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Swagvault WotLK 70-80 Alliance Leveling Guide: 70-72

November 7, 2008 – 7:06 am
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Swagvault Alliance Leveling Guide (70-72) in Borean Tundra

The sprawling Borean Tundra lies at the far southwestern tip of Northrend, the icy continent also known as the roof of the world. Alliance settlers built the Valiance Keep at southeast of Borean Tundra and preparing to launch an offensive against the Lich King and his undead armies. You can take a ship from Stormwind Harbor (north of the Stormwind City) to Valiance Keep

Most of the quests in Borean Tundra are easy to get and simple to do, you can earn lots of quick experiences here, although I have completed all the quests I can find here but there still 5 quests lost for Alliance players, I guess blizzard will add the last 5 quest for this achievement in further version.

Valiance Keep

Swagvault Alliance Leveling Guide (70-72) in Borean Tundra

Valiance Keep is the first stand you begin your adventure in Northrend, you can do some quick quests here and get several T4 level equipments especially weapons from quest rewards. That is helpful for your alts if they didn’t well-geared.
Enlistment Day is the first quest you get here from Recruitment Officer Blythe at the square, meet with General Arlos inside the barracks in Valiance Keep, then you will have a simple impresstion of the situations here.
General Arlos will send you to Sergeant Hammerhill with quest A Time for Heroes who ride a black goat at the main entrance, quest The Siege want you to kill 6 Crypt Crawlers in the Sands of Nasam outside of Valiance Keep, then Death From Above, use the Reinforced Net to help you slay 6 Scourged Flamespitters and finally Plug the Sinkholes, use the Incendiary Explosives to collapse two sinkholes, one of the sinkholes is at the southwest edge of Sands of Nasam and a little hard to find, another one is by Farshire.
At the same time you are doing the quests above, you will get the quest A Soldier in Need from Medic Hawthorn outside of Valiance Keep, the quest item can be found in the center of town on the boat. And you will find other 2 quests on the boat, the one is Notify Arlos from Admiral Cantlebree on the upper floor of the boat, and another is from the ritual inside the boat, next to the quest item chest of A Soldier in Need.
Get back to barracks again, you can get Enemies of the Light from Harbinger Vurenn, kill the Cultist Necrolytes northwest of the Valiance Keep by the Farshire till you get Cultist Communique then return to Vurenn; The second step is Further Investigation, bring the Cultist Communique to Vindicator Yaala inside the inn in Valiance Keep; then you will get The Hunt is On, use the Oculus of the Exorcist in three different locations in Valiance Keep to uncover and defeat Cult of the Damned members, after you used the Oculus, you will see Cult of the Damned member in black form, talk with them and kill them, the one in prison is Guard Mitchells, inside of the barrack.
Finally you can get the first part of a long chain quest from Mark Hanes next to Sergeant Hammerhill, Word on the Street, find Leryssa at the inn in Valiance Keep; then Thassarian, My Brother, look for William Allerton inside the Farshire mine, William Allerton is dead and you can find his corpse inside of the Farshire mine, then you get the quest The Late William Allerton, report back to Leryssa and get the 4th step Lost and Found, speak to James Deacon who is in the inn too. In Wine, Truth let you salvage a bottle of Kul Tiras Wine from the underwater shipwreck northeast of Valiance Keep and bring it to Old Man Colburn in the Valiance Keep inn, the wine shows as a small box in the middle part of the sunken boat and some sharks swim around it; After you back, A Deserter lead you to the prison inside of the barracks in Valiance Keep, then Cowards and Fools let you speak to Ataika in Kaskala, you can stop this chain quest here because the further steps will finally lead you to Thassarian at Death’s Stand (Point 11) and starts a new series of quests then end with Last Rites for this story.

Farshire

Fareshire is just at the north of Valiance Keep where stands a lighthouse, the farmers here got some troubles with the zombies. Help them deal the problems.
Once you finished the quests of Sergeant Hammerhill in Valiance he will give you a quest Farshire which wants you travel to Farshire and speak to Gerald Green. Then you get Military? What Military? wants you to go into the mine to the north and find out what happened to the military detachment that was sent there. Enter the mine of Farshire, and at the quite beginning you’ll find some green stuff (bags) at the floor. You can’t miss it when entering the mine, done this step, get Pernicious Evidence then return back to Gerald Green to report. He will give you It’s Time for Action that is killing 14 Plagued Scavengers; Fruits of Our Labor wants you enter the mine again, obtain the Cart Release Key from Captain Jacobs who is at the end of the mine and use it to release the ore cart. The further two quests One Last Delivery and Weapons for Farshire are delivery quests just get to Valiance Keep and back. Then the final part, Call to Arms! Go to the town hall building in Farshire and ring the bell inside of it, be remember the bell is at the 2nd floor of the hall, you can get a blue quality necklace from the quest rewards.

Quest Rewards of Call to Arms!
The quest from Gerald Green is the main chain of Farshire story, but when you doing those quests which are given by Gerald Green, you can also get the quests Take No Chances from Wendy Darren who wants you to use Wendy’s Torch to burn 8 sacks of Farshire Grain and Reference Material from Jeremiah Hawning who wants you to retrieve the book “Fields, Factories and Workshops” from the burning building next to the mine in Farshire; after you get the book, you will get Repurposed Technology, destroy 5 Harvest Collectors and then use Jeremiah’s Tools to rewire them. And then, everything at farshire are done.

Riplash Strand

The quest A Diplomatic Mission from Counselor Talbot in the barracks of Valiance Keep will lead you to Karuk at Rilash Strand, southwest of Valiance Keep. He will give you a 5 steps chain quest, which can be easily done in 30 minutes. First, Karuk’s Oath wants you to slay 6 Skadir Raiders and 5 Skadir Longboatmen; then Gamel the Cruel ,defeat Gamel the Cruel inside of the center cave of Riplash Strand; after you completed this, A Father’s Words: find Veehja at the Shrine of Scales, just at the southwest of Riplash Strand; the 4th step is The Trident of Naz’jan, kill Ragnar Drakkarlund at Riplash Ruins and take the Trident of Naz’jan back, remember, although Ragnar Drakkarlund is at the east end of the ruins, but you can only enter it from the western entrance; The final step is The Emissary, find Leviroth under the cold water (north of the ruins), use the Trident of Naz’jan to slay him and return to Karuk for rewards.

D.E.H.T.A. Encampment

Some druids belong to Cenarion Expedition call themselves D.E.H.T.A. set their encampment in the middle of Borean Tundra to fight agaist the wide animals hunters. If you killed some wide animals around them, you’ll get a debuff named Animals Blood and couldn’t talk with them for 3 minutes. You can get 7 quests in total at the camp and then 2 extra quests form Hierophant Liandra (a druid in flying form) who is at the north of Farthire.
Ears of Our Enemies is a repeatable quest that Arch Druid Lathorius wants you to bring him 15 Nesingwary Lackey Ears. You can get the ears from any Nesingwary hunters and he’ll buff you once complete the quest. Help Those That Cannot Help Themselves is using the D.E.H.T.A. Trap Smasher to free 8 Mammoth Calves around the camp, then you get Khu’nok Will Know, take the Orphaned Mammoth Calf to Khu’nok the Behemoth, Khu’nok is north of the camp and I marked him with red circle. Then you’ll have Kaw the Mammoth Destroyer, Kill Kaw the Mammoth Destroyer and recover Kaw’s War Halberd. Deliver Kaw’s War Halberd to Arch Druid Lathorius at the D.E.H.T.A. Encampment, this is a funny quest, you can ride a wide mammoth to defeat Kaw the Mammoth Destroyer, it has 3 skills, Mammoth Trample, Mammoth Charge and Thundering Roar and all deal lots of damages.
Happy as a Clam is the quest from Hierophant Cenius, kill 10 Loot Crazed Divers in the west lake, then return back for The Abandoned Reach which will lead you to Hierophant Liandra, the druid I mentioned in the description of D.E.H.T.A. Encampment. Hierophant Liandra give you the quest Not On Our Watch, recover 12 Shipments of Animal Parts around the seashore, the parts show as grey bags and easy to find. Final step is The Nefarious Clam Master…, kill Slay Clam Master K who is diving around the sunken boat which you get the wine in Valiance Keep quest.
Once you completed all those quest above, you will get The Assassination of Harold Lane from Arch Druid Lathorius, this is a group quest for 3, but can be done with 2 or 1 well-geared character. Try to find a group if you can’t solo him. It also has a blue quality ring rewards and an Achievement: D.E.H.T.A’s Little P.I.T.A.

Quest Rewards of The Assassination of Harold Lane

Kaskala

Kaskala is the first tuskarr village you meet in Northrend, because of the inbreak of Verkul, they moved to Unu’pe where there’s a harbor to Moa’ki Harbor in Dragonblight, some tuskarr  warriors left to fight against Verkul invaders.
The First quest here is Not Without a Fight! From Ataika who wants you to slay 12 Kvaldir Raiders. You can also get Preparing for the Worst from Utaik to gather 8 Kaskala Supplies in Kaskala.  Then you can get Muahit’s Wisdom which will lead you to Elder Muahit at the island of Kaskala. Elder Muahit at Njord’s Breath Bay gives you the quest Spirits Watch Over Us wants you to find Iruk’s corpse in the water and retrieve Issliruk’s totem, the corpse’s position I have marked on the guide map. After you finish that, you’ll get The Tides Turn, kill Heigarr who is on the island too then return to Elder Muahit. Now you complete all quests here.

Coldrock Quarry

Coldrock Quarry is a tuskarr village too, blue dragonflight mages controlled this place and enslaved them, Etaruk is at the east entrance of Coldrock Quarry, Reclaiming the Quarry is the first quest you get from him which wants you to kill 12 Beryl Treasure Hunters, Then Hampering Their Escape destroy three platforms in the coldrock quarry, the platforms are float, kill the Beryl Reclaimers to get bombs then use them under the platform to destroy it. The final step is A Visit to the Curator, kill Curator Insivius who in the northwest at the top of the quarry on a platform. You can get some quests from the black rock next to Etaruk at the same time.

Amber Ledge

Amber Ledge is an outpost which set by Dalaran mages and red dragonflight to fight against Malygos the Spellweaver. There are two chain quests here, and the main one will lead your way to Transitus Shield, the front of the war in Coldarra where Malygos is.
Monitoring the Rift: Cleftcliff Anomaly is the frist step of a chain detect quest from Librarian Garren, the position is pretty far south. 34, 42. Directly south of the A in “Coldarra” on the map. Then you get Monitoring the Rift: Sundered Chasm, west and a little north of the quest giver, show as large purple area at bottom of the water. 43, 29. Final one is Monitoring the Rift: Winterfin Cavern, the position is at the entrance of winterfin cavern, you can do this quest with the quests in winterfin retreat.
Nick of Time is the beginning step of the main chain quest from Midge in the tavern of Valiance Keep which will lead you to Librarian Donathan and get Prison Break, collect the Beryl Prison Key from one of the Beryl Mage Hunters at Beryl Point and use it to release a trapped mage from an arcane prison, after that is The Borean Inquisition, meet Librarian Normantis in the Amber Ledge tower for The Art of Persuasion, use the Neural Needler on the Imprisoned Beryl Sorcerer until he reveals the location of Lady Evanor. Back and get Sharing Intelligence, report to Librarian Donathan on Amber Ledge and 7th step A Race Against Time, using the Beryl Shield Detonator to bring down the shield at Beryl Point then defeat Salrand and collect the key she holds. then Donathan wants you to speak to Surristrasz on Amber Ledge.
Taking Wing is first step you get from Surristrasz after you completed the quest Reforging the Key, let you take the key to Warmage Anzim, then he wants you to fly with his war mages to free Lady Evanor at Beryl Point with quest Rescuing Evanor. Speak to Surristrasz again after you back with Dragonspeak, then you get final step Traversing the Rift, which will send you to Transitus Shield in Coldarra

Transitus Shield

Beyond the Westrift Valley, which separates the tundra from the mountainous region of Coldarra, explorers have recently witnessed increased activity at a magical site known as the Nexus. This ancient site was created by the blue dragonflight, and many adventurers attribute the increased activity here to the reemergence of the blue Dragon Aspect, Malygos. Transitus Shield is the front of the war between blue dragonflight and Dalaran mages, read dragonflight.
The last quest in Amber Ledge lead your way here, speak to Archmage Berinand you’ll get 2 quests: Reading the Meters collect the 4 reaidngs in Coldarra and Secrets of the Ancients collect 3 Glacial Splinters and 3 Magic-Bound Splinters from the Ancients in Coldarra, after you done these, you’ll have 2 more dungeon quests Postponing the Inevitable use the Interdimensional Refabricator near the rift in the Nexus and Quickening, enter the Nexus and collect 5 Arcane Splinters from Crystalline Protectors, Nexus is a 70-72 dungeon, if you can’t find a group for these, just keep it, you will get 3 dungeon quests in Nexus.

Quest Rewards of Quickening

Another short quest chain is from Raelorasz, the beginning step is Basic Training, slay 10 Coldarra Spellweavers then Hatching a Plan, kill Coldarra Wyrmkin and use their frozen axes to break 5 blue dragon eggs around Nexus. The next is Drake Hunt, use the Blood-tipped Spear to subdue a Nexus Drake Hatchling and return it to Raelorasz, this is a daily quest and can repeat again once you finished, then the final one Cracking the Code, get the Azure Codex from Inquisitor Caleras and collect 3 Shimmering Runes from his Coldarra Spellbinders.
The other two quests in Transitus Shield you can take and complete at the same time you are doing those quests above are Nuts for Berries (gather 10 Frostberries from the Frostberry Bushes in Coldarra) and Keep the Secret Safe (kill Arcane Serpents near the Nexus and collect 5 Nexus Mana Essences) given by Librarian Serrah.

Winterfin Retreat

The quest King Mrgl-Mrgl from D.E.H.T.A. encampment will lead your way to Winterfin Retreat, a murloc village.
Learning to Communicate, use an empty couch on the Scalder’s (a water element under the water) remains; Winterfin Commerce, collect 10 Winterfin Clams and deliver them to Ahlurglgr at Winterfin Retreat and Oh Noes, the Tadpoles! which ask you to rescue 20 Winterfin Tadpoles are the first three quests you get from King Mrgl-Mrgl, the Winterfin Tadpoles are in the cages inside and near the cavern, they are so cute and will follow you once you unlock the cages. After these you’ll get I’m Being Blackmailed By My Cleaner, speak with Mrmrglmr at the northwest end of Winterfin Retreat, Mrmrglmr wants you to kill Glrggl and get its Head back, Glrggl is at the north of winterfin retreat and circling the icebergs. Then he give you the quest The Spare Suit, return the suit to King Mrgl-Mrgl and finally Surrender… Not! Kill Claximus in the deep end of the cave and take its claw back, and the quest reward is murloc suit! This quest can be done with two other quests which get from captured murloc inside the cave at the same time. The one is Keymaster Urmgrgl from Glrglrglr who ask you to retrieve Urmgrgl’s Key, another is Escape from the Winterfin Caverns, escort Lurgglbr to safety and then report to King Mrgl-Mrgl.
You can get Them! (kill 15 Winterfin murlocs) and Succulent Orca Stew (acquiring 7 Succulent Orca Blubber) in Winterfin Retreat too, both of these two quests are single and you can complete them when you doing the quests above.

Fizzcrank Airstrip

Gnomes explorers build an Airstrip in the north of Borean Tundra, some of them change to Mechagnomes and some others get some trouble with plague army, you can help them.
The main chain quest started from Valiance Keep too, Distress Call which given by Airman Skyhopper will lead your way to Fizzcrank Fullthrottle in Fizzcrank Airstrip for The Mechagnomes, listen to Fizzcrank Fullthrottle’s tale and then find Jinky Wingnut at Fizzcrank Airstrip, after this you’ll get Re-Cursive, use the Re-Cursive Transmatter Injection on 6 Fizzcrank Mechagnomes. Next step is Lefty Loosey, Righty Tighty, Dismantle Twonky, ED-210, Max Blasto, and The Grinder, and then report back to Jinky Wingnut, The Gearmaster is the final step which which wants you to read The Gearmaster’s Manual and return with Mechazod’s Head, the target at the top room of the platform. After you completed this, Fizzcrank Fullthrottle will send you to Iggy “Tailspin” Cogtoggle with Finding Pilot Tailspin, who is in the southwest of Geyser Fields. He’ll give the quest A Little Bit of Spice to gather 4 Gorloc Spice Pouches. Then Lupus Pupus, use Wolf Bait on oil-stained wolves and get 8 pieces of Microfilm. Emergency Protocol: Section 8.2, Paragraph C is recovering 6 Fizzcrank Pilot Insignia from the bodies of Fizzcrank Recon Pilots around, then Emergency Protocol: Section 8.2, Paragraph D, scuttle the Eastern Wreck, a Southern Wreck, and a Northwestern Wreck, final one is Give Fizzcrank the News just make your way back to Fizzcrank Airstrip and speak with Fizzcrank Fullthrottle.
Crafty Wobblesprocket in Fizzcrank Airstrip get many simple quests too, Dirty, Stinkin’ Snobolds! Retrieve 10 boxes of Crafty’s Stuff and return them to Crafty Wobblesprocket , there is a rescue quest Get Me Outa Here! by Bonker Togglevolt at the bottom of the cave then Just a Few More Things… collect Crafty’s Tools, an Overcharged Capacitor, and a Handful of Rocknar’s Grit and back to her. Another 3 step chain quest is new in 9095 version, Hah… You’re Not So Big Now! Test out Crafty’s Ultra-Advanced Proto-Typical Shortening Blaster on 5 Magmoth Crushers or Mates of Magmothregar, and Plan B, collect 10 Warsong Outfits and a Warsong Banner, then It Was The Orcs, Honest! While disguised as a Warsong orc, plant the Warsong Banner in the corpse of Magmothregar and return.
Mordle Cogspinner also have a chain which can be done with the main quests here at the same time. What’s the Matter with the Transmatter? is collect 15 Fizzcrank Spare Parts, then Check in With Bixie, take a plane to find Bixie Wrenchshanker who is at the south of The Dens of Dying, Oh Great… Plagued Magnataur! wants you to kill 10 Plagued Magnatau then There’s Something Going On In Those Caves, which wants you to use Bixie’s Inhibiting Powder at a Den of Dying Plague Cauldron to neutralize it. When you reach Bixie, you’ll get Might As Well Wipe Out the Scourge as well as Plagued Magnataur!, destroy 20 Scourge of any type at Talramas and the Festering Pools, and you will find Tinky Wickwhistle in a cage inside of Talramas by the quest Rats, Tinky Went into the Necropolis!, talk to her, she’ll give you the quest I’m Stuck in this Damned Cage… But Not For Long!, Collect an Engine-Core Crystal, a Magical Gyroscope, and a Piloting Scourgestone. Deliver them to Tinky Wickwhistle, those items are dropped by the monsters in Talramas. Back to Bixie with Let Bixie Know, and everything in Fizzcrank Airstrip ends here.

The Wailing Ziggurat

First, Find Corporal Venn at the southwest of the Wailing Ziggurat and get Surrounded! wants you to slay 7 Ziggurat Defenders which are around of Wailing Ziggurat, this is the 9th step of the long chain quest starts in Valiance Keep, after that is Thassarian, the Death Knight, look for Thassarian and then the background story the Thassarian end.
You can also get The Lost Courier from Private Casey who stands next to Corporal Venn, this is a long chain quest too and will end in Westguard Keep of Dragonblight, so just take it.
Finally you meet the famous deathknight Thassarian inside the Wailing Ziggurat and get the quest Finding the Phylactery, find the location of Tanathal’s Phylactery, obtain it and bring it back, the phylactery is in a small lake north of the Wailing Ziggurat, under the water and guarded by a lv71 ghost. Next is Buying Some Time, inflict 20 casualties against the Scourge inside the Temple City of En’kilah, 3rd step is Words of Power, retrieve 3 scrolls in the Temple City of En’kilah. The Scrolls belong to High Priests in different builds. Then the final step, Last Rites. This is a group quest and hard to solo in low level. You should go to the Temple City of En’kilah and find the teleportation orb beneath the floating Scourge citadel of Naxxanar. Use it to reach the top and help Thassarian there, there is a blue quality weapon for all classes in the quest rewards, don’t miss it!

Quest Rewards of Last Rites

If you can’t reach 72 after you completed all the quests in Borean Tundra, find some ppl doing a simple Nexus (70-72 instance) run will help you get to 72 easily. In fact it is impossible for you not get to 72 if all quests in Borean Tundra are done.

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