# Darkshore (levels 12–14) > A Polestar leveling guide for World of Warcraft: Forever, levels 12–14: 38 steps and 22 quests. Page: https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/nightelf/02-darkshore 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 1–30 > Darkshore - Levels: 12–14 - For: Alliance, Night Elf - Zones: Darkshore, Stormwind City, Elwynn Forest - 38 steps, 22 quests - Sets the hearth at Auberdine - Flight paths: Stormwind (Night Elf only) - Comes after: [Teldrassil](https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/nightelf/01-teldrassil.md) (levels 1–12) - Next: [Westfall](https://polestar.guide/guides/alliance/02-westfall.md) (levels 11–15) - Last changed 2026-11-02, in Polestar 0.3.0 ## 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; a step marked with a condition applies only while it holds. ### 1. Auberdine (Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Skyborne only) Where: 36.6, 45.6 on the Darkshore map. The boat docks west of the village. The flight master stands on the hill south of the inn; the quest givers are spread along the main street. - Accept **Washed Ashore** from Gwennyth Bly'Leggonde - Accept **WANTED: Jai'vhanel** from WANTED: Murkdeep! — The WANTED poster outside the inn ### 2. The beach (Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Skyborne only) Where: 36.4, 50.9 on the Darkshore map. Tide Crawlers scuttle along the shore below the village; Buzzbox 827 stands on the beach just south of the docks. Darkshore Threshers swim in the shallows. The Beached Sea Creature lies on the shore just south of the village. - Collect **Sea Creature Bones** from **Beached Sea Creature** for Washed Ashore ### 3. Auberdine (Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Skyborne only) Where: 37.4, 40.1 on the Darkshore map. - Accept **Bashal'Aran** from Thundris Windweaver — Thundris Windweaver, north end of the village - Accept **Tools of the Highborne** from Thundris Windweaver - Accept **How Big a Threat?** from Terenthis - Accept **Plagued Lands** from Tharnariun Treetender - Accept **The Red Crystal** from Sentinel Glynda Nal'Shea ### 4. Auberdine Where: 37, 44.1 on the Darkshore map. - Set your home to **Auberdine** at Innkeeper Shaussiy - Accept **Buzzbox 827** from Wizbang Cranktoggle — Wizbang Cranktoggle, by the inn - Turn in **Washed Ashore** at Gwennyth Bly'Leggonde - Accept **Washed Ashore** from Gwennyth Bly'Leggonde - Turn in **The Family and the Fishing Pole** at Gubber Blump (optional) ### 5. The skeletal turtle Where: 31.8, 46.3 on the Darkshore map. - Collect **Sea Turtle Remains** from **Skeletal Sea Turtle** for Washed Ashore — Sea Turtle Remains, on the beach west of the docks; underwater - Turn in **Washed Ashore** at Gwennyth Bly'Leggonde ### 6. Bears and the Blackwood camp (While How Big a Threat? is in your quest log) Where: 39.9, 53.9 on the Darkshore map. Kill Rabid Thistle Bears in the hills east of Auberdine, then walk up to the furbolg camp south-east of them: nothing to kill yet. - Go to **39.9, 53.9** Darkshore - Complete **How Big a Threat?** ### 7. Ameth'Aran Where: 37.1, 62.2 on the Darkshore map. Sentinel Tysha Moonblade stands at the north edge of the ruins. Cursed, Writhing and Wailing Highborne haunt them; Anaya Dawnrunner's ghost walks among them, Jai'vhanel the owl circles east of them. The two tablets lie in the ruins; a Beached Sea Turtle lies on the shore west of them. - Accept **Beached Sea Turtle** from Beached Sea Turtle - Accept **The Fall of Ameth'Aran** from Sentinel Tysha Moonblade - Collect **Highborne Relic** ×7 for Tools of the Highborne — Highborne Relics - Kill **Jai'vhanel** for **Feather of Jai'vhanel** for WANTED: Jai'vhanel - Click **Lay of Ameth'Aran** for The Fall of Ameth'Aran — Read the Lay of Ameth'Aran - Click **Fall of Ameth'Aran** for The Fall of Ameth'Aran — Read the Fall of Ameth'Aran - Turn in **The Fall of Ameth'Aran** at Sentinel Tysha Moonblade ### 8. The red crystal Where: 47.3, 48.7 on the Darkshore map. Climb the eastern mountains east of Ameth'Aran; the Mysterious Red Crystal sits on a ledge. - Click **Mysterious Red Crystal** for The Red Crystal - Complete **The Red Crystal** ### 9. Plagued bears (While Plagued Lands is in your quest log) Where: 47.5, 33.8 on the Darkshore map. Rabid Thistle Bears roam the hills just east of Auberdine. Use Tharnariun's Hope on one and lead it back to him. - Go to **47.5, 33.8** Darkshore - Complete **Plagued Lands** — the Rabid Thistle Bears nearest Tharnariun ### 10. Bashal'Aran Where: 44.2, 36.3 on the Darkshore map. North along the hills. Asterion waits in the ruins of Bashal'Aran; Wild Grells and Vile Sprites fill them, Deth'ryll Satyrs the eastern edge. Buzzbox 411 stands by the road west of the ruins; a Beached Sea Creature lies on the shore on the way to him. - Turn in **Bashal'Aran** at Asterion - Accept **Bashal'Aran** from Asterion - Collect **Grell Earring** ×8 for Bashal'Aran — Grell Earrings - Turn in **Bashal'Aran** at Asterion - Accept **Bashal'Aran** from Asterion - Kill **Deth'ryll Satyr** for **Ancient Moonstone Seal** for Bashal'Aran — Ancient Moonstone Seal: Deth'ryll Satyrs - Turn in **Bashal'Aran** at Asterion - Accept **Bashal'Aran** from Asterion - Accept **Beached Sea Creature** from Beached Sea Creature ### 11. Hearth to Auberdine Where: 37.4, 40.1 on the Darkshore map. - Turn in **Tools of the Highborne** at Thundris Windweaver - Hearth to **Auberdine** (Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Skyborne only) - Turn in **How Big a Threat?** at Terenthis - Accept **How Big a Threat?** from Terenthis ### 12. Auberdine Where: 38.8, 43.4 on the Darkshore map. - Turn in **Plagued Lands** at Tharnariun Treetender - Turn in **The Red Crystal** at Sentinel Glynda Nal'Shea - Accept **As Water Cascades** from Sentinel Glynda Nal'Shea - Turn in **WANTED: Jai'vhanel** at Sentinel Glynda Nal'Shea - Turn in **Beached Sea Turtle** at Gwennyth Bly'Leggonde - Turn in **Beached Sea Creature** at Gwennyth Bly'Leggonde - Use **Empty Water Tube** - Collect **Moonwell Water Tube** from **Auberdine Moonwell** for As Water Cascades — Fill the tube at the moonwell in the village - Sell and repair at a vendor ### 13. Blackwood furbolgs Where: 39.3, 52.2 on the Darkshore map. Blackwood Pathfinders and Windtalkers hold the camp south-east of Auberdine. - Kill **Blackwood Pathfinder** ×8 for How Big a Threat? - Kill **Blackwood Windtalker** ×5 for How Big a Threat? ### 14. The southern beaches Where: 36, 70.9 on the Darkshore map. Follow the coast south past Ameth'Aran: one Beached Sea Creature lies on the shore west of the Grove, another further south near Remtravel's Excavation. Three more remains lie further south-west among Greymist Oracles and Tidehunters (18–20): the guide leaves them for the last loop, when you are closer to their level. - Accept **Beached Sea Creature** from Beached Sea Creature ### 15. The red crystal Where: 47.3, 48.7 on the Darkshore map. Back north-east into the mountains to the crystal. - Turn in **As Water Cascades** at Mysterious Red Crystal - Accept **The Fragments Within** from Mysterious Red Crystal ### 16. Auberdine Where: 39.4, 43.5 on the Darkshore map. - Turn in **How Big a Threat?** at Terenthis - Turn in **The Fragments Within** at Sentinel Glynda Nal'Shea - Sell and repair at a vendor - Turn in **Beached Sea Creature** at Gwennyth Bly'Leggonde ### 17. Boat to Stormwind Harbor (Night Elf only) Where: 30.8, 40.9 on the Darkshore map. - Go to **Boat to Stormwind Harbor** Darkshore ### 18. Stormwind flight master (Night Elf only) - Go to **Stormwind flight master** Stormwind City - Get the flight path at **Stormwind** from Dungar Longdrink (Night Elf only) ### 19. Woo Ping (Night Elf, Warrior only · with at least 10s and if you don't have Two-Handed Swords) While you're here: learn Two-Handed Swords from Woo Ping (Trade District, 10 silver); two-handers level a Warrior fastest. - Train at **Woo Ping** ### 20. Woo Ping (Night Elf, Rogue only · with at least 10s and if you don't have Swords) While you're here: learn Swords from Woo Ping (Trade District, 10 silver); a sword in the main hand levels a Rogue steadily. - Train at **Woo Ping** ### 21. Elwynn Forest (Night Elf only) - Go to **Elwynn Forest** Elwynn Forest ### 22. Class trainer (Warrior, Paladin, Hunter, Rogue, Priest, Mage, Warlock only) - Train at your trainer (Warrior, Paladin, Hunter, Rogue, Priest, Mage, Warlock only) ### 23. Shaman trainer (Shaman only) - Train at your trainer (Shaman only) — Teo Hammerstorm in Dun Morogh; Goldshire has no shaman trainer ### 24. Druid trainer (Druid only) - Train at your trainer (Druid only) — Alfina Nightgaze in Alterac Mountains; Goldshire has no druid trainer ### 25. Remy "Two Times" - Accept **A Fishy Peril** from Remy "Two Times" - Turn in **A Fishy Peril** at Marshal Dughan - Accept **Further Concerns** from Marshal Dughan ### 26. Hearth to Auberdine (Night Elf only) - Hearth to **Auberdine** ### 27. Darkshore (Night Elf only) Where: 42.4, 61.8 on the Darkshore map. - Go to **Darkshore** Darkshore ### 28. Ameth'Aran Where: 42.4, 61.8 on the Darkshore map. The flame burns in the south of Ameth'Aran. - Click **Ancient Flame** for Bashal'Aran ### 29. Bashal'Aran Where: 44.2, 36.3 on the Darkshore map. - Turn in **Bashal'Aran** at Asterion ### 30. Hearth to Auberdine - Hearth to **Auberdine** (Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Skyborne only) - Sell and repair at a vendor ### 31. The Grove of the Ancients Where: 43.7, 76.5 on the Darkshore map. Follow the road south. Onu is the ancient at the Grove; Arbal and Kerlonian Evershade sleep beside him. - Accept **Swelling Forces** from Arbal ### 32. Auberdine Follow the road north. - Sell and repair at a vendor ### 33. The naga Where: 58.6, 25 on the Darkshore map. Follow the coast north-east to the Ruins of Mathystra. Mathystra Relics lie among the ruins; Stormscale Myrmidons, Sorceresses and Warriors hold them, and Stormscale Beastmistresses walk the shore. - Kill **Stormscale Myrmidon** ×12 for Swelling Forces - Kill **Stormscale Sorceress** ×8 for Swelling Forces - Kill **Stormscale Warrior** ×6 for Swelling Forces ### 34. Back south Where: 43.7, 76.5 on the Darkshore map. - Hearth to **Auberdine** (Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Skyborne only) — Hearthstone on cooldown? Follow the coast road back south. - Turn in **Swelling Forces** at Arbal ### 35. Auberdine - Sell and repair at a vendor ### 36. Darkshore Where: 36.4, 45.6 on the Darkshore map. - Go to **Darkshore** Darkshore ### 37. Boat to Stormwind Harbor Where: 30.8, 40.9 on the Darkshore map. - Go to **Boat to Stormwind Harbor** Darkshore ### 38. Into Elwynn Forest - Go to **Into Elwynn Forest** Elwynn Forest --- Index for language models: https://polestar.guide/llms.txt