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The Way Back Home

A World of Warcraft quest in Suramar. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.

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

The portal in right next to you, on the top. This is new portal instead of Wailing crescent, so dont forget, where it is.

The Way Back Home — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkhb_Dae9E4

This quest is a part of Lockdown quest chain needed for Insurrection achievement. The requirement for this episode is the completion of A Change of Seasons, the last chapter of Good Suramaritan.
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Lockdown quest chain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8fJUOqCzu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu89ur446Yc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ueCveY0w4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbXFpOPkvA0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRO_YHC-ahQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rcovVpfPKo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkhb_Dae9E4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWHOTNtozQ
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Muttie+1via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

If you by accident hearths away from Nazjatar before the portal is generated - how do you get back?

You go down to the harbourmaster's office in Boralus, talks to Cyrus Crestfall - he will bring you back to Nazjatar :)

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 45
Quest ID42889

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(42889))

What to do

StorylineLockdown, step 7 of 8
Rewards20g 22s, 6,150 XP

Description

Hello? This is Chief Telemancer Oculeth. I see you have emerged safely! I am locking in your location as we speak. I will need you to activate the beacon on your end so we can establish a teleportation link. Got it? Good.

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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.

Suramar Quest turn-in 3 mapped points
Suramar map showing where to go for The Way Back HomeTurn-inObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #680 36.5 46.7

Coordinates

  • Turn-inSuramar 36.5, 46.7/way #680 36.5 46.7
  • Objective areaSuramar 52.0, 78.8/way #680 52.0 78.8

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 Suramar map

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

Getting there

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

  • Meredil, SuramarAlliance and Horde · about 160 yards south-west
  • Irongrove Retreat, SuramarAlliance and Horde · about 820 yards north-west
  • Obsidian Overlook, HighmountainAlliance and Horde · about 1,300 yards north

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 1,500 yards south-east
  • Objective areaabout 1,500 yards south-east

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
Money20 gold22 silver
Experience6,150 XP
ReputationThe Nightfallen +250

Reward details

Reputation: The Nightfallen +250

These exiled Nightborne elves suffer withdrawals after being cut off from the Nightwell. They oppose their people's alliance with the Legion and fight for some kind of redemption.

Reputation group: Legion.

Other quests in Suramar that reward The Nightfallen reputation: Answering Aggression (+250), Regroup (+250), Crackdown (+250), No Reason to Stay (+250), Trail of Echoes (+250), The Only Way Out is Through (+250).

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

Lockdown

Part 7 of 8.

Previous: Regroup · Next: Visitor in Shal'Aran

  1. 1One Day at a Time
  2. 2Silence in the City
  3. 3Crackdown
  4. 4Answering Aggression
  5. 5No Reason to Stay
  6. 6Regroup
  7. 7The Way Back Home
  8. 8Visitor in Shal'Aran

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.

  • RegroupSuramar · Level 45

    These people may be able to hold out here, but I know for certain that we cannot. Every moment we spend here places them in danger of Elisande's forces retaliating against us. We need to move. We need to find a place to regroup and recover. Follow me. I think I know how we can get out of here.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Visitor in Shal'AranSuramar · Level 45

    Someone came to Shal'Aran while you were in the City. She asked for you specifically. I did not recognize her face, nor her voice, but she seemed trustworthy and earnest. She is just outside the cavern. Meet with her and determine her purpose for coming here.

The storyline at a glance

Lockdown has 8 steps, from One Day at a Time to Visitor in Shal'Aran.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Suramar (8).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

  • Insurrection Complete the Suramar Storylines listed below with a Timerunner.
  • Insurrection Complete the Suramar storylines listed below.

Other storylines on the Suramar 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.