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Keep Your Friends Close

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

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Infinitii+18via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you do not get the joining quest to Dalaran after completing this you can try a few things. First check your Adventure Guide to see if the quest is in there. Second try talking to Holgar Stormaxe [npc=4311] and select begin your journey in dalaran. Third try logging out for 5 minutes then logging back in.

In my case the game was acting like it was still on Lords of Dreanor. I had no xp bar to lvl past 100 and my Adventure Guide only showed old quests from Lords of Dreanor. In this case logging out for 5 minutes reset the game and got it running correctly for me.

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criptoabi+11via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

To anyone on 30+ lvl having troubles to get the next quest, u can use the portal to Azsuna, fly to Dalaran, and talk with Amisi to get your Dalaran-Legion Heartstone. Apparently there is no blizz-solution to get the quest, but at least u can get stoned.

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Jacobstx+4via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)
Sylvanas Windrunner: "I've gotten far more kills than you, Nathanos. You're slipping!"
Nathanos Blightcaller: "I'm your champion, Dark Lady. It's my job to make you look good."
Sylvanas Windrunner: "A Champion at making excuses it would seem!"

And thus was born the Windcaller/Blightrunner ship.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 10-45
Quest ID40605

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(40605))

Requirements

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

WhereOrgrimmar, Durotar
Rewards5g 5s 50c, 1,550 XP

Description

The Legion is bold indeed to strike at the Horde's stronghold! You aided our defense, but now I have a more important task for you. It seems the demon hunters will play a crucial part in this war... but I still don't trust them. You will be my envoy to the Illidari. Learn what they know. Study their techniques. If they betray us, we'll use their own knowledge against them. Their camp lies atop the plateau in the city. Go. Nathanos and I will clean up this mess.

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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.

Orgrimmar Quest turn-in 1 mapped point
Orgrimmar map showing where to go for Keep Your Friends CloseTurn-in

In-game waypoint: /way #85 52.4 57.1

Durotar Objective area 1 mapped point
Durotar map showing where to go for Keep Your Friends CloseObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #1 45.7 15.9

Coordinates

  • Turn-inOrgrimmar 52.4, 57.1/way #85 52.4 57.1
  • Objective areaDurotar 45.7, 15.9/way #1 45.7 15.9

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 Orgrimmar map

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

Getting there

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

  • Orgrimmar, DurotarHorde · about 60 yards south-west
  • Valormok, AzsharaHorde · about 1,200 yards north
  • Nozzlepot's Outpost, Northern BarrensHorde · about 1,200 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 580 yards south (on the Durotar map)

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
Money5 gold5 silver
Experience1,550 XP

Where this quest fits

Other storylines on the Orgrimmar 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.