# Burning Steppes, Azshara & Blasted Lands (levels 51–53) > A Polestar leveling guide for World of Warcraft: Forever, levels 51–53: 38 steps and 18 quests. Page: https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/50-60/01-burning-steppes 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 50–60 > Burning Steppes, Azshara & Blasted Lands - Levels: 51–53 - For: Alliance - Zones: Ironforge, Azshara, Burning Steppes, Blasted Lands, The Hinterlands, Teldrassil - 38 steps, 18 quests - Sets the hearth at Ironforge - Flight paths: Talrendis Point, Morgan's Vigil - Comes after: [Un'Goro Crater & Ironforge](https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/40-50/07-un-goro-crater.md) (levels 48–52) - Next: [Felwood](https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/50-60/02-felwood.md) (levels 52–54) - Last changed 2026-10-17, 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. Ironforge - Set your home to **Ironforge** at Innkeeper Firebrew — Innkeeper Firebrew: the last guide binds here, so this usually ticks at once ### 2. Menethil Harbor Fly from Ironforge to Menethil Harbor and take the boat to Auberdine. - Fly to **Menethil Harbor** ### 3. Auberdine From the Auberdine dock, fly to Astranaar. - Fly to **Astranaar** ### 4. Talrendis Point Ride east along the road out of Ashenvale into Azshara to the Sentinels' camp at Talrendis Point. - Get the flight path at **Talrendis Point** from Jarrodenus ### 5. Shadowsong Shrine The shrine lies in the south-west corner of Azshara, south of Talrendis Point. - Accept **Spiritual Unrest** from Loh'atu - Accept **A Land Filled with Hatred** from Loh'atu ### 6. Haldarr Encampment The Highborne ghosts haunt the ruins around the shrine; the Haldarr satyrs hold the camp just north of it. - Kill **Highborne Apparition** ×6 for Spiritual Unrest - Kill **Highborne Lichling** ×6 for Spiritual Unrest - Kill **Haldarr Satyr** ×6 for A Land Filled with Hatred - Kill **Haldarr Trickster** ×2 for A Land Filled with Hatred - Kill **Haldarr Felsworn** ×2 for A Land Filled with Hatred ### 7. Shadowsong Shrine - Turn in **Spiritual Unrest** at Loh'atu - Turn in **A Land Filled with Hatred** at Loh'atu ### 8. Ogtinc (Priest only) Ride north-east from the shrine: Ogtinc camps at the Bear's Head, in the hills above the road. - Turn in **Cenarion Aid** at Ogtinc - Accept **Of Coursers We Know** from Ogtinc ### 9. Mosshoof Coursers (Priest only) The nearest Mosshoof Coursers graze the hills north-east of the Bear's Head, toward the Legashi Encampment; a larger herd roams the open ground to the south. - Kill **Mosshoof Courser** for **Healthy Courser Gland** ×4 for Of Coursers We Know ### 10. Ogtinc (Priest only) - Turn in **Of Coursers We Know** at Ogtinc - Accept **The Ichor of Undeath** from Ogtinc ### 11. Sanath Lim-yo Optional: Sanath Lim-yo wants two Undamaged Hippogryph Feathers from the hippogryphs around his camp. The data lists no experience for it. - Accept **A Meeting with the Master** from Sanath Lim-yo (optional) - Collect **Undamaged Hippogryph Feather** ×2 for A Meeting with the Master (optional) - Turn in **A Meeting with the Master** at Sanath Lim-yo (optional) ### 12. Kim'jael Kim'jael camps at the Legashi Encampment in the north; his equipment lies all over the Thalassian Base Camp just south-east of him. - Accept **Kim'jael Indeed!** from Kim'jael - Collect **Kim'Jael's Compass** from **Kim'jael's Equipment** for Kim'jael Indeed! - Collect **Kim'Jael's Scope** from **Kim'jael's Equipment** for Kim'jael Indeed! - Collect **Kim'Jael's Wizzlegoober** from **Kim'jael's Equipment** for Kim'jael Indeed! - Collect **Kim'Jael's Stuffed Chicken** from **Kim'jael's Equipment** for Kim'jael Indeed! - Turn in **Kim'jael Indeed!** at Kim'jael - Accept **Kim'jael's "Missing" Equipment** from Kim'jael ### 13. The Ruins of Eldarath The Spitelash naga of the Ruins of Eldarath carry Some Rune. Tymor's four runes stand among the ruins: use his Drawing Kit on each. - Collect **Some Rune** for Kim'jael's "Missing" Equipment - Collect **Rubbing: Rune of Beth'Amara** from **Rune of Beth'Amara** for Arcane Runes - Collect **Rubbing: Rune of Jin'yael** from **Rune of Jin'yael** for Arcane Runes - Collect **Rubbing: Rune of Markri** from **Rune of Markri** for Arcane Runes - Collect **Rubbing: Rune of Sael'hai** from **Rune of Sael'hai** for Arcane Runes - Collect **Ichor of Undeath** for The Ichor of Undeath (Priest only) — Ichor of Undeath: the Lingering Highborne, about 10% ### 14. Ogtinc (Priest only) Climb back to Ogtinc at the Bear's Head, above the ruins. - Turn in **The Ichor of Undeath** at Ogtinc ### 15. Kim'jael - Turn in **Kim'jael's "Missing" Equipment** at Kim'jael ### 16. Ravencrest Monument Swim to the small island off the southern tip of Azshara: Pilot Xiggs Fuselighter waits by the monument. - Turn in **Arcane Runes** at Pilot Xiggs Fuselighter - Accept **Return to Tymor** from Pilot Xiggs Fuselighter ### 17. Ironforge - Hearth to **Ironforge** - Turn in **Return to Tymor** at Tymor — Tymor, Mystic Ward ### 18. Lakeshire Fly from Ironforge to Lakeshire. - Fly to **Lakeshire** ### 19. Morgan's Vigil Where: 84.3, 68.3 on the Burning Steppes map. Ride north out of Lakeshire through the pass into the Burning Steppes; Morgan's Vigil sits at the top, in the south-east of the Steppes. - Get the flight path at **Morgan's Vigil** from Borgus Stoutarm - Accept **FIFTY! YEP!** from Oralius — Oralius: the Blackrock orcs drop the medallions, keep it open all through the Steppes - Accept **Extinguish the Firegut** from Oralius ### 20. Dreadmaul Rock Where: 83.8, 53.6 on the Burning Steppes map. The Firegut ogres hold the great rock north of the Vigil, with the Brutes on its east side. - Kill **Firegut Ogre** ×15 for Extinguish the Firegut - Kill **Firegut Ogre Mage** ×15 for Extinguish the Firegut - Kill **Firegut Brute** ×7 for Extinguish the Firegut ### 21. Morgan's Vigil Where: 84.6, 68.7 on the Burning Steppes map. - Turn in **Extinguish the Firegut** at Oralius - Accept **Gor'tesh the Brute Lord** from Oralius ### 22. Flame Crest Where: 65.2, 24 on the Burning Steppes map. Follow the road west, then climb north to the goblin camp on Flame Crest. - Accept **Broodling Essence** from Tinkee Steamboil - Accept **Tablet of the Seven** from Maxwort Uberglint ### 23. Thaurissan Relics Where: 65.3, 34.8 on the Burning Steppes map. The relics are the carved stones scattered through the Ruins of Thaurissan around Flame Crest: click them until the information is recovered. - Click **Thaurissan Relic** for The Smoldering Ruins of Thaurissan ### 24. The Tablet of the Seven Where: 54.1, 40.8 on the Burning Steppes map. Read the tablet in the Dark Iron camp among the ruins, south-west of Flame Crest, to copy the transcript. - Collect **Tablet Transcript** from **Tablet of the Seven** for Tablet of the Seven ### 25. Broodling Essence Where: 57.6, 31.6 on the Burning Steppes map. Use the Draco-Incarcinatrix 900 on a Black Broodling on the slopes east of Flame Crest just before it dies, then loot the essence it leaves. - Collect **Broodling Essence** ×8 for Broodling Essence ### 26. Flame Crest Where: 65.2, 24 on the Burning Steppes map. - Turn in **Broodling Essence** at Tinkee Steamboil - Accept **Felnok Steelspring** from Tinkee Steamboil — Ends with Felnok Steelspring in Everlook, Winterspring: keep it - Turn in **Tablet of the Seven** at Maxwort Uberglint ### 27. Blackrock Stronghold Where: 39.3, 55.3 on the Burning Steppes map. Gor'tesh and the Blackrock orcs hold the camps and the stronghold at the foot of Blackrock Mountain, west of Flame Crest. Pull them one at a time; every orc and worg may drop a medallion, so kill them until you have fifty. - Kill **Gor'tesh** for **Gor'tesh's Lopped Off Head** for Gor'tesh the Brute Lord - Collect **Blackrock Medallion** ×50 for FIFTY! YEP! ### 28. Franclorn Forgewright Where: 29, 28.9 on the Burning Steppes map. Optional: Franclorn's ghost stands on his tomb on the great chain inside Blackrock Mountain, and only the dead can see him. If you die near the mountain anyway, run your spirit to him before resurrecting. - Accept **Dark Iron Legacy** from Franclorn Forgewright (optional) - Turn in **Dark Iron Legacy** at Franclorn Forgewright (optional) ### 29. Morgan's Vigil Where: 84.6, 68.7 on the Burning Steppes map. Ride back east along the road to the Vigil. - Turn in **FIFTY! YEP!** at Oralius - Turn in **Gor'tesh the Brute Lord** at Oralius - Accept **Ogre Head On A Stick = Party** from Oralius ### 30. Dreadmaul Rock Where: 81, 46.8 on the Burning Steppes map. Climb to the top of Dreadmaul Rock and plant the head in the soft dirt mound. - Click **Soft Dirt Mound** for Ogre Head On A Stick = Party ### 31. Morgan's Vigil Where: 84.6, 68.7 on the Burning Steppes map. - Turn in **Ogre Head On A Stick = Party** at Oralius - Sell and repair at a vendor ### 32. Nethergarde Keep Fly to Nethergarde Keep. - Fly to **Nethergarde Keep** ### 33. Kum'isha the Collector Kum'isha waits at the Rise of the Defiler, the hill south-west of the keep. The Blasted Lands mobs on the way drop the Imperfect Draenethyst Fragments; bring her what you have. - Accept **Everything Counts In Large Amounts** from Kum'isha the Collector - Collect **Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment** for Everything Counts In Large Amounts - Turn in **Everything Counts In Large Amounts** at Kum'isha the Collector ### 34. Wildkin feathers Ride back to Nethergarde Keep and fly to Aerie Peak. The Wildkin Feathers lie on the ground across the Hinterlands, south and east of Aerie Peak, where the owlbeasts roam; the mobs here are well below you now. - Fly to **Aerie Peak** - Collect **Wildkin Feather** ×15 for Favored of Elune? ### 35. Ironforge - Hearth to **Ironforge** - Train at your trainer (Warrior, Paladin, Hunter, Rogue, Priest, Shaman, Mage, Warlock only) ### 36. Menethil Harbor Fly to Menethil Harbor and take the boat to Auberdine, then the boat on to Rut'theran Village. - Fly to **Menethil Harbor** ### 37. Rut'theran Village - Turn in **Favored of Elune?** at Erelas Ambersky - Accept **Moontouched Wildkin** from Erelas Ambersky — The wildkin are in Winterspring: keep it ### 38. Druid training (Druid only) Ironforge has no druid trainer: take the portal up to Darnassus and train in the Cenarion Enclave, then come back down to Rut'theran Village. - Train at your trainer --- Index for language models: https://polestar.guide/llms.txt