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Comment by TheOnyx

This is the zone of choice for mining Dark Iron Ore outside of an instance. However, this being the case, it is also farmed for Dark Iron Ore pretty heavily.

Rich Thorium Veins also show up pretty often in the western part of the zone.

Comment by 8063

This zone is AMAZING for money making, especially if you are a patient farmer. Mining and Skinning, and killing mobs here will help you in your money making ways. For you mob killers out there, the best place imho, is the Blackrock Stronghold. These mobs here contain low armor, and are easily killable. They drop 8-14s each time, along with chances of blues, greens, and even the rare purple items. Also, their is 3 chest spawn points within this vicinity dropping food to replenish you.

If you are a miner, this is also the best place for rich thorium veins. If you find a constant route from mine to mine, you can easily farm 20 ores in 1 run, and a chance at arcane crystals or sapphires to sell for even more money.

As well their is the black dragons just northwest of the Blackrock stronghold. Here, you can kill these easy 56-57 mob elites, and skin them for black dragonscales, which sell really well to warlocks cause they need these for their dreadsteed quest.

GL to you and your money making!

Comment by 9859

This is THE zone to be in for leveling up your tradeskills. Large Thorium is all over the place, dragons are ripe for skinning and there is dreamfoil to be picked. Getting those farming skills up is difficult but spending time here is definately worth your while.

When you hit 60, the mobs don't hurt as much which is a plus when you are trying to get around one for a thorium deposit!

Comment by kcorb

I grinded from 58-60 on the orc mobs, their currency drops gave me a headstart on my way to 150 riding skill cost.

I recommend this zone for all 60 hopefuls.

Comment by 41983

hey guys i just got one simple question........
how the hell do you get there?? plz reply to me if you kno?

Comment by 41983

and is there a FP to any where in there or near??

Comment by Nefarian

Where is the Alliance FP?

Comment by 51192

Interestingly, it's possible to reach the Steppes from Badlands, around the middle of the very southern part (the mountains look sort of thin around there). However, once you get there, there appears to be lots of "glass walls;" that is, hypothetical walls you can't see, but which prevent you from moving. Luckily, you can go east and get down to the regular parts that aren't bugged.

Just a little curiosity I discovered.

Comment by 44454

Easiest Way To Get There For Horde Would Be To Start At Badlands Then Run To Blackrock Mountain In searing Gorge Once You Get Inside.. Take All Rights And Poof You're There. Now To Find A FP If There Is One.

Comment by 46507

The atmosphere of this zone is just brilliant, coupled with Searing Gorge and Blackrock Mountain in the middle this brings back all those great memories of the Depths, the Spire, the Core and of course Blackwing Lair.

As other posters have pointed out this is also a good place to level some of your tradeskills, gather cloth and money and it's also the place where you'll find one of the demons for the Hunter epic Molten Core quest - which nobody probably still does, but was great in it's time.

Comment by dusk

The place you can fish in Burning Steppes is inside Dreadmaul Rock. If you enter the northeastern cave at 82,38 there's some small lakes inside.

Comment by 95618

The Horde Flightpath is in the cave near the graveyard.

Comment by 95968

Imho Burning Steppes is one of the worst lvl areas for new players.Mobs EVERYWHERE and with too much life! I'd suggest more xperienced players to try it it would be very good for xp.

Comment by 93804

I've heard about you being able to reach Searing gorge through blackrock mountains, is this true?

Comment by 117939

Horde FP is at 65.24 north of the ruins of thaurissan

Comment by 133576

Where is Blackrock Strongholm.. Kind of New..

Comment by 138087

Hey guys

Some questions:

This is 50-58 zone right? (good to go b4 outlands right?)
And there is also plenty of Dark Iron/Thorium Veins here right?

Got that down...

Where do you get some quests that leads this way? Kinda interested in getting some b4 getting here ....

Thanks !

Comment by Roquez

I seriously dont get it.

As an ally I can't get through Kargath and into Searing Gorge and then into Burning Steppes because Kargath is Horde. I can't get through the buggy invinsible wall that Reticeo mentioned. The Valley of Kings in Lock Modan is blocked, and I dont even know where it leads to.

As an ally I really can't find any ways to Burning Steppes from the north part (Badlands) and I can't either find any way into Searing Gorge.

Being ally is actually pretty tough.

Comment by jwz122

Easiest way for horde who have the flight plan in Badlands, is to fly there and take the path at 7,61 into the Burning Steppes. The path is in the center left side of the map. Just south of Kargath. Easy to miss but you can see the opening on your map, stay along the mountains.

Comment by 154186

I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but around the Pillar of Ash, there's a giant statue of some hero whose name I don't know.
At the feet of this statue grows a single flower.

Anybody know who the statue depicts?

Comment by 167903

Thats Lothar.

Comment by 169060

Is burning steppes have dragons moving around it? just asking bcoz i saw few of them when i took flight to Ironforge..

Comment by 191356

If going to Ironforge from this Alliance flight point, it flys over Stormwind then back to Ironforge (irritating). Takes over 5 minutes. If you don't care whether you go to SW or IF choose SW as it is faster.

Comment by Laihendi

This place is very similar to how I always imagined Mordor being. It even has its own mountain and everything... cute :D

Comment by 223475

How to get there, because I didn't find it right away I post here the path!

From the Searing Gorge go in Blackrock Mountains where you usually go for BRD or LBRS, there is a circle path there! follow the circle a bit and soon there is a way out of the circle for Burning Steppes!

Comment by 225451

Alliance Flight path - 84,68

Horde Flight path -65.24

Comment by 237728

I am a just -about-to -turn lvl 50 Warrior, and this place is extremely scary! lol. I love Blackrock mountain though. I cant wait to be able to do some damage in there.

Comment by Starkie

I would say level 50+ is a fine level to do Burning Steppes.

Comment by 166878

If you are a miner this is probably one of the best zones to do when you are over 50 but not ready for outland, lots of thorium and dark iron.

Comment by hellrex81

i have a lvl 51 mage can i quest hear or am i to low and if i am where should i go quest befor i start to quest hear?

Comment by 258919

These steppes were formerly part of the Redridge Mountains before the Dark Irons came here after their exile. They established a colony called Thaurissan, but their sorcery turned out to be their undoing. Their thane, a mad sorcerer named Thaurissan, tried to summon elemental minions to aid him against the Ironforge and Wildhammer Dwarves, instead he summoned the elemental fire lord Ragnaros. Ragnaros’ arrival melted several mountains in this range and forged a great volcano in the blast’s epicenter. Now, the remaining Dark Irons live as puppets to Ragnaros and his fire elementals, who dwells under Blackrock Spire. Orcs also came here after the Second War and maintain settlements around and within the volcano, the climate being to their liking.

Source: http://www.wowiki.com/Burning_Steppes

Comment by blademage

are the here npc's "fire resistant" because in most areas like this they are?

Comment by 465359

Thanks for telling how to get there, i ran around FOREVER trying to find the whay in.

Comment by 469444

There's an area on the map, 'Black Rock Pass', that, if you haven't discovered yet, covers up the area to the east of 'Pillar of Ash"... the actual 'Black Rock Pass' however is uncovered when you discover 'Morgan's Vigil'. This makes it really hard to tell where to go to get this area to defog... I spent about 15min wandering around the fogged over area of my map trying to get it to update before I tried wandering outside the fogged area and got the update by going down the road leading South out of the area.

Comment by Mackathne

what the heck is this? i found the horde FP and everything, but theres no inn or repair! could anyone tell me where the inn / repair is inn Burning Steppes, or if there even is one?

Comment by 366288

There is a furnace at 42,54.

Comment by lukacolic

Where's the Molten Core instance exactly,i mean the coordinates.

Comment by 165543

There are now large packs of mobs near blackrock stronghold where you can kite 15 mobs at a time, they are all nonelite but a good way to do in a town, although most non-cities will probably be overwhelmed way too fast so if your planning to do lakeshire on a low pop server choose the flamekin imps.

Comment by rottenzombie

For a leveling zone,the new design is surprisingly inconvenient for players.

There is no repair, no inn, there is a grand total of 1 vendor, so every time you wanna clear your bag you have to get to Flame Crest

I wonder which developer it was that decided he is gonna play it cool and not follow through with the customary template in every other leveling zone.

Comment by 710331

Wow, what did they do to this zone? So as an existing character who completed Burning Steppes, I now have 0 of 40 of the Burning Steppes Quests achievement. But when I go to the steppes and visit Morgan's Vigil and the new Chiselgrip site.... there is ONE quest available, and it sends you into an instance.

So where are these 40 quest I'm supposedly to do?

I thought these things were all beta tested.. what the hell did they test? Clearly NOT the stuff they published in the 4.x patches.

Comment by Prophyria

For Loremaster seekers. In order to get quests at burning steppes, you must go first to searing gorge (thorium point). A npc will give you a quest that starts burning steppes's quests.

Comment by wharris

Guide to Burning Steppes quests:

Optional breadcrumbs:
Hero's Call: Burning Steppes or Mouton Flamestar

Do anytime before leaving to Chiselgrip:
Done Nothing Wrong

Keeshan is back with either:
Burning Vengeance if you did the Redridge chain or Burning Vengeance if you did not.

These three at once:
Stocking Up
A Future Project
Mud Hunter

Then:
The Sand, the Cider, and the Orb

These two at once: Warlocks Have the Neatest Stuff and Shadow Boxing

Then:
Return to Keeshan
Chiselgrip, the Heart of the Steppes

Enables these quests, which must be completed before General Thor'izog in the main chain:
Prove Yer Allegiance
Scrapped Golems (leads to Golem Training)

Main chain continues:
A Needle in a Hellhole
A Perfect Costume (4 versions) Read the quest carefully. What creature disguise do you need?
---> Orc (given to Humans and Dwarves): 2 Hides, 4 muds, 2 thread
---> Goblin (given to Gnomes): 1 hide, 3 mud, 4 thread
---> Troll (given to Night Elves): 3 Hides, 2 mud, 1 thread
---> Ogre (given to Draenei and Worgen): 4 Hide, 1 Mud, 3 thread

Then:
Into the Black Tooth Hovel
Grunt Work
Look in your quest log -- Strategic Cuts has silently appeared
The Kodocaller's Horn
Taking the Horn for Ourselves
Until Blizzard fixes it, when you turn in this quest, you will get a failed quest sound
with "You don't meet the requirements for that quest". Don't panic.

You must by this time have finished Stebben's quests, listed above.
General Thorg'izog
Trial by Magma
I Am the Law and I am the Lash
When you accept the above, look for Abuse of Power in your quest log

Then:
Enough Damage for One Day
Morgan's Vigil

Completing that quest allows for these four together:
SEVEN! YUP!
Blackened Ashes
A Heap of Delicious Worg
Latent Demons of the Land

Then these three together:
Blood Tour
Draconic Vanguard
A Deal with a Dragon

Given when third one above is completed: Placing the Pawns

Then these three:
A Delivery for Thorg'izog
A Delivery for Neeralak
A Delivery for Zi'lun

Auto-accepted when above three are done:
Locked and Loaded

And the epic conclusion:
Assault on Dreadmaul Rock
Glory Amidst Chaos
The Spoils of War

Comment by 814507

This zone is a failure in terms of ease. The lack of vendors, and inns is apparent as soon as you get there. It's better than Badlands I suppose; even with the re-vamped goblin content I still hate that zone. I'll have to go with this, and hope dungeons can carry me through this level set until I'm blessed with the heaven I consider the Blasted Lands (I'm a paladin and can easily control demons in combat, and I'm also a fisherman, the Blasted Lands has a lot for me)

Comment by Superczar

This zone also suffers from a lack of "ok go to this zone next" type of breadcrumb quest; yes, I know there is the one from the Warchief's Command Board to goto Swamp of Sorrows, but Blizzard had done such a nice job of putting you on the path from one zone to the next up until now.

Comment by NoobSauce123

Looks like Cataclysm Hit Early here.

Comment by serpentea

Apparently this zone randomly bursts into flame... no idea why though...? It is practically everywhere and kills practically everything. Was so intense it caused a noticeable FPS drop.

Comment by 920857

great place to level your mining skill seeing how many mithril, gold & truesilver veins spawn there. in one run around the burning steppes i got 50 mithril ore, 13 gold ore & 4 truesilver ore.

Comment by Thottbot

Take WR to Kargath (Badlands). Go to searing gorge. Go to blackrock mountain, turn left and follow it around to the other side.

Huzzah!

Comment by Thottbot

There is a flight path at flame crest 65,24 =D

Comment by Thottbot

Actually, there's a Horde flight path north of the ruins of Thaurissan in a place called Flame Crest.

Comment by Thottbot

/tloc 84,68

Comment by Thottbot

/tloc 65,24

Comment by Thottbot

there is also an alliance flightpath. i forget the name of it. its on the south wall. just as you enter burning steps from redridge hang a right and it is right there.

morgan's vigil maybe?

Comment by Thottbot

I have been trying for HOURS to get a map update for the area Southwest of Dreadmaul Rock, but it's just not working. And I ask in general chat, and none of the 13+ people responds (repeatedly asking, but not spamming). Is it broken or something?

Alright, I feel stupid now. You have to follow the road from Redridge to get it to map, even if the road is already on your map.

Comment by Thottbot

There is an entrance to Burning Steppes from Searing Gorge without going through Blackrock Mountain. You need a mount, of course. If you go to the leathercrafter in the southeastern part of SG then head due south, you will reach the zone boundary in the form of a wall. To your right you will see an enbankment, which you can climb, with some spiders. This is the area which is patrolled by an elemental and where Mithril usually spawns. Once up there, position yourself so you can see Burning Steppes and move as close to it as possible without falling down the enbankment. Mount up, if you had not already, and run and jump on to the barrier between the zones. You can make it without much difficulty. Once up there you can slide down into either zone. Useful for players who can't make it through BRM but its also a major shortcut if you are coming from Badlands. I would give coords, but I am at work and they dont let me WoW here.

Comment by Thottbot

its easy
go in blackrock mountain
walk around the big circle, exit at south
and ur there!

Comment by Thottbot

You have to really scramble up some rocks, but it can be done by going from 60,82 to 57,87 in the Searting gorge. Jumping down from 57,87 gets you to 47, 20 in the Burning Steppes. Head east hugging the mountains and you'll find the wind rider master at Flame Crest without much trouble.

Yes you can get there from Red Mountains, but if you're Horde, they don't exactly put out the welcome mat when they see you coming through.

Comment by Thottbot

I spent ages lookin for the alliance flight path and Morgan's Vigil, went to the horde place first by accident cos the first post I read about it didn't say which it was horde or alliance =/
Anyway I found it and any alliance who can't find it it's at 84/68. :)

Comment by Thottbot

Allience flight path = Morgins' Vigal -South-west

Horde flight path =Flame crest- north

Comment by Thottbot

There's really no reason to go scrambling over rocks or fight elites. No agro in BR Mountain, as you exit go left (East). Just past Thassaurian (or whatever it is :P) on your left turn into the hills. You can avoid all mobs, and the board path to the FP is directly behind the camp.

Comment by Thottbot

All of these directions SUCK! you dont need to climb the mountain or take any jankie ways around BRD. Just GO IN! Enter and keep to the right and you will be in Burning Steppes TAH DAH!

Comment by Thottbot

You can also get into Burning steppes from Redridge! Dont know why you can get from the low lvl zone and a high lvl but i works i tested it myself

In redridge you need to go the the point 2. closest to north. and then you see a gate THATS OPEN! and its lead to burning steppes

Note: Only Alliance should use this way

From Zenanor in Zenadar

Comment by Thottbot

DIRECTIONS FROM SG: In case you were somewhat confused by the directions above, ride into the mountain--you'll see a plank bridge leading up to it. Turn left and keep going. You'll pass the summoning stone. You may think you're supposed to keep running, but take a left down a corridor that looks like it ends in a chamber on your minimap, but it doesn't: it dumps you onto a ramp in BS. This is so easy you'll think you went in a circle by mistake, since BS looks like SG. If you're riding to the Horde FP go left. You have to avpid some bad guys just before you get there (it's an encampment like Un'goro), but they are lower lvl--53ish--than the orcs you see from the road--57. And if you just keep riding and cros a little bridge and ride up to them, the guys chasing you stop.

FYI, unless you have a reason to come here, consider staying in Felwood, Winterspring--whatever--if you're Horde. I came for something different but it's pretty boring--the instance is supposed to be interesting, though...

Comment by Thottbot

GETTING TO BS FROM KARGOTH, BADLANDS...
Go south from kargoth and on your right you will see a little path. coords 0,62. That path will take you into the Searing Gorge. Continue SW in SG till you see Blackrock Mt. Follow the path over one little bridge, continue and then you will see another wooden bridge headed into the mountain. Go inside Take first left...go past Summon Stone, take first left after that and run down the long stoney ramp and whala! You are in the Burning Steppes.

Comment by Thottbot

its the most northern cave =]

Comment by Thottbot

I hear people complaining about the mountain jump shortcut. Yes, we all know you can run through BRM and get to the other side. But if you're coming from BADLANDS, and you're HORDE, the path to jump over the ledge and into Burning Steppes will just, quite frankly, save you about 10 minutes of running, because it puts you just west of the horde flight path in BS as well. Also, it's very easy to do.

Comment by Thottbot

My want to note: there is a small ditch at 42,62 that if you fall in, i guarentee you won't be able to get out. You've been warned. It may be small, but you'll be using your hearth or port.

Comment by Thottbot

I'm surprised no one mentioned the fact that you can also get into BS from Redridge. It's probably safer for Low-Level (18-48) Alliance by simply running into the Zone and getting the FP. Don't venture any futher or you will be one-shoted.

Comment by Thottbot

Where do horde make there inn while questing here? and where do you pick up all the quests? also how do you get here?

Comment by Thottbot

How do i get to the burning steppes? and to the FP, from thorium point?

Comment by Thottbot

What the **** are pictures of Ashenvale doing on a page of a area on a completely different side of the world? and of the dragon none the less?

Comment by Thottbot

yah um those screenshots are not exactly helpful see'n as they r of FREAKING ASHENVALE!
but hey idk thats just my opinion.

Comment by Thottbot

I was having the same problem with not being able to discover that area near the bottom but if you just follow the trail out of the Burning Steppes you will end up discovering it.

Comment by Thottbot

ummm im a level 49 dwarf hunter and im questing and leveling here my question is...is there a better place for me be in? its vary hard to kill those orgs (well not so hard,my pet aggros a lot thats all)so is there a better place? please anser.(sorry for any misspelling)