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Quest
If Chaos Drives, Let Suffering Hold The Reins
A World of Warcraft quest in Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Next Quest: Gothik the Harvester
to do this quest u need kill the citizens which are the injured runing ppl.but a scarlet crusader wont be found so instead of killing them kill anything with the name scarlet. go for the ones working theyre lvl 43 i think. if this helped plz rate up
Quest facts
Quest ID12678
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12678))
WoW Forever: what our data shows
Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 3.80.2.69874, read from the beta game data we hold
Versus the Classic Era clientNew in the WoW Forever beta client - quest id 12678 is not sighted in our Classic Era baseline (build 1.15.9.69722)
A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4
Requirements
ClassesDeath Knight, Evoker, Adventurer and Traveler
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
Description
They make their stand now, outside of Death's Breach, futilely attempting to push us back in hopes of saving their horses, mines, lumber and citizens. This will be your first lesson in Scourge warfare: TERROR! Go to the front lines, south of here, and destroy Scarlet Crusaders. Leave their corpses so that we may utilize them for the death march. But most importantly: kill the fleeing villagers. Soldiers dying are an affordance, but villagers? That is what strikes fear into the hearts of man.
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 areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #124 52.3 34.0
Coordinates
- Turn-inPlaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave 52.3, 34.0
/way #124 52.3 34.0 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave 56.5, 39.8
/way #124 56.5 39.8 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave 56.6, 44.6
/way #124 56.6 44.6
Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Getting there
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- 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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Money10 gold50 silver
Experience6,200 XP
Reward details
Items you receive
TypeArmor Finger
Item level29
BindingBinds when picked up
Stats+4 Strength, +6 Stamina, +6 Critical Strike
Sells to vendors for1 silver33 copper
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
The Scarlet Enclave
Part 11 of 58.
Previous: The Scarlet Harvest · Next: Grand Theft Palomino
- 6Death Comes From On High
- 7The Might Of The Scourge
- 8The Power Of Blood, Frost And Unholy
- 9Report To Scourge Commander Thalanor
- 10The Scarlet Harvest
- 11If Chaos Drives, Let Suffering Hold The Reins
- 12Grand Theft Palomino
- 13Into the Realm of Shadows
- 14Tonight We Dine In Havenshire
- 15Abandoned Mail
- 16Death's Challenge
- 17Gothik the Harvester
Showing steps 6 to 17 of 58.
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 Scarlet Harvest
Below Acherus stands Death's Breach, the staging point for our assault upon the Scarlet Crusade. You are to ride one of my Scourge gryphons, located on either side of this platform, and report to Prince Valanar. Do as he says and you may live to see these lands fall before us.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Grand Theft Palomino
How fortuitous it is that the Crusade has a stable full of horses a mere stone's throw from this post. Though they guard it tenaciously, an enterprising young death knight could break through their defenses and take what is rightfully his!
The storyline at a glance
The Scarlet Enclave has 58 steps, from In Service Of The Lich King to Saurfang's Blessing.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave (54), Eastern Plaguelands (2), Elwynn Forest (1), Orgrimmar (1).
Other storylines on the Eastern Plaguelands map
- Eastern Plaguelands
- Origins
- Path of the Light III
- Class Mount: Paladin
- The Path of Light
- The Ashbringer
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.