What to do
Find Orthus at Thal'darah Grove in Stonetalon Mountains.
The quest giver's words
At the heart of Battlescar Valley stands an ancient tree - a tree that has withstood the force of ages and has served as a place of peace and learning for generations. My kin have studied druidism at the grove, alongside the night elves, for as long as I can recall. Now I am to believe that the tree holds within it an Alliance weapon of mass destruction?
Krom'gar is wrong and I will prove it!
I have sent my son, Orthus, to Thal'darah Grove in search of this weapon. Go there now and meet him.
Completion
Orthus is dead. He is clutching something in his hand.
Category: Stonetalon Mountains.
What you need
Nothing: no quest item is handed out and none is required to start.
The reward
No item reward.
- Money
- none
- and 15s more at level 90, the level cap, in place of the experience
- Experience
- 2,450
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at level 35 or lower; less above
By character level
Level Experience Share 26–35 2,450 100% 36 1,950 80% 37 1,450 60% 38 975 40% 39 490 20% 40–89 250 10% 90 none 15s 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 37% more than the 2,450 listed. An experience bonus (heirlooms, a guild perk) pays more; a character well above the quest's level earns less.
Reputation
- Orgrimmar +250
Who it is for
- Faction
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- Race
- any race
- Class
- any class
- Level
- quest level 30, requires level 26
- Profession
- none
- Repeats
- once only
The chain
Before this
- To Battlescar! #26082 · any one of these
After this
- Betrayal at the Grove #26098
Where it starts and ends
- Starts at
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- High Chieftain Cliffwalker npc · Stonetalon Mountains at 0.450, 0.328
- Hand in to
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- Orthus Cliffwalker npc · Stonetalon Mountains at 0.397, 0.464
- 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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Stonetalon Mountains
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High Chieftain Cliffwalker
Starts the quest · 45.0, 32.8
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Orthus Cliffwalker
Hand the quest in · 39.7, 46.4
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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.
This guide rests on 2 completed runs. 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 2 runs by 2 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 available
- Typical time and objective order – median and middle half needs 3 completed runs (now 2) 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 2 from 2) not yet
Timings
Based on 2 completed runs. Published by the analyser – low confidence.
Same 2 runs; mean 2 min 37 s.
Counting every recorded attempt, finished or not.
0 tracked kills, typically 3,368 XP, done around level 30.
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 (Stonetalon Mountains), 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
- 0.450, 0.330 median of 2 recorded accepts on Stonetalon Mountains
- Turn in
- 0.400, 0.460 median of 2 recorded turn-ins on Stonetalon Mountains
- 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
| Character | Time | Deaths | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bananaroot-Hoptallus |
2 min 44 s | 0 | 30 | – |
Community notes
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