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Return to the High Commander

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

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30
ZoneDragonblight
Quest ID12251

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12251))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineDragonblight, step 63 of 149
RewardsFrontrunner's Blessed Handwraps, Snowfall Reaver Boots, Westwind Waistband, 525 XP

Description

Return to High Commander Halford Wyrmbane at once, {name}. Let him know that your mission was a success and that the few remaining villagers that were rescued are back to work.

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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.

Dragonblight Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Dragonblight map showing where to go for Return to the High CommanderTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #115 78.6 48.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDragonblight 78.6, 48.1/way #115 78.6 48.1
  • Objective areaDragonblight 77.1, 50.1/way #115 77.1 50.1

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 Dragonblight map

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

Getting there

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

  • Wintergarde Keep, DragonblightAlliance · about 110 yards south-west
  • Wyrmrest Temple, DragonblightAlliance and Horde · about 1,000 yards west
  • Windrunner's Overlook, Crystalsong ForestAlliance · about 1,300 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 120 yards south-west

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

Choose one of these rewards:

Experience525 XP
ReputationValiance Expedition +10

Reward details

Pick one of these

TypeCloth Hands
Item level33
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor4
Stats+6 Intellect, +9 Stamina, +12 Critical Strike
Suited toAffliction, Frost, Discipline, Holy, Fire, Arcane, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology
Sells to vendors for25 gold30 silver
TypeLeather Feet
Item level33
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor7
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +7 Haste, +9 Critical Strike
Suited toBalance, Restoration, Mistweaver, Devourer, Vengeance, Feral, Guardian, Brewmaster, Subtlety, Outlaw, Assassination, Havoc, Windwalker
Sells to vendors for35 gold28 silver
TypeMail Waist
Item level33
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor10
Stats+6 Agility or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +7 Critical Strike
Suited toElemental, Restoration, Devastation, Preservation, Augmentation, Marksmanship, Beast Mastery, Survival, Enhancement
Sells to vendors for23 gold95 silver
TypePlate Hands
Item level33
BindingBinds when picked up
Armor14
Stats+6 Strength or Intellect, +9 Stamina, +6 Haste, +12 Critical Strike
Suited toHoly, Unholy, Protection, Retribution, Arms, Fury, Blood, Frost
Sells to vendors for24 gold67 silver

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 Dragonblight that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: A Letter for Home (+250), Strengthen the Ancients (+250), Pest Control (+250), Canyon Chase (+250), The Lost Courier (+25), The Liquid Fire of Elune (+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

Dragonblight

Part 63 of 149.

Previous: Flight of the Wintergarde Defender · Next: The Demo-gnome

  1. 58That Which Creates Can Also Destroy
  2. 59Mystery of the Infinite
  3. 60Mystery of the Infinite, Redux
  4. 61Naxxramas and the Fall of Wintergarde
  5. 62Flight of the Wintergarde Defender
  6. 63Return to the High Commander
  7. 64The Demo-gnome
  8. 65The Search for Slinkin
  9. 66The Bleeding Ore
  10. 67Leave Nothing to Chance
  11. 68Understanding the Scourge War Machine
  12. 69Rescue from Town Square

Showing steps 58 to 69 of 149.

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.

  • Flight of the Wintergarde DefenderDragonblight · Level 15-30

    With this whistle you can call down a Wintergarde gryphon. Mount the creature and head towards the ruins of Wintergarde Village, now known as the Carrion Fields, southeast of here. Once at the fields, keep your eyes peeled for helpless Wintergarde villagers.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Demo-gnomeDragonblight · Level 15-30

    Quarterflash recently requisitioned my group for a specialist that he could send on a reconnaissance mission to the Wintergarde Mine. To that end, I sent him Slinkin, my demolitionist.

The storyline at a glance

Dragonblight has 149 steps, from The Liquid Fire of Elune to Really Big Worm.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Dragonblight (144), Crystalsong Forest (5).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Dragonblight 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.