TheWoWDBThere is a bug.
I had to do the quest twice as after the first time at stage 4 (The Banshee Queen) there were no quest indicators I could see and I was running around looking for any quest areas. When I rode away too far a winged creature picked me up and returned me to some central area. Remember flying is disabled during the quest only for NPCs you might ride that can fly. You are supposed to confront Slyvanus.
I logged out came back and had to start the quest all over again. Same thing happened - then I noticed a tiny blue dot just above centre of the map. Rode around and finally got there and then the quest continued as it normally should.
My addons that might have affected the quest were Bartender and Mapster. Mapster can shrink the map so it might have made the blue dot harder to see. Bartender sometimes gets a request to disable as it blocks a function in Wow.
Hope this might help anyone else who gets this issue.
Quest
The Battle of Ardenweald
A World of Warcraft quest in Oribos. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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To complete this quest you need to protect the Winter Queen's sigil in the Battle of Ardenweald.
Make your way to the southern edge of Oribos and mount [npc=178291] you will see there.
After arriving to the destination point the scenario starts. Its a bit long one, there are 10 stages:
- Reach defence forces - ends automatically when you being dropped by [npc=178291].
- Animacone used to create decoy - wait until npcs bring animacone and click to it.
- Push back Maw forces - kill mobs on sight, close Maw gates and heal injured mobs to fill up the progress bar.
- Sylvanas confronted - make your way to the quest mark and try to hit / interact to Sylvanas Windrunner.
- Trained flayedwing mounted - wait until flayedwing arrive and use it to start a ride.
- 30/30 Mawsworn slain - you need to kill 30 mobs with flayedwing's poison spit attacks
- Soulburner Fraxin slain - just defeat mob you've been asked to defeat
- 4/4 Wildseeds saved - locate and interact to 4 wildweeds (all marked on the map)
- 2/2 Allies rallied - check out the very northern / southern points of marked quest area
- Sylvanas' onslaught survived - kill mobs coming from the portal until the stage ends.
The Battle of Ardenweald quest video - https://youtu.be/_9ck_Fjzv_g?t=85
.[storyline=1219] ====> Chains of Domination#TitleQuest giverZoneCoordinatesLink[storyline=1219] full quest chain ====> https://youtu.be/_9ck_Fjzv_g
For mog collectors trying to determine whether to do this on alts or take the skip, these are UNIQUE appearances. If you are working out which alts to run thru to get all them all, the 1H Mace appearances are shared so one less to worry about. It also seems you get the appearances for any weapon you could equip so my lock got 4 total appearances instead of the 2 shown above. (She also got [item=179515] and [item=179498].) DH is required. Might try a warrior (since they can equip all but glaive and wand) and see if you get bow and the rest, making it possible to do this with just those 2 as there's no wand that would require a clothie caster.
Edit: Can confirm, warrior did get bow and all the other appearances I was missing so DH/Warrior is the sweet combo for getting them all (making the assumption that warrior would get OH/Dagger/Spellblade as I had those from lock-but seems a safe bet).
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(63578))
What to do
Description
With the betrayal of Sire Denathrius, and the absence of the Primus of Maldraxxus, we must assume that the Winter Queen is the Jailer's next target. And we won't let anyone take her sigil! Ardenweald has endured much, but it is a realm of great and mysterious power. Things aren't always what they seem. We'll use this to our advantage, no matter who comes for the Queen!
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.
Turn-inIn-game waypoint: /way #1565 48.8 42.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inArdenweald 48.8, 42.9
/way #1565 48.8 42.9
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 Ardenweald map
- Tirna Scithe: A Warning Silence about 360 yards
- RSVP: Lady Moonberry about 390 yards
- Lady Moonberry's Best Friend about 390 yards
- The Fate of Ara'lon about 410 yards
- Masks of Deception about 410 yards
- Through the Veil about 430 yards
- The Heart of the Forest about 450 yards
- Support the Court about 450 yards
- An Expected Guest about 450 yards
- Ages-Echoing Wisdom about 460 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Ardenweald, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Ardenweald:
- Heart of the Forest, Ardenweald
- Refugee Camp, Ardenweald
- Glitterfall Basin, Ardenweald
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
- Objective area
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.
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Reward details
Reputation: The Wild Hunt +500
Called to serve the Winter Queen in times of dire need, the Wild Hunt assembles the finest huntresses and hunters in all of Ardenweald. In the face of drought and peril, the Wild Hunt stands ready to defend the forest.
Reputation group: Shadowlands.
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
Battle of Ardenweald
Part 4 of 8.
Previous: Voices of the Eternal · Next: Can't Turn Our Backs
- 1The First Move
- 2A Gathering of Covenants
- 3Voices of the Eternal
- 4The Battle of Ardenweald
- 5Can't Turn Our Backs
- 6The Heart of Ardenweald
- 7Report to Oribos
- 8Shaping Fate
Also part of: Patch Intro (part 2 of 32), Patch Campaign (part 2 of 104).
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.
- Voices of the Eternal
<Bolvar peers at the grand figures before him, at the numberless gateways stretching out into the ether.> This chamber is... truly wondrous. Yet there is no time to be awestruck. The Honored Voice must begin this meeting at once.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Can't Turn Our Backs
That's Sylvanas and her Mawsworn dealt with... for now. But we need to hurry and make sure that the Queen and her sigil are safe! The Winter Queen was just outside the Heart of the Forest, protecting the stolen wildseeds from the Maw.
The storyline at a glance
Battle of Ardenweald has 8 steps, from The First Move to Shaping Fate.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Oribos (4), Ardenweald (3), Korthia (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Ardenweald map
- Drust to Drust
- Aiding Tirna Vaal
- Waning Grove
- For Queen and Grove!
- The Horned Hunter
- A Vessel of Ardenweald
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.