# Arathi Highlands, Alterac Mountains & Swamp of Sorrows (levels 37–40) > A Polestar leveling guide for World of Warcraft: Forever, levels 37–40: 48 steps and 40 quests. Page: https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/30-40/05-arathi-highlands Polestar is a free, open-source (GPL-3.0) leveling guide addon for World of Warcraft: Forever. Every guide here ships inside the addon: in game, `/polestar guides` opens the guide menu, and the guide window shows the steps with a waypoint arrow. ## At a glance - Category: Leveling; in game: Leveling > Alliance 30–40 > Arathi Highlands, Alterac Mountains & Swamp of Sorrows - Levels: 37–40 - For: Alliance - Zones: Swamp of Sorrows, Stormwind City, Hillsbrad Foothills, Arathi Highlands, Wetlands, Alterac Mountains, Silverpine Forest, Ironforge, Loch Modan - 48 steps, 40 quests - Sets the hearth at Southshore, then Stoutlager Inn - Flight paths: Refuge Pointe, Thelsamar - Comes after: [Stranglethorn Vale](https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/30-40/04-stranglethorn-vale.md) (levels 34–38) - Next: [Badlands & Desolace](https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/30-40/06-badlands.md) (levels 39–41) - Last changed 2026-10-19, in Polestar 0.2.6 ## Steps The steps as the guide window shows them, in order. Goals marked with a race or class are only for that race or class. ### 1. Fly to Darkshire - Fly to **Darkshire** — Gyll, Booty Bay ### 2. Watcher Biggs From Darkshire follow the road east through Deadwind Pass into the Swamp of Sorrows; Biggs guards the road junction just inside it. Amaryllis Webb stands a short way north of him. - Accept **Encroaching Wildlife** from Watcher Biggs - Accept **My Little Friends** from Amaryllis Webb — Amaryllis Webb: three critters to catch in Arathi, Desolace and Stranglethorn ### 3. The western swamp Young crocolisks, Sorrow Spinners and Swamp Jaguars all roam the swamp around the road. - Kill **Young Sawtooth Crocolisk** ×8 for Encroaching Wildlife - Kill **Sorrow Spinner** ×10 for Encroaching Wildlife - Kill **Swamp Jaguar** ×10 for Encroaching Wildlife ### 4. Watcher Biggs - Turn in **Encroaching Wildlife** at Watcher Biggs - Accept **The Lost Caravan** from Watcher Biggs ### 5. The Lost Caravan The wrecked caravan lies off the road near Biggs. - Collect **Wizards' Reagents** from **Caravan Chest** for The Lost Caravan ### 6. Watcher Biggs - Turn in **The Lost Caravan** at Watcher Biggs ### 7. The Harborage Follow the road north to the draenei of the Harborage. - Accept **Draenethyst Crystals** from Magtoor ### 8. Fallow Sanctuary East along the road to the Fallow Sanctuary. The Lost One mobs drop the crystals; Noboru walks the ruins and drops his cudgel. - Collect **Draenethyst Crystal** from **Draenethyst Crystals** ×6 for Draenethyst Crystals - Kill **Noboru the Cudgel** for **Noboru's Cudgel** - Accept **Noboru the Cudgel** from Noboru's Cudgel ### 9. Galen Goodward Galen is caged at the north end of the sanctuary. Free him and keep him alive on the walk out; his strongbox waits by the road afterwards. - Accept **Galen's Escape** from Galen Goodward - Complete **Galen's Escape** - Turn in **Galen's Escape** at Galen's Strongbox ### 10. The Harborage - Turn in **Noboru the Cudgel** at Magtoor - Turn in **Draenethyst Crystals** at Magtoor ### 11. Fly to Stormwind Back west through Deadwind Pass to Darkshire. - Fly to **Stormwind** — Felicia Maline, Darkshire ### 12. Stormwind - Accept **A Meal Served Cold** from Angus Stern — Angus Stern, Stormwind Harbor road - Accept **Morgan Stern** from Angus Stern - Accept **Brother Anton** from Brother Crowley — Brother Crowley, Cathedral of Light - Accept **Southshore** from Milton Sheaf — Milton Sheaf, the Royal Library in the keep - Train at your trainer (Warrior, Paladin, Hunter, Rogue, Priest, Mage, Warlock, Druid only) ### 13. The Binding (Warlock only) Gakin the Darkbinder waits in the Slaughtered Lamb's cellar, in the Mage Quarter. Use the Heartswood Core at the summoning circle there and defeat the succubus it calls. If you took What Is Love?, hand him the Wooden Figurine too, place it at the same circle and defeat the incubus. - Turn in **Heartswood** at Gakin the Darkbinder - Accept **The Binding** from Gakin the Darkbinder - Complete **The Binding** — Subdue the succubus - Turn in **The Binding** at Gakin the Darkbinder — Summon Succubus - Turn in **What Is Love?** at Gakin the Darkbinder (optional) — What Is Love?, if you took it - Accept **The Binding** from Gakin the Darkbinder (optional) - Kill **Summoned Incubus** for The Binding (optional) — Summoned Incubus, at the same circle - Turn in **The Binding** at Gakin the Darkbinder (optional) — Gakin binds the incubus to you ### 14. Shaman training (Shaman only) Stormwind has no shaman trainer: take the Deeprun Tram from the Dwarven District to Ironforge and train with Eldrun Stormbreaker. Gryth Thurden in the Great Forge flies to Southshore too. - Train at your trainer ### 15. Fly to Southshore - Fly to **Southshore** — Dungar Longdrink, Trade District; Gryth Thurden, Ironforge ### 16. Southshore - Set your home to **Southshore** at Innkeeper Anderson - Accept **Crushridge Bounty** from Marshal Redpath - Turn in **Southshore** at Loremaster Dibbs - Accept **Preserving Knowledge** from Loremaster Dibbs ### 17. Shadowy Assassin A Shadowy Assassin lurks unseen on the edge of Southshore; kill him and read the contract he carries. - Kill **Shadowy Assassin** - Kill **Shadowy Assassin** for **Assassin's Contract** - Accept **Assassin's Contract** from Assassin's Contract - Turn in **Assassin's Contract** at Magistrate Henry Maleb - Accept **Baron's Demise** from Magistrate Henry Maleb - Turn in **Further Mysteries** at Magistrate Henry Maleb - Accept **Dark Council** from Magistrate Henry Maleb ### 18. Refuge Pointe Where: 45.7, 46.1 on the Arathi Highlands map. Follow the road east out of Hillsbrad over Thoradin's Wall to Refuge Pointe. - Get the flight path at **Refuge Pointe** from Cedrik Prose - Accept **Northfold Manor** from Captain Nials - Turn in **Malin's Request** at Skuerto - Accept **Worth Its Weight in Gold** from Apprentice Kryten ### 19. Northfold Manor Where: 34.7, 31.7 on the Arathi Highlands map. The Syndicate hold the farm north-west of Refuge Pointe. A Hay Weevil crawls about the farm: catch one with Amaryllis Webb's Entomology Starter Kit, then tick it off. - Kill **Syndicate Highwayman** ×10 for Northfold Manor - Kill **Syndicate Mercenary** ×6 for Northfold Manor - Kill **Hay Weevil** — Hay Weevil: catch it, for My Little Friends ### 20. Refuge Pointe Where: 45.8, 47.6 on the Arathi Highlands map. - Turn in **Northfold Manor** at Captain Nials ### 21. Thandol Span Follow the road south over the bridge to Dun Modr at the Wetlands end, where Rhag Garmason waits. - Accept **The Thandol Span** from Rhag Garmason — Rhag Garmason, Dun Modr ### 22. Ebenezer Rustlocke Where: 45.7, 93.1 on the Arathi Highlands map. Walk back onto the span: Ebenezer lies under its Arathi end. - Turn in **The Thandol Span** at Ebenezer Rustlocke's Corpse ### 23. Faldir's Cove Where: 31.8, 82.7 on the Arathi Highlands map. West along the coast to the goblins' cove; Lolo keeps watch on the rocks above it. - Accept **Land Ho!** from Lolo the Lookout - Turn in **Land Ho!** at Shakes O'Breen - Accept **Deep Sea Salvage** from First Mate Nilzlix - Accept **Drowned Sorrows** from Captain Steelgut - Accept **Sunken Treasure** from Professor Phizzlethorpe ### 24. Phizzlethorpe Escort the professor to the beach north of the cove and guard him while he works; naga attack in waves. - Complete **Sunken Treasure** ### 25. Doctor Draxlegauge Where: 33.9, 80.4 on the Arathi Highlands map. - Turn in **Sunken Treasure** at Doctor Draxlegauge - Accept **Sunken Treasure** from Doctor Draxlegauge ### 26. The wrecks Where: 23, 84.5 on the Arathi Highlands map. The two wrecks lie in the bay west of the cove. The charts and logs are inside them; the gems lie on the sea floor around them. Daggerspine naga swim the whole bay. - Collect **Maiden's Folly Charts** for Deep Sea Salvage - Collect **Maiden's Folly Log** for Deep Sea Salvage - Collect **Spirit of Silverpine Charts** for Deep Sea Salvage - Collect **Spirit of Silverpine Log** for Deep Sea Salvage - Collect **Elven Gem** from **Calcified Elven Gem** ×10 for Sunken Treasure - Kill **Daggerspine Raider** ×10 for Drowned Sorrows - Kill **Daggerspine Sorceress** ×3 for Drowned Sorrows ### 27. Faldir's Cove Where: 32.8, 81.5 on the Arathi Highlands map. - Turn in **Deep Sea Salvage** at First Mate Nilzlix - Turn in **Sunken Treasure** at Doctor Draxlegauge - Accept **Sunken Treasure** from Doctor Draxlegauge - Turn in **Drowned Sorrows** at Captain Steelgut - Turn in **Sunken Treasure** at Shakes O'Breen - Accept **Sunken Treasure** from Shakes O'Breen — For Fleet Master Seahorn in Booty Bay: keep it ### 28. Quae Where: 60.2, 53.9 on the Arathi Highlands map. Head back north-east past Refuge Pointe; Quae and Kinelory camp in the hills north of Go'Shek Farm. - Turn in **Hints of a New Plague?** at Quae - Accept **Hints of a New Plague?** from Quae ### 29. Forsaken Courier Where: 52.5, 61.5 on the Arathi Highlands map. The courier walks the road west of Go'Shek Farm with two guards; pull them off the road. - Kill **Forsaken Courier** for **Sealed Folder** for Hints of a New Plague? ### 30. Quae and Kinelory Where: 60.2, 53.9 on the Arathi Highlands map. - Turn in **Hints of a New Plague?** at Quae - Accept **Hints of a New Plague?** from Quae - Turn in **Hints of a New Plague?** at Kinelory - Accept **Hints of a New Plague?** from Kinelory ### 31. Kinelory's errand Stay with Kinelory while she sneaks into Go'Shek Farm and back; Horde orcs jump you on the way. - Complete **Hints of a New Plague?** ### 32. Quae Where: 60.2, 53.9 on the Arathi Highlands map. - Turn in **Hints of a New Plague?** at Quae - Accept **Hints of a New Plague?** from Quae — For Phin Odelic in Southshore ### 33. Shards of Myzrael Where: 62.5, 33.7 on the Arathi Highlands map. Head north past Go'Shek Farm; the shards glitter on the hill by the Circle of East Binding. - Turn in **Crystal in the Mountains** at Shards of Myzrael (optional) — Only if Gluggle gave you the pendant in Stranglethorn - Accept **The Princess Trapped** from Shards of Myzrael ### 34. Drywhisker Gorge Where: 76.2, 42.5 on the Arathi Highlands map. The Drywhisker kobolds dig in the gorge east of Hammerfall (Horde); skirt the town to the north. They drop both the motes and Krazek's ore. - Kill **Drywhisker Kobold** or **Drywhisker Surveyor** for **Mote of Myzrael** ×12 for The Princess Trapped - Collect **Lesser Bloodstone Ore** from **Lesser Bloodstone Deposit** ×4 for Favor for Krazek ### 35. Iridescent Shards Where: 84.3, 31 on the Arathi Highlands map. The shards lie at the far end of Drywhisker Gorge. - Turn in **The Princess Trapped** at Iridescent Shards - Accept **Stones of Binding** from Iridescent Shards ### 36. Witherbark Village Where: 71.4, 59 on the Arathi Highlands map. The Witherbark trolls live in the hills south of Go'Shek Farm; Witch Doctors stand in the village, Shadow Hunters guard the far end of the valley. - Collect **Witherbark Tusk** ×10 for Worth Its Weight in Gold - Kill **Witherbark Witch Doctor** for **Witherbark Medicine Pouch** ×4 for Worth Its Weight in Gold - Kill **Witherbark Shadow Hunter** for **Shadow Hunter Knife** for Worth Its Weight in Gold ### 37. Stones of Binding Where: 25.5, 30.1 on the Arathi Highlands map. Each key lies at one of the Highlands' standing-stone circles: east of the shards, near Refuge Pointe and in the west. The Stone of Inner Binding stands west of Refuge Pointe. - Collect **Burning Key** from **Stone of West Binding** for Stones of Binding — Burning Key: Stone of West Binding - Collect **Cresting Key** from **Stone of East Binding** for Stones of Binding — Cresting Key: Stone of East Binding - Collect **Thundering Key** from **Stone of Outer Binding** for Stones of Binding — Thundering Key: Stone of Outer Binding - Turn in **Stones of Binding** at Stone of Inner Binding ### 38. Refuge Pointe Where: 46.2, 47.8 on the Arathi Highlands map. - Turn in **Worth Its Weight in Gold** at Apprentice Kryten - Accept **Wand over Fist** from Skuerto - Sell and repair at a vendor ### 39. Kor'gresh Coldrage Where: 54.8, 81.9 on the Arathi Highlands map. Kor'gresh, an ogre mage, holds the cave at the southern end of the Witherbark valley. - Kill **Kor'gresh Coldrage** for **Trelane's Wand of Invocation** for Wand over Fist ### 40. Skuerto Where: 46.6, 47 on the Arathi Highlands map. - Turn in **Wand over Fist** at Skuerto - Hearth to **Southshore** ### 41. Alterac Mountains Follow the road north out of Southshore into the mountains. Mountain lions roam the slopes; the Syndicate in Strahnbrad wear the signet rings, and Baron Vardus walks the manor grounds on the north side of town. - Kill **Mountain Lion** ×8 for Costly Menace - Kill **Hulking Mountain Lion** ×10 for Costly Menace - Kill **Syndicate Spy** or **Syndicate Sentry** for **Alterac Signet Ring** ×7 for Noble Deaths - Kill **Baron Vardus** for **Head of Baron Vardus** for Baron's Demise ### 42. Crushridge ogres The Crushridge ogres hold the hills north of Strahnbrad. Farther north, a worn wooden chest holds the Ensorcelled Parchment; Nagaz of the Dark Council stands right by it. - Collect **Dirty Knucklebones** ×9 for Crushridge Bounty - Collect **Ensorcelled Parchment** from **Worn Wooden Chest** - Accept **The Ensorcelled Parchment** from Ensorcelled Parchment - Kill **Nagaz** for **Head of Nagaz** for Dark Council ### 43. Ruins of Alterac The tomes lie in the ruined keep west of Strahnbrad; Argus Shadow Mages hold the ruins. - Collect **Recovered Tome** ×5 for Preserving Knowledge — Recovered Tome: Crushridge ogres - Collect **Worn Leather Book** from **Weathered Bookcase** for Preserving Knowledge — Worn Leather Book: the Weathered Bookcase - Kill **Argus Shadow Mage** ×4 for Dark Council ### 44. Dalaran South-west to the Kirin Tor camp on the lake shore west of Dalaran, just over the border into Silverpine Forest: the Image of Archmage Modera stands there. Archmage Ansirem stands south-east of it, by the dome. - Turn in **An Alarming Request** at Image of Archmage Modera - Turn in **Magical Analysis** at Archmage Ansirem Runeweaver - Accept **Ansirem's Key** from Archmage Ansirem Runeweaver — For Catelyn the Blade in Booty Bay: keep it ### 45. Southshore - Hearth to **Southshore** - Turn in **Hints of a New Plague?** at Phin Odelic - Turn in **Crushridge Bounty** at Marshal Redpath - Turn in **Dark Council** at Magistrate Henry Maleb - Turn in **Noble Deaths** at Magistrate Henry Maleb - Turn in **Baron's Demise** at Magistrate Henry Maleb - Buy **Fine Thread** from Micha Yance (optional) — Fine Thread for Bartolo's cloak, from Micha Yance, if you have none - Turn in **Bartolo's Yeti Fur Cloak** at Bartolo Ginsetti - Turn in **Preserving Knowledge** at Loremaster Dibbs - Accept **Return to Milton** from Loremaster Dibbs — For Milton Sheaf in Stormwind: keep it - Turn in **The Ensorcelled Parchment** at Loremaster Dibbs - Accept **Stormpike's Deciphering** from Loremaster Dibbs - Turn in **Costly Menace** at Darren Malvew ### 46. Ironforge - Fly to **Ironforge** — Darla Harris, Southshore - Turn in **Stormpike's Deciphering** at Prospector Stormpike — Prospector Stormpike, Hall of Explorers - Train at your trainer (Warrior, Paladin, Hunter, Rogue, Priest, Shaman, Mage, Warlock only) ### 47. Thelsamar From Ironforge take the tunnel east through Dun Morogh into Loch Modan and follow the road to Thelsamar. - Get the flight path at **Thelsamar** from Thorgrum Borrelson - Set your home to **Stoutlager Inn** at Innkeeper Hearthstove - Accept **Badlands Reagent Run** from Ghak Healtouch ### 48. Ironband's Excavation Site South-east along the loch to the dig site. - Accept **Find Agmond** from Prospector Ironband --- Index for language models: https://polestar.guide/llms.txt