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Keep the Fires Burning

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

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447186+110via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

For this quest you will need to kill 10 Mystlash Hydra. They will drop Mystlash Hydra Blubber. You will find a lot of them in the waters to the west of Zoram'gar Outpost starting about 9,33. When you have your 10 go back to the forge (11,35). It's inside the building. Melt your blubber into oil at the forge and make your way over to the lighthouse at (6,28). Climb the stairs to the top, use your oil on the Lighthouse Fire and your done.

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1765217+34via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

You're here because you ran straight to the lighthouse like a mindless peon, caring to read the quest description only in front of that fire that you clicked ten times in vain. How do I know? I did exactly the same thing.

So, here's what you need to know: Mystlash Hydra Oil is created by combining 10 [item=46365], that are dropped by Mystlash Hydras. You can find them approximately where you have to pick up the scrap metal for Lousy Pieces of Ship.

Just head there, pick up the blubbers,go back to the forge to melt the oil and finally you can go back to the lighthouse to lit the fire.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 7-30
ZoneAshenvale
LocationAshenvale, Stonetalon Mountains
Quest ID13890

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13890))

Requirements

FactionHorde only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

WhereAshenvale, Stonetalon Mountains
StorylineAshenvale, Horde, step 24 of 42
RewardsOily Bracers, Alighted Boots, Darkbreaker Treads, 10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

This is no small task, {race}! We have more ships arriving, and without the lighthouse they'll be lost - or worse! You are hereby charged with keeping its fire lit. Collect the blubber from the hydras in these waters, then bring it to the forge here to melt it into oil. Throwing that oil on the lighthouse fire will buy us the time we need.

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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.

Ashenvale Quest turn-in 14 mapped points
Ashenvale map showing where to go for Keep the Fires BurningTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #63 12.1 33.8

Stonetalon Mountains Objective area 1 mapped point
Stonetalon Mountains map showing where to go for Keep the Fires BurningObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #65 49.1 0.8

Coordinates

  • Turn-inAshenvale 12.1, 33.8/way #63 12.1 33.8
  • Objective areaAshenvale 6.8, 29.0/way #63 6.8 29.0
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Ashenvale 5.8, 25.1/way #63 5.8 25.1
  • Objective areaStonetalon Mountains 49.1, 0.8/way #65 49.1 0.8

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 Ashenvale map

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

Getting there

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

  • Zoram'gar Outpost, AshenvaleHorde · about 50 yards west
  • Cliffwalker Post, Stonetalon MountainsHorde · about 1,200 yards south
  • Hellscream's Watch, AshenvaleHorde · about 1,500 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 360 yards north-west
  • Objective areaabout 490 yards north-west

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

Choose one of these rewards:

Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationOrgrimmar +250

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Wrist
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor2
Stats+2 Intellect, +3 Stamina
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for9 silver40 copper
TypeLeather Feet
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor5
Stats+3 Agility or Intellect, +4 Stamina
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for14 silver4 copper
TypeMail Feet
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor7
Stats+3 Agility or Intellect, +4 Stamina
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for14 silver34 copper
TypePlate Wrist
Item level14
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor9
Stats+2 Strength or Intellect, +3 Stamina
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for9 silver46 copper

Reputation: Orgrimmar +250

Founded by Thrall, this Horde capital city is home to many of the proud orc clans of Durotar.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Ashenvale that reward Orgrimmar reputation: Sharptalon's Claw (+250), Ursangous' Paw (+250), Shadumbra's Head (+250), Simmer Down Now (+250), Between a Rock and a Thistlefur (+250), The Befouled Element (+25).

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

Ashenvale, Horde

Part 24 of 42.

Previous: Dread Head Redemption · Next: Naga at the Zoram Strand

  1. 19Tell No One!
  2. 20Dirty Deeds
  3. 21Rain of Destruction
  4. 22All Apologies
  5. 23Dread Head Redemption
  6. 24Keep the Fires Burning
  7. 25Naga at the Zoram Strand
  8. 26The Essence of Aku'Mai
  9. 27Deep Despair
  10. 28Before You Go...
  11. 29Vorsha the Lasher
  12. 30Tweedle's Dumb

Showing steps 19 to 30 of 42.

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.

  • Dread Head RedemptionAshenvale · Level 7-30

    I sense that Durak is more than he seems. Demonic power is dangerous and it is easy to fall to its corruption - even for a trained warlock. I do not trust him, <name>. Find this Durak and tell him that the Horde will have nothing to do with him.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Naga at the Zoram StrandAshenvale · Level 7-30

    There is evil lurking here along the coast, <race>. It is the resting place of the doomed city of Zoram, long destroyed and submerged beneath the seas. Lost, and nearly forgotten. Now, the naga have returned, and for what reason we do not know.

The storyline at a glance

Ashenvale, Horde has 42 steps, from Find Gorat! to Vortex.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Ashenvale (40), Orgrimmar (2).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Ashenvale 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.