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Kommentar von raventears

Blasted lands is a nice grinding area. The quests from the two blood elves at the entrance to the zone give out nice buffs too.

The Tainted Scar should be avoided unless you are in a raid and looking for Lord Kazzak, this is where he is. Or if you are a warlock and are going to do your doomguard questline. The scar is scattered with level 61+ elite demons. Doomguards, Dreadlords, Felguards, and felhunters.

The Blasted Lands also used to be known as the Black Morass, a swamp land, and is where the Horde first came to Azeroth through the Dark Portal, which still stands today. The magical energies from the dark portal helped to twist the land and the wildlife there to what it is today.

Kommentar von 9859

Yes, the two blood elves give out nice quests but they have you running all over the place killing things in the zone which, in my opinion, decrease your xp/hr. I would stay away from here for both horde and ally, there are not enough quests in the area to make it worth your while.

Although, I must say that taking a peak at the Dark Portal is fun! ;)

Kommentar von cyborg99

As of today, February 21st, 2007(and I'm not sure when this first started), it seems the mineral veins in the Alliance-held mine in the north area of the zone are Horde-only, can anyone confirm?

Kommentar von scyap

is the scar also available before the burning crusade?
cuz i dont think i've seen it before..........

and if i dont have TBC installed, what happens if i go to the dark portal?

and is the dark portal guarded by dragons like those in duskwood?
and what about the portal in duskwood? emerald dream? where does it go to ?

Kommentar von sixnine

Is there a flight master here? Ive looked all over and cant seem to find him/her

Kommentar von 26336

The two blood elves give some great grinding quests, but I have to say, if there are a lot of people trying to do those quests at the same time, then its a nightmare. The drop rate is terrible, and the respawns aren't anywhere near as fast as you'd prefer. But if you're pretty much alone in the zone, they are good grinds.

Kommentar von 74698

Can anyone tell me how do I get to Blasted Lands?? I'm new at this and I can't find a way to get to it =s

Kommentar von 24111

Ok let me straight this up. It's gonna be short, for more go to wowwiki.

First the Bloodcursed Orcs (call them whatever, but they weren't the orcs you "know" now) came trough the portal (Opened by Medivh -under Sargas' will- and Gul'dan) from Outlands. They were send by Lords of the Burning Legion as the "First Weave", but eventually cleared their blood and removed the curse that was in it, and that made them so mad in anger. Just in time to group with Humans and stand against The Scourge (sent by Kil'Jaeden with their master Lich King). I'll skip the fights. Arthas a mighty human warrior slew Kel'Thuzad (Lich King's right hand and his mortal leader of the Scoutge). Then the Scourge attacked Quel'Thalas the formal capital of the High-then Elves, they wanted to get to the Sunwell a powerfull source of magic, and eventually did under leadership of Arthas that was now Lich King's servant (he touched Frostmourne a powerfull sword he hoped to kill LK with) and was haunted by Kel's spirit that told him to bath his fallen body in the Sunwell. Kel resurected as a sorcerous lich and as an act of dominance he - now Slange's part - turned Sylvanas Windrunner to mindless banshee. She now residents with part of the Forsaken, ruins of Lordaeron the formal human capital. She doesn't use Forsaken for her own purpouse, she just rules it. After annother bunch of fights Scourge gets to Dalaran and Kel recieves Medivh's spellbook, summons Archimonde and moves to Kalimdor. Now Humans and Orcs lead by Medivh that somehow appeared sail the ocean and get to Barrens, later discover long hidden race of Night Elves. AND NOW. Thrall gets with Cairne Bloodhoof, Night Elves fight with Demons and free Illidan to help them (he after short runs away and makes his own buisness). Elves fight well and defeat BL in Mount Hyjal. Humans reside Theramore undear leadership of Jaina Proudmoore. Orcs search trough Barrens to find their place (Durotar named after Thrall's father). But eventually masses of humans that flied away from Trisfal come to Durotar in their ships. Lead by Jaina's father they try to defeat orcs before they can set and recover, 'couse they don't get that orcs are "good" now. Jaina help's Thrall, her father dies. Humans peacefully return to Theramore.

And so: There's no Horde FTW or whatever 'couse Alliance is the real force (with their foolish pride and actually two leaders: one in Theramore and one in Stormwind - kid King, how great...), and Horde's kinda "made up" with their Forsaken that aren't and can't be with Orcs, Taurens and Trolls

Oh, yeah there's the Blood Elf case. Well they first were magic addicted High Elves the formers of Order of Trisfall (to keep peace, that kind 'o crap) that humans joined (with Aegwynn and Medivh as the last Guardians) and for the LAST the Gnomes. Anyways after they got wiped up at Quel, lead by Kel'thus from the long Sunstrider dynasty they changed their "name" to Blood Elves for the blood of their fallen mates. And lead by stupid humans to sure death from the hand of way overpowered Scourge, they decided to take help from Nagas and their queen Vashij. Humans called them TRAITORS and told to get the f*** off. So they went with Vashij to Outland, and aren't actually in the Horde.

Realism FTW.

Kommentar von 24111

You need to be at least 58 (and ofcourse have TBC) to pass the portal.

Kommentar von Verdice

I noticed none of the guards are around Nethergarde Keep are PvP? Why is this? Is there a Horde quest that requires you to travel inside?

Kommentar von 93332

I have looked around a little bit, and can't seem to find an inn. I know there is no innkeeper, which is the first sign. I can't find a stable master or anywhere you can log out for extra rested xp. Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but if you want an inn, you'll have to go to darkshire for alliance, and presumably there's an inn in stonard for horde.

Kommentar von 64485

On the Horde thing. There were two hordes, one (that we know in WoW) is the modern Horde. The other was the Orcish Horde, which was entirely Orcs and came through the Dark Portal... which was mentioned earlier. The Orcish Horde was the tool of the Burning Legion, who had a grudge against the world of Azeroth, the Orcish Horde is in Warcraft I and with several additions (Ogres, Goblins), in Warcraft II. In Warcraft III the Orcs are no longer under bloodlust and are good and gain compatriots and allies with the Trolls and Tauren, although the Alliance thinks otherwise.

Kommentar von 104949

there is no town here but there are 4 quests that i recommend doing, right when you walk in you should see the quests.
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=2583
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=2602
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=2582
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=2586
And if you want you can do this quest: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=2604 but i didnt do it because the mobs for this quest are scattered everywhere and the drop rate is very good and i didnt want to run around looking for them for too long.
You can do these quests as many times as you want but you wont get xp the 2nd time

Kommentar von 105870

The Blasted Lands is a great area when you are level 50+ and just want to level your skinning and mining. I respecced to skinning and mining at 70 just because I am always in need of money and I have to say it's a quite great area to farm ores and skins.

Kommentar von 106006

One approach to questing here is to keep an eye out in AH for Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment (or the perfect version, if underpriced) and just turn it in as soon as elig., for the quest xp. I would assume this was increased in 2.3.

You can also just buy the animal organs needed for the turn-in as well.

The animal-part drop quests are impressively annoying, but I am looking fwd to trying them on my aoe prot pally in 12 levels or so....

Overall the zone does feel like a place that did not get the quest attention originally intended by blizzard, much like Azshara. Nethergarde is a complete town, with no quests! I can only think that as original release date loomed, some zones were left with less quests that would seem to justify the development time in the zones themselves, and were not subsequently brought up to a normal questing area's standard.

Edit - obviously with cataclysm, this once-useful and informative post is now merely a historical footnote, if even that.

Kommentar von Yarthort

Did the dark portal always had that kind of opening or was it completly blank before the Burning Crusade?

Kommentar von 133290

There isn't an ally innkeeper... is there? :S:S

Kommentar von TheMaelstorm

It was the Undead Scourge and coming of the Burning Legion. When Thrall received a vision of that, Medivh visits him (or vice versa). There is a conversation like this:
"Medivh: You feel it too, don't you?
Thrall: The.. demons returned."
(not exactly like this)

Other orcs also sense it, since an orc who's been sacrificing humans also mentioned of demons' arrival. He was defeated by Arthas Menethil.

About who's who and where from..

Orcs: They used to live in Dreanor (known as Outlands after the energies closing the dark portal blasted the land apart). Their leaders were first tricked and then corrupted by the Legion, eventually becoming killing machines serving their demon masters. Gul'dan on Dreanor and Medivh on Azeroth(who's meant to be the guardian of men against demons but who ironically corrupted from within by Sargeras) opened the Dark Portal and led the orcs in Azeroth.

Trolls: They are one of the most ancient races on Azeroth. They were more evolved than humans when they first met. They had grand empires and fought and (not sure but I think..) defeated the Qiraji. Some of them became part of the first Horde (orcs under demon command), now some others are part of the current Horde.

Tauren: They are again an old race, whose ingenious to Kalimdor. They have long lived there, in contact with nature deities, especially "the Earthmother".

High Elves: They were once Night Elves, later banished from Kalimdor and arrived in Azeroth (eastern continent, that is). They were slaughtered by the Scourge. Some of them stayed true to their ways, very few high elves are left in the world.

Blood Elves: The rest of the slaughtered elves named themselves Blood Elves under Kael'thas Sunstrider's command. (although their loyalties changed in time due to events before and during burning crusade)

Forsaken: They are actually composed of Lordearon humans and Quel'thalas elves, who were turned into undead but later broke free of command when arthas' powers vaned.

of the Alliance races, night elves are native to kalimdor, dreanei used to live in dreanor and the rest is from Azeroth (although origins of the races are still sort of vague)

Kommentar von brenthebli

The nearest alliance flightpath to the dark portal is Nethergard keep near the entrance to the Swamp of Sorrows, while the nearest Horde flight path is Stonard in the Swamp of Sorrows.

Kommentar von 146819

Try not to die unless you like ridiculouly long corpse-retrieval runs. The only graveyard (that I'm aware of, at least; I don't know if there are others) is up near the Blasted Lands/Swamp of Sorrows border.

Kommentar von 166878

That mine with all the 48ish humans and dwarves in it has alot of mithril,trusilver, and small thorium.

It might be worth your time to get a cloth clad guildee to follow you and you farm for ore, he farms for mageweave.

Kommentar von 195714

The Horde was formed by Kil'jaeden. He used The leader of the Blackrock clan whoose name I have forgotten to forge an alliance between the other clans. Soon after Gul'dan did things which is so horrifying that I have vowed to never write it, that he made the Horde lose in a way. Then after all the things like the death of the leader of the Blackrock clan by Ogrim Doomhammer and the exile of the Frostwolves because of Durotar and the death of Medivh and so on..........Gul'dan made the Stormreavers clan and created a second Dark Portal which the original Dark Portal was not completely closed by The Alliance. After the whole thing, Ner'zhul got killed by Kil'jaeden and thanks to that, we've got The Frostwolves clan lead by Thrall and the Warsong clan led by the still alive Grom Hellscream.

Kommentar von 168444

actually what i think the Horde is...
The first Horde or so known as the "Old Horde" we comprised of orcs mixed with ogre's(also trolls when they passsed thru the dark portal already) that followed Gul'dan(the one who help the possessed Medivh to create the so known as the "Dark Portal")
also it was known the old Horde has aslo theyre own personnal Death Knights back then..
The 2nd Horde or the "New Horde" which was lead by Warchief Thrall(we all know him right?)comprised of Orcs of the FrostWolf Clan(typical),trolls of the Darkspear Tribe(play exodus of the horde =_=) and The Tauren Brotherhood(Cairne Bloodhoof's people)plus the Blood Evles and the Undead Forsaken.many others joined the Horde after like for ex. The Stonemaul Orgres(were convinced by Rexxar to help the Horde)
but.......there is also the "Fel Horde" and the "Dark Horde" but..i dont wanna make this very long =_=..

Kommentar von 220202

only reason i like this place is coz of "The Dark Portal" so I can go and have fun and go on a reallly nice ride at Outland

Kommentar von 308091

what is the deal with the Tainted Scar is it really just an area with a bunch of elite walkin around nothin more or less?

Kommentar von 165212

The intro to Warcraft: Orcs and Humans (blizzard's first released product) clearly mentions the Orcish Hordes. The only races in that game were Orcs and Humans.

Whatever Blizzard retconned later, it is fact that the term Horde was applied when Orcs were the only non-human race in their game, from the very first release of a blizzard product.

The intros are on youtube, if anyone is interested in seeing this. The War1 intro was quite spiffy at the time it was new.........

The War2 intro also references the horde.

Deficineiron I think they were referring to hordes as in a mob or large group not the proper noun in WoW today.

Kommentar von 318173

Can someone plz tell me where the inn is located ? cant find it ..

Kommentar von 368042

I went to quest in Nethergarde Keep as Alli huntard. 2 quests. One to go to Dun Morough, and the other to talk to the Fallen Hero of the Horde. I thought it was kind of retarded to put a town, which is revelant in lore (Nethergarde Keep was the first alarm in the Alliance defence plan if the orcs invaded again) in a special place, and then leave it. Honestly, Blizz. I hate those gathering quests. Horrible droprates, and you need like 2 lungs for one quest, 3 for the other...so annoying and confusing

Kommentar von 331789

There is now a portal to the blasted lands, from either Stormwind or Orgrimmar.
Edit: After a visit to Darnassus, I saw a portal there. So I'm assuming that they put portals in every major city.
Can someone confirm this?

Kommentar von Elamir

Blasted Lands is a place where the land is twisted by the Dark Portal it hosts. There is only one road in the region guarded by the Nethergarde Keep, that is a fortress of Stormwind tasked to protect the rest of the continent from demons and keep an eye on the Dark Portal. The red rocks of the region do not come by their color naturally. The original tan color was transmuted into the unearthly crimson by searing heat and chaotic energies when the Dark Portal was destroyed.

There is a single enterance to the Blasted Lands, from the Swamps of Sorrows to the North. The pass is close to the horde outpost of Stonard. Alliance players will need to have a walk from Duskwood through the Deadwind Pass.

Blasted Lands also hosts the Dreadmaul clan of ogres, which is said that they serve Lord Kazzak, and orders them to attack the Nethergarde Keep.

Blasted Lands were once populated by centaurs. ( from wowwiki)

Remnants from the Burning Legion has taken refuge at the Tainted Scar.

Theres a Lost One called Kum'isha the Collector in the middle of the Blasted Lands that gives 2 quests.

Two Bloodmages near the enterance of the zone gives you 5 quests.

Theres a set of mountains called "Rise of the Defiler". There is a rune on the ground and a ghost called Deathly Usher near it that will summon you top of the cliff for the quest You Are Rakh'likh, Demon

Kommentar von 486263

If you're doing Loremaster as horde, this has got to be the most boring zone in the game.

Kommentar von 223389

Are the only quests here the ones started by the Fallen Hero and the two blood elves?

Kommentar von 482229

ye Blasted land will be a Murloc land! :)

Kommentar von 188099

The area has been bumped to a level 55-60 zone, meaning that now we'll find dreamfoil, mountain silversage and golden sansam around it.
From my experience, this is now one of the best zones to farm dreamfoil (haven't checked other zones yet), with 3 stacks of it, 1 stack of silversage and 1 stack of sansam in one hour of farming.
Due to the level change you can also find Black Lotus, but on the other side, it appears Gromsblood no longer spawns here.

Kommentar von 492357

Lol the sign pointing to the new Horde town says "Hot new Orc Fortress".

Kommentar von wlrob312

The questing in this zone is phenomenal as of 4.0.3a. I leveled from 55-58 extremely quickly and wish I would've put off this zone until 57 or so just so I could avoid Hellfire Peninsula. The quests here give between 9000-14000xp, with a few over 20000. Excellent zone.

Kommentar von Warluckey1

did all quests in this zone, only gained 2 lvls (57-59)

Kommentar von DeathKorpsman

I really wish they'd put in a "rats scurrying around in the walls" noise to the inn in Surwich. Would have been perfect. All in all I think the revamp to this zone was really good. I actually stayed around and quested here instead of hauling right off to Hellfire at 58 as I'd done in the past. Well worth the quest time, both for the XP and for the fun. No group quests to worry about, everything in the zone can be solo'd now. Have fun with it!

Also, the Gromsblood is definitely still there around the Dark Portal. Haven't seen any elsewhere (may be some in the Tainted Forest?), but they might have intended to leave it since that's where most of the demons are and it is at the low end of the gathering skill range for the zone.

Kommentar von 533976

How is this lvl 55-60? I was just there started lvl 54 and ended lvl 57... Where am I supposed to quest now? Lol...

Kommentar von 770100

Is it just me, or are there no mailboxes accessible to horde *anywhere* in Blasted Lands? Really annoying, because I'm based here currently and have a lot of auctions going at both auction houses.

Kommentar von 802630

Love the zone, but I ran out of quests at lvl 57 exactly halfway to lvl 58

Kommentar von 788360

Am I the only one having horrible connections while in this zone? It happened a few weeks ago on my main while doing archaeology and I learned to avoid the place but now I'm leveling a shaman and, as someone above mentioned, the zone gives great xp for this level but I keep getting randomly disconnected. doesn't happen anywhere else.

Kommentar von Boggler

A word to the wise, do Silithus first and come here at 57, it should take you through 60 if you have Heirlooms or RaF.

Kommentar von Trilok

(51,73) is Location of Horde Flightpath in Blasted Lands is (51,73) @ Sunveil Excursion and NPC Salena. On this plateau you will also find the quest named The Demons and the Druid.

Kommentar von Quintana918

This is essentially the final zone you should be questing in prior to entering Outlands. You can start here at 55 and should easily be 58 in a short amount of time. If you absolutely hate Hellfire and want to skip it, I would suggest chain running dungeons from 55-57 then coming to Blasted Lands which should bring you to 60.

Kommentar von Pronqueta

So, did anyone notice the Dreadmaul Captive dancing in the top room of Dreadmaul Hold? He dances, goes down, does some things down there, gets up again to start all over...

Kommentar von charlie672

Music in The Tainted Forest...the best music I ever hear in cata...

Kommentar von whichwitch

For those who like to farm rares for the guaranteed drops, this is one of the best zones in the game. Cataclysm added several new rares, all of which still drop the Draenethyst to turn in to Kumisha. I've made several thousand gold over the past few weeks just by dropping in once a day, killing the rare spawns I find up, and auctioning off the drops from the sacks and chests.

Kommentar von Tronski

Everybody loves rares! Have a macro!

/tar Akubar the Seer
/tar Blackleaf
/tar Cassia the Slitherqueen
/tar Clack the Reaver
/tar Deatheye
/tar Dreadscorn
/tar Grunter
/tar Magronos the Unyielding
/tar Mojo the Twisted
/tar Mordak Nightbender
/tar Narixxus the Doombringer
/tar Ravage
/tar Spiteflayer
/tar Teremus the Devourer

Just click it occasionally as you go and make sure your map track targets!

Also: http://www.wowhead.com/zone=4#show:rare <- Will show you where you should expect to find them, on the map on this page.
Refresh the page if they aren't shown after clicking.

The rares in blasted lands drops Unvollständiges Draenethystfragment or Fehlerlose Draenethystsphäre so they are really worth hunting.

Kommentar von hiteSPARKYZ

If you try to enter the portal to the Blasted Lands with a low level toon it says the requirement is level 58, but that is not true; the required level is actually 54.

EDIT: I am talking about the portal to the Blasted Lands from major cities, near the Mage trainers; I assume the level requirement to enter the Dark Portal is still level 58.

Kommentar von Calentor

The Orgrimmar portal to Blasted Lands is located in the Cleft Of Shadow, adjacent to Rundok

Kommentar von 454429

If you are a miner, the tainted scar and tainted forest are a great place to go for ore. It seems that these areas only produce rich thorium ore. One trip around the tainted area gave me a few stacks of thorium ore... HUGE help considering I had to farm 20 stacks of ore.

Kommentar von 895448

Been fishing for 45min in Blasted Lands, cords: 50, 71

Results:
x1 (0.91%)
x2 (1.82%)
x1 (0.91%)
x3 (2.73%)
x1 (0.91%)
x1 (0.91%)
x2 (1.82%)
x1 (0.91%)
x8 (7.272%)
x1 (0.91%)
x1 (0.91%)
x1 (0.91%)
x2 (1.82%)
x6 (5.454%)
x1 (0.91%)
x8 (7.272%)
x14 (12.727%)
x10 (9.090%)
x11 (10%)
x8 (7.272%)
x2 (1.82%)
x8 (7.272%)
x9 (8.181%)
x2 (1.82%)
x2 (1.82%)
x2 (1.82%)
x1 (0.91%)
x1 (0.91%)

Total of 110 catches (with included).

Kommentar von 885261

All eight capitals have portals to Blasted Lands. When trying to use these at lower levels, you will receive the error message that you have to be lvl 58 to use the portal. That is wrong. You can use these portals as soon as you reach lvl 55.
(However, the Dark Portal to which these portals take you can only be passed at lvl 58.)

Kommentar von gorthano

Thanks to Garrosh Nethergarde is now gone :(
Oh and the Dredmaul Hold is now controlled by Iron Horde

At least we got only worgen village in game (yet....)

Kommentar von Drani

i recogmend blasted lands even if your a fresh DK that doesnt wanna go to outlands yet or are in need of a little extra gold. specially if your on the opposite faction then what you normally play on

Kommentar von needragenow

Blasted lands was probably the mosted revamped zone in WOW when Cata came around.Pre-cata blasted lands sucked. i remember going there to level a bit b4 heading to the plaguelands..... and was severely disappointed. mobs were easy, however the quests were horrible and there was only like 8 of them. no wonder they put the dark portal there, its the zones one saving grace.

Kommentar von 1205711

In WoD, both Dreadmaul Hold and Nethergarde Keep will be removed, making Sunveil Excursion and Surwich the only hubs for Horde and Alliance respectively.

Kommentar von 1197578

The portal from Orgrimmar to the Blasted Lands and the Dark Portal is in the Cleft of Shadow

Kommentar von love45acp

If your level is too low to use the portal in the major cities, there is a portal at Cenarion Hold in Silithus. The quest for Horde is Der Ruf der Kriegsmatrone. I was able to pick up the quest at level 54 and use the (one-way only) portal to Blasted Lands. This is by far the easiest way to get there if you've been questing through southern Kalimdor (Tanaris -> Un'Goro).

Kommentar von spacecheeserocks

If you're level 90+ and phased to the invaded Blasted Lands, but wish to see the old phase, speak to Zidormi (48.2, 7.2).

This lets you complete low level quests, and see any vendors and such.

This also shows the green version of the dark portal, which can be entered to access Hellfire Peninsula without the City portals. However, the reverse is not possible.

Kommentar von 329652

For those of you who are Lv. 90 and looking for the Candy Bucket at Dreadmaul Hold/Nethergarde Keep, you'll first need to go find Zidormi (48, 7). Talk with her, and she will allow you to un-phase from the Iron Horde Invasion.

Once you're un-phased you can head over to Dreadmaul Hold/Nethergarde Keep and grab the Candy Bucket.

Talk with Zidormi again to phase you back.

Kommentar von punkrockgirl

The char I am trying to get through the portal is 58, but the portal isn't there in Stormwind. Let me restate that: I can see people disappearing and appearing where the portal is, yet for me, it is a blank patch of ground in the Mages' Tower. I can go through the Hellfire Penninsula Gate, use their little portals to get back to SW, but then I have to fly back to Blasted Lands because the darn portal isn't there! Now, I haven't ever needed to do a quest or anything to get that to show up, but times change. So is there someplace I need to go now to do this?

Kommentar von Arugula

If any lower level toon is looking for the Blasted Lands portal in post WoD release, forget it man. Cause it's gone. Use the new portal directly to Hellfire Peninsula (lvl 58 still), one floor above where it used to be in the SW Mage Tower.

Kommentar von Tengwar

Looks like the portal from Orgrimmar to Blasted Lands has been removed. Instead there's a portal to Hellfire in Cleft of Shadow, AND another one where the trolls are. Very annoying.

Kommentar von littlewolfjt

Remember for 6.0 - you need to turn go to the entrance of Blasted land at 48, 17, and 7,3 and speak to the priest there to see Blasted Lands as it was before the Iron Horde Invasions.

Kommentar von Boxofbeer

Rare mobs of Blasted Lands https://youtu.be/6aWpEFEqe64

Kommentar von TheRoss

Came back to wow after six years or so, started a new character, still ran out of quests here at one bar into 57. PROGRESS.

Kommentar von 1445657

Anyone know what the file for the music in The Tainted Forest is called? I am coming here since i can't find info on Battle.net forums.

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