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Looking Forward (Alliance)

Looking Forward is an Alliance-only quest for level 30-35 in Shimmering Expanse. It is step 105 of 149 in the Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse storyline. It rewards 600 experience and money.

Description

The Admiral used the information you gathered for him to make a forward post under the terrace to our west. He's been preparing there for some kind of attack against the naga.

You should go to him immediately and inform him of the scope of what you've witnessed. Our force is small, and I fear for our soldiers if we charge in too recklessly.

Take my sea horse. It knows the way.

Rewards

Money1 gold37 silver40 copper
Experience600 XP
Top Comments

The highest voted Wowhead comments for this page. They are community notes, not TheWoWDB comments.

2
231689+12via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you can't enter this building because you can't walk through the walls, try dying elsewhere in the zone, ressing and then coming back (while alive). I could not complete this quest because the walls were fully solid (I experienced the same problem on beta) and tried numerous methods to fix it including: deleting cache, wtf and interface, relogging, and zoning (hearthed to SW and flew back). After giving up, I mistakenly ran into a horde camp and was promptly killed. After the corpse run I checked if I could get into the building and it worked. Good luck and may you not run into this problem at all.

Edit: I haven't tried this quest on a new toon recently, but it should be noted that I did originally take the seahorse to enter the building and I was not able to enter.

3
halfwayshay+8via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Still buggy in 2023. On a max level toon doing Loremaster so aggroing naga was not an option. Had to swim to the ships up top and fly up and die from fall damage. Rezzed at Spirit Healer, dropped quest, picked it back up at 40, 75, took the quest giver's seahorse, and was able to get in.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP600
MoneyGold1g 37s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapShimmering Expanse
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.

Shimmering Expanse Quest turn-in

Nearby on the Shimmering Expanse map

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Shimmering Expanse:

  • Tranquil Wash, Vashj'irAlliance · about 850 yards north-east
  • Darkbreak Cove, Vashj'irAlliance · about 870 yards west
  • Voldrin's Hold, Vashj'irAlliance · about 1,200 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 420 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse

Part 105 of 149.

Previous: Not Soon Forgotten · Next: Clear Goals

  1. 100Reoccupation
  2. 101The Revered Lady
  3. 102To the Fathom-Lord's Call
  4. 103Built to Last
  5. 104Not Soon Forgotten
  6. 105Looking Forward
  7. 106Clear Goals
  8. 107Not Entirely Unprepared
  9. 108Properly Inspired
  10. 109Swift Action
  11. 110Fallen But Not Forgotten
  12. 111Gauging Success

Showing steps 100 to 111 of 149.

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.

  • Not Soon ForgottenShimmering Expanse · Level 30-35

    The Kvaldir leader has shown his rotting, ugly face but a short swim from here, down this hall to our west. We kill him now and the Kvaldir occupation of our once beloved city shall be ended. Beware Battlemaiden, for he is no weakling. He has many Kvaldir at his command.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Clear GoalsShimmering Expanse · Level 30-35

    I see. The news you bring is grim, but I was not entirely unprepared for such possibilities. Without any effective scouting of naga numbers, I knew our plan was risky, but that's why we established this forward post. Let me put it to you plainly, <class>.

Other quests with this name

This one: Alliance only · Shimmering Expanse · Level 30-35.

The storyline at a glance

Vashj'ir, Kelp'thar Forest & Shimmering Expanse has 149 steps, from Call of Duty to Full Circle.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Shimmering Expanse (98), Kelp'thar Forest (48), Abyssal Depths (2), Vashj'ir (1).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Shimmering Expanse 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.

Other versions of this quest

2 quests carry the name Looking Forward. They differ in the faction shown here.

QuestFactionID
Looking Forward (this page)Alliance25747
Looking ForwardHorde25958
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