What to do
Take the Ominous Letter to Force Commander Danath Trollbane at Honor Hold in Hellfire Peninsula.
The quest giver's words
Giving the lifeless form of Vazruden the Herald the once-over, you discover a rolled letter, its seal yet unbroken. An elaborate "I" is pressed within the blood-red ink. Cracking the note open, the message that you read is most disturbing.
Force Commander Danath Trollbane back at Honor Hold will definitely want to take a look at this!
Progress
What's that you have there, son?
Completion
It's signed by Illidan you say?! Let me have that.
<The commander reads the letter, and then again a second time, thinking a moment before going on.>
This news that you bring is ominous indeed. Knowing this, we must accelerate our plans against Hellfire Citadel and this Blood Furnace. Because you have shown that you can get the job done, I want you to head up those plans.
Gunny will give you your next mission, though I suspect it will be far deadlier than your first.
Light be with you, <name>!
Category: Hellfire Peninsula (Dungeon).
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Ominous Letter
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 2g 70s
- and 4g 83s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 20,100
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at level 67 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 59–67 20,100 100% 68 16,100 80% 69 12,050 60% 70 8,050 40% 71 4,000 20% 72–89 2,000 10% 90 none 4g 83s more money The game pays the full figure up to five levels above the quest, then 20 % less for each level more, down to a tenth, and none at the level cap. A bonus of your own (a guild perk, a holiday) comes on top.
Reputation
- Honor Hold +250
Who it is for
- Faction
-
- Race
- Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Draenei
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 62, requires level 59
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
Nothing – this is where the chain starts.
After this
- The Blood is Life #9589
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Ominous Letter item · no recorded location
- Hand in to
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- Force Commander Danath Trollbane npc · Hellfire Peninsula at 0.566, 0.667
- turn in
These two markers are the quest giver's and the hand-in's own positions – not where anybody was standing. The recorded positions are further down, under the community data.
Relevant locations
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Hellfire Peninsula
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Force Commander Danath Trollbane
Hand the quest in · 56.6, 66.7
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The pins are the game's own map markers; the coordinates are the game's 0–100, as
/way takes them.
What players recorded
Everything below this line is a different kind of knowledge from everything above it. Above: what the quest is, the same on every realm. Below: what actually happened when people played it, uploaded by them, with the number of runs printed against every figure. It is an observation, not a fact about the quest.
Nobody has completed this quest with telemetry on yet, so there is no timing. Everything below is drawn straight from the 0 recorded attempts the hub has.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 0 runs by 0 players – low confidence. Every upload of this quest sharpens it: the hotspots tighten, the order and the timings settle, and the parts below unlock as the sample grows.
- Where to go – pick-up, objectives and hand-in needs one recorded run not yet
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 0) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 0) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 0 from 0) not yet
Timings
Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.
Same 0 runs.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills.
The route
An early route: drawn from the first runs and sharper with every upload. Pick-up, hand-in and the objective hotspots are where the quest is, so they are shown from the first run.
Map coordinates are the addon's own 0–1 zone coordinates (Hellfire Peninsula), origin top-left, x to the right and y downward. Drag the zone map to pan, ctrl/⌘ + scroll or the buttons to zoom; the grid lines are tenths of the zone.
- Pick up
- Not recorded yet.
- Turn in
- Not recorded yet.
- Deaths during this quest
- None recorded – nobody died doing this.
Objectives, in the order players do them
No objective progress has been uploaded for this quest yet. Once somebody plays it with the addon on, the objectives and their hotspots appear here automatically.
Tips
No tips yet – they need a handful of runs before they say anything true.
Recorded runs
No runs recorded yet.
Community notes
Nobody has added a note to this quest yet.