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How Best to Proceed

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneBlasted Lands
Quest ID25718

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25718))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineBlasted Lands, step 54 of 56
Rewards1g 5s, 525 XP

Description

Your demon-slaying down there bought our scouts enough time to get a good look at that druid. My intelligence tells me that his name is Marl Wormthorn... a rogue Gilnean druid of substantial power. He resides in Maldraz, the large, twisted tree at the center of the forest, and is protected from harm by some strange force. Whether that force is of demonic or natural sources, we have yet to determine. Speak with Elijah. He may have some more information for you.

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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.

Blasted Lands Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Blasted Lands map showing where to go for How Best to ProceedTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #17 47.1 69.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inBlasted Lands 47.1, 69.1/way #17 47.1 69.1
  • Objective areaBlasted Lands 49.8, 71.4/way #17 49.8 71.4

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 Blasted Lands map

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

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Blasted Lands:

  • Sunveil Excursion, Blasted LandsHorde · about 160 yards south-east
  • Dreadmaul Hold, Blasted LandsHorde · about 1,300 yards north
  • Stonard, Swamp of SorrowsHorde · about 1,800 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 110 yards south-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
Money1 gold5 silver
Experience525 XP
ReputationSilvermoon City +10

Reward details

Reputation: Silvermoon City +10

The capital of Quel'Thalas, home of the blood elves. Though nearly destroyed by Arthas' attack on the Sunwell, Silvermoon is once again a thriving city.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Blasted Lands that reward Silvermoon City reputation: The Dreadmaul Furnace (+250), Attune the Bloodstone (+25), The First Step (+250), Blood Ritual (+25), Not Just Any Body (+250), The Altar of Storms (+500).

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

Blasted Lands

Part 54 of 56.

Previous: The Demons and the Druid · Next: Demoniac Vessel

  1. 45You Are Rakh'likh, Demon
  2. 46Atrocities
  3. 47False Idols
  4. 48Neptool's Revenge
  5. 49Wormthorn's Dream
  6. 50Advice from the Cenarion Circle
  7. 51Demoniac Vessel
  8. 52The Downfall of Marl Wormthorn
  9. 53The Demons and the Druid
  10. 54How Best to Proceed
  11. 55Demoniac Vessel
  12. 56The Downfall of Marl Wormthorn

Showing steps 45 to 56 of 56.

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.

  • The Demons and the DruidBlasted Lands · Level 15-30

    The Reliquary is focused on the acquisition and preservation of magical artifacts. Our particular excursion is focused on the demonic artifacts that are hidden in what used to be the Tainted Scar. A worgen druid has taken residence in the scar and is coaxing a forest to grow.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Demoniac VesselBlasted Lands · Level 15-30

    We need a way to get Wormthorn's attention. Something to break him out of his trance. Something that's guaranteed to work. The few types of wildlife that managed to make a foothold in the Tainted Forest are, without a doubt, affected by the land's latent energies.

The storyline at a glance

Blasted Lands has 56 steps, from Minor Distractions to The Downfall of Marl Wormthorn.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Blasted Lands (56).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Blasted Lands 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.

Guides and routes on this site that cover Blasted Lands.