

8. Go west to Agol'watha (46,40), clear the Oozes and look for Horde Supply Crates.

Keep doing this until you have 10 Hinterlands Honey Ripples. One of the crates can sometimes be found outside ot the ruins by the lake.
Also look for Slagtree's Lost Tools if you don't have them already. They should be by one of the abandoned huts. If you don't find them here it means you must have missed them, so you will have to check the other camps - Shaol'watha and Skulk Rock - again when you get close to them later on.

You should be level 49 or close by now.


Level 49


9. Go west to Quel'danil lodge (34,48), make sure you kill any Silvermane Howler that crosses your path.
Don't enter the lodge yet, go behind it to the western corner of it. Kill every Highvale on your way. Next to a well you should find the Highvale Notes (30,49).

Right-click them once to burn them.

North of the well, under a gazebo structure you should find the Highvale Report (29,46), burn it.
Now go to the lodge, enter by the main gate. Clear the way to the end of the eastern wing, and you should find the Highvale Records on the floor next to some barrels (32,47). Burn them.

Inside the lodge you should also find a caged troll with a quest, Rin'ji. Before you take his quest - which is an escort quest - clear as much as possible and as fast as possible in front of the lodge. Get full HP/Mana, make sure your long cooldowns are up, then start the quest.
Note: Rin'ji doesn't tank too bad and you can heal him.

After Rin'ji passes the arch right outside the lodge, he'll get ambushed by 3 elves. This shouldn't be a problem if you cleared the area before starting the quest. Let Rin'ji tank one of the 3 elves and take out the 2 others fast.
Then comes the harder part, Rin'ji will go through the woods and at some point 3 other elves will attack him, however this time you'll most likely have one or two adds, an owlbeast or a wolf.
This is when you use all your cooldowns. Let Rin'ji tank one and kill the rest as fast as you can.
After that, Rin'ji will walk to the road and you should get a quest complete message.

Go back to Quel'danil Lodge and kill all the elves you still need to complete [48]Message to the Wildhammer.

10. Go turn in the quest [48]A Sticky Situation at Shindigger's camp (27,48), the only way to get there is through that path you took earlier, east of Aerie Peak. Get the follow up [48]Ripple Delivery.

11. Ride southeast to Valorwind Lake (40,61). Dive down and look for a mushroom named "Violet Tragan". Righ-click it and loot it. Warning: Don't eat the violet tragan, let it in your bag.

12. Go southeast to the Altar of Zul (48,67), kill every troll in the area, but avoid the top of the Altar, there are 2 level 50 mobs you might not be able to handle. Stay in this area until you have 10 Vilebranch Soothsayer kills (we'll get the Scalper kills elsewhere).

13. Go northeast, kill any Silvermane Howler on your way, you should find plenty in this area. So stick around and kill stuff in this area till you have 10 silvermane howler kills.

14. Go further northeast to the "forest area". Kill any Savage Owlbeasts, Silvermane Stalkers and Razorbeak Skylord you find.

15. When the "forest area" is clear, go northeast to the troll bunkers of Shaol'watha (65,45), it does NOT matter at this point if you still miss some Savage Owlbeasts / Silvermane Stalkers kills or if you still lack the Skylord Plume from Razorbeak Skylords. We will kill more when we come back to the "forest area" again.
Clear both bunkers, you should be done or almost done with the 15 Vilebranch Scalper kills. If you're not done just go back and forth to the "forest area" and the bunkers until you got 15 scalper kills.

At this point, you should be done with all the Hinterlands quest besides (maybe)[48]Hunt the Savages, (maybe) [48]Stalker the Stalkers and [49]Lard Lost his Lunch. We will finish those three in the next circuit.

16. Ride to the Waterfall (80,48) and jump down into the water.

17. Swim northeast to an island with a few trees on it (84,41). Somewhere on the island you should find Lard's Picnic Basket.

When you click the basket, 2 level 49 trolls will spawn. You don't have to kill both, just one is enough, they can all drop Lard's Lunch. It's actually quite easy to get one solo. You just have to run away until 1 of them give up and then kill the 3rd. Levitate or water walking makes this easier of course, but its not necessary. Here is a short video of how I did it:

Lard's Lunch Video

==Note== It used to be 3 trolls back then, they've changed it down to 2 trolls, so the video is kinda irrelevent now, because most classes can just kill 2 trolls easily I suppose. I'll still let the video in for the fun factor and the memories!

18. Swim south back to the main land, after a little walk you should see another isle off shore, with a stone arch on top of it. Swim to that island (86,59). On top of that island you should find a big tablet labelled "Rin'ji'S Secret", righ-click it, turn in the quest and get the follow up [47]Rin'ji's Secret.

19. Swim back to the shore and ride to Revantusk Village.
Turn in all the quests and get all other quests available beside [48p] Another Message to the Wildhammer.

End of XP Circuit:

Sell, repair and restock consumables (3 stacks).

You should be level 50 by now or close (If you turned in the Silvermane Stalkers and the Owlbeast quest). If you are, fly to Undercity and zeppelin to Orgrimmar to train if you wish, then come back.

Start of XP Circuit:

Ride back up and go to the forest area again, kill the last remaining Silvermane Stalkers and Savage Owlbeasts you need.

At this point, you should have the OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon unless you are really unlucky - like I was on the rogue - so what you can do is grind for a while on the elves at the Quel'danil Lodge or on the trolls at the Alter of Zul, or anywhere you like in the Hinterlands. Any monster in the zone can drop the beacon, but it's a 1% chance. So if you really don't feel like grinding, don't bother and move on to the next part of the guide. However, keep in mind that if you finish the 3 distress beacon quests (Tanaris, Feralas and Hinterlands), a huge xp reward awaits you at the end.

If you got the Distress Beacon OOX-09/HL, go to the lake northwest of Skulk Rock and find the Homing robot there (49,37). Turn in the quest. Before you accept the rescue quest, here is what you must know:

1. This quest, unlike the Feralas one, is more likely to be done solo. It's still not a walk in the park of course. So if you got a partner to duo it, all the better for you.
2. Let the chicken run in front of you, let it get the first hit. If it's not getting hit, it won't fight back. Sometimes mobs are actually chasing the chicken and failing to get a hit on it, so they give up.
3. You'll have to face 2 ambushes of 3 mobs each, make sure you are full health/mana and with long cooldown abilities up when you start the escort. When the 3 ambushers attack, stand back until the chicken gets hit. Then let the chicken tank one of the 3 adds, deal with the 2 others as quick as you can, then help the chicken finish off the 3rd add.

One you have successfully escorted the robot chicken, go back to Revantusk Village. Turn in [48]Hunt the Savages and [48]Stalking the Stalkers.

This should make you ding level 50 if you weren’t level 50 already before.


Level 50


Repair and get ready for a semi-long circuit.

Mount up and ride to Jintha’Alor (66,64), using the passageway from before. Start killing everything on the way and clearing to the top of the temple. There is nothing you need on the first two floors, so skip as much as possible. On the third floor you’ll start to find the trolls you need for [51] Job Opening: Guard Captain of Revantusk Village (Vilebranch Berserkers), so kill as many as you can find while also searching for shimmering kettles called “Vessel of Tainted Blood” (Next to the Vilebranch Shadowcasters). Loot them and kill 10 Berserkers in total (so you don’t have to come back later). On the 4th floor you’ll find Vilebranch Shadowhunters, kill five of them and search for more vessels. Go up to the 5th floor and kill 5 Vilebranch Blood Drinkers (you should also be able to find some souleaters). On the left side of the stairs, you should see a pit with oozes. Fight your way through to the heart of the pit where you should see a pile of bones. Loot the pile.

Go further to the next stairs (you should be able to find a few more Blood Drinkers and Vessels). Go up to the next floor and go right (while getting the rest of the Blood Drinkers / Soul Eaters / Vessels you need) until you see an altar with a troll lying on it.

Don’t go down into the pit yet but go around it until you see a stone gate with a path leading to the other pair of stairs and a cave. Follow that way until the very end where you should see an area shielded by stone walls (there should be two more of those on your way). You should see wolves in there. Kill them and loot the pile of bones inside.

Go back to the big stone pit with the quest npc. Clear your way into the pit and check next to the altar, there should be Vile Pristress Hexx (If she isn’t there, she roamed into the cave but she’ll come back). Single pull and clear as many trolls in that altar area as possible. The priestess casts an annoying polymorph spell, which doesn't break on damage, so watch out for that, try to interrupt it and burn her down quick. When you are full mana pull the priestess. Kill her then turn in your quest at Elder Torntusk and get the follow up [51] Recover the Key!.

Now comes a rather difficult part, if you are confident that you can handle 3 mobs alone you can proceed solo, if you think you’d have difficulties, try to group up with someone. Go inside the tunnel behind the altar and fight your way through to the southernmost tip of the tunnel structure. There you should see Hitah’Ya the Keeper patrolling with two guards. Get full mana/hp. The trick here is to use crowd control (if you have, like ice trap, sheep, sap) and at the same time burn down Hitah’Ya as fast as possible (she has very little HP). Also pop your cooldown skills to burn down one of the guards as fast as possible. Once that is done you just need to deal with the other guard. Loot Hitah’Yah.

==Note== For those who have the quest [50] The Ancient Egg, don't forget to loot the egg, it is in the same room as Hitah'Yah. And go turn in the quest whenever you get close to Tanaris. The follow up is a Sunken Temple quest, which you should take if you plan to do this instance.

Go back to the altar.

Turn in [51] Recover the Key! at Elder Torntusk and get the follow up. Now time for a suicide run. Mount up and jump down from terraces to terraces, if you survive, great! If you die, that's great too! Just release your spirit and take the spirit raise. Go back to Raventusk Village.

Turn in all your quests (grats on the extremely fat loot).

Fly to the Undercity, go to the Magic Quarter and turn in the 2 following quests at Oran Snakewrithe:

[47]Lines of Communication
[47]Rin'ji's Secret

Another quest will be up, you can turn that one in right away too.

Hearthstone to Gadgetzan.

Turn in [49]Sprinkle's Secret Ingredient, get the follow up [49]Delivery for Marin. Turn it in at Marin Noggenfogger on the other side of the town. Take his follow up, wait 5 seconds and turn it in.

End of XP Circuit:

Now you'll be able to buy Noggenfogger Elixir from Marin as much as you want.


(Kudos to the original artist, whose name I don't know unfortunately)

Sell, repair, buy 3 stacks of food/drink.

Go south to the Gaping Chasm (56,61), clear yourself a path through the insects southwards until you find the entrance spiralling down at (55,70). Take the 2nd tunnel you see when going down the spiral, the one going north (55,69). Inside the tunnel at the first fork go right. Then go through the circular room. After the circular room at the first fork go right. You will enter a big square room. The Scrimshank's Surveying Gear (55,71) is at the western corner of the square room.

Loot it and then go back the way you came from, then go north until you are out of the Gaping Chasm.

If you don't have the Tanaris Distress Beacon, go back to Gadgetzan.

If you do have the Distress Beacon for Tanaris:

Go east and inside the mountain at (60,64). You will find the Homing Robot OOX-17/TN there. Turn in the quest. Get full health/mana, refresh buffs. Check if your long cooldown abilities are up. For some classes this will be hard to solo, so if you don't manage it better find someone to duo it with. If you don't manage that, just abandon the escort quest, it's optional anyway.

Things to know about this escort quest:

1. Let the chicken in front, let him get hit first. Sometimes mobs will aggro him but not manage to hit him while he walks and they will just give up.
2. The first part of the escort is the hardest as you will run into lvl 46-47 mobs. And at some point you will get an ambush of 3 level 46 scorpions. Use your long cooldown abilities there. After this, it gets easier.
3. Later on you will get a 2nd ambush, 3 humanoids lvl 42 (green). One will be a shadow mage though, kill it first.

Ride back to Gadgetzan, talk to Senior Surveyor Fizzledowser and get the follow up [48]Insect Part Analysis.

Go talk to Alchemist Pestlezugg, get the follow up and get back to Surveyor Fizzledowser. Turn in the quest and get the follow up [49]Rise of the Slithid.

You should be level 51 by now.

LEVEL 51 -- End of Chapter III

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Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Chapter IV (51-60)

Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Chapter IV (51-60)

Changelog

This is v2.0 of the guide. It has been revamped as mentioned in this news post to adapt to patch v2.3 changes. You can still find the old version of the guide here. At the same time, many other improvements have been made:

  • Introduction/Addons section has been updated
  • Kill everything on your way rule has been lifted unless you lack experience compared to the progress described in the guide
  • Grinding sessions removed and instances aren't part of the leveling process anymore (no dependancy on groups)
  • Quests that aren't elite anymore have been integrated
  • Maps have been remade and a lot of errors have been corrected
  • Leveling should be possible at a faster pace than before
  • The guide takes you beyond level 60 now, if you wish to finish old world content to have more Outlands quest left for gold making later on

Courtesy to Wowhead for some of the images!

Introduction

This guide starts at level 51. However I hope that you followed the previous chapters of my guide. Because a lot of pre-questing and flight path gathering is done in it and we will use them in this chapter. If you didn't, it's not that bad, just jump in the guide somewhere close to your level and ignore the quests you can't get, if you are sometimes behind in levels it's ok, you'll catch up eventually later, the guide is made that way. If you need guides for any other level range (from 1-51 for example) please take a look at this page.

This guide is made for FAST leveling through the use of Optimized Quest Circuits. With this guide, questing will be very efficient and you'll not waste any second running around and trying to figure out in which order to do your quests. Follow each instruction carefully and you will see for yourself. The quest choices and order to do them are optimal so that you run as few as possible while doing the most possible, turning several quests at the same time. It will be like grinding, because you'll be killing stuff almost non-stop, besides you'll also be completing a bunch of quests at the same time!

Everything described in this guide can be done solo (beside when I say otherwise). You can, of course, follow this guide while duoing, grouping, it's not a problem, it works too.

DISCLAIMER: This guide does NOT take into account tradeskills, class specific quests or PvP. It's 100% focused on getting the most experience possible in the shortest possible time while doing a lot of quests and enjoying as much content as possible. Any race/class combination can do this guide. Any complaints about PvP, tradeskills, or class specific issues will be ignored.


Basic rules

  • Spend your talent points so that you kill things as fast as possible. (e.g: Priest should specialize in Shadow Talents, Warriors in Arms/Fury, etc.

  • Don't waste your time trying to find groups for questing, you can solo everything that is described in this guide unless I say otherwise. Only group with someone when it's not gonna be a waste of time (e.g: meeting the person at the other end of the zone to show him the way to where your quest is, that is a waste of time)

  • Try to always log out in an inn or in one of the major cities when you take a break.

  • When I say you should make an inn your new home location, it's for a good reason, and it will save you much time.


Useful Addons

To get the most out of my guide, you should get an addon which displays coordinates, because I use them to describe locations in my guide (x,y). You can use any addon you like, but here's a very simple one I use.

Recommended

  • DMiniCoords - A simple box which displays coordinates, left-click it to move it where you like.

Optional

Below is a list of other addons I use, this is 100% optional though, it's mostly for people who are curious to know which addons I use:

Side Note: In case you don't know how to install add-ons, simply download an addon from one of the links above and unzip it. Then drag the unziped folder in your Addon folder (full path is c:\\Program Files\\World of Warcraft\\Interface\\Addons). Then, restart World of Warcraft and it should be working.

If it isn't working, you might need to log out to your character selection screen and click on "Addons" in the lower-left corner. Tick the box that says "Load out of date Addons". Re-launch WoW.


Shopping List

  • Level 51: 15x Silk Cloth (you only need this if you decide to do the optional circuit in Searing Gorge)
  • Level 55: Mithril Casing - Made by Engineers. Components are 3x Mithril Bars
  • Level 60: 2x Thorium Bars

These items might not always be available at the AH, so start checking early.


Color Code
  • Quests
  • Items
  • Locations
  • Quest objectives to kill
  • NPCs
  • Locs

The Guide

Level 51

Fly to Camp Mojache.

Sell, repair and restock food and drink (4 stacks).

Set your hearthstone to Camp Mojache.

Turn in [47]Testing the Vessel and get the follow up [47]Hyppogryph Muisek.

Also get:

  • [50]Dark Heart
  • [50]Vengeance on the Northspring
  • [52]The Strength of Corruption

from Talo Thornhoof, who is in a house close to the eastern exit of Camp Mojache.

1. Ride west, stay on the road till after the first stone bridge, then go southwest, past the yeti cave and you should soon encounter some hippogryphs (56,62). Kill 10 of them and use the Hippogryph Muisek Vessel on their corpses after having looted them. Check the status of the quest [50]Natural Materials, and if needed, stay in this area and kill hippogryphs until you have 20 Resilient Sinews and 33/40 Metallic Fragments (we'll get the 7 last one off giants soon).

2. Once you have harvested 10 Hippogryph Muiseks, go to the yeti cave and do the Distress Beacon escort if you haven't done it already. Read the tips I gave in the previous guide (level 46) before you start the quest. If you still don't have the Feralas distress beacon, don't worry, we still have quite a lot to do in Feralas so it will most likely drop before we leave the zone. Proceed with the next paragraph.

3. Get back on the road and ride westwards till you reach the shore. Next to the pier you should find a goblin named Zorbin Fandazlle (45,44). Get his 2 quests: [48]Fuel for the Zapping and [48]Zapped Giants.

==Note== The Zapper you get for this quest has a 2 hour duration only. So if you log off now or during the quest, you'll have to abandon it (and lose the residues you already worked for) to re-take the quest and get a new zapper. Simply put: If you start this quest, do it in one session.

4. Go south along the shore and start killing water elementals. Look for giants as well, they are elite but if you use the Zorbin's Zapper on them they become totally manageable. Keep killing elementals and giants until you got 15 Miniaturization Residue and 10 Water Elemental Core.
Once finished, go turn in your quest at Zorbin Fandazzle. Don't get the follow ups.

5. Hearthstone to Camp Mojache.
Turn in [47]Hippogryph Muisek, get the follow up [45]Faerie Dragon Muisek.

6. Ride west to the Sprite Darters area (70,47), kill them and use the Faerie Dragon Muisek Vessel on their corpses after having looted them. Do that 8 times.

7. Ride back to Camp Mojache. Turn in [45]Faerie Dragon Muisek, get the follow up [50]Treant Muisek.

8. Ride southwest to the alpha gnoll camps (71,57). Kill the gnolls in the area while waiting for a Wandering Forest Walker to pass by. They are level 45ish and non-agressive treants. One should pass by every 5 min, so just grind on gnolls while waiting. Kill 3 of those treants and use the Treant Muisek Vessel on their corpses after having looted them.

9. Ride back to Camp Mojache, turn in [50]Treant Muisek and get the follow up [50]Mountain Giant Muisek (elite).

Sell, repair and restock food/drink (4 stacks).

1. Ride west, follow the road, make a stop by the yeti cave if you got the distress beacon recently and escort the robot chicken. If you can't - or already have done - the chicken escort, follow the road west until you reach the shore at the total opposite side of the map, where Zorbin Fandazzle is (45,44). Get his quest [55]Again with the Zapped Giants.

2. Get back on the road and ride north.Follow the road until you are exactly where "The Twin Colossals" is written on the world map. Go directly west and soon you should find Gregan Brewspewer, who is a dwarf standing next to a small white tent (45,25).

From Gregan's camp, go northwest until you encounter some Cliff Giants/Land Walkers (40,22). Use your Zorbin's Ultra-Shrinker on them, kill them and loot them, then use the Giant Muisek Vessel on their corpses.

Stay in this area and do this 7 times. You can destroy the miniature residue, the Zapper and abandon the quest [55]Again with the Zapped Giants, it's just 500 exp and the long ride isn't worth it. We just took the quest because we needed the Zapper.

Note: Also kill the treants passing by if you still lack Splintered Logs for the quest [50]Natural Materials.

3. Ride southeast to the yeti cave (51,32). Kill Rage Scar Yetis until you get 10 Rage Scar Yeti Hide and a Perfect Yeti Hide (rare drop). When you get the Perfect Hide, right click it and get the quest [48]Perfect Yeti Hide.

4. Get back on the road and go north, past the twin colossals, then turn west to the Ruins of Ravenwind (41,12). Time to kill some harpies, kill everything in the ruins until you have completed [50]Vengeance on the Northspring and have found a Horn of Hate, which can drop from any harpy.

5. Once you have done that, go to the northernmost part of the ruins, you should find two identical stones at (40,8 ).

We're about to summon a level 50 harpy. When you are ready, go in between the two stones at (40,8 ) and blow the Horn of Hate. Wait about 20 seconds and she should appear in between the two stones.
Once she's dead, loot Edana's Dark Heart off her. If you got the distress beacon and still haven't done the chicken escort quest, go do it now.

6. Hearthstone or ride back to Camp Mojache.

In Camp Mojache, turn in the following quests:

  • [50]Mountain Giant Muisek
  • [50]Natural Materials, take the follow up [50]Weapons of Spirit, wait 20 seconds for witch doctor Uzer'i to do his script then turn in [50]Weapons of Spirit.
  • [48]Improved Quality
  • [48]Perfect Yeti Hide
  • [50]Vengeance on the Northspring
  • [50]Dark Heart

Fly to Orgrimmar.

Set your hearthstone here.

In Orgrimmar go to the Valley of Spirits and find Uthel'nay (check your minimap for a yellow question mark), turn in [47]The Gordunni Orb.

Optional: While you are at Uthel'nay, take the quest [42]Shadowshard fragments, if you intend to go to Maraudon in the future.

Ride to the drag, go up the stairs to the left immediately after entering it, keep going until you see a yellow question mark showing where Zilzibin Drumlore is. Turn in the quest [48]Rise of the Silithid. Get the other quest [53]March of the Silithid.

Go to Dran Droffers just northeast of Zilzibin, also in The Drag, turn in [48]Ripple Delivery.

Finally ride to the Valley of Honor and find Belgrom Rockmaul, in front of the Warrior's Guild. Turn in [45]A Grim Discovery. Get his other quest: [53]Betrayed.

This should make you ding 52 or you should be close.


Level 52


Sell, repair, visit your class trainer, restock consumables (4 stacks of food/drink).

If you are planning to go to Searing Gorge (optional circuit, read more about that in a bit) buy 15 silk cloth if you don't have that on you already.

When you're ready to go again, fly to Ratchet. Take the boat to Booty Bay.

In Booty Bay turn in the [45]Deliver to MacKinley at "Sea Wolf" MacKinley (close to the inn) and all the Rescue OOX-22 quests you completed at Oglethorpe Obnoticus (2nd house to the right of the forge), if you completed any, that is.

If you completed all 3 rescues you get and extra quest [50]An OOX of your own. You'll get another of those useless pets and 10 200 exp as well! Which is why going through the pain of doing those 3 escort quests is in the end worth it.

You should have the following quests:

  • [52] The Strength of Corruption
  • [53] Betrayed
  • [53] March of the Silithid
  • [51] The Stone Circle

Note: Even if you don’t want to do the optional circuit, still get the Thorium Point flight pass, it will save you time in the future.

== OPTIONAL CIRCUIT ==

This circuit includes all the quests of Thorium Point and Searing Gorge, which I decided to make optional for the following reasons :

  • Searing Gorge and Thorium Point quest objectives appear to be heavily camped since patch v2.3. I’m not sure if this is a temporary phenomenon, but the entire circuit wasn’t doable for me because of too many people trying to do the same quests at the same time (for 3 consecutive days). So if this is the case on your server as well, don’t worry, just skip this circuit.
  • Experience wise, if you are at level 52 when you start this guide you don’t need the circuit (it’s already starting to get low level). However you might still want to do it for certain quest rewards and faction, the choice is up to you. If you do it however, you’ll have to skip quests elsewhere.
  • An optional circuit can be a great thing for people who are only level 50/51 and who didn’t follow Jame’s Horde Leveling guide before. This way you have a platform to jump into the guide and to catch up experience wise without grinding.

The circuit :

In short (if you already know the way): Go to Searing Gorge.
In detail: Fly to Kargath, then go south/southwest and you will find the entrance to the Searing Gorge on the western end of the Badlands at (3,61).

Start of XP Circuit:

Inside Searing Gorge:

Follow the trail north and then west around the area named "The Cauldron" and find Kalaran Windblade (38,39). Get the quest [48] Divine Retribution then talk to Kalaran again and go through his dialogue. Turn in the quest and get the follow up [48] The Flawless Flame.

Go a bit further west and you should find a path going up the mountain to Thorium Point (32,33).

In Thorium Point, get the flight path.

Then find a "wanted poster" at (37,26). Right click it and get the quests:

  • [48] JOB OPPORTUNITY: Culling the Competition
  • [48] STOLEN: Smithing Tuyere and Lookout's Spyglass
  • [50] WANTED: Overseer Maltorius (Elite)
Get the 3 quests from Hansel Heavyhands:
  • [49] Incendosaurs? Whateverosaur is More like It.
  • [49] Curse These Fat Fingers
  • [49] Fiery Menace! and [50] What the Flux? from Master Smith Burninate.

Note: If you ever need to sell and repair, you should go to this NPC.

1. First, go south where you'll find a big wheel (its part of a dark iron dwarven forge) and kill all the Dark Iron Steamsmith you find there (39,50), there should be 5 or 6 around here.

Hopefully one of them will drop the smithing tuyere you need. If not, lets just go on, we'll come back here later.

2. Start heading east and kill any elemental or Heavy War Golem you find on the way. Also kill Dark Iron Taskmasters and Dark Iron Slavers on your way. Don't wait for respawns, just kill them while going east. At (59,35) mount up and ride southeast to Grimesilt Dig site and find a little wooden house at (65,62) behind the dig site, which actually looks like some public toilet. Right click it and get the quest [45] Caught!.

Start killing the Dark Iron dwarves in the camp as well as the golems around here. After you have killed 8 Dark Iron Gelologists and got 15 silk cloth (if you don't have them, kill more of those dwarves, they drop silk cloth), go back to the Wooden Outhouse and turn in the quest, don't get the follow up though.

3. Ride north to the entrance of The Cauldron (63,38). Inside the Cauldron, kill all the Dark Iron dwarves and Elementals you find. The Blazing Elementals and the Magma Elementals drop the Hearts of Flame you need. Also kill any Heavy War Golem you find.

Note: If while killing dwarves you find a "Grimsite Outhouse Key", right click it to start the quest [47] The Key to Freedom, we will turn it in later on.

4. Progress westwards inside the Cauldron until you find an iron slope going up at (46,53). Follow this slope until you find an entrance to the Slag Pit at (41,54).

Inside the Slag Pit go across the bridge, on your left will be the Quarry Gate, go through it.

Work your way northwards until a bigger room where you'll find Enslaved Archeologists and a big 52 Elite elite golem lying down (ignore it). Go up the iron slope, midway on the slope you have 2 options, straight or left. Go straight. You'll soon enter a room with several pairs of taskmasters and slavers.

In this room further in and to the right you'll find Overseer Maltorius and 1 Dark Iron Sentry. Kill them and loot the Head of Overseer Maltorius.

Behind them you can find Secret Plans: Fiery Flux. Loot them.

From the same big room, go over the iron bridge which is on the opposite side of Overseer Maltorius. On the other side of the bridge, jump down to the lower floor at the drop off spot indicated on the map. From this spot go east and you should find Incendosaurs, kill 20 of them.

5. When done with that, go back up the ramp and then get out of the Slag Pit, jump down back into the Cauldron and work your way westwards looking for Blazing Elementals until you get 4 Heart of Flame.

6. Then go to the iron slope you took previously at (46,53) Follow this slope but this time skip the first entrance to the Slag Pit, and get on the elevator (40,54). The elevator will stop at the 1st floor and 2nd floor but don't get off. Wait until it's on the 3rd floor from there you can get out of the Cauldron.

Kill every Steamsmith you find around the buildings infront and to the left of you after getting off the elevator (39,50). There is 5 Steamsmiths at this spot, pray that one of them drops a smithing Tuyere. If not don't worry, we'll kill more of these later.

7. Kill every Heavy War Golem around and go north to Karalan Windblade (39,38). Turn in the quest and get the follow up [48] Forging the Shaft

8. Go to Thorium Point and turn in the quests you have completed. When turning in [50] What the Flux?, Master Smith Burninate will open 3 new quests to you, but they are just to work on Thorium Brotherhood faction, so don't bother unless you care about this faction.

9. Sell and repair, then go south to the big dwarven forge/wheel (39,50) and kill Dark Iron Steamsmiths again.

10. Then go west and then south, basically staying close to the cauldron but never going down in it. Kill every dwarf and golem on your way. Basically make circles around the cauldron.

11. Also make sure you kill any Greater Lava Spider on sight.
There is alot of them in an area west of the Cauldron (28,47).

12. While doing circles around the Cauldron, make sure you kill the Dark Iron Lookouts you can find at the feet of each of the 4 watch towers. They drop the spyglass you need for one of the quests.

13. Anyway, as soon as you got 8 Thorium Plated Daggers, go back to Kalaran Windblade, even if you didn't finish the other quests yet.

Note: The Thorium Plated Daggers can drop on any Dark Iron Dwarf, it generally takes me a full turn around the Cauldron to get 8 of them.

Turn in the quest at Kalaran Windblade and get the follow up [50] The Flame's Casing

14. Go kill the 5 Dark Iron Steamsmiths again before you go, if you haven't got the Smithing Tuyere yet.

15. Go west to the Twilight Camp at (24,34). Now all that is left for you to do is kill Twilight mobs (any of them) until you get aSymbol of Ragnaros

16. When you got this item, you can go back to Kalaran Windblade. You can also go to Thorium Point for a quick sell/repair if necessary.

Turn in your quest at Kalaran Windblade and get the follow up [50] The Torch of Retribution.

Turn it in, watch him craft the torch, then get the quest [50] The Torch of Retribution.

Right click the stick surrounded by a green aura, complete the quest. Talk to Kalaran again, get the quest [50] Squire Maltrake.

Turn in the quest at Squire Maltrake and get the follow up [52] Set Them Ablaze!

1. Go southwest to the first watch tower (33,52). Don't forget to kill any mob you might still need on the way (golem, spider, dark iron steamsmith or lookout)

When you are at the 1st watch tower, clear any mobs guarding it, then search the Torch of Retribution in your inventory, equip it, and put it on a hotkey.

Search for a small bowl on the floor named "Sentry Brazier" and right-click it.

It will be instantly lit.

2. Do exactly the same thing on the 2nd tower (35,59).

3. Then the 3rd tower (43,63)

4. And the 4th tower, which is accessible only through a bridge at (52,57).

Note: The 4th tower is the one with the most Dark Iron Lookouts, in case you didn't get a Lookout's Spyglass.

5. After you are done setting the 4th tower ablaze, go east to the Grimsite Dig Camp and go turn in [47] The Key to Freedom at the wooden outhouse.

6. Go back to Squire Maltrake (38,39), turn in the quest and watch Kalaran transform into a dragon, make his speech and then he'll fly away. Right click the treasure chest named "Hoard of the Black Dragonflight" next to where he was, accept the quest [50] Trinkets...
Then click the chest again and complete the quest. Look in your inventory for the red box named Hoard of the Black Dragonflight, open it and loot what's inside of it (especially the Molt, which you will need later on for a quest)

You don't need the Torch of Retribution anymore, you can destroy it or bank it.

Now there's only one thing left for you to do: finish all the quests that you haven't finished yet, and you already should know where all the mobs you need are. Once you have completed all these quests, go back to Thorium Point and turn them in.

== END OF OPTIONAL CIRCUIT ==



Hearthstone/travel back to Orgrimmar, right after hearthstoning, get the quest [50]Assisting Arch Druid Runetotem from the innkeeper.

Go to "The Drag" and find Jes'rimon, he's at the top floor of the alchemy building (55,34). Get his quest [52]Bone-Bladed Weapons.

Sell, repair, restock consumables (if needed).

Fly to Thunder Bluff.
In Thunder Bluff, go to the Elder Rise and talk to Hamuul Runetotem, get the follow up [50]Un'goro Soil.

Fly to Gadgetzan.
In Gadgetzan turn in [53]March of the Silithid and get the follow up [53]Bungle in the Jungle. Also get [54] Super Sticky from Tran'rek.

Ride southwest to the slope going down to Ungoro Crater (27,57).

Start of XP Circuit:

1. Go down the slope and find Torwa Pathfinder to the right up a small hill (71,75). Get the 2 quests:

  • [53] The Fare of Lar'korwi
  • [55] The Apes of Un'Goro

**From now on, while in Ungoro Crater look around for crystals. There is 4 types of crystals:

Red, Blue, Yellow and Green crystals. Loot them anytime you see them until you got 7 of each color. Also look for Ungoro Dirt Piles and loot the Un'goro soil from them. Un'goro soil also drops fairly often from most creatures in Un'goro crater, you should try to have at least about 50 Ungoro Soil before we leave Un'goro, because we will need extra soils for 2 other quests which will require you to transmuate Un'goro soils into Morrowgrain.**

**Kill every dinosaur you find on your way**

2. Go northwest until you find "A Wrecked Raft" at (63,68). Right click it and accept the quest [52] It's a Secret to Everybody.
Take a dive right next to where the wrecked raft is and look underwater for yellow bag called "A Small Pack". Click it, turn in and get the follow up. You should receive a small pack in your inventory but don't open it for now, it will save you some bagspace.

3. Go northeast from here until (68,56), where you will find a big dinosaur carcass on the floor. Right click it to get the Piece of Threshadon Carcass.

The cog will be grey at most parts of the Threshadon's Carcass. The only spot where you can get the yellow cog and loot the flesh is at the base of the neck, and only on the east side of the carcass. Once you have your "Piece of Threshadon Carcass", go back to Torwa Pathfinder, turn in the quest and get the follow up [53] The Scent of Lar'korwi.

4. Go west back into the Marshlands until you find some purple eggs on the floor (67,73). Clear the ravasaurs around it, then step up on the egg pile, a Lar'korwi mate should appear and attack you, kill her and loot the Ravasaur Pheromone Gland (75% drop rate). Then go to the next pile of eggs north of this one (66,67), do the same thing. Go back and forth between these 2 egg piles until you got 2 Glands. Go back to Torwa Pathfinder and turn in the quest, don't get the follow up. We'll come back later for it.

Go back to the area with the Ravasaurs and kill them until you complete the following objectives:

  • Gather 7 Power Crystals of each color. If you only miss these, you can also finish gathering them on the way to Marshall’s Refuge.
  • Gather 8 White Ravasaur Claws
  • Find a Mangled Journal, which is a rare drop from those Ravasaurs. Right click the journal and get the quest [50] Williden's Journal.

5. Ride north then northwest to Marshall's Refuge (46,13).

Get the following quests:

  • [52] Chasing A-Me 01
  • [51] Shizzle's Flyer from Shizzle
  • [52] Larion and Muigin from Larion
  • [55] Beware of Pterrordax from the Wanted Poster next to Spraggle Frock.
  • [51] Roll the Bones from Spark Nilminer.

Turn in [50] Williden's Journal and get [53] Expedition Salvation from Williden Marshal and [52] Alien Ecology from Hol'Anyee Marshal.

Open the "small pack" in your inventory and loot all the items from it, then turn in [52] It's a Secret to Everybody at Linken (he's inside a tree trunk south of Williden Marshal), get the follow up [52] It's a secret to everybody. You can destroy the throwing daggers and the faded photograph from your inventory.

Go inside the cave at Marshall's Refuge and go to the end of it where you'll find a little gnome named J.D. Collie.

Get her quest [53] Crystals of Power and turn it in. Then get the 3 follow up quests she gives you:

  • [53] The Eastern Pylon
  • [53] The Northern Pylon
  • [53] The Western Pylon

End of XP Circuit:

Get out of the cave and get the new flight path.

Sell, repair, buy food/drink up to 4 stacks.

Start of XP Circuit:

Get out of Marshall's Refuge and ride east along the wall until (54,13). At this spot go up the mountain and you should find the Northern Crystal Pylon. Click it, and examine it, you should get a "quest complete" message.
Further north of the crystal you should find some Pterrordax (3 of them normally), kill them.

**From this point on, kill the following mobs on sight:

  • Bloodpetals of any kind (those walking flowers)
  • Pterrordaxes
  • Diametradons

And also beware of the Tyrant Devilsaurs, there is a few of them roaming in Un'Goro. They are lvl 55ish elite, run fast and hit hard. So watch your back.**

6. Go east to Fungal Rock. You should find plenty of apes there outside and inside the cave.
Kill apes there until you get 2 un'goro gorilla, stomper and thunderer pelts. Inside the ape cave at the first fork go right until you find A-Me 01, turn in the quest but don't get the follow up.

Be careful when fighting the Un'Goro Gorillas, they call for help when they get low health, and any other ape in a rather wide range will come to help. So, fight them away from other apes.

7. Go south until you find 3 black pools with Tar Creepers and Tar Beasts around them (60,26). Clear these 3 pools until you have 12 Super Sticky Tar (drop rate is about 25% per kill)

8. Go southeast until the Expedition Encampment (68,36) and loot the Crate of Foodstuffs.

9. Go southeast until you find the Eastern Crystal Pylon (76,48). Click it and examine it.

Go south to Torwa Pathfinder (71,75) and turn in [55] The Apes of Un'Goro, don't get the follow up.

10. Go west to the Slithering Scar and clear yourself a path to the bug lair entrance at (50,76). Inside the bug lair at the first fork go left, clear the circular room and then stand in the middle of it, look in your inventory for a black vial named "Scraping Vial" and click it. If it doesn't work try different spots in this room until you get a Hive Wall Sample.

At this point you might already have gotten a Gorishi Scent Gland. If you didn't, keep on killing these bugs until one drops. It can drop from any of the bugs, inside or outside the lair, it doesn't matter.

11. Go directly south of the bug lair and up the mountain (50,88). You should find 2 Pterrordax there, kill them.

A bit further to the west you should find another of those spots up the mountains with 4 or 5 Pterrordax there (44,87), kill them. Stay at this spot until you get your 10 Pterrodax kills, you can kill some bugs while waiting on respawns.

12. Then get on your mount and ride to the Expedition Camp at (38,66), try to avoid the aggros as much as possible because most mobs are too tough for you here. At the Expedition Camp, look for a pile of crates named "Research Equipment" and loot them. Then go northwest, run away from any aggro if you have to, the lake is pretty safe so I suggest you just swim through it.

13. Go northwest until you reach the big rock on the other side of the lake. Behind this rock you 'll find a little goblin named Krakle, get his quest quickly [55] Find the Source. (Quickly because a Devilsaur roams at this place every now and then. Sticking out tongue)

14. Go directly west and a bit to the south and you will find the Western Crystal Pylon (23,57). Click it and examine it.

Ride northeast back to Marshall's Refuge and sell and repair.

If you haven't finished [52] Larion and Muigin, go out and kill some more flowers until you complete it.

Then go back to Marshall's Refuge and turn in:

  • [52] Alien Ecology
  • [52] Larion and Muigin, Get the follow up [52] Marvon's Workshop
  • [53] Expedition Salvation
  • [53] The Eastern Pylon
  • [53] The Northern Pylon
  • [53] The Western Pylon, get the follow up quest [53] Making Sense of it from J.D. Collie. Turn it in.

You can bank the book you get as reward from this quest (it tells you how to combine crystals at the various pylons for some consumable crystals with effects like heal or damage shield, but nothing too great, so just bank the book to have more bagspace or destroy it).

You should be level 53 by now.


Level 53


Fly to Gadgetzan.
In Gadgetzan, turn in [54] Super Sticky and [53] Bungle in the Jungle, don't get the follow up quest.

End of XP Circuit:

Fly to Thunderbluff, go to the Elder Rise and turn in [50]Un'goro Soil at Ghede, a tauren standing behind the big tent. Go to Arch Druid Hamuul Runetotem, he should have a new quest for you: [50]Morrowgrain Research

Go to Bashana Runetotem, she's in the high tent next to the bridge. Turn in the quest and get the follow up [50]Morrowgrain Research.

**Search your inventory for something named "Evergreen Pouch". From now on, click it everytime the timer is ready, it will create an "Evergreen Herb Casing", open it and loot what's inside. It can be various herbs but sometimes it will be Morrowgrain, and that's what you need. You need 2 Ungoro Soil everytime you want to use the pouch, but you should still have about 20 left even after turning the quests.**

You will need a total of 10 Morrowgrain. Once you got 10 Morrowgrain you can stop using the Evergreen Pouch. I personally sold the seeds and the un'goro soil I had left after obtaining my 10 Morrowgrain, and also destroyed the Evergreen Pouch, because I like having bag space Sticking out tongue. Don't stand still and do nothing while waiting on the pouch timer though, go on with the next part of the guide! You can click on the Evergreen Pouch every now and then everytime the cooldown is refreshed, until you get 10 Morrowgrain.[/i]**

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar.
Go to "The Drag" and turn in the quest [52]Bone-bladed Weapons.

Sell, repair, restock consumables (5 stacks food/drink).

Put the following quest items in your bank if you lack space:

Krakle's Thermometer
Dinosaur Bones
Webbed Diemetradon Scales
Webbed Pterrordax Scales

I'll warn you when we need to pick them up from the bank.

Fly to Splintertree Post and then follow the road northeast until Azshara.

Right after entering Azshara you'll find Talrendis Point to the right (11,77). Stay away from the alliance npcs as much as possible and get the two quests from the tauren named Loh'atu:

[47] A Land Filled with Hatred
[47] Spiritual Unrest

The quests will be marked as low level and you won’t see an exclamation mark, take them anyway.

1. Go north on the other side of the road to Shadowsong Shrine (13,74). Kill 6 Highborne Apparitions and 6 Highborne Lichling. There's more of them just a bit further to the northeast

2. When done with that, go further to the northeast until Haldarr Encampment, kill Satyrs there until you have [47] A Land Filled with Hatred complete.

3. Go back to Talrendis Point and turn in the two quests.

4. Ride north/northeast to the Valormok, the horde outpost. Turn in [53]Betrayed and get the follow up [53]Betrayed.

Also get the quest [52]Stealing Knowledge.

Get the new flight path.

Start of XP Circuit:

5. Ride northeast, go around the Ruins of Eldarath by the west side of it and keep going northeast. Avoid the Timbermaw Furlbogs, don't kill any of them even if they attack you, just run away. Avoid the other timbermaw camp "Ursolan", go around it by the east side and keep riding northeast until you get to sharp hill at (53,21), get to the top of it, you can only access it from the north. Uptop you'll find a goblin named Kim'jael. Get his quest [53] Kim'jael Indeed.

6. Just southeast of Kim'jael you'll find Thalassian Base Camp (55,26).
In the Blood Elf camp you'll find several crates named "Kim'Jael's Equipment" scattered around. Open them all, most of the time you'll find food in it, but 25% of the time you'll find Kim'Jael's compass, scope, etc. Just keep opening crates until you have all of Kim'Jael's items. Also watch out for a rare named "Magister Hawkhelm".

7. Once you have got all the Kim'Jael parts and completed the kill list of [53]Betrayed, go to the stone structure behind the elf camp, close to the sea (59,31). Click the altar there, turn in the quest and get the follow up [56]Betrayed. 3 Floating Crystals should spawn, right click one of them to destroy it, an elven defender should spawn. Move away from the stone structure and kill it. At some point Magus Rimtori should spawn inside the stone structure while you kill the defender, but since you moved away she won't aggro you. Kill the defender, drink back to full HP/MANA and kill her and loot her head.

8. Go back to Kim'Jael, turn in the quest, get the follow up [53] Kim'Jael's "Missing" Equipment.

9. Ride southwest and find the path going down to the Shattered Strand (45,37), it's right next to Ursolan, southeast of it. Go down this path.

10. You'll encounter some naga pretty soon, kill every naga on your way, go southwest, until you reach the Ruins of Eldarath by a path at (41,48).

11. Once inside the Ruins of Eldarath, look for the tablets listed in [52]Stealing Knowledge. They spawn at random locations, so all you have to do is search through the entire ruins while killing everything. The tablets look like this:

Don't forget to use the Evergreen Pouch every 10 minutes.

You should find "Some Rune" on one of the Naga Sirens, if you don't you're just unlucky, and you should go back to the beach and kill nagas there until it drops. The rune can drop from Spitelash Sirens, Spitelash Myrmidons and Spitelash Battlemasters only.

12. Find the slope taking you out of the Shattered Strand back on high ground at (46,39) and then ride northeast back to Kim'Jael, turn in the quest.

13. Ride southwest, back to Valormok Camp. Turn in [52]Stealing Knowledge, get the 4 follow up quests, which are Delivery quests. Turn in [56]Betrayed, get the follow up.

14. Ride east to find an elf with a blue question mark at (28,50). Turn in the quest Meeting with the Master and you'll be teleported to another place. Mount up and follow the path up the mountain and then go to the top of the tower, find Archmage Xylem and turn in the quest.
[52]Delivery to Archmage Xylem, get the follow up [52]Xylem's Payment to Jediga.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar.

Sell, repair, restock consumables (4 stacks).

Go to "The Drag", find Jes'rimon, that troll npc we already dealt with for an Un'goro quest. He's on top of the alchemy building. Turn in [52]Delivery to Jes'rimon and get the follow up [52]Jes'rimon's Payment to Jediga.

Go to Belgrom Rockmaul in the Valley of Honor, in front of the warrior's building. Turn in [56]Betrayed.

End of XP Circuit:

This should make you ding level 54 or you should be close.


Level 54


Get out of Orgimmar, take a zeppelin to The Undercity. Go to the Apothecarium, find Andron Gant and turn in the delivery quest, get the follow up [52]Andron's Payment to Jediga.

Also in the Apothecarium get the following quests:

  • [52]Seeping Corruption
  • [52]A Sample of Slime...
  • [56]...and a Batch of Ooze.

Ride out of the Undercity, take a zeppelin to Orgrimmar, fly to Thunderbluff. Go to the Elder Rise, find Magatha Grimtotem, turn in the quest and get the follow up [52]Magatha's Payment to Jediga.

In the tent next to Magatha turn in [50]Morrowgrain. You can destroy your Evergreen Pouch if you wish. If you didn’t manage to get enough Morrowgrain to turn the quest in, just abandon it and destroy the items related to it.

Fly to Valormok, Azshara. Turn in the 4 delivery quests.

1. Ride northeast, to the same slope you used last time to go down (45,37).

2. This time keep going east until you reach the shore.
At (47,46) you should find a pool, close to the sea. Step inside the pool and right-click the "Empty Vial Labeled #4" from your inventory.

3. Just southeast of this pool, behind a white tower, you'll find another small pool (49,48), fill up the Vial #3 there.

4. A little further south you should find another pool, very close to the sea (48,51), fill up the Vial #2 there.

5. Further south you'll find the last pool, next to small mountain (48,60). Fill up the Vial #1 there.

If your hearthstone isn’t up, grind a little on the nagas until it is. If it’s more than 10 mintues away from being up, ride back to Valormok and fly to Orgrimmar.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar. Put the four vials in your bank, we'll turn in that quest later on.

Sell, repair and restock consumables (5 stacks)

Fly to Splintertree Post, Ashenvale. Follow the road to Felwood.

1. In Felwood follow the road until you find the Emerald Sanctuary, left of the road you'll see a furlbog named Grazle (50,84), get the quest [48] Timbermaw Ally from him. It’s marked as low level, don’t worry, take it anyway.

2. Go to the Emerald Sanctuary and get [51] Forces of Jaedenar from Greta Mosshoofand and [54] Verifying the Corruption from Taronn Redfeather. Also get the flight path.

3. Go southwest and you'll find Deadwood Village (49,88), start slaughtering Furlbogs. Keep doing that until you complete [48] Timbermaw Ally.

==Note== If you find a Deadwood Ritual Totem on one of the furlbogs now or later on, right-click it and start the quest [55] Deadwood Ritual Totem.

4. Go back to Grazle and turn in the quest, get the follow up [55] Speak to Nafien.

5. Get back on the road and ride west, at some point the road will turn north, look for a tauren npc named Maybess Riverbreeze next to a small green pool (47,83) (there will be a exclamation mark on the minimap) , get the quest [55]Cleansing Felwood from her.

6. Ride north following the road until (43,67), to the west should be a green pool, go there and kill Cursed Oozes. Kill all the oozes around that pool -there should be about 10- loot the Felwood Slime Sample off them, then get back on the road.

7. Ride north and after a while you should find another of those pools with oozes, next to Jaedenar (41,59). Kill all the oozes there, about 5 of them.

8. Just north of this pool, on the other side of the path to Jaedenar, you should find another of those pools, kill all the oozes there (40,56).

9. Ride north until you reach Bloodvenom River, you should find a lot of oozes on both sides of the river, kill them all while going west.

**You should normally have about 30 Felwood Slime Sample at this point, which is plenty to complete the quest [52]A Sample of Slime... even if you are unlucky. If you don't have 30 samples, just kill any ooze you find on your way in Felwood.**

10. Keep going west along the river and then go south to Bloodvenom Post.

Get the quests:

  • [54]Well of Corruption
  • [56]Wild Guardians
  • [51]A Husband's Last Battle

Get the new flight path, sell junk and repair.

11. Get back on the road and go south to Jaedenar (40,57), clear yourself a path westwards through Jadefire Hounds, Guardians, Adepts and Cultists until you are done with [51] Forces of Jaedenar.

12. Get back on the road, ride south and then go west to the Ruins of Constellas (38,69), clear the way west till you find a corrupted moonwell at (32,67). Step inside the moonwell and right-click the Hardened Flasket in your inventory.

13. Get back on the road, ride south to the Emerald Sanctuary (51,82). Turn in [51]The Forces of Jaedenar, get the follow up [52]Collection of the Corrupt Water.

14. Ride southwest, back to Deadwood Village, clear the way through the furlbogs and find their chief, Overlord Ror, at the southernmost camp of the furlbog village (48,94). Kill him and loot Overlord Ror's Claw.

15. Ride back to Emerald Sanctuary, fly to Bloodvenom Post, turn in [54]Well of Corruption, get the follow up [54]Corrupted Sabers. Turn in [51]A Husband's Last Battle.

Sell and repair.

Start of XP Circuit:

1. Ride to Jaedenar, clear the way west until you find a corrupted moonwell at (35,60), right click the Empty Canteen from your inventory.

2. Get back on the road and ride south to the Emerald Sanctuary, turn in [52]Collection of the Corrupt Water and get the follow up [52]Seeking Spiritual Aid.

3. Get back on the road and ride to the Ruins of Constellas, clear the way through the satyrs until the corrupted moonwell where we went earlier (32,67). Kill the satyrs around the well if there are any. Then step inside the well and right-click Winna 's Kitten Carrier from your inventory.

Clear the way out carefully, don't die or you'll lose your Corrupted Saber and will have to redo the quest.

4. Get back on the road and ride back to Bloodvenom Post while making sure the cat is always following you.

In Bloodvenom Post go to Winna Hazzard, then right-click the Corrupted Saber and choose to release it. Turn in the quest [54]Corrupted Sabers.

5. Get back on the road, ride north, shortly after the bridge go right into Shatter Scar Vale (39,44). Kill 2 Entropic Beasts, they are immune fire and deal fire damage. Walk around in the Shatter Scar Vale until you get the "Explore the craters" complete message. Further to the east and a bit to the north at the last crater you should find Entropic Horrors, they are just a bit higher level than the Entropic Beasts but still in your range. Kill two Entropic Horrors then get back on the road. If you don't find Entropic Horrors, kill Entropic Beasts until Entropic Horrors respawn instead.

6. On the northeastern part of the Shatter Scar Vale you should find a narrow path going north, mount up and go through this path then go northeast until you cross a small river. On the other side of the river you should find an area with Angerclaw Grizzlies and Felpaw Ravagers(54,28). Kill as many as possible, then go further north to the Irontree Cavern and kill Warpwood Elementals while waiting for Grizzlies and Wolves to respawn, then go back and kill the remaining ones you need to complete [52]The Strength of Corruption.

7. Go to Irontree Cavern as shown on map (55,15). Kill Warpwood Elementals until you get 15 Blood Amber, they always drop.

8. Get back on the road and follow it going east and then north until the entrance of Timbermaw Hold, talk to Nafien, turn in the quest. Get the other quest [55] Deadwood of the North.

9. Removed, skip to next point.

10. Removed, skip to next point.

**Optional: If you did Maraudon and have the quest [51]Seed Of life, inside timbermaw hold go under the bridge and to the north, keep going until you exit in Moonglade. In Moonglade go north straight to the shrine of Remulos (36,42), turn in [51] Seed of Life at Keeper Remulos. Go back to Timbermaw hold**

11. Go inside Timbermaw Hold through the first tunnel, after the bridge keep going east. Right outside the tunnel to the right you'll find Salfa, get her quest [58]Winterfall Activity.

1. Ride south to Donova Snowden, turn in the quest [52] It's a Secret to Everybody, let her do her speech, and then get the follow up [52] The Videre Elixir, get the other quest [56]Threat of the Winterfall.

**From now on kill any Ragged Owlbeast you see on your way, until you have killed 15.**

2. Go east to Timbermaw Post (40,44). Kill the furlbogs there until you have completed [56]Threat of the Winterfall and found an Empty Firewater Flask. If this camp is too crowded, you can try the other one northwest of here at the Frostfire Hotsprings (31,37).

==Note== If you find a Winterfall Ritual Totem on the furlbogs now or later on, right-click it to start the quest [56] Winterfall Ritual Totem.

When you find the Empty Firewater Flask, right-click it to get the quest [56]Winterfall Firewater.

3. Ride east to Everlook (61,38), kill as many Ragged Owlbeast on your way as possible.

In Everlook get the quest [56]Are We There, Yeti?.

Sell, repair, and restock food/drink (4 stacks)

You can put the Felwood Slime Samples in the bank, we won't be needing them for a while.
Get the new flight path.

4. Go southeast of Everlook, to Ice Thistle Hills (65,42). Kill yetis there until you have 10 Thick Yeti Furs.

5. Go back to Everlook, turn in [56]Are We There, Yeti? Don't get the follow up.

You should be level 55 by now.


Level 55


6. Go northwest of Everlook, to the area shown on the map, you'll find a lot of Raging Owlbeasts there. Kill everything in the area, I advise you to just kill all the aggressive creatures close to you, including bears. If you try to sneak past mobs to just kill Owlbeasts you'll end up getting adds and things can get quite ugly in this area. Stay in this area until you have 15 Raging Owlbeasts kills.

7. Go to the area marked "7" on the map and hunt Ragged Owlbeasts until you have 15 kills.

8. Ride to Donova Snowden, turn in [56]Threat of the Winterfall and [56]Winterfall Firewater. Get the follow up [56]Falling to Corruption.

9. Ride northwest and go through the tunnel to Felwood.

In Felwood jump down to your right after you exit the tunnel.
Clear yourself a path to the camp which is on the upper level of Felpaw Village, northwest of the green pool. Clear the camp (which might be hard, so use everything you got if needed) and you should find a "Deadwood Cauldron" (60,5). Click it, turn in the quest and get the follow up [56] Mystery Goo. Also complete [55] Deadwood of the North.

Now if you still haven't found a Deadwood Ritual Totem, stay here and kill furlbogs until one of them drops it, right-click it and start the quest [55] Deadwood Ritual Totem.

Go back to the Timbermaw Hold entrance and turn in[55] Deadwood of the North, get the follow up [55] Speak to Salfa. Go through the tunnel to Winterspring and turn the quest in at Salfa who is at the tunnel exit.

Go back to Donova Snowden, turn in [56] Mystery Goo and get the follow up [56] Toxic Horrors.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar.

End of XP Circuit:

Sell, repair, restock consumables (5 stacks of food/drink).
Get the following quest items from your bank:

  • Krakle's Thermometer
  • Dinosaur Bones
  • Webbed Diemetradon Scales
  • Webbed Pterrordax Scales
  • Mithril casing (or buy it now if you don't already have it)

Fly to Ratchet.

In Ratchet go to the small hut with the green roof, close to the sea (62,39). Turn in [52]Marvon's Workshop.

If you plan to go to Sunken Temple later on then get the follow up [52]Zapper Fuel.

In any case get the quest [55]Volcanic Activity. Just infront of the hut you should find Marvon's Chest, loot the Stone Circle from it.

From Ratchet ride south along the merchant coast and go east to the Tidus Stair (65,43), right next to the ocean you should find Islen Waterseer next to a hut.

Turn in [52] Seeking Spiritual Aid, watch her summon a water elemental spirit and then take her follow up [54] Cleansed Water Returns to Felwood.

Ride back to Ratchet, fly to Shadowprey Village, Desolace.

Follow the road to Feralas.

Shortly after entering Feralas, just west of the road you should see some ruins with a gnoll - Miblon Snarltooth - infront of it (45,11). Get off your mount, and watch this video, it shows you how to get the Evoroot without buying the bait from Gregan. Thanks Laurens from Twisted Nether (EU) for the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oI3iefJ3_w

Loot an Evoroot from one of the pedestals.

Go south to Gregan Brewspewer (45,25). Turn in the quest [52] The Videre Elixir.

Get back on the road and ride to Camp Mojache.

In Camp Mojache turn in [52]The Strength of Corruption, then fly to Gadgetzan.

Ride directly south to Marvon Rivetseeker at the Broken Pillar (52,45), turn in [51] The Stone Circle, get his 2 follow ups if you intend to go to Sunken Temple later on:

  • [51] Into the Depths
  • [52] Secret of the Circle

Ride west/southwest until the entrance to Un'Goro. (27,57)

Start of XP Circuit:

1. Down the slope in Un'Goro talk to Torwa Pathfinder (71,76). Get the 2 quests from him:

  • [55] The Mighty U'Cha
  • [56] The Bait for Lar'Korwi
==Note== Kill any ooze you find on your way from now on

2. Ride north until the eastern crystal pylon, go up the trail and further east and you should see some huge dinosaur skeletons at (80,49). Be full health/mana and ready to face a level 56 mob. Open Torwa's pouch in your inventory, loot the Preserved Threshadon Meat and the Pheromone Mixture, right click the meat, and then right click the Pheromone, Lar'korwi will appear, kill him. He's rather easy, I had no problems to solo it at all at level 55. Loot Lar'korwi's Head..

3. Ride north/northwest to Fungal Rock (63,16). Enter the cave, at the fork take the narrow path in the middle, then go right and keep going until you hit the end of the cave. Just be very careful where you fight the Un'Goro Gorilla, they call for help.
At the end of the cave in a room with a puddle of water and a rock in the middle you'll find U'cha, lvl 55 Gorilla. There's another gorilla in the same room but you can pull it solo if you wait for U'cha to go away. Then pull U'cha solo, kill it and loot his pelt.

Clear the way out of the cave, then kill all the apes outside the cave, make a clear path because you are gonna escort A-Me 01 out of this cave soon.
Once there's no ape left outside the cave, go back in and go right at the fork this time. After 2 or 3 more apes you'll find A-Me 01. Turn in the quest, get the follow up, turn it in (since you already have the mithril casing), then get the next follow up, [53] Chasing A-me 01. This will start the escort quest, once again the golden rule of escort quests, let A-me 01 infront, let her get hit first and then get the mobs off her.

4. Escort her until Karna Remtravel and turn in the quest. Just above of Karna Remtravel is Marshall's Refuge, go there and get the quest [55] Lost! from Spraggle Frock.

Sell and repair.

5. Go southwest until you hit the river (40,27). On the southern side of the river you'll find plenty of Dinos and some Oozes.

In this area, kill every Frenzied Pterrordax, Elder Diametradon and Ooze you find.

Keep doing this until you complete:

  • [51] Shizzle's Flyer
  • [51] Roll the Bones (they drop from the Elder Diametradons approximately 25% drop chance)
  • [55] Beware of Pterrordax

And have gathered about 30 Un'goro Slime Samples. (This might take a while)

Warning: Be careful, 2 devilsaurs roam this area from time to time.

6. When you are done with these 4 quests, go southeast to Fire Plume Ridge, climb the mountain from the southern side in the middle (49,53). Find your way to the top of Fire plume ridge, you'll have to do almost a full circle around it for that, ignore the cave with Ringo for now. Kill every fire elemental on your way and you should get the 9 Un'Goro Ash you need.

When at the top of Fire Plume Ridge, next to the lava pool you should see a conic stone named "Fire Plume Ridge Hot Spot". Search your inventory for Krakle's Thermometer, right click it next to the conic stone, this should complete the quest [55] Finding the Source. Don't get too close to the cave at the top, there's a lvl 56 Elite elemental there, avoid it.

7. If you got 9 Un'Goro Ash already no need to kill more elementals, just get off fire plume ridge from the west side and ride west until Golakka hotsprings and find Krakle behind the geyser hill (30,50). Turn in the quest and get the follow up [55] The New Springs.

Ride east/southeast to Torwa Pathfinder (71,76). Turn in the 2 quests:

  • [55] The Mighty U'cha
  • [56] The Bait for Lar'korwi

8. Go northwest to Fire Plume Ridge (yes, again!). Climb on it from the southern side in the middle (49,53) then go a bit east to reach the cave where Ringo is (52,51). Turn in the quest [55] Lost! and get the follow up [55] A Little Help from My friends. Search your inventory for Spraggle's Canteen and put it on a hotkey. Everytime Ringo faints, click the canteen while being next to him. Get off the mountain by the eastern side, then go north, run to Marshall's Refuge while making sure Ringo always follows you, try to avoid mobs as much as possible. Run inside Marshall's Refuge until Spraggle Frock, you'll get the quest complete message.

Time to turn in some quests!

  • [55] Beware of Pterrordax
  • [55] A Little Help from my Friends
  • [51] Roll the Bones
  • [51] Shizzle's Flyer

Destroy Spraggle's Canteen.

End of XP Circuit:

==Note== Could have been better, I had to wait 10 minutes for Ringo to respawn because someone else started the escort just as I arrived.

You should be level 56 by now (largly).


Level 56


Hearthstone back to Orgrimmar.

Sell, repair, restock consumables (4 stacks); visit your class trainer.

You can put the Un'goro slime samples in the bank, for more bag space.

Fly to Winterspring.

Ride west and go to Donova Snowden, turn in [52]The Videre Elixir, get the follow up [52]Meet at the Grave. Don't turn in the other quests.

Ride back to Everlook and fly to Ratchet, turn in [55]Volcanic Activity.

Fly to Gadgetzan, go to the Gadgetzan grayveyard, just east of Gadgetzan (53,28). Drink the Videre Elixir, you'll die, but don't worry, no durability loss from this, it's normal. Release spirit but don't resurrect, go directly north from the Graveyard and up the mountain, you should soon see the yellow question mark on your minimap, go to it and talk to Gaeriyan, turn in and get the follow up [52] A Grave Situation. Go back to the graveyard, resurrect and click the gravestone named "A Conspicuous Gravestone" with the question mark, complete the quest and get the follow up [52] Linken's Sword. You can destroy the other Videre Elixirs.

Fly to Marshall's Refuge, Un'goro Crater. Turn in the quest [52] Linken's Sword, get the follow up [52] A Gnome's Assistance, go talk to J.D. Collie inside the crystal cave, turn in the quest, watch her do her speech and get the follow up [54] Linken's Memory.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar if your stone is ready.

Start of XP Circuit:

Fly to Emerald Sanctuary, Felwood.

Turn in [54] Cleansed Water Returns to Felwood, get the follow up [55] Dousing the flames of Protection.
Also turn in [54]Verifying the Corruption and [54] Linken's Memory, get the follow up [54] Silver heart.

Go west on the other side of the road and find Maybess Riverbreeze (47,83), turn in [55]Cleansing Felwood.

OPTIONAL: Talk to her and ask her for a Cenarion Beacon. From now on when you kill stuff in Felwood you can get Corrupted Soul Shards, which you will turn in later for Cenarion Plant Salves. With those salves you can cure corrupted plants in felwood and get consumables and buffs in return.

1. Get back on the road, ride to Jaedenar (40,57). in Jaedenar clear the way westwards until the corrupted moonwell you already went to before to fill up the vial. Enter the Shadow Hold (35,58).

At this point if you can find people to group it will be much easier. Dousing the Flames of Protection is doable solo (but kinda hard), on the other hand there's an escort quest which is very hard to solo, if not impossible depending on your class and equipment. It also depends on how crowded the area is, if there's lots of people killing stuff in the shadow hold already, it's doable solo. Anyway, give it a try solo, but grouping for this one is just easier.

Clear the way down the first tunnel, in the first room you'll find a captured elf named Arko'narin. This is the NPC that gives the escort quest, but to get it you first need to find a Blood Red Key from one of the mobs inside Shadow Hold, click it and get the quest [55] A Strange Red Key. You have to turn this quest at Captured Arko'narin later. The follow up will be the escort quest.

In the same room you can find the 1st and 2nd brazier (the 2nd one is on the slope going to the next tunnel), click them to turn them off.

If you are in a group, and get a Blood Red Key (the whole group can loot it if it drops), tell everyone to turn in the first quest at the captured elf. When everyone has turned in the first quest [55] A Strange Red Key, one person should start the follow up, which is the escort quest.

Note: You have to click on the elf through the cage. Some people try to click the cage itself, but that doesn't work.

Escort Arko'Narin to her equipment, then escort her out, things can get rough at times because she engages 2 or 3 lvl 55 mobs a the same time and is fragile until she has her equipment on. In the same room where her equipment is you'll find the 3rd and 4th Brazier, turn them off too. At the exit a 53 mob will attack you. This was an elite before, so now it is somewhat easier to do this quest, still it remains difficult for a single person.

Defeat it and then Arko'narin will leave and you'll get the quest complete message.

If you don't find anyone to group with and the escort quest is too difficult for you, just don't do it, clear your way inside the Shadow Hold and turn off the 4 braziers.

2. Clear the way out of Jaedenar, get back on the road and ride north then go west to Bloodvenom Post. Turn in [56]Wild Guardians and get the follow up [58]Wild Guardians.

3. Get back on the road and ride north until Irontree Woods.
Go to the crater at (49,27), you'll find plenty of Toxic Horrors there, kill them until you got 3 Toxic Horror Droplet. There's more Toxic Horrors all around the big green pool just north of the crater.

4. In the same area, kill Irontree Stompers until one of them drops an Irontree Heart.

5. Go up the plateau east of Irontree Woods, where you will find plenty of bears and wolves. Kill them until you have 11 Silver Claws.

6. Get back on the road and ride to Winterspring.

1. In Winterspring ride southeast to Donova Snowden, turn in [55]The New Springs and get the follow up [56]Strange Sources. Turn in [56]Toxic Horrors and get the follow up [57]Winterfall Runners.

2. Get back on the road and ride east to Everlook.

**Should you find the Winterfall Runners on your way, make sure to kill them and loot the Winterfall Crate. However don't actually go out of your way to look for them, just kill them if you encounter them while following the next paragraphs**

In Everlook get the quest [58]Are We There, Yeti?. Sell, repair and restock food/drink (4 stacks)

3. Go east of Everlook to Winterfall Village (66,33), kill 8 Winterfall Shamans and 8 Winterfall Ursa there.

4. Go south of Winterfall Village, to Ice Thistle Hills, this time enter the cave further to the east up the hills (68,42) and kill Ice Thistle Matriachs/Patriachs until you get 2 Pristine Yeti Horn. Also make sure that you are level 57 by the time you get out of the cave.


Level 57


5. Go back to Everlook, turn in [58] Are We There, Yeti? and get the follow up. Find a goblin named Legacki, she stands to the left of the Inn. Target her and right click Umi's Mechanical Yeti from your inventory.

Sell junk and repair.

6. Get out of Everlook, follow the road southeast / south until you find Owl Wing Ticket (63,59), the entrance of it is marked by two broken pillars and an elf named Ranshalla standing infront of it. Go inside Owl Wing Ticket and kill 13 Moontouched Owlbeasts. (If no Moontouched Owlbeasts are around keep killing the other owlbeasts, they are placeholders for each other)

7. Get back on the road and ride south, go over the ice bridge and keep going south until you discover Darkwhisper Gorge and get the complete message for [56] Strange Sources.

End of XP Circuit:

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar.
Sell, repair and restock consumables (4 stacks).

Start of XP Circuit (with optional steps):

Fly to Emerald Sanctuary, Felwood. Turn in:

  • [55]Dousing the Flames of Protection, get the follow up. [58]A Final Blow
  • [55]Rescue From Jaedenar (if you managed to do it), get the follow up. [57]Retribution of the Light.
  • Turn in [54] Silver Heart, get the follow up [54]Aquementas.

Ride north and go to Jaedenar, clear the way and enter the Shadow Hold. Clear inside the hold further than where you went last time past the last two braziers, past the red pool with the Oozes. Just a bit further down a slope you should find a room with an altar in it's middle, 4 warlocks/darkweavers around it, performing a ritual, and Rakaiah infront.

You can pull Rakaiah solo, the 4 warlocks will be aggro on you but won't attack as long as you don't get too close to them. After you got rid of Rakaiah, you will still be locked in combat mode because of the 4 warlocks, to lose combat mode you just have to run back some distance away from them until they forget you. However the warlock's imp pets will attack you and you should dispose of them, without getting too close to the warlocks.

Kill the 2 other mobs on each side of the room and the one in the back, then you can kill each of the 4 warlocks one by one. When the room is clear, click on the Remains of Trey Lightforge on the altar, complete the quest [57] Retribution of the Light, get the follow up [57] The Remains of Trey Lightforge.

Go past the Altar Room and down a spiral, after a couple of pulls you'll be facing a small bridge going up straight ahead and a slope going down to your left.

Go left and keep going in that direction until you reach a big room where you'll find Shadow Lord Fel'dan and his two succubus guards.

It wasn't an easy fight to solo, I basically used everything I had with the mage and rogue. I sheeped Shadow Lord Fel'dan and killed the two succubus fast. Same with rogue, I sapped the shadow lord and killed it last. With the warrior I used retaliation. Don't forget to loot the head of the Shadow Lord.

This part of the dungeon is just much easier with a group, you can try it solo but I recommend at least finding a person to duo it with.

Clear your way out of the Shadow Hold and out of Jaedenar, get back on the road and ride south to the Emerald Sanctuary, turn in the quests [57]The Remains of Trey Lightforge and [58]A Final Blow.

Fly to Bloodvenom Post. Turn in [58]Wild Guardians and get the follow up [59]Wild Guardians.

Fly to Everlook.
Sell, repair and restock food/drink (4 stacks).

Get on your mount and ride southeast/south along the road until Owl Wing Ticket. Kill Owlbeasts until you have 10 Berserk Owlbeast kills and have found a Blue-feathered Necklace off one of the owlbeasts. When you get the Blue-feathered necklace right-click it to get the quest [59]Guarding Secrets.

Ride back towards Everlook. Now we're gonna hunt for the Winterfall Runners, check the map below to see their route. I advise you start from Winterfall Village and follow the route westwards, to the Timbermaw Hold tunnel, until you find the Winterfall Runners.

When you find the 3 Winterfall Runners (lvl 57), you don't have to kill all 3. Just kill one fast and run away, come back and loot the crate. They all drop it.

Ride to the Timbermaw Hold tunnel entrance (27,34) and turn in the quest [58]Winterfall Activity.

Ride south/southeast to Donova Snowden and turn in [56]Strange Sources and [57]Winterfall Runners. 3 Winterfall Ambushers will spawn, just run away, they aren't worth killing, give no loot and only 70xp each. Once they vanish, go back to Donova and get the follow up [59] High Chief Winterfall.

Ride all the way east to the Winterfall Village at approximately (67,37).

High Chief Winterfall is now a non-elite and he can be found in the cave above the Winterfall Village, along with two guards. Save your long CD abilities and use crowd control if you have. In the worst case solo down the chief fast, loot him and run away (watch out for Winterfall Runners, they might gank up on you if they happen to pass by).

While looting High Chief Winterfall you should find an item called Crudely-written Log. Loot and right click it, then ride back to Donova Snowden. Turn in both quests and get the follow up [59] Words of the High Chief.

Now you should be neutral with Timbermaw Hold, check your reputation tab to make sure. If you are not neutral, go kill furlbogs (either the ones of winterspring or the ones in Felwood, as you prefer).

Once you are neutral with Timbermaw Hold, go to their tunnel and find a furlbog named Kernda, deeper inside the northern tunnel of Timbermaw Hold (65,1). Turn in [55] Deadwood Ritual Totem and [56] Winterfall Ritual Totem.

Go north to Moonglade, get the flight path and fly to Everlook.
In the inn get the following 3 quests:

  • [55]Sister Pamela
  • [52]Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff
  • [52]The Everlook Report

Fly to Bloodvenom Post, Felwood.
In Bloodvenom Post turn in [59]Wild Guardians and [59]Guarding Secrets, get the follow up [59]Guarding Secrets.

Fly to Emerald Sanctuary, turn in [59] Words of the High Chief.

Fly to Thunder Bluff, go see Nara Wildmane on the Elder Rise and turn in [59]Guarding Secrets.

End of XP Circuit:

You should be level 58 by now or close.


Level 58


(If you lack experience, there is an optional circuit coming up soon, so don’t grind)

OPTIONAL: So you are level 58 now, this means you could go to Outland and do the first few quests to get some nice gear upgrades, unlock your tradeskills past 300 and get the flight path to Shattrath. So if you want to do this, here is what I recommend: open up my 60-65 horde guide, follow the guide until the end of the 2nd bombing mission. Then go to Falcon Watch, get the flight path (buy the first aid book if you wish), then ride to Shattrath (infos on how to do that are somewhere in the guide, use the search function to find it). Get the flight path in Shattrath, then take a portal back to Ogrimmar or Thunderbluff and get back to the guide.

Fly to Gadgetzan.
In Gadgetzan, find a goblin named Sprinkle (she's close to the horde exit). Scare her away with the mechanical yeti.

Ride to Lost Rigger Cove (68,41), inside lost rigger cove go south to the other side of the pirate camp and then west until you find a stone circle (70,49).

Open the blue bag named "Eridan's Supplies", loot everything from it. Then step inside the circle and click the Book of Aquor. Aquementas, a lvl 54 elemental, will come to the circle and attack you. You don't have to kill it, just have to stand in the stone circle and let him attack you once. If you want to kill it, just know that he is immune to frost and deals frost damage (mages use Frost Ward). He should be a cakewalk at level 58.
You should now have the Silver Totem of Aquementas. If you do, you can destroy the "Book of Aquor", the "Silver Claws" and the "Irontree Heart".

Ride back to Gadgetzan. Fly to Marshall's Refuge in Un'goro Crater.

**For those who did Sunken Temple, at Marshall's refuge turn in [52] Zapper Fuel, don't get the follow up.**

Go inside the crystal cave and talk to J.D. Collie, turn in [54] Aquementas and get the follow up [54] Linken's Adventure. Go to Linken and turn it in, don't get the follow up unless you got a few people to help you. You'd need at least a healer and a tank type. Blazerunner is a lvl 56 Elite fire elemental and he hits for 400.

Anyway here is how to defeat Blazerunner, the last boss of the long quest chain "Linken's Adventure". Go to the top of fire plume ridge, clear all the elementals around to make sure they don't add during the fight. Equip the Silver Totem of Aquementas and put it on a hotkey. Click it to dispel Blazerunner's aura right at the start and everytime it reappears. Blazerunner is somewhat invincible when his aura is on, he keeps knockbacking people and every damage he takes is divided by 10. So be sure to always keep that aura dispelled.
Another thing, fight him inside his cave with your back facing the walls, so if he knockbacks you when the aura appears again you won't end up being tossed off the mountain or into adds.
He's a tough fight, I did it with a level 57 Priest, a level 55 Paladin and me (lvl 57 rogue) and it wasn't easy. On the other hand I soloed it with my lvl 57 frost mage, thanks to kiting, it took time and several attempts though. So I recommend saving that quest for when you are level 60 and have time to spend on it, unless you got enough people to help you immediately. Anyway if you do manage to kill Blazerunner, you must also go loot the Ornate Chest in his cave. Then turn in the quest at Linken.

Before you leave Marshal's Refuge, find the goblin named Quixxil and scare him with the mechanical yeti.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar.

Train, sell, repair, restock consumables (4 stacks)

Take a Zeppelin to the Undercity.

In the Undercity, go to the bank. Get the 30 Felwood Slime Samples, the 30 Un'Goro Slime Samples, the 4 Filled Vials and the Black Dragonflight Molt (If you did the Thorium Point optional circle).
You can also deposit Umi's Mechanical Yeti in the bank for more bag space.

Go to the Apothecarium, turn in [52]Seeping Corruption, get the follow up, turn it in at Thersa Windsong right next to Chemist Cuely, then turn in the quest at Chemist Cuely.

Now look for Chemist Fuely, there should be an alchemy lab next to him with two pots on it: a red and a green one.
Right-click the green one and complete the quest, you'll receive an Un'Goro Tested Sample, open it and loot it. Keep doing this until you have 5 Pure Un'Goro Samples. Then do the same thing with the red pot, until you have 5 Corrupted Felwood Samples. You can then destroy the remaining samples you have.

Turn in [52]A Sample of Slime... and [56]...and a Batch of Ooze, get the follow up [55]Melding of Influences.

While you are in the Apothecarium, go visit the banshee queen - you have to go through the middle building and then through a curved corridor - and get the quest [56]The Champion of the Banshee Queen.

Go back to the bank, deposit the Encased Corrupt Ooze.

Go to the Innkeeper and set your hearthstone to the Undercity.

== OPTIONAL CIRCUIT: ==

I left this circuit from the old guide as optional circuit to allow people who lack experience to catch up. Also if you want the faction/gold from these quests, feel free to do this circuit (although it is getting rather low level at this point). Another reason why you might want to do these quests is to get Black Rock Depth/Spire prequesting done.

Fly to Kargath.
In Kargath get the quests [54]The Rise of the Machines from Hierophat Theodora and [52]Dreadmaul Rock from Thal'trak Proudtusk

Ride to the Searing Gorge, go to Blackrock Mountain, the path leading you through Blackrock Mountain starts at (33,75) go through Blackrock Mountain and enter the Burning Steppes.

1. In the Burning Steppes get on the road and follow it going east for a while then go northeast to Flame Crest (65,24).
In Flame Crest get the new flight path and the following quests [52]Broodling Essence [50]Tablet of the Seven.

2. Go southwest to the Ruins of Thaurissan. Kill every War Reaver you see on your way. Keep going west until you reach the last rubbles of the Ruins of Thaurissan, with a dwarven statue inside (54,41). Infront of that statue you should find the Tablet of the Seven, right-click it and choose to "Transcript the Tablet".

Stay in the ruins and kill golems until you have 10 Fractured Elemental Shards.

3. Go east to Dreadmaul Rock, on the western flank of the mountain you should find a path going up (75,38). Clear the way to the top of the mountain, where you should find an altar with a ghost next to it: Sha'ni Proudtusk (80,45). Turn in the quest and get the quest [53]Krom'Grul.

Now we must find Krim'Grul. He can spawn at various locations in any of the caves composing Dreadmaul Rock, explore them all fully until you find Krom'Grul, kill him and loot Sha'ni's Nose-ring from him.

4. Go to the area which is north of Dreadmaul Rock (78,28), you should find Black Broodlings there. Search your inventory for Draco-Incarcinatrix 900 and put it on a hotkey. Use it on every Black Broodling before killing them. When they die while having the incarcinatrix aura on, a crystal will appear at their corpse named "Broodling Essence". You need 8 of these.
Make a semi circle around the eastern side of Dreadmaul Rock, that's where you'll find the Broodlings you need.

5. Before you leave this area go to the northeastern edge of it, you'll find a cave with Cyrus Therepentous in it.
Take his quest [54] A Taste of Flame, talk to him and click on the dialogue line, then turn in the quest, get the follow up [58] A Taste of Flame (Dungeon) if you intend to do Blackrock Depths later on.

6. Go back to Flame Crest, turn in [52]Broodling Essence, get the follow up [54]Felnok Steelspring. Turn in [50]Tablet of the Seven.

Fly to Kargath, turn in [53]Krom'Grul and [54]The Rise of the Machines, get the follow up.

Mount up and ride east to Lotwil Veratius (25,45), turn in [54]The Rise of the Machines. Only get the follow up if you intend to go to Blackrock Dephts later on.

Hearthstone to the Undercity.
Go to the bank and deposit Tinkee's Letter.

Sell, repair and restock consumables (4 stacks)

== END OF OPTIONAL CIRCUIT ==

Start of XP Circuit:

Ride out of the Undercity, follow the road east until you find the Bulwark (83,68).

Turn in [52]The Everlook Report, at the same npc pick the other quest and turn it in instantly to get your Argent Dawn Commission. When you kill undeads while having this trinket equiped, you can collect Scourgestones from their bodies. I suggest equiping it from now on everytime you kill undeads in eastern and western plaguelands.

Turning in these Scourgestones at Argent Officer Pureheart gets you faction increases with the Argent Dawn and a token. These tokens are the only way to raise your faction with the Argent Dawn at a certain point in reverred, so save them until then. Check blizzard's official homepage to see what rewards you get at the different faction levels.

Get [53]Scarlet Diversions from High Executor Derrington. Right-click the Box of Incendiaries next to him and loot the Flame in a Bottle.

Get [58]The So-Called Mark of the Lightbringer from Mehlar Dawnblade. Don't get the other quests.

1. Ride east along the road and then north to the Scarlet Campment - northeast of Felstone Field - at (41,54). Clear the camp and then right-click on the Command Tent and once it is destroyed right-click the Scourge Banner from your inventory.

2. Ride back to the Bulwark, turn in the quest [53]Scarlet Diversions, get the two follow up [53] The Scourge Cauldrons and [56] All Along the Watchtowers.
Turn it in at Shadow Priestess Vandis and get the follow up [53]Target: Felstone Field.

3. Go east to Felstone Field (37,58). Clear yourself a path to the Cauldron in the middle of the field, when you get close, Cauldron Lord Bilemaw will spawn, kill it and loot the Felstone Field Cauldron Key from him, then go to the cauldron and click it, turn in the quest and get the follow up [53]Return to the Bulwark.

In the Felstone Field, go to the houses on the north side of the field, enter the one which is the most to the west (37,54).

On the 2nd floor of the house you'll find Janice Felstone, get the quest [52]Better Late than Never. (It’s marked as low level so no exclamation mark)

Go to the next house which (38,55) and find Janice's Parcel inside it. Click it, turn in the quest, then click it again and get the follow up [52]Better Late Than Never. (As the quest is marked as low level, you’ll have to click the box twice.)

4. Ride back to the Bulwark, turn in [53]Return to the Bulwark and get the follow up [55]Target: Dalson's Tears.

5. Ride east to Dalson'Tears (45,52), it's the field directly east of Felstone Field. Clear yourself a path to the Scourge Cauldron, when you get close Cauldron Lord Malvinious will spawn, kill it and loot his key, go to the Cauldron and click it, turn in the quest and get the follow up [55] Return to the Bulwark.

Go to the houses on the north side of Dalson's Tears, enter the right one (47,51). Clear what's inside and look on the floor for Mrs. Dalson's Diary, get the quest and complete it.

Get out of the barn and look around for a Wandering Skeleton, there is only one of this kind and he roams around the barn, so keep killing stuff around the barn until you find it, kill it and loot "Dalson Outhouse Key". Go behind the barn, you'll find an Outhouse (48,49). Open it, kill Farmer Dalson, loot Dalson Cabinet Key.

Go to the other house now (47,50), on the 2nd floor of it you'll find a "Locked Cabinet", click it and turn in the quest.

6. Get out of Dalson's Tears and go southwest to the Ruins of Andorhal. In Andorhal try to avoid the roads as much as possible, as level 56 elite abominations roam them. So just clear yourself a path through the destroyed houses. Also avoid the center of the town of course, there's a huge bunch of mobs there and Araj the Summoner (lvl 61 elite).

7. Clear yourself a path to the first tower you see on your right-hand side (42,66). Look for the "beacon torch" in your inventory and click it while standing next to the tower's door. You should get the message "Tower Two Marked".

8. Go southwest to the next tower (40,71). Place the beacon and you should get the message "Tower One Marked"

9. Go southeast and then east - avoid the center of the town - till you find the next tower (47,71). Place the beacon torch and you should get the message "Tower Four Marked".

10. Go north and then northwest to the last tower (45,64), place the beacon torch and you should get the quest message "Tower Three Marked".

11. Get out of Andorhal and ride back to the Bulwark.

  • Turn in [56]All Along the Watchtowers, get the follow up [55]Scholomance.
  • Turn in [55]Scholomance at Apothecary Dithers and get the follow up [57]Skeletal Fragments.
  • Turn in [55]Return to the Bulwark and get the follow up [55]Target: Writhing Haunt.

End of XP Circuit:

==Note== It could have been much better. Sadly I recorded this XP rate with a level 60 character, so some of the quests didn't give as much XP as they should have. On top of that, the Dalson's Outhouse was bugged and wouldn't open, so that's another quest I couldn't turn in. Still the XP/hour is decent, so it can definitely be amazing with a level 58-59 character and no bug.

Start of XP Circuit:

1. Ride east and then south to the Writhing Haunt (52,66). Clear a path to the Scourge Cauldron, when you get close to it, Cauldron Lord Razarch will spawn, kill it and loot the key. Clear what's around the Cauldron and go click it, turn in the quest and get the follow up [55]Return to the Bulwark.

Directly north of the cauldron in a small house you should find a tauren lying down on the floor, Mulgris Deepriver. Get his quest [54]The Wildlife Suffers Too.

**From now on kill any diseased wolf you find on your way until you have completed [54]The Wildlife Suffers too**

2. Go north/northwest to an area just north of Dalson's Tears (45,40), where you will find plenty of wolves to complete the quest. Kill everything in this area until you have 8 Diseased Wolf Kills. Also note that the spiders in this area are placeholders for wolves, so you have to kill spiders too if you need more wolves. If needed, you can go grind on the Scarlet Lumberjacks just north of this spot while waiting for the wolves to respawn.

3. Go north to the Northridge Lumbermill, when you are next to the lumbermill, go northeast of it, follow a trail going down to a destroyed wagon. You'll find Kirsta Deepshadow there (51,28), get the quest [56] Unfinished Business.

4. You can find the Scarlet Knights and Mages you need to kill for the quest just southeast of Kirsta, on the road to Hearthglen.

5. For the Hunters and Medics go to the camp further south(51,44).

6. When you completed the kill list, go back to Kirsta and turn in [56] Unfinished Business, get the follow up.

7. Go back on the road just east of Kirsta.
At (54,34) the road forks off to the left and right. Go right and up the slope you will find Huntsman Radley (57,35). She can be pulled solo if you do it at the right moment, just wait for the mage next to her to move far enough.

8. Get back on the main road and this time at the fork go north, keep going north until you hit the watch tower (53,24). Kill the 2 guards infront of it, clear the 1st floor of the tower carefully, then wait for Cavalier Durgen to show up. He goes to the top of the tower then walks back to the entrance. Wait for him to come down, you can't kill him when he's on top, he has 3 guards with him there.

After killing Durgen, clear the way to the top of the tower and prepare for a tough fight: there are 3 scarlet mages on top of the tower, you can actually pull just 1 or 2 if you take your time and body pull carefully. Anyway, make sure you got all your cooldowns ready for this fight. After you have cleared the top of the tower, you should find a Holy Coffer, right-click it and loot the Mark of the Lightbringer.

CAREFUL: Sometimes there is a high-level rare elite on top of the tower in addition to the above mentioned mobs.

9. Go directly back to where Kirsta is by going southwest and jumping down in the crater where she is. Turn in the quest [57] Unfinished Business, get the follow up.

10. Mount up and ride to Hearthglen (46,18), trying to avoid most mobs on your way. When you are at the entrance, open your map and search the following location with your cursor: (45,18). Now clear your way to that location, where you should see a tower. Kill the two guards at the entrance and climb up the tower. Run around on the top floor until you get a quest complete message. Exit the tower, mount up and get back to Kirsta. Turn the quest in.

You should be level 59 by now or close.


Level 59


Hearthstone to the Undercity.
Right after warping to the Undercity you should see a yellow question mark on your minimap labelled as "Royal Overseer Bauhaus".

Go to him and turn in the quest [52]Better Late Than Never, get the follow up [52]The Jeremiah Blues. You can turn this quest just a few steps away, under the stairs leading to the bank. Get the follow up get the follow up [52]Good Luck Charm.

Sell and repair, restock consumables (5 stacks).

Ride out of the Undercity and back to the Bulwark.

  • Turn in [55]Return to the Bulwark, get the follow up [58]Target: Gahron's Withering.
  • Turn in [58]The So-Called Mark of the Lightbringer, get the follow up [58]Defiling Uther's Tomb.

End of XP Circuit:

==Note== Decent, but could also have been better, as I forgot to set my hearthstone to Undercity and had to run there Sticking out tongue

Start of XP Circuit:

1. Ride to Uther's Tomb (52,81), look at the map below to see the path to take. Uther's Tomb is guarded by a level 58 elf npc, pvp flagged. If you attack it you'll be pvp flagged, if you don't want that you can just wait for him to do his patrol behind the statue. Equip the Corrupted Mark of the Lightbringer in your off-hand slot and wait for the 30 second cooldown, get close to the statue and right-click the Corrupted Mark of the Lightbringer directly from your off-hand slot.

2. Go back the way you came from to the Bulwark. Turn in [58]Defiling Uther's Tomb.

3. Go east to the Felstone Field, go into the left house (38,54) on the 2nd Floor. Turn in the quest [52] Good Luck Charm at Janice Felstone and get the follow up [54] Two Halves Become One.

Get out of the house and look for a Jabbering Ghoul wandering the area in front of the barn. If it's not there just keep the area clean until it respawns. Kill it and it will drop a "Good Luck Other-Half-Charm".
Once you have the other half charm, go back to Janice Felstone, right click on the other-half-charm in your inventory. Turn in the quest.

4. Get back on the road and ride east, then go southeast to the Writhing Haunt. Clear the way to the house with the tauren lying down on the floor, turn in [54]The Wildlife Suffers Too, get the follow up [56]The Wildlife Suffers Too.

**From now on kill any Diseased Grizzly you see until you have killed 8 (at 54,48 you’ll find a lot of them)**

5. Go northeast to Gahron's Withering (62,57). Clear a path to the Scourge Cauldron, when you get close Cauldron Lord Soulwrath will, appear, kill it. He's harder than the other cauldron lords, he knockbacks and silences, so be careful where you fight him. Loot his key then go to the Cauldron, turn in the quest and get the follow up [58] Return to the Bulwark.

6. Go to the area which is in between Garon's Withering and the Writhing Haunt. There should be plenty of bears there. Kill everything in this area until you have 8 Diseased Grizzly Kills, then go turn in [56]The Wildlife Suffers Too at the Writhing Haunt. Get the follow up [56]Glyphed Oaken Branch.

7. Ride east until you hit Thondroril River, go north along the river bank, then cross the river so you are on the eastern bank and ride north until you find a house. In front of it you'll see Tirion Fordring, get his 3 quests:

  • [56] Demon Dogs
  • [56] Blood Tinged Skies
  • [56] Carrion Grubbage

**From now on, kill on sight the following:
Plaguehound Runt
Carrion Worm
Plaguebat
**

8. Go south along the river and then east into Eastern Plaguelands.

1. Go southeast while killing everything on the way. Find the Marry's Stead. You should find Nathanos Blightcaller there (27,75). Turn in [56]The Champion of the Banshee Queen. Get the follow ups:

  • [58]To Kill With Purpose
  • [58]Un-Life's Little Annoyances
  • [60]The Ranger Lord's Behest

**Add the following two mobs to your kill-on-sight list:
Noxious Plaguebat
Monstrous Plaguebat
**

2. Go southeast to Darrowshire, keep killing everything on sight that you need for quests, there should be plenty.

Inside Darrowshire, find a small destroyed house on the western side of Darrowshire. You should find Pamela Redpath there, turn in the quest [55] Sister Pamela and get the follow up [55] Pamela's Doll.

Now you must find the 3 parts of pamela's doll, they can be in any of the other houses in Darrowshire, mostly on the 2nd floor of it. Look on the floor for some brown objet. Everytime you get close to one of the doll parts, a level 55 ghost spawns and attack you.

Once you have Pamela's Doll's Left Side, Right Side and Head. Right click them in your inventory to combine them. Go to Pamela and turn in the quest. Get the two follow up quests:

  • [56] Uncle Carlin
  • [56] Auntie Marlene

3. Go back towards the Marry's Stead and keep doing wide circles around it killing everything until you got 30 Plaguebat and 20 Plaguehound Runts slain. This is the best area to find them.

4. Go east to the area north of the Infectis Scar and Corin's Crossing. Kill everything around until you have 5 Plaguehound Kills and 20 Noxious Plaguebat Kills. Also kill Carrion Grubs if you still miss Slabs of Carrion Worm Meat.

5. Once you're done with the above, go to the area which is north of Blackwood Lake (51,41). You should find Frenzied Plaguehounds and Monstrous Plaguebats around this area, kill 5 Frenzied Plaguehounds and 10 Monstrous Plaguebats. Also kill Carrion Devourers if you still need carrion meat.

6. Go southeast, around the Pestilent Scar by the north of it and then go southeast to Light's Hope Chapel (81,59).

Get the flight path. Turn in [52] Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff. Turn in [56] Uncle Carlin, get the follow up [55] Defenders of Darrowshire.

7. Just a bit south of Light's Hope Chapel find Caretaker Alen (79,63). Get the quest [55] Zaeldarr the Outcast from him.

Note: Evil bat eyes, can be used to get Darkmoon Faire Tickets, which you can use to obtain certain items. If you aren't interested in the Darkmoon rewards you can sell the eyes at the AH for nice cash.

8. Check how many "Slab of Carrion Worm Meat" you need, then go kill in the area south and southwest of Light's Hope Chapel until you got your 15 Slabs Carrion Worm Meat.

Hearthstone to the Undercity.

Sell, repair, restock consumables (5 stacks).

Deposit the Glyphed Oaken Branch in the bank.

Ride out of the Undercity and ride east to the Bulwark.

Turn in [58]Return to the Bulwark. Get the quest [55]A Plague Upon Thee from Mickey Levine. Go to High Executor Derrington and get/turn in the quest "Mission Accomplished!".

End of XP Circuit:

Start of XP Circuit (long one):

1. Go inside the Western Plaguelands and ride southeast around Andorhal, then east again to Sorrow Hill and find Marlene Redpath in the only house there is (49,78).

Turn in [56] Auntie Marlene and get the follow up [56] A Strange Historian.

Search the graveyard just north of the house where Marlene Redpath is, look for "Joseph Redpath's Monument" among the graves (49,76) (it’s the sparkling one Sticking out tongue). Click the grave and get Joesph's Wedding Ring.

2. Go west for a while and then north to Andorhal, enter the Ruins of Andorhal by the western entrance.

3. Just a bit inside Andorhal go to the house to the north, it's the only house around with a floor and not totally destroyed (39,68). Inside the house go to the 2nd floor, in one of the rooms you'll find Chromie. Turn in [56] A Strange historian, get the follow up [56] The Annals of Darrowshire. Also get the other quest [56] A Matter of Time.

4. Go to the northern gate of Andorhal, and east of the first watch tower you'll find two wooden silos (45,62) which look like this:

Get full hp/mana, get next to one of them and click your Temporal Displacer (looks like a horn). 1 to 3 lvl 56 worms will spawn and attack you. The worms only appear when the silo is sparkling blue. They take a while to sparkle again after you use the temporal displacer next to them. There's 3 more silos just a bit more to the east.
Keep doing that until you have 10 Temporal Parasites slain.

5. Go back to Chromie, turn in [56] A Matter of Time and get the follow up [56] Counting Out time.

Now what you have to do is to check every destroyed houses in Andorhal and look for Small Lockboxes like this:

Loot the Andorhal Watch from it. Keep doing this until you have 5 Andorhal Watches.

6. Go to the town hall (with a tower clock) which is in the middle of Andorhal, close to where Araj the Summoner is, you can sneak in the town hall without having to fight any of the bunch of mobs close to it.

Inside the town hall you'll find several "Musty Tome" lying on the floor. When you click one, there is a chance you will find the Annals of Darrowshire, but there is a higher chance that you will get a "Ruined Tome" and 1 or 2 level 57 mobs will attack you. They give no loot and no exp. Hoewever there is a trick to know which tome is the right one. There is a slight graphical difference. The pages of the fake tomes have two-tone colored pages, lightbrown and white, like this one:

The good tome looks "newer", and it's pages only have one color tone, like this one:

You can easily see the difference if you zoom in 1st person view and put your mouse pointer over the books to highlight them. Loot the Annals of Darrowshire.

7. Go back to Chromie, turn in [56] Counting Out Time. The Attuned Dampener you get as a reward is only useable on Araj the Summoner, so save it for later when you are 60 and do the big quests. Killing Araj is necessary to get your Scholomance key and another quest for a decent trinket. You'll need a solid group of 60s to kill him, but the Attuned Dampener will help.

Turn in [56] The Annals of Darrowshire, get the follow up [56] Brother Carlin.

Now you should also have finished [57] Skeletal Fragments, if you haven't, kill some more skeletons while you are in Andorhal.

8. Get out of Andorhal by the north gate, then go east till Thondroril River and ride north to Tirion Fordring (7,43).

Turn in [56] Demon Dogs, [56] Blood Tinged Skies and [56] Carion Grubbage. Get the follow up [56] Redemption. Listen to Tirion's tale, turn in the quest and get the follow up [57] Of Forgotten Memories.

This should make you ding 60 or you should be close. Congratulations!


Level 60


You can continue with Jame’s Outland guides right now, however there is another alternative:

Finishing this guide will take you halfway through level 60 or more. You are probably wondering why you should continue questing in the old world. The simple reason is that at level 70 you will want your flying mount and eventually you will also want your epic flying mount. Now all the quests in the Outlands, especially the high level ones give an awesome amount of gold at level 70 and questing has definitely become one of the best ways to make gold in the game without buying any. Doing Jame’s guides half a level ahead will make it easier to breeze through the Outland guides and will leave you with almost half a level (69-70) worth of quests to make gold. (Don’t forget, every quest you complete at level 70 will convert the experience you gain into gold)

Generally in my opinion you should not listen to people who suggest going to Outlands at level 58. I think it’s a grave mistake to waste 2-3 levels full of quests from the old world, most of which give more experience now and have been made easier with patch v2.3. Players who go to Outlands at level 58 do the quests in Hellfire Penninsula (which are much more difficult to do at level 58) and when they are done, they stand around at level 59 and don’t know what to do anymore, because all the other Outland quests are too high level for them. We had many posts on our site from people who complained about exactly that problem, so do not make the same mistake. Either start with Jame’s Outlands Guides at level 60 or if you want to make an extra amount of gold finish this guide first, then go to Outlands.

9. Ride to Eastern Plaguelands.

1. Go southeast to the Undercroft, which is directly south of the Marry's Stead.

Behind the crypt in the Undercroft you'll find Tiron Fordring's Grave (28,86). Next to should be a "Loose Dirt Mound". This is where some classes need help, this almost impossible to do solo unless you use a lot of creativy and everything you got. Anyway here is what happens when you click the dirt mount, Mercutio Filthgorger and 3 Dwarf Graverobbers spawn and go to the dirt mound, if you are close they of course jump you.

They all hit hard, especially Mercutio, and all have a lot of hit points for non elites. Here is what I suggest:

As soon as you click the dirt mount, run to the other side of the fence, you can jump over it if you walk up the mountain a bit. The 4 dwarves will walk to the grave and stand there.

You have two ways to do this now:

1) Polymorph Mercutio (if you have a mage with you) and kill the 3 gravediggers. Then bandage up and kill Mercutio, loot his hammer.

2) Ignore the 3 adds and go all out on Mercurio, loot the hammer and run.

Use creativity with the classes you have!

Ex: I could solo it with my rogue and my mage at level 58. With the rogue I simple used evasion and focused on Mercutio then I vanished as soon as he died. I didn't even need a potion.
With the mage I polymorphed Mercutio, frost nova'd the 3 guards and AoE'd them to death as quick as I could. They I re-polymorphed Mercutio, used evocation, bandaged up and then killed him.

However some classes and some talent specs probably can't manage it, so try to get some help if you can't solo it.
And if you don't get help immediatly, there's something to do in the Undercroft while wait for someone to come help you:

Go inside the crypt (27,85), clear the way down, kill Zaeldarr the Outcast and loot his head.
In the same room look for a "Torn Scroll" on the floor, click it can get the quest [60] Hameya's Plea.

If you still didn't get anyone to help you on [57] Of Forgotten Memories, grind on the trolls in the Undercroft while waiting for someone to help you. It just takes 10 min! Call a guildmate or something. Smiling

2. Go back to Tiron Fordring, turn in [57] Of Forgotten Memories, get the follow up [58] Of Lost Honor.

Hearthstone to Undercity.

Go train, sell junk, restock on food/arrows etc. Fly to Light’s hope Chapel.

3. Turn in [56] Brother Carlin, get the follow up [57] Villains of Darrowshire and [56] Heroes of Darrowshire.
Turn in [55] Zaeldarr the Outcast further to the south at Caretaker Alen.

4. Ride west to the Infectis Scar by passing Corin's Crossing by the south side.
Go down the Infectis Scar at (49,74), then go to
(53,65) where you'll find the "Shattered Sword of Marduk", as marked on the map. It looks like this:

Loot it.

Get out of the Infectis Scar by the way you came in.

5. Go north to Blackwood Lake (49,51). Take a dive, in the middle of the pool at the bottom you'll see Ghosts of Darrowshire fighting each other, amongst them you should see a glowing violet skull named "Horgus Skull" (51,50), it looks like this:

Loot it.

6. Go west to the Plaguewoods. In the Plaguewoods look around for Large Termite Mounds and loot them:

Kill stuff inside Plaguewood while looking for those termite mounds, but also try to find as many Cannibal Ghouls as possible. Anytime you kill one of these, a Spirit of Darrowshire will appear, right click it to free it. You need to free 15 Darrowshire Spirits. The Cannibal Ghouls are not so numerous though, so if you're having trouble finding them, there's a better spot at (67,35). Once you're done with the termite quest, you should go there and kill Diseased Flayers. In any case, this might take a while, consider this as a mini grinding session, plus you are getting faction with the Argent Dawn and Scourgestones.

7. When you are done with both [55] A Plague Upon Thee and [57] Defenders of Darrowshire, go to the Quel'Lithien Lodge (51,22). Clear yourself a path to the main building.

Warning: there are a lot of patrols inside the building, pull them first and pull carefully, it can get quite hectic in this building.
Enter the building and clear towards the right-hand wing. You should find two level 60 Quel'Lithien Protectors, kill them and then loot the Quel'lithien Registry, which should be lying on a bench.

Before you leave Quel'lithien Lodge, kill as many elves as needed to complete the quest [60]The Ranger Lord's Behest.

8. Go east to Zul'Mashar (64,24). Clear the way up the slope, and to the east, you'll soon face a big pyramid. At its base you should see tombs with some trolls roaming about them. One of them is Infiltrator Hameya.

Clear some of the trolls until you get a clear pull on Hameya, pull him solo and kill him, then loot his key.

9. Clear your way out of Zul'Mashar then go southeast to Northdale, take a dive in the pool which is just south of Northdale. Clear the elementals in the way. At (71,33), next to a cage you should see a white flag with a blue runed on it named "Symbol of Lost Honor":

Loot it.

10. Ride southeast to Light's Hope Chapel.

Turn in [55] Defenders of Darrowshire and [57] Villains of Darrowshire. Get the quest [56] Heros of Darrowshire (if you haven't already).

11. Ride west/southwest to Corin's Crossing, kill every undead you find there until you have 7 Living Rot. You must be rather quick because the living rot only lasts 10 minutes. As soon as you have 7, right-click the Mortar and Pestle from your inventory, you should receive some Coagulated Rot.

12. Ride west and slightly south to the Undercroft. Right behind the crypt in the Undercroft you should find a "Mound of Dirt". Not the one next to Tiron's grave, the other one close to a charriot (28,86). Click it, turn in [60] Hameya's Plea.

13. Ride north to the Marry's Stead. Turn in the 3 quests, take the follow ups.

14. Go back and forth between Marry’s Stead and Crown Guard Tower until you spot a huge bat called Duskwing. Kill it and go back to Marry’s Stead to turn the quest in.

15. Ride northwest back to Tirion Fordring, turn in [58] Of Lost Honor and get the follow up [58] Of Love and Family.

Go south and then west back into the Western Plaguelands.

1. First make a stop at Gahrron’s Withering. There in front of the first building when you arrive from the north you’ll see a glowing shield looking like this:

Clear the mobs around it then loot the shield.

2. Mount up and ride to Hearthglen. Clear your way into the village until you see the townhall:

Clear your way inside and loot the glowing object from the table.

3. Follow the road south then west until the Bulwark.
In the Bulwark turn in [55]A Plague Upon Thee and get the follow up. Also turn in [57]Skeletal Fragments and get the follow up [57]Mold Rhymes With...

4. Go back to the Western Plaguelands and ride northeast to Northridge Lumber Camp.
Go straight to the lumber mill which is at the northeastern tip of the lumber camp.

Inside the lumber mill you should find a big crate named "Northridge Lumber Mill Crate". Click it and place the Termite Barrel on it. A barrel with green smoke should appear, click it and get the follow up.

5. Ride south, get back on the road, then go east for a while and then go south towards the isle of Caer Darrow. Swim southeast to Caer Darrow isle, on the western side of Caer Darrow, find Artist Renfray in a wooden house (65,75). Turn in [58] Of Love and Family and get the follow up [60] Of Love and Family if you plan on going to Stratholme.

Hearthstone to the Undercity.

Sell, repair, restock food and drink (4 stacks).

Fly to Light’s Hope Chapel. Turn in [56] Heroes of Darrowshire.

End of XP Circuit:

==Note== Quite happy with the XP/hour rate sustained over nearly 3 hours. This really proves that old world circuits are highly competitive and that it's a real waste to skip them just to go to Outland asap. I went to Outland at 58, finished the first 3 quests for the nice upgrades, then went back to Plaguelands and I'm quite glad I did. This is definitely the way to go and the numbers prove it.

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OPTIONAL (can take some time): Take the follow up and ride north to Browman Mill. Start clearing your way up and look for Scourge Champions. Everytime you kill one you’ll get to loot a skull. Use the mystic crystal from your inventory and if you are lucky you’ll get the quest item. You need five of those resonating skulls. If there are no Scourge Champions around anymore, kill everything around as every mob in that area and on top of the hill is a placeholder for the champions. The quest is turned back in at Light Hope’s Chapel.

OPTIONAL (can take some time, difficult for some classes): Once you are done ride northwest and search for Borelgore. He can be found pathing this area:

Clear everything around him then kill him. The quest is turned in at Marry’s Stead.

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Get back to Light’s Hope Chapel and fly back to Undercity.
Get the following items from your bank:

  • Umi's Mechanical Yeti
  • Tinkee's Letter
  • Encased Corrupt Ooze
  • Glyphed Oaken Branch

Ride out of the Undercity and take the zeppelin to Orgrimmar.
Take 2x Thorium Bars with you.

Fly to Everlook, Winterspring.
In Everlook, turn in [58] Are We There, Yeti? at Umi Rumplesnicker.
Turn in [54] Felnok Steelspring, don't get the follow up.

Fly to Thunderbluff, in Thunder Bluff go to the Elder Rise and turn in [56]Glyphed Oaken Branch at Nara Wildmane.

Fly to Gadgetzan, turn in [57]Mold Rhymes With... at Krinkle Goodsteel, get the follow up [57]Fire Plume Forged.

Fly to Un'goro Crater, ride south to the top of fire plume mountain, (49,46). Right-click the Skeleton Key Mold from your inventory while standing very close to the lava, you should receive an Unfinished Skeleton Key.

Get off Fire Plume Ridge by the southern side and look for a Primal Ooze in the area south of the mountain (50,67). When you find one, engage it and before killing it right-click the Encased Corrupt Ooze from your inventory. You will release a little ooze which will merge with the Primal Ooze and create a Gargantuan Ooze. Kill it and loot the Merged Ooze Sample off it.

Get on your mount and ride northwest till you reach the mountain on your left-hand side, ride north along the mountain until you find two stone pillars (29,22). From there, follow the path going up the mountain until you zone into Silithus, keep going west on the road until you reach Cenarion Hold. In Cenarion Hold find the Wyvern Master and get the new flight path.

Get the following quests:

  • [55] Securing the Supply Lines from Windcaller Proudhorn.
  • [55] Deadly Desert Venom, from Beetix Fickelspragg on the 1st Floor of the Inn.
  • [58] The Twilight Mystery from Geologist Larksbane
  • [60] Secret Communication from Bor Wildmane
  • [60] Twilight Geolords

1. Get out of Cenarion Hold by the west side, keep going west a little bit, you'll quickly encounter Scorpids, Spiders and Worms. Kill all of them on sight. Move to the next paragraph if you run out of mobs to kill in the blue area shown as "1" on the map.

2. Go to the Twillight Base Camp (41,42). Kill the Twilight mobs. There is also a lot of scorpids, spiders and worms in the area north of the twilight camp. Keep kiling around this camp until you complete [60] Secret Communication, Twilight Geolords, [55] Deadly Desert Venom and [55] Securing the Supply lines.

3. When done with all 4 above quests, go northwest until you are in the northwestern most corner of Silithus named "The Crystal Vale" (20,18). Look around for "Twilight Tablet Fragments", they look like this:

4. As soon as you have 8 tablets, go back to Cenarion Hold and turn in the 5 quests, you can get the follow ups if you wish, we won't be doing them in this guide.

Hearthstone to the Undercity, go to the Apothecarium and turn in [55]Melding Influences.

Get out of the Undercity and ride east to the Bulwark. Turn in [55]A Plague Upon Thee and [57]Fire Plume Forged. You can get the follow up if you wish, they are for the Scholomance Key and you'll probably need a group for the next step.

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- Revamp, Text Formating & Picture Editing: Snowflake

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Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Chapter V (60-65)

Chapter 5 - [Level 60 - 65]

Journey from Hellfire Peninsula to Terokkar

Introduction

This guide is made for FAST leveling through the use of Optimized Quest Circuits. With this guide, questing will be very efficient and you'll not waste any second running around and trying to figure out in which order to do your quests. Follow each instruction carefully and you will see for yourself. The quest choices and order to do them are optimal so that you run as few as possible while doing the most possible, turning several quests at the same time. It will be like grinding, because you'll be killing stuff almost non-stop, besides you'll also be completing a bunch of quests at the same time!

Everything described in this guide can be done solo (beside when I say otherwise). You can, of course, follow this guide while duoing, grouping, it's not a problem, it works too.

DISCLAIMER: This guide does NOT take into account tradeskills, class specific quests or PvP. It's 100% focused on getting the most experience possible in the shortest possible time while doing a lot of quests and enjoying as much content as possible. Any race/class combination can do this guide. Any complaints about PvP, tradeskills, or class specific issues will be ignored.


Basic rules

  • Spend your talent points so that you kill things as fast as possible. (e.g: Priest should specialize in Shadow Talents, Warriors in Arms/Fury, etc.

  • Don't waste your time trying to find groups for questing, you can solo everything that is described in this guide unless I say otherwise. Only group with someone when it's not gonna be a waste of time (e.g: meeting the person at the other end of the zone to show him the way to where your quest is, that is a waste of time)

  • Try to always log out in an inn or in one of the major cities when you tak