What to do
Defeat Prince Valanar and his lieutenants, Vanthryn the Merciless and Luthion the Vile, then report to Chieftain Wintergale at Taunka'le Village.
Objective by objective
- Kill or interact with Prince Valanar NPC #25601
- Kill or interact with Luthion the Vile NPC #27860
- Kill or interact with Vanthryn the Merciless NPC #27859
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
On the lowest tier of the Temple City, there is a gray altar bathed in light. Step into it to gain entry to the dread necropolis Naxxanar.
Be cautious, <name>. Prince Valanar will certainly be defended by his personal retainers, who will give their lives to keep you from ascending to the top level of the necropolis.
You must find your way through the necropolis to the prince's seat. If you fail to defeat him, <name>, I fear my people will never know the safety Icemist offers.
Progress
Have you defeated Prince Valanar?
Completion
With the prince defeated, the Scourge presence in Borean Tundra is broken. I have no illusions that they will stay away for long, which is why I must focus on preparing Durm to lead the villagers on their way to Icemist.
<The chieftain shakes his head slowly.>
For all the disagreements I've had with Durm, I trust his judgment and his abilities. I cannot bring myself to abandon Taunka'le, so I will defend it until I am slain.
Category: Borean Tundra.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
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Clutch of Undying Will
item #38230 · Rare · item level 138 · sells for 3g 77s 74c
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Choker of Forceful Redemption
item #38231 · Rare · item level 138 · sells for 3g 77s 74c
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Chain of Vigilant Thought
item #38232 · Rare · item level 138 · sells for 3g 77s 74c
- Money
- 9g 40s
- and 1g 50s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 25,150
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at level 76 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 68–76 25,150 100% 77 20,100 80% 78 15,100 60% 79 10,050 40% 80 5,050 20% 81–89 2,500 10% 90 none 1g 50s 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
- The Taunka +350
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 71, requires level 68
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- Words of Power #11640 · any one of these
After this
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- Chieftain Wintergale npc · Borean Tundra at 0.759, 0.372
- Hand in to
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- Chieftain Wintergale npc · Borean Tundra at 0.759, 0.372
- 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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Borean Tundra
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Chieftain Wintergale
Starts the quest · 75.9, 37.2
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Chieftain Wintergale
Hand the quest in · 75.9, 37.2
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Prince Valanar
Quest objective · 86.0, 28.8
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Vanthryn the Merciless
Quest objective · 85.6, 27.6
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Luthion the Vile
Quest objective · 87.8, 29.0
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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 (Borean Tundra), 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.