# Silithus, Felwood, Winterspring & the Plaguelands (levels 57–60)

> A Polestar leveling guide for World of Warcraft: Forever, levels 57–60: 56 steps and 34 quests.

Page: https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/50-60/06-silithus

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 > Silithus, Felwood, Winterspring & the Plaguelands
- Levels: 57–60
- For: Alliance
- Zones: The Barrens, Felwood, Tanaris, Un'Goro Crater, Silithus, Ashenvale, Winterspring, Moonglade, Teldrassil, Darnassus, Stormwind City, Ironforge, Western Plaguelands, Eastern Plaguelands
- 56 steps, 34 quests
- Sets the hearth at Ratchet, then Cenarion Hold, then Stormwind
- Flight paths: Moonglade
- Comes after: [Silithus, Un'Goro Crater & Eastern Plaguelands](https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/50-60/05-silithus.md) (levels 56–58)
- 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. Astranaar

You start in Ratchet, where the previous guide hearthed you. Fly to Astranaar.

- Set your home to **Ratchet** at Innkeeper Wiley — Innkeeper Wiley: the last guide hearths you here, so this usually ticks at once
- Fly to **Astranaar**

### 2. The Emerald Sanctuary

Ride north out of Astranaar into Felwood to the druids' camp on the road just past the border.

- Turn in **Linken's Memory** at Eridan Bluewind
- Accept **Silver Heart** from Eridan Bluewind
- Turn in **Felbound Ancients** at Eridan Bluewind
- Accept **Purified!** from Eridan Bluewind
- Turn in **Purified!** at Eridan Bluewind — Wait a moment for Eridan
- Turn in **Cleansed Water Returns to Felwood** at Greta Mosshoof
- Accept **Dousing the Flames of Protection** from Greta Mosshoof
- Accept **To Winterspring!** from Ivy Leafrunner — Ivy Leafrunner: ends in Winterspring, keep it

### 3. Shadow Hold braziers

Shadow Hold is the cave at the back of Jaedenar, west of the road. Use the Purified Moonwell Water on the four braziers inside. Kill the Angerclaw bears and Felpaw wolves you pass for the Silvery Claws.

- Click **Brazier of Pain** for Dousing the Flames of Protection
- Click **Brazier of Hatred** for Dousing the Flames of Protection
- Click **Brazier of Suffering** for Dousing the Flames of Protection
- Click **Brazier of Malice** for Dousing the Flames of Protection
- Collect **Silvery Claws** ×11 for Silver Heart — Angerclaw bears and Felpaw wolves

### 4. The Emerald Sanctuary

- Turn in **Dousing the Flames of Protection** at Greta Mosshoof
- Accept **A Final Blow** from Greta Mosshoof

### 5. A Final Blow

Back into Shadow Hold: Moora and Salia guard Shadow Lord Fel'dan in its deepest chamber.

- Kill **Moora** for A Final Blow
- Kill **Salia** for A Final Blow
- Kill **Shadow Lord Fel'dan** for **Shadow Lord Fel'dan's Head** for A Final Blow

### 6. Irontree Woods

Follow the road north to Irontree Woods. The Irontree Stompers carry the heart; finish the claws on the Angerclaw Grizzlies and Felpaw Ravagers of the north.

- Collect **Irontree Heart** for Silver Heart — Irontree Stompers
- Collect **Silvery Claws** ×11 for Silver Heart

### 7. Arei

Arei waits in Irontree Woods. Escort her out of the woods and keep her alive.

- Accept **Ancient Spirit** from Arei
- Complete **Ancient Spirit**

### 8. Felpaw Village

Ride north to the Deadwood furbolgs' village by the Timbermaw Hold cave mouth.

- Turn in **Falling to Corruption** at Deadwood Cauldron (optional) — Deadwood Cauldron, if you found the Firewater flask in Winterspring
- Accept **Mystery Goo** from Deadwood Cauldron (optional) — Mystery Goo: Donova Snowden in Winterspring, keep it
- Turn in **Winterfall Ritual Totem** at Kernda (optional) — Kernda, just inside the cave: only from Neutral with the Timbermaw
- Turn in **Runecloth** at Meilosh (optional) — Meilosh, if you have thirty Runecloth

### 9. The Emerald Sanctuary

Ride back south along the road to the Sanctuary.

- Turn in **Silver Heart** at Eridan Bluewind
- Accept **Aquementas** from Eridan Bluewind — Keep the Book of Aquor, the claws and the heart he hands back
- Turn in **A Final Blow** at Greta Mosshoof

### 10. Gadgetzan

Hearth to Ratchet and fly to Gadgetzan. Buy two Thorium Bars at the Auction House here for Fire Plume Forged.

- Hearth to **Ratchet**
- Fly to **Gadgetzan**
- Turn in **Super Sticky** at Tran'rek
- Turn in **Bungle in the Jungle** at Alchemist Pestlezugg
- Accept **Pawn Captures Queen** from Alchemist Pestlezugg

### 11. Aquementas

Ride east into the hills. Use the Book of Aquor to summon Aquementas, then defeat him for the totem.

- Kill **Aquementas** for **Silver Totem of Aquementas** for Aquementas

### 12. Broken Pillar

Ride south-west to Marvon Rivetseeker's camp at the Broken Pillar.

- Turn in **The Stone Circle** at Marvon Rivetseeker

### 13. The Slithering Scar

Take the road west down into the crater and ride to the Slithering Scar, the silithid cave in the south. The Gorishi Hive Queen waits in its deepest chamber.

- Kill **Gorishi Hive Queen** for **Gorishi Queen Brain** for Pawn Captures Queen

### 14. Fire Plume Ridge

Climb Fire Plume Ridge in the middle of the crater and use the Skeleton Key Mold by the lava lake at the top, with two Thorium Bars in your bags. Fill Laris's Empty Pure Sample Jars on the Primal Oozes in the pools around the ridge.

- Collect **Unfinished Skeleton Key** from **Fire Plume Ridge Lava Lake** for Fire Plume Forged
- Collect **Filled Pure Sample Jar** ×10 for A Little Slime Goes a Long Way — Use the jars on slain oozes

### 15. Marshal's Refuge

Ride north to Marshal's Refuge. Use Umi's Mechanical Yeti beside Quixxil.

- Kill **Quixxil** for Are We There, Yeti?
- Turn in **Aquementas** at J.D. Collie
- Accept **Linken's Adventure** from J.D. Collie
- Turn in **Linken's Adventure** at Linken — Linken, at the back of the refuge

### 16. Into Silithus

Where: 88.3, 23.7 on the Silithus map.

Ride west along the crater's northern wall to the pass in the north-west corner that climbs into Silithus.

- Go to **Toward the north-west pass** Un'Goro Crater

### 17. Cenarion Hold

Where: 51.9, 39.2 on the Silithus map.

Follow the road south-west out of the pass to Cenarion Hold.

- Set your home to **Cenarion Hold** at Calandrath — Calandrath, the innkeeper
- Turn in **Taking Back Silithus** at Windcaller Proudhorn
- Accept **Noggle's Lost Satchel** from Noggle Ficklespragg
- Accept **The Twilight Mystery** from Geologist Larksbane
- Accept **Secret Communication** from Bor Wildmane
- Accept **Report to Marshal Bluewall** from Rifleman Torrig — Rifleman Torrig, at the Alliance tents

### 18. The Twilight Base Camp

Where: 33.6, 16.8 on the Silithus map.

The Twilight's Hammer dig fills the north-west corner: tablet fragments lie on the ground and the Dust Stormers and Desert Rumblers carry them too. Every cultist can drop an Encrypted Twilight Text: keep twenty, ten for Bor Wildmane and ten for Hermit Ortell later.

- Kill **Dust Stormer**  or  **Desert Rumbler** for **Twilight Tablet Fragment** ×8 for The Twilight Mystery — Twilight Tablet Fragments
- Collect **Encrypted Twilight Text** ×10 for Secret Communication — Twilight's Hammer cultists
- Collect **Encrypted Twilight Text** ×20 (optional) — Ten more for True Believers

### 19. Hive'Zora

Where: 33.3, 51.1 on the Silithus map.

Marshal Bluewall camps outside Hive'Zora, the western hive. Pick up a Silithyst at one of the red geysers nearby and carry it to the Alliance extractor at his camp.

- Turn in **Report to Marshal Bluewall** at Marshal Bluewall
- Accept **Scouring the Desert** from Marshal Bluewall
- Complete **Scouring the Desert**
- Turn in **Scouring the Desert** at Marshal Bluewall

### 20. Grind to 58

Dredge Crushers roam the dunes between Hive'Zora and Cenarion Hold, on your way back. Commander Mar'alith only offers Dearest Natalia from level 58.

- Reach level **58** — grind on Dredge Crusher at the dunes east of Hive'Zora, Silithus

### 21. Cenarion Hold

Where: 48.6, 37.8 on the Silithus map.

- Turn in **Secret Communication** at Bor Wildmane
- Turn in **The Twilight Mystery** at Geologist Larksbane
- Accept **The Deserter** from Geologist Larksbane
- Accept **Dearest Natalia** from Commander Mar'alith

### 22. Southwind Village

Where: 63.2, 55.3 on the Silithus map.

Ride east to the ruins of Southwind Village. The Dusty Reliquary lies among the ruined buildings, watched by Tortured Sentinels.

- Collect **Reliquary of Purity** from **Dusty Reliquary** for A Reliquary of Purity

### 23. Hermit Ortell

Where: 67.2, 69.8 on the Silithus map.

The hermit hides among the rocks south-east of Southwind Village.

- Turn in **The Deserter** at Hermit Ortell
- Accept **The Twilight Lexicon** from Hermit Ortell

### 24. Bronzebeard's Encampment

Where: 44.6, 91.4 on the Silithus map.

Ride south-west to the dwarves' camp near the southern mountains and question Frankal Stonebridge and Rutgar Glyphshaper. Noggle's satchel lies in the sand just south-east of the camp.

- Complete **Dearest Natalia**
- Collect **Noggle's Satchel** for Noggle's Lost Satchel

### 25. The Twilight Post

Where: 16.1, 86.4 on the Silithus map.

Twilight Keeper Exeter holds the cultists' camp in the far south-west.

- Kill **Twilight Keeper Exeter** for **Twilight Lexicon - Chapter 2** for The Twilight Lexicon

### 26. Twilight Keeper Mayna

Where: 26.4, 36.6 on the Silithus map.

Ride north along the west side to Mayna's small camp.

- Kill **Twilight Keeper Mayna** for **Twilight Lexicon - Chapter 1** for The Twilight Lexicon

### 27. Twilight Keeper Havunth

Where: 40.9, 42.2 on the Silithus map.

Havunth's camp sits just west of Cenarion Hold.

- Kill **Twilight Keeper Havunth** for **Twilight Lexicon - Chapter 3** for The Twilight Lexicon

### 28. Cenarion Hold

Where: 49.2, 34.2 on the Silithus map.

- Turn in **Dearest Natalia** at Commander Mar'alith
- Turn in **Noggle's Lost Satchel** at Noggle Ficklespragg
- Sell and repair at a vendor

### 29. Hermit Ortell

Where: 67.2, 69.8 on the Silithus map.

Ride back south-east to the hermit.

- Turn in **The Twilight Lexicon** at Hermit Ortell
- Accept **A Terrible Purpose** from Hermit Ortell
- Accept **True Believers** from Hermit Ortell — Hand him the ten texts you kept
- Turn in **True Believers** at Hermit Ortell

### 30. Cenarion Hold

Where: 49.2, 34.2 on the Silithus map.

- Hearth to **Cenarion Hold**
- Turn in **A Terrible Purpose** at Commander Mar'alith

### 31. Gadgetzan

Fly to Gadgetzan.

- Fly to **Gadgetzan**
- Turn in **Pawn Captures Queen** at Alchemist Pestlezugg
- Accept **Calm Before the Storm** from Alchemist Pestlezugg — Gracina Spiritmight in Darnassus: keep it

### 32. Forest Song

Fly to Talrendis Point in Azshara and ride west along the road to Forest Song, just over the Ashenvale border.

- Fly to **Talrendis Point**
- Turn in **Ancient Spirit** at Kayneth Stillwind

### 33. Everlook

Ride back to Talrendis Point and fly to Everlook.

- Fly to **Everlook**
- Turn in **Are We There, Yeti?** at Umi Rumplesnicker

### 34. Ranshalla

Ride south to Owl Wing Thicket. Protect Ranshalla while she lights the torches on the way to the Altar of Elune.

- Accept **Guardians of the Altar** from Ranshalla
- Complete **Guardians of the Altar**

### 35. Dire Maul (optional)

Running Dire Maul in Feralas instead of grinding gets you there faster in a group. Skip this step to grind solo.

- Dire Maul fits levels 55 to 60; the Rabid Shardtooth grind below gets you to 59 alone.

### 36. Grind to 59

The Rabid Shardtooth bears roam the snowy valley south of Owl Wing Thicket.

- Reach level **59** — grind on Rabid Shardtooth at the valley south of Owl Wing Thicket, Winterspring

### 37. Starfall Village

Ride back north to Everlook and west along the road to the night elf village.

- Turn in **To Winterspring!** at Wynd Nightchaser

### 38. Donova Snowden

Keep west on the road to Donova's camp beside the hot springs.

- Turn in **Mystery Goo** at Donova Snowden (optional)

### 39. Umber

Take the Timbermaw Hold tunnel from its Winterspring mouth, west of Donova, and follow the Moonglade branch to Nighthaven. Umber studies by the lake shore.

- Turn in **Umber, Archivist** at Umber
- Accept **Uncovering Past Secrets** from Umber

### 40. Rabine Saturna

Rabine Saturna's house stands in Nighthaven, east of Umber.

- Turn in **A Reliquary of Purity** at Rabine Saturna
- Turn in **Uncovering Past Secrets** at Rabine Saturna

### 41. Umber

- Accept **Under the Chitin Was...** from Umber
- Turn in **Under the Chitin Was...** at Umber

### 42. Nighthaven

Take the flight path in Nighthaven and fly to Auberdine.

- Get the flight path at **Moonglade** from Sindrayl
- Fly to **Auberdine**

### 43. Rut'theran Village

Take the boat from Auberdine to Rut'theran Village.

- Turn in **Guardians of the Altar** at Erelas Ambersky
- Accept **Wildkin of Elune** from Erelas Ambersky

### 44. Darnassus

Take the portal up to Darnassus.

- Turn in **Calm Before the Storm** at Gracina Spiritmight — Gracina Spiritmight, in the Temple of the Moon
- Accept **Calm Before the Storm** from Gracina Spiritmight
- Turn in **Calm Before the Storm** at Idriana — Idriana, in the bank
- Turn in **Wildkin of Elune** at Arch Druid Fandral Staghelm — Arch Druid Fandral Staghelm, atop the Cenarion Enclave

### 45. Stormwind

Go back down to Rut'theran Village, take the boat to Auberdine and the boat on to Stormwind Harbor. Bring sixty Silk, sixty Mageweave and sixty Runecloth for Clavicus: buy what you lack at the Auction House.

- Set your home to **Stormwind** at Innkeeper Allison
- Train at your trainer (Warrior, Paladin, Hunter, Rogue, Priest, Mage, Warlock, Druid only)
- Collect **Silk Cloth** ×60 for A Donation of Silk
- Collect **Mageweave Cloth** ×60 for A Donation of Mageweave
- Turn in **A Donation of Silk** at Clavicus Knavingham — Clavicus Knavingham, in the Trade District
- Turn in **A Donation of Mageweave** at Clavicus Knavingham
- Accept **A Donation of Runecloth** from Clavicus Knavingham
- Collect **Runecloth** ×60 for A Donation of Runecloth
- Turn in **A Donation of Runecloth** at Clavicus Knavingham

### 46. Ironforge

Take the Deeprun Tram to Ironforge. Bubulo Acerbus and Mistina Steelshield each want sixty Wool, sixty Silk and sixty Mageweave, then sixty Runecloth: 120 of each in all, from your bags or the Auction House.

- Turn in **A Little Slime Goes a Long Way** at Laris Geardawdle
- Train at your trainer (Shaman only) — Stormwind has no shaman trainer
- Collect **Wool Cloth** ×60 for A Donation of Wool
- Collect **Silk Cloth** ×60 for A Donation of Silk
- Collect **Mageweave Cloth** ×60 for A Donation of Mageweave
- Turn in **A Donation of Wool** at Bubulo Acerbus
- Turn in **A Donation of Silk** at Bubulo Acerbus
- Turn in **A Donation of Mageweave** at Bubulo Acerbus
- Accept **A Donation of Runecloth** from Bubulo Acerbus
- Collect **Runecloth** ×60 for A Donation of Runecloth
- Turn in **A Donation of Runecloth** at Bubulo Acerbus
- Collect **Wool Cloth** ×60 for A Donation of Wool
- Collect **Silk Cloth** ×60 for A Donation of Silk
- Collect **Mageweave Cloth** ×60 for A Donation of Mageweave
- Turn in **A Donation of Wool** at Mistina Steelshield
- Turn in **A Donation of Silk** at Mistina Steelshield
- Turn in **A Donation of Mageweave** at Mistina Steelshield
- Accept **A Donation of Runecloth** from Mistina Steelshield
- Collect **Runecloth** ×60 for A Donation of Runecloth
- Turn in **A Donation of Runecloth** at Mistina Steelshield

### 47. Chillwind Camp

- Fly to **Chillwind Camp**
- Turn in **Fire Plume Forged** at Alchemist Arbington
- Accept **Araj's Scarab** from Alchemist Arbington (optional) — Araj the Summoner is a level 61 elite
- Turn in **Flint Shadowmore** at Flint Shadowmore
- Turn in **A Plague Upon Thee** at Nathaniel Dumah
- Accept **A Plague Upon Thee** from Nathaniel Dumah

### 48. Andorhal

Chromie waits in the ruined inn on the west side of Andorhal, the ruined city north of the camp. Araj the Summoner guards his phylactery in the middle of the town.

- Turn in **Return to Chromie** at Chromie
- Collect **Araj's Scarab** from **Araj's Phylactery** for Araj's Scarab (optional) — Araj is elite: grouping up is advised.

### 49. Felstone Field

Janice's ghost wanders by the farmhouse of Felstone Field, west of Andorhal. The Jabbering Ghouls in the field carry the other half of the charm: combine the two halves.

- Turn in **Good Luck Charm** at Janice Felstone
- Accept **Two Halves Become One** from Janice Felstone
- Kill **Jabbering Ghoul** (optional)
- Complete **Two Halves Become One**
- Turn in **Two Halves Become One** at Janice Felstone

### 50. Northridge Lumber Camp

Ride north up the road to the lumber mill and set the termite barrel down in the middle of it.

- Turn in **A Plague Upon Thee** at Termite Barrel
- Accept **A Plague Upon Thee** from Termite Barrel

### 51. Tirion Fordring (optional)

Tirion lives in a small hut on the border river, north-east of the lumber camp. Hand in Of Forgotten Memories if you finished it.

- Turn in **Of Forgotten Memories** at Tirion Fordring (optional)

### 52. Scholomance (optional)

Running Scholomance (Caer Darrow, south-east Western Plaguelands) or Stratholme instead of grinding gets you there faster in a group. Skip this step to grind solo.

- Scholomance fits levels 58 to 60; The Key to Scholomance is handed in at Chillwind Camp below.

### 53. Grind to 60

Cross the river east of Tirion into Terrordale. The Terrordale Spirits haunt the woods there.

- Reach level **60** — grind on Terrordale Spirit at Terrordale, Eastern Plaguelands

### 54. Chillwind Camp

Ride back south-west to Chillwind Camp.

- Turn in **A Plague Upon Thee** at Nathaniel Dumah
- Turn in **Araj's Scarab** at Alchemist Arbington (optional)
- Accept **The Key to Scholomance** from Alchemist Arbington (optional)
- Turn in **The Key to Scholomance** at Alchemist Arbington (optional)

### 55. Level 60

Hearth to Stormwind and train your level 60 spells. This is the end of the leveling route: look at the reputation and dungeon guides next.

- Hearth to **Stormwind**
- Train at your trainer (Warrior, Paladin, Hunter, Rogue, Priest, Mage, Warlock, Druid only)

### 56. Shaman training (Shaman only)

Stormwind has no shaman trainer: take the Deeprun Tram from the Dwarven District to Ironforge and train your level 60 spells with Eldrun Stormbreaker.

- Train at your trainer


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