Wrath Dailies: Wintergrasp daily quests part II
by Zach Yonzon 
Dec 21st 2008 at 8:00PM
This quest is given by Siege Master Stouthandle if you're Alliance and Siegesmith Stronghoof if you're Horde, but unlike similar daily quests, these are turned in to your faction's Commanders -- the ones that ask you to slay 20 opponents -- instead of the original quest givers. I'm not a big fan of this quest because the Cauldron of Flames in Southeastern Wintergrasp, where the fire elementals who drop the quest item Eternal Embers can be found, is a heavily farmed place.
On a good note, the Flame Revenants are guaranteed to drop 1-3 Crystallized Fire, so it's not bad money at all if you decide to do it when your faction controls Wintergrasp. Otherwise, when Patch 3.0.8 kicks in, it's easy enough to complete the quest when killing players elsewhere in the zone so you won't have to compete with Crystallized Fire farmers. Completing the quest rewards three Stone Keeper's Shards, 13 Gold 23 Silver, and 1241 Honor at Level 80.
Warding the Warriors (A) / Jinxing the Walls (H)
The last random daily elemental farming quest is one that requires players to kill water elementals in the Glacial Falls in East Wintergrasp. Because Water Revenants have a chance to drop up to two Imbued Horde Armor or Enchanted Alliance Breastplates, it's best to do these quests when your faction controls the zone as with Bones and Arrows and Fueling the Demolishers. Sorceress Kaylana gives this to the Alliance, while Hoodoo Master Fu'jin gives this to the Horde. Completing the quest rewards three Stone Keeper's Shards, 13 Gold 23 Silver, and 1241 Honor at Level 80.
Stop the Siege (A / H) or Defend the Siege (A / H)
The last daily quest is only random depending on whether you get it while you control Wintergrasp or are assaulting it. If you control the zone, you will get Stop the Siege from Senior Demolitionist Legoso if you're Alliance or Alterac Valley favorite Lieutenant Murp if you're Horde. If you don't control the zone, they will give Defend the Siege instead. However, you can complete the quest whether you are attacking or defending.
Stop the Siege is the more straightforward of the two quests, requiring you to destroy three siege vehicles. This is easy enough to do and it will help if you are in a raid group. Defending the Siege is easier to do on offense, as you will get credit for the quest whenever a siege vehicle destroys a structure. This means if there are three siege vehicles within the vicinity when a wall or tower is destroyed, this quest easily completes. On offense, you'll have to accompany vehicles to destroy workshops or Southern towers, which isn't always done. Completing the quest rewards three Stone Keeper's Shards, 13 Gold 23 Silver, and 1241 Honor at Level 80.
Completing all Wintergrasp daily quests available reward up to 10 Stone Keeper's Shards (9 at the moment as Victory for Wintergrasp seems to be unavailable) and almost 5,000 Honor, which is an awesome haul considering players can do it solo. It's curious to note that the quest NPCs will despawn for a short while when the battle begins or sometimes even for the entire duration of the battle. The Victory for Wintergrasp quest also seemed to occupy or share the daily Battleground quest slot such that it became unavailable if you already accepted a daily Battleground quest. Hopefully the quest bugs will be fixed soon.
Whether or not you're a fan of PvP, we think you'll enjoy Wintergrasp. Blizzard's latest and greatest attempt at World PvP is one of the most fun aspects of Wrath of the Lich King, and the more people play it, the crazier it gets! Learn all about Wintergrasp in WoW Insider's complete guide.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Houldlum Dec 21st 2008 9:48PM
On a slightly related note, I found that Wintergrasp was the easiest way to obtain the Winter's Veil PVP achievement. My seriously old Mac can't handle huge groups of players running around, so I can never manage a BG (and often enough Dalaran), but I managed to get all the HKs while looking like a stinking Gnome by using the cannons or standing next to a cannoneer.
Nathanyel Dec 22nd 2008 5:09AM
Also a very tactique for Balance/Feral druids (Resto can live without tree form, well, probably Balance too, so mainly Feral)
Amaxe Dec 21st 2008 10:42PM
Just make sure you're part of a raid group for these combat quests. Not sure whether it is an issue of "tagging" or a glitch, but when soloing I did not get credit for destroying vehicles or killing horde for the quests, even when it gave me honor and kills on my honor tab.
The gathering quests can be soloed of course
Spazmoosifer Dec 22nd 2008 1:53PM
My guess is that it is not an issue of "tagging" for most of them, because you don't really tag opposing players in the same way as you do a normal mob.
That being said, I am betting that you will get credit for the kill if you are the one dealing the killing blow. If you don't get the killing blow, you probably won't get credit for the kill.
Amaxe Dec 22nd 2008 5:56PM
You could be right. I don't know the mechanics of how it works. It may be based on how much damage is done inside a raid vs outside
Ninavolfield-GorgonnashUS Dec 22nd 2008 12:58AM
Here's the deal with the Victory in Wintergrasp quest, and it isn't unavailable. You know how the Victory in Wintergrasp quest counts as the BG daily, well the Icecrown quest counts as one too. So if you take your advice and grab the Icecrown one to complete in Wintergrasp, you can't get the Victory in Wintergrasp quest. I've completed it every day it isn't unavailable.
Thewishmaster Dec 22nd 2008 2:42AM
What i also would like to know and its a little offtopic maybe but are all the other northrend dailies
where can i find them does anyone have a map of northrend with all the spots on it?
and ty for your great wintergrasp info Zach
Defoe Dec 22nd 2008 3:22AM
Nice summary, I didnt know about the one in Icecrown.
Amaxe Dec 22nd 2008 7:32AM
The Icecrown one is available at the end of a Quest Chain
Dabura Dec 22nd 2008 10:18PM
Hi, I've been killing the fire elementals in the Cauldron and I havent had 1 drop of the quest item for Fuelling the Demolishers. I was wondering if maybe it's bugged or if I need to do something special to get the drops?
Any help will be very appreciated.
Zach Dec 22nd 2008 10:19PM
Hi Dabura!
I recommend dropping the quest. This happened to me the very first time I picked up the quest. It's a bug for sure. Subsequent Fueling the Demolishers quests worked out fine. I hope this solves it for you.
Green Armadillo Dec 22nd 2008 4:11PM
My experience with Victory in Wintergrasp has been that the questgiver will ONLY offer the quest if you speak to them DURING the battle. Since all the questgivers temporarily despawn at the start of the match, this means you will have to take a slight detour on your next corpse run to pick up the quest. I can confirm that I'm not being offered the regular battleground PVP daily if I do Wintergrasp.
Moramor Dec 24th 2008 1:37PM
Something along the bugged quest lines. It seems that if I pick up one of the elemental quests, and then keep it until the next day and try to do it the next day, elementals drop nothing. I had the embers quest from a couple of days ago, and I tried to kill the revers and the elementals, and not a single ember dropped event though I killed tons and got a lot of frozen fire off of them.
Josh Jan 5th 2009 8:32AM
Me too! My first quest for the Fueling the Demolisher was also bugged. I couldn't get the last one and I farmed for days till I finally gave up and dropped the quest and picked it up again. Everything worked fine afterward. Hopefully blizz can fix it next patch.