# Searing Gorge (levels 47–49) > A Polestar leveling guide for World of Warcraft: Forever, levels 47–49: 14 steps and 14 quests. Page: https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/40-50/06-searing-gorge 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 40–50 > Searing Gorge - Levels: 47–49 - For: Alliance - Zones: Loch Modan, Searing Gorge - 14 steps, 14 quests - Sets the hearth at Stoutlager Inn - Flight paths: Thorium Point - Comes after: [The Hinterlands, Blasted Lands & Loch Modan](https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/40-50/05-the-hinterlands.md) (levels 46–48) - Next: [Un'Goro Crater & Ironforge](https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/40-50/07-un-goro-crater.md) (levels 48–52) - Last changed 2026-10-17, in Polestar 0.2.5 ## 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. Thelsamar - Set your home to **Stoutlager Inn** at Innkeeper Hearthstove — Innkeeper Hearthstove: the last guide hearths you here, so this usually ticks at once ### 2. Thorium Point Where: 37.9, 30.9 on the Searing Gorge map. From Thelsamar ride south into the Badlands, then west past the Horde town of Kargath (give it room) and up the trail into Searing Gorge. Thorium Point is the scaffolded camp on the north-west rim. - Get the flight path at **Thorium Point** from Lanie Reed - Accept **STOLEN: Smithing Tuyere and Lookout's Spyglass** from Wanted/Missing/Lost & Found — The Wanted/Missing/Lost & Found board - Accept **JOB OPPORTUNITY: Culling the Competition** from Wanted/Missing/Lost & Found - Accept **Curse These Fat Fingers** from Hansel Heavyhands - Accept **Fiery Menace!** from Hansel Heavyhands - Accept **Incendosaurs? Whateverosaur is More Like It** from Hansel Heavyhands - Accept **What the Flux?** from Master Smith Burninate ### 3. Zamael Lunthistle Where: 29.6, 26.3 on the Searing Gorge map. The night elf stands alone west of Thorium Point. Hear his story. - Accept **Prayer to Elune** from Zamael Lunthistle - Turn in **Prayer to Elune** at Zamael Lunthistle ### 4. Kalaran Windblade Where: 39.1, 39 on the Searing Gorge map. Kalaran stands on the rim of the Cauldron, south of Thorium Point. Listen to his story. - Accept **Divine Retribution** from Kalaran Windblade - Turn in **Divine Retribution** at Kalaran Windblade - Accept **The Flawless Flame** from Kalaran Windblade ### 5. Golems and elementals Where: 41.7, 41.4 on the Searing Gorge map. Heavy War Golems patrol the floor of the Cauldron below Kalaran; Magma Elementals drift among them. Golems and elementals drop the oil, elementals the hearts. - Kill **Heavy War Golem** ×20 for Curse These Fat Fingers - Collect **Golem Oil** ×4 for The Flawless Flame - Collect **Heart of Flame** ×4 for The Flawless Flame ### 6. Kalaran Windblade Where: 39.1, 39 on the Searing Gorge map. - Turn in **The Flawless Flame** at Kalaran Windblade - Accept **Forging the Shaft** from Kalaran Windblade ### 7. Dark Iron dwarves Where: 37.5, 39.6 on the Searing Gorge map. Taskmasters and Slavers drive the slaves all over the Cauldron, and any of them can carry a Thorium Plated Dagger. The Steamsmiths work at the furnaces in the middle (the Smithing Tuyere), the Lookouts stand on the southern ridges (the Spyglass). Any Dark Iron may drop the Grimesilt Outhouse Key: keep it. - Kill **Dark Iron Taskmaster** ×15 for JOB OPPORTUNITY: Culling the Competition - Kill **Dark Iron Slaver** ×15 for JOB OPPORTUNITY: Culling the Competition - Collect **Thorium Plated Dagger** ×8 for Forging the Shaft - Kill **Dark Iron Steamsmith** for **Smithing Tuyere** for STOLEN: Smithing Tuyere and Lookout's Spyglass - Kill **Dark Iron Lookout** for **Lookout's Spyglass** for STOLEN: Smithing Tuyere and Lookout's Spyglass - Collect **Grimesilt Outhouse Key** (optional) - Accept **The Key to Freedom** from Grimesilt Outhouse Key (optional) ### 8. Greater Lava Spiders Where: 29.6, 56.5 on the Searing Gorge map. The spiders roam the plateaus and lava pools in the south-west of the gorge. - Kill **Greater Lava Spider** ×20 for Fiery Menace! ### 9. Kalaran Windblade Where: 39.1, 39 on the Searing Gorge map. - Turn in **Forging the Shaft** at Kalaran Windblade ### 10. The Slag Pit Where: 40.5, 35.7 on the Searing Gorge map. The Slag Pit opens in the north of the Cauldron. The Secret Plans lie on its upper ledge; Incendosaurs swim in the lava pools further in, so pull them to the edge. Stay clear of Overseer Maltorius and his elite guards deep inside. - Collect **Secret Plans: Fiery Flux** for What the Flux? - Kill **Incendosaur** ×20 for Incendosaurs? Whateverosaur is More Like It ### 11. Thorium Point Where: 39, 27.5 on the Searing Gorge map. - Turn in **STOLEN: Smithing Tuyere and Lookout's Spyglass** at Taskmaster Scrange - Turn in **JOB OPPORTUNITY: Culling the Competition** at Taskmaster Scrange - Turn in **Curse These Fat Fingers** at Hansel Heavyhands - Turn in **Fiery Menace!** at Hansel Heavyhands - Turn in **Incendosaurs? Whateverosaur is More Like It** at Hansel Heavyhands - Turn in **What the Flux?** at Master Smith Burninate ### 12. The Grimesilt outhouse Where: 65.6, 62.2 on the Searing Gorge map. Ride east across the Cauldron to the Grimesilt Dig Site in the south-east. The prisoner in the wooden outhouse wants 15 Silk Cloth and eight dead Dark Iron Geologists from the dig site around it. The outhouse also opens with the key, if you found one. - Turn in **The Key to Freedom** at Wooden Outhouse (optional) - Accept **Caught!** from Wooden Outhouse - Kill **Dark Iron Geologist** ×8 for Caught! - Collect **Silk Cloth** ×15 for Caught! - Turn in **Caught!** at Wooden Outhouse - The prisoner's next task, Ledger from Tanaris, sends you to the Swamp of Sorrows and Dustwallow Marsh: skip it. ### 13. Dorius Stonetender Where: 63.9, 61 on the Searing Gorge map. The dwarf stands by the road at the dig site. Follow him north along the road and fight off the Dark Iron ambushes. When it is over, read the Singed Letter he leaves on the road in Dustfire Valley. - Accept **Suntara Stones** from Dorius Stonetender - Complete **Suntara Stones** - Turn in **Suntara Stones** at Singed Letter - Accept **Suntara Stones** from Singed Letter — For Curator Thorius in Ironforge, later ### 14. Thelsamar - Hearth to **Stoutlager Inn** --- Index for language models: https://polestar.guide/llms.txt