Quick Facts

Series

1.	Strength of Icemist
2.	Chains of the Anub'ar
3.	Return of the High Chief
4.	All Hail Roanauk!

Storyline
Dragonblight Into the Fold Blood Oath of the Horde Agmar's Hammer Victory Nears... Rifle the Bodies Prevent the Accord A Strange Device Projections and Plans The Focus on the Beach Atop the Woodlands Search Indu'le Village Let Nothing Go To Waste Slay Loguhn Spiritual Insight Elder Mana'loa Freedom for the Lingering Conversing With the Depths Through Fields of Flame The End of the Line Gaining an Audience Speak with your Ambassador Report to the Ruby Dragonshrine Heated Battle Return to the Earth Through Fields of Flame The Steward of Wyrmrest Temple Informing the Queen The Obsidian Dragonshrine No Place to Run No One to Save You The Best of Intentions Defiling the Defilers Culling the Damned Neltharion's Flame Tales of Destruction Cycle of Life The Plume of Alystros Seeds of the Lashers That Which Creates Can Also Destroy Mystery of the Infinite Mystery of the Infinite, Redux Marked for Death: High Cultist Zangus The Flesh-Bound Tome Koltira and the Language of Death In Service of Blood In Service of the Unholy In Service of Frost The Power to Destroy The Translated Tome Containing the Rot The Good Doctor... In Search of the Ruby Lilac Return to Soar Where the Wild Things Roam Strength of Icemist Chains of the Anub'ar Return of the High Chief All Hail Roanauk! The Might of the Horde Attack by Air! Blightbeasts be Damned! The Kor'kron Vanguard! Audience With The Dragon Queen Galakrond and the Scourge On Ruby Wings Return To Angrathar WANTED: The Scarlet Onslaught Blighted Last Rites Let Them Not Rise! Stealing from the Siegesmiths Need to Know The Spy in New Hearthglen No Mercy for the Captured Torture the Torturer Without a Prayer The Perfect Dissemblance The Rod of Compulsion The Denouncement A Fall From Grace The Truth Will Out Do Unto Others Nozzlerust Defense Stocking Up Shaved Ice Soft Packaging Something That Doesn't Melt Hard to Swallow Lumber Hack Harp on This! Slim Pickings Messy Business Stomping Grounds Apply This Twice A Day Worm Wrangler Really Big Worm

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Comments

Comment by sunsmoon

Part of the Horde questline for the Wrath Gate event. This quest line is very long and spans the entire length of Dragonblight. Quite honestly, I consider this one of the most important quest lines (thus far) in Wrath. A must-do for any hordeling. :)

In quite a few of these chains there are optional prequests. I will not list these, despite them being in the quest series list, because they are just that: Optional. I will list the LATEST quest available that will start the chain, or the one most likely to pick up while completing other parts of this chain.

Additionally, these quests are Horde Only. I, unfortunately, do not have an Alliance character on the Beta, so I do not have access to any alliance quests. Sorry!

Step names are purely flavor. They generalize what that part of the chain leads up to/is about.

I highly urge everyone to read the quest text. This quest line is quite possibly one of the most epic in Warcraft history and is highly worth the time. Lore lovers and haters alike should enjoy them.

Step 1: Recruiting the Taunka

1.) Into the Fold
2.) Blood Oath of the Horde
3.) Agmar's Hammer

Step 2: Destroy the Nerubians

1.) Victory Nears...
2.) From the Depths of Azjol-Nerub
3.) The Might of the Horde
4.) Attack by Air!
5.) Blightbeasts be Damned

Step 3: Annexing the Taunka

1.) Strength of Icemist
2.) Chains of the Anub'ar
3.) Return of the High Chief
4.) All Hail Roanauk!

Step 4: The Forsakens New Plague

1.) Imbeciles Abound!
2.) The Forsaken Blight and You: How Not to Die
3.) Emerald Dragon Tears
4.) Spread the Good Word
5.) The Forsaken Blight

Step 5: The Red Dragonflight

1.) The Kor'kron Vanguard!
2.) Audience With The Dragon Queen
3.) Galakrond and the Scourge
4.) On Ruby Wings

Step 6: Victory Over the Scourge?

1.) Return to Angrathar
BONUS! Wrath Gate In-Game Cinematic/Machinima outside link to view it
BONUS! Achievement: Veteran of the Wrath Gate!

Step 7: The Betrayal

1.) Darkness Stirs
2.) Herald of War
3.) A Life Without Regret
4.) The Battle for the Undercity

Experience and Reputation totals will be filled in when more information is available.

Comment by 222095

The High Chief is at 25.40. Click on the purple crystal next to him to start the event.

Comment by sepirion

Make sure he is in fact still trapped when you click the crystal. If he is still resetting from a recent event, your key will be used but a new event will not start. Drop quest and get it again to get a new key if this happens.

Comment by sup2069

Simple quest. Click purple crystal, then assist him defeating the elite who will drop down from high above into the water. Really easy.

Comment by 318840

Don't get scared when you see that the beetle is an elite and run away like I did. The High Chief does most, if not all the work. As long as you hit the beetle, you'll be able to get the fragment.

Comment by 210658

The High Chief Icemist is at
25.54. 40.83
Greetings by Creyhfus

Comment by Veranicus

On a funny sidenote, the taunka warriors that the chief revives can and will attack any nearby alliance. Just did the quest and cracked up when like 6 of the warriors killed a innocent NE Hunter that was questing in the area.

Comment by Sunreaver

Once the event starts, the revived Taunka warriors stick around for a few minutes. I also had Might of the Horde but was having trouble solo'ing it with my rogue. After I grabbed the item off the Underking, I planted my banner in the ground nearby and the Taunka helped defend it. They disappeared right before the last wave of mobs, but I was able to handle those myself.

Comment by 381467

I got the quest while someone else was doing it, i just went up to the village, found the dead bug king, and right clicked to get the fragment, quest completed with no fight at all!

Comment by Dekuscrub

For those without co-ords such as me, (bloody patch wrecking my addons) the chief is at the great big black void bit right in the center of the village. theres a purple crystal next to the dark patch to click to free the (cow)man and he will yank the bug down for a nuke fest.

Comment by 354046

This might not really need to be said because everyone has to do this quest anyway as a prequest to the Wrathgate, but just in case, this quest is AWESOME. Like many imprisoned questgivers, first you have to free this guy. Fine. Unlike most imprisoned questgivers, once he is freed he casts an area-of-effect resurrection spell rezzing all the dead Taunka on the ground, jumps more than 30 yards up to the elite Crypt Lord, knocks him down to where you were, and beats the Crypt Lord to death with his bare hands.

If you are daunted by the length of the Wrathgate quest chain, or if you have already done it on an Alliance toon, I would highly recommend that you do it at least to this point just to see this much.

Comment by 648378

Quests like this one and the one from Borean Tundra where someone gets resurrected from being a pile of bones really make me question why everyone gets so upset over someone else dying. I mean, clearly, even in lore, death is hardly permanent...

Actually, since the guy who was just a pile of bones DID get resurrected, why do we have to do things like dismember corpses and feed them to rats to prevent the enemy from doing so? Are they just not as good at bringing people back as our guys are?

Comment by sivla

Is it worth the pain going through this overly long chain quest anymore?
I'd say yes definitely, only because of the huge amount of xp you get.
This is more poignant now more than ever, since blizz increased the xp
gained from questing and reduced the xp needed to level by around
30%.

Even if like me, you have many alts and done the gate to death and it's become
insanely boring...by doing the chain quest, you should more than easily
make a good level and a half out of this...if your wearing heirlooms...I would
not be surprised if at least two levels or slightly more are achievable.

This is a fun chain quest for the first couple of times no doubting it,
but when you have done it close to 18 times..the novelty wears off
just like anything else...when you have completed the chain,
the cinematic can be watch in dalaran in the center by clicking on
the plaque.

BEAR IN MIND THAT FOR A NUMBER OF QUESTS, THERE ARE PREQUESTS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE, THEY ARE NOT OPTIONAL IF YOU WISH TO DO THIS CHAIN QUEST.

Comment by sitecow09

Im surprised not many have commented on what a supreme badass Roanauk was! He resurrects half his tribe (doing Mass Ress before it was cool), uses shaman powers to FLY UP to the Crypt Lord, picks up and hurls said Crypt Lord over the cliff, and spin-drops right onto its head like a BOSS!

Comment by 1440987

Return of the High Chief http://youtu.be/dTV1htL_eRI

Comment by WoWGnGP

I made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnAO3DnTr3M

Links

Return of the High Chief

Free High Chief Icemist using the Anub'ar Prison Key and assist him in defeating Under-king Anub'et'kan.

Recover a Fragment of Anub'et'kan's Husk and return it to Overlord Agmar at Agmar's Hammer in the Dragonblight.

	Fragment of Anub'et'kan's Husk (1)

Provided item:

	Anub'ar Prison Key (1)

Description

<Banthok hands you the prison key.>

You must hurry, <name>. Take the key and use it to unchain my father from the Anub'ar prison. Once he is freed, assist him in destroying the Anub'ar leader, Under-king Anub'et'kan. When the Under-king is defeated, take from his chitinous carapace a fragment as a trophy to present to the Horde at Agmar's Hammer. Let Agmar see the might of the High Chief!

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with Horde Expedition
500 reputation with The Taunka

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12069))