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Join the Battle! (Paladin)

Join the Battle! is a quest for level 1-10 in Northshire. It is step 23 of 49 in the Northshire storyline. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 360 experience and money.

Description

I received an urgent message from Sergeant Willem. Turns out that the Blackrock orcs have hired goblin assassins. They ambushed our battalion behind the abbey. Willem has asked me to send him a hero. You have to go help them, <name>!

Find Sergeant Willem north of the abbey at the command tent. Go!

Rewards

Money5 silver
Experience360 XP
ReputationStormwind +25

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP360
MoneyGold5s
ReputationStormwind+25

Reward details

Reputation: Stormwind +25

One of the last bastions of human power, this Alliance capital is ruled by the young but wise king, Anduin Wrynn.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Northshire that reward Stormwind reputation: Report to Goldshire (+75), Blackrock Invasion (+250), Ending the Invasion! (+350), Extinguishing Hope (+250), Beating Them Back! (+250), Lions for Lambs (+250).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapNorthshire
Objective areaBlackrock Depths
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.

Northshire Quest turn-in
Blackrock Depths Objective area

Nearby on the Northshire map

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

Getting there

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

  • Stormwind, ElwynnAlliance · about 650 yards west
  • Goldshire, ElwynnAlliance · about 650 yards south
  • Flamestar Post, Burning SteppesAlliance and Horde · about 1,100 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 90 yards south

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

Northshire

Part 23 of 49.

Previous: Join the Battle! · Next: Join the Battle!

  1. 18Lions for Lambs
  2. 19Join the Battle!
  3. 20Join the Battle!
  4. 21Join the Battle!
  5. 22Join the Battle!
  6. 23Join the Battle!
  7. 24Join the Battle!
  8. 25Join the Battle!
  9. 26Join the Battle!
  10. 27Join the Battle!
  11. 28They Sent Assassins
  12. 29They Sent Assassins

Showing steps 18 to 29 of 49.

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.

  • Lions for LambsNorthshire · Level 1-10

    The invading orcs aren't fools. They are sizing us up, making sure that when they attack it will be to their advantage. In the forest, to the northwest, are Blackrock spies. They peer at us through spyglasses, watching our every move - waiting. I want you take the fight to them!

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • They Sent AssassinsNorthshire · Level 1-10

    Have you ever seen a goblin, <name>? They're wretched little monsters that love only two things: gold and themselves. The Blackrock orcs have enlisted the aid of goblin assassins to kill our soldiers.

Other quests with this name

This one: Paladin · Human, Kul Tiran · Northshire · Level 1-10.

The storyline at a glance

Northshire has 49 steps, from Beating Them Back! to Report to Goldshire.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Northshire (48), Elwynn Forest (1).

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.

Other versions of this quest

9 quests carry the name Join the Battle!. They differ in the classes/races shown here.

QuestClassesRacesID
Join the Battle! (this page)PaladinHuman, Kul Tiran28785
Join the Battle!HunterHuman, Kul Tiran28780
Join the Battle!MageHuman, Kul Tiran28784
Join the Battle!PriestHuman, Kul Tiran28786
Join the Battle!RogueHuman, Kul Tiran28787
Join the Battle!WarlockHuman, Kul Tiran28788
Join the Battle!WarriorHuman, Kul Tiran28789
Join the Battle!SameDraenei, Night Elf, Dwarf, Pandaren, Gnome, Lightforged Draenei, Worgen, Dark Iron Dwarf, Void Elf, Dracthyr, Earthen29080
Join the Battle!Druid, Death Knight, Monk, ShamanHuman, Kul Tiran31143
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