Quick Facts

Series

1.	Recruiting Rexxar Survival Skills
2.	Survive the Night

Storyline
Watchers in the Wild Rise, Champions Champion: Loren Stormhoof A Strong Right Hand Making Contact Recruiting The Troops Troops in the Field Tech It Up A Notch Scouting Reports Lending a Hand Rising Troubles Assassin Entrapment Urgent Summons Calling Hilaire Home Bite of the Beast Champion: Beastmaster Hilaire Homecoming Recruiting Rexxar Survival Skills Survive the Night Champion: Rexxar Recruiting More Troops Signaling Trouble Unseen Protection Aiding Our Allies Highmountain Hunters Baron and the Huntsman Awakening the Senses Champion: Huntsman Blake Ready to Work Missing Mages The Scent of Magic Assisting the Archmage Knowing Our Enemy Leyworm Lure To Tame the Beast The Nature of the Beast Requesting Reinforcements Informing Our Allies Leading by Example The Missing Vessel Required Reagents Darkheart Thicket: Nightmare Oak Ore Under the Sea Azure Weaponry Meeting in Moonclaw Vale Delicate Enchantments Same Day Delivery In Defense of Dalaran Champion: Halduron Brightwing A Hero's Weapon Devastating Effects Soothing Wounds The Nighthuntress Beckons Taking Control Felbound Beasts Ready to Strike Salvation Unnatural Consequences Secured Surroundings Champion: Nighthuntress Syrenne

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Comments

Comment by Rekka

The previous quest taught you how to collect wood and cook raw meat. So collect 1 wood, and 1-2 meat. Cook it, eat the meat from your inventory before you starve and collect 2 more meat, and that should be plenty to survive the night if you just wait and eat food when the bar drops to about half.

Comment by DarkSkyfire

This is easy to mess up...at least in the beta. If there are too many people in the area you may have to ride further out to find your wood and meat. If you do, you can also eat mountain berries for a few extra seconds on the timer. They are typically near trees or the rocks. Be sure not to click on the meat in your bag, but on the fire itself. Clicking on the meat will make you consume it raw.

Comment by Earthproxy

Before I join your order, I need to see how many steaks you can eat in three minutes.

Comment by Lolstorm

Eating a Hearty Steak will give you 50% of your hunger bar. You only need 3 to be able to survive the night.

Comment by NessieMo

At level 103 two Champion questlines are available:

1. Recruiting Rexxar, Survival Skills & Survive the Night, which give Champion: Rexxar that grants the Champion follower Rexxar.

2. Calling Hilaire Home and Bite of the Beast, which gives Champion: Beastmaster Hilaire that grants the Champion follower Beastmaster Hilaire.

To unlock these, you'll first need to complete a seemingly unrelated short quest chain in Val'sharah, offered by Emmarel Shadewarden at Trueshot Lodge at 41.7 59.99 who gives you the breadcrumb: Lending a Hand. Turn this in to Hudson Crawford and do Rising Troubles and Assassin Entrapment. At this point, Snowfeather should appear beside Hudson Crawford and offer you Urgent Summons.

Note that Snowfeather didn't appear for me until I'd obtained all three artefact weapons.

Rexxar is in Highmountain at Cliff's Edge, which is 200 yards NW of The Witchwood flight point at 36.73 35.39. For those without coordinates, that's on the first E of Edge on the map. Hints: You only need one piece of wood per quest to light the fire, berries aren't necessary, you only need three pieces of cooked meat to survive "overnight", but I collected another one just in case.

Beastmaster Hilaire is Stormheim, just North of Weeping Bluffs, about 300 yards North of the nearest flight path at Skyfire Triage Camp. Hint: Deliver Zoarg's Head to Archmage Landon, as Beastmaster Hilaire really doesn't want it!

Coordinates for TomTom / Paste users are:

/way Val'sharah 41.7 59.99 Hudson Crawford quests unlock level 203 Champions
/way Highmountain 36.73 35.39 Rexxar
/way Highmountain 36.66 36.49 Dying tree only need one
/way Stormheim 34.7 41.6 Beastmaster Hilaire
/way Stormheim 38.18 37.63 Bite of the Beast - Felscale Cavern for Zoarg's Head
/way Stormheim 30.26 40.56 Bite of the Beast - Give Zoarg's Head to Archmage Landon
/way Stormheim 34.7 41.6 Hand in Bite of the Beast to Beastmaster Hilaire
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Comment by Clinh

This thing is totally bugged for my Hunter. The preceding quest worked fine but now I can't see any trees at all, I don't have any wood and can't get any. I've re-logged, abandoned and re-taken the quest, logged out overnight, turned off my addons, nothing seems to make it work and I've no idea what to do.

Comment by Rangefear

Dark nights and carrying a torch for light. Looks like Blizz goes to /r/WoWnostalgia...

Comment by Reddervish

The mechanics are exactly like the preceeding quest. Get wood from a greyish tree. 1 tree should do. Kill 2 pigs quickly. clicking on them with mouse to begin combat doesn't work, use tab and action key menu. run back to Rexxar's firepit. click on the pit, a fire starts with 1 wood. click the fire and a steak cooks and you eat it. cook a 2nd steak & eat it. quest is now pretty much over. You can scout out the greyish trees that can be cut for firewood before taking this quest so you can run straight for them. No problems finding pigs to kill. If others are doing the quest at the same time, it may be difficult finding wood. So scout out where all the greyish trees are ahead of taking the quest.

Comment by Dilph

This was bugged out when I tried it done it a few times cannot complete

Comment by JustBecause

This took me several tries before I realized that when you cook the meat it goes into your inventory and you have to eat it out of your inventory. To me it appeared as if the meat was cooking when I clicked on the fire and that I was eating it at the same time. So after dying many times I finally realized that you gather it, cook it, go to your inventory and eat it. Seems simple enough but the quest was unclear and most of the comments on WOWhead just say "eat it" which was also unclear. Hopefully this helps someone else out!

Comment by Saxbeck

I had a very long run in and dying on the way s I did not start from100 in Highmountain - As level 106 I still have not started Highmountain but a quick jump from trueshot Lodge down on the path below at Sylvan Falls ( Remember your Goblin Glider or Kit ) then I could run all the way up there taking fligth masters I passed on the way including the fligtmaster near his camp.

It took a jump out of high clifss or maybe two but I got there.

Finding the woods as mentioned in other comments is not easy when other players here - Still had not completed it whn typing this

Comment by Leadspitter

This quest reminded me a game called 'Don't Starve'

Comment by bazzyl

It is simple.

1. Get 1 piece of wood.
2. Kill 3 pigs, get meat.
3. Go back to Rexxar.
4. Start a fire.
5. Cook meat.
6. Eat cooked meat from inventory (it gives +50% to your hunger meeter).
7. Voila - https://youtu.be/uva1oM7dAhA?t=351

Comment by ccmccoy

While many of the other comments were very useful, I initially missed a few key items concerning the quest mechanics.

You are to survive for a time by killing pigs, looting meat, cooking and then eating the cooked meat in order to refill the red "health" meter that is ticking down when the quest is started. The fire in the pit near the starting point is lit by having wood from one of the gray trees in inventory and clicking on the pit. Clicking on the fire with a raw pig meat in inventory will change it to cooked meat, and clicking on the cooked meat in inventory will "eat" it and refill the red health meter. The central idea is to use cooked pig meat as many times as necessary to keep the red meter from emptying totally before the overall quest timer completes.

The best strategy I found was to first collect wood from a tree and kill and loot a single pig, then return to light the fire and cook and eat the one meat to refill the red meter. This will give time to find and kill another pig and return to the fire to cook and eat this meat, again refilling the meter. Repeat the kill/cook/eat sequence as often as necessary to prevent the red meter from running out before the quest completes. Completion for me took three cycles. Very easy when the quest mechanics are understood. Very frustrating when they are not.

Comment by Boxofbeer

You have to be 103+ level to get this quest chain. Speak with Emmarel Shadewarden in Trueshot Lodge to start.

You need 1 chunk of tree and 3 meat steaks, enough for this quest
Survive the Night — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17ia2m1tOy0

Series:

1Recruiting Rexxar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF8a_r2kdsM
Survival Skills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiYr2oRCFa8
2Survive the Night
Champion: Rexxar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnhgYLe9n64

Comment by allOf

Survive the Night https://youtu.be/i78mrFeW7Kc

Comment by kaze950

Anyone else wish nights always looked like this?

Comment by laura18streeter

helps to know that if you eat ONE cooked meat your bar goes back up! Then go get more

Comment by PepsiJedi

Important note:

As others have pointed out, you need to collect one wood and 3 pigs worth of meat.
You have to cook the meat and eat the meat.

What's not readily apprent, is that 'clicking' on the meat in your bags doesn't cook it. It makes you eat the raw meat, even if you're standing beside the fire. it seems like you're cooking it but you're not.

You have to get he wood. Kill one or two pigs and return to Rexar. use the fire pit to make the fire.

THEN CLICK ON THE FIRE TO COOK THE MEAT

This puts a cooked meat in your bag. You eat THAT meat. Then click the FIRE again to cook another piece. Eat it, etc.

I must have killed 30 pigs and failed the quest 10 times, thinking my quest was bugged, when I wasn't actually cooking the meat I thought I was.

As indicated the mechanics of this quest and what you actually have to do, are not clear at all.

Comment by 1675285

Thought id be clever and gather wood and raw meat before talking to rexxar but... it doesnt work so dont waste your time lol. So annoying! >.<

Comment by Lafeoverde

I hate this quest! Turning up the lighting quality at least makes it so you can see the trees (totally invisible on lower settings) but still they really need to take the timer off of this quest. Are you listening, Blizz?

Comment by Brunhill

ok, i'm an idiot. I collected the wood and meat, cooked it, then accepted the quest to Survive the Night. Seemed logical at the time. Turns out that you need to collect the wood, cook and consume the meat during the Survive the Night timer. After the third time of having the supplies disappearing from my bags when the night sequence started, I watched the youtube video and had the "ah ha" moment.

Comment by sunman42

A pretty and demanding quest for anyone who doesn't eat pig. And then there's the whole bacon thing this expansion. I know a lot of people like the taste, but just the smell makes me sick. Guess it's time to join D.E.T.A.

Comment by Barleduq

... And here I wasted all my time looking for berries. They should be called Herring!

Comment by Alcanazar

I found that you could lure the piglets over near Rexxar and kill them before taking the quest. Then after starting the quest, I went and got the wood came back and looted the pigs. Then I cooked the meat and ate it as I needed it. The pigs were still there to skin after the quest was done.

Comment by Nalumis

Part of the Hunter class order hall campaign. For details and the full quest line see the comments about Hunter.

Comment by scrappdog

I found the fastest way to do this was to kill the pigs I wanted next to one of the trees. Run back edge and start quest. Mount up loot the pigs I killed, chop tree, remount and cook food. By the time I got back hunger meter was just above half.

Comment by fasafr

Funny, original, immersive.. if more quest was like that one we would miss leveling phase ! :)

Comment by ctm989

Hello, Below is the sequence of quest events for the hunter's 3rd artifact relic. As you can see below, this quest is a part of the series. This series was completed on a lvl 110 hunter with Highmountain, Stormhelm, zone questing story complete and others at ~50%. Reading through the comments for each quest can provide clarification on some of the prerequisites if you are having trouble getting the quest.

1.1.1 Lending a hand
1.1.2 Rising Troubles
1.2.1 Assassin Entrapment
2.1.1 Urgent Summons
3.1.1 Recruiting Rexxar
3.1.2 Survival Skills
3.1.3 Survive the Night
3.1.4 Champion Rexxar
3.2.1 Calling Hilaire Home
3.2.2 Bite of the Beast
3.2.3 Champion Beastmaster Hilaire
3.2.4 Homecoming
4.1.1 signaling troubles
5.1.1 Unseen protection (5Missions)
5.2.1 Aiding Our Allies (Big Gamy Ribs, Salmon or Banadges)
5.3.1 Recruiting more troops
5.4.1 Rating Razik
5.4.2 An offering of Ammo
5.4.3 Note Eating goats
5.4.4 A hunter at heart
5.4.5 Scout it out
5.4.6 Champion Hemet
5.4.7 Champion Aidie
6.1.1 Baron and the huntsmen
6.1.2 Wakening the senses
6.1.3 Champion: Huntsman Blake
7.1.1 Ready to Work
8.1.1 Missing mages
9.1.1 The scent of magic
9.1.2 Assisting the Archmage
9.1.3 knowing our enemy
9.2.1 On the Blink
9.3.1 Feasting the dragon
9.3.2 Cursed to Wither
9.3.3 Hungers End
10.1.1 Leyworm lure
10.1.2 To tame the beast
10.1.3 the nature of the beast
11.1.1 Requesting reinforcements (5Missions)
12.1.1 Informing our allies
13.1.1 Darkheart thicket: Nightmare Oak
13.2.1 The missing vessel (4Missions)
13.4.1 Under the sea
13.5.1 Collecting reagents
14.1.1 Leading by example
14.2.1 Azure Weapon
14.2.2 Meeting in moonclaw
14.2.3 Delicate enchantment
14.2.4 Same day delivery
15.1.1 In defense of Dalaran

After completing In Defense of Dalaran a quest will show up by your artifact altar to empower your weapon with a 3rd relic. Hope this answers people's questions regarding the hunter's campaign for the 3rd relic.

Note: If there are any mistakes, please highlight and comment to help it from causing any grief for future people following this as a event sequence.

Comment by skocko

Upon completion, Rexxar says, "You have a natural instinct for survival, one that will only be strengthened in troubled times like these."

I turned to leave, and accidentally stepped into the fire.

Comment by Facerockker

This has to be the least intuitive, most uninspired quest I've seen in a very long time. Not once has Blizzard tried to pass off such a high level of realism, but, yeah, I'm just too hungry I guess. Because my character who's literally been to alien planets doesn't know how to survive in the wild. /eyeroll

Comment by Vikinng

Great trick is to kill piglets in advance next to wood trees and let them be DO NOT LOOT, then tell Rexxar your ready. Might be just my screen but i could hardly see so dead pigs really helped.Also has been a long time since i had a hearty steak in wow let alone from a pig .Vikinng

Comment by Mathanias

I'll tell you where I got lost, so nobody else has to go through it. After going through the part where you chop down a tree, light a fire, cook the meat, you think you're done. But then it pops up and says Speak to Rexxar, however, his icon above his head is a white question mark and he already told you that you had to survive the night, so you assume you have the quest and you are waiting for the night to pass. Wrong. You have to speak to Rexxar again even though you have the quest and say you are ready to begin. Then the actual quest starts with the hunger bar. I stood around forever waiting on it to get dark. Finally I thought let's just try speaking to him again just in case we missed something. I had. You have to speak to Rexxar twice for the same quest.

Comment by Aqualong

To do this quest on 5/10/18. First accept the quest from Rexxar. Second reconnoiter the area noticing where dead trees are and killing some of the piglets but not all. There were a lot of them in the area and they will come attack you or your pet and it takes up time killing them. Third go back to the quest giver Rexxar and talk to him and tell him “I am ready” then it will get dark and the quest will start. Forth go out and kill piglets. I killed two then go to a dead tree and get wood by clicking a dead tree. I’m a skinner but I didn’t take the time to skin them. I am not sure why but the tree wood could not be gathered until you had meat from piglets. Fifth go back to Rexxar and click the fire pit. Sixth click the fire and the meat in your inventory will cook. Seventh click the cooked meat in your inventory. Seventh click the fire again to cook the second piece of meat. Eighth go out again and kill a piglet then the quest will complete. Ninth complete the quest with Rexxar.

Comment by ForgerRetre

IF ITS BUGGED and the meat doesnt create at your bag i got a trick for you . Dont click the meat who drop from the boars at your bag, drag the icon of the drop meat to the cooking fire and it will create the true meat

Comment by Aqualong

Comment by theAnton

Quest is simple enough, but it would be nice if there was an indicator of your hunger, telling you when you needed to eat. I just kept killing, roasting and eating until it was over, destroying nature and my health in the process.. :P

Comment by littleolive

When cooking the meat I found that I had to drag the meat over the fire, NOT click it in the bag, in order to cook it and for it to show up in the bag cooked and edible.

I loved the night effects.

Comment by entropicdragon

When you accept this quest, Rexxar offers a short monologue explaining the wilderness skills you will need:

You need to eat to survive in the wild.

Boar meat makes a hearty meal when cooked over an open flame. It should not be eaten raw, however.

There are many berries that grow in this region. Some are edible, while others cause minor sickness when ingested. You can often determine which are safe to eat by their smell. A sweet aroma indicates the berry is unsafe to eat.

Firewood can be obtained from dying trees. They are easily identified by their dry, purple leaves.

Are you ready to begin?

I am ready.

Comment by Arbron

This quest feels like the tutorial mode for something more complicated. Keeping track of one survival meter for a whopping 3 minutes? There's some wasted potential for a true minigame here.

Comment by thlayliroo

There may have been a change since Legion, and this is somewhat inconsequential nowadays, but I found that you only need 2 pigs to survive the night if you're efficient - not 3 like most comments say. Each Hearty Steak refills 50 Hunger. If you eat one when you're at 49 Hunger, and the second when you're at 49 again, you'll still have 20+ Hunger left by the time the night ends.

Comment by rhiomie

Is this quest bugged now in 10.2? The wood from the trees never becomes clickable. I've tried with addons off, picked up over 10 pieces of meat, even found 5 berries but the wood never becomes clickable on the trees with purple leaves, or anywhere for that matter.

Comment by crimsonhellgr

This quest is still bugged as of 13/11/2023 . So if you want to complete it and you can't get any wood just focus on finding all the berries. They are scattered mostly around the edges of the "quest area" and some of them are on the center. They look like some small weed so they are easily missed. Don't forget to get those that are down at the slope as well. You will need about 10 to make it through the "night"

Even if I disabled all my addons the quest was still bugged so don't bother.

Comment by raidaroth

Was trying this quest and it kept failing. Everytime I tried to mount up and go look for wood or raw meat I could see the spot for the fire vanishing... Then it hit me, this quest was made before Dragonriding! Tried the quest one more time, but this time I just went on foot and got it done. Simple like that, don't mount up. Did not try turning Skyriding off, maybe that could work too, but there absolutly no need to mount up to complete this.

Links

Survive the Night

Survive a night within Cliff's Edge according to Rexxar's rules.

	Speak to Rexxar (1)
	Survive a night in the wild (1)
	Create Fire (1)
	Hearty Steak (200)
	Mountain Berries (200)
	Raw Meat (200)

Description

Now it's time to put your skills to the test.

Your order seems to be a lot of watching and waiting without a lot of action.

Prove me wrong. Show me that I might have something in common with the Unseen Path.

If you survive a night in the wild, then I will consider joining your order.

Progress

Completion

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(42392))