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Capturing the Gateway

Capturing the Gateway is a quest for level 45. It is step 4 of 7 in the Chronicles of Skyhold III storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Skyhold at 58.4, 84.8. It rewards 6,150 experience and money.

Description

The time has come to make our move against the Legion.

The Legion has multiple portals across the Broken Isles.

Should your armies succeed in securing one while it's still active, Hymdall can use the runestones you gathered to direct it to whatever hellish world Hodir is trapped in.

Rewards

Money20 gold22 silver
Experience6,150 XP

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Known issues

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
1695750+92via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Please note that one of the three missions(Last Chance) requires Hymdall to take part and by this time you already have two inactive Champions which might be him. I suggest you do not activate and deactivate champions during this quest so you can activate whoever you might need.

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695290+25via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Unfortunately this is going to roadblock a lot of warriors looking to complete their Class Order Hall. Three 2 day 1 day missions (assuming you counter them) that must be completed in sequence. By the time this mission is even available, other classes have acquired their third artifact slot, yet warriors will be waiting another minimum five two and a half days.

Edit: Rejoice! The mission times have been halved, though warriors still finish their order hall campaign slowest out of all classes. Cutting out 3 days of mission time is still quite welcome to Warriors who have yet to complete these.

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Check whether you have already completed it in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(43577))

Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

1
1695750+92via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Please note that one of the three missions(Last Chance) requires Hymdall to take part and by this time you already have two inactive Champions which might be him. I suggest you do not activate and deactivate champions during this quest so you can activate whoever you might need.

2
695290+25via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Unfortunately this is going to roadblock a lot of warriors looking to complete their Class Order Hall. Three 2 day 1 day missions (assuming you counter them) that must be completed in sequence. By the time this mission is even available, other classes have acquired their third artifact slot, yet warriors will be waiting another minimum five two and a half days.

Edit: Rejoice! The mission times have been halved, though warriors still finish their order hall campaign slowest out of all classes. Cutting out 3 days of mission time is still quite welcome to Warriors who have yet to complete these.

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Druinea+10via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

So, I'm completing this in 2021 in Shadowlands 9.1 to get the Battle Lord title - so I'm having to fumble my way around to get it all working...

Firstly, to get to the Capturing the Gateway quest it would appear that you HAVE to complete Demonic Runes and Will of the Valarjar naturally being level 60 and 239ilvl they took next to no time at all. Once you have done that you need to complete Black Rook Hold: Greater Power Black Rook Hold: Greater Power. This bugged out for me a few times but I will place a comment on that quest with how I went around fixing it.

The timings for the missions have been drastically reduced

[mission=1283] was 1hr in length.

[mission=1390] was also 1hr in length.

[mission=1391] was also 1hr in length.

The same as previous Hymdall [champion=711] is required to complete.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP6,150
MoneyGold20g 22s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapSkyholdTurn-in marker at 58.4, 84.8, 2 mapped points
World Map

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.

Skyhold Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Skyhold map showing where to go for Capturing the GatewayTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #695 58.4 84.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSkyhold 58.4, 84.8/way #695 58.4 84.8
  • Objective areaSkyhold 59.2, 12.4/way #695 59.2 12.4

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 Skyhold map

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

Getting there

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 350 yards north

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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Chronicles of Skyhold III

Part 4 of 7.

Previous: Black Rook Hold: Greater Power · Next: The Fate of Hodir

  1. 1Will of the Valarjar
  2. 2Demonic Runes
  3. 3Black Rook Hold: Greater Power
  4. 4Capturing the Gateway
  5. 5The Fate of Hodir
  6. 6A Hero's Weapon
  7. 7Champion: Hodir

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.

  • Black Rook Hold: Greater PowerLevel 45

    The raw power of the runestones will allow Hymdall to temporarily open a tear into demonic worlds, but it's not enough. The Legion hides its presence in far away worlds with dark magic. Bring a greater runestone so that Hymdall can hone in on our enemies across the cosmos.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Fate of HodirLevel 45

    It is time, <name>. Go to Azsuna and use the captured gateway to travel to Niskara and find Hodir. The Legion will regret they set foot on Azeroth!

The storyline at a glance

Chronicles of Skyhold III has 7 steps, from Will of the Valarjar to Champion: Hodir.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Skyhold (7).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Skyhold 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.

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Captured Information
Capturing Memories
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Capturing the Phylactery
Capturing the Unknown
Carcass Collection
Database
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