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Recruitment

Recruitment is a Horde-only quest for level 1-10 in Deathknell. It is step 7 of 17 in the Deathknell storyline. It rewards 3 reward items, 1 reputation reward, 1,750 experience and money.

Description

We've been shipping in dead bodies from Silverpine, Hillsbrad... hell, anywhere we can get them from. We can't, however, afford to ignore the bodies which are sitting right on our front doorstep.

The last vestiges of the Scarlet Crusade roam here in Tirisfal Glades. While we've managed to push them from Deathknell, several of their bodies litter the buildings to the north and the east.

Go find them... and bring that Darnell fellow with you. He looks strong enough to carry a few corpses.

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Money40 silver
Experience1,750 XP
ReputationUndercity +350

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Known issues

Top Comments

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

1
tegarasil+16via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This quest shows in the list for non-Forsaken characters. When walking up to a corpse, I have no means of "starting" this quest. The first quest that I can pick up is the last one in the sequence.

I am playing a Blood Elf Mage, trying to complete Loremaster Achievement.

2
Polegara+11via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The quest instructions say "point at them so Darnell can pick them up".

Do NOT do this. Or you'll waste quite a few minutes like I did, /pointing at them and trying to get it to work.

Like most quest items in the world, they are interactable with by right clicking on them, which will then animate your character to point at them while Darnel runs to pick them up.

I guess this is the opposite of those /cheer /dance quests that Blizz have been making recently.

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Check whether you have already completed it in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26800))

Top Comments

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

1
tegarasil+16via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

This quest shows in the list for non-Forsaken characters. When walking up to a corpse, I have no means of "starting" this quest. The first quest that I can pick up is the last one in the sequence.

I am playing a Blood Elf Mage, trying to complete Loremaster Achievement.

2
Polegara+11via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

The quest instructions say "point at them so Darnell can pick them up".

Do NOT do this. Or you'll waste quite a few minutes like I did, /pointing at them and trying to get it to work.

Like most quest items in the world, they are interactable with by right clicking on them, which will then animate your character to point at them while Darnel runs to pick them up.

I guess this is the opposite of those /cheer /dance quests that Blizz have been making recently.

3
495957+8via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Currently (11/24/10) this quest seems to be slightly broken. The requirements of the quest are that you collect six Scarlet Corpses; however, with the massive influx of new characters in Deathknell the corpses don't have adequate time to respawn, leaving many players one or two corpses short of their goal.

On the other hand if one doesn't complete the quest Darnell; the NPC tasked with accompanying and assisting you, will not disappear, leaving you with a rather large zombie vanity pet that no one else can see. How long Darnell keeps will keep the player company I cannot yet say, though he has joined me as far as Brill.

Enjoy your invisible giant flesh eating friend!

*An addendum to the above information: If you complete the remainder of the quests in Deathknell while leaving Recruitment incomplete Darnell will; on at least two occasions, meet his future self, which is worthy of the lulz.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP1,750
MoneyGold40s
ReputationUndercity+350

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Waist
Item level2
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor1
Suited toArcane, Fire, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Shadow, Affliction, Demonology, Destruction
Sells to vendors for9 copper
TypePlate Wrist
Item level2
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Suited toHoly, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost, Unholy
Sells to vendors for9 copper
TypeCloth Back
Item level2
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor1
Suited toBalance, Feral, Guardian, Restoration, Unholy, Assassination, Outlaw, Subtlety, Brewmaster, Windwalker, Mistweaver, Havoc, Vengeance
Sells to vendors for12 copper

Reputation: Undercity +350

Led by Sylvanas Windrunner, the Forsaken have joined a tenuous alliance with the Horde and established this capital in the vast depths under the Ruins of Lordaeron.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Deathknell that reward Undercity reputation: Fresh out of the Grave (+10), The Wakening (+150), The Truth of the Grave (+150), No Better Than the Zombies (+10), Assault on the Rotbrain Encampment (+500), Vital Intelligence (+150).

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 mapDeathknell
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.

Deathknell Quest turn-in

Getting there

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

  • Forsaken High Command, Silverpine ForestHorde · about 730 yards south-east
  • Forsaken Rear Guard, Silverpine ForestHorde · about 810 yards south
  • Brill, Tirisfal GladesHorde · about 1,300 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 80 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

Deathknell

Part 7 of 17.

Previous: Beyond the Graves · Next: Shadow Priest Sarvis

  1. 2The Shadow Grave
  2. 3Those That Couldn't Be Saved
  3. 4Caretaker Caice
  4. 5The Wakening
  5. 6Beyond the Graves
  6. 7Recruitment
  7. 8Shadow Priest Sarvis
  8. 9Scourge on our Perimeter
  9. 10Novice Elreth
  10. 11The Truth of the Grave
  11. 12The Executor In the Field
  12. 13The Damned

Showing steps 2 to 13 of 17.

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.

  • Beyond the GravesDeathknell · Level 1-10

    Darnell tells me that the two of you have already met. That's good, because I'm sending you both into Deathknell. Your work is done here. Speak with Deathguard Saltain in Deathknell, to the north. He will tell you more of what you must know.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Shadow Priest SarvisDeathknell · Level 1-10

    Are you still here, <name>? You know, I'm only a deathguard. I don't have many tasks I can hand out to passers-by like you. I'd recommend that you talk to Shadow Priest Sarvis. I remember, he helped me get on my feet after I was plucked out of that tomb. I'm sure he'll do the same for you.

The storyline at a glance

Deathknell has 17 steps, from Fresh out of the Grave to Vital Intelligence.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Deathknell (16), Tirisfal Glades (1).

Other storylines on the Tirisfal Glades 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.

Related
Recruiting the Troops
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Recruiting the Troops
Recruitment Drive
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Red Hand or Herring?
Red in Tooth and Claw
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