WoW Forever Alliance leveling guide 20-30
Twenty to thirty, friend. The Wetlands got a whole new business district, Dalaran is open again, and new boats save you hours of walking. Hours are gold. Follow Nix.
- Levels
- 20-30
- Zones
- Duskwood · Wetlands · Ashenvale · Stonetalon · Hillsbrad Foothills
- Flight paths
- Darkshire · Menethil Harbor · Astranaar · Stonetalon Peak · Southshore
- Dungeons
- Excavation Site · City of Dalaran · Stockade · Blackfathom Deeps
Before you go
A new three-stop boat links Menethil Harbor, Southshore and Auberdine. No more long walk from the Wetlands to Hillsbrad.
Many new quests here have a quest level of 30 to 34. Pick them up, keep them, and finish them near 30.
Two new dungeons in this bracket: the Excavation Site in the Wetlands and the City of Dalaran in Alterac. Collect their quests before you go in.
Riding opens at 40: 100 gold of training plus 20 gold for the mount. Start saving now, friend. Riding and mounts guide →
Not done the Cozy Sleeping Bag yet? Its last steps are quest level 32: this is the bracket to finish it.
Step by step
Every line comes from one source unless marked: places and quests are checked, the order is our proposal.
The route on the map
Stormwind City
Step 1 — Stormwind: errands for the road (level 20-22)
Three letters in Stormwind, friend, for three zones you're about to visit. Carry them now and every trip pays twice.
Highlord Bolvar Fordragon · 78, 18 → A Friend of the Family (ends with Captain Stoutfist in Menethil; Knight's Lance or Royal Dagger)
Orphan Matron Nightingale · 47.2, 38.4 → Remember That I Love You (Duskwood; reward: Tarnished Locket)
Lord Grayson Shadowbreaker · 37.2, 33 → The Shamed Lieutenant (leads to Hillsbrad; quest level 30)
Letters weigh nothing, friend. Rewards weigh a lot more.
Duskwoodlevels 18-30
Step 2 — Darkshire (level 20-24)
Darkshire, friend. Gloomy, foggy, and full of families with very old grudges. Grudges are good business.
Felicia Maline · 77.4, 44.4 (the only flight path in Duskwood)
Innkeeper Trelayne · 73.8, 44.4
Sirra Von'Indi · 72.6, 47.6 → The Valor Family (two versions, level 22 and 27; reward: Memories of Valor)
Duskwood stays dark all day. Your bags don't have to stay empty.
Step 3 — Raven Hill, at night (level 20-30)
A little secret, friend: come back after dark, around 20:00 game time, and a dead guard on the west side has one last job. Free torch. Nix loves free.
Dead Night Watch Guard · 17, 54.8 → An Unfortunate End (night only; reward: Night Watchman's Torch, a cosmetic light)
It doesn't help you level. It does look expensive. Same thing, friend.
Wetlandslevels 20-30
Step 4 — Menethil Harbor (level 22-26)
Menethil Harbor, friend! Over twenty-five new jobs in this zone, and half the town is hiring. Take everything at the docks before you set foot in the mud.
Shellei Brondir · 9.4, 59.6 (links Ironforge, Thelsamar and Refuge Pointe)
Innkeeper Helbrek · 10.6, 60.8
Captain Stoutfist · 9.8, 57.4 → A Friend of the Family
Captain Stoutfist · 9.8, 57.4 → From the Ashes, This Land Was Their Land (from 22-23)
Valstag Ironjaw · 10, 56.8 → Spoils of War
Caitlin Grassman · 11.8, 58.6 → Alchemical Hazards (reward: Strong Anti-Venom)
Karl Boran · 8.4, 58.6 → Return the Statuette
James Halloran · 8.6, 55.6 → Crocs of the Sky, Highland Hides, Crimson Crate Delivery (from 19-24)
Sylessa Duskwhisper · 8, 55.8 → Bloom of the Heavens (reward: Bouquet of Auberdine Flowers)
Class quests: ShamanHervdana Saegrund · 65.6, 76.4 → Call of Water (a step of the Water Totem chain)
Set your hearthstone with Helbrek. Menethil is the boat hub too: one stone, three destinations.
Step 5 — The highlands: Greenwarden and the Dragonmaw (level 24-28)
Into the highlands, friend. A Greenwarden with a grudge and an orc clan with a weapons stash. Weapons stashes are Nix's favourite kind of stash.
Rethiel the Greenwarden · 56.2, 40.4 → Carnage, Horrors in the Highland (Carnage: Razormaw Shorts or Carnage Trousers)
Dragonmaw Armaments · 58.8, 45.2 (an object; starts the Dragonmaw quests below)
Tattered Spellbook · 53.5, 54.5 (an object; starts the Dragonmaw quests below)
Dragonmaw quests → Death to the Dragonmaw, Forced Disarmament, Old Habits, Stopping the Cycle, Word to Ironforge (Stopping the Cycle can give the Subdued Dragon's Fang)
These are quest level 30 to 34, friend. Keep the hard ones for the end of the bracket.
Step 6 — Whelgar's Excavation and the north (level 26-30)
The prospector found something old and shiny under the mud, friend. Old and shiny is the best kind. His jobs lead into a new dungeon.
Prospector Whelgar · 38.8, 52.2 → Lost Relic Carry, Prehistoric Prism, Understanding Our Present, Gleaning Our Future, For Further Study (rewards include Prospector's Signet and Heavehammer)
Excavation Site: Wetlands (south Wetlands, north of the Dun Algaz pass; sources give 24-29 or 26-33)Sources disagree
Captive Fire Elemental · 45.7, 16.6 → Spark of Freedom (from 27)
Ashlan Stonesmirk · 50, 18.2 → Bring Back a Bang (reward: Ez-Thro Dynamite)
Corma Villard · 50, 12.6 (from 28; the Villard quests (Hearts, Accessories and Sentiments of the Lost))
Essene Villard · 51.4, 9 (same chain; reward: Essene's Hope)
Free dynamite, friend. Nix keeps a few sticks in every pocket. For emergencies.
Hillsbrad Foothillslevels 20-30
Step 7 — Southshore (level 26-30)
Southshore, friend! The new boat drops you right at the docks. Bars, brewers and a town hall with a very interesting letter about Dalaran.
Boat from Menethil Harbor or Auberdine to Southshore.
Darla Harris · 49.4, 52.2 (learn the flight path)
Innkeeper Anderson · 51, 58.8
Captain McManus · 46.4, 50.2 → Hillsbrad's Hoard
Brewmeister Bilger · 52, 58.6 → Brewer's Trade (reward: Brewer's Bracers)
Barkeep Kelly · 51.4, 58.6 → Talk of the Town (from 28)
Tom "Half-fish" Wilson · 51.2, 66.4 → A Lack of Virtue (if you started Unrequited Love in Darkshore)
Emissary Jacques · Southshore Town Hall → An Alarming Request (the City of Dalaran attunement; sources say from 24 or from 30)Sources disagree
Dalaran has no flight path, friend. Fly to Southshore and walk north. Your feet are cheaper than they look.
Alterac Mountains
Step 8 — City of Dalaran (level 28-30)
Dalaran stands again, friend, and its sewers are full of trouble. Trouble with a key, a dungeon and loot.
Archmage Modera · outside the dungeon entrance, Silverpine → Heart of Disruption (gives the Dalaran Sewers Key)
City of Dalaran (levels 28-33; entrance location still disputed)
The innkeepers inside the walls serve the Alliance, friend. Rest there before you go down.
Stormwind City
Step 9 — Level 30: the library and the class quests (level 30)
Thirty, friend! The library has a bow for anyone patient enough to read 25 books, and the shamans get a new totem. Spend an evening in town.
High Sorcerer Andromath · Stormwind City · 37.6, 81.6 → Power Overwhelming (from 24; Violet Sash or Runebound Gloves)
Shylamiir · Stormwind City · 15.2, 49.8 → A Green Sample (from 24; Vine Pruner's Cloak or Thorn Protecting Girdle)
Stormwind library · Stormwind City → Greater Friend of the Library (25 books, from 30: Truthseeker's Bow, Crest of Elucidation or Researcher's Night Light)
Stormwind Stockade (in Stormwind City; sources give 22-30 to 26-32)Sources disagree
Class quests: ShamanEldrun Stormbreaker · Ironforge · 47.4, 13.6 → Call of Air (your Air Totem)
Done with 30, friend. The world above it opens on November 4. Save your gold for the mount at 40.
The route on the map
Stormwind City
Step 1 — Stormwind: errands for the road (level 20-22)
Three letters in Stormwind, friend, for three zones you're about to visit. Carry them now and every trip pays twice.
Highlord Bolvar Fordragon · 78, 18 → A Friend of the Family (ends with Captain Stoutfist in Menethil; Knight's Lance or Royal Dagger)
Orphan Matron Nightingale · 47.2, 38.4 → Remember That I Love You (Duskwood; reward: Tarnished Locket)
Lord Grayson Shadowbreaker · 37.2, 33 → The Shamed Lieutenant (leads to Hillsbrad; quest level 30)
Letters weigh nothing, friend. Rewards weigh a lot more.
Duskwoodlevels 18-30
Step 2 — Darkshire (level 20-24)
Darkshire, friend. Gloomy, foggy, and full of families with very old grudges. Grudges are good business.
Felicia Maline · 77.4, 44.4 (the only flight path in Duskwood)
Innkeeper Trelayne · 73.8, 44.4
Sirra Von'Indi · 72.6, 47.6 → The Valor Family (two versions, level 22 and 27; reward: Memories of Valor)
Duskwood stays dark all day. Your bags don't have to stay empty.
Step 3 — Raven Hill, at night (level 20-30)
A little secret, friend: come back after dark, around 20:00 game time, and a dead guard on the west side has one last job. Free torch. Nix loves free.
Dead Night Watch Guard · 17, 54.8 → An Unfortunate End (night only; reward: Night Watchman's Torch, a cosmetic light)
It doesn't help you level. It does look expensive. Same thing, friend.
Wetlandslevels 20-30
Step 4 — Menethil Harbor (level 22-26)
Menethil Harbor, friend! Over twenty-five new jobs in this zone, and half the town is hiring. Take everything at the docks before you set foot in the mud.
Shellei Brondir · 9.4, 59.6 (links Ironforge, Thelsamar and Refuge Pointe)
Innkeeper Helbrek · 10.6, 60.8
Captain Stoutfist · 9.8, 57.4 → A Friend of the Family
Captain Stoutfist · 9.8, 57.4 → From the Ashes, This Land Was Their Land (from 22-23)
Valstag Ironjaw · 10, 56.8 → Spoils of War
Caitlin Grassman · 11.8, 58.6 → Alchemical Hazards (reward: Strong Anti-Venom)
Karl Boran · 8.4, 58.6 → Return the Statuette
James Halloran · 8.6, 55.6 → Crocs of the Sky, Highland Hides, Crimson Crate Delivery (from 19-24)
Sylessa Duskwhisper · 8, 55.8 → Bloom of the Heavens (reward: Bouquet of Auberdine Flowers)
Class quests: ShamanHervdana Saegrund · 65.6, 76.4 → Call of Water (a step of the Water Totem chain)
Set your hearthstone with Helbrek. Menethil is the boat hub too: one stone, three destinations.
Step 5 — The highlands: Greenwarden and the Dragonmaw (level 24-28)
Into the highlands, friend. A Greenwarden with a grudge and an orc clan with a weapons stash. Weapons stashes are Nix's favourite kind of stash.
Rethiel the Greenwarden · 56.2, 40.4 → Carnage, Horrors in the Highland (Carnage: Razormaw Shorts or Carnage Trousers)
Dragonmaw Armaments · 58.8, 45.2 (an object; starts the Dragonmaw quests below)
Tattered Spellbook · 53.5, 54.5 (an object; starts the Dragonmaw quests below)
Dragonmaw quests → Death to the Dragonmaw, Forced Disarmament, Old Habits, Stopping the Cycle, Word to Ironforge (Stopping the Cycle can give the Subdued Dragon's Fang)
These are quest level 30 to 34, friend. Keep the hard ones for the end of the bracket.
Step 6 — Whelgar's Excavation and the north (level 26-30)
The prospector found something old and shiny under the mud, friend. Old and shiny is the best kind. His jobs lead into a new dungeon.
Prospector Whelgar · 38.8, 52.2 → Lost Relic Carry, Prehistoric Prism, Understanding Our Present, Gleaning Our Future, For Further Study (rewards include Prospector's Signet and Heavehammer)
Excavation Site: Wetlands (south Wetlands, north of the Dun Algaz pass; sources give 24-29 or 26-33)Sources disagree
Captive Fire Elemental · 45.7, 16.6 → Spark of Freedom (from 27)
Ashlan Stonesmirk · 50, 18.2 → Bring Back a Bang (reward: Ez-Thro Dynamite)
Corma Villard · 50, 12.6 (from 28; the Villard quests (Hearts, Accessories and Sentiments of the Lost))
Essene Villard · 51.4, 9 (same chain; reward: Essene's Hope)
Free dynamite, friend. Nix keeps a few sticks in every pocket. For emergencies.
Hillsbrad Foothillslevels 20-30
Step 7 — Southshore (level 26-30)
Southshore, friend! The new boat drops you right at the docks. Bars, brewers and a town hall with a very interesting letter about Dalaran.
Boat from Menethil Harbor or Auberdine to Southshore.
Darla Harris · 49.4, 52.2 (learn the flight path)
Innkeeper Anderson · 51, 58.8
Captain McManus · 46.4, 50.2 → Hillsbrad's Hoard
Brewmeister Bilger · 52, 58.6 → Brewer's Trade (reward: Brewer's Bracers)
Barkeep Kelly · 51.4, 58.6 → Talk of the Town (from 28)
Tom "Half-fish" Wilson · 51.2, 66.4 → A Lack of Virtue (if you started Unrequited Love in Darkshore)
Emissary Jacques · Southshore Town Hall → An Alarming Request (the City of Dalaran attunement; sources say from 24 or from 30)Sources disagree
Dalaran has no flight path, friend. Fly to Southshore and walk north. Your feet are cheaper than they look.
Alterac Mountains
Step 8 — City of Dalaran (level 28-30)
Dalaran stands again, friend, and its sewers are full of trouble. Trouble with a key, a dungeon and loot.
Archmage Modera · outside the dungeon entrance, Silverpine → Heart of Disruption (gives the Dalaran Sewers Key)
City of Dalaran (levels 28-33; entrance location still disputed)
The innkeepers inside the walls serve the Alliance, friend. Rest there before you go down.
Stormwind City
Step 9 — Level 30: the library and the class quests (level 30)
Thirty, friend! The library has a bow for anyone patient enough to read 25 books, and the shamans get a new totem. Spend an evening in town.
High Sorcerer Andromath · Stormwind City · 37.6, 81.6 → Power Overwhelming (from 24; Violet Sash or Runebound Gloves)
Shylamiir · Stormwind City · 15.2, 49.8 → A Green Sample (from 24; Vine Pruner's Cloak or Thorn Protecting Girdle)
Stormwind library · Stormwind City → Greater Friend of the Library (25 books, from 30: Truthseeker's Bow, Crest of Elucidation or Researcher's Night Light)
Stormwind Stockade (in Stormwind City; sources give 22-30 to 26-32)Sources disagree
Class quests: ShamanEldrun Stormbreaker · Ironforge · 47.4, 13.6 → Call of Air (your Air Totem)
Done with 30, friend. The world above it opens on November 4. Save your gold for the mount at 40.
The route on the map
Ashenvalelevels 19-30
Step 1 — Astranaar (level 20-24)
Astranaar, friend. Quiet forest, loud orcs. The Sentinels pay to keep it quiet.
Daelyshia · 34.4, 48 (learn the flight path)
Innkeeper Kimlya · 37, 49.2
Llana · 35, 48.4 → Seeking Caitlin (from 24; the chain continues in Menethil Harbor)
Set your hearthstone with Kimlya. Ashenvale is your home for a while.
Stonetalon Mountainslevels 15-27
Step 2 — Stonetalon Peak (level 22-25)
Up the mountain, friend. A courier needs help, and couriers always know where the money goes.
Teloren · 36.4, 7.2 (learn the flight path)
Innkeeper Faralia · 35.6, 5.8
Night Elf Courier · 48.6, 39.8 → Stonetalon Supply Run (reward: Courier's Wristguards)
A Cozy Sleeping Bag step also sits in this zone. Two birds, one hippogryph.
Ashenvalelevels 19-30
Step 3 — East and south Ashenvale (level 25-30)
Back to Ashenvale, friend. A lost pendant, a vengeful druid and an orc advance to slow down. Slow orcs, fast gold.
Gleaming Crescent Pendant · 63, 71.5 → Gleaming Crescent Necklace (an object, from 25; reward: Replica Crescent Necklace)
Maseara Autumnmoon · 81, 50.2 → Vengeful Trail, Shared Fury
Shandrina · 49.4, 67 → Slowing the Orc Advance (from 27)
Blackfathom Deeps (on the Ashenvale coast; sources give 22-28 to 25-31)Sources disagree
Quest level 29 to 32 here, friend. Arrive late, leave rich.
Hillsbrad Foothillslevels 20-30
Step 4 — Southshore (level 26-30)
Southshore, friend! The new boat drops you right at the docks. Bars, brewers and a town hall with a very interesting letter about Dalaran.
Boat from Menethil Harbor or Auberdine to Southshore.
Darla Harris · 49.4, 52.2 (learn the flight path)
Innkeeper Anderson · 51, 58.8
Captain McManus · 46.4, 50.2 → Hillsbrad's Hoard
Brewmeister Bilger · 52, 58.6 → Brewer's Trade (reward: Brewer's Bracers)
Barkeep Kelly · 51.4, 58.6 → Talk of the Town (from 28)
Tom "Half-fish" Wilson · 51.2, 66.4 → A Lack of Virtue (if you started Unrequited Love in Darkshore)
Emissary Jacques · Southshore Town Hall → An Alarming Request (the City of Dalaran attunement; sources say from 24 or from 30)Sources disagree
Dalaran has no flight path, friend. Fly to Southshore and walk north. Your feet are cheaper than they look.
Alterac Mountains
Step 5 — City of Dalaran (level 28-30)
Dalaran stands again, friend, and its sewers are full of trouble. Trouble with a key, a dungeon and loot.
Archmage Modera · outside the dungeon entrance, Silverpine → Heart of Disruption (gives the Dalaran Sewers Key)
City of Dalaran (levels 28-33; entrance location still disputed)
The innkeepers inside the walls serve the Alliance, friend. Rest there before you go down.
Stormwind City
Step 6 — Level 30: the library and the class quests (level 30)
Thirty, friend! The library has a bow for anyone patient enough to read 25 books, and the shamans get a new totem. Spend an evening in town.
High Sorcerer Andromath · Stormwind City · 37.6, 81.6 → Power Overwhelming (from 24; Violet Sash or Runebound Gloves)
Shylamiir · Stormwind City · 15.2, 49.8 → A Green Sample (from 24; Vine Pruner's Cloak or Thorn Protecting Girdle)
Stormwind library · Stormwind City → Greater Friend of the Library (25 books, from 30: Truthseeker's Bow, Crest of Elucidation or Researcher's Night Light)
Stormwind Stockade (in Stormwind City; sources give 22-30 to 26-32)Sources disagree
Class quests: ShamanEldrun Stormbreaker · Ironforge · 47.4, 13.6 → Call of Air (your Air Totem)
Done with 30, friend. The world above it opens on November 4. Save your gold for the mount at 40.
FAQ
- Where should Alliance level from 20 to 30 in WoW Forever?
- Humans, Dwarves and Gnomes go through Duskwood and the reworked Wetlands, Night Elves through Ashenvale and Stonetalon. Everyone ends in Hillsbrad Foothills, reached by the new boat to Southshore.
- How do I unlock the City of Dalaran dungeon as Alliance?
- Take An Alarming Request from Emissary Jacques in Southshore Town Hall, then Heart of Disruption from Archmage Modera outside the entrance. It gives the Dalaran Sewers Key. Sources disagree on the required level (24 or 30).
- What is new in the Wetlands in WoW Forever?
- Over 25 new quests and a new outdoor dungeon, the Excavation Site, whose quests start with Prospector Whelgar (38.8, 52.2).