Quest Log

Dark Forces

Dark Forces is a quest for level 40-90. It is step 18 of 18 in the Allies of the Horde: Highmountain storyline, the final step. The quest's turn-in marker is in Thunder Bluff at 44.0, 56.2. It rewards 9,500 experience and money.

Description

The Old Gods have inflicted one of their faceless ones upon Thunder Bluff. The fiend desecrates my people's city!

We must fight together to rid this place of such filth.

I believe that destroying this herald will drive our enemies from Mulgore. May our weapons strike true, <name>!

Rewards

Money28

Experience9,500 XP

Stuck on this quest?

Turn in at Thunder Bluff 44.0, 56.2 /way #88 44.0 56.2

Known issues

Top Comments

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DKGlavenusAug 13, 2021+20via Wowhead

Do not bother trying to engage this guy in melee. Blizzard did their usual fantastic job of "balancing" the Allied Races quests post-squish, and unless your ilevel is ludicrously high, this fugger will absolutely fold, spindle, and mutilate you in a matter of seconds. That Shadowcrash was hitting my level 55 Fury Warrior for close to 3500 a second. Did not take too many pulses of that garbage to send me allllllll the way down to the graveyard.
Just take cues from Shadowlands storytelling: stand way back and let the big-name NPC handle it.

ItaruNov 11, 2020+16via Wowhead

Baine Bloodhoof can handle this fight on his own. So as any class start fight then disengage. All you have to do is dodge Shadow Crash and its EZPZ. Just make sure to do a few hits at like 5% to get credit.

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Top Comments

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

DKGlavenusAug 13, 2021+20via Wowhead

Do not bother trying to engage this guy in melee. Blizzard did their usual fantastic job of "balancing" the Allied Races quests post-squish, and unless your ilevel is ludicrously high, this fugger will absolutely fold, spindle, and mutilate you in a matter of seconds. That Shadowcrash was hitting my level 55 Fury Warrior for close to 3500 a second. Did not take too many pulses of that garbage to send me allllllll the way down to the graveyard.
Just take cues from Shadowlands storytelling: stand way back and let the big-name NPC handle it.

ItaruNov 11, 2020+16via Wowhead

Baine Bloodhoof can handle this fight on his own. So as any class start fight then disengage. All you have to do is dodge Shadow Crash and its EZPZ. Just make sure to do a few hits at like 5% to get credit.

1265919Feb 1, 2018+12via Wowhead

Any idea what ilevel you have to be to kill this guy?

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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	9,500
Money	Gold	28g 9s

Where it comes from

Turn-in map	Thunder Bluff	Turn-in marker at 44.0, 56.2, 25 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.

Coordinates

Turn-inThunder Bluff 39.9, 57.7/way #88 39.9 57.7
Objective area (centre of the marked area)Thunder Bluff 40.4, 57.2/way #88 40.4 57.2
Objective areaThunder Bluff 61.7, 52.2/way #88 61.7 52.2

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 Thunder Bluff map

Storm in Bloodhoof about 190 yards
When Spirits Whisper about 220 yards
Answer the Call about 220 yards
The Black Shield about 220 yards
Repaying the Life Debt about 380 yards

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Thunder Bluff:

Thunder Bluff, MulgoreHorde · about 90 yards north-east
Bloodhoof Village, MulgoreHorde · about 1,200 yards south-east
Malaka'jin, Stonetalon MountainsHorde · about 1,200 yards north
Thunk's Abode, DesolaceAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards north-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 230 yards east

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

Allies of the Horde: Highmountain

Part 18 of 18.

Previous: The Spiritwalkers

Showing steps 7 to 18 of 18.

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 SpiritwalkersLevel 40-90
Ebonhorn is in the care of Spiritwalker Graysky. A cure is proving elusive... he has asked for your help. Please speak with him at once, <name>. The spiritwalkers are the keepers of our past. I pray the answer lies somewhere in the ancient truths they hold.

The storyline at a glance

Allies of the Horde: Highmountain has 18 steps, from Walking in Their Footsteps to Dark Forces.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Highmountain (13), Thunder Bluff (3), Orgrimmar (1), Thunder Totem (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Allied Races: Highmountain Tauren Earn the allegiance of the Highmountain tauren and welcome them into the Horde.

Other storylines on the Thunder Bluff map

Tauren Heritage8 steps, starts with When Spirits Whisper
Dustwallow Marsh83 steps, starts with Traitors Among Us

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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