TheWoWDBAttention: If you're an upper level character having difficulties initiating this questline and none of the above options have worked, try the following:
1. Go to the Hero board in your city - you're likely going to see 3 completely irrelevant zone missions other than Jade Forest.
2. Don't panic, you've got this.
3. Pick up one of the three irrelevant Heroes Call missions anyway.
4. Check your board again.
5. Repeat as needed, Jade Forest will appear as an option eventually,
6. Abandon irrelevant Heroes Call missions.
Quest
The King's Command
A World of Warcraft quest in Stormwind City. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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If you happen to miss this particular quest pop up on your screen and wonder "how the heck do I get to Pandaria now?" - check the next quest in the chain - The Mission. It is available just in front of the Stormwind keep entrance.
If you did a faction change from Horde to Alliance and can't do the intro questline to Pandaria visit Taradormi in Krasarang Wilds and she'll cast a time travel spell to send you back to when the Skyfall arrived in the Jade Forest.
Tricked-out DeLorean and 1.21 gigawatts not required.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 10-35
ZoneStormwind City
Quest ID29547
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(29547))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineThe Jade Forest, Paw'don Village, step 1 of 19
Rewards1g 37s 40c, 600 XP
Description
Greetings, {class}. I have been asked to assemble a team for a high priority mission. Please come to Stormwind Keep immediately for a briefing with King Varian Wrynn. I will be waiting in the King's war room.
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 areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #84 78.8 40.0
Coordinates
- Turn-inStormwind City 78.8, 40.0
/way #84 78.8 40.0 - Objective areaStormwind City 86.9, 35.7
/way #84 86.9 35.7 - Objective areaStormwind City 85.9, 32.8
/way #84 85.9 32.8
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 Stormwind City map
- Mists of Pandaria: To Pandaria! same spot
- Battle for Azeroth: Tides of War about 80 yards
- The Horde Uprising about 110 yards
- The Call of War about 120 yards
- Second Sight about 120 yards
- A New Direction about 140 yards
- Return of the Warrior King about 140 yards
- A Kingdom's Heart about 140 yards
- A Personal Message about 140 yards
- On Whispered Winds about 140 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Stormwind City, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Stormwind City:
- Stormwind, Elwynn
- Goldshire, Elwynn
- Flamestar Post, Burning Steppes
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- 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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Money1 gold37 silver
Experience600 XP
Storyline
The Jade Forest, Paw'don Village
Part 1 of 19.
Next: The Mission
- 1The King's Command
- 2The Mission
- 3Unleash Hell
- 4Touching Ground
- 5No Plan Survives Contact with the Enemy
- 6Welcome Wagons
- 7The Right Tool For The Job
- 8Envoy of the Alliance
- 9The Cost of War
- 10Pillaging Peons
- 11Critical Condition
- 12Priorities!
Showing steps 1 to 12 of 19.
Also part of: Mists of Pandaria (part 1 of 19).
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Mission
Well, you heard the King. Admiral Taylor's last transmission came from somewhere in the southern seas. We will begin our search from the air! Locating the Prince - the White Pawn - is of critical priority. The Skyfire is fueled, supplied, and ready to depart.
The storyline at a glance
The Jade Forest, Paw'don Village has 19 steps, from The King's Command to Onward and Inward.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Jade Forest (18), Stormwind City (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on the Stormwind City map
- The Missing Expedition
- The Dragonscale Expedition
- Dragon Isles City Intro Quests
- The King's Path
- Cataclysm Chromie Time Breadcrumbs
- Allies of the Alliance: Dark Iron Dwarf
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.