TheWoWDBTo progress this quest line, find the Gilnean Heavy Explosives quest in front of the big ship. It's on a rowboat.
Quest
Dreadwake's Dilemma
A World of Warcraft quest in Stormheim. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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If you are like me wondering how to start this quest line to obtain Dark ship's Lantern for housing (as a reward for the last quest). You need to do your order class campaign (starting from NPC following you in Dalaran) until you unblock the scouting map where you can start Stormheim campaign. After finishing "From Helheim and back" part of this campaign you will see this quest (horde only). You can't start Stormheim campaign if you have already started another zone and haven't finish it yet.
After you've accepted the quest, if you go back to Nathanos and speak to him, it just says <insert>
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Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-45
ZoneStormheim
Quest ID39153
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(39153))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineThe Secret of the Shieldmaidens, step 1 of 7
Rewards20g 22s, 6,150 XP
Description
The situation has taken a dire turn, {name}. We were unprepared for Greymane's sudden assault, with only a token force left behind at Dreadwake's Landing, and we are paying the toll. The beach is now swarming with worgen infiltrators, and if the cannons breach our defenses, they will likely swarm in on us. We're spread too thin here to take the fight to them, but you could change that. Wipe them out.
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.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #634 55.1 72.5
Coordinates
- Turn-inStormheim 55.1, 72.5
/way #634 55.1 72.5 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Stormheim 57.4, 74.0
/way #634 57.4 74.0
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 Stormheim map
- Eyir about 400 yards
- Confront The Val'kyr about 400 yards
- Impalement Insurance about 470 yards
- Seeking the Valkyra about 480 yards
- The Mark about 480 yards
- Maw of Souls: Retrieving the Svalnguard about 480 yards
- A Feast Fit for Odyn about 480 yards
- Halls of Valor: Odyn's Blessing about 480 yards
- Neltharion's Lair: Presentation is Key about 480 yards
- The Thorignir about 490 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Stormheim, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Stormheim:
- Dreadwake's Landing, Stormheim
- Hafr Fjall, Stormheim
- Cullen's Post, Stormheim
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
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.
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Money20 gold22 silver
Experience6,150 XP
Storyline
The Secret of the Shieldmaidens
Part 1 of 7.
Next: Clear the Deck!
- 1Dreadwake's Dilemma
- 2Clear the Deck!
- 3A Gift for Greymane
- 4Becoming the Ascendant
- 5To Skold-Ashil
- 6Shielded Secrets
- 7A New Life for Undeath
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Clear the Deck!
Our mission in Skold-Ashil will have to wait, <class> - for now, we have more pressing matters to attend to. I had just recently arrived with reinforcements for our assault when Greymane's ship sailed in and began barraging our walls.
Quests that require this one
The storyline at a glance
The Secret of the Shieldmaidens has 7 steps, from Dreadwake's Dilemma to A New Life for Undeath.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Stormheim (7).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Stormheim map
- The Trial of Valor
- The Trial of Will
- Wreck of the Skyfire
- The Trial of Might
- Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Goblins
- Legion Skinning
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.