Skip to content

Quest

Defense of the Ancients

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

Advertisement
Top Comments

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

Read all 7 on Wowhead ↗

Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-80
ZoneEmerald Dream
Quest ID76387

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(76387))

What to do

StorylineA Dream of Fields and Fire, step 5 of 10
Rewards28g 9s, 9,500 XP

Description

Fyrakk's forces at Skystone Falls are already threatening to overwhelm us. I fear not even the combined might of the Sentinels and Ancients can hold out against them. The Ancients are bearing the brunt of the offensive. We have reports of djaradin attempting to capture them for some unknown purpose. We cannot allow Igira to succeed in whatever nefarious plan she has in mind. You must seek out the Ancients on the battlefield and free any who are captured.

Advertisement

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.

Emerald Dream Quest turn-in 18 mapped points
Emerald Dream map showing where to go for Defense of the AncientsTurn-inTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #2200 38.7 39.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inEmerald Dream 38.7, 39.1/way #2200 38.7 39.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Emerald Dream 39.1, 35.3/way #2200 39.1 35.3
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Emerald Dream 39.2, 32.1/way #2200 39.2 32.1
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Emerald Dream 41.2, 34.4/way #2200 41.2 34.4

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 Emerald Dream map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Emerald Dream:

  • Wellspring Overlook, The Emerald DreamAlliance and Horde · about 350 yards north-west
  • Eye of Ysera, The Emerald DreamAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards east
  • Central Encampment, The Emerald DreamAlliance and Horde · about 1,500 yards south-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 200 yards north
  • Objective areaabout 350 yards north
  • Objective areaabout 300 yards north-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.

Related
Money28 gold9 silver
Experience9,500 XP

Reward details

Currency: Flightstones x 10

Earned from completing world quests, raids, dungeons, battlegrounds, arena matches, and other activities. Used to upgrade max-level gear.

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

A Dream of Fields and Fire

Part 5 of 10.

Previous: A Clash of Ice and Fire · Next: A Scrap of Hope

  1. 1The Bloom Begins
  2. 2Forward Unto Fire
  3. 3Hazardous Horticulture
  4. 4A Clash of Ice and Fire
  5. 5Defense of the Ancients
  6. 6A Scrap of Hope
  7. 7Fighting Fire With Fire
  8. 8The Age of Mortals
  9. 9Aerial Supremacy
  10. 10Echo of the Firelands

Also part of: The Emerald Dream (part 52 of 71).

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.

  • A Clash of Ice and FireEmerald Dream · Level 10-80

    The Primalists have erected great flame wards throughout their encampment. Yet we know not why. I have asked our ground forces to investigate, but they are blocked at every turn. Two fire elementals in particular stand against us, empowered by Fyrakk's shadowflame.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • A Scrap of HopeEmerald Dream · Level 10-80

    It is only a matter of time before Fyrakk's forces decimate our own. And then there will be nothing stopping him from entering the Wellspring Temple.

The storyline at a glance

A Dream of Fields and Fire has 10 steps, from The Bloom Begins to Echo of the Firelands.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Emerald Dream (10).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Emerald Dream 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.