The Barrens and Stonetalon Mountains!

Started at level 19
Finished at level 22

After finishing off Silverpine and getting the Ashenvale quest out the way, I headed back to The Barrens to see what else I could complete.

[16] Altered Beings
Objectives : Collect 8 Altered Snapjaw Shells
Rewards : XP!

Although the quest lists both the Lushwater and Stagnant Oases, I personally went to the Stagnat Oasis as it has a large supply of Snapjaw turtles there. I also had a really good drop rate so completed it out of about 10 turtles.

[17] The Angry Scytheclaws
Objectives : Kill Sunscale raptors and collect their feathers. Use the feathers on the 3 Scytheclaw nests.
Rewards : XP!

If you head west out of the Stagnat Oasis, you will actually come across the area for this quest. It's not far from the bridge if you were heading south out of the Crossroads, and you are looking for a small mound with bones, the nests are the colored spots on the ground. The Scytheclaws drop the feathers you need, and if you haven't completed the Raptor Horns yet, they can drop those too!

[18] Stolen Silver
Objectives : Collect the Stolen Silver
Rewards : Sellable loot plus XP!

Heading South-East from the above quest, you will see a gap in the mountains. If you run through the gap, you will see an area on your right called 'Raptor Grounds', that's where the Stolen Silver is being kept. You need to clear your way in, fighting all the way to the back of the camp, which curves around to your left. Solo-able if you are careful, you can get some double pulls.

[20] Guns of Northwatch
Objectives : Collect 10 Theramore Medals and slay Captain Fairmount, Cannoneer Whessan and Cannoneer Smythe.
Rewards : +4 Strength, +4 Spirit Cloth Legs, or a gun and XP!

This one can be a little tricky solo, but as it's just down from the Raptor Grounds, I decided to give it a shot, and I actually ended up collecting all the medal's before I even entered the compound. Once you are inside you want to make your way up the path leading to the top. The tower half way up that path is where you will find Captain Fairmount, right at the top too. The bottom section can be a bit tricky as there are four mobs there, I had three guards and a healer, but I managed to pull them in two lots of two.

After clearing those, I cleared my way to the top and all the guards around there before pulling the Captain and her healer companion. Not too hard. Once done there head back down and continue up the path to the tower you can see at the top. Again clear your way to the top of it as that is where you will find Cannoneer Smythe.

Once you are done there, you want to head to the other end of the path that tower is at, you should be able to see another tower up the other end. At the top of that tower is where you will find Cannoneer Wheesan. Once I had killed him my bags were full and I couldn't be bothered killing my way out, so I gated back to the Crossroads.

This actually worked out well as I had dinged 20 and needed to head to Orgrimmar to train. When you hand in The Angry Scytheclaws, you get the next step which sends you to Camp Taurajo... which is where we are heading next anyway. Since I was also in Orgrimmar, I decided to quickly head back to Sepulcher to see Mura Runetotem.

After seeing Mura and coming back to Orgrimmar, I did the start of my Succubus quest before heading back to the Crossroads. I decided to run down to Camp Taurajo from the Crossroads as I didn't want to loose my pet, and along the way got to do;

[20] Lost in Battle
Objectives : Find Mankrik's wife
Rewards : XP

Just after you cross a bridge, you should see a tee-pee style tent off to the right, and that is where you will find... what you need.

From there I ran to Camp Taurajo to hand in my quest and pick up any others. Once I was ready, I headed east to complete the following two together:

[20] Consumed by Hatred
Objectives : Collect 60 Bristleback Quilboar Tusks
Rewards : +3 Stamina, +3 Intellect Cloth Belt and XP!

[21] Tribes at War
Objectives : Kill 6 Bristleback Water Seekers, 12 Thornweavers and 12 Geomancers.
Rewards : XP!

It should be fairly easy to find this area, if you head straight east and a little north from Camp Taurajo you can't miss them.

Make sure you keep the bloodshards as when you return to hand in these quests, you will get another one asking for one bloodshard which will return a nice chunk of XP. From then on you can use different quantities of shards for different buffs, very handy.

After I handed those in, I flew back to the Crossroads to hand in, and then north to complete Samoplange, stopping on the way to kill a Zhevra and do Ishamuhal:

[19] Ishamuhal
Objectives : Retrieve Ishamuhale's Fang
Rewards : XP!

Pretty easy this quest, kill Zhevra's till one of them drops a fresh carcass, and then head towards Ratchet. Just before you hit it though, head north and you should be able see a short fat dead tree, that's where you place the carcass.

[19] Samophlange Manual
Objectives : Put together the Samophlange Manual
Rewards : Sellable loot plus XP!

Continuing north from Ishamuhal, I made my way to Bolder Lode Mine. When you kill your way in, the goblins will drop Manual pages, you need 5 of these along with the manual cover to complete this quest. Bozz copperplug can be found in the large room that's almost at the end of the cave area at Bolder Lode Mine.

Once I was done there, I hearthed back to The Crossroads. From the Crossroads I ran west to where The Barrens meets Stonetalon Mountain and picked up some quests there. Heading up into Stonetalon Mountains...


[18] Avenge My Village
Objectives : Kill 8 Grimtotem Ruffian and 6 Grimtotem Mercenary
Rewards : XP!

The first area you come to, Camp Aparaje is filled with the mobs you need to kill. I quickly did that and headed back to Makaba Flathoof to hand in, grabbing the next step. Heading back into Stonetalon again, I stopped off at Malaka'jin to hand in that step of the Succubus quest and pick up the other two available there. Heading out of there, just up on the right I found Grimtotem Post which is where you need for the second step Makaba gave you.

[18] Kill Grundig Darkcloud
Objectives : Kill Grundig Darkcloud and 6 Grimtotem Brutes
Rewards : XP!

The Brutes you will find as you are fighting your way in, and Grundig Darkcloud was standing outside the first main building when I approached. Easy to solo, you will find Kaya standing behind him in the house, she would like to be escorted out.

[18] Protect Kaya
Objectives : Escort Kaya Flathoof to Camp Aparaje
Rewards : XP!

A simple escort back to Camp Aparaje, although when you get there will you be ambushed by four mobs, easy to kill but watch your hitpoints if they are beating on you. Since I was already so close to the border, I returned to hand in the quests there, before venturing back into Stonetalon once again.

[19] Blood Feeders
Objectives : Kill 10 Deepmoss Creepers and 7 Deepmoss Venomspitters
Rewards : XP!

[20] Deepmoss Eggs
Objectives : Collect 15 Deepmoss Eggs
Rewards : XP!

On my way up to Sunrock Retreat, I stopped off at Sishir Canyon where I found the Creeper and Venomspitter spiders. Also here you will find the eggs you need, look for jittering lootable white egg sacks. Be careful hunting around here as there is a level 21 elite spider there, the quest for her is from the sign post just as you enter, but as I was solo I didn't complete this.

[19] Goblin Invaders
Objectives : Kill 15 Venture Co. Loggers
Rewards : XP!

[21] Ziz Fizziks
Objectives : Speak with Ziz Fizziks
Rewards : XP!

[21] Super Reaper 6000
Objectives : Retrieve the Super Reaper 6000 Blueprints
Rewards : XP!

After finishing the spiders I stopped past Windshear Crag where you will find more eggs if you didn't get enough last time, but you will also find Ziz Fizziks located in a little hut on the very west side when you enter the Crag. He will give you the Reaper quest which you can do at the same time.

You should be able to see a large bulldozer looking contraption, this is where you will find lots of Venture Co. Operators which are the ones that will drop the blueprints you need, bear in mind it might take a few kills. The Loggers for the Goblin Invaders are all around on the ground.

After I had what I need, I returned to Ziz to hand in, then onto Sunrock Retreat. I collected all the quests available to me there, but as they were starting to rise in level, I decided to instead hand in any other completed quests I had, which involved running to Ratchet, The Crossroads, Orgrimmar and Camp Taurajo. I also had a couple in Thunder Bluff so I decided to head there as well.

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