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Quest

Retaking Mystral Lake

A World of Warcraft quest in Ashenvale. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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

I'd say be careful with this quest. A random horde guard appeared out of nowhere and one shot me before running off out of range. I don't know if he had a ridiculous range or something but I have no idea where he came from and definitely didn't aggro him before entering the lake

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

I picked up all available quests at Stardust Spire and went ahead with They Took Our Gnomes, The Goblin Braintrust and Ze Gnomecorder in the dummy-horde forest location north of Silverwind Refugee. I thought this Silverwind Refugee was yet another dummy horde camp, and began to slaughter my way through it for reaching Mystral Lake. Being a lvl 99, it would be a piece of cake. Until it became obvious that the third guard in my pull was not going to let himself be killed by me, and actually killed both my voidtank and myself.

So this is a warning to every [faction=469]-questers: Silverwind Refugee is actually taken over by the filthy Horde. Do not go near this occupied post unless you have a raid group or wanna test your luck!

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 7-30
ZoneAshenvale
Quest ID26470

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(26470))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineAshenvale, Alliance, step 20 of 50
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP

Description

We could easily have held Silverwind Refuge from the Horde had they not taken control of our water elemental defenders on Mystral Lake. One of their shaman summoned in Tideress, an old and angry water spirit of the forest who befouled our elementals and turned them against us. With the lake and the Horde pressing in on us, we had no choice but to retreat to the spire here. Go east. Take the lake back so that we will have a chance to retake the refuge some day.

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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.

Ashenvale Quest turn-in 11 mapped points
Ashenvale map showing where to go for Retaking Mystral LakeTurn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #63 35.6 71.5

Coordinates

  • Turn-inAshenvale 35.6, 71.5/way #63 35.6 71.5
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Ashenvale 48.2, 70.6/way #63 48.2 70.6
  • Objective areaAshenvale 48.2, 69.7/way #63 48.2 69.7

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 Ashenvale map

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

Getting there

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

  • Stardust Spire, AshenvaleAlliance · about 40 yards south-west
  • Astranaar, AshenvaleAlliance · about 900 yards north
  • Windshear Hold, Stonetalon MountainsAlliance · about 1,000 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 730 yards east
  • Objective areaabout 730 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.

Related
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationDarnassus +250

Reward details

Reputation: Darnassus +250

This Alliance capital is populated by Night Elves and is located in the Island of Teldrassil. Ruled by the Priestess of the Moon, Tyrande Whisperwind.

Reputation group: Alliance.

Other quests in Ashenvale that reward Darnassus reputation: Supplies to Auberdine (+500), Don't Forget the Horde (+250), Of Their Own Design (+250), Naga of the Strand (+250), West to the Strand (+10), Delivery for Orendil (+25).

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

Ashenvale, Alliance

Part 20 of 50.

Previous: Playing Possum · Next: The Goblin Braintrust

  1. 15In the Hands of the Perverse
  2. 16All's Well
  3. 17Dryad Delivery
  4. 18Search the Bole
  5. 19Playing Possum
  6. 20Retaking Mystral Lake
  7. 21The Goblin Braintrust
  8. 22Three Friends of the Forest
  9. 23In a Bind
  10. 24Clear the Shrine
  11. 25The Last Stand
  12. 26Return to Raene

Showing steps 15 to 26 of 50.

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.

  • Playing PossumAshenvale · Level 7-30

    The last piece of the rod is held by druids of the claw. I asked their leader, Oso Bramblescar, to give it to me, but he and his guardians nearly killed me! Clearly they too were affected by the Horde's corruption of the Forest Heart.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Goblin BraintrustAshenvale · Level 7-30

    If we could just stop the damned bombing from the goblins' creations we'd be able to launch a counter-offensive to take back Silverwind Refuge! It's been my experience that goblins are either lazy and unproductive, or too productive and end up killing themselves with their own explosives.

The storyline at a glance

Ashenvale, Alliance has 50 steps, from Bathran's Hair to The Forest Heart.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Ashenvale (50).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Ashenvale 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.