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Level: 53
Requires level: 50
Side: Horde
Start: High Executor Derrington
End: High Executor Derrington

Series

1.	A Call to Arms: The Plaguelands!
2.	Scarlet Diversions

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Scarlet Diversions

Proceed to the Scarlet Crusade's base camp between Felstone Field and Dalson's Tears and destroy their command tent.

Place the Scourge banner at the camp, and then return to High Executor Derrington at the Bulwark, Western Plaguelands.

	Destroy the command tent and plant the Scourge banner in the camp

Provided Item:

	Scourge Banner

Description

Before Andorhal, we must tackle the advancing Scarlet Crusade menace from Hearthglen. They've made camp between Felstone Field and Dalson's Tears, making us risk conflict against both the Scourge and the Crusade at once.

My plan is to play them off of each other by sending you to destroy the command tent they've set up; use some Flame in a Bottle from this box of incendiaries. Once razed, plant this Scourge banner by the tent. With some luck, they'll ignore us and focus on the Scourge for vengeance.

Reward

Also, you get: 80

Completion

Finely executed, <name>. Your attack on the Scarlet Crusade will buy us time. I have sent one of my best scouts out to watch over the camp and make sure that the Crusade forces that come to reinforce the position will take the bait.

With the pressure on us lessened, we should now finally be able to risk a mission into Andorhal itself, and an important one at that. I'd very much like it if you'd perform this one as well, based on your success to date.

Gains

Upon completion of quests, get:

525 experience (31 50 at max. level)
250 Reputation with Undercity
75 Reputation with Thunder Bluff
75 Reputation with Darkspear Trolls
75 Reputation with Orgrimmar

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Rating: +140 [-] [+]

By Tupac on 07/11/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)

This quest is quite irritating, make sure to get the Flame in a Bottle from next to the quest giver after you pick up the quest.

The camp like the quest says is in between Felstone and Dalson's. It contains Hunter and Mage Scarlet Mobs primarily. Pick off the mobs individually as fighting more than one can get bad fast. Keep up a fast pace as they respawn fairly quickly. When all of them are killed burn the tent and place the flag.

Though this quest is very annoying it leads into a chain dealing with the fields in WPL and their cauldrons that give really fast and awesome EXP. Doing the whole chain line is about 70k exp and doable in about an hour. Don't get discouraged by this first quest.

Rating: +90 [-] [+]

By nullzone on 12/21/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)

The camp can be found at 40, 53.

Rating: +14 [-] [+]

By Sprea on 08/04/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)

I had real problems with this quest with my 53 warrior. I wasn't able to kill them fast enough before they respawned.

Finally I cleared out enough on the west side so I could get close enough and torch the tent and plant the banner.

If you're a meele class just use your gun or pull by presence, be careful tho since you might get more than you can handle.

Rating: +32 [-] [+]

By mattous on 05/16/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

After you complete this quest you can then do the following:

All Along the Watchtowers (56g) - https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5098 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5098 (h)
The Scourge Cauldrons (53) - https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5228 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5228 - (h)

Rating: +8 [-] [+]

By Wyndfury on 04/07/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

oh, and one more thing. You don't have to kill EVERYONE to set the tent on fire. The two first guys I killed spawned after I had killed the rest. They were a bit far away so I just went in and put the tent on fire. Piece of cake.

Rating: +16 [-] [+]

By confoo22 on 10/14/2007 (Patch 2.2.3)

I was able top just barely complete this quest at level 50 and a couple of points on this that were able to make it possible for me to finish. First off, setting the tent on fire can be done while mobs are beating on you. I had one mob shooting arrows at me and was still able to set fire to the tent. It is treated the same as a spell meter and would just slow down when I got hit. Also, you have to both set the tent on fire and plant the banner, but not at the same time. I burned the ten, was murdered by a medic (oh, the irony) and was able to come back and plant the banner a bit behind the respawned tent and got the completed message. Hope that helps anyone who might be a little too low to be able to sneak in and complete quest.

Rating: +46 [-] [+]

By adelaide on 09/10/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)

the Flame in a Bottle is in a BOX next to the quest givers.

Rating: +12 [-] [+]

By Kowalski on 11/13/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)

After patch 2.3, 7600XP @ lvl 54

Rating: +20 [-] [+]

By Rasztra on 01/24/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)

Overall, a very difficult quest. Perhaps the most difficult in the game (relative to level and Blizzard's expectations).

- Casters' Arcane Missiles are very high damage to take in.
- Hunters have pets to deal with.
- Medics can heal themselves and others.
- Mobs are bunched together, so pulling often results in aggro-ing several and running for your life.
- VERY fast respawn timers.
- Cannot plant flag in combat.

I completed the quest as a well-geared, level 51 pom-pyro mage without dying (although I ran for my life several times). Here's how I did it:

1) Make sure to take the Fire in a Bottle from behind the quest giver before you leave!
2) Use any means necessary to get to the tent and set it ablaze (by right-clicking it). You can do this in combat, and damage only slows the process down (it does not stop you from setting it on fire). I simply pulled a side towards me, casted frost nova, and ran in and set it on fire (while getting hit slightly). Then I ran for my life.
3) Approach the camp from the north, killing as fast as you can. The tent will respawn from being on fire, but don't worry about it. Keep killing until you can stand right next to the dirt patch near the tent without being in combat.
4) Use the tent given to you by the quest giver, and run for your life again.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By saknoto on 04/02/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)

This quest is NOT hard if you are a ranged class.

Pull from far away.
If you do pull more than one, kill medics first, then invokers, then hunters.
You can stand on the table and burn the tent, you dont have to kill the mobs behing the tent.

Did this without breaking a sweat as a level 52 fire mage.

Rating: +6 [-] [+]

By Chavslag on 04/03/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)

When I went to do this q another group had just burnt the tent as I arrived. Turns out that as long as you plant the flag while there's no tent, then the q counts as completed.

No fighting of annoying mobs for me :)

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Bluemage on 08/03/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)

Some helpful hints if your paladin, or partying with one. Try to pull one mob at a time, and judge seal of justice to prevent the mob from running and aggroing more enemies. When fighting the mages, I assume our arcane defense is pretty bad, so after judging justice, don't use seal of light to heal yourself, they will out damage it. Instead, spam concentration and use seal of righteousness. Kill before being killed is the main princapal for this quest.

Rating: +10 [-] [+]

By Shadowhorn on 07/04/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)

Sadly this quest requires you read the quest text and pick up the bottle of flames before going to do the quest.

Naturally I cleared all around the tent and had to run back to the NPC for the flames :D

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By bernlin2000 on 06/29/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)

Was doing fine with a 52 druid...and then I remembered I didn't have the flame in the bottle, because for some reason Blizzard decided not to give it to you when u get the quest! Overall, this is a pretty lame quest, it can be quick but if you can find some ppl to help its much easier.

Rating: +12 [-] [+]

By dev10us on 07/26/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)

The mobs on this quest are wayyyyy too close to each other and it makes me angry

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Groundlord on 07/27/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)

The mobs around the tent seem to have really f***ed up aggro tables. My Voidwalker had the attention of 3 of them while I was trying to plant the flag (didn't know that you had to be out of combat to do it), and for some reason they kept pulling off of him and attacking ME.

Rating: +8 [-] [+]

By persiarash on 04/07/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)

I don't know what you guys are talking about... I pulled the mobs one by one using lightning on my 51 shaman, and the most I ever agroed was 2... Here are some things I did which might help other shamans:

After you pull one of the mobs, run back about 10 steps and then start attacking, this way if the mob decides to run you can easily kill it before it grabs more mobs. Also if the target is attacking you from range they will have to run towards you to get within range again, which takes them away from the others.
If you have more than one mob on you and one of them is a mage, make sure you earthshock it every time the CD is up, this ensures the mage won't attack you for at least another 2 seconds. (will also make the mage run towards you if its far away)
Pulling is all about geometry, I approached this from the south side, and honestly if you just make sure that the mob won't run diagonally into other mobs you should be fine.
Don't fight the hunter's pet first, kill the hunter ASAP. Also even if you're a caster, get within melee range of the hunters, they hit much lower with their melee weapons...
And if you ever screw up, just earthbind and ghost wolf for your life (and make sure you don't run into the farm next door, it can get ugly).
Grounding Totem only takes in 1 of the mage's arcane missile hits, but its still pretty useful so use it ;P

Oh and I'm not sure about this, but the mages seemed to have a bigger agro range than the other mobs... Hope this helped :S

Rating: +12 [-] [+]

By treyska on 08/22/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)

This quest will go down in history as being the most QQ-worthy quest pre Wrath of the Lich King.

Rating: +8 [-] [+]

By Raek on 08/28/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)

this quest is way too hard for its level, the monsters are pretty much 2 feet away from each other

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Grindalwald on 09/21/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)

I died twice clearing the camp, and went to light the tent and had no flame in a bottle. DON'T FORGET TO GRAB THE FLAME IN A BOTTLE FROM THE BOX NEXT TO THE QUEST GIVER. Ran out of water the second time and couldn't clear the mobs fast enough without it. Lighting the tent can be done in combat and is an instant cast. Planting the flag is a 2 second cast and is interupted upon entering combat. I had to go back to uc to buy more more water and clear a third time to plant the flag.

Rating: +6 [-] [+]

By Durr on 09/10/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)

First off, I'd like to say that this quest is very challenging and confusing.
GRAB THE FIRE IN A BOTTLE IN THE BOX NEXT TO THE QUEST GIVER
Once you find the camp, which is around 42, 52 for coordinate users.

Pull off the mobs one at a time, it's a lot easier to do it from the north of the camp.

Once all the mobs are out of the way, right click on the tent to burn it down.
After that's out the way, right click on the flag to plant it. Make sure the tent is gone.

Once again, it's a very challenging quest, but the quests that it leads to are very good for the EXP that they deliver.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By amounirl on 01/25/2009 (Patch 3.0.8)

This quest is completely impossible for my 54 rogue :(. I'd say be at least 56 before trying...

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Artomis on 01/30/2009 (Patch 3.0.8)

Yeah a very frustrating mission for my 52 feral druid. As stated in other posts, you can set the tent on fire while getting beaten on but if you try to plant the banner while getting hit, it'll be interupted. I had to clear the 3 mobs on the north side of the tent along with the mob outside the tent before I could plant it without interuption. The mobs are so close together that they often chain aggro with 2-3 at a time. After lots of bearing up and running away, I found I was able to pull them one at a time with star or moon fire if I got lucky but be prepared for 2 or more at a time. Best done with a group or a pet.

Rating: +26 [-] [+]

By wye43 on 02/22/2009 (Patch 3.0.9)

I completed this quest on 8 alts during 4 years, and I forget to take the flame in a bottle every damn time. Bad quest design.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By CGoblin on 03/13/2009 (Patch 3.0.9)

If you have two people and are still having trouble... Don't party. Have one run in and grab aggro while you do your thing and then do the same for the other person. Easiest way.

53 Hunter and I still had a problem with it solo. The burning the tent isn't the problem... It's just planting the flag out of combat.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Phoenyxx on 03/15/2009 (Patch 3.0.9)

First go around, this quest was very difficult. Tried running through, killing as quickly as possible, but still ended up getting swarmed. My level 51 Hunter went in with a level 51 priest, decent armor, but not the greatest.

Figured out a fantastic way around having to kill all the men that surround the tent:
- Make sure you have both the flame and the flag.
- Must have two players; both must be mounted.
- One person streaks through the camp on their mount, left to right. Passing between the tent and the table seems best, as the casters are to the left and the hunters to the right. Following only a little ways behind, the second person can burn the tent. Back off until all the men return and then go through again, the same way, this time placing the flag.

If you don't get knocked off your mount, you should be able to keep a tight train and not pull aggro to the person burning and flagging. A PRIEST was able to act as diversion for me to flag and burn, so this should work for any combination of classes.

After working with this method, we were able to complete this quest in about 30 minutes. It only took this long because there is a short learning curve.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By SaltyWound on 02/03/2009 (Patch 3.0.8)

The most unfair quest in the entire game....

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By shakman on 04/17/2009 (Patch 3.1.0)

Right next to quest giver there is a box. You must open it in order to take https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=12814 Flame in a Bottle. The camp is at https://vanillawowdb.com/?maps=28:400510 40:51 in https://vanillawowdb.com/?zone=28 Western Plaguelands. It is not too difficult. Just kill some of the mobs to get to the tent, than use Flame in a Bottle and after that use https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=12807 Scourge Banner. after that all you can go back to quest giver https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=10837 (Hight Executor Derrington).

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Pacatafox on 04/19/2009 (Patch 3.1.0)

As in the words of Comic Book Guy

Worst Quest Everrrrr.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Ipown on 04/22/2009 (Patch 3.1.1)

where do i get ""Flame in a Bottle"" from? please tell me this quest is quiet annoying! thanks! =D

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Mchnnc on 04/25/2009 (Patch 3.1.1)

This has to be one of the worst quests i have ever done. After about 10 tries i did solo it on a 50 enhance shaman though :)

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By black0g on 07/04/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)

This is still one of the anoying quests in wow, have had trouble with my fury warrior lvl 55,
And like always forgot to pick up the fire bottle. Dont forget the bottle when you pick up the quests.

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By wolheart on 05/23/2009 (Patch 3.1.2)

As a lvl 51 protection pally, this quest was a piece of cake especially having a healing druid nearby.The hunters are preatty awfull especially if you're a spellcaster so try getting in melee range for them since they will hit MUCH less damage and way slower.

Hope this helped you

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By Thoseguys1 on 05/29/2009 (Patch 3.1.2)

Did easy as a level 54 hunter, made one mistake tho, sent my dog in as a tank and pulled a huge mob! Next try I just put him on passive, shot each one to pull then let the dog loose and shot away. Took about 3 minutes to kill all of em, burn the tent and plant the flag, very easy one for this level anyway.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By Playnice on 06/12/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)

Do you need to get the call to arms quest before you can get this one?

Rating: +2 [-] [+]

By kaskait on 10/06/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)

I completed this as a 53 Demon Lock.

Its rough because all the enemies are tightly packed together. But they can be pulled away and separated if you work carefully. However you my die once or twice in the process.

For locks, put your pet on passive. Since there are a lot of casters, use the felhunter.

Make sure you have the Fire in the Bottle and the flag.

I approached from behind the tent. Pulled the invoker there, let him chase me then set the felhunter on him. After finishing him, I took down one of the hunters. Then worked my way around the left side of the tent, the side with all the Medics. The Medics can be pulled one by one. But watch out, at the end they run in fear and pull other medics. After clearing a small patch, I set the felhunter on the invoker in front of the tent. After getting rid of that enemy, I set the tent on fire and planted the flag.

Don't loot the bodies, these enemies rez fast. Be careful with the use of fear. You may send an enemy straight into the middle of the camp. Keep Curse of Tongue up on the casters at all times. It will slow them down a bit.

If you are an alchemist, Lifeblood is extremely valuable. You can cast it and completely heal during a fight.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By m4ttyy on 09/28/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)

easy quest for a 53 shaman

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By tasik on 12/12/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)

if the quest is too hard then simply clear the arrea with one of your lvl80 chars. ^^

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By GoHF on 06/16/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)

If you have a high level character on the same server, log the lower level character off near the camp, log on your high level character and clear the camp. Although the mobs respawn quite fast, you'll have enough time to relog on your lower level character and complete the quest. This is an unusually tough quest for the level it's available, as mobs are quite packed, many are ranged and you must be out of combat to complete the quest.

Rating: +4 [-] [+]

By daergel on 05/07/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)

This, and then https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5098 All Along the Watchtowers are hidden prequests for the start of the quest chain for the key to https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=838 Scholomance

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