TheWoWDBNotice that you can get to this place again without the help of Guard Captain Zorek, the way to get there is just pretty unintuitive: Take the path northeast through Wyrmskull Village, enter the cave, you'll be dismounted because you're near the Utgarde Keep entrance. Take a hard right through a tunnel where you can mount again and you're well on your way to getting back up there.
Quest
Meet Lieutenant Icehammer...
A World of Warcraft quest in Howling Fjord. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Co'ords
64.5, 46.9
He will fly you to just north of Nifflevar when you accept the quest and he doesn't appear to offer this service again sadly.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-30
ZoneHowling Fjord
Quest ID11427
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(11427))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineHowling Fjord, step 20 of 162
Rewards525 XP
Description
Do you see those vrykul buildings on the bluffs to the northeast? The vrykul call that place Nifflevar. It's where most of their harpoon attacks on our frigates originate. Well guess what? The time for payback has come, {name}. I need you to take this harpoon control mechanism and meet up with Lieutenant Icehammer, who is hiding out in a vrykul building northwest of Nifflevar. When you're ready I'll place you on the back of one of our gryphons and zip you right to him!
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 areaIn-game waypoint: /way #117 64.4 46.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inHowling Fjord 64.4, 46.9
/way #117 64.4 46.9 - Objective areaHowling Fjord 60.1, 62.4
/way #117 60.1 62.4
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 Howling Fjord map
- Hero's Call: Howling Fjord! about 660 yards
- Honor the Flame about 1,310 yards
- To Northrend about 1,360 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Howling Fjord, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Howling Fjord:
- Valgarde Port, Howling Fjord
- Fort Wildervar, Howling Fjord
- Westguard Keep, Howling Fjord
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Experience525 XP
ReputationValiance Expedition +10
Other quests on the Howling Fjord map
Reward details
Reputation: Valiance Expedition +10
The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Other quests in Howling Fjord that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: Break the Blockade (+250), Scare the Guano Out of Them! (+250), Shoveltusk Soup Again? (+250), The Clutches of Evil (+250), Mage-Lieutenant Malister (+10), Two Wrongs... (+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.
Storyline
Howling Fjord
Part 20 of 162.
Previous: To Westguard Keep! · Next: Drop It then Rock It!
- 15The Explorers' League Outpost
- 16Locating the Mechanism
- 17Anguish of Nifflevar
- 18Dragonflayer Battle Plans
- 19To Westguard Keep!
- 20Meet Lieutenant Icehammer...
- 21Drop It then Rock It!
- 22Harpoon Master Yavus
- 23It Goes to 11...
- 24Let's Go Surfing Now
- 25Tools to Get the Job Done
- 26Out of My Element?
Showing steps 15 to 26 of 162.
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.
- To Westguard Keep!
<Vice Admiral Keller rolls up the battle plans.> We've got all the information we need to keep Valgarde protected. You must take these battle plans to Westguard Keep, located on the western fjord cliff wall. Speak with the flight master assistant, Emilune Winterwind.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Drop It then Rock It!
I'm not about to put the fate of this mission into the hands of some untested scrub. Now, if you want to prove to me that you've got what it takes to carry out this mission, you'll need to do what I tell you. Take this battle standard and head over to Baleheim, directly north of here.
The storyline at a glance
Howling Fjord has 162 steps, from Hell Has Frozen Over... to Alpha Worg.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Howling Fjord (147), Grizzly Hills (15).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Howling Fjord map
- Truthguard
- Wrath of the Lich King Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
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.