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Comment by meflak

Home of the Sunken Temple (https://www.wowhead.com/cata/zone=1417). This zone is particularly used by horde because of the base in the south. It serves as a very good zone to raise herbalism skill and as a gateway to the Blasted Lands in the south.

Comment by Novaheart

This place is also good for skinners with emerald whelps just south of the entrance to deadwind pass, as well as a chance to drop whelplings and good for grinding, also it has a lost one village north of the sunken temple as well as one of the common spots where the quest item that starts "Lost supplies" is located. Higher Levels and grind on the green dragonkin around the temple.
If your alliance you should also stop by Nethergrade Keep in the blasted lands since there's no flight point here :(.

Comment by 74110

What exactly is the best way to get here when you're around level 40?

Comment by Shockna

I took the trip down from Arathi today, and I SERIOUSLY don't recommend it to anyone. It took me almost half an hour. Would have been longer if I couldn't use my Mount on the strips of walkable land.

I'll test the Deadwind Pass route tomorrow, and post the results here.

Comment by sirkendo

It's very possible to go through Deadwind Pass to get to Swamp of Sorrows, even at an early level. Just make sure to avoid the Sky Shadows (buzzards) and don't miss the turn into the swamp itself as there are a number of mobs between the entrance to the swamp and Karazhan. Ogres, for the most part.

Comment by TheOnyx

To confirm what people seem to be wondering: Taking Deadwind Pass to get to the Swamp of Sorrows is the easiest method. If you stay on the road and do not deviate to any of the side paths, you can do this as a level 30-ish player with no problems. The mobs in the area are significantly higher than level 30, but they are also notably off the beaten path.

Comment by 90237

the monsters are in the 30's and the 40's i suggest u dont go there till probably 34

Comment by 65655

ok those are all lies to day on my 43 i tryed to get to swamp of sorrows and thew hole way there ?? vulture i died then walked 2 the graveryard in swamp then took rez sickness

Comment by 64485

I apologize for asking a question here, but anyways, are there many players here? Also, is there an Alliance town here?

Comment by 131361

is ther a FP here?

Comment by 131361

a non horde FP

Comment by Sanevin

The nearest Non-horde FP is in Nethergard Keep, just south of the entrance to the Blasted Lands.

Comment by 167773

always wondered why SOS is shaped like an giant axe head:S, and with the yellow beach as it's sharp edge (on the map thats it;)

p.s where the road to blasted lands leads is a perfect place to put the shaft:P

Comment by 74126

wasnt swamp of sarrows and blasted lands all part of the black morass?

Comment by FarseerLolotea

The name is likely a shout-out to the Swamp of Sadness in the book (and loosely-inspired film series) The Neverending Story.

Comment by 204713

Where is the harborage for the exploration achievement?

Comment by 240632

Does anyone know where sorrowmurk is? I have been running around trying to find it for an hour...trying to get the achievement for exploring swamp of sorrows...

Comment by bioanarchism

Has anyone realized that Swamp of Sorrows bears an uncanny resemblance to a place in the book titled "The NeverEnding Story", in which a place is called Swamps of Sadness.

It is mentioned in the portion where the rider goes off to find a wizard for assistance.

Comment by deolrin

The name, Swamp Of Sorrows, is actually a reference to The Lost Vikings, another game by Blizzard. A picture of Eric, a character from The Lost Vikings, talking about it-image.

Comment by SpitefulCrow

For those of us on PvE servers who don't want to really PvP, a word of warning; NPCs from Stonard patrol around various areas and they are flagged for PvP. If you kill one you'll be flagged for 5 minutes.

Comment by hanky

Also there is a box at 37.3 - 35.6 that gives this quest
https://www.wowhead.com/cata/quest=1423

Comment by FishHead

The Alliance questgivers in Kalimdor sure love sending you way out to this zone for random crap.

Comment by 424187

On the Venture Co realm Stonard is home to a The Black Tooth Grin,
If your a level 80 alliance the easiest path to get to the swamp is to go from Nethergrande Keep in the Blasted Lands.

Comment by VanderBurg

I'm curious about the mining nodes I see that appear to be below the surface, around the south edge, by Stonard. Are these nodes in the instance, or a cave?

Comment by 630455

awesome i noticed there's a new path going from burning steppes, through redridge mountains, and ending in the swamp of sorrows. nice.

Comment by 616859

is there any way to get to swamp of sorrows on foot from badlands?

Comment by 360166

The instance start point has changed. It is now located in the Hall of Masks (which is the first room you enter coming down the stairs from the Broken Hall (the room you swim into).

Also the instance has been drastically changed. The upper floors have been removed. The script for killing the Avatar of Hakkar has been removed. The layout of the bottom floor is unchanged.

Now, simply get the kill quests from Lord Itharius (Jammal'an the Prophet, Eranikus, The Blood God Hakkar) at the instance start, then kill the mobs in order (Jammal'an, Eranikus, then Avatar of Hakkar).

I assume these mobs have been similarly nerfed, but am not certain as I just went through here with my 80 warlock.

Comment by 710331

At the moment, at least with the patches distributed and the Farstrider server, Swamp of Sorrows was either not tested or is really broken.

There is a tree in the middle of the building in the Harborage next to the quest giver, and you only see it if you are facing some directions.

Then the building itself is a bit off the ground, so when you come in the front ramp, you can run UNDER the ramp and building.. great fun.

Then the water in many of the northern swamp areas are devoid of water graphic.. though you find that you do suddenly hold your breath for no apparent reason.. until you see the water of a nearby region from the side ... hovering several feet in the air. This over a large swath of area in the north of the zone.

Someone needs to fix this nonsense at Blizzard BEFORE they ship out the changes.

Comment by 754831

In the Burning Steppes, North-east of Morgan's Vigil is a female goblin and a rocket. Not sure about horde, however talking to her lets you ride a rocket straight to Bogpaddle (In Swamps of Sorrow).

She is located just before the east path into Redridge.

Bogpaddle is a neutral town it seems so id say horde can hitch a 'Fast' ride there too :)

Comment by 671108

The green hue on everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is reminiscent of anything Borg. Gives the place a creepy feel.

Comment by Vampiriklown

the females name is Sharon Boomgetter and she is located at 78, 58 and yes she does work for horde as well

Comment by iranou

Once you arrive at Bogpaddle, be sure to get the flightpath there as it's the only way in (for Alliance at least).
For some reason Blizz didn't include a path from SW to The Harborage or Marshtide Watch (or even one via Darkshire), meaning I had to fly back to Morgan's Vigil again and run...

Comment by 133344

The quests transitioning from Burning Steppes to Swamp of Sorrows are different for Horde and Alliance.

The Alliance version is The Bogpaddle Bullet.
The Horde version is The Bogpaddle Bullet.

Comment by Tykku

Those looking for the Midsummer Fires they are both outside of Bogpaddle in the north east corner of the map at 74,13

Comment by 863547

Amg It's like the First War All over again.

Comment by lightcry

There is a hint to the next world of warcraft expansion...Mists of Panderia in the area

excatly at 91.2 , 40.9 just east of Sorrowmurk

there is a turttle with an asian style object on it's back

probaly to hint out that panderians came to the eastern kingdom before

which also very close to the dark portal

Hope i was helpfull :P

P.S Added a screenshot

Comment by 928054

wile in my way to farm Shifting Mireglob(trial account)
I was hoping that as a druid, i could solo them, so i didnt have to multibox a few hunters
I saw the guards @ the harborage, but they would not kill the add, can i get them to kill it for me?
Or is it the fact its a neutral mob?

Comment by Thottbot

ANy allaince towns or outposts here?

Comment by Thottbot

From the griffon in Duskwood you go up the road away from town into Dead Man's Pass. Take it straight without wandering off any side roads until you get to Swamp of Sorrows. If you take side roads, you'll get eaten by 55+ vultures.

There are swamp jaguars in there but I don't know about their attack speed, you'll have to go there and cast beast lore on one to see if it's what you're looking for.

Comment by Thottbot

Posted by abalonia1 on 2005-07-20 13:33:25 Someone told me that whelpings were a drop off a mob in SoS...is this true?

In reguard to this question...

The mob who drops the Tiny Emerald Whelpling is called the Dreaming Whelpling, ranging in level from about 34-36. The drop is VERY rare (according to this site, almost 0.01%, or 1 in every 2300+ kills), though some reportedly have obtained it quite easily.

These mobs are scattered loosely across the swamp, though the largest concentration can be found at the extreme west of the zone.

Another thing to remember is that the Dreaming Whelplings are also accompanied by a similar mob entitled the Adolescent Whelpling, so no NOT devote your time to killing these, unless you need to freshen the ground with respawns.

The Tiny Emerald Whelpling is the rarest of the collectible Whelplings, and most sought after non-combat pet. They sell generally for a minimum of 100g at the AH. So if you're approaching 40, and still don't have enough "mount money"... ^_~

Comment by Thottbot

Yes swamp jaguars are 2nd fastest pet and the crocs here are pretty good dps.Well if ur hunter get to 37 and tame broken tooth in badlands with attack speed 0.96 :) hope that helps m8

Comment by Thottbot

what is the recomanded lvl for this zone?

Comment by Thottbot

would a lvl 40 hunter be able to survive here?

And what is the lvl requirement for the instance in the temple?

Comment by Thottbot

the green dragonkins aren't elite anymore.
you can grind them for Exp and worn/green dragonscales. g'luck

Comment by Thottbot

POS 61,21 in fallow sanctuary (swamp of sorrows)

Comment by Thottbot

WTG Blizzard, no vendor that sells arrows. Sheesh.

Comment by Thottbot

closest ones are in darkshire in duskwood (gotta travel though deadwind pass, and stay on the road!) or netherguarde keep, in the blasted lands. that's the one i favor, because its closest. ngk is at the top left of the map.

Comment by Thottbot

Easy to get this zone throu the Deadwind Pass (from Darkshire to the east) No mobs on the way. Encountered highlevel mob means that you are wrong turned :) This location is Paradise for herbalist-alchemist. Tones of Fadeleaf, Khalgar's Whisker and Blindweed. Only Aliance post located North, just turn left on the first "fork" then turn left after first bridge (coords are 47,54). There are few quests and no vendors and flightmaster :(

Comment by Thottbot

Up in the north west of the zone there is a little enclosed area called Misty Valley, which is full of level 38-41 elementals- perfect for grinding. By the time I had cleared the area once most of them had respawned, so there is almost no downtime (and that was on a level 41 Hunter too ^^). Just a tip I'd though I would share.

Oh, and those elementals go down really easy, so a good xp/hr rate too!

Comment by Thottbot

I found a group of quest givers (From Exodar mostly)
at 26,32.

I found some goldthorn (sells for about 1g per plant) in the area, mostly near the hills.)
I have only one blindweed as yet.

The way to get here is to head on eastward from darkshire, chosing eastward on every path choice. It worked. Wrong directions are north or south. You can use the roads to get here, just gotta chose the right roads.

Sean

Comment by Thottbot

the passage way to get there from darkshire is at (33,35)

Comment by Thottbot

can you go around the alliance town darkshire what level are the guards there

Comment by Thottbot

So in my NElf hunters younger days I swear I saw a huge dragon. In the area around the wyrmkins a dragon like the rare spawn in Blasted lands that took a few lvl 60s to take down. Now I checked the rare beast list for this zone and its not listed. Anyone else seen this thing. He was a skull to me at the time so not sure what lvl he was but he one shot me easily.

Comment by Thottbot

If you're really into avoiding confrontation, you can always swim south out of Hinterlands, or swim north from Stranglethorn Vale, and just swim along the coastline... LOL!

But seriously, when I was leveling my first toon, I swam out of Revantusk Village and found my way to SoS and eventually Stonard.

Or just beg a mage to port you to Stonard (horde) or whatever the Alliance equivalent is, since that is a feature now. :D

Comment by Thottbot

If you need supplies or repairs and you're alliance, the closest place is probably the Blasted Lands, which has an alliance stronghold just on the boarder of the zone, and a flight path.

Comment by Thottbot

I found a different way to get here. I went to redridge and climbed the mountains on the bottom right side and there is a little opening you can climb up to and and from there you can jump down to the swamp of sorrows. I had to use my soul stone though because the fall will kill you. I've never gotten there any other way. I'll get cords later on.

Comment by Allakhazam

For those doing the Nat Pagle quest (Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme Location of Misty Reed Strand is most of the eastern coastline in sawmp of sorrows.

Comment by Allakhazam

kek ^_-

Comment by Allakhazam

how do i get here?

Comment by Allakhazam

theres nothing here but a smart-mouthed BE. didnt attack me (human pally lvl 40) he doesnt do anything but talk. to get to his cave you have to go through adolesant and dreaming whelps. not so bad.

Comment by Allakhazam

Comment by Wyr3d

For the Awesome Horde

In case you were wondering, there doesn't appear to be any breadcrumbs for this zone. The best you get is this quest from some flea-bitten Gelkis in Desolace that sends you to Swamp of Sorrows, passing a couple of undead at a broken own keep in Duskwood who offer up a small quest chain that's in the swamp.

Although there are a bunch of other quests in an orc camp, no breadcrumbs direct you there, so you can either finish up the zone before you return to Desolace, or come back later and complete them at your leisure.

For Alliance Scum

Meh, your pathetic faction only has five quests in the swamp. All but one are given by the same human filth, and he ends most of them. There doesn't appear to be any breadcrumbs. Why are you here anyway? Did you wish to see how sharp the blade of an axe is?

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