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Cleaning House

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

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BY THE NORDRASSIL'S RIVER Quest Tree From Whiterock

N)Hero's Call: Mount Hyjal!(A) N)Warchief's Command: Mount Hyjal!(H)
 ├──────────────────────────────┘
G)As Hyjal Burns 1)The Earth Rises 	1)Inciting the Elements
 |					1)Flames from Above
2)Protect the World Tree──┐
2)The Flameseer's Staff  2)War on the Twilight's Hammer
2)Flamebreaker			
2)The Return of Baron Geddon	N)This Can Mean Only One Thing...
3)Emerald Allies		9)To the Chamber of Inceneration!
3)The Captured Scout		9)What is This Place?
3)Twilight Captivity		9)The Twilight Forge
3)Return to Alysra		 ├>9)Do My Eyes Deceive Me?
3)A Prisoner of Interest	9)Ascendant Lord Obsidius
3)Through the Dream
1)Return to Nordrassil───────┬>Wings Over Mount Hyjal*
4)The Return of the Ancients ├>Scrambling for Eggs*
 ├>Save the Wee Animals*     └>The Wormwing Problem*
 ├>Disrupting the Rituals*
 ├>Fighting Fire With ... Anything*
 ├>If You're Not Against Us...*
 ├>4)In the Rear With the Gear  6)Gar'gol's Gotta Go
 |				6)Get Me Outta Here!
 ├──────────────────────────┐
4)End of the Supply Line   4)Harrying the Hunters
5)The Voice of Goldrinn(A) 5)The Voice of Lo'Gosh(H)
5)Goldrinn's Ferocity(A)   5)Howling Mad(H)
 ├──────────────────────────┴──────────┐
 ├>6)From the Mouth of Madness        6)The Eye of Twilight
 | 6)Free Your Mind, the Rest Follows 6)Mastering Puppets
 ├>5)Lycanthoth the Corruptor{H}      6)Elementary!
 | G)The Shrine Reclaimed{H}          5)Return to Duskwhisper
 | /
6)Cleaning House{H}───────>7)Sweeping the Shelf{H}
7)Lightning in a Bottle{H}
8)Into the Maw!{A2;H;H2}

8)Forged of Shadow and Flame
 |
 | 8)Crushing the Cores 8)Rage of the Wolf Ancient
 ├──┴────────────────────┘
8)Cindermaul, the Portal Master
8)Forgemaster Pyrendius
8)Return from the Firelands{H}──>The Last Living Lorekeeper*
 ├────────────────────┐
Aviana's Legacy*  The Fires of Mount Hyjal*
Quest zones:
1)Nordrassil_____2)The Verdant Thicket_____3)Hyjal Barrow Dens+Ruins of Lar'donir_____4)Wolf's Run_____5)Shrine of Goldrinn_____6)Gar'gol's Hovel_____7)Lightning Ledge_____8)Firelands Forgeworks_____9)Blackrock Caverns
N)Not-needed_____G)Gluing Separate Questlines
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.


IMPORTANT INFO:


  1. End of the Supply Line and Harrying the Hunters can be done by both factions, but "The Voice of..." followup requrement is different.

  2. Goldrinn's Ferocity and Howling Mad allows other players to share you quests next on line, but Lycanthoth the Corruptor{H} will let you be in same phase as npc.

  3. Into the Maw!{A2;H;H2}. There are 2Alliance and 2Horde variants, for each faction one from wolf spirit and one backup from main quest guy in Shrine of Goldrinn.

  4. Whole Firelands Forgeworks(8) chain doesn't have any pre-quests. You can get first time to Hyjal and ask warlock to summon you there and do the quests. However Lightning in a Bottle{H} is needed to use the standart teleport.


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Guide to Alliance Mount Hyjal Quests, part 1:

Optional initial quests:
Hero's Call
As Hyjal Burns
The Earth Rises
Inciting the Elements and Flames from Above

Then:
Protect the World Tree (unlocks optional War on the Twilight's Hammer)
The Flameseer's Staff
Flamebreaker
The Return of Baron Geddon
Emerald Allies
The Captured Scout
Twilight Captivity
Return to Alysra
A Prisoner of Interest
Through the Dream
Return to Nodrassil

At this point, you must awaken three ancients. A Vision of Ysera will appear after each. You must awaken Goldrinn before beginning the Aessina/Tortolla quests but can otherwise work on them in any order.

Goldrinn Quests:
The Return of the Ancients (enables optional Harrying the Hunters and In the Rear with the Gear)
End of the Supply Line
The Voice of Goldrinn
Goldrinn's Ferocity
Lycanthoth the Corruptor enables several optional quest chains:

Cleaning House (enables optional Sweeping the Shelf)
Lightning in a Bottle (enables optional Into the Maw! / Into the Maw!)
Rage of the Wolf Ancient, Forged of Shadow and Flame, and Crushing the Cores
Cindermaul, the Portal Master
Forgemaster Pyrendius
Return from the Firelands [vision of Ysera]

Aviana Quests:
(optional linking quests ofWings over Mount Hyjal or Aviana's Legacy)
Two chains:
* An Offering for Aviana, A Plea from Beyond, and A Prayer and a Wing
* The Wormwing problem, Scrambling for Eggs, and then A Bird in Hand

Next comes Fact-Finding Mission which enables these required quests:

Finish the above for
Sethria's Demise
Return to the Shrine
An Ancient Reborn [Vision of Ysera]

Optional bonus:
The Hatchery Must Burn
Flight in the Firelands
Wave One
Wave Two
Egg Wave [gives Beware of the 'Unbeatable?' Pterodacyl and choice of Gold Mini Jouster or Blue Mini Jouster]
Return to Aviana

Aessina/Tortolla Quests (must do Goldrinn first)
The Fires of Mount Hyjal (optional)
Save the Wee Animals and Oh, Deer!
Fighting Fire With ... Anything (optional, but must complete before Aessina's Miracle)
Disrupting the Rituals
If you're Not Against Us...
Seeds of Their Demise
A New Master
The Name Never Spoken
Black Heart of Flame
Good News... and Bad News (auto-accepted; can not be obtained later)
Last Stand at Whistling Grove
The Bears Up There (a good time to do Bounce!)
Smashing Through Ashes enables additional required quests:


Fresh Bait
Hell's Shells
Tortolla Speaks
An Ancient Awakens [Vision after all chains].

After waking all the ancients, the third vision gives The Last Living Lorekeeper.

Continued in part 2

Read all 6 on Wowhead ↗

Quest facts

LevelLevel 30-35
Quest ID25278

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25278))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineMount Hyjal, step 27 of 118
Rewards13g 74s, 4,800 XP

Description

Thanks to your efforts, we may soon be able to return this shrine to its former glory. But first we've got to secure this valley. South of here, a group of ogres led by Gar'gol has set up camp in a stinking hovel. I wouldn't characterize Gar'gol as a 'threat' so much as an enormous fleshy obstacle thrown into our path to distract us from the real danger. Nonetheless, he and his goons will have to be dealt with. Kill Gar'gol's minions in Goldrinn's name!

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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.

Mount Hyjal Quest turn-in 8 mapped points
Mount Hyjal map showing where to go for Cleaning HouseTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #198 28.2 29.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inMount Hyjal 28.2, 29.7/way #198 28.2 29.7
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Mount Hyjal 27.6, 37.7/way #198 27.6 37.7
  • Objective areaMount Hyjal 28.1, 29.9/way #198 28.1 29.9

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 Mount Hyjal map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Mount Hyjal:

  • Grove of Aessina, HyjalAlliance and Horde · about 410 yards south-west
  • Shrine of Aviana, HyjalAlliance and Horde · about 660 yards south-east
  • Talonbranch Glade, FelwoodAlliance · about 900 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 230 yards south

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
Money13 gold74 silver
Experience4,800 XP
ReputationGuardians of Hyjal +250

Reward details

Reputation: Guardians of Hyjal +250

Faced with the impending devastation of Mount Hyjal, the most powerful members of the Cenarion Circle have joined forces with their Emerald Dragonflight allies to fend off Ragnaros' elemental hordes and the Twilight's Hammer.

Reputation group: Cataclysm.

Other quests in Mount Hyjal that reward Guardians of Hyjal reputation: Trial By Fire (+250), In Bloom (+250), End of the Supply Line (+250), In the Rear With the Gear (+250), Harrying the Hunters (+250), The Voice of Goldrinn (+10).

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

Mount Hyjal

Part 27 of 118.

Previous: Free Your Mind, the Rest Follows · Next: Cleaning House

  1. 22Mastering Puppets
  2. 23Elementary!
  3. 24Return to Duskwhisper
  4. 25From the Mouth of Madness
  5. 26Free Your Mind, the Rest Follows
  6. 27Cleaning House
  7. 28Cleaning House
  8. 29Lightning in a Bottle
  9. 30Lightning in a Bottle
  10. 31Gar'gol's Gotta Go
  11. 32Get Me Outta Here!
  12. 33Forged of Shadow and Flame

Showing steps 22 to 33 of 118.

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.

  • Free Your Mind, the Rest FollowsMount Hyjal · Level 30-35

    <Rio said that the draught would not remain effective for long.> <You'd better hurry into the hovel and administer it to as many Twilight Servitors as you can find.>

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Lightning in a BottleMount Hyjal · Level 30-35

    When I prayed at the shrine, Goldrinn granted me another vision. I saw you standing astride the Lightning Ledge, with lightning in your hands. Goldrinn seems to feel that this is of the utmost importance, but I don't understand what the ancient has planned... <name>, go to the Lightning Ledge.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Mount Hyjal · Level 30-35.

The storyline at a glance

Mount Hyjal has 118 steps, from Protect the World Tree to The Firelord.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Mount Hyjal (118).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Mount Hyjal 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.