# Badlands (levels 39–40) > A Polestar leveling guide for World of Warcraft: Forever, levels 39–40: 15 steps and 10 quests. Page: https://polestar.guide/guides/horde/30-40/06-badlands 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 > Badlands - Levels: 39–40 - For: Horde - Zones: Badlands - 15 steps, 10 quests - Sets the hearth at Kargath - Flight paths: Kargath - Comes after: [Alterac Mountains & Arathi Highlands](https://polestar.guide/guides/horde/30-40/05-arathi-highlands.md) (levels 38–39) - Next: [Stranglethorn Vale & Swamp of Sorrows](https://polestar.guide/guides/horde/40-50/01-stranglethorn-vale.md) (levels 39–43) - 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. Into the Badlands Where: 42.3, 52.8 on the Badlands map. Head for the Thandol Span, the great bridge at Arathi's southern edge, cross it and follow the road south through the Wetlands to the Dun Algaz tunnel into Loch Modan. Thelsamar, the dwarf town on the road in the middle of Loch Modan, has guards who attack the Horde: leave the road before it and pass the town on the hills to its west. The road leaves Loch Modan to the south into the Badlands; follow it to the goblin camp in the Valley of Fangs. - Go to **Valley of Fangs** Badlands ### 2. Valley of Fangs Where: 42.2, 52.7 on the Badlands map. - Turn in **Martek the Exiled** at Martek the Exiled — Martek the Exiled: Fizzle's letter from the Shimmering Flats - Accept **Indurium** from Martek the Exiled - Accept **Barbecued Buzzard Wings** from Rigglefuzz ### 3. The Dustbowl Where: 25.9, 44.9 on the Badlands map. Head west along the road towards Kargath; Lotwil's camp sits in the Dustbowl halfway there. - Accept **Study of the Elements: Rock** from Lotwil Veriatus ### 4. Kargath Where: 4, 44.8 on the Badlands map. Kargath is the Horde fortress built into the cliffs at the zone's western edge. Neeka Bloodscar stands on Kargath's upper level, high above the flight master: take the ramps up, the arrow cannot tell the levels apart. - Get the flight path at **Kargath** from Gorrik - Set your home to **Kargath** at Innkeeper Shul'kar - Accept **Coyote Thieves** from Neeka Bloodscar - Accept **Report to Helgrum** from Neeka Bloodscar — for Helgrum in Stonard, around level 42 - Accept **Badlands Reagent Run** from Jarkal Mossmeld — Jarkal Mossmeld, inside - Sell and repair at a vendor ### 5. Lesser Rock Elementals Where: 13.1, 39.2 on the Badlands map. The small elementals drift across the flats between Kargath and Lotwil's camp, on the road back east. Every rock elemental in the zone can drop Jarkal's Rock Elemental Shards. - Kill **Lesser Rock Elemental** for **Small Stone Shard** ×10 for Study of the Elements: Rock - Collect **Rock Elemental Shard** ×5 for Badlands Reagent Run ### 6. Lotwil Veriatus Where: 25.9, 44.9 on the Badlands map. - Turn in **Study of the Elements: Rock** at Lotwil Veriatus - Accept **Study of the Elements: Rock** from Lotwil Veriatus ### 7. Badlands: kill these as you meet them Where: 28.3, 47.6 on the Badlands map. The Elder Crag Coyotes and Giant Buzzards roam the basin south of the Dustbowl. Coyotes drop both the jawbones and the fangs; the Giant Buzzards drop the gizzards. - Kill **Crag Coyote** or **Feral Crag Coyote** for **Coyote Jawbone** ×30 for Coyote Thieves - Kill **Crag Coyote** or **Feral Crag Coyote** for **Crag Coyote Fang** ×10 for Badlands Reagent Run - Collect **Buzzard Gizzard** ×5 for Badlands Reagent Run ### 8. Rock Elementals Where: 40.4, 77.1 on the Badlands map. South-east across the basin, the bigger Rock Elementals (39) stand on the slopes west of Agmond's End; each one drops a slab. Every rock elemental can drop Jarkal's Rock Elemental Shards. - Kill **Rock Elemental** for **Large Stone Slab** ×3 for Study of the Elements: Rock - Collect **Rock Elemental Shard** ×5 for Badlands Reagent Run ### 9. Agmond's End Where: 51.4, 76.9 on the Badlands map. Theldurin sits among the dwarven ruins at Agmond's End, just east of the elementals. - Accept **Solution to Doom** from Theldurin the Lost ### 10. Stonevault troggs Where: 51.2, 71.7 on the Badlands map. The Stonevault troggs dig around the cave mouths south of the Valley of Fangs, on the way north from Agmond's End; the Bonesnappers and Shamans drop the flakes. The Buzzards for Rigglefuzz's wings circle the hills between the Valley of Fangs and Agmond's End. - Kill **Stonevault Bonesnapper** or **Stonevault Shaman** for **Indurium Flake** ×10 for Indurium - Collect **Buzzard Wing** ×4 for Barbecued Buzzard Wings ### 11. Valley of Fangs Where: 42.4, 52.9 on the Badlands map. The road north to Uldaman runs through the Valley of Fangs: Rigglefuzz and Martek take the wings and the flakes on the way. - Turn in **Barbecued Buzzard Wings** at Rigglefuzz - Turn in **Indurium** at Martek the Exiled - Accept **News for Fizzle** from Martek the Exiled — for Fizzle at the Mirage Raceway, on the way from Freewind Post to Tanaris around level 43 ### 12. Ancient Chest Where: 39.3, 18.8 on the Badlands map. Keep north on the road; the chest lies in the Uldaman dig site, at the foot of the ruins north-west of the road. - Collect **Tablet of Ryun'eh** from **Ancient Chest** for Solution to Doom — Below ground ### 13. Agmond's End Where: 51.4, 76.9 on the Badlands map. Head back south down the road, past the Valley of Fangs. - Turn in **Solution to Doom** at Theldurin the Lost - Accept **To the Undercity for Yagyin's Digest** from Theldurin the Lost ### 14. The Dustbowl Where: 25.9, 44.9 on the Badlands map. North-west across the basin to Lotwil's camp. Short of Jarkal's shards? The Lesser Rock Elementals (37) on the flats west of the camp drop them about one kill in five. - Turn in **Study of the Elements: Rock** at Lotwil Veriatus - Lotwil's next study wants bracers from the Greater Rock Elementals (42–44) in the south-western gulches, well above you: leave it. - Collect **Rock Elemental Shard** ×5 for Badlands Reagent Run ### 15. Kargath Where: 6.5, 47.2 on the Badlands map. Head west back to Kargath. Neeka Bloodscar stands on Kargath's upper level, high above the flight master: take the ramps up, the arrow cannot tell the levels apart. - Turn in **Coyote Thieves** at Neeka Bloodscar - Turn in **Badlands Reagent Run** at Jarkal Mossmeld — Jarkal Mossmeld, inside - The next guide flies from Kargath to Grom'gol. --- Index for language models: https://polestar.guide/llms.txt