Quick Facts

Storyline
Silverpine Forest The Warchief Cometh Agony Abounds Guts and Gore The Gilneas Liberation Front Iterating Upon Success Dangerous Intentions Waiting to Exsanguinate Belmont's Report The Warchief's Fleet Playing Dirty Steel Thunder Give 'em Hell! It's Only Poisonous if You Ingest It Lost in the Darkness Deeper into Darkness Orcs are in Order Rise, Forsaken No Escape Lordaeron Honor the Dead Hair of the Dog Reinforcements from Fenris The Waters Run Red... Excising the Taint Seek and Destroy Cornered and Crushed! Nowhere to Run To Forsaken Forward Command Losing Ground In Time, All Will Be Revealed The F.C.D. Korok the Colossus Break in Communications: Dreadwatch Outpost Break in Communications: Rutsak's Guard On Whose Orders? What Tomorrow Brings Fall Back! A Man Named Godfrey Resistance is Futile The Great Escape Rise, Godfrey Breaking the Barrier Unyielding Servitors Dalar Dawnweaver Relios the Relic Keeper Only One May Enter Transdimensional Warfare: Chapter I Transdimensional Warfare: Chapter II Transdimensional Warfare: Chapter III Taking the Battlefront Of No Consequence Lessons in Fear Pyrewood's Fall 7th Legion Battle Plans Sowing Discord On Her Majesty's Secret Service Cities in Dust

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Comments

Comment by 363649

This part of the quest bugged out on me. The Val'kir and undead guy that were following me around disappeared when I phased into this part. So now I can't fly back to Sylvanas, and when I run back I can't complete the quest because part of the requirement is to bring the undead buy back with you.

Can't abandon the quest and retake it because the undead guy isn't around to give me the quest.

Comment by 712283

just confirmed if u dont have Belmont and the val'kir on ur side at the beach just abandon the quest and they will appear right infront of you.

Comment by 712391

This happened to me too. I put in a ticket and got told by a gm that its a know issue and they are working on it. So I guess that means waiting for the next patch or hot fix.

Comment by Bastiene

79,75 is location, I got stuck here also and took me a while to find this guy. On the south east side looking at the map of Ruins of Gilneas on a small beach left of the island connected with a bridge.

Comment by 721139

So for some reason, I got the bright idea of hitting "Leave vehicle" whilst flying out. Word of advice... DON'T DO THAT.

Seems obvious, but there are those as stupid as I that think, "HUH? What does this do?", only to find out that it makes you take rez sickness, abandon the quest, and then makes you swim all the way around the damn peninsula thing to get back to the beach to pickup the quest again because you're too low level to get there through the elites... and if you have done this and you see where it ends, you will find out very quickly that going there on foot indeed does diddly squat.

Comment by anhsieh

Essentially the entirety of this questline consists of things you wouldn't really expect the Forsaken, pre-WotLK, to do--which I suppose is the point. Your character is constantly ordered to go do something that seems relatively safe, constantly gets trapped by Worgen, who then are fought off due to the sacrifices of your character's questgivers/other protectors. For a bunch of, well, Forsaken-- they've really got hearts.

It does get tiring to see your character getting flown around by anti-angels, though.

Comment by 830269

lmao, so, when the val'kir takes you back to Sylvannas, i jumped off the "ride" and when i went to her, i couldn't turn it in O_o

Comment by Mirielle

the quest is followed by Rise, Godfrey

Comment by Verceus

I'm surprised, and annoyed no one has mentioned the reference...

Comment by Wurmin

Interesting, that there are two quests with same name, but they are TOTALLY different from each other :/ (The Great Escape
is other one

Comment by 940955

Another excellent quest from an excellent questing zone. I do feel sad whenever one of the commanders sacrifices themselves for me though :(

Comment by Schnoodledorfer

Resistance is Futile is a prerequisite for this one, but can be missed if you don't pass through a certain area. First, follow the zone's quest chain until Fall Back! leads you to Deathstalker Commander Belmont. Pick up A Man Named Godfrey (the other prereq) from Belmont and follow the road that goes from the Emberstone Mine area past the east side of Gilneas City. Resistance is Futile will be automatically offered to you after you go down the road a little way. If you aren't offered The Great Escape because you didn't get Resistance is Futile, go back to where you started and make sure you stay on or at least close to the road.

If you loose Belmont and Arthura, try dismounting.

(EDIT: Reworded)

Comment by Goodwinn

Counts towards Silverpine Forest Quests.

Comment by 1374013

The Great Escape https://youtu.be/OKPzNBBjUAk

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=HaV6Ud8nv6w

Comment by Vaylinn

This is probably a reference to the 1963 movie with the same name, about Allied prisoners of war in the second world war in a PoW camp, which they attempts to flee from.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_(film)

Comment by ObligatedStars

Don't be an idiot like me and run to where Sylvanas is waiting. Valk was not there, so I decided to say screw it and run, and well...ended up I had to run all the way BACK to the beach, abandon quest and pick it back up for it to work.

Comment by Berrenger

Just about to turn this quest in to Sylvanas and I noticed that High Warlord Cromush has managed to duplicate himself - one copy standing to Sylvanas's right and another behind her! Clearly Garrosh doesn't believe one Cromush is enough to keep Sylvanas in check!

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The Great Escape

Escape the Ruins of Gilneas with Arthura and the corpse of Lord Godfrey.

	Escape the Ruins of Gilneas. (1)

Description

With our mission objective secured, the time has come for us to make our escape. Though Gilneas is lost, with the aid of Godfrey and his lieutenants we will have it back in no time at all.

Go now, <name>. Fly back with Arthura to the Forsaken Front in southern Silverpine Forest. The Banshee Queen awaits your arrival.

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Cloak of Secret Purpose			Godfrey's Belt
	Treads of the True Plan			Godfrey's Waistband

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

1,000 reputation with Undercity

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(27438))