Powerlevel Ghostlands

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Notes

General Notes

• When gaining a new level, get to Silvermoon City as soon as possible (but not in the middle of quests, as that'll slow you down significantly), but before first visit, make sure you have done the Tranquillien Delivery Quests.
• Set your [Hearthstone] to Tranquillien inn, to make travel time shorter.
• Always get available quests from around the area you are in, even if you haven't sheduled to finish the quest until later.

Skipped Quests

• You'll encounter a small building directly north of the path to the Eastern Plaguelands, called Andilien Estate. There, Apprentice Vor'el will give you the quest  [18] Clearing the Way. This quest's location doesn't really fit into the ways to run. However, if you get lost or accidentally run into it, you may as well stay around and do the quest. The appropriate mobs wander around southern Ghostlands, even right outside Deatholme.
•  [16] The Farstrider Enclave, a short delivery quest from Tranquillien to the Sanctum of the Sun should be skipped as it otherwise would cost you a running trip, which you get low xp and no reputation from.

Items to Keep

• 10x[Rotting Heart]: Keep until you can finish  [16] Rotting Hearts in Tranquillien.
• 10x[Spinal Dust]: Keep until you can finish  [18] Spinal Dust in Tranquillien.
• 15x[Linen cloth]: If you are a mage, keep until you have the [Spindleweb Silk Gland] for the quest  [16] A Simple Robe.

Walkthrough

Entering Ghostlands

1. When entering Ghostlands from the Eversong Woods, you'll encounter Apothecary Thedra and Courier Dawnstrider. Accept the quest  [10] The Fallen Courier and head south into Ghostlands.
2. Kill a few of the beasts (bats/cats/whatever) close to the border until you have 4x[Plagued Blood Sample].
3. Return to Apothecary Thedra, finish quest and accept  [10] Delivery to Tranquillien from Courier Dawnstrider.
4. Head south along the road until you find Tranquillien, Ghostland's major quest hub, and turn in the delivery quest.

Tranquillien Delivery Quests

Do the following delivery quests inside Tranquillien:

1.  [10] Goods from Silvermoon City from Quartermaster Lymel <General Goods>.
2. Get the quest  [10] Fly to Silvermoon City but do not fly to Silvermoon yet.
3.  [10] The Forsaken from Arcanist Vandril.
4.  [10] Return to Arcanist Vandril, followup from the above quest.
5. Get the followup  [10] Suncrown Village but leave it for laters.

Suncrown Village

1. Head north out of Tranquillien and turn east into Suncrown Village. You'll encounter a Dying Blood Elf right outside the village. Take the quest  [11] Anok'suten and head into the village.
2. Kill (at least 10) [8-10] Nerubis Guard to make a clear path to [11] Anok'suten so you don't have to fight more than one at the time.
3. Head east out of the village to Lake Elrendar, finish the quest  [12] Help Ranger Valanna! and get the  [12] Dealing with Zeb'Sora follow up.
4. Swim east across the lake to Zeb'Sora, slay a few trolls and return with the 6x[Zeb'Sora Troll Ear].
5. Get the followup, swim south to the small island and get  [10] Forgotten Rituals, continue south to Farstrider Enclave and turn in the delivery quest.
6. Use this visit to repair at the bowyer, sell grey items, and get the available quests, most importantly  [12] Spirits of the Drowned.
   • Optionally, you can 'not' get the  [16] The Traitor's Shadow quest, but instead head south west to the Sanctum of the Sun and get the  [16] The Farstrider Enclave, but it doesn't give anything except 575 xp (not even any reputation). You should skip this quest for most effective xp gaining. However, if you decided to get this quest, return to Farstrider Enclave and get the follow up.
7. Return north through the water, and kill both [8-12] Ravening Apparition and [12] Vengeful Apparition while looting the Glistening Mud piles on the sea floor until you've gathered all 8x[Wavefront Medallion].
8. Swim back to Geranis Whitemorn, turn in the quest and accept the quest  [13] Vanquishing Aquantion.
9. Swim north to the sunken altar in the middle of the lake clear the area so you have some space to fight the quest mob. When cleared, use the bundle of medallions.
10. [12-13] Aquantion will spawn, kill him. Note that he is quite resistant to both frost and arcane.
11. Swim back to the small island where Geranis Whitemorn is and turn in the quest, turn east and head for the Dawnstar Spire.
12. Head toward the spire, and up to the second floor. On the small balcony there's a Dusty Journal on the floor which finished the quest  [16] The Traitor's Shadow and starts  [16] Hints of the Past.
13. If you are a mage, kill the Arcane Reavers until you have 10x[Arcane Fragment].
14. When returning to the Farstrider Enclave, kill 10 [12-16] Ghostclaw Lynx. More of them are slightly southwest of the enclave. Get back to the enclave, finish quests and get the follow ups.
15. Return to the Sanctum of the Sun and get the followup quest  [17] Report to Magister Kaendris, then you can return to Tranquillien.
16. Turn in the quests, repair and empty bags in Tranquillien.

Back to Silvermoon City

If you recently leveled, do the following:

1. Take the flight to Silvermoon City and finish  [10] Fly to Silvermoon City in the Bazaar in Silvermoon City.
2. While in town, upgrade and get new spells/skills/abilities.
3. Additionally, emptying bags and dumping off stuff in the bank could be favorable. The first bankslot costs only 10  and you should have found several bags during leveling.
4. If you're a rogue, get the quest  [16] A Discreet Inquiry from Zelanis <Rogue Trainer> at Murder Row.
5. Get back to the Skymistress Gloaming <Bat Handler> outside the city gate and finish the quest  [10] Skymistress Gloaming.
6. Fly down to Tranquillien and turn in  [10] Return to Quartermaster Lymel.
7. Continue the normal questing.

Everytime you gain a level, try to make the visit to Silvermoon City as short as possible. Using your hearthstone to get back to Tranquillien is a better choice than using it to get from your current location to Tranquillien. The only exception is the above one where one has to talk to the flymasters.

Northwestern Ghostlands

1. Take the western path out of Tranquillien and head across the Dead Scar.
2. Head north to An'daroth and slay the appropriate twelve [10-11] Sentinel Spy.
3. Turn west to Goldenmist Village and slay both [10-11] Quel'dorei Ghost and [11] Quel'dorei Wraith until  [11] Goldenmist Village is done.
4. Get back to the road toward Tranquillien again and when the road forks (just south of An'daroth), there should be a small hill. Get to it and loot the [Rathis Tomber's Supplies].
5. Continue south to Sanctum of the Moon and kill the creatures until you have 8x[Crystallized Mana Essence].
6. Head back to Tranquillien.

Western Ghostlands

1. Go west out of Tranquillien again and follow the road until the second time it forks, take the southern road (still heading west though) toward the murlocs.
2. Gather 6x[Plagued Murloc Spine] and swim west until you reach the Shalandis Isle.
3. Search for the two plans on the island (at the small tents guarded by night elves). Beware of the selfhealing druids.
4. The third plan is at the steering wheel on the boat. When you've gathered all three, head back southwest toward the Windrunner Village.
5. When arriving at the village, slay the Phantasmal Seekers and Stonewing Slayers to gather 6x[Phantasmal Substance] and 4x[Gargoyle Fragment].
6. Turn south and head for the Windrunner Spire, slay eight [14-15] Deatholme Acolytes and ten [15] Fallen Rangers.
7. [The Lady's Necklace] should have dropped, accept the quest from it. (If it didn't drop, continue to kill the Acolytes and Rangers until it do.
8. Take the road east until you reach the Underlight Mines and find Apprentice Shatharia and accept the quest  [14] Underlight Ore Samples.
9. Slay the gnolls for the  [14] Trouble at the Underlight Mines quest and gather the [Underlight Ore].
10. Gather 5x[Crunchy Spider Leg] when killing (at least) eight [14-15] Spindleweb Lurker, additionally, kill ten [13-15] Vampiric Mistbats.
11. If you're a mage, make sure you get the [Spindleweb Silk Gland] for the  [16] A Simple Robe.
12. Return towards Tranquillien by taking the road to the east, kill ten [11-14] Risen Hungerer and [10-13] Gangled Cannibal when going through the Dead Scar.
13. At the Dead Scar, go inside each of the twin Ziggurats and get the stone orb in the chest for the quest  [17] The Twin Ziggurats and then head back to Tranquillien.

Amani Catacombs

1. Take the path east out of Tranquillien (the path along the mountain). Turn north at the Sanctum of the Sun toward An'telas and turn in  [16] Deliver the Plans to An'telas, beware of a few mounted night elves will attack when you deliver the quest.
2. Continue east towards the Farstrider Enclave and turn north-northwest along the mountainside. You'll encounter a few [13-16] Shadowpine Oracles. Get past them west and you'll enter the Tomb.
3. Along the sides in this corridors you'll see mummified corpses (objects on the floor against the walls, not the corpses of mobs), set them on fire with the [Blazing Torch]. The mummified trolls are on a slow respawn rate and if you're not doing is solo it'll take a while to wait for them to reappear.
4. If you're a rogue, lockpick open the Burial Chests until you get the [Pitted Gold Band], you can do this on your way out too, but if you don't get it while doing the escort quest you'll have to turn back in.
5. Keep to your left all the time and you'll eventually encounter a room with a prisoner in a cage. Clear the room and free the ranger.
6. This escort quest does not bring any sudden-spawn groups, but just aggroes the ones you'll encounter. The escortee will keep to the right, so if you took the same path in, you'll have less to clear. If you're a cloth wearer you can stand back to let the NPC get a hit or two in, and it'll be hard to steal the aggro.
7. The escortee will take you back to Farstrider Enclave, and if you yourself cleared the catacombs, you'll have all eight [Troll Juju].
8. If you're a rogue, you should get back to Tranquillien and turn in  [18] Greed and get  [18] The Sad Truth, and then return back to the Farstrider Enclave.

Zeb'Tela and Zeb'Nowa

Make sure you get  [20g2] Bring Me Kel'gash's Head! from the Wanted Poster before you leave the Farstrider Enclave.

1. Head east-southeast toward Zeb'Tela and slay the [17-18] Shadowpine Headhunters and [17-18] Shadowpine Shadowcasters until you've killed ten of each, and by then you should have all the [Headhunter Axe] and [Shadowcaster Mace] you need.
2. Preferingly, stay just north of the Amani Pass. That way you can enter the house with two floors and burn the Fresh Fish Rack for  [19] A Little Dash of Seasoning.
3. If you're a rogue, pick the chests while searching for the [Archeologist's Shrunken Head]. If you don't have found it when you've finished  [18] Attack on Zeb'Tela, leave it for laters.
4. Return to Farstrider Enclave, turn in the quest, get the followup and head south past the Amani Pass.
5. At the very southern part you'll find a path to a house slightly seperated from the others where [19-20 E] Kel'gash the Wicked is standing on the roof.
6. If you're a rogue, and didn't get the [Archeologist's Shrunken Head] earlier, you should keep an eye open for chests and loot them until you've found the quest item.
7. Both the Raw Meat Rack and the Smoked Meat Rack can be found outside between the Amani Pass and where Kel'gash is residing.
8. Clear the path to Kel'gash by killing enough to get  [19] Assault on Zeb'Nowa completed, which should also mean you'll have the last six drops for the  [19] Shadowpine Weaponry.
9. Kel'gash is immune to stun effects and can be hard to solo. If you're level 18 or higher he can be soloable by most classes with a little effort.
10. Leave the camp by going southwest and you'll immediately enter An'owyn. Kill your way to the big crystal and you should get a [Crystal Controlling Orb] to deactivate the Night Elf Moon Crystal.
11. Head back north to Farstrider Enclave for the last time, turn in the quests and repair. Continue west to An'telas and turn in  [16] Deactivate An'owyn and head south to the Sanctum of the Sun.

Deatholme

By now you should try to find a group (4-5) for  [21 E] The Traitor's Destruction.

1. Head to the southern end of the Dead Scar, Deatholme.
2. Kill the appropriate mobs for  [20] War on Deatholme.
3. If you're in a 4-5 man group, go and kill [21 E] Dar'Khan Drathir.
4. Get back to the Sanctum of the Sun, turn in quest and get the followup  [20] Dar'Khan's Lieutenants.
5. Make a quick visit in Tranquillien to complete  [20] A Restorative Draught and get the follow up, then head back down to Deatholme.
6. Kill the four lieutenants, and finish  [21 E] The Traitor's Destruction if you didn't finish it earlier.
7. Additionally, rescue the three apothecaries for  [20] Captives at Deatholme.
8. When leaving Deatholme again, search for [21 E] Knucklerot and [20-21 E] Luzran and kill them. They're soloable for most classes with a little effort, but you could use the fact that you're in a group from Deatholme.
9. Searching for Knucklerot and Luzran should make you get your 10x[Rotting Heart] and 10x[Spinal Dust].
10. Head back to Tranquillien and turn in the quests.

Aftermath

This marks the end of your Ghostlands visit.

• You should by now be exalted with Tranquillien, and can therefore buy [Tranquillien Champion's Cloak] from Provisioner Vredigar.
• In your quest log you should have two quests left:
  •  [15] Journey to Undercity
  •  [21] Hero of the Sin'dorei (or  [21] Friend of the Sin'dorei if you're not Blood Elf.)
• Head for the Sunfury Spire in Silvermoon City and finish one of the quests, get the follow up.
• Now you should have two quests left, both ending with Lady Sylvanas Windrunner <Dark Lady, Queen of the Forsaken> in Undercity. Use the orb in the back of the Sunfury Spire and teleport to the Ruins of Lordaeron. Make your way to the Royal Quarter and finish the quests.
• One of them leads to a follow up, taking you to Orgrimmar, what you do from here is up to you.