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Seeking Higher Ground

Seeking Higher Ground is an Alliance-only quest for level 50. It is step 6 of 9 in The Gathering Storm storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Stormsong Valley at 52.2, 39.3. It rewards 850 experience and money.

Description

We've only got one shot at reestablishing our communication network, so we've got to pick the right spot and I found just the right place!

While you've been busy down here, I set up some camouflage and hauled the bulk of the machinery up there.

What? Did you think I was just sitting here polishing my knives while you were gone?

Well, okay I did that too. Anyway, I'll meet you up the hill!

Rewards

Money2 gold34 silver
Experience850 XP

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Top Comments

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Mypciscraze+9via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Hi all

I Present You a 8.1.5 War Campaign. You need to do 16 Quests.

See My Video with Full Quest Chain - https://youtu.be/Jr8CsxXJEgw

Quests:

1. Loose Ends - Start from [npc=147798] 69 27 on ship in Boralus.
2. Ashes to Ashvane
3. Correspondence Conundrum
4. Getting a Clue
5. Reporting In!
6. Don't Shoot the Messenger
7. My Brother's Keeper
8. Spy Versus Spy - This is mission to do [mission=2123] in 24h O_o. I use my champions to short it to 6h.
9. The Gathering Storm
10. Retaliation Coordination
11. Lost in the Field
12. Reassembly Required
13. Seeking Higher Ground
14. Listen Up!
15. Shaw's Shank Redemption
16. A Gathering of Foes

Hope that Help You :)

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Top Comments

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

1
Mypciscraze+9via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Hi all

I Present You a 8.1.5 War Campaign. You need to do 16 Quests.

See My Video with Full Quest Chain - https://youtu.be/Jr8CsxXJEgw

Quests:

1. Loose Ends - Start from [npc=147798] 69 27 on ship in Boralus.
2. Ashes to Ashvane
3. Correspondence Conundrum
4. Getting a Clue
5. Reporting In!
6. Don't Shoot the Messenger
7. My Brother's Keeper
8. Spy Versus Spy - This is mission to do [mission=2123] in 24h O_o. I use my champions to short it to 6h.
9. The Gathering Storm
10. Retaliation Coordination
11. Lost in the Field
12. Reassembly Required
13. Seeking Higher Ground
14. Listen Up!
15. Shaw's Shank Redemption
16. A Gathering of Foes

Hope that Help You :)

That is every comment on this page.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP850
MoneyGold2g 34s
Where it comes from
Turn-in mapStormsong ValleyTurn-in marker at 52.2, 39.3, 2 mapped points
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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.

Stormsong Valley Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Stormsong Valley map showing where to go for Seeking Higher GroundTurn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #942 52.2 39.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inStormsong Valley 52.2, 39.3/way #942 52.2 39.3
  • Objective areaStormsong Valley 48.3, 41.5/way #942 48.3 41.5

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 Stormsong Valley map

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

Getting there

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

  • Seekers Vista, Stormsong ValleyAlliance and Horde · about 690 yards west
  • Tidecross, Stormsong ValleyAlliance · about 830 yards south-east
  • Deadwash, Stormsong ValleyAlliance · about 870 yards south-west

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 240 yards 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.

Quest Line

Storyline

The Gathering Storm

Part 6 of 9.

Increased Horde activity in Stormsong Valley indicates an important event is about to take place. Alliance agents are dispatched to uncover the nature of this new threat.

Previous: Reassembly Required · Next: Listen Up!

  1. 1Spy Versus Spy
  2. 2The Gathering Storm
  3. 3Retaliation Coordination
  4. 4Lost in the Field
  5. 5Reassembly Required
  6. 6Seeking Higher Ground
  7. 7Listen Up!
  8. 8Shaw's Shank Redemption
  9. 9A Gathering of Foes

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.

  • Reassembly RequiredLevel 50

    Master Shaw wanted me to rebuild the listening posts the Horde destroyed when they started to clear the area in preparation for whatever they are planning. I managed to salvage most of the parts for one, but I'm missing a few.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Listen Up!Level 50

    Okay! Once we get this up and running we should be able to send messages! In the valley at least. It's gonna be a little bit tricky, but I've read the manual for these things cover to cover. <Kelsey slaps the top of the listening device.> I'm gonna put this thing back together.

The storyline at a glance

The Gathering Storm has 9 steps, from Spy Versus Spy to A Gathering of Foes.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Stormsong Valley (6), Boralus (3).

Other storylines on the Stormsong Valley 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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