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Comment by Nichoo

Probably one of the starting zones in Wotlk.

Comment by Grados

WHY WON'T ANYONE DELETE ME?!

Comment by Reticeo

Guess no one did, yet.

Comment by FinnrSlayer

Delete me is a zone between Stormwind and Ironforge. There is million of useless memory there.. AKA waste of space D:

Comment by Tehbantha

The Howling Fjord sits high above the Great Sea on the southeastern tip of Northrend. It is said that in ancient times the vrykul, a race of half-giant warriors, inhabited the land, founding a vast and prosperous civilization.

Then one day, without warning or explanation, the vrykul vanished, leaving behind only deserted villages and abandoned temples.

Now the Alliance and Horde have come to confront the malefic Lich King and put an end to the Scourge. The Alliance has established a staging area in the settlement of Valgarde, but their presence seems to have sparked off an unforeseen event: the return of the vrykul.

These formidable warriors have begun attacking Horde and Alliance settlements, and many of the vrykul are pouring out of the fortress of Utgarde Keep, not far from Valgarde. The vrykul's motives and their whereabouts for the past several thousand years remain a mystery. Regardless, there is no doubt that the vrykul's sudden resurgence has touched off an ongoing battle for control of the region.

Dwarven prospectors, in the meantime, have uncovered mysterious relatives whose skin is etched in strange runes. These iron dwarves may provide the missing link needed for the dwarves to piece together the mystery of their creation.

On the eastern shore, the Forsaken have arrived, carrying a plague of their own to unleash upon the Lich King. Queen Sylvanas has been methodically and patiently overseeing the formulation of this contagion for several years, and the time has come at last to test its effectiveness against the Scourge.

Before bringing the battle to the Lich King, both the Horde and Alliance must overcome the immediate threat of the vrykul and answer the questions that the warriors’ reemergence has posed. Where have the vrykul been? What do they want? Most disturbing of all, what if they aligned with the Lich King?

Perhaps only time will tell. For now, the battle has just begun.

Source http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/features/northrend/howling-fjord.xml

Comment by Zurtilik

Looking at this and the Borean Tundra's loot it looks like haste is going to be big in Wrath.

Comment by yagerbomb

when you get to 68 you can choose to quest in the borean tundra or the howling fjord once wotlk comes out blizzard did this so too much of the same faction wouldnt be in the same spot and thus end up spending hours for 1 mob to spawn

Comment by catspats31

In the September 2007 issue of Games for Windows magazine, Cory Stockton, World of Warcraft's level designer, believed that the reason Blizzard made two starting zones instead of one is because he has the so-called "memories of day-one Outland horrors still fresh".

Comment by Gbasp05

With all these maps i made a really ugly beta map of the beginning of northrend

Comment by marrakoosh

Is it just me or would you rather play this starting area to the Borean Tundra?

Borean Tundra drums up images of grinding mobs in Winterspring. Howling Fjord just looks so much better! Much more warcraft-esque in my eyes.

Sweeeeet.

Comment by catspats31

Based on the last picture from the alpha, the Storm Giant found in Howling Fjord will be similar to the Fel Reaver of Hellfire Peninsula.

Comment by yagerbomb

you can come here at 68 and can choose from borean tundra or howling fjord the difference is probly going to be different factions in each zone and thiers a quest that gives blue quality gear in each of the zones the howling fjord quest gives you the choice of 3 blue trinkets and the borean tundra lets you chose between some wepns in my opinion this place looks much better than borrean tundra and the reason why they made 2 zones is because they did not want the overcrowding of 1 zone wich in my opinion is a great idea cause not only will you not have to wait an hour for a dam mob to spawn but you also wont have the problem of intensive random ganking going on

Comment by Rarehunter

Howling Fjord, forming Daggercap Bay, is the place where Arthas landed when tracking Mal'ganis. Just a bit of WoW lore.

Comment by tanerh

The picture captioned "Vengeance Landing" is actually "New Agamand", unless I'm mistaken :)

Comment by genza

Map is currently missing a dryad questgiver at 61,23
Both factions.

Comment by Kamillah

OMG
I'm in love with this zone already and can't wait to go there. So beautiful!

Comment by Murderface

Very cool looking area. This look like a mix of Shipwreck cove (Pirates of the Carribean 3) and just a regualar dock. Most of the boats are on fire which looks almost real and most of the mobs you fight are the awesomest things ever.... giant vikings.

This will be the new Nagrand and great work Blizz.

Comment by Naimad

Horde players can get here by zeppelin in Tirisfal Glades (second tower).

Comment by dorr777

Instances in Howling Fjord: Utgarde Keep and Utgarde Pinnacle.
Pretty cool instance names btw^^ xD

Comment by racer008

Should likely include the achievement Friend or Fowl? as the turkeys are in this zone.

Comment by Griezz

Also, "Uthgardt Keep" was a location in NEVERWINTER NIGHTS.

Comment by acranos

just wondering if this zone is better for leveling Death Knights or is Borean Tundra better, just wondering because i am indecisive right now

Comment by Vath

Alliance can get here via the boat in Menethil Harbor that led to Auberdine, as the Auberdine boat now sails to Stormwind Harbor.

Comment by smiley001

Removed comment as its based on me thinking for some reason this zone didnt have a Grandmaster Alchemy trainer -_-

Comment by Arlique

Access to Howling Fjord:

A Horde airship from a new tower outside Undercity goes to Vengeance Landing in Howling Fjord
An Alliance ship from Menethil Harbor, Wetlands goes to Valgarde, Howling Fjord

To get to Coldarra, do the few quests at Amber Ledge and you will get the flight path. (or get summoned)

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Arlique
Annotated Map of Borean Tundra: http://www.giddygamer.com/wow/maps.html
Guide to Northrend http://www.giddygamer.com/store/northrend.html

Comment by Jakphrost

Howling Fjord looks to be one of the only places without mining nodes.This will make mining/blacksmithing/jewelcrafting a little longer to level.

Comment by mrdummy

Low level players below l68 can reach the first place without killing risk. They can only learn Grandmaster skills for the professions. Each skill costs 35 gold, but it gives also Archievement. :) Almost all Grandmasters are there in the first place.

De lowest level is 68, but higher is more easier, or you have good gear.

Comment by mrdummy

Low level players below l68 can reach the first place without killing risk. They can only learn Grandmaster skills for the professions. Each skill costs 35 gold, but it gives also Archievement. :) Almost all Grandmasters are there in the first place.
Make sure you have 350+ in your skills.

The lowest level is 68 to get the first quest, but higher is more easier, or you have good gear.

Comment by tarunloko

Horde can get to Howling Fjord by taken the zeppelin from Tirisfal Glades

Comment by PewPewBoom

Just to recap some random information.

Horde get their via the zeppelin from UC.
Alliance get their via the boat in Menethil Harbor.

Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord are the same level. Unlike Hellfire Pennisula/Zangarmarsh where one is slightly higher than the other. However, Howling Fjord has less quests overall than Borean Tundra.

Comment by br0ck

has anyone been able to complete 105 quests in this area as horde? i have 83/105 completed thus far and can't find anymore quests.

Comment by typhonis

Extremely beautiful setting. I will enjoy questing here.

Comment by Sn3kz

Um, excuse meh but wher r teh catacombs?

Comment by br0ck

why was my rating lowered? i was asking a regular question.

anyways, there are a chain of quests that start at the ancient lift which you need to do as it leads into 20 other quests at scalawag point.

i mention this because there is no quest that leads into this vital quest, and it is not on the wowhead map. i hope this is helpful to some.

Comment by Murderface

what level do u have to be to ride flying mounts in northrend?

Comment by trombone71592

I just want to point out the the correct pronunciation of Fjord is fyord, not ford, not fa-HORD, not fa-JORD, and definately not FUH-jerd as I've heard it. The "j" makes a "y" sound. Thought you should know.

Edit: Small typo, thanks to Kedana for pointing that out.

Comment by Mackenzeek

Isn't Fjord one of the big three auto makers in the USA? I love my Fjord Truck!

Comment by Alexii

Fishing in Howling Fjord requires at least 380 Fishing, 475 to avoid losing catches.

Comment by Knudsen8

Ah finally here! Howling Fjord, the land of opportunities and gold! Clover...

Comment by Khaaan

Herds of Shoveltusk offer excellent skinning practice along the high plateaus of the Fjord.

Comment by winnEw

If youre hated with the goblins you wont be able to take the q's from "Silvermoon" Harry and his crew. Atleast I could'nt.

Comment by philcsf

The quest giver Lurielle does not appear on the 'Show on map...' option for both factions, and she offers six quests.

If you're working through the quests, you'll get directed over to her by an NPC at Camp Winterhoof or Fort Wildevar (depending on faction) anyway, just a shame she doesn't appear properly in the database.

Comment by Jenn

Lurielle is at 60,22
First quest from her is:
Spirits of the Ice

Comment by ezechiel

note that the mobs here are yielding more experience than in Outland, aprox +50 - +60%.
e.g., a lvl 70 mob in Outland yields ~1200 XP, while in Northrend dies for ~1900 XP.

Comment by SuperMaster

Alliance Flight Master Paths:

http://www.wowhead.com/?maps=495:597627450355300434612161244582

Comment by Neverenuff294

howlling fjord is a great starting place in NR for xp a sweet gear deffinatly better than outland in my opinion i started questing at 67 and now im 70 with still alot more quest to do story line is pretty good to

Comment by lolkitteh

Go here or Borean tundra at level 68. I picked Howling Fjord because I liked it a bit more.

Comment by DRBlanton

Thank you so much for this bit of info. As a veteran of every warcraft game and always being interested in the stories and background info and such, I've been trying to find out for a while where in northrend it was that Arthas docked when he first got there.
This truly has made me a happy guy :)

Comment by InfamousCochran

killing stuff in Borean Tundra makes you a target for nutty granola druids, I recommend the Fjord for skinning, just because skinnable critters are more abundant.

Comment by temu92

Competely out of topic but I noticed glitch in map. There reads "Skörn" not "Skorn" :)

Comment by Drajanuma

Here's something any hordie coming to Vengeance Landing must get used to hearing from Apothecary Lysander:

SEVERE STOMACH PAIN?

Comment by pacman90123

IMO this place has some of the most relaxing music :P i turned everything but music to 0 and for some reason made questing easier.

Comment by Umega

Anyone know what Cauldros Isle is for? I can't find any quests that send me there. =/

Comment by kryptikz

Halgrind reference to hellgrind from The eragon series maybe?

Comment by manko

While I think Howling Fjord is a great looking zone. I think it is the single worst zone for quests (at least for Horde) in all of Wrath. There isn't a huge number, it's very heavy on travel with more than one chain requiring a long back and forth without a large number or quests to do there, there is an elite chain with no item rewards, and what travel there is broken up by huge chasms at a level where you can't fly. I think Borean Tundra beats it hands down for leveling.

Comment by gladiator1995

Howling Fjord for me would be the best choice to start Northrend since I have chosen Borean Tundra because some friends told me.This place,well when i went to explore it, was the best place I have ever been in WoW since it's beautiful scenery and the fantastic idea of the elevators made me love it.I would not recommend for leveling area since it can be difficult for low levels (who are leveling their first character) to go,because the shores if you do not have flying skill can make this place from magical to horrifying.If though it is not your first character then I recommend it(Excuse me if i have grammar and vocabulary mistakes since English isn't my first language)

Comment by Tikahannah

This might just be my computer/account that does this, but I would like to warn people about Daggercap Bay.

I went in to the bay hoping to catch some fish, and i've ended up stuck there. I can't even get on to my toon that's there with out being disconnected.

If you have any suggestions, great, I'd love to hear them.

If not, just be careful about that.

Comment by Elfprince

I really cant stand leveling here, the mobs right outside of Vangard are on a very quick respawn timer and can make it a pain to get through the first few quest there, Birean is really a better place to go when first comming to Northrend, I plan on coming back here at max lvl to get the gold rewards forr the quest, but by far better quest and rewards in Borean Tundra.

Comment by isse95

where is ivald´s ruin :S im conufsed i need to explore it

Comment by gubugu

Just to remember ,

Hordes get to Howling Fjord by the Zeppelin at Tirisfal Glades
Alliances get to Howling Fjord by the boat on Menethil Harbor

but if u prefer Borean Tundra

Hordes get to Borean Tundra by the Zeppelin at Durotar
Alliances geto to Borean Tudra by the boat on Stormwind

Comment by ChopleyTurnip

Howling Fjord is a lovely looking zone, but for Horde it's a bit of a pig to quest in. Alliance get far better chains and quest rewards along with better stories, the Horde quest lines just seem to fizzle out and never really go anywhere exciting, the rewards are generally poor too.

Whichever faction you're playing as, I'd recommend questing out Borean Tundra thoroughly first, so that you're 71/72 by the time you get to the Fjord. You'll have loads of great gear from Borean Tundra, and have an easier time of questing in the Fjord, not such a big deal for Alliance, but for Horde you really want to smash through it as quick as possible and get to Dragonblight where things pick up again.

If you're Horde, you're best off getting all the flight points before you start questing (Vengeance Landing, New Agamand, Apothecary Camp, Camp Winterhoof and the neutral at Kamagua) - this will also 'link' all the flight points together, otherwise Vengeance Landing will just say 'you don't know any flight points connected to this one' - you'll also have to get the flight point in Moa'Ki Harbour to link Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord in terms of flight points.

Comment by forgottenring

Level 69+ AoE Grinding frost mages will definitely level up fast here. The herds of shoveltusks around the eastern end of the zone are perfect for this.

Comment by Arkuda

wtf happend with quest givers? i can only see 1 horde quest giver for howling fjord... wowhead got buged? :O

Comment by Gullwings

Don't like the Gnome's flying machine trip around...everywhere? Well, you're in luck! Just across Daggercap Bay is a trail that leads ALL the way up the cliffside to the dwarves that give you the "Iron Man" quest chain. If you stand on the dock and look slighty left of the big opening in the cliff where the boat goes, there is a lamp marking the start of the trail.

Please note: Be very careful going up and even more careful going down. Lots of sharp corners that take you straight down to Splatterdead Country.

Comment by steve2470

The guide for the learning disabled, to get to and from the cave at Baelgun's Excavation Site in Howling Fjord:

From the slope at 72.7, 67.3:

1- Go down slope
2- Turn left
3- Turn right
4- Get on lift
5- Get off at bottom level which has no gate
6- Go straight ahead
7- Veer right
8- You end up at the lower cave entrance at 73.4, 70.5

or:

From the lower cave entrance at 73.4, 70.5 looking outward:

1- Turn left
2- Go straight ahead
3- Get on lift
4- Get off at top of lift which has a gate
5- Turn right
6- Turn left
7- Veer right
8- Go up slope to 72.7, 67.3

From the upper cave entrance at 71.4, 72.4, you cannot get back to the ground above, only to the walkways.

I did this because I got so sick of getting lost !

Comment by Zygotguy

where the hell is caulos's isle

Comment by arsham84

How we can to be Exalted with there?
I can't find any daily quest for horde

Comment by lordpaul26

Just go to menethil Harbor, Wetlands. Take the black steam boat at the far side of the harbor. It will take you to Valgarde Harbor, Howling Fjord.

Comment by Lemma

No one gives a !@#$ about the lore.

Comment by Cakekun

I've been exploring Howling Fjord, but I can't seem to find Baleheim. Anyone help?

EDIT: Nevermind, got it.

Comment by themguyman

where is scalawag point iv been flying all around the fjord and i cant find it

Comment by skiaholic78

Long over due hitchhiker's reference... I wonder if slartibartfast had anything to do with this?

Comment by Forkmi

Can anyone tell me where Cauldros Isle is? Thanks.

Comment by TheYellowKing

If anyone's interested in Norse Mythology (a lot of which is represented in various forms throughout WotLK), read "Thor's Journey to Utgard".

Just as a teaser, it features the God of Thunder himself getting into a drinking contest and attempting to lift a gigantic cat.

Comment by screechineagle13

Just curious, is there anywhere in the real world that is like howling fjord?

Comment by Vonara

Where's my old man trapped in ice?

Comment by Systex

One of the most beautiful and relaxing zones in the game ... oh wait, I'm wrong here.
It is the most beautiful and most relaxing zone in the game! Seriously, I love this place, I love the quests, I love the music, I even love the penguins sitting on the ice all day long.
This place also reminds me of Norse mythology, really awesome zone.

If you're new to the game I would prefer to level in the Borean Tundra, cause the quests are much easier and it's not as big and confusing as the Howling Fjord.

Comment by Nekalta

Gjalerbron, a zone within Howling Fjord, (along with the Fjord itself) is often horribly mispronounced. However, Blizzard included a quest just to explain how to say it!

It is called Dealing with Gjalerbron and given by Captain Adams, who says that the Vrykul;

call the place Gjalerbron, though you'd pronounce the 'Gj' as if it were an 'Sh'. Odd creatures.

The horde equivalent of this quest is Dealing with Gjalerbron offered by Chieftain Ashtotem though the explanation of how to pronounce Gjalerbron is not given in that quest log.

Comment by apidgen

I want to travel here to see an expert profession trainer but every time i get in the Zeppelin from the 2nd tower it drops me in Brill! Do I need to be a certain level or is there another problem?

Comment by lunayah

How do you get there as Alliance? I can't tell if the older comments are valid or not.

Comment by fistsofwow

There should really be an NPC named after Slartibartfast (of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) in this zone. After all, he did design the "fiddly bits around the fjords".

Comment by akrees

Zone music is an iconic WOTLK sound )

Comment by realta

Unfortunately, it's a huge pain to get here for the average quester: flying to Menethil even from Ironforge seems like too much work when you can take a handy boat from Stormwind to see the Borean Tundra.

Comment by ditt

I came to wowhead for the handy dandy rare macro and there wasn't one. So I made my own and here it is:

/target King Ping
/target Perobas the Bloodthirster
/target Vigdis the War Maiden

Comment by mark211175

I would like to share a fun minigame you can start up with your guildmembers. It is a somekind of dangerous game for all you dare devils amongst us. Location is here at Howling Fjord, exact point at the ancient lift. You know the lift up there and probably can guess what i have in mind. The silly game is to run over the rope from ancient lift to Kamagua as fast as you can. When you stand on the rope, it seems quiet easy, but there are a view traps on it. When you take your time you will make it easy. But as we gonna race it. you will find out the camara view of point changes all te time and also you have to jump sometimes over the obstacles. Ah and then there is the lift that keeps up running over you. It wont hurt you, but still it can be very enoying. But there is offcourse one fatal mistake that you can make and that is falling of the rope way down to the sea or worse to the ground. to make this more dangerous, i would say put the path of frost on with one of your death knights in raid or party, so that falling savely down in the sea is no option. Fun for the guild when you would like to have a silly time together bonding your guild.

hint: Do this when you all are drunk, garanteed lot of fun;)

Comment by rubennn4

Is there a quest to get there for horde/alliance, I've been to orgrimmar and undercity t see if there is a quest telling you to go there

Comment by Goodwinn

The MapID of Howling Fjord is 491. This is used for any WoW API function that requires a MapID.

For example, to set your current map to Howling Fjord you can type:

/run SetMapByID(491)

Comment by Goodwinn

Don't forget to pick up these "This Item Begins A Quest" items while in Howling Fjord...

Item	Dropped By	Starts Quest
Gjalerbron Attack Plans	Gjalerbron Warrior	Gjalerbron Attack Plans (Horde version)
Scourge Device	Servitor Shade	It's a Scourge Device (Horde version)
Vrykul Scroll of Ascension	Winterskorn Woodsman	Stop the Ascension! (Horde version)
Mezhen's Writings	Necro Overlord Mezhen	The Slumbering King (Horde only)

Comment by Boxofbeer

Rare mobs of Howling Fjord https://youtu.be/qnHt1IxKSig?t=68

Comment by Thaldran

i dont know if this is true cuz i dont wanna look it up, but it seems that all archaeology zones in the howling fjord is only for the Vrykul
Vrykul Archaeology Fragment
and of course
Vrykul Rune Stick
which counts for 12 Vrykul Archaeology Fragment

so this is the best place to farm for
Vrykul Drinking Horn
Vrykul Drinking Horn
This item Costs 100 Vrykul Archaeology Fragments
this item equips you with a Vrykul helmet and makes you larger.

Stacks with Mr. Smite's Brass Compass Mr. Smite's Brass Compass.
which also makes you larger, and a tauren.
if you use these 2 items together your mounts get insanely huge.

for some reason i cant get these links to work.

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Howling Fjord

Major Questing Hubs:

Explorer's League Outpost

Fort Wildervar

Valgarde

Westguard Keep

Apothecary Camp

Camp Winterhoof

New Agamand

Vengeance Landing

Gjalerbron

Kamagua

Scalawag Point

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Utgarde Keep

Utgarde Pinnacle

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