What to do
Kadrak wants you to bring the Blood-Soaked Axe to Durak in Splintertree Post.
The quest giver's words
We knew the elves wouldn't go down without a fight, but no one expected them to be able to lay siege to Splintertree...
Time for them to pay for their actions!
Nearby, in the Dor'Danil Barrow Den, lies something very dear to the enemy - the Forest Heart.
I need someone to make their way to the heart and corrupt it.
That someone is you, <name>.
First though, bring my axe to Durak here in the mines. He'll make use of the blood of our enemies.
Completion
Tainting the Forest's Heart?
How ruthless - an utterly vicious blow....
I adore the idea!
Category: Ashenvale.
What you need
- Handed to you when you accept it
- Blood-Soaked Axe
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- 7s
- and 5s 10c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 875
-
at level 27 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 19–27 875 100% 28 700 80% 29 525 60% 30 350 40% 31 170 20% 32–89 85 10% 90 none 5s 10c 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.
The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.
- Experience: players were paid 10% more than the 875 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Orgrimmar +75
Who it is for
- Faction
-
- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 22, requires level 19
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- To the Rescue! #13712 · any one of these
After this
- Playing With Felfire #13730
- Dead Elves Walking #13801
- Pierce Their Heart! #13805
Where it starts and ends
- 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
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.
This guide rests on 1 completed run. That is enough to show where people went and not enough to trust the timings – treat them as one player's evening.
How precise this guide is
Early guide Built from 1 run by 1 player – 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 available
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 1) not yet
- Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 1) not yet
- Where players die – death hotspots on the map needs 5 characters from at least 2 different people (now 1 from 1) not yet
Timings
Based on 1 completed run. Published by the analyser – low confidence.
Same 1 run; mean 2 min 17 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 962 XP, done around level 23.
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 (Ashenvale), 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
- turn in
- Pick up
- 0.740, 0.620 median of 1 recorded accept on Ashenvale
- Turn in
- 0.720, 0.580 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Ashenvale
- 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.