Quest Log

Heating Up

Heating Up is a quest for level 40. It is step 5 of 8 in the Garrison Campaign storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Gorgrond at 54.2, 55.9. It rewards 1,350 experience and money.

Description

Greetings, <name>. I have been conducting research on the steam geysers of Gorgrond for some time now.

Cragplume Cauldron is one of the largest caldera in this region, but we have been unable to do a geographical survey due to the dangerous creatures in this area.

Since you are venturing into the depths, could you take a temperature reading for me?

It would add greatly to our understanding of these natural caverns.

Rewards

Money25

Experience1,350 XP

Stuck on this quest?

Turn in at Gorgrond 54.2, 55.9 /way #543 54.2 55.9

Known issues

Blizzard staff posts that mention this quest:

WoW Forever Beta Development Notes-Updated 3 November (2026-10-16)

Top Comments

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MnemizJan 7, 2015+44via Wowhead

If you "by accident" clicked 'Take me to the ground/downstairs'-something and wondering how in the world you get up there again?
-go to 56,52 and take the path up (turns lightly to the left) and you'll be at the spot with the questgivers again :)

Crunchy101Jan 11, 2015+11via Wowhead

If you finish The Descent first you'll have to "escape" and then re-enter the cauldron to do Heating Up and then walk up the slope and out again.

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Check whether you have already completed it in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(34340))

Top Comments

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

MnemizJan 7, 2015+44via Wowhead

If you "by accident" clicked 'Take me to the ground/downstairs'-something and wondering how in the world you get up there again?
-go to 56,52 and take the path up (turns lightly to the left) and you'll be at the spot with the questgivers again :)

Crunchy101Jan 11, 2015+11via Wowhead

If you finish The Descent first you'll have to "escape" and then re-enter the cauldron to do Heating Up and then walk up the slope and out again.

TrickenzieJan 5, 2015+4via Wowhead

Back into the cauldron, you can't see the quest completion place on your map but keep going down.It's at 36.8 78.0, not quite to the bottom.

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Rewards in detail

Type	Reward	Amount
Experience	XP	1,350
Money	Gold	25g 47s

Where it comes from

Turn-in map	Gorgrond	Turn-in marker at 54.2, 55.9, 1 mapped point
Objective area	Cragplume Cauldron

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.

Cragplume Cauldron Objective area

Coordinates

Turn-inGorgrond 54.2, 55.9/way #543 54.2 55.9

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 Gorgrond map

The Sparring Arena about 210 yards
Rescue Rangari about 230 yards
We Need An Outpost about 230 yards
Power of the Genesaur about 230 yards
Chains of Iron about 230 yards
Strike While the Iron is Hot about 230 yards
Lost Mole Machines about 250 yards
Is This One of Yours? about 660 yards
What the Bony Xuk? about 660 yards
Shells for Xuk about 660 yards

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

Getting there

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

Highpass, GorgrondAlliance · about 220 yards south-west
Everbloom Wilds, GorgrondAlliance and Horde · about 600 yards north
Breaker's Crown, GorgrondAlliance and Horde · about 690 yards west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 190 yards west (on the Cragplume Cauldron 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

Garrison Campaign

Part 5 of 8.

Previous: A Goren's Feast · Next: Bladefury's Orders

Also part of: Garrison Campaign (part 6 of 8).

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 Goren's FeastLevel 40
Goren. This caldera is full of them. I can even smell their stench from here. I suspect that these goren are more than just primitive beasts, but in order to prove my theories, I need more data. During your mission, if you should slay a goren or two, would you examine their stomachs for me?

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

Bladefury's OrdersLevel 40
Lieutenant O'rok: Send an elite strike team to Cragplume Cauldron. Retrieve a high-value artifact from the crater and deliver it to my command post in northern Talador. With your remaining forces, go to Gorgorek's Fall. Protect and prepare the ancient magnaron specimen for retrieval.

Quests that require this one

The Beating Heart

The storyline at a glance

Garrison Campaign has 8 steps, from Ambushing the Enemy to The Beating Heart.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Gorgrond (7), Lunarfall (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

The Garrison Campaign Complete the Garrison Campaign chapters listed below.

Other storylines on the Gorgrond map

In the Land of Giants39 steps, starts with Mossy Fate
Supporting Your Garrison14 steps, starts with A Rediscovered Legend
Establish a Foothold8 steps, starts with The Laughing Skull
We Need An Outpost8 steps, starts with Welcome to Gorgrond
The Iron Approach2 steps, starts with Strike While the Iron is Hot

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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Heartstrike

Heat That Just Don't Quit

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