Defending The Vanguard

WotLK Classic Northrend Leveling Guide

Both Factions • Icecrown • Level 78 • Argent Vanguard

Kill 15 Forgotten Depths Nerubians in the Valley of Echoes.

Every nerubian in the valley counts, including the Carrion Fleshstrippers and the Ambushers that erupt out of the cocoons, so there is no mob to hunt for specifically. Crusaders of Virtue are already fighting throughout the field and you can tag whatever they have engaged, even at low health. Paladins should not use Righteous Defense to do that. It works, and it flags you for PvP. Take Curing The Incurable and Scourge Tactics before you leave the camp, because all three finish in the same fifteen minutes of killing.

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Dalfors needed bodies on the line and Vikstone worked it out without waiting for it to be explained. He killed his fifteen and came back to a commander who had started counting the dead in graveyards and still could not find the bottom of the hole.

“We can’t keep this pace up, lad. Once the breach was blown, the floodgates opened up. The Scourge have been pourin’ through ever since with no end in sight! We need every able bodied man and woman to help keep the tide of evil at bay.

Get out there and do yer share, friend. Kill as many of those monsters as ye can!”

-Crusader Lord Dalfors

Objective

LEVEL

78

Requires level

77

Start

Crusader Lord Dalfors

END

Crusader Lord Dalfors

Crusader Lord Dalfors at the Argent Vanguard in Icecrown has asked that you kill 15 Forgotten Depths Nerubians.

Forgotten Depths Nerubian slain (15)

Quest Giver: Commander Kunz
Coordinates: Argent Vanguard (85, 77)
Quest Objectives:
Kill 15 Nerubian mobs around (85, 77).
Any Nerubian in the area, such as Plague Spreaders or Carrion Fleshrippers, will count toward the quest objective.
Efficient Grouping:
Complete this quest alongside Scourge Tactics and Curing the Incurable, as all involve defeating Nerubians in the same area.
Mobs already engaged with Crusaders of Virtue can be tagged and will count toward the quest, even if they are at low health.
Additional Loot and Rewards:
Mobs slain for this quest can drop Plague Sprayer Parts required for Curing the Incurable.
All Nerubians are skinnable, making this an excellent quest for leveling Skinning. — **Quest Giver:** Crusader Lord Dalfors — Argent Vanguard, Icecrown [85, 77]
**Quest Objectives:** Kill 15 Nerubian mobs around (85, 77).
**Efficient Grouping:** Complete this quest alongside Scourge Tactics and Curing the Incurable, as all involve defeating Nerubians in the same area.

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Reward

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Touch of Light

Argent Girdle

Crusader’s Locket

Enchanted Plate Waistguard

You will also receive:

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

11,910 experience

250 reputation with Argent Crusade

Walkthrough

Quest Giver: Crusader Lord Dalfors — Argent Vanguard, Icecrown [85, 77]

Objective: Kill 15 Forgotten Depths Nerubians in the Valley of Echoes.

Quick Facts

Level: 78
Location: Valley of Echoes [85, 77]
Chain Position: 1 of 3 parallel quests after Honor Above All Else. All three must be completed to unlock If There Are Survivors…
Pairs With: Scourge Tactics and Curing The Incurable

Walkthrough

Head northwest from the Argent Vanguard into the Valley of Echoes. Kill any 15 nerubians in the area. Multiple mob types all count toward the objective:

Forgotten Depths Slayer (melee spider mobs, most common)
Forgotten Depths Ambusher (burst out of cocoons on the ground)
Forgotten Depths Acolyte (caster variants)
Carrion Fleshstripper (also count toward the kill total)

Crusaders of Virtue are fighting nerubians throughout the valley. Mobs engaged with these friendly NPCs can be tagged and will count toward the quest even if they are at low health.

Efficiency Tips

Triple-stack this quest. All three parallel quests share the same kill area. While killing nerubians, loot Forgotten Depths Venom Sacs (10 needed for Curing The Incurable) and interact with Webbed Crusaders (8 needed for Scourge Tactics).
Forgotten Depths Ambushers spawn from cocoons. When you open a cocoon for Scourge Tactics, it may release either a Freed Crusader or an Ambusher, so you can progress both quests at the same time.
Tagging mobs fighting Crusaders of Virtue saves time and avoids over-pulling. Paladins should not use Righteous Defense to do it. It works, and it flags you for PvP.
Respawn rates are fast. Even on busy servers, you should have no trouble finding targets.
All Forgotten Depths nerubians are skinnable for Nerubian Chitin, making this a solid spot for leveling Skinning.
This quest feeds into a longer chain that eventually leads to The Battle For Crusaders’ Pinnacle and access to your faction’s airship (the Skybreaker or Orgrim’s Hammer).

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

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

1,190 experience

10 reputation with Alliance Vanguard

Vikstone's War Journal

“We can’t keep this pace up, lad,” Dalfors said.

Vikstone Portrait Act 3 — Illustrated by Christian DiBari and Simon Gough.

Lad. A dwarf who will be dead of old age before I am middle-aged, and I let it stand.

“Once the breach was blown, the floodgates opened up. The Scourge have been pourin’ through ever since with no end in sight.”

The breach the Crusade blew themselves. Entari had told me about it two days earlier with something close to pride in it, how they put a hole through the side of a mountain and went in where nobody else had managed to. That hole is still there. It does not care which direction anything walks through it.

So I stood in the gap below the Vanguard and killed nerubians until my shoulders stopped working properly. Dalfors held the left of it himself, ground burning gold under his boots, hammering judgment into anything that came close enough to matter. For a lord he does an unusual amount of the actual work.

When I came back he started well.

“Don’t give up,” he said. Then he lost it somewhere in the middle. “How many of them could there possibly be? We’ve killed enough to fill ten graveyards and still they come. The situation looks grim, friend.”

Bouldercrag never talked about winning either. It seems to be what the good ones do instead.

Dalfors could count the dead easily enough, and it was the ones nobody could account for that turned into If There Are Survivors….

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Objective

LEVEL

78

Requires level

77

Start

END

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Reward

6 Gold

80 Silver

11,910 experience

250 reputation with Argent Crusade

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1,190 experience

10 reputation with Alliance Vanguard

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