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Closing the Door

Closing the Door is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-40 in Shadowmoon Valley. It is step 4 of 6 in the Shadows Awaken storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Shadowmoon Valley at 49.1, 38.6. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 5,450 experience and money.

Description

The Shadowmoon orcs are using portals to bring in reinforcements and smuggle away draenei captives.

If we are to have any hope of retaking the village, we must destroy the portals at once.

The only way to do this is to kill the portalmasters who keep the rifts open.

Rewards

Money16 gold98 silver
Experience5,450 XP
ReputationCouncil of Exarchs +250
Top Comments

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

1
Voxxel+5via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Hotfixed: Now there's only one [npc=80181] per portal.

As of Beta build 18566 you can get credit for the portals only if you kill your [npc=80181] of the 2 channelers LASTLY. That means if you start killing a Portalmaster then someone takes the other one and you finish off yours first, you won't get credited for closing that portal, stupidly enough.

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

Most of the quest portals appear to be bugged atm.

There's one working portal at the WEST END tip of the blue quest area, it's not by the lake, bit further north-west from the lake. spawns 2 portalmasters once or twice per minute. Sorry already left the area so no coords.

EDIT: It seems this is the same as in Beta, you need to get the killing blow on the second portalmaster to get credit for closing the portal. Also grouping up didn't work. Only the person with killing blow got credit.

ps. not sure if you should call it a lake or a river, anyways, blue quest area on minimap, west corner, camp thatone.

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

This quest chain opens your level 2 garrison.
This can all be completed at level 90 (but you will probably hit 91 along the chain from quest/kill xp).

Once you have the level 1 garrison, the quest chain continues at:
A Hero's Welcome
=> Closing the Door + Dark Enemies + Think of the Children!
=> Shadows Awaken
=> Into Twilight
=> The Clarity Elixir
=> The Fate of Karabor (Solo Scenario)
=> Going Undercover
=> Escape from Shaz'gul
=> Fast Expansion (sends you back to Garrison)
=> Bigger is Better (need 200 Garrison resources to upgrade)

Read all 14 on Wowhead ↗

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP5,450
MoneyGold16g 98s
ReputationCouncil of Exarchs+250

Reward details

Reputation: Council of Exarchs +250

Under the leadership of five powerful exarchs, the draenei of Draenor have prospered in a savage world.

Reputation group: Warlords of Draenor.

Other quests in Shadowmoon Valley that reward Council of Exarchs reputation: The Fate of Karabor (+250), Think of the Children! (+250), Into Twilight (+75), A Hero's Welcome (+250), The Clarity Elixir (+250), A Grandmother's Remedy (+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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapShadowmoon ValleyTurn-in marker at 49.1, 38.6, 10 mapped points
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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.

Shadowmoon Valley Quest turn-in 10 mapped points
Shadowmoon Valley map showing where to go for Closing the DoorTurn-inTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #539 49.1 38.6

Coordinates

  • Turn-inShadowmoon Valley 49.1, 38.6/way #539 49.1 38.6
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Shadowmoon Valley 50.4, 34.1/way #539 50.4 34.1
  • Objective areaShadowmoon Valley 46.7, 37.3/way #539 46.7 37.3

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 Shadowmoon Valley map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shadowmoon Valley:

  • Embaari Village, Shadowmoon ValleyAlliance · about 230 yards west
  • Exile's Rise, Shadowmoon ValleyAlliance and Horde · about 640 yards north
  • Elodor (Alliance), Shadowmoon ValleyAlliance · about 720 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 220 yards north-east
  • Objective areaabout 170 yards 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Shadows Awaken

Part 4 of 6.

Previous: Dark Enemies · Next: In Need of a Hero

  1. 1A Hero's Welcome
  2. 2Think of the Children!
  3. 3Dark Enemies
  4. 4Closing the Door
  5. 5In Need of a Hero
  6. 6Shadows Awaken

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.

  • Dark EnemiesShadowmoon Valley · Level 10-40

    Your arrival should be cause for celebration, hero, but I fear our troubles are just beginning. Warlord Ner'zhul and his Shadowmoon clan have launched a surprise attack on a draenei settlement to the north. Prophet Velen has gone to aid the wounded at Teluuna Observatory, but we need more defenders.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • In Need of a HeroShadowmoon Valley · Level 10-40

    I...<sob>... I can't leave...<gulp>... without... Squiggy...! He... he's... trapped! You need... to put out... the fire! <Ariaana points across the room and bursts into tears.>

Quests that require this one

The storyline at a glance

Shadows Awaken has 6 steps, from A Hero's Welcome to Shadows Awaken.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shadowmoon Valley (6).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Shadowmoon Valley 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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Closure
Closure is Only Natural
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