Quest

Vordrassil's Sapling

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

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2678012009-01-08T09:00:10-06:00+22via Wowhead

This is part of a very long quest chain.
Part 1 (Into Grizzly Hills, making friends)

[73] The Hills Have Us (Ride a gryphon from Dragonblight to Amberpine Lodge in Grizzly Hills)

[74] Local Support (Collect Cedar Chest (in a house guarded by 3 hordes))

[74] Close the Deal (Simply go to Ivan)

[74] A Tentative Pact (Simply go back to Lieutenant Dumont)

[74] An Exercise in Diplomacy (Yet another go-to quest. Go to Envoy Ducal)

Total: 46700 xp, 575 Valiance Expedition rep

Part 2 (Helping the northern locals)
Finishing part 1 unlocks 2 independent quests

[74] Wolfsbane Root (Collect 8 Wolfsbane Roots around 28.5, 38.5)

[74] Northern Hospitality (Kill 8 Conquest Hold Marauders)

Do these 2 quest together

Total: 41500 xp, 0 rep

Part 3 (Is there something suspicious?)
Finishing part 2 unlocks this chain

[74] Test of Mettle (Kill Sergeant Bonesnap and a guard next to him. Ignore the provided quest item)

[74] Words of Warning (Go to Caged Prisoner)

Total: 31100 xp, 250 Alliance Vanguard rep

Part 4 (Something's wrong)

[74] Escape from Silverbrook (Escort quest on a specialized vehicle)

[74] A Swift Response (Kill 7 Silverbrook Hunters and Vladek)

Total: 41500 xp, 500 Valiance Expedition rep

Part 5 (Beginning of the World Tree chain)
Finishing part 4 unlocks 2 independent quests from and elf Hierophant Thayreen outside the house)

[74] A Dark Influence (Use the provided item in 3 caved. Map here.)

[74] The Failed World Tree (Kill Entropic Ooze to get 6 Slime Samples around the said caves)

Do these 2 quest together

Total: 41500 xp, 250 Valiance Expedition rep

Part 6 (Further investigation)
Finishing part 5 unlocks 2 independent quests

[74] A Possible Link (Kill Frostpaw Furbolgs to get 8 Crazed Furbolg Blood)

[75] Children of Ursoc (Listen to the stories of 2 bears in 2 caves at here)

Do these 2 quest together

Total: 41650 xp, 350 Valiance Expedition rep

Part 7 (Into the Tree)
Finishing part 6 unlocks 2 independent quests

[75] Vordrassil's Sapling (Use the provided torch at the bottom of the center of the Tree. Being able to fly helps a lot.)

[75] Vordrassil's Seeds (Collect 8 Vordrassil's Seeds)

Do these 2 quest together

Total: 41900 xp, 500 Valiance Expedition rep

Part 8 (Finale)

[75G3] Ursoc, the Bear God (talk to Tur Ragepaw the druid to start the event. Kill Ursoc. Use the provided item on corpse. People have reported that this is soloable.)

Rewards: (1) Choose 1 of 5 rare pants (2) A shield that vendors for 7.5563g (3) 17.7g (4) 31450 xp (5) ? rep

Grand total of quest rewards: 285,850 xp (18% or 3.6 bars at lvl 74, 17.8% or 3.56 bars at lvl 75), 1925 Valiance Expedition rep

1822482008-08-17T19:44:44-05:00+21via Wowhead

jump down after you enter 50.32, 42.96, use your quest item at the tree. fairly simple.

noelle2008-11-23T09:41:39-06:00+14via Wowhead

I didn't notice this for an age, so it might be helpful to others: when you kill a furbolg of one faction, you gain a 5min buff that makes you neutral to the other faction. What I did was watch for a while to see who was winning the battle at Grizzlemaw, then kill a furbolg of the other faction. This made this quest and the other, Vordrassil's Seeds, go much more smoothly for me.

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Quest facts

LevelLevel 15-30

ZoneGrizzly Hills

Quest ID12248

Check whether you have already completed this quest in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12248))

Requirements

FactionAlliance only

Read from the Blizzard quest API.

What to do

StorylineGrizzly Hills, step 60 of 115

Rewards4,100 XP

Description

The druids of old seem to have had good reasons for destroying Vordrassil. We cannot let the furbolgs regrow it. On the other hand, saving Ursoc's spirit hinges on the magic contained by the sapling. Take this torch and use it to burn the tree. You will find it in the middle of Grizzlemaw, inside Vordrassil's old trunk. Bring me Vordrassil's ashes. It is my hope that once purified by fire, we may use its magic to cleanse Ursoc's spirit of its dark taint.

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.

Coordinates

Turn-inGrizzly Hills 31.2, 59.5/way #116 31.2 59.5
Objective areaGrizzly Hills 50.8, 42.7/way #116 50.8 42.7

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 Grizzly Hills map

Hero's Call: Grizzly Hills! about 40 yards
Honor the Flame about 150 yards
Desecrate this Fire! about 640 yards
In Worg's Clothing about 710 yards
The Second Trial of Ursol about 1,270 yards
The Third Trial of Ursol about 1,270 yards
The First Trial of Ursol about 1,280 yards
To The Hills about 1,320 yards
When Dreams Become Nightmares about 1,320 yards

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

Getting there

Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Grizzly Hills:

Amberpine Lodge, Grizzly HillsAlliance · at the same spot
Light's Breach, Zul'DrakAlliance and Horde · about 1,800 yards north
Westfall Brigade, Grizzly HillsAlliance · about 1,900 yards north-east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

Objective areaabout 1,200 yards north-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.

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Experience4,100 XP

ReputationValiance Expedition +250

Other quests on the Grizzly Hills map

Reward details

Reputation: Valiance Expedition +250

The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.

Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.

Other quests in Grizzly Hills that reward Valiance Expedition reputation: Descent into Darkness (+75), Report to Gryan Stoutmantle... Again (+25), Replenishing the Storehouse (+250), Them or Us! (+150), Take Their Rear! (+250), Eagle Eyes (+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

Grizzly Hills

Part 60 of 115.

Previous: Children of Ursoc · Next: Vordrassil's Seeds

Showing steps 55 to 66 of 115.

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.

Children of UrsocGrizzly Hills · Level 15-30
The furbolgs of Grizzly Hills carry with them a corruption of some kind, that is for sure. Tribal war has broken out amongst them after years of peaceful coexistence. What remains to be seen is whether the bears they worship as gods have also been tainted.

After this quest