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A Landmark Moment

A World of Warcraft quest in Burning Steppes. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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Hey everyone! It's said here that the events of Warcraft 2 were "nearly" 30 years ago. If this doesn't sit quite right with anyone else, I agree and I know it's lazy, but here's what Google AI says, editing the copy/paste for clarity.

Approximately 38 to 39 years have passed between the start of the Second War in Warcraft II and the beginning of World of Warcraft: Midnight.

In the established Warcraft lore timeline, dates are measured from the opening of the Dark Portal (Year 0):
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness begins in Year 4. Its expansion, Beyond the Dark Portal, takes place in Year 8.
The War Within (the expansion immediately preceding Midnight) is set in Year 41.

World of Warcraft: Midnight is scheduled to release on March 2, 2026. While the exact in-universe year for Midnight has not been definitively confirmed by Blizzard, it is widely estimated to be Year 42 or 43 based on the established "one year per expansion" lore cadence and the three-year time skip that occurred between Shadowlands and Dragonflight.

Timeline Overview
Event Lore Year (ADP) Gap from Warcraft II (Start)
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness Year 4 — Start
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Year 20 16 Years
World of Warcraft (Vanilla) Year 25 21 Years
The War Within Year 41 37 Years
World of Warcraft: Midnight ~Year 42-43 ~38-39 Years

*There is also a "significant" skip between Shadowlands and Dragonflight that covers three years of relative peace. This brings the total gap between the start of Shadowlands and the start of Dragonflight to five years (two years for the events of Shadowlands plus the three-year skip).

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 83-88
ZoneBurning Steppes
SideBoth
SharableYes
Added inMidnight
Quest ID86829

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(86829))

Requirements

Requires one ofA True Horde of Dark Horde, Warriors Without a Warlord

Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.

What to do

StorylineRegrets of the Past, step 12 of 17
Rewards31g 90s, 12,150 XP

Description

With their leader defeated and that third relic fragment found, we should regroup with the others back at Lothar's Statue, {name}. I'll meet you there.

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Where to go

Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.

Burning Steppes Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Burning Steppes map showing where to go for A Landmark MomentTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #36 36.8 51.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBurning Steppes 36.8, 51.0/way #36 36.8 51.0
  • Objective areaBurning Steppes 31.6, 37.6/way #36 31.6 37.6

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Nearby on the Burning Steppes map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Burning Steppes, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Burning Steppes:

  • Chiselgrip, Burning SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 350 yards north-east
  • Flamestar Post, Burning SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 600 yards west
  • Flame Crest, Burning SteppesHorde · about 790 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 330 yards north-west

Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.

Related
Money31 gold90 silver
Experience12,150 XP

Storyline

Regrets of the Past

Part 12 of 17.

Previous: A True Horde of Dark Horde · Next: Unstoppable Force

  1. 6Due Recognition
  2. 7Nagosh the Scarred
  3. 8Disarm the Dark Horde
  4. 9Not Just a Troll's Bane
  5. 10Warriors Without a Warlord
  6. 11A True Horde of Dark Horde
  7. 12A Landmark Moment
  8. 13Unstoppable Force
  9. 14A Worthy Forge
  10. 15A Bulwark Remade
  11. 16The Arcantina
  12. 17The Journey Ends

Showing steps 6 to 17 of 17.

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Quest chain

  1. 1A Humble Servant
  2. 2Resupplying Our Suppliers
  3. 3Gathering Plowshares
  4. 4One Final Relic
  5. 5Faithful Servant, Faithless Cause
  6. 6None Left Standing
  7. 7The Dark Horde
  8. 8Still Scouting
  9. 9Disarm the Dark Horde
  10. 10Due Recognition
  11. 11Nagosh the Scarred
  12. 12Not Just a Troll's Bane
  13. 13A True Horde of Dark Horde
  14. 14Warriors Without a Warlord
  15. 15A Landmark Moment
  16. 16Unstoppable Force
  17. 17A Bulwark Remade
  18. 18A Worthy Forge
  19. 19The Arcantina
  20. 20The Journey Ends

Step 15 of 20. Chain order is read from the prerequisite data in the current retail client build, so it reflects what the game requires, not a curated storyline.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A True Horde of Dark HordeBurning Steppes · Level 83-88

    The remaining Dark Horde forces are gathered here, <name>. Many of them look to be untrained and new to the cause. Drive away the forces gathered here, and perhaps we can hope to see some peace in this region--for the first time in decades.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Unstoppable ForceBurning Steppes · Level 83-88

    This statue seems out of place here. Nothing else like it. But this is where Anduin Lothar fell against Orgrim Doomhammer at the Battle of Blackrock Mountain. Many fought on this field. Many didn't make it. Lothar... Let me tell ye what happened all those years ago.

The storyline at a glance

Regrets of the Past has 17 steps, from One Final Relic to The Journey Ends.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Burning Steppes (13), Silvermoon City (3), Arcantina (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Burning Steppes map

Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.