Above and Beyond
Quest #5263
Level 60
Eastern Plaguelands
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Available in: TBC Anniversary details not known yet Classic Era details not known yet Forever details not known yet · compare
What to do
Venture to Stratholme and destroy Baron Rivendare. Take his head and return to Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff.
Objective by objective
- Collect Head of Baron Rivendare item #13251
The quest's own structured objectives. How many of each you need is set by the game when you accept it, so it is not stored here – the sentence above is the quest's own wording.
The quest giver's words
You display a natural aptitude for destruction and you follow orders. It is rare to see the two coexist. I am beginning to think that you may make an excellent vehicle of divine justice.
<Zverenhoff clasps his hands together in front of his face.>
Kel'Thuzad's errand boy rules over Stratholme. Prove to me that you are a champion - my champion. Destroy Baron Rivendare and return to me with his head.
Progress
The Baron has slain more people than you have most likely seen in your lifetime.
Completion
It has been many years since I have ushered a champion into our ranks. You are the first to be granted audience with Lord Maxwell in years.
Category: Stratholme (Dungeon).
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 4g 98s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 8,300
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at level 65 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 55–65 8,300 100% 66 6,650 80% 67 5,000 60% 68 3,300 40% 69 1,650 20% 70–89 825 10% 90 none 4g 98s 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
- Argent Dawn +150
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 60, requires level 55
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- The Truth Comes Crashing Down #5262 · any one of these
After this
- Lord Maxwell Tyrosus #5264
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff npc · Eastern Plaguelands at 0.814, 0.598
- Hand in to
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- Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff npc · Eastern Plaguelands at 0.814, 0.598
- pick up
- 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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Eastern Plaguelands
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Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff
Starts the quest · 81.4, 59.8
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Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff
Hand the quest in · 81.4, 59.8
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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 (Eastern Plaguelands), 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.