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Quest
The Durnholde Challenge: Zephyrus
A World of Warcraft quest in Hillsbrad Foothills. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Very easily soloable as a mage (or any other ranged class, I guess).
Run in circles around the eastern edge of the ruined keep of which he spawns on top of. As a mage, you can blink away from range when he casts his cyclone/tornado, but you can't silence him at all.
Done with no potions, Lifeblood, Bandages, or anything else.
Soloable as a 27 Combat Rogue completely in questing gear.
Simply open with cheap shot, evasion when it is about to wear out, keep slice and dice up, and when evasion wears off put a 2 or 3-point recuperate up (you shouldnt have needed it much during evasion). Eviscerate when possible (probably will only happen once).
There's not much you can do about his cyclone, but the damage is minimal so just bear through it.
Used lifebloom and one potion outside of rogue skills.
Quest facts
Quest ID28643
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(28643))
Requirements
FactionHorde only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineHillsbrad Foothills, step 32 of 39
Rewards5,150 XP
Description
Durnholde Keep has always been a place of strife. For years the humans used it as an internment camp and prison for the orcs. After that it was taken over by the Syndicate. Now? The Dark Lady captured and placed powerful elementals within its walls. She charged me with administering "The Durnholde Challenge." Any that can defeat all of the elementals will earn a grand prize! Take this guide and face your first challenge: Zephyrus! Durnholde is located just northeast of us.
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-inObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #25 59.9 63.3
Coordinates
- Turn-inHillsbrad Foothills 59.9, 63.3
/way #25 59.9 63.3 - Objective areaHillsbrad Foothills 68.5, 59.6
/way #25 68.5 59.6
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 Hillsbrad Foothills map
- Honor the Flame about 500 yards
- Clearing the Highlands about 640 yards
- Alina's Reward about 670 yards
- The Path of Atonement about 1,740 yards
- An Unexpected Message about 1,740 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Hillsbrad Foothills, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Hillsbrad Foothills:
- Eastpoint Tower, Hillsbrad
- Ruins of Southshore, Hillsbrad
- Tarren Mill, Hillsbrad
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Experience5,150 XP
ReputationUndercity +350
Reward details
Reputation: Undercity +350
Led by Sylvanas Windrunner, the Forsaken have joined a tenuous alliance with the Horde and established this capital in the vast depths under the Ruins of Lordaeron.
Reputation group: Horde.
Other quests in Hillsbrad Foothills that reward Undercity reputation: Empire of Dirt (+250), Warchief's Command: Hillsbrad Foothills! (+250), Welcome to the Machine (+250), Trouble at Azurelode (+10), Glorious Harvest (+250), Past Their Prime (+350).
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
Hillsbrad Foothills
Part 32 of 39.
Previous: Stormpike Apocalypse · Next: The Durnholde Challenge: Teracula
- 27Decimation
- 28Infiltration
- 29Deception and Trickery
- 30Domination
- 31Stormpike Apocalypse
- 32The Durnholde Challenge: Zephyrus
- 33The Durnholde Challenge: Teracula
- 34The Durnholde Challenge: Bloodvenom
- 35The Durnholde Challenge: Infernus
- 36The Durnholde Challenge: D-1000
- 37A Haunting in Hillsbrad
- 38Silence of the Dwarves
Showing steps 27 to 38 of 39.
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.
- Stormpike Apocalypse
Before we continue, let us have a moment of silence for our fallen brother, Orkus, for without him, we would have been destroyed by the Stormpike onslaught. This is for you, brother! <Cromush takes a knee.> Now, <name>, do not think that I forgot your part in all of this!
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Durnholde Challenge: Teracula
According to the guide, Teracula is your next challenge. It roams the path just outside of Zephyrus' lair.
The storyline at a glance
Hillsbrad Foothills has 39 steps, from Welcome to the Machine to Extinction.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Hillsbrad Foothills (39).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Hillsbrad Foothills map
- Arathi Highlands
- Felo'melorn
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.