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Finding a Foothold

Finding a Foothold is an Alliance-only quest for level 10-40 in Shadowmoon Valley. It is step 1 of 12 in the Foothold in a Savage Land storyline, the opening step. It rewards 5,450 experience and money.

Description

So, you are the one that has led my children home? I have been waiting for you.

The Iron Horde grows stronger every day.

I have foreseen a great battle, but my visions are clouded. It's as if time is sitting on top of itself.

One thing is certain, your presence here is of great importance.

Rewards

Money16 gold98 silver
Experience5,450 XP
Top Comments

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

1
hollyberries+34via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

With flying being added to Draenor accountwide, I thought I'd take a shortcut up to the top of the hill and wait for Velen to come to me.

DO NOT DO THIS.

If you fly up to the top of the hill, Velen will despawn and you won't be able to establish your Garrison, he'll also disappear from the bottom of the hill, you'll be stuck.

I worked around this issue by abandoning the quest, going back to Stormwind, going through the portal in the Mage tower again, flying through the Dark Portal manually, and it spawned me back on the shore with Velen and company. This time I stayed on the ground and didn't run ahead and was able to complete the quest.

3
Aurleis1+5via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCZyFwnM3KI

After completing the achievement, Welcome to Draenor, your ship takes you to the shores of Shadowmoon Valley. Speak to [npc=79206] at coords 27.0, 8.1, and accept the quest, Finding a Foothold.

1. Finding a Foothold - (Video) - Travel south, up the hilly path (path starts @ 27.4, 12.9) into Lunarfall.

• Follow it uphill to [npc=79470] at coords 28.8, 16.2, and turn in the quest Finding a Foothold. Next, accept the quest, For the Alliance!.

2. For the Alliance! - (Video) - Click on the Alliance Banner (in front of you) located at coords 29.0, 16.1.

• After [npc=79242] will open a portal to bring [npc=79243] from Stormwind. Speak to [npc=79243] (at coords 29.1, 16.2) and turn in the quest For the Alliance!, accepting next Ravenous Ravens and Looking for Lumber.

3. Looking for Lumber - (Video) - Click on the [object=230335], throughout this area of Lunarfall, to mark 8 the trees for cutting (they appear as white flags).

• The flags should be fairly obvious, but the coords that I found the flags were:

28.6, 17.2
29.1, 17.8
29.3, 19.2
29.0, 19.8
29.1, 20.1
29.6, 20.3
29.7, 19.6
29.9, 18.8

• Ravenous Ravens - While completing the [object=230335], kill 6 [npc=82037] that get in your way. In all likelihood, you will end up killing a few extra [npc=82037] while you are completing the [object=230335].
• Go north to coords 29.1, 16.2, and turn in both quests to [npc=79243].
• Accept the quest Quakefist from [npc=79567] at coords 28.9, 16.4.

4. Quakefist - (Video) - Travel south and go inside the tree (entrance @ coords 29.9, 20.9), and kill [npc=81360].

• Leave the tree, and travel north to coords 28.9, 16.4 and turn the quest in at [npc=79567].

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP5,450
MoneyGold16g 98s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapLunarfall
Objective areaShadowmoon Valley1 mapped point
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.

Lunarfall Quest turn-in
Shadowmoon Valley Objective area 1 mapped point
Shadowmoon Valley map showing where to go for Finding a FootholdObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #539 27.0 8.1

Coordinates

  • Objective areaShadowmoon Valley 27.0, 8.1/way #539 27.0 8.1

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 Lunarfall map

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

Getting there

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

  • Lunarfall (Alliance), Shadowmoon ValleyAlliance · about 130 yards south-east
  • Anchorite's Sojourn, TaladorAlliance · about 770 yards west
  • Exile's Rise, Shadowmoon ValleyAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 390 yards north (on the Shadowmoon Valley map)

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

Foothold in a Savage Land

Part 1 of 12.

Next: For the Alliance!

  1. 1Finding a Foothold
  2. 2For the Alliance!
  3. 3Looking for Lumber
  4. 4Quakefist
  5. 5Establish Your Garrison
  6. 6Build Your Barracks
  7. 7Ravenous Ravens
  8. 8Qiana Moonshadow
  9. 9Delegating on Draenor
  10. 10Ship Salvage
  11. 11Pale Moonlight
  12. 12Keeping it Together

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.

  • For the Alliance!Shadowmoon Valley · Level 10-40

    We wouldn't have survived Tanaan without your strength, <name>. Many draenei and Alliance alike owe you a great debt. Before we departed for the Dark Portal, King Wrynn personally recommended that I place you in charge of our operations here in Draenor.

The storyline at a glance

Foothold in a Savage Land has 12 steps, from Finding a Foothold to Keeping it Together.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Lunarfall (12).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Lunarfall 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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