World of Warcraft secret hunters are a noble breed, known for scouring the MMO for years for hidden trinkets and treasures. With World of Warcraft: Forever’s launch, they’ve uncovered a quest chain for an especially fancy sword.
Over the past week, members of the WoW Secret Hunters Discord found a quest chain that takes place entirely on the Zephras Isle, meaning you’ll need to have access to the Skyborne elves to grab this sword. Navigating the island, you’ll need to first pick up an ancient heirloom ring from the starting zone. Simple enough!
Then, you’ll need to head to Duskwood to gather the Night Watchman’s Torch, a handy light source primarily used to light up areas across the darkened woods near Stormwind. It turns out this torch has uses far beyond this one zone however, as taking it back to the Ruins of Ban’aethal on the Zephras Isle will reward you with a secret quest and the Ancient Hilt.
With the hilt and ring, you then must track down an Ancient Blade from one of several spawn locations on the Zephras Isle. Once you finally track it down, that’s the end of part one of this quest chain. You get the sword: Eluvi’ana, which on its own isn’t particularly strong, but is speculated to be upgraded later down the line.
You then need to get a corrupted water globe from either Darkshore or the Blackfathom Deeps dungeon depending on your faction, do a fetch quest for a hidden spirit in Ashenvale, then take your hoard of special quest items to a NPC in the new Shen’Dralar zone.
He won’t give you the finished sword. Instead he sends you to gather more items from higher-level zones. You’ll need to raid a secluded vault in Feralas that you can only see with the Ancient Hilt, dive underwater in Azshara, and kill Highborne Shades in Winterspring. Once you’ve done all that, you can then cleanse the orb up in Hyjal, speak to the fella back in Shen’Dralar, then shimmy over to the end game Dire Maul dungeon to speak to Prince Tortheldrin about *another* sword.
This is how far the World of Warcraft: Forever secret hunter community has gotten to. It’s believed that grinding up the Shen’dralar reputation to Honoured is required for the next step, as Prince Tortheldrin pretty much says as much in his dialogue. So the hunt is still on!
These sorts of secrets make up an important part of any good MMO: the solving of mysteries in these vast digital open worlds. In retail WoW, I have fond memories of the Waist of Time quest chain, which was an arduous and comical grind for a fancy belt during the Battle for Azeroth expansion. This secret sword quest chain may very well evolve into something as legendary as that, at least I hope so!
If you’re not already playing it, World of Warcraft: Forever is plenty of fun. A record-breaking number of players are making the journey through Azeroth right now, diving into quests and dungeons new and old.