WoW Forever Warsong Gulch: Map, Flag Routes, Quests and Rewards

Warsong Gulch is the capture the flag battleground of WoW Forever. It sits in a gulch between Ashenvale and the Barrens, with the Alliance in Silverwing Hold and the Horde in the Warsong Lumber Mill. It opens at level 10, so it is the 1st map most characters queue for.

Blizzard has already patched it after launch. Its 9 November hotfixes removed an invisible wall on the roof of the Alliance base, and since the 5 November fixes Plainsrunning stacks drop from anyone who carries a flag.

A capture is a round trip: grab the flag in the enemy flag room, run it home and touch your own flag with it. A team that makes 3 captures wins.

• The home-flag rule. Your touch only scores while your team's flag is at home. With both flags taken, nobody can score until a carrier dies.
• Dropped flags. A carrier who dies leaves the flag on the ground. Its own team sends it home with 1 click, and the other team can pick it up and carry on.
• On foot. Carriers cannot mount, so runs are won with class speed tools, slows and roots.
• Power-ups. Speed, healing and berserk buffs wait in both bases and in midfield, and they come back after they are used.

The classic deadlock is both flags out at once. Break it in order: kill their carrier, return your flag, then bring theirs home.

Both bases have the same shape: a flag room, a roof above it, and 2 ways out, the tunnel and the ramp. A graveyard sits behind each base, and the open midfield joins them.

Spot	What it is for
Flag room	Where each flag waits; a capture counts only while yours rests here
Roof	Defenders watch the exits from here; the Alliance roof opened up with the 9 November hotfixes
Tunnel and ramp	The 2 exits a carrier picks; the home guard calls which one
Graveyard	Dead players return here in waves
Midfield	The open ground where chasers slow the carrier before it reaches its healers

Name the exit as soon as their carrier leaves, for example "EFC tunnel", so your hunters cut across instead of trailing behind.

With 10 players a side, every player needs a job. For pickup groups we split the team 3 ways:

Horde Paladins and Alliance Shamans are new in Forever, and both change the carrier fight. A Horde Paladin frees its runner from roots and slows with Blessing of Freedom. An Alliance Shaman stops the Horde runner with Earthbind or Frost Shock.

Warsong Gulch has turn-in quests on both sides. Each one asks for a Warsong Gulch Mark of Honor from a match and pays XP plus 200 reputation, so a character in the 10 to 60 brackets levels while it plays.

Honor, Rank Points and Warsong Gulch Marks of Honor come out of every match. Since Blizzard's 16 October notes a stack of marks holds 30, up from 20.

Faction	Side	Quartermasters
Silverwing Sentinels	Alliance	Illiyana Moonblaze and the Silverwing Emissary
Warsong Outriders	Horde	Kelm Hargunth and the Warsong Emissary

Reputation with your side's faction comes from matches and from the mark quests above. Its rewards open by standing, from Friendly to Exalted.

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