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Howling Fjord (Alliance Quest Guide)  

 

Howling Fjord is one of the two "starter zones" for Northrend. This zone contains a wide variety of questing hubs and an instance hub known as Utgarde Keep.

Howling Fjord will be a second stop for most Alliance players as the most obvious way of getting to Northrend will be by taking a boat from Stormwind directly to Borean Tundra. But if you want to take a trip to Howling Fjord first you just need to take the boat from Menethil Harbor which will take you to Valgarde, the Alliance Outpost there.

If you are looking for Horde information, you can head over to Wordaen's Horde Guide to Howling Fjord, 68-72 which cover the Howling Fjord for Horde players.

This guide is a work in progress and will be updated as we level into WotLK.






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Valgarde

  • Pick up Hell Has Frozen Over... on the docks and turn it into Vice Admiral Keller.
  • Accept If Valgarde Falls... from Vice Admiral Keller
  • Pick up the Flight Path and then head to the Inn, train any professions to Grand Master if you want.
  • If you have Cooking high enough pick up the Northern Cooking quest in the inn. You'll complete this one while you level
    • Go Slightly north now and kill invaders as they come torwards the town.
    • Turn in If Valgarde Falls... and accept Rescuing the Rescuers.
      • Now go slightly north of where you did the last quest across the tiny river and click on the sparkly harpoons to rescue the rescuers.
      • Go back and turn that quest in, a bunch of quests should have unlocked nearby.
      • Go around and pick up Prisoners of Wyrmskull, Into the World of Spirits, The Human League, The Path to Payback
        • Go even further north than last time and start killing Dragonflayers for their keys and release 3 prisoners from their cages.
        • Now let's take a quick dive into the lake east of Wyrmskull Village and pick up the reagant pouch, while you're down here pick up Daggercap Divin' and pick up the supply crates and turn it in.
        • Now let's take a quick stop first house on the right and turn in The Human League and pick up Zedd's Probably Dead
        • Head over to the bridge on the other side of the village and you'll find Zedd hanging from a hook, turn the quest in and pick up the next one.
        • Now take a quick u-turn and head to 56, 56 and pick up the quest Fresh Legs
        • Lets run to the northeast corner of the village and turn in Fresh Legs to get the quest Into Utgarde! (Only accept this if you plan on running Utgarde Keep) You can also pick up Disarmament if you want to run the instance also.
        • Now it's time to head into the Catacombs, head over to the bridge earlier and cross it to get to the Catacombs.
        • As you are entering the Catacombs you'll find Glorenfeld who you can turn in a quest to, pick up The Depths of Depravity. As you are questing in here you will find tablets on the ground, pick them up.
        • Go further into the Catacombs and take a left, pick up the quest The Shining Light. This is a timed quest where you will need to run to the bottom of the Catacomb where you can grab the Sacred Artifact.
        • Go turn it in before the timer runs out and pick the follow-up Guided by Honor.
        • Finish up The Depths of Depravity and turn it in and accept The Ring of Judgement.
        • Go back further into the Catacombs and take a right, go down the stairs and head into the circular room.
        • Turn in The Ring of Judgement and accept Stunning Defeat at the Ring.
        • Kill the named mobs in the ring until Oluf the Violent spawns and kill him, the cipher will fall to the ground. Pick it up and make way back to the dwarf.
        • Turn it in and accept Return to Valgarde.
        • Head back to Valgarde.
        • Turn in all the quests you have and pick up any follow ups you can find.
      • You should have the following quests: Dragonflayer Battle Plans, Locating the Mechanism, The Echo of Ymiron
      • First thing you should do is head back to Wyrmskull Village and goto 60, 52. Here use your Incense Burner and enter the building, wait a bit while the ghosts do scripted speech. For fun and only if you want to see something awesome after completing the quest go outside the house and you should see the Lich King if you go near him he'll instakill you but he has a great scripted event for you I really suggest doing it at least once. If you don't click of the Echos of Ymiron buff and let's continue!
      • Now just step outside and near the harpoon guns to the east should be Harpooners, kill them for their Harpoon Control Mechanism
      • Remember where we found Zedd earlier? Let's head over there and go into the cave, kill Yanis the Mystic and loot the Dragonflayer Battle Plans off the wall.
      • Head back to Valgarde, turn all the quests in and pick up any follows ups and quests.
    • You should now have the following quests in your log: Westguard Keep!, of Nifflevar, Lieutenant Icehammer..., Explorers' League Outpost.
  • You now have several choices of where to go but you are finished with Valgarde! Hoorah!

Nifflevar

  • Now to get out of Valgarde, head out of the northwest exit and go up and around Utgarde to get to the next little camp outside Nifflevar at 65, 47.
  • Here you can turn in Lieutenant Icehammer... and pick up It then Rock It!.
    • Head north to Baleheim and goto the center of town at 65, 40 where the fire pit is. Use the Alliance Banner and defend it against 3 mobs that will spawn one at a time.
    • Head back to Lieutenant Icehammer and turn the quest in.
    • Head south into Nifflevar and head to 65, 57.
      • Kill Harpoon Master Yavus for the quest
      • Now head to 69, 54 and use Burner to be transfered to the Spirit World again, just run torwards King Ymiron and follow what happens.
      • Head back to Lieutenant Icehammer and turn the quest Master Yavus, Accept Goes to 11....
      • Go back to Nifflevar and find a harpoon and use your Control Mechanism and fire arrows at the buildings down in Wyrmskull, when you hit certain buildings Defenders will spawn you take them out with your second attack.

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