# Alterac Mountains & Arathi Highlands (levels 38–39) > A Polestar leveling guide for World of Warcraft: Forever, levels 38–39: 38 steps and 23 quests. Page: https://polestar.guide/guides/horde/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 > Horde 30–40 > Alterac Mountains & Arathi Highlands - Levels: 38–39 - For: Horde - Zones: Durotar, Undercity, Hillsbrad Foothills, Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands - 38 steps, 23 quests - Sets the hearth at Tarren Mill - Comes after: [Dustwallow Marsh & Desolace](https://polestar.guide/guides/horde/30-40/04-dustwallow-marsh.md) (levels 36–38) - Next: [Badlands](https://polestar.guide/guides/horde/30-40/06-badlands.md) (levels 39–40) - Last changed 2026-11-09, in Polestar 0.3.6 ## 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; a step marked with a condition applies only while it holds. ### 1. Zeppelin to Undercity - Go to **Zeppelin to Undercity** Durotar ### 2. Undercity trainers (Warrior, Paladin, Rogue, Priest, Mage, Warlock only) Train while you are in the Undercity: the trainers stand in the War Quarter, the Rogues' Quarter and the Magic Quarter (Paladins: Garen Largo). - Train at your trainer ### 3. Fly to Tarren Mill - Go to **Undercity flight master** Undercity - Fly to **Tarren Mill** ### 4. Tarren Mill - Accept **Gol'dir** from Krusk — Krusk, inside the inn - Accept **WANTED: Baron Vardus** from WANTED — The WANTED poster by the inn - Set your home to **Tarren Mill** at Innkeeper Shay ### 5. Alterac Mountains - Go to **Gol'dir** Alterac Mountains ### 6. Gol'dir Head north past Valik's camp to Strahnbrad, the Syndicate-held village (35–37). Jailor Borhuin carries the Rusted Iron Key; Gol'dir sits in a cage in the house on the north side. Careful: Stealthed Syndicate spies roam Strahnbrad, and the buildings hold many Syndicate mobs, mages among them. - Kill **Jailor Borhuin** for **Rusted Iron Key** for Gol'dir — Inside - Complete **Gol'dir** — Find where Gol'dir is held, on the top floor - Turn in **Gol'dir** at Gol'dir — Gol'dir, on the top floor - Accept **Blackmoore's Legacy** from Gol'dir ### 7. Hillsbrad Foothills - Go to **Tarren Mill** Hillsbrad Foothills ### 8. Tarren Mill Krusk waits inside the inn at Tarren Mill, back south down the road. - Turn in **Blackmoore's Legacy** at Krusk — Krusk, inside - Accept **Lord Aliden Perenolde** from Krusk ### 9. Baron Vardus Baron Vardus (40) carries the head. He turns up in one spot at a time: the cellar of Strahnbrad's inn, or one of the Syndicate tent camps in the uplands north and north-west of the village, which lie on your way to the Perenolde manor. If you already met him while freeing Gol'dir, this step is done. - Kill **Baron Vardus** for **Head of Baron Vardus** for WANTED: Baron Vardus ### 10. Alterac Mountains - Go to **Perenolde manor** Alterac Mountains ### 11. Lord Aliden Perenolde Head north-west through the mountains to the Perenolde manor on the northern shore of Lordamere Lake. Lord Aliden Perenolde (41) waits in a room upstairs: he shields himself, puts you to sleep and heals below half health. Elysa stands beside him. - Kill **Lord Aliden Perenolde** for Lord Aliden Perenolde - Turn in **Lord Aliden Perenolde** at Elysa - Accept **Taretha's Gift** from Elysa ### 12. Old Dalaran Ruins: kill these as you meet them South along the lake shore to the ruins around the Dalaran crater. The Dalaran Summoners lead Elemental Slaves; the bracers drop from the slaves. - Kill **Elemental Slave** ×8 for Dalaran Patrols - Kill **Elemental Slave** for **Bracers of Earth Binding** ×4 for Bracers of Binding - Kill **Dalaran Summoner** ×6 for Dalaran Patrols ### 13. Hillsbrad Foothills - Go to **Tarren Mill** Hillsbrad Foothills ### 14. Tarren Mill Head back east to Tarren Mill. - Turn in **Bracers of Binding** at Keeper Bel'varil — Keeper Bel'varil, inside - Turn in **Dalaran Patrols** at Magus Wordeen Voidglare — Magus Wordeen Voidglare, inside - The magus offers a dungeon errand next: leave it. - Turn in **Taretha's Gift** at Krusk — Krusk, inside the inn - Turn in **WANTED: Baron Vardus** at High Executor Darthalia ### 15. Thoradin's Wall Where: 32.6, 40.4 on the Arathi Highlands map. - Go to **The road east through Thoradin's Wall** Arathi Highlands ### 16. Northfold Manor Where: 31.8, 33 on the Arathi Highlands map. Head east out of Tarren Mill through Thoradin's Wall. The Syndicate hold the walled manor and its farm north of the road; their Highwaymen, Mercenaries and Pathstalkers carry the Bloodstone Amulets. Careful: Highwaymen (level 30–31) can be in Sneak, so they may be hidden when you approach. - Collect **Bloodstone Amulet** ×10 for Foul Magics ### 17. The Shards of Myzrael Where: 62.5, 33.7 on the Arathi Highlands map. Follow the road east. The violet shards glow just off the road a short way west of Hammerfall. - Turn in **Crystal in the Mountains** at Shards of Myzrael (optional) - Accept **The Princess Trapped** from Shards of Myzrael ### 18. Hammerfall Where: 73.8, 34 on the Arathi Highlands map. - Turn in **Trollbane** at Zengu - Accept **Call to Arms** from Drum Fel - Turn in **Foul Magics** at Tor'gan - Accept **Guile of the Raptor** from Tor'gan - Accept **Ward Restocking** from Doctor Gregory Victor — Doctor Gregory Victor, at the south gate ### 19. Stromgarde quests for a group (If you do Sigil of Strom with a group) Where: 73.8, 34 on the Arathi Highlands map. Zengu's Sigil of Strom drops from the elite Syndicate (35–38) in Stromgarde's ruins, the west of the highlands. Great XP if you have a group for it: the route passes Stromgarde on its way to the inner circle. - Accept **Sigil of Strom** from Zengu ### 20. Foul Magics with a group (If you do Foul Magics with a group) Where: 74.7, 36.3 on the Arathi Highlands map. Tor'gan's next Foul Magics is Marez Cowl, a level 40 elite warlock in Stromgarde's Syndicate quarter. - Accept **Foul Magics** from Tor'gan ### 21. Drywhisker Gorge Where: 77.5, 35.6 on the Arathi Highlands map. North-east of Hammerfall the Drywhisker kobolds mine the gorge; the Kobolds at the mouth and the Diggers and Surveyors deeper in all drop the Motes of Myzrael. Careful: Every kobold type runs off for help when low on health (Kobolds at 30%, Surveyors and Diggers at 15%), which can pull more of them. - Kill **Drywhisker Kobold** or **Drywhisker Surveyor** for **Mote of Myzrael** ×12 for The Princess Trapped ### 22. Iridescent Shards Where: 84.3, 31 on the Arathi Highlands map. The Iridescent Shards lie at the far end of the gorge. - Turn in **The Princess Trapped** at Iridescent Shards — Below ground - Accept **Stones of Binding** from Iridescent Shards ### 23. The Stone of East Binding Where: 66.7, 29.7 on the Arathi Highlands map. Each Circle of Binding is a ring of standing stones; the key sits on the stone at its heart. The eastern circle is on the hills north-west of Hammerfall. Careful: Each center stone is guarded by around three elementals near level 39 that attack together if you click the stone without clearing them: Burning Exiles at West, Thundering Exiles at Outer, Cresting Exiles at East. - Collect **Cresting Key** from **Stone of East Binding** for Stones of Binding ### 24. Boulderfist Hall Where: 55.2, 72.7 on the Arathi Highlands map. The Boulderfist Brutes camp outside the ogres' hall, far south-west of Hammerfall; the Magus stand among them. Pull them one at a time. - Kill **Boulderfist Brute** ×10 for Call to Arms - Kill **Boulderfist Magus** ×4 for Call to Arms ### 25. Fleshstalker raptors Where: 53.1, 68.8 on the Arathi Highlands map. Highland Fleshstalkers (36–37) hunt the southern highlands, a pack north of Boulderfist Hall and another on the plain to its west. Pull them one at a time. - Kill **Highland Fleshstalker** for **Raptor Heart** ×12 for Guile of the Raptor ### 26. Go'shek Farm Where: 60.1, 59.3 on the Arathi Highlands map. Apothecary Jorell's lab shack stands at Go'shek Farm, north-east of the raptors' plain on the way back to Hammerfall; the case of Packaged Tonics is inside. - Collect **Packaged Tonics** for Ward Restocking ### 27. Back to Hammerfall Where: 73.4, 36.9 on the Arathi Highlands map. Back north-east to Hammerfall. - Turn in **Ward Restocking** at Doctor Gregory Victor — Doctor Gregory Victor, at the south gate - Turn in **Guile of the Raptor** at Tor'gan - Accept **Guile of the Raptor** from Tor'gan - Turn in **Call to Arms** at Drum Fel - Turn in **Guile of the Raptor** at Gor'mul — Gor'mul, by the gate - Accept **Guile of the Raptor** from Gor'mul - Turn in **Guile of the Raptor** at Tor'gan - Sell and repair at a vendor ### 28. Boulderfist quests for a group (If you do Call to Arms with a group) Where: 74.2, 33.9 on the Arathi Highlands map. Drum Fel's next Call to Arms and Korin Fel's The Real Threat are the elite ogres (38–40) in Stromgarde's ogre quarter, on the same group trip as the Sigil. - Accept **Call to Arms** from Drum Fel - Accept **The Real Threat** from Korin Fel — Korin Fel, beside him ### 29. The Stone of Outer Binding Where: 52, 50.7 on the Arathi Highlands map. Head west; the outer circle stands in the middle of the highlands. - Collect **Thundering Key** from **Stone of Outer Binding** for Stones of Binding ### 30. Circle of West Binding Where: 25.5, 30.1 on the Arathi Highlands map. The western circle is near Thoradin's Wall, north-west of the outer one. - Collect **Burning Key** from **Stone of West Binding** for Stones of Binding ### 31. The Stone of Inner Binding Where: 36.2, 57.4 on the Arathi Highlands map. The inner circle lies south of the western circle, east of Stromgarde. - Turn in **Stones of Binding** at Stone of Inner Binding - The stone's next task needs Fozruk, a level 42 elite who roams west of Hammerfall: leave it. ### 32. Stromgarde (While Sigil of Strom or Foul Magics or Call to Arms or The Real Threat is in your quest log) Where: 27.3, 63.8 on the Arathi Highlands map. West of the inner circle, Stromgarde's ruins: the Syndicate hold the east half (the Sigil drops from their Conjurors, Prowlers and Magi; Marez Cowl is among them), the Boulderfist the west half by the Tower of Arathor (Or'Kalar waits in one of the roofless houses beside it). - Collect **Sigil of Strom** for Sigil of Strom - Kill **Marez Cowl** (elite) for **Befouled Bloodstone Orb** for Foul Magics - Kill **Boulderfist Shaman** ×15 for Call to Arms - Kill **Boulderfist Lord** ×10 for Call to Arms - Kill **Or'Kalar** (elite) for **Or'Kalar's Head** for The Real Threat ### 33. Faldir's Cove Where: 31.8, 82.7 on the Arathi Highlands map. Head south to the goblins' cove on the southern coast. Lolo the Lookout keeps watch on the cliff 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 ### 34. Professor Phizzlethorpe Where: 33.9, 80.6 on the Arathi Highlands map. Escort the professor up the hill to the cave above the cove and guard him while he works. Two level 40 water elementals ambush him there, and they are immune to frost. Hold them at the cave mouth, away from him: if the fight happens inside the cave, he joins in instead of working and more elementals keep coming. - Go to **33.9, 80.6** Arathi Highlands - Complete **Sunken Treasure** ### 35. 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 ### 36. The Drowned Reef: kill these as you meet them Where: 25.4, 85.2 on the Arathi Highlands map. West of the cove the Daggerspine Raiders and Sorceresses (38–40) hold the shore: pull them one at a time. The two wrecks lie in the shallows off it, the charts and logs inside them; the gems lie on the sea floor around the wrecks. - Kill **Daggerspine Raider** ×10 for Drowned Sorrows — Underwater - Collect **Elven Gem** from **Calcified Elven Gem** ×10 for Sunken Treasure — Underwater - Kill **Daggerspine Sorceress** ×3 for Drowned Sorrows — Underwater - Collect **Maiden's Folly Log** for Deep Sea Salvage — Underwater - Collect **Maiden's Folly Charts** for Deep Sea Salvage — Underwater - Collect **Spirit of Silverpine Log** for Deep Sea Salvage — Underwater - Collect **Spirit of Silverpine Charts** for Deep Sea Salvage — Underwater ### 37. Faldir's Cove Where: 32.8, 81.5 on the Arathi Highlands map. - Turn in **Deep Sea Salvage** at First Mate Nilzlix - Turn in **Drowned Sorrows** at Captain Steelgut - Turn in **Sunken Treasure** at Doctor Draxlegauge - Accept **Sunken Treasure** from Doctor Draxlegauge - Turn in **Sunken Treasure** at Shakes O'Breen - Accept **Sunken Treasure** from Shakes O'Breen — for Fleet Master Seahorn in Booty Bay, around level 41 - The next guide crosses the Thandol Span into the Wetlands and heads for the Badlands. ### 38. Back to Hammerfall (While Sigil of Strom or Foul Magics or Call to Arms or The Real Threat is in your quest log) Where: 73.8, 34 on the Arathi Highlands map. Only if you ran Stromgarde with a group: back to Hammerfall for its hand-ins, then on to the Thandol Span. - Turn in **Sigil of Strom** at Zengu - Turn in **Foul Magics** at Tor'gan - Turn in **Call to Arms** at Drum Fel - Turn in **The Real Threat** at Korin Fel --- Index for language models: https://polestar.guide/llms.txt