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Return of the Highborne?

Quest #14127 Level 10 Azshara Horde only no runs yet

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What to do

Deliver the Scout's Orders to Ag'tor Bloodfist at the rear gate to Orgrimmar.

The quest giver's words

The wax seal on these orders has been freshly broken. You can't read the carefully-penned night elven script, but a small hand-drawn map indicates the nearby ruins. Underneath the map, written in a different language entirely, are a series of runes penned in a metallic, shimmering ink.

Ag'tor will no doubt want to see this important piece of intelligence.

Progress

You found something on one of the bodies, you say? Give it here!

Completion

<Ag'tor squints at the parchment, turning it in the light.>

No, I can't make sense of it either, but I don't like what I see. Are these arcane runes?

I'll need you to deliver this to an expert.

Category: Azshara.

What you need

Handed to you when you accept it
Scout's Orders

The reward

No item reward.

Money
none
and 3s 90c more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
Experience
625
at level 15 or lower; less above
By character level
LevelExperienceShare
8–15 625 100%
16 500 80%
17 380 60%
18 250 40%
19 130 20%
20–89 65 10%
90 none 3s 90c 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.

Observed, what players here were paid: 71 experience (median of 1 run), no money (median of 1 run).

The listed figures and the players here disagree, so both are shown rather than one picked.

  • Experience: players were paid 89% less than the 625 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.

Reputation

Who it is for

Faction
Horde only
Race
any race
Class
any class
Level
quest level 10, requires level 8
Profession
none
Repeats
once only

The chain

Before this

Nothing – this is where the chain starts.

After this

Where it starts and ends

Starts at
Hand in to
Where Return of the Highborne? starts and ends in Azshara
Where Return of the Highborne? starts and ends in Azshara
  • 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

Relevant locations in Azshara
Relevant locations in Azshara

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 2 recorded attempts the hub has.

How precise this guide is

Early guide Built from 2 runs 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 0) not yet
  • Tips – what most players do needs 5 runs (now 2) 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

Observed, not a fact about the game: 0 completed runs behind the medians, 2 recorded attempts in total.
– median time (accept → turn in) from 0 runs

Based on 0 completed runs. Computed on this page; the analyser has not published this quest yet.

– fastest recorded run

Same 0 runs.

1 / 2 turned in / attempted nobody abandoned it

Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.

0.0 deaths per attempt 0 deaths in total

0 tracked kills, typically 71 XP, done around level 18.

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 (Azshara), 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.

Overview of Return of the Highborne? in Azshara
Overview of Return of the Highborne? in Azshara
  • pick up
  • turn in
Pick up
0.340, 0.770 median of 1 recorded accept on Azshara
Turn in
0.270, 0.770 median of 1 recorded turn-in on Azshara
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

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