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Comment by 41367

The flight paths for both Alliance and Horde are located at Light's Hope Chapel, around 81,57, the little church icon north of Tyr's Hand.

Comment by 22589

Tyr's hand is a good place to train your lockpicking from 250-305 so you can get to work in Outlands.
Don't forget to pickpocket the mobs to since it's not that many chests. (All chests are inside buildings)

Comment by 78731

if you plan on just running around EP, try to find a pally or lock to come with you. reason being, a pally has a few spells that can do some serios dmg to the Undead and Demon, and a lock's void can be of many uses when killing for items.

Comment by 86437

This is also an excellent place to farm for Rich Thorium Veins if you're looking to power level your blacksmithing, mining, or jewelcrafting.

Comment by 104949

This place is an awsome place to farm for runecloth the mobs in Browman Mill & Corin's Crossing can drop up to 1-3 runcloths and are 56-60 mobs its located at (77,66) northwest of the town, light hopes chapel (81,59) which is on the easternmost part of the plaugelands for those of you w/o cords.

An overall good 57-58 zone many of the quests require items that you can get from random drops off other mobs in different zones, here they are:
The Elemental Equation - Core of Elements, drops off of most every elementals. Can be bought from the Auction House
Bone Fragments - Bone Fragment, drops off of undead in Western plaguelands. Can be bought from the Auction House
Savage Fronds - Savage Fronds, drops off of Diremaul mobs. Can be bought from the Auction House
They Call me "The Rooster" - Argent Dawn Valor Token, Obtained by handing in scourgestones

Come here at level 55 and feel your jaw drop at all the quests here, although still come here at 57-58 because mosts of the quest shouldn't be completed at level 55

Most of the mobs here are Undead/Humanoids

The instance Stratholme(82,42) which is at the northwestern part of the map is also located here.

Gathering
Recommended to have 285+ Herbalism, losts of plaguebloom
Recommended to have 245+ Mining, lots of small thorium and truesilver deposits

Have Fun!

Comment by Quesac

This is probably my favorite zone of the whole game. I don't know why, but something about it just makes me all fuzzy inside. I think it's because it has a "Bavarian" like scenery to it.

It's sad that most people don't bother with this place any more. With the release of BC, as soon as people hit 58 they go to the Dark Portal and enter the Outlands for their new adventures and better quest loot.

Now I don't recommend lvling to 60 here, then going to Outlands, that would be foolish, but after you get to 70, and you get bored, take a trip out here and explore things. It really is a fun place to farm.

I still have my hearthstone set to chapel hill on my mage, and I farm mats for enchanting. If you have the key to the city and go into Stratholme, with decent gear and a deep frost spec (I'm talking mage of course), you can solo this instance at level 70, although the living side is a bit more difficult, but you can use your sheep there. I get tons of Large Brilliant Shards, Righteous Orbs, and outside the chapel, I get tons of Essence of Undeath. These materials are always in high demand for twinks to get Unholy and Crusader enchants on their weapons (on my server, with my mats, Unholy costs 100G, and crusader runs 200G). If you are an enchanter, this is a great place to farm mats, plus the occasional BoE blue item drops still sell well.

Comment by FinnrSlayer

This is where Death knights will start in wotlk

Comment by Bizn

This zone and Western Plaguelands remind me of the WC3 campaign where you have to choose to destroy the ships or save the farms.

Comment by Mumpley

Slight change to this area:

1.) Naxxramas will no longer remain above Plaguewood,but is being moved to Dragonblight as we all know.

2.) The Death Knight starting area is being added next to Tyr's Hand along with Ebon Hold making the map look slightly different.

Comment by 194711

An easy way to get here for our 70's is going to Isle of Quel'Danas. You go to the flight master and fly to Eastern Plaguelands. It's way easier then going all the way to Ironforge then flying past Wetlands and more. So next time you want to get here use this tip! =)

Comment by 195274

Uhh ya small note. Felstone Feilds is in Western Plaugelands. Sry... =/

Comment by 81639

The by far darkest place ingame must be Darrowshire, which lies within this great zone. You have to love how the darkness just tunes in around you as you approach the village. Darrowshire is the place of agony and suffering.

Comment by 136916

Ok so i was on my 70 hunter today and i was at Tyr's hand and i happend to notice that they added the DK starting area. so i went exploring, i was standing where the Ebon hold is. But i could not see the building so i was kinda disaponted. But then i relized the building is FLOATING right above me!

so naturaly i wipped out the Eagles Eye to take a closer look. What i saw almost made me !@#$ my pants! THe hold had people inside. there where TONS of lvl 80 elite nps! They were all part of the Knights of the Ebon Blade. And in the Very Middle of the fortress is Highlord Darion Mograine! He is a Lvl ? Boss with 11156K Health, and is actually frendly with me!

Just thought u guys might want to know :P

Comment by 204981

This zone now has the Deathknight Start Area in the far east. You can reach it currently by running through the elite mobs (as a level 70) inside of Tyr's Hand. and take the north fork in the path around the big cathedral building.

It's currently without population and you can see the large Black Citadel-esque building floating in the north end of the area. By the looks of it, down on the shore, those of us intending to roll a deathknight, will have to face Murlocs at some point, by the presence of the little murloc huts familiar to other Murloc populated areas.

Something else to note, is that blizzard have hinted that non-deathknight players will NOT be able to enter the zone. so, if you won't or cant roll a deathknight. go check it out now before the patch.

Comment by ReZerO

There is also a cave that runs from the noxious glade to the new "DK" starting area.

Comment by 173812

''Noble countrymen, evil is upon us. Darkness has befallen our shores. Rise and slay thy enemies, strike, strike so other shall live. The meek shall not fade into the night...Live my brethren, live.''

- King Terenas

Comment by 235468

Just a note about the Spectral Gryphon rides available from the Plaguewood Tower to the other towers appear to be broken. I just took a flight to the tower closest to the Lights Hope Chapel, and I was going so horrendously slow it wasn't even funny. I could've walked there faster... not ran, walked, that's how slow this thing was flying. I don't recall it being so slow last time I was here, but I may be wrong.

Comment by 161457

Is the nearest vendor to Stratholme Baron Side really in Light Hope's Chapel?

Comment by 54817

The passage to Ghostlands can be found at 54.5 , 8.7 for those of us with Cartographer.
For all the sensible non-cheaters, it can be found north of Quel 'Lithien Lodge.
Just follow the road to it's end :-)

-Argetlam, Khadgar

Comment by 136916

Ok just curious… There are a bunch of trolls in the upper part of EP, I was just wondering if someone could tell me if there is something special about them or the pyramid thing they are guarding or if their just there for he hell of it?

Comment by s20mike

Sadly, if you are not a Death Knight, it seems there is absolutely nothing to do East of Tyr's Hand. I was bored and went exploring around there today, just to see if I had missed anything, but there seems to be no NPC's, no mineral veins, nothing to do at all.

The Ebon Hold is quite cool to look at from below, but that's pretty much it.

Comment by Gnoktish

I explored the Ruins of the Scarlet Enclave to see the outcome of the Scarlet/scourge war battlefeild and it was really creepy... i went into some of the houses and theres cozy fires set and the houses were still standing.... i was surprised there was no Undead mobs behind here, you'd think that coming back to an old place it would have undead there. im also amazed that there are no skeletons on the ground either

Comment by 392114

Noob question: As a blood elf, how do i get out? Is there a portal/already discovered flight path or something?

Comment by 242565

say to noob, is there anything unde lights hope chapel? i mean, i know there are heroeses' bodies buried under the chapel, but is there anything like that in the game?

Comment by 122055

I love both the eastern and western plaguelands for all the lore (Being a Lordaeron fan), and I am hoping since the western plaguelands will be cleansed with Cataclysm, the eastern half will be as well.

Comment by 95husum

I hope not! I don't like that the scourge is retreating. It destroys the old traditional world, the lore will vanish, cant some of the most lorefull places stay as they are?

And think of poor Westfall is being destroyed by some bull$%^& magic! Its okay with a few lava cracks, but why destroy the world? I got a feeling that cataclysm will be the last expansion in the world of warcraft=(

Comment by themguyman

ok so with the new xpac allowing flying mounts in azeroth i was wondering will other ppl be able to enter ebon hold or will there be a barrier

Edit: it turns out that you can get in if your not a death knight now (thanks to totalbiscut for the video)

Comment by 124627

Anyone know what is a name of sad epic soundtrack that playes in some buildings in WP and EP (the biggest building in Darrowshire, etc.)?

Comment by mythiran

Do the craftsman's writ count as an achievement for loremaster? So many of them don't.

Comment by mythiran

Do the craftmsn's writ quests count for loremaster achievement?

Comment by 649377

There's an interesting thing I've found in Plaguewood, just south of Stratholme. In each of the Ziggurats and Slaughterhouses there is one "Mark of Detonation" sitting in the middle of the building. Does anyone know what these are used for?

Comment by Kanariya

"A Game of Towers" (aka world pvp tower control) and its buff Echoes of Lordaeron have been removed from the zone as The Argent Crusade built up all towers and claimed them.

Comment by 626045

This place has 7 flight paths. How nifty!

Comment by Yzzami

Careful flying around on the northside of this place. big mounts tend to get snagged by the mushrooms

Comment by 169285

Some info for those coming back, or those of you that are new and just curious-

Eastern plaguelands, or EPL for short was a primary bastion of the scourge, and remains so to an extent today.

As previously mentioned by other posters, EPL was a zone designed for levels 57-58, both being relatively hard to achieve in vanilla; this zone was a necessity to level up. As well as being a somewhat decent area for leveling, EPL was a "world PvP" zone, in which players could fight each other and capture towers for a zone buff.

Quests were a bit scattered throughout the higher levels zones, but EPL had a fairly decent concentration of quests mainly in the lights hope chapel area making it a popular destination for most players.

In burning crusade, the eastern plaugelands remained unchanged, albeit woefully neglected by players.
This changed with the introduction of Wrath of the Lich King, and the entrance of death knights into the game.

The Lich King had decided to stage his conquest from the coast of EPL because the majority of his forces remained there in waiting while he was busy playing with spiders in northrend.

But on the whole EPL remained untouched until cataclysm.

With cataclysm sweeping changes came to "lower level areas." most quests were augmented if not entirely cut out, and replaced with newer, more interesting and relevant quests chains. EPL was not spared the axe in this area.
World PvP points were removed, as well as the zone buff.

Whereas before it contained, what was considered a small amount of quests was updated and outfitted with massively long chain quests, the primary chain quest is centered around an adventure between Gidwin Goldbraids and Tarenar Sinstrike.

Both of whom have aspirations to become knights of the argent crusade, and you will help them. Along the way, after much sighing and smashing your head into your fist; you will complete the chain.

The whole area, today, in 4.3.0 is quite an interesting area. Many of the NPCs and mobs are still the same, thankfully.
EPL is to say the least, more viable than ever for leveling and more interesting than it's ever been.

Comment by 880547

This is a nice zone for low levels to get decent trinkets.

Underlord's Mandible from Ix'lar the Underlord
Emissary's Watch from The Assassin
Devourer's Stomach from Gathering Some Grub(s)
Omarion's Gift from Buried Blades

Generally, I won't skip this zone when I level a toon, and will go out of my way to at least get a trinket even if I'm questing in mostly Kalimdor.

Edited for formatting, rewording.

Comment by 494906

RARE SPAWN LEVELING:

If you like me enjoy leveling fast by hunting down rare spawns, here's a map with an overview of the rare spawn locations in Eastern Plaguelands. Enjoy

Eastern Plaguelands Rare Spawn Map

And here is a neat little macro you can spam to find the rare spawns:

/target Deathspeaker
/target Gish
/target Duggan
/target Lord Darkscythe
/target Foreman
/target Lynnia
/target Hed'mush
/target Death Knight Soulbearer
/target Zul'Brin
/target Death-Hunter
/target Baron Bloodbane
/target Nerubian Overseer

Comment by Deroux

When I was leveling through this zone, I don't think I found a single stable master, which was quite irritating.

Comment by Kurasu

For those who might be farming for pets in the zone, there is not a stable master here, for either Horde or Alliance. The closest stable master for either side is in WPL.

Comment by hiteSPARKYZ

There is a mailbox at Light's Hope Chapel.

Also, I think wowhead's data about Arthas' Tears may be outdated, I didn't see any when I quested there, but maybe I had bad luck.

Comment by Pipkins

if you're trying to reach ghostlands via eastern plaguelands by mount, remember the only way in is through a portal right of quel'lithien lodge as it is a bc area and the whole strip of hills between the zones is topped by an invisible wall.

Comment by 1137079

Gotta say, I love this place. The main story arc with the caravan is so cool and funny. Almost everything in the Eastern Plaguelands is connected to it.

Stratholme is pretty cool, living and dead, although to solo it is a nightmare.

Comment by LaCorpse

RARE SPAWNS!

I use Paste from cuse so I don't have to make macros.
Thanks to Funessen for the target macro below.

Tom-Tom Way Points (For rare spawns)

/way Eastern Plaguelands 18.7 75.5 Deathspeaker Selendre
/way Eastern Plaguelands 25.6 67.5 Gish the Unmoving
/way Eastern Plaguelands 35.8 62.2 Duggan Wildhammer
/way Eastern Plaguelands 34.6 45.6 Lord Darkscythe
/way Eastern Plaguelands 54.0 68.6 Forman Macrid
/way Eastern Plaguelands 77.6 72.8 Lynnia Abbendis
/way Eastern Plaguelands 78.8 39.2 Hed'mush the Rotting
/way Eastern Plaguelands 66.0 25.2 Death Knight Soulbearer
/way Eastern Plaguelands 64.2 12.4 Zul'Brin Warpbranch
/way Eastern Plaguelands 47.6 21.4 Death-Hunter Hawkspear
/way Eastern Plaguelands 35.6 21.6 Baron Bloodbane
/way Eastern Plaguelands 4.2 36.6 Nerubian Overseer

TARGET MACRO

Comment by gagusftw

Weird comment but, has anyone ever noticed the zone above EPL that is blocked by invisible walls? According to a video I watched that may very well be a whole zone dedicated to housing Naxxramas (Classic Version).

Comment by krikcrack

So, back when you were able to turn in scourge stones and such, there was a quest to turn in X amount of scourge stones according to reputation to receive a certain trinket. it was a trinket that had the same picture as Lifegiving Gem for the icon, but it was for casters, or I think for healers more specifically. if anyone could direct me to what the name of the trinket was (no longer available in game), it would be most appreciated.

Comment by Elithe

Numerous plaguebats of any kind drop here Crooked Fang and, even more often, Evil Bat Eye, what makes this area the best place for farming gold in Eastern Kingdoms if not in the whole vanilla content.

Terrorweb Tunnel located in the northwest is great place for making progress in Critter Kill Squad.

Comment by 1460618

vanilla Naxx patch 6.1 :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEKPF6sIrpQ

Comment by Syanah

Honestly one of my favorite areas. I love the whole feeling of having the two others with you, like they're old friends, kind of. I was kind of sad to finish the questing with them too.. but definitely going back here to level my druid.

Comment by Boxofbeer

Rare mobs of Eastern Plaguelands https://youtu.be/h_n-6XJqVA0

Comment by Leppy

This area has the highest concentration of feels I've ever seen in WoW.

Comment by Zerias

Now while flying from Tirisfal to Quel'thalas, you may follow the shoreline and see the Zone north of Eastern Plaguelands, *update* you can just walk around.

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If Chromie Time is enabled, Eastern Plaguelands' level range is 15-50. Check more information on Chromie Time in our guide!

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