The Murkweed Elixir

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The Murkweed Elixir

Quest 3 of 8 in the Frostmourne Cavern Chain

Alliance • Dragonblight • Level 72 • Eldritch Heights

Collect 5 Murkweed from the Eldritch Heights southeast of Dawn's Reach.

Orik Trueheart at Dawn's Reach [87, 57]. Head southeast to the Eldritch Heights. Murkweed grows around the outskirts of the Bloodpaw wolvar village, dense between [90, 65] and [91, 70]. Start around [90, 69] and loop clockwise around the village perimeter. Stick to the edges to avoid pulling wolvar. Herbalists can track it with Find Herbs. If you have the WANTED: High Shaman Bloodpaw bounty from Wintergarde, do it now. He's at [91.0, 71.4] in the same area, level 72 elite, soloable with cooldowns.

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The elixir would knock Vikstone unconscious and separate his spirit from his body, allowing him to walk among the dead on the Forgotten Shore as one of them. He collected the pale stalks and tried not to think too hard about what that actually meant.

“The spirits of the damned haunt the coast. In life they were brave and noble soldiers of the Alliance, but in death they are cursed – bound to this world until the end of days. We must discover the source of their anguish if we are to free them! To the southeast, on the Eldritch Heights, you will find a rare herb known as murkweed.

It is murkweed that I will use to concoct an elixir that will allow you temporary entry into the world of the forgotten. Go now and gather the weed.”

-Orik Trueheart

Objective

LEVEL

72

Requires level

71

Start

Orik Trueheart

END

Orik Trueheart

Orik Trueheart at Dawn’s Reach in Dragonblight wants you to recover 5 Murkweed from the Eldritch Heights.

Murkweed (5)

Finding Murkweed:
Head toward the area near 90.0, 64.5 and 91.7, 70.0.
Murkweed plants are scattered around the peninsula, typically near huts or along the outskirts of the village.
Efficient Path:
Start at 90, 69 and make a clockwise loop around the peninsula.
You should collect all 5 Murkweed plants by the time you circle back to the base of the village. — *Murkweed grows around the outskirts of the Bloodpaw wolvar village, dense between [90, 65] and [91, 70]. Start around [90, 69] and loop clockwise around the village perimeter.*

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Reward

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

20,300 experience

250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

250 reputation with Argent Crusade

Walkthrough

Quest Giver: Orik Trueheart — Dawn’s Reach [87, 57], Dragonblight

Turn In: Orik Trueheart — same location

Objective: Recover 5 Murkweed from the Eldritch Heights.

Quick Facts

Faction: Alliance only
Quest Level: 72
Chain Position: Quest 3 of 8 in the Frostmourne Cavern investigation chain. Follows Orik Trueheart and the Forgotten Shore. Leads to The Forgotten Tale.

Walkthrough

Orik directs you southeast to the Eldritch Heights, a wooded cliff area in the far southeast corner of Dragonblight. The Murkweed grows scattered around the area, particularly around the outskirts of the Bloodpaw wolvar village that occupies the heights.

Head southeast from Dawn’s Reach. The area around [90, 65] to [91, 70] is dense with Murkweed nodes. A good approach is to start around [90, 69] and loop clockwise around the perimeter of the wolvar village.

You should find all 5 plants before completing the circuit.

Return to Orik at Dawn’s Reach. He immediately begins mixing the elixir: “It won’t be much longer.”

Tips

Stick to the edges of the village. The Murkweed grows around the outskirts of the Bloodpaw wolvar huts. You can collect most of it without pulling wolvar if you stay on the perimeter. The wolvar are hostile but non-elite and manageable at quest level if you do aggro one.
Herbalists can track it. If you have the Herbalism profession, Find Herbs will display Murkweed on your minimap, making this quest trivially fast. Even without Herbalism, the plants are easy to spot visually.
Combo with WANTED: High Shaman Bloodpaw. If you picked up the WANTED: High Shaman Bloodpaw bounty quest from the board at Wintergarde Keep, this is the time to do it. High Shaman Bloodpaw is a level 72 elite wolvar located at [91.0, 71.4] in the same Eldritch Heights area. He casts Bloodlust, Chain Lightning, Frost Shock, and Lightning Bolt. He’s soloable for most classes at level but hits hard; be ready with cooldowns or interrupts.

Lore & Story Context

Orik explains the purpose of the murkweed clearly: “The spirits of the damned haunt the coast. In life they were brave and noble soldiers of the Alliance, but in death they are cursed, bound to this world until the end of days. We must discover the source of their anguish if we are to free them!”

The murkweed elixir is powerful enough to knock you unconscious and temporarily separate your spirit from your body, allowing you to enter “the world of the forgotten” and interact with the ghosts of the Forgotten Shore.

This is a key mechanic: the ghosts on the Forgotten Shore are hostile to the living. You can’t simply walk down and talk to them. The elixir effectively lets you fake your own death so convincingly that even your spirit is fooled, allowing you to walk among the dead as one of them.

The Eldritch Heights itself is an interesting pocket of Dragonblight. It’s home to the Bloodpaw wolvar tribe, a small hostile group that displaced a gnome named Drolfy and his cousins from the area.

The murkweed growing here is described as a “rare herb,” and its proximity to both the Forgotten Shore and the overall death-saturated landscape of southeastern Dragonblight (Naxxramas hovers directly above) suggests it may thrive in places touched by necrotic energy.

Explore Dragonblight’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Dragonblight Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Visionary’s Robes

Guiding Gloves of the Seer

Foresight’s Anticipation

Vigilant Skullcap

You will also receive (if completed at level 90):

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

20,300 experience

250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

Vikstone's War Journal

Another mystic brew to pierce the veil between worlds. First Thoralius with his spirit-seeing incense in Howling Fjord, now Trueheart with herb-gathering errands in Dragonblight. The methods differ, but the pattern holds: see the dead, speak to the dead, learn what binds them.

Vikstone Portrait Act 1 — Illustrated by Christian DiBari and Simon Gough.

“The spirits of the damned haunt the coast,” Orik said. “In life they were brave and noble soldiers of the Alliance. In death they are cursed, bound to this world until the end of days. We must discover the source of their anguish if we are to free them.”

I wondered if they remained so noble after centuries of torment.

The murkweed grew on Eldritch Heights, southeast of camp. I climbed through snow and scrub grass, collected the pale stalks where they clustered near old stones, and tried not to think too hard about what “temporary entry into the world of the forgotten” actually meant for the one drinking the elixir.

Five bundles of weed, enough to brew passage into a realm of damned souls.

“It won’t be much longer,” Orik promised when I returned.

I believed him. That was the problem.

Orik handed the vial over and pointed at the shore, where the dead of the Alliance had The Forgotten Tale that nobody living had heard.

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Objective

LEVEL

72

Requires level

71

Start

END

Dragonblight Storyline

Reward

20,300 experience

250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

250 reputation with Argent Crusade

Walkthrough

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20,300 experience

250 reputation with Valiance Expedition

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