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Protect the World Tree

Protect the World Tree is a quest for level 30-35 in Mount Hyjal. It is step 1 of 118 in the Mount Hyjal storyline, the opening step. The quest's turn-in marker is in Mount Hyjal at 47.7, 35.5. It rewards 1 reputation reward, 1,200 experience and money.

Description

<Ysera's eyes look distant, as if not fully acknowledging you.>

I feel it as well, <class>. Ragnaros has arrived.

We must defeat his minions before he can join them and lend them his strength.

Seek Malfurion Stormrage at the Tranquil Grove, west of here, and aid his forces in any way you can.

I must seek answers from within the Emerald Dream. You must protect the World Tree until I return.

Rewards

Money3 gold43 silver50 copper
Experience1,200 XP
ReputationGuardians of Hyjal +250
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BY THE NORDRASSIL'S RIVER Quest Tree From Whiterock

S)Hero's Call: Mount Hyjal!(A) S)Warchief's Command: Mount Hyjal!(H)
 ├──────────────────────────────┘
G)As Hyjal Burns 1)The Earth Rises 	1)Inciting the Elements
 |					1)Flames from Above
2)Protect the World Tree──┐
2)The Flameseer's Staff  2)War on the Twilight's Hammer
2)Flamebreaker			
2)The Return of Baron Geddon	S)This Can Mean Only One Thing...
3)Emerald Allies		9)To the Chamber of Inceneration!
3)The Captured Scout		9)What is This Place?
3)Twilight Captivity		9)The Twilight Forge
3)Return to Alysra		 ├>9)Do My Eyes Deceive Me?
3)A Prisoner of Interest	9)Ascendant Lord Obsidius
3)Through the Dream
1)Return to Nordrassil───────┬>Wings Over Mount Hyjal*
4)The Return of the Ancients ├>Scrambling for Eggs*
 ├>Save the Wee Animals*     └>The Wormwing Problem*
 ├>Disrupting the Rituals*
 ├>Fighting Fire With ... Anything*
 ├>If You're Not Against Us...*
 ├>4)In the Rear With the Gear  6)Gar'gol's Gotta Go
 |				6)Get Me Outta Here!
 ├──────────────────────────┐
4)End of the Supply Line   4)Harrying the Hunters
5)The Voice of Goldrinn(A) 5)The Voice of Lo'Gosh(H)
5)Goldrinn's Ferocity(A)   5)Howling Mad(H)
 ├──────────────────────────┴──────────┐
 ├>6)From the Mouth of Madness        6)The Eye of Twilight
 | 6)Free Your Mind, the Rest Follows 6)Mastering Puppets
 ├>5)Lycanthoth the Corruptor{H}      6)Elementary!
 | G)The Shrine Reclaimed{H}          5)Return to Duskwhisper
 | /
6)Cleaning House{H}───────>7)Sweeping the Shelf{H}
7)Lightning in a Bottle{H}
8)Into the Maw!{A2;H;H2}

8)Forged of Shadow and Flame
 |
 | 8)Crushing the Cores 8)Rage of the Wolf Ancient
 ├──┴────────────────────┘
8)Cindermaul, the Portal Master
8)Forgemaster Pyrendius
8)Return from the Firelands{H}──>The Last Living Lorekeeper*
 ├────────────────────┐
Aviana's Legacy*  The Fires of Mount Hyjal*
Quest zones:
1)Nordrassil_____2)The Verdant Thicket_____3)Hyjal Barrow Dens+Ruins of Lar'donir_____4)Wolf's Run_____5)Shrine of Goldrinn_____6)Gar'gol's Hovel_____7)Lightning Ledge_____8)Firelands Forgeworks_____9)Blackrock Caverns
G)Gluing Separate Questlines_____S)Skippable
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.


IMPORTANT INFO:


  2. End of the Supply Line and Harrying the Hunters can be done by both factions, but "The Voice of..." followup requrement is different.

  4. Goldrinn's Ferocity and Howling Mad allows other players to share you quests next on line, but Lycanthoth the Corruptor{H} will let you be in same phase as npc.

  6. Into the Maw!{A2;H;H2}. There are 2Alliance and 2Horde variants, for each faction one from wolf spirit and one backup from main quest guy in Shrine of Goldrinn.

  8. Whole Firelands Forgeworks(8) chain doesn't have any pre-quests. You can get first time to Hyjal and ask warlock to summon you there and do the quests. However Lightning in a Bottle{H} is needed to use the standart teleport.


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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP1,200
MoneyGold3g 43s
ReputationGuardians of Hyjal+250

Reward details

Reputation: Guardians of Hyjal +250

Faced with the impending devastation of Mount Hyjal, the most powerful members of the Cenarion Circle have joined forces with their Emerald Dragonflight allies to fend off Ragnaros' elemental hordes and the Twilight's Hammer.

Reputation group: Cataclysm.

Other quests in Mount Hyjal that reward Guardians of Hyjal reputation: Trial By Fire (+250), In Bloom (+250), End of the Supply Line (+250), In the Rear With the Gear (+250), Harrying the Hunters (+250), The Voice of Goldrinn (+10).

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.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapMount HyjalTurn-in marker at 47.7, 35.5, 2 mapped points
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.

Mount Hyjal Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Mount Hyjal map showing where to go for Protect the World TreeTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #198 47.7 35.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inMount Hyjal 47.7, 35.5/way #198 47.7 35.5
  • Objective areaMount Hyjal 62.1, 24.9/way #198 62.1 24.9

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 Mount Hyjal map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Mount Hyjal:

  • Shrine of Aviana, HyjalAlliance and Horde · about 340 yards south-west
  • Nordrassil, HyjalAlliance and Horde · about 730 yards north-east
  • Sanctuary of Malorne, HyjalAlliance and Horde · about 1,200 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 680 yards north-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

Mount Hyjal

Part 1 of 118.

Next: The Flameseer's Staff

  1. 1Protect the World Tree
  2. 2The Flameseer's Staff
  3. 3Flamebreaker
  4. 4The Return of Baron Geddon
  5. 5Emerald Allies
  6. 6The Captured Scout
  7. 7Twilight Captivity
  8. 8Return to Alysra
  9. 9A Prisoner of Interest
  10. 10Through the Dream
  11. 11Return to Nordrassil
  12. 12The Return of the Ancients

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 118.

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Flameseer's StaffMount Hyjal · Level 30-35

    A powerful artifact known as the Flameseer's Staff was lost during the initial onslaught by the enemy forces. It was an ancient bone staff that granted its wielder power over the elements of fire. Its fragments litter the area around us. Find them and bring them to Malfurion.

The storyline at a glance

Mount Hyjal has 118 steps, from Protect the World Tree to The Firelord.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Mount Hyjal (118).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Mount Hyjal 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.

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