Training In The Field

WotLK Classic Northrend Leveling Guide

Quest 4 of 6 in the Aspirant Dailies Group

Daily Quest

Alliance • Icecrown • Level 80 • Argent Tournament Grounds

Kill 8 Icecrown Scourge anywhere in the zone except the Bombardment.

Take this before you leave the grounds and it finishes itself. The objective is deliberately open, so any Scourge you kill anywhere in Icecrown counts and you will hit eight on the way to whatever else you had planned. The nearest option is just south of the grounds toward the Conflagration. Stay out of the Bombardment. That is not a quest boundary being tidy, it is Swiftstrike telling you the shelling would overwhelm you. Pair this with the Reins and the day's weapon quest for the full five seals.

Vikstone's Classic Expedition

Swiftstrike's instruction was to keep practicing the skills that had served him all these years, which meant setting the lance down and picking the mace back up. Eight Scourge later he was informed that he would serve as an example to the aspirants who clamor to compete.

“The tournament is a time for testing your skills against your peers, but we must not forget that the real enemy, the Scourge, will not wait. As you learn to master mounted combat, do not forget to practice the skills that have served you well all these years. Show us that you can face the Scourge with honor and bravery, and you will earn your right to compete in this tournament.

Travel to Icecrown and slay any Scourge you see there, but stay clear of the Bombardment, where you would be overwhelmed.”

-Avareth Swiftstrike

Objective

LEVEL

80

Requires level

77

Start

Avareth Swiftstrike

END

Avareth Swiftstrike

Avareth Swiftstrike at the Argent Tournament Grounds wants you to kill 8 Icecrown Scourge. You may kill Scourge in any part of Icecrown except the Bombardment.

Icecrown Scourge slain (8)

Location: Throughout Icecrown (except the Bombardment area)
Objective: Kill 8 Icecrown Scourge enemies
Best Scourge Hunting Locations:
Sindragosa's Fall: [73, 38]
High concentration of Scourge with quick respawns
Scourgeholme: [70, 62]
Large number of easy-to-kill Scourge enemies
Various mob types all count toward your total
Weeping Quarry:
Skeleton workers isolated on ledges
Minimal risk of additional aggro for melee classes
Corp'rethar:
Numerous undead with rapid respawn rates. — **Quest Giver:** Avareth Swiftstrike (Alliance) or Amariel Sunsworn (Horde) – Faction tent, Argent Tournament Grounds, Icecrown.
**South of the Tournament Grounds:** The closest option. Converted Heroes and other Scourge mobs are scattered just south of the grounds near the Conflagration area. Minimal travel time.
**Scourgeholme [~70, 62]**: Large concentration of easy Scourge with varied mob types. All count.
**Corp’rethar:** Dense undead with fast respawns. Good if you’re already questing in the area.
**Sindragosa’s Fall [~73, 38]**: Necrolords and Scourge forces present, though mob types may vary by phase.

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Reward

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

Drape of Munificence

Dusk-Linked Leggings

Gold-Plated Coldsteel Girdle

Worgskin Shoulders

You will receive:

Aspirant’s Seal

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

12,190 experience

250 reputation with The Silver Covenant

Walkthrough

Quest Giver: Avareth Swiftstrike (Alliance) or Amariel Sunsworn (Horde) – Faction tent, Argent Tournament Grounds, Icecrown

Objective: Kill 8 Icecrown Scourge anywhere in Icecrown except the Bombardment.

Quick Facts

Type: Daily (Aspirant rank). A Valiant-rank version also exists (A Valiant’s Field Training) with 10 kills instead of 8.
Location: Anywhere in Icecrown (except the Bombardment)

Walkthrough

Kill 8 Scourge mobs anywhere in Icecrown. The quest is deliberately open-ended, giving you freedom to pair it with whatever else you’re doing in the zone. Just avoid the Bombardment, the area near Mord’rethar under constant fire. Swiftstrike’s own phrasing is that you would be overwhelmed there.

Best Locations

South of the Tournament Grounds: The closest option. Converted Heroes and other Scourge mobs are scattered just south of the grounds near the Conflagration area. Minimal travel time.
Scourgeholme [~70, 62]: Large concentration of easy Scourge with varied mob types. All count.
Corp’rethar: Dense undead with fast respawns. Good if you’re already questing in the area.
Sindragosa’s Fall [~73, 38]: Necrolords and Scourge forces present, though mob types may vary by phase.

Efficiency Tips

Pair with other Icecrown questing. You’re going to be killing Scourge for various quest hubs anyway. Pick this up before heading south and you’ll complete it passively.
Any non-elite Scourge mob counts. Skeletons, ghouls, necromancers, vrykul serving the Scourge, Converted Heroes. The quest is very forgiving about what qualifies.
Complete alongside the other two Aspirant dailies (Learning the Reins and the rotating weapon quest) to maximize your daily seal income.

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

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

2,000 experience

10 reputation with Valiance Expedition

Vikstone's War Journal

“As you learn to master mounted combat, do not forget to practice the skills that have served you well all these years. Show us that you can face the Scourge with honor and bravery.” Then Avareth Swiftstrike added the part that very nearly got a laugh out of me. “Stay clear of the Bombardment, where you would be overwhelmed.”

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

The skills that have served me well all these years. Somebody on those grounds has noticed I came here with a trade of my own.

Eight of them near Sindragosa’s Fall, and the Destroyer needed no instruction from anybody.

“You have shown yourself a capable combatant, Vikstone, and you will serve as an example to the rest of the aspirants who clamor to compete on behalf of the Alliance.”

I can be that.

Killing Scourge on foot was never the part of this the Crusade doubted, and the last of the day’s three errands puts Vikstone back in the saddle for Learning The Reins.

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Objective

LEVEL

80

Requires level

77

Start

END

Icecrown Storyline

Reward

5 Gold

80 Silver

12,190 experience

250 reputation with The Silver Covenant

Walkthrough

2,000 experience

10 reputation with Valiance Expedition

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