Dragonblight (Alliance Quest Guide)  

Dragonblight is one of the two "secondary zones" for Northrend. This zone contains a wide variety of questing hubs and an instance hub known as Azjol-Nerub and several raid instance of which one is Naxxramas and the other is The Obsidian Sanctum.

Dragonblight will be the secondary stop for most people during their leveling expedition, you also have the choice of moving on to Grizzly Hills

Northrend Alliance Guide
Howling Fjord
Borean Tundra
Dragonblight
Grizzly Hills
Sholazar Basin
The Storm Peaks

Wintergarde Keep

• Head to Wintergarde Keep on the east end of the zone.
• Don't forget to pick up the Flightpath!
• Pick up any quests you can find in town.
• If you haven't head back to Westguard Keep in Howling Fjord and get the chain Of Traitors and Treason going.
• You should have the following quests: A Disturbance In The West, Naxxramas and the Fall of Wintergarde, and My Old Enemy.
• Head back to the flight master and turn in Naxxramas and the Fall of Wintergarde pick up the follow up and turn in A Disturbance In The West and pick up the quest To Stars' Rest!, you will be flown at mach speed all the way to Star's Rest.
• Turn in the quest but don't pick up the follow up yet, hop onto the gryphon and head back to Wintergarde Keep.
• Turn in the quest Naxxramas and the Fall of Wintergarde and pick up Flight of the Wintergarde Defender.
• Time for some fast flying action, use your Wintergarde Gryphon Whistle.
• Fly down to the carrion fields and pick up a Helpless Wintergarde Villager and fly them back and drop them off next to the flight master.
• Do not fly out of the area on the mount! You will be automatically dismounted and thrown to the ground!
• Head back, dismount and turn the quest in.
• Pick up the follow up Return to the High Commander. Turn it in.
• Go around and pick up the quests that should have become available: Imprints on the Past, Rescue from Town Square, The Demo-gnome, The Fate of the Dead.
• There are some group quests in the Inn, since I'm mostly writing this as a solo guide those won't be covered.
• Head over to Siege Engineer Quarterflash and turn in The Demo-gnome and pick up the follow up The Search for Slinkin.
• Also pick up Not In Our Mine, The Bleeding Ore.
• Head down into the village and enter the building @ 78, 51 and go upstairs and get the Scrying Orb.
• Head into the mines @ 80, 46.
• Kill miners and mine the Strange Ore (Yes even non-miners can do these!).
• Make your way to the back of the mine and turn in The Search for Slinkin and get Leave Nothing to Chance.
• Turn around and take a right, grab the Wintergarde Mine Bomb.
• Head to the entrance and use the Wintergarde Mine Bomb at the upper and lower mine shaft entrances.
• Remember where you got the Scrying Orb? Go back there and start killing Vengeful Geistx15, free 6 Trapped Wintergarde Villager and complete the two quests.
• Head back up to the Keep and turn all the quests in and grab follow ups: Find Durkon!, Orik Trueheart and the Forgotten Shore, and Understanding the Scourge War Machine.
• Turn in Understanding the Scourge War Machine to High Commander Halford Wyrmbane.
• Head to 79, 53 and turn in Find Durkon!, pick up the follow up The Noble's Crypt.
• Head down into the crypt and kill Necrolord Amarion
• Grab the Flesh-bound Tome off the ground and rush to the top of the crypt and turn both quests in. Pick up Mystery of the Tome.
• Head back into the keep and turn in Mystery of the Tome. Pick up the follow up Understanding the Language of Death.
• Head into the Keep and into the jail and turn that quest in. Pick up A Righteous Sermon.
• Stand around for awhile and wait for the quest to complete.
• Head outside and turn that quest in, get Into Hostile Territory.
• Head to the flight master and hop onto one of the white gryphons and get ready for a bumpy ride!
• You'll parachute down to Thorson's Post. Turn in the quest and pickup the follow up Steamtank Surprise.
• Hop into a Steamtank and go destroy some plague wagons and then go to the mausoleum and drop all of them off.
• Head inside and turn the quest in, and pickup the follow up Scattered To The Wind.
• Also grab Breaking Off A Piece.

Wintergarde Keep

• Head down further and go to the left and right and kill Necrolord Horus and Necrolord X'avius.
• Now kill scourge down here until you hit 15 dead.
• Head outside and find the munitions on the ground once you have enough head back in and turn them both in.
• Pick up the follow up The Chain Gun And You.
• Head over to a chain gun on either side and hop in, call for an injured soldier and clear a patch for him. Do this 8 times.
• Turn it in.
• Pick up the follow up Plunderbeard Must Be Found!.
• Head down deep into the mausoleum and hang a right at the end into the tunnel and turn in the quest.
• Get the follow up Plunderbeard's Journal.
• Head through the tunnel and onto the other end.
• Kill the mobs for the rest of the pages of the journal.
• Head back to Ambo Cash and turn the quest in.
• Get Chasing Icestorm: The 7th Legion Front as the follow up.
• Head to the 7th Legion Front @ 64, 28. Turn in the quest.
• Pick up the follow up Chasing Icestorm: Thel'zan's Phylactery.
• Head over to "Wyrmbait" and ask him bring the wyrm down, wait until it is chained and dps on it. The rest of the legion members nearby will help kill it. Very easy.
• Grab the Thel'zan's Phylactery
• Walk over to Duane and pick up Pest Control.
• Let's head back to Wintergarde Keep and turn in Chasing Icestorm: Thel'zan's Phylactery.
• Get the follow up Finality.
• Head over 82, 51 and head inside the hole in the ground and turn in the quest.
• Grab the follow up An End And A Beginning, watch the scripted event and stand back when combat begins but hit the lich at least once to make sure you get kill credit.
• Go back into Wintergarde Keep and turn in the quest.
• Grab the follow up To Fordragon Hold!.
• Time to head to Dawn's Reach, located at 87, 57.
• Turn in Orik Trueheart and the Forgotten Shore.
• Pick up The Murkweed Elixir and The Call Of The Crusade.
• Head down to 90, 66 and pick Murkweed up off the ground.
• Head back and turn the quest in.
• Pick up the follow up The Forgotten Tale.
• Head south to the forgotten shore.
• Use your Murkweed Elixir to enter the spirit world.
• Speak with the spirits to complete the quest.
• Head back and turn the quest in.
• Get the follow up The Truth Shall Set Us Free
• Head to 87, 66 and use the orb. Watch the scripted event to complete the quest.
• Head back and turn the quest in.
• Get the follow up Parting Thoughts.
• Head back to Wintergarde Keep and turn it in.
• Pick up the follow up and any quests you can find in the keep. (Except the group quests in the inn.)
• You should have: What Secrets Men Hide, The Return of the Crusade?, and The Path of Redemption.
• Head north east towards 86, 39 and start slaughtering Scarlet Onslaught members for The Path of Redemption and the quest.
• Make your way towards 87.5, 38 and get the Onslaught Map.
• Make your way back to Wintergarde Keep and turn the quests in.
• Pick up the follow up Frostmourne Cavern.
• Head to Frostmourne Cavern at 75, 25 and go inside and use the orb.
• Head back to the keep and turn it in.
• Head to Light's Trust @ 84, 27.
• Turn in the quest you have for them and pick up the follow up The Cleansing Of Jintha'kalar.
• Go northeast and cleanse Jintha'kalar of some scourge scum!
• Turn the quest back in at Light's Trust.
• Pick up the quest Into the Breach!
• We are now done with the Wintergarde Keep area.

Wyrmrest Temple

• Head to Wyrmrest Temple in the middle of the zone.
• Don't forget the flightpath!
• Speak with Tariolstrasz on the west side of the temple and fly to the top floor.
• Pick up all the quests, Seeds of the Lashers, The Obsidian Dragonshrine, and Mystery of the Infinite.
• First thing to do is go running around the wasteland here and killing Snowplain Disciple and magnataurs (Magnataur Youngling/Magnataur Patriarch for the quest Pest Control.
• Head to 64, 27 and turn the quest in.
• Pick up the follow up Canyon Chase and head east towards Frostmourne Cavern and search for Chilltusk and kill him.
• He should have dropped a horn, use it to get a quest called Disturbing Implications.
• Now head back and turn in Canyon Chase.
• Head up the mountains to loc 72, 40 and use the Hourglass of Eternity.
• Protect the Hourglass of Eternity until the end of the event.
• Head back to the Temple and fly to the top of it and turn the quests in.
• Head down to the bottom floor and go inside and turn the quest in there.
• Pick up the follow up One of a Kind.
• This is a two person group quest but some classes can solo it. Try it if you want but if you can't skip it.
• Go to 52, 60 and kill Bonesunder.
• Go back to the temple and turn it in.
• Pick up the next quest, same as the last one except the 3 mobs roam the entire zone. Feel free to skip it if you want.
• Head southeast and into the Emerald Dragonshrine.
• Pick up Cycle of Life from Nishera the Garden Keeper who is walking around the Dragonshrine.
• Kill Emerald Lasher for 3 of their Lasher Seeds and kill 5 Emerald Skytalon for the quest.
• Turn in Cycle of Life and pick up The Plume of Alystros.
• If you can get a quick group for this one get one and kill it if not abandon the quest.
• Head back to the temple and fly to the top to turn in the quest.
• Pick up That Which Creates Can Also Destroy.
• Use the Seeds of Nature's Wrath on the mob which which will make them no longer elite and take them out.
• Turgid the Vile at 86.0,47.5
• Overseer Deathgaze at 89.2,19.6
• The Reanimated Frost Wyrms fly the sky north of the temple.
• Head back to the temple, fly to the top and turn the quest in.
• Go to the Obsidian Dragonshrine @ 42, 32 and head into the cave.
• Head in and turn in the quest.

Wyrmrest

• Pick up No Place to Run and No One to Save You.
• Head outside and kill 6 Burning Depths Necrolytes and 10 Smoldering Skeletons.
• Now go to the entrance to the dragonshrine and deploy your Destructive Wards. Keep protecting it until it is fully charged.
• Go turn the quests in.
• Pick up The Best of Intentions
• Head back to the end of the cavern and you'll see Rothin the Decaying casting into the lava. When you get near there you'll complete the quest. Run back and turn it in.
• Pick up Defiling the Defilers and Culling the Damned.
• Head back the way you just came and destroy the runes on the ground and kill 3 Burning Depths Necromancers, 6 Smoldering Constructs, and 6 Smoldering Geist.
• Go back and turn the quests in.
• Pick up Neltharion's Flame
• Head to the resurrection chamber.
• Throw the flame into the lava and then kill Rothin the Decaying.
• Go back and turn in the quest.
• Pick up Tales of Destruction
• Head back to Wyrmrest and go to the top and turn the quest in.
• You are done with Wyrmrest Temple. Let's continue on!

Moa'ki Harbor

• Now it's time to head to Moa'ki Harbor, this is a small little quest hub so we should get it done fairly quick.
• The harbor is located on the very south end of the zone.
• Don't forget to pick up the flightpath.
• Pick up the quests Let Nothing Go To Waste, Your Presence is Required at Stars' Rest.
• Head slightly north and kill the Snowfall Glade Wolvar until you have collected all the Stolen Moa'ki Goods.
• Head back and turn it in.
• Pick up Slay Loguhn
• Head north and find Loguhn, kill him take his Blood of Loguhn and use it in front of Elder Ko'nani and turn the quest in.
• Walk around and pick up the quests Spiritual Insight, Tua'kea's Crab Traps.
• Head to the brazier outside the tent where you got Spiritual Insight and use the incense.
• Turn that quest in.
• Pick up the follow up Elder Mana'loa.
• Jump into the water off the docks and go underwater.
• Collect 8 Tua'kea Crab Trap.
• Goto the wrecked crab trap and pick up the quest Signs of Big Watery Trouble.
• Swim back to the shore and turn in the quests.
• Pick up The Bait.
• Head to 42, 81 and kill Kili'ua, get his The Flesh of "Two Huge Pincers" and head back and turn the quest in.
• Pick up Meat on the Hook
• Jump into the water and down the rope, use Tu'u'gwar's Bait and kill Tu'u'gwar.
• Head back and turn it in.
• Head to 37, 65 and turn the quest in.
• Accept Freedom for the Lingering.
• Go throughout the village and kill 15 of any combination Indu'le Fisherman, Indu'le Mystic or Indu'le Warrior.
• Head back and turn it in.
• Pick up Conversing With the Depths.
• Head to 33.96, 83.46 and use the orb and do as she commands.
• Go back to the harbor and turn the quest in.
• Now we are done here, onto the next stop.

Star's Rest

• Head to Star's Rest and turn in Your Presence is Required at Stars' Rest.
• Pick up Rifle the Bodies, The Liquid Fire of Elune.
• Head southwest to Moonrest Gardens and speak with the npc @ 24, 60 and pick up the quest Avenge this Atrocity!.
• Collect bags from the corpses on the ground and open them until they drop the plans.
• Head a little further west and mobs there and go back and turn in the quest.
• Pick up the follow up End Arcanimus.
• Head west into the crag and kill Arcanimus.
• Go and turn it in.
• Pick up Prevent the Accord.
• Windtrader at entrance of building 18.4, 58.8
• Goramosh inside at 19.5, 58.1
• Goramosh should have dropped an extra item which will give a quest, A Strange Device.
• Head back to Star's Rest and turn the quests in.
• Pick up Projections and Plans.
• Use the teleporter somewhere in Moonrest Garden.
• Head towards the center of the platform and use the teleporter to get back down.
• Go turn it in.
• Pick up The Focus on the Beach.
• Head to 27, 65 kill the captain for his focus key, use it.
• The captain should have dropped a quest item, use it to get the quest A Letter for Home.
• Go back to Stars' Rest and turn the quests in.
• Pick up the follow up Atop the Woodlands.
• Grab Strengthen the Ancients from Sarendryana.
• Head to 32, 71 and kill the Lieutenant get the amulet and use it on the ring.
• Head around speak to the walkers to get their bark, and use them on the friendly ancients roaming the area.
• Go and turn the quests back at Stars' Rest.
• Pick up the follow up Search Indu'le Village.
• Head to 40, 67 underwater and turn in the quest.
• Pick up the follow up The End of the Line
• Use the talisman next to the gate.
• Head to 53, 67 and once the quest completes head back to Stars' Rest and turn the quests in.
• Pick up the follow up Gaining an Audience.
• Head north, kill rabid mobs and burn their corpses.
• Go turn the quest in.
• Pick up Kill the Cultists.
• Head to 25, 45 and kill cultists for their suits.
• Go and turn it in.
• Head to Wyrmrest Temple and turn in the quest.
• Pick up the follow up Speak with your Ambassador.
• Go turn it in.
• Pick up Report to the Ruby Dragonshrine(12460).
• Head to 52, 50 and turn the quest in.
• Pick up Heated Battle.
• Head down to the battle and help kill the mobs and watch the scripted event move it's way down further into the dragonshrine.
• Once done go turn the quest in.
• Pick up the follow up Return to the Earth.
• Head into the Dragonshrine and collect acorns and use them on the dead dragons.
• Go turn the quest in.
• Accept the quest Through Fields of Flame.
• Head back in and kill 6 necromancers and then head into the center of the tree and kill Dahlia.
• Loot the corpse to get the brooch and accept the quest The Fate of the Ruby Dragonshrine.
• Go back and turn in Through Fields of Flame and pick up The Steward of Wyrmrest Temple.
• Head back to Wyrmrest and fly to the top and turn the quest in and accept the follow up before going up Informing the Queen.
• Turn the quests in at the top and pick up the follow up Report to Lord Afrasastrasz.
• Fly down to the second floor.
• We are now done with this section of the guide, now to move on to the last section of the zone.

Fordragon Hold

A note to all players doing this area, right here is probably one of the most epic chains you'll do in the expansion I strongly suggest playing with the sound on and paying attention to every detail of this area.

• Head to Fordragon Hold @ 42, 29.
• Don't forget to pick up the flightpath!
• Turn in the one quest you have for here and pick up the follow up Audience With The Dragon Queen.
• Head to Wyrmrest and go up to the top and turn the quest in.
• Pick up the follow up Galakrond and the Scourge.
• Turn it in and pick up On Ruby Wings.
• Use your beacon and head north Galkaron's Rest.
• Fire fireballs at the scavengers.
• Then goto 54.38, 31.25 and kill Thiassi.
• Pick up the scythe.
• Fly back up to Wyrmrest and turn the quest in.
• Pick up Return To Angrathar.
• WARNING: Before turning this quest in I highly suggest turning on sound if you don't play with it and be prepared for pure 110% awesome.
• Head back to Bolvar and turn it in.
• Congratulations! You've just completed one of the most epic quests chains ever. But it's not over yet!
• Now head down to the Wrathgate and pick up the quest from Alexstasza. You can also speak to her to rewatch the cinematic.
• Collect Bolvar's shield and head to Stormwind to turn the quest in. Yes I said Stormwind!
• Turn the quest into the King.
• Pick up the quest Fate, Up Against Your Will and speak to Jaina and she'll open a portal to Orgrimmar, click on it and you'll be in Orgrimmar.
• Wait until Thrall and Jaina are done talking and speak to Thrall and turn the quest in.
• Pick up the follow up A Royal Coup and take the portal back to Stormwind.
• Turn it in and pick up the follow up The Killing Time.
• Take the portal to the Undercity. Turn the quest in and get ready. Speak to Bolvar when you are ready.
• Wait for the event to start and follow the long scripted event, it's a lot of fun and really worth the time.
• At the end you'll be teleported back to Stormwind. Turn in the quest.
• Now head back to Northrend and Dragonblight.
• Go back to Fordragon Hold.
• We are almost done with this zone just a few more dotted quests along the north and that's it.
• Head to 48, 24 and pickup the quest from the corpse.
• Head to Nozzlerust Post at 54.5, 23.5
• Turn in the quest and pick up the ones here. Nozzlerust Defense, Shaved Ice, and Stocking Up.
• Head slightly north and kill ice elemental for their ice.
• Head south and kill diggers, and a taskmaster.
• Search for boxes of ore and pick them up.
• Head back and turn them in.
• Pick up the follow up Soft Packaging.
• Head west and kill the worms for their hides.
• Go turn it in.
• Pick up Hard to Swallow and Something That Doesn't Melt.
• Head east, find an elite worm and enter combat. When it opens its mouth throw an explosive at it to make it explode.
• Pick up enough meat and then run around collecting bones for the other quest.
• Head back in and turn the quests in.
• Pick up Harp on This! and Lumber Hack.
• Head up to the harpies and use the shredder control unit.
• Walk around and collect wood from the trees with the X's on them.
• Goto 46, 10 and kill the mistress and kill harpies with your shredder.
• Head back to turn the quests in.
• If you followed my guide thus far you should have just received the achievement "Might of Dragonblight"
• Pick up Stiff Negotiations
• Head to 59.5, 18 and turn in the quest.
• Grab Slim Pickings.
• Head to the cave at 56, 12 and loot the giant.
• Go back and turn the quest in.
• Pick up Messy Business and Stomping Grounds
• Head back to the cave.
• Get a worm on you and when it spits on you use the scrapper and get the quest item.
• Keep killing worms to fill the other quest.
• Go back and turn the quests in.
• Pick up the follow up Apply This Twice A Day
• Turn it in and accept the follow up if you can get a group for it, otherwise abandon it.
• Go back to Zort and pick up Worm Wrangler.
• Back to the cave!
• Box up the spawns and head back in and turn it in.
• You are now done with Dragonblight! Hoorah!

Where to go next?

If you haven't done both Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord I highly suggest you do. Otherwise you can goto Grizzly Hills or maybe even Zul'Drak.

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