TheWoWDBAt last, your hard work pays off as this is the final quest to open a two way portal to and from StormWind for those who like swift travel without paying 2g to get out of the area by griffon. (other alternatives include flying south yourself to Loch Modan and taking the griffon from there at a 1g90s saving)
Quest
Any Portal in a Storm
A World of Warcraft quest in Twilight Highlands. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Horde equivalent: Muddied Waters.
Why can't the Alliance just hire a mage?
Quest facts
LevelLevel 30-35
Quest ID27537
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27537))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineTwilight Highlands, step 18 of 236
RewardsCoregrip Gauntlets, 
Whirlpool Bracers, 
Water-Drill Treads, 13g 74s, 4,800 XP
Coregrip Gauntlets, Whirlpool Bracers, Water-Drill Treads, 13g 74s, 4,800 XPDescription
Our friends in the Earthen Ring have been trying to open portals back to Stormwind, with no luck. But Thordun here tells me he might just have the key. The crazed water elementals in the nearby Verrall River Delta have been sent into a frenzy. Thordun tells me we can channel their energy into a portal. I don't understand all this elemental-claptrap, but I understand one thing: killin' elementals and takin' their whirlpool cores. Deliver them to Talaa in the courtyard!
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #241 79.4 77.6
Coordinates
- Turn-inTwilight Highlands 79.4, 77.6
/way #241 79.4 77.6 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Twilight Highlands 66.4, 45.7
/way #241 66.4 45.7 - Objective areaTwilight Highlands 79.1, 78.3
/way #241 79.1 78.3
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 Twilight Highlands map
- More Doom about 1,450 yards
- Xal'atath's Proven Faithful about 1,460 yards
- Twilight's Dawn about 1,560 yards
- The Twilight Highlands about 1,560 yards
- Cult It Out about 1,560 yards
- Disrupt the Call about 1,560 yards
- Midnight Dress about 1,750 yards
- Desecrate this Fire! about 1,760 yards
- Honor the Flame about 2,410 yards
- Investigating the Highlands about 2,490 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Twilight Highlands, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Twilight Highlands:
- Highbank, Twilight Highlands
- Firebeard's Patrol, Twilight Highlands
- Victor's Point, Twilight Highlands
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
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.
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Other quests on the Twilight Highlands map
Reward details
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TypePlate Hands
Item level36
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor15
Stats+6 Strength or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike, +5 Haste
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for23 gold95 silver
TypeLeather Wrist
Item level36
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor6
Stats+4 Agility or Intellect, +7 Stamina, +5 Haste, +4 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for24 gold4 silver
TypeCloth Feet
Item level36
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+6 Intellect, +9 Stamina, +5 Critical Strike, +6 Haste
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for35 gold93 silver
Reputation: Stormwind +250
One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.
Reputation group: Alliance.
Other quests in Twilight Highlands that reward Stormwind reputation: Salvage Operation (+250), Naga Reinforcements (+250), Siren's Song (+250), Our Boys on the Shore (+75), Scouting the Shore (+75), Landgrab (+350).
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
Twilight Highlands
Part 18 of 236.
Previous: The Perfect Poultice · Next: The Way is Open
- 13Landgrab
- 14Bird Down! Bird Down!
- 15Roots'll Do 'Er
- 16Wings Over Highbank
- 17The Perfect Poultice
- 18Any Portal in a Storm
- 19The Way is Open
- 20Firebeard's Patrol
- 21Welcome Relief
- 22The Only Homes We Have
- 23Small Comforts
- 24Honorable Bearing
Showing steps 13 to 24 of 236.
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.
- The Perfect Poultice
Are you goin' by way of the Verrall river delta? I've got a tip that'll help your men here... and my bird! When water elementals carve their way through rock, they create a peculiar kind of muck. It dries hard as stone but carries with it the rejuvenating power of water.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Way is Open
My fellow Shaman and I will stay here to keep the portal open. You should go upstairs and notify Kurdran that the work here is done. It'll please him to hear some good news for once.
The storyline at a glance
Twilight Highlands has 236 steps, from Twilight Shores to Skullcrusher the Mountain.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Twilight Highlands (222), Azshara (9), Orgrimmar (4), Stormwind City (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Twilight Highlands map
- Allies of the Horde: Vulpera
- The Cult Within
- In the Shadow of Crimson Wings
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.