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Quest
Hell Has Frozen Over...
A World of Warcraft quest in Howling Fjord. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.
"Report to Vice Admiral Keller just northwest of here and let him know that you're all out of bubble gum."
This is a reference to the 1988 movie They Live where Nada says "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
This was also referred to in the 1996 video game Duke Nukem 3D where he said "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of gum."Another clever easter egg from Blizzard.
For any Americans tuning in, the comma in that quotient is decimal notation, indicating that Northrend is roughly 6.0 miles wide (lol).
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneHowling Fjord
Quest ID11228
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11228))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineHowling Fjord, step 1 of 162
Rewards525 XP
Description
Fordragon's got another thing coming if he thinks the group of green-gilled scrubs he sent to defend this port can hold out much longer. <Macalroy raises an eyebrow as he examines your equipment.> You, however, might fare a bit better. The importance of holding this port cannot be stated enough; and with those monsters flying overhead, the situation around here has gone from bad to worse. Report to Vice Admiral Keller just northwest of here and let him know that you're all out of bubble gum.
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #117 60.3 60.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inHowling Fjord 60.3, 60.9
/way #117 60.3 60.9 - Objective areaHowling Fjord 61.2, 62.7
/way #117 61.2 62.7
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 Howling Fjord map
- Hero's Call: Howling Fjord! about 80 yards
- To Northrend about 740 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,810 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Howling Fjord, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Howling Fjord:
- Valgarde Port, Howling Fjord
- Fort Wildervar, Howling Fjord
- Westguard Keep, Howling Fjord
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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Experience525 XP
Other quests on the Howling Fjord map
Storyline
Howling Fjord
Part 1 of 162.
Next: If Valgarde Falls...
- 1Hell Has Frozen Over...
- 2If Valgarde Falls...
- 3Rescuing the Rescuers
- 4Prisoners of Wyrmskull
- 5Into the World of Spirits
- 6The Human League
- 7The Path to Payback
- 8The Echo of Ymiron
- 9Zedd's Probably Dead
- 10And Then There Were Two...
- 11The Depths of Depravity
- 12The Ring of Judgment
Showing steps 1 to 12 of 162.
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.
- If Valgarde Falls...
If Valgarde falls, our primary supply line into Northrend will cease to exist. From there it'll only be a matter of time before we're all servants of the Lich King. Now I don't know about you, but I've got a wife and three kids back in Elwynn and I'll be damned if I'll go down without a fight.
The storyline at a glance
Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Howling Fjord map
- Truthguard
- Wrath of the Lich King Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.