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Battle of Life and Death

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 30-35
ZoneTwilight Highlands
LocationTwilight Highlands, Wetlands
Quest ID28758

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28758))

What to do

WhereTwilight Highlands, Wetlands
StorylineTwilight Highlands, step 176 of 236
RewardsPendant of Victorious Fury, Cloak of the Red Flight, Red Dragonheart Ring, 27g 48s, 6,000 XP

Description

Alexstrasza and Deathwing have taken into the skies over Grim Batol! Her plan unravels - the Dragon Queen is outside the Circle of Life she prepared earlier. We'll need to support her with everything we've got. Hurry! Climb aboard one of the Vermillion Vanguard behind me. If we find any Twilight Drakes aiding Deathwing, we will need to kill them off. Mount up, quickly!

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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.

Twilight Highlands Quest turn-in 9 mapped points
Twilight Highlands map showing where to go for Battle of Life and DeathTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #241 22.1 56.6

Wetlands Objective area 1 mapped point
Wetlands map showing where to go for Battle of Life and DeathObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #56 67.5 20.0

Coordinates

  • Turn-inTwilight Highlands 22.1, 56.6/way #241 22.1 56.6
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Twilight Highlands 20.1, 49.5/way #241 20.1 49.5
  • Objective areaWetlands 67.5, 20.0/way #56 67.5 20.0

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

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

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Twilight Highlands:

  • Slabchisel's Survey, WetlandsAlliance · about 860 yards west
  • The Gullet, Twilight HighlandsHorde · about 1,000 yards north-east
  • Victor's Point, Twilight HighlandsAlliance · about 1,100 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 270 yards north-west
  • Objective areaabout 1,500 yards north (on the Wetlands map)

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:

Money27 gold48 silver
Experience6,000 XP

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeArmor Neck
Item level37
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+5 Agility, +7 Stamina, +5 Haste, +4 Mastery
Suited toVengeance, Enhancement, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Windwalker, Feral, Guardian, Havoc, Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, Survival, Brewmaster
Sells to vendors for84 silver30 copper
TypeCloth Back
Item level37
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+5 Strength, +7 Stamina, +5 Haste, +4 Critical Strike
Suited toProtection, Fury, Arms, Retribution, Unholy, Frost, Blood
Sells to vendors for45 gold43 silver
TypeArmor Finger
Item level37
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+5 Intellect, +7 Stamina, +4 Critical Strike, +5 Mastery
Suited toDiscipline, Balance, Restoration, Arcane, Fire, Frost, Mistweaver, Holy, Devourer, Destruction, Demonology, Affliction, Elemental, Shadow, Augmentation, Preservation, Devastation
Sells to vendors for1 gold23 silver

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 176 of 236.

Previous: Enter the Dragon Queen · Next: And the Sky Streaked Red

  1. 171If The Key Fits
  2. 172If The Key Fits
  3. 173Pressing Forward
  4. 174Pressing Forward
  5. 175Enter the Dragon Queen
  6. 176Battle of Life and Death
  7. 177And the Sky Streaked Red
  8. 178Blackout
  9. 179Shining Through the Dark
  10. 180Following the Young Home
  11. 181A Fitting End
  12. 182Last of Her Kind

Showing steps 171 to 182 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.

  • Enter the Dragon QueenTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    Hello, <race>. I wish we could meet in more favorable circumstances. The world hangs by a thread, and all that the Titans have wrought may be in jeopardy. It saddens me greatly, but my judgment is final.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • And the Sky Streaked RedTwilight Highlands · Level 30-35

    With Deathwing otherwise occupied, we have a grim and daunting task ahead of us, under charge of the queen herself. The black dragonflight is to be wiped out. I would welcome your aid in this, if it is offered. As soon as you are ready, I will send you with the next flight joining the attack.

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

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.