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Preparations Underway

Preparations Underway is a quest for level 45. It is step 2 of 8 in the Class Mount: Paladin storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Eastern Plaguelands at 76.9, 50.9. It rewards 775 experience and money.

Description

As you may or may not recall, I once helped young paladins obtain their first armored mount.

It was a tedious task that involved months of obtaining materials and sending them all over Azeroth.

Thankfully, times have changed and we now have most of those materials at hand. That being said, I wish to help you obtain a new mount, something worthy of your title as Highlord.

In order for us to begin, I only require that you obtain a barding for us. Something strong, thick, and heavy.

Rewards

Money2 gold2 silver20 copper
Experience775 XP

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Bursi+37via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Quest line for the class mount Highlord's Golden Charger starts at [npc=118376] on Broken Shore after completing Breaching the Tomb with a Paladin.


  2. Worthy of the Title - travel to your order hall

  4. Preparations Underway - buy or craft a Stonehide Leather Barding (by a leatherworker, costs 25 Stonehide Leather)

  6. The Hammer of Dalaran - go to [npc=92183] in Dalaran

  8. A Few Things First - bring him 25 Leystone Ore and 1 [item=147768] (vendors for the sapphire are [npc=109563] in Suramar, one is here: /way Suramar 49.29 74.75 Entrance, costs 500 [currency=1155]. Use your [spell=202477] buff or he won't interact with you)

  10. Leather to Legendary - watch the dialogue, pick up the [item=144294] from the anvil and return to your order hall

  12. Stirring in the Shadows - use your order hall's exit to Eastern Plaguelands and travel to Stratholme. Talk to [npc=118360] to start the scenario and follow its story line.
    You can ride inside. Defeat mini bosses (kill the trash mobs in front of the towers to let them spawn) and free the paladins after that.
    /way 66.16 24.62 [npc=118197]
    /way 71.78 46.42 [npc=118198]
    /way 58.93 44.57 [npc=118199]
    Return to the entrance, talk to [npc=117714] and click the [npc=118254]

  14. Run to the end of the instance, enter the chamber and leave it again to start the fight against [npc=118224] (focus on him). Let [npc=117714] bring you back to your order hall.

[spell=241853] will be added to your mount collection automatically after turning in the quest.

Other color schemes are obtainable by full skilled artifact weapons (Power Ascended for each):


  • Protection: [item=143504] (blue/lilac)

  • Retribution: [item=143503] (red/silver)

  • Holy: [item=143505] (lilac/golden)


They are purchasable from [npc=99976] for 1000 [currency=1220].

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Bursi+37via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Quest line for the class mount Highlord's Golden Charger starts at [npc=118376] on Broken Shore after completing Breaching the Tomb with a Paladin.


  2. Worthy of the Title - travel to your order hall

  4. Preparations Underway - buy or craft a Stonehide Leather Barding (by a leatherworker, costs 25 Stonehide Leather)

  6. The Hammer of Dalaran - go to [npc=92183] in Dalaran

  8. A Few Things First - bring him 25 Leystone Ore and 1 [item=147768] (vendors for the sapphire are [npc=109563] in Suramar, one is here: /way Suramar 49.29 74.75 Entrance, costs 500 [currency=1155]. Use your [spell=202477] buff or he won't interact with you)

  10. Leather to Legendary - watch the dialogue, pick up the [item=144294] from the anvil and return to your order hall

  12. Stirring in the Shadows - use your order hall's exit to Eastern Plaguelands and travel to Stratholme. Talk to [npc=118360] to start the scenario and follow its story line.
    You can ride inside. Defeat mini bosses (kill the trash mobs in front of the towers to let them spawn) and free the paladins after that.
    /way 66.16 24.62 [npc=118197]
    /way 71.78 46.42 [npc=118198]
    /way 58.93 44.57 [npc=118199]
    Return to the entrance, talk to [npc=117714] and click the [npc=118254]

  14. Run to the end of the instance, enter the chamber and leave it again to start the fight against [npc=118224] (focus on him). Let [npc=117714] bring you back to your order hall.

[spell=241853] will be added to your mount collection automatically after turning in the quest.

Other color schemes are obtainable by full skilled artifact weapons (Power Ascended for each):


  • Protection: [item=143504] (blue/lilac)

  • Retribution: [item=143503] (red/silver)

  • Holy: [item=143505] (lilac/golden)


They are purchasable from [npc=99976] for 1000 [currency=1220].

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giovannileanza+22via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

"As you may or may not recall, I once helped young paladins obtain their first armored mount. It was a tedious task that involved months of obtaining materials and sending them all over Azeroth."

No kiddin', i did that questline... twice. By the way, doesn't he mean the Charger, a.k.a. second mount?
First mount (Warhorse) was simply learned/bought for 20s or so iirc.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP775
MoneyGold2g 2s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapEastern PlaguelandsTurn-in marker at 76.9, 50.9, 1 mapped point
Turn-in mapLight's Hope Chapel
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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.

Eastern Plaguelands Quest turn-in 1 mapped point
Eastern Plaguelands map showing where to go for Preparations UnderwayTurn-in

In-game waypoint: /way #23 76.9 50.9

Light's Hope Chapel Quest turn-in

Coordinates

  • Turn-inEastern Plaguelands 76.9, 50.9/way #23 76.9 50.9

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 Eastern Plaguelands map

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

Getting there

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

  • Light's Hope Chapel, Eastern PlaguelandsHorde · about 80 yards south-west
  • Acherus: The Ebon HoldAlliance and Horde · about 280 yards 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

Class Mount: Paladin

Part 2 of 8.

Previous: Worthy of the Title · Next: Preparations Underway

  1. 1Worthy of the Title
  2. 2Preparations Underway
  3. 3Preparations Underway
  4. 4The Hammer of Dalaran
  5. 5A Few Things First
  6. 6A Few Things First
  7. 7Leather to Legendary
  8. 8Stirring in the Shadows

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.

  • Worthy of the TitleLevel 45

    Highlord, Lord Grayson Shadowbreaker wishes to speak with you about an important matter. Please seek him out at Light's Hope Chapel in your order hall at your earliest convenience.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Hammer of DalaranLevel 45

    Should we wish to make this barding worthy of the steed who will bear it, we'll need to upgrade it. Right now it's just good for not getting you kicked off your mount. Speak with Alard Schmied in Dalaran.

The storyline at a glance

Class Mount: Paladin has 8 steps, from Worthy of the Title to Stirring in the Shadows.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Eastern Plaguelands (4), Dalaran (3), Light's Hope Chapel (1).

Other storylines on the Eastern Plaguelands 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

These quests carry the same name and the same data in every field we hold. Quest 46070 is the main entry.

QuestID
Preparations Underway (this page)46070
Preparations Underway94847
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