Starting in Borean Tundra

Getting to Borean Tundra

Leaving Orgrimmar

Exit Orgrimmar from the main gate. To the left (east) is the old zeppelin tower (to the Undercity or Grom'gol). Don't go there! Instead, angle right (southwest), past the first farm building to a new, rather stumpy structure that doesn't look much like a zeppelin tower but is. Go up the stairs and onto the waiting platform. When the zeppelin arrives, get on it. Next stop: Warsong Hold!

Arriving in Warsong Hold

Unlike Vengeance Landing, Warsong Hold is not a town; it's a large, convoluted, basically circular four-story building surrounded by a walled courtyard and questing area. The Hold is oriented diagonally: The main entrance ramp extends from the arrival platform southeast to the outside, and there is a large cross-corridor on the main level that runs northeast to southwest.

Getting from one floor to another can be confusing. A mirrored pair of curving ramps connects the third floor, where the zeppelin leaves you, with the second or middle level, where many of the trainers are. Another, similar pair of ramps in the northwest quadrant connects the middle level with the first floor - the main level. Between that set of ramps, an elevator connects the second floor with the roof, where the flight point is. A passage opening onto the main (entrance) ramp and two side corridors provide access to the outside from the main level.

First things first:

1. From the small zeppelin platform [41,53] on the third floor, step forward and pick up the quest, Hellscream's Vigil, from the Warsong Recruitment Officer on the upper landing. It's a simple travel quest to talk to Garrosh Hellscream, two floors below, and enables you to pick up other quests in Warsong Hold.
2. Ignore the main ramp straight ahead. Instead, take one of the side ramps down and consult with the trainers on the second floor.
3. Go to the northwest end, and take the elevator to the roof. Exit north, and pick up the flight point [41,52].
4. Take the elevator back down to the second floor. Exit on either side (not the front), and take the ramp (either ramp) down to the main level.
5. Talk to Garrosh [41,53] in the center of Warsong Hold, and complete Hellscream's Vigil.
6. Before picking up any other quests, check out the rest of the main level; locate the inn, mailbox, trainers, and vendors.

Warsong Hold

The Roof

• The top of the elevator [40,52]
• Turida Coldwind, Wind Rider Master [41,52] (at the flight point in the northwest corner)
• Wind Master To'bor [42,54-55], a quest-giver (patrolling the southwest section of the roof, on the other side of a round, central room three floors above Garrosh
• Yanni [42,55], near To'bor

The Third Floor

• The zeppelin platform [41,53]
• Warsong Recruitment Officer, a quest-giver (on the upper landing, in front of the zep platform and at the top of three ramps)

The Second Floor

The base of the elevator [40,52], which also provides access to the two downward ramps, is in the northwest corner.

The center [41,53] of the middle level, between the ramps and opposite the bottom of the elevator, contains a number of trainers. From left to right:

• Geba'li, Grand Master Jewelcrafting Trainer
• Raenah, Grand Master Tailoring Trainer
• Gara Skullcrush, Horde Expedition Quartermaster
• A Lexicon of Power
• Adelene Sunlance, Grand Master Inscription Trainer
• Eorain Dawnstrike, Grand Master Enchanting Trainer.

Around the back [41,54] - the southeast side - of the middle level are more trainers and vendors:

• Groll, General Goods vendor (on the southwestern end of the backside arc)
• Brokkan Bear-Arms, Trade Goods vendor (with Groll)
• Nurse Applewood, Grand Master First Aid Trainer (in the center)
• Arthur Henslowe, Grand Master Alchemy Trainer (near the nurse)
• Zend'li Venomtusk, Poison Supplies vendor (next to Henslowe)
• Tansy Wildmane [42,53], Grand Master Herbalism Trainer (on the east side)
• Drikka [41,53], Reagents vendor (on the northeast end).

The Main Level

Garrosh's chamber [41,53] is in the center of Warsong Hold.

• Garrosh Hellscream completes your first quest here, Hellscream's Vigil.
• High Overlord Saurfang, a quest-giver, is next to Garrosh.
• Magistrix Kaelana, another quest-giver, is a few feet away.
• Sauranok the Mystic, another quest-giver, circles the room.

The Inn [41,54] is a room on the main level just east of Garrosh's room.

• Williamson, Innkeeper, is in the center of the room.
• Orn Tenderhoof, Grand Master Cooking Trainer, is in the north corner.
• Fishy Ser'ji, Grand Master Fishing Trainer,
• Ambassador Talonga, a quest-giver, and
• Endorah, a quest-giver, are clustered around the west corner of the Inn.

The eastern quarter [42,53], just northeast of the inn, is the engineering area.

• Chief Engineer Leveny, Grand Master Engingeering Trainer, patrols the area.
• Brunna Ironaxe, Grand Master Mining Trainer, is at the north end of the room.

In the southern quarter [41,55], the blacksmith area just southwest of the inn, are forge, anvil, and various NPCs.

• The wandering Armorer Orkuruk, a vendor, buys, sells, and repairs.
• Crog Steelspine, Grand Master Blacksmithing Trainer, is at the west end of the room.

The stables [40,53] line the southwest corridor.

• Durkot Wolfbrother, the Stable Master, patrols the area.

The Courtyard (Outside)

Just outside Warsong Hold are four quest-givers:

• Foreman Mortuus [42,56], at the southeast corner of the Hold
• Overlord Razgor [43,54], inside a hut northeast of the main entrance to the Hold
• Shadowstalker Barthus [43,55], inside the same hut
• Quartermaster Holgoth [43,55], near the same hut.

Taunka'le Village

Two trainers are *not* in Warsong Hold. Instead, they are a considerable distance east northeast, in Taunka'le Village, inside the Inn there:

• Tiponi Stormwhisper [76,37], Grand Master Skinning Trainer, inside the inn, just to the left (south) of the Innkeeper
• Awan Iceborn [76,36], Grand Master Leatherworker, just to the right (north) of the Innkeeper.

Quests

• All quests in the starting area are level 71.
• All quests in the starting area seem to require a minimum character level of 68.
• Many of the quests yield reputation with the Warsong Offensive, a subfaction of the Horde Expedition, but so far this is of limited utility except for the portion (reportedly half) that increases your reputation with the Horde Expedition.

Preliminary Quests

• Hellscream's Vigil
  Simple travel quest from Warsong Recruitment Officer [41,53], on the upper landing on the third floor, to Garrosh Hellscream [41,53], two floors below.
  Rewards: 10 Warsong Offensive reputation, 2000 experience, 25s.

• The Defense of Warsong Hold
  Short travel quest from High Overlord Saurfang, in Garrosh Hellscream's chamber, to Overlord Razgor [43,55], inside a hut outside Warsong Hold.
  Rewards: 10 Warsong Offensive reputation, 2000 experience.
  • Despite the misleading quest text, the hut is more east than "south" of the Hold - and actually *north* of the Hold's main entrance.

The Cooking Quest

• Northern Cooking
  Collection quest from Orn Tenderhoof [41,54], Grand Master Cooking Trainer (in the Inn), to get four pieces of Chilled Meat from any of the beasts in Northrend.
  Rewards: 75 Warsong Offensive reputation, 6250 experience, 2g20s, recipe for Northern Stew.
  • Cooking skill of 350 or higher is required.
  • This is identical to the cooking quest in Vengeance Landing, but they are not the same quest. You can't get the quest in one zone and turn it in elsewhere; nor can you do both.
  • You do not need to have the quest to collect Chilled Meat, but the drop rate is low in any case.
  • This appears to be a stand-alone quest; there is no follow-up.

Round One

Available after completing the preliminary quests.

• Taking Back Mightstone Quarry
  Killing quest from Overlord Razgor [43,54] (in a hut northeast of the main entrance to the Hold) to kill 15 spiders ("Nerub'ar Nerubians").
  Rewards: 250 Warsong Offensive reputation, 20100 experience.

• Patience Is a Virtue that We Don't Need
  Collection quest from Quartermaster Holgoth [43,55] (outside, just north of the main entrance) to recover 15 crates of Warsong Munitions scattered throughout the quarry.
  Rewards: 250 Warsong Offensive reputation, 20100 experience.

• Taken by the Scourge
  Rescue quest from Foreman Mortuus [42,56] (outside, at the southeast corner of the Hold) to free 5 Warsong Peons from their webbed casings.
  Rewards: 250 Warsong Offensive reputation, 20100 experience, choice of items:
  • Weathered Worker Cloak
  • Marshwalker Boots
  • Westrift Handcovers
  • Mightstone Legplates.

Round Two

• Cutting Off the Source
  Follows Taking Back Mightstone Quarry
  Killing quest from Overlord Razgor to destroy 10 Nerub'ar Egg Sacs in the quarry or on the ledges and ramps overlooking it.
  Rewards: 250 Warsong Offensive reputation, 20100 experience, choice of weapons:
  • Combatant Greatsword
  • Warsong Longbow
  • Writhing Longstaff
  • Medic's Morning Star
  • Soldier's Spiked Mace
  • Vicious Spellblade.

• Bury Those Cockroaches!
  Follows Patience Is a Virtue that We Don't Need
  Demolition quest from Quartermaster Holgoth to blow up four sinkholes in the quarry.
  • East Sinkhole [44,56]
  • South Sinkhole [41,58]
  • West Sinkhole [39,52]
  • North Sinkhole [41,50]
  Rewards: 250 Warsong Offensive reputation, 20100 experience, choice of items:
  • Marshwalker Legguards
  • Tundrastrider Coif
  • Mightstone Breastplate
  • Warsong's Wrath.

• Shadowstalker quests
  Available after completing Taking Back Mightstone Quarry

  1. Untold Truths
     Short travel/exploration quest from Shadowstalker Barthus (next to Overlord Razgor) to the corpse of Shadowstalker Luthor [40,52], in the northwest corner of the quarry.
     Rewards: 25 Warsong Offensive reputation, 5050 experience.

  2. Nerub'ar Secrets
     Travel quest from Shadowstalker Luthor's corpse back to Shadowstalker Barthus. Get Luthor's Journal from the body, and right-click it to start the quest.
     Rewards: 25 Warsong Offensive reputation, 5050 experience.

Travel Quests

Available after completing the preliminary quests:

• Ride to Taunka'le Village
  Travel quest from Ambassador Talonga (in the Inn) to Sage Earth and Sky [77,38] at Taunka'le Village, somewhat north of Warsong Hold and far to the east.
  Rewards: 10 reputation with The Taunka, 2000 experience.

• Too Close for Comfort
  Travel quest from Endorah (in the Inn) to Librarian Donathan [45,33] at Amber Ledge, north of Warsong Hold.
  Rewards: 10050 experience, 2g40s.
  • This quest begins an important chain that leads to Coldara and The Nexus.

• To Bor'gorok Outpost. Quickly!
  Travel quest from Sauranok the Mystic (in Garrosh's chamber) to Spirit Talker Snarlfang [50,9] at Bor'gorok Outpost, at the northern edge of the zone.
  Rewards: 10 Warsong Offensive reputation, 2000 experience.

Available after completing Nerub'ar Secrets:

1. Message to Hellscream
   Travel quest from Shadowstalker Barthus (in Overlord Razgor's hut) to Garrosh Hellscream inside Warsong Hold.
   Rewards: 25 Warsong Offensive reputation, 5050 experience.

2. Reinforcements Incoming...
   Travel quest from Garrosh to Shadowstalker Ickorus [38,52] at the Warsong Farms Outpost just west of Warsong Hold.
   Rewards: 25 Warsong Offensive reputation, 5050 experience.

Available after completing Cutting Off the Source:

1. Wind Master To'bor
   Travel quest from Overlord Razgor (in the hut northeast of the main entrance to the Hold) to Wind Master To'bor on the southeast section of the roof of Warsong Hold.
   Rewards: 10 Warsong Offensive reputation, 2000 experience.

2. Magic Carpet Ride
   Travel quest (by magic carpet) from Wind Master To'bor (via Yanni) to Gorge the Corpsegrinder [32,54] at Garrosh's Landing on the west coast.
   Rewards: 10 Warsong Offensive reputation, 2000 experience.