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Taking Back Acherus

Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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230034+7via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

It is possible to walk back and take a bone griffon to get back to Acherus. In this case you can runeforge your new blade before fighting with Patchwerk. When you are done runforging, simply open the Death Gate, click on it and continue with your quest chain.

This allows you to skip going back to Acherus from Stormwind/Ogrimmar for runforging and jump straight to the Dark Portal instead.

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

Today, I somehow managed to hearth out of the DK starting area and into Stormwind before finishing the starting quests. I was on this quest, but couldn't interact with any NPCs and couldn't use my Death Gate ("can't do that while pacified").

In order to return to the Ebon Hold area to finish my starting quests, I had to ride from Stormwind east to Redridge Mountains. There, the flight master at Lakeshire was friendly and intractable to me, and I was able to take the flightpath back to Acherus: The Ebon Blade.

Thank goodness for that because I was just about to delete this toon and make a new one...

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 8-30
LocationEastern Plaguelands, Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave
CategoryDeath Knight
Quest ID13165

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13165))

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 3.80.2.69874, read from the beta game data we hold
Versus the Classic Era clientNew in the WoW Forever beta client - quest id 13165 is not sighted in our Classic Era baseline (build 1.15.9.69722)

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

Requirements

ClassDeath Knight

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

Description

The haze has been lifted. I can see as clearly now as the day that I plunged the Ashbringer into my own heart to free my father's cursed soul: my last memory as a free man. We must take back Acherus from the Scourge if our order is to survive in this new world. I have taught you how to call forth a death gate. The death gate will return you to Acherus when you call upon it, {name}. Use it now and meet me at Acherus. The first battle of the Knights of the Ebon Blade is underway! Death to the Scourge!

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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.

Eastern Plaguelands Quest turn-in 1 mapped point
Eastern Plaguelands map showing where to go for Taking Back AcherusTurn-in

In-game waypoint: /way #23 83.4 49.5

Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave Objective area 1 mapped point
Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave map showing where to go for Taking Back AcherusObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #124 34.4 31.1

Coordinates

  • Turn-inEastern Plaguelands 83.4, 49.5/way #23 83.4 49.5
  • Objective areaPlaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave 34.4, 31.1/way #124 34.4 31.1

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 Eastern Plaguelands map

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

Getting there

Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Eastern Plaguelands:

  • Acherus: The Ebon HoldAlliance and Horde · about 30 yards south-east
  • Light's Hope Chapel, Eastern PlaguelandsHorde · about 320 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.

Related
Experience525 XP
ReputationKnights of the Ebon Blade +10

Reward details

Reputation: Knights of the Ebon Blade +10

Freed from the grasp of the Lich King, his former Death Knights have regrouped against him under the banner of Highlord Darion Mograine.

Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.

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

The Scarlet Enclave

Part 55 of 58.

Previous: The Light of Dawn · Next: The Battle For The Ebon Hold

  1. 47Ambush At The Overlook
  2. 48A Meeting With Fate
  3. 49The Scarlet Onslaught Emerges
  4. 50Scarlet Armies Approach...
  5. 51The Scarlet Apocalypse
  6. 52An End To All Things...
  7. 53The Lich King's Command
  8. 54The Light of Dawn
  9. 55Taking Back Acherus
  10. 56The Battle For The Ebon Hold
  11. 57Where Kings Walk
  12. 58Saurfang's Blessing

Showing steps 47 to 58 of 58.

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.

  • The Light of DawnLevel 8-30

    The Argent Dawn stands defiantly against us at Light's Hope Chapel. They dare oppose the Scourge and for that reason alone they must be destroyed! The mighty armies of the Lich King stand at the ready as the final battle for the Plaguelands approaches.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • The Battle For The Ebon HoldLevel 8-30

    The Hall of Command has been secured, but the Lich King has left us a little present in the Heart of Acherus. The stitched terror, Patchwerk, and a horde of abominations have taken over the second floor. Use the teleporter to get to the second floor and destroy the Scourge forces that remain.

The storyline at a glance

The Scarlet Enclave has 58 steps, from In Service Of The Lich King to Saurfang's Blessing.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Plaguelands: The Scarlet Enclave (54), Eastern Plaguelands (2), Elwynn Forest (1), Orgrimmar (1).

Other storylines on the Eastern Plaguelands 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.