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A New Era for the Plaguelands

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

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41391+5via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Can someone please explain to me why the Forsaken would be interested in helping in this effort?

I can understand that they have a shared interest in removing the scourge. However, to help in the removal of undeath in this area seems counter-intruitive to the end goals of Sylvanas - taking over and ruling Lorderon. The latter of which would also infer that undeath must be spread via their newly created plague formulas.

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491283+3via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

You can be sure the Forsaken are plotting behind the scenes. But they have to put their best face forward and play along, or they'll get roflstomped by the people they've already deceived. Sometimes it works to say "NO!" and blast your way through the enemy, and sometimes you have to be amicable until you can stab him in the back. You already see evidence of this deception with previous Forsaken quests in the zone, replanting plague barrels and such.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneWestern Plaguelands
Quest ID26999

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26999))

What to do

StorylineWestern Plaguelands, step 51 of 63
RewardsForest Green Cloak, Boots of the Flowering Earth, Bracers of the Returning Wild, 10g 50s, 5,150 XP

Description

No longer does the Scourge hold this area. We, the living, are retaking Lordaeron. We have taken great strides already, as you have already seen. The earth flowers, the trees grow tall and green, and the wildlife is beginning to return. Yet a few remnants of undeath remain. While the trees and grass prosper, the animals are struggling. Something is preventing them from healing, and I intend to find out what. Bring me samples from the plagued wildlife so that I may study them more closely.

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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.

Western Plaguelands Quest turn-in 32 mapped points
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In-game waypoint: /way #22 49.2 55.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inWestern Plaguelands 49.2, 55.1/way #22 49.2 55.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Western Plaguelands 54.2, 60.7/way #22 54.2 60.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Western Plaguelands 57.8, 49.5/way #22 57.8 49.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Western Plaguelands 45.2, 47.1/way #22 45.2 47.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Western Plaguelands 60.4, 50.3/way #22 60.4 50.3
  • Objective areaWestern Plaguelands 49.3, 54.9/way #22 49.3 54.9

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 Western Plaguelands map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Western Plaguelands:

  • The Menders' Stead, Western PlaguelandsAlliance and Horde · about 100 yards north-east
  • Andorhal, Western PlaguelandsHorde · about 300 yards south

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 270 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 400 yards north-east
  • Objective areaabout 290 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

Choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience5,150 XP
ReputationArgent Crusade +250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Back
Item level21
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor3
Stats+4 Agility, +5 Stamina, +5 Critical Strike
Suited toVengeance, Enhancement, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Windwalker, Feral, Guardian, Havoc, Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, Survival, Brewmaster
Sells to vendors for3 gold35 silver
TypeLeather Feet
Item level21
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +7 Stamina
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for3 gold36 silver
TypePlate Wrist
Item level21
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor11
Stats+4 Strength or Intellect, +5 Stamina
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for2 gold27 silver
TypeMail Feet
Item level21
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+5 Agility or Intellect, +7 Stamina
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for3 gold31 silver

Reputation: Argent Crusade +250

Led by Tirion Fordring, the Argent Crusade combines the reformed Order of the Silver Hand with the Argent Dawn in one final push against the forces of the Lich King.

Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.

Other quests in Western Plaguelands that reward Argent Crusade reputation: Northridge Lumber Mill (+10), The Long Trip Home (+25), Learning the Ropes (+250), This Means WAR (Wild Arachnid Roundup) (+250), An Audience with the Highlord (+350), Memories from a Lost Past (+250).

Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.

Storyline

Western Plaguelands

Part 51 of 63.

Previous: An Audience with the Highlord · Next: Gahrron's Withering Cauldron

  1. 46Andorhal, Once and For All
  2. 47The Reckoning
  3. 48Learning the Ropes
  4. 49This Means WAR (Wild Arachnid Roundup)
  5. 50An Audience with the Highlord
  6. 51A New Era for the Plaguelands
  7. 52Gahrron's Withering Cauldron
  8. 53Return to the Stead
  9. 54Desperate Acts
  10. 55Students of Krastinov
  11. 56Zen'Kiki, the Druid
  12. 57A Different Approach

Showing steps 46 to 57 of 63.

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

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • An Audience with the HighlordWestern Plaguelands · Level 15-30

    Oh, before you go, <name>... I have a message for you. There's someone in Hearthglen who'd like to meet with you. Said he's "heard your name pop up" a few times already. Consider yourself lucky, <name>. Not everybody gets a personal audience with Highlord Tirion Fordring.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Gahrron's Withering CauldronWestern Plaguelands · Level 15-30

    My analysis is complete! The blight that affects the animals here is no residual disease. No, it is something new... and I think I know what it is. The Cult of the Damned maintains a plague cauldron on a farm called Gahrron's Withering.

The storyline at a glance

Western Plaguelands has 63 steps, from Scourge First... Horde Later to Turning Yourself In.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Western Plaguelands (63).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Western Plaguelands 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.