Hillsbrad Foothills

Most Hillsbrad quest items are drops that cannot be traded. The turtle meat for the chef's Soothing Turtle Bisque can be bought, so ten Turtle Meat at the auction house saves the snapjaw hunt.

Everything in town sits within a few steps: Farren stands outside the inn and Magistrate Maleb in the town hall. Bind your hearthstone at the inn, take the flight path and pick up every quest before heading out.

Some of the town's quests are long hand-ins to Stormwind and Ironforge that you pick up here and finish elsewhere; leave them for your next trip to those cities.

The Torn Fin murlocs crowd the Western Strand, southwest of Southshore: Tidehunters (31–32) and Oracles (30–31). Not every murloc drops a head, so keep killing until you have ten. The Daggerspine naga hold the shore southeast of town: Shorehunters (30–31) and Sirens (31–32).

The Snapjaw turtles bask along the river east of Southshore, south of Tarren Mill (Horde).

The Syndicate camp sits on the Alterac border in northern Hillsbrad, west of Tarren Mill (Horde), with the documents in the camp. The yetis live in the cave in the hills north of Southshore, on your way back south; the mountain lions roam the hills south of town.

All three are level 32 to 36 and well above the shore monsters, so come at 32 or higher.

At 36 to 40 you come back for the bounties: nine Dirty Knucklebones from the Crushridge ogres in the hills north of town, the head of Baron Vardus, and the Dark Council's Nagaz and Argus Shadow Mages (35–36) in the north.

The last stops are hand-ins: Down the Scarlet Path to Raleigh the Devout, the Alterac tomes for Milton Sheaf and Stormpike's deciphering.

The Stormwind and Ironforge hand-ins above lead back to the capitals, and the road north leads to Arathi Highlands.

Nearly every Hillsbrad item is a quest drop that cannot be traded. The one exception is the mug of Southshore Stout that the Syndicate's Valik asks for in Valik; buy one rather than hunting it down.

You arrive bound at the Tarren Mill inn, and everyone stands around the town square. Bears, creepers and lions roam the hills west of the mill on the way down to the farms; the creepers drop Creeper Ichor rarely, and you need only one.

Take every quest in the square first. The elixir quests from Apothecary Lydon send you to gather in the hills, and the Syndicate quests lead southeast.

From Tarren Mill, go southeast into the hills on the way to Durnholde Keep. Syndicate Rogues (21–22) and Watchmen (20–21) hold the camps along the way.

Drull and Tog'thar are chained inside Durnholde Keep's courtyard buildings; open both locks. Deathstalker Masoj hides on the hillside above Dun Garok, south of Durnholde, on the way down to the blossoms, and the Mudsnout Blossoms grow on the hillsides above the river southwest of the keep.

Hillsbrad town lies in the hills southwest: the farms, the smithy, the town hall and the mine. The Peasants work the fields south of the farmhouses, and every Hillsbrad human drops skulls, with the Peasants most often. The smithy stands in the middle of town; Blacksmith Verringtan and his apprentices work at the forge. The town hall is on the west side with Magistrate Burnside (30) and Clerk Horrace Whitesteed inside. The Azurelode Mine lies south of town, with Foreman Bonds (30) deep inside.

The quests come in order; do them one building at a time and hand in at Darthalia each time.

At 30 or higher, the second pass opens the quests of Tarren Mill's mages and the Syndicate. The Boulderfist ogres (32–34) give The Hammer May Fall. The stone tokens and the Bloodstone pieces for the mages lie in the far southwest of the zone.

Helcular's Rod lies far in the north, and Valik stands in the Syndicate camp. The last quest, Gol'dir, sends you for a rusted iron key.