Battlefield Barrens: Zone Changes and Acquiring Kor'kron Items

posted 2013/03/26 at 5:53 PM by perculia

To unlock this world event, which takes place in Durotar and Northern Barrens, you'll need to do several new scenarios and a quest chain showing the underlying politics behind your faction.

Once the world event is unlocked, you can collect Kor'kron supplies through various ways to purchase vanity items and armor like Xan'tish's Flute.

Garrosh's influence can be seen in the Valley of Spirits being shut down, a Horde digsite in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, and Kor'kron camps in the Northern Barrens.

There's a final quest Lorewalker Cho sends you on to get a pair of epic boots.

Acquiring ItemsOverturned Caravans

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Description

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The Kor'kron caravans are constantly being ambushed: as a result, they're frequently found abandoned in the Northern Barrens with tons of supplies for you to loot!

A zone-wide notification ("A Kor'kron shipment of stone has been overturned!") lets players know a caravan has been overturned, and what type of material it contains.
The location is then marked on the zone map by a red building icon. Mousing over it describes what the caravan's contents are.
Once at the caravan, you'll find dozens of containers lying around--you can easily get up to 50 of a resource. But remember, since the Barrens is a PvP zone, those crates will be highly sought-after.
Each crate contains 1-2 of a certain resource.
The caravans despawn when the last crate is looted.

Kor'kron Camps

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Camps

Kor'kron Meat: Acquired from killing Kor'kron Butcher, Kor'kron Outrider, and Kor'kron Battlewolf, and looting Kor'kron Meat Crate, at the slaughterhouse by the Crossroads. This camp poses several challenges: the dogs see stealth, and Butcher Cleave and Explosive Shot really hurt.
Kor'kron Stone: Acquired from killing Kor'kron Flameworg, Wild Earth, Kor'kron Earthshaker, and Kor'kron Immolator, and looting Stone Crates, at the elemental camp by Ratchet. Be sure to interrupt the Rupture Line.
Kor'kron Oil: Acquired from killing Kor'kron Incinerator, Kor'kron Overseer, Mercenary Engineer, and Kor'kron Demolisher, and looting oil crates, at the oil camp to the south of the Sludge Fen. Be sure to dodge Throw Hammer, as casting it disarms the Mercenary Engineer.
Kor'kron Lumber: Acquired from killing Kor'kron Marauder, Hellscream Laborer, and Mercenary Shredder, and looting lumber piles, at the lumber camp to the west of the Mor'shan Rampart.

Kor'kron Elites

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Elites

Warrior: Commander Ag'troz, Commander To'karg, Commander Knucklecrusher:

Titanic Thunderclap: Slams the ground, dealing 125000 damage to nearby enemies, knocking them back, reducing their damage dealt by 33%, and reducing their movement speed by 20%.
Disrupting Bellow: Interrupts all spellcasting within 45 yards and prevents any spell in that school from being cast for 8 sec.
Bladehail: Inflicts 15000 damage on enemies within X yards, and increases caster's Physical damage dealt by X%

Goblin: Speegle Blasttorch, Laz Madwire, Hoff Greasegun

Rocket Boost: Charges towards a targetted enemy. Inflicts 150000 Fire damage and knocks back any enemies impacted during the charge.
Molotov Barrage: Lobs flaming cocktails at up to 5 targets. The cocktails leave a flame patch on the ground, inflicting 75000 Fire damage each 1 sec. to anyone standing in a patch.
Throw Dynamite: Inflicts Fire damage to all enemies in a selected area.

Rogue: Ruskan Goreblade, Greska the Scorned, Kar Greyskull

Fan of Knives: Instantly whirl around, releasing a spray of knives at all enemies within 45 yards, inflicting 95000 Physical damage.
Venom Bombs: Lobs poisonous bombs at up to 5 nearby targets. The bombs leave behind a cloud of Airborne Toxin, inflicting 75000 Nature damage each 1 sec. to anyone standing in the cloud.
Hemorrhagic Shadowstep: Attempts to step through the shadows and reappears behind an enemy, inflicting 100000 Physical damage immediately and causing the taret to bleed for 30 sec.
Ricochet Axe: Throws a weapon, inflicting 136445 to 158572 Physical damage on the primary target and bouncing to targets within 10 yards.

Shaman: Wavebinder Se'sha, Jessina the Blazing, Ruka the Earthshaper

Ominous Bolt: Hurls a corrupted lightning bolt, inflicting 157250 to 182750 Nature damage.
Dark Twister: Creates a Dark Twister, inflicting 250000 Physical damage to any targets it touches and knocking them into the air.
Crackling Fury: Inflicts 149157 to 173344 Nature damage to a primary target, and jumps to $X1 targets within 10 yards, doubling damage with each jump.
Ruin: Creates an area of ruinous earth, inflicting 50000 Nature damage every 1 sec. to units caught within the area of effect and slowing their movement speed by 30%
Undertow Totem: Summons an Undertow Totem that draws in enemies within 45 yards.

Escorting CaravansKor'kron BattlewolfKor'kron Caravan Raider

Different races escort the caravans depending on where they are headed to. For example, Astranaar sentinels escort the caravan going to Ashenvale, Northwatch dwarves escort the caravan going to Ratchet.

The longer you stay with a caravan, the more stacks of Caravan Escort you'll get, which stacks up to 10.

Upon successfully escorting a caravan, you will get Surplus Supplies which contains varying quantities of all four Kor'kron supplies.

When a caravan begins its trip, or is destroyed by the Kor'kron, there will be a zone-wide notification. However, it will not appear on your minimap unless you are close by.

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Routes

Alliance-only routes are blue, Horde-only routes are red, routes for both factions are green.

Alliance:

Dreadmist Peak > Mor'shan Rampart
Dry Hills > Mor'shan Rampart
Thorn Hill > Ratchet
Stagnant Oasis > Ratchet
Sludge Fen > Mor'shan Rampart
Wailing Caverns > West Road
Forgotten Pools > West Road

Horde:

Sludge Fen > Durotar
Southern Barrens > Crossroads
Ratchet > Crossroads
Dry Hills > West Road
Stagnant Oasis > Ratchet
Wailing Caverns > West Road
Grol'dom Farm > Far Watch Post

Northern BarrensNorthern Barrens

Freeze-Dried Hyena Jerky: If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will move more quickly while in the Northern Barrens for 1 hour.

Scorpion Crunchies: If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will deal more damage while in the Northern Barrens for 1 hour.

K.R.E.: If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will take less damage while in the Northern Barrens for 1 hour.

Players have also reported looting Kor'kron Supply Satchel in the Northern Barrens from level 90 Kor'kron.

Contested Territory

Before

After

Lumber Camp

Oil Camp

Slaughterhouse

Stone Camp

DurotarHorde in Vale of Eternal BlossomsTaran ZhuSunwalker DezcoTaran ZhuSunwalker DezcoTaran ZhuSunwalker DezcoTaran ZhuTaran Zhu stares grimply into the distance.Taran ZhuTaran ZhuPossible LootKor'kron Motivatorinfused with a Radical MojoLatent Kor'kron BeltLatent Kor'kron BootsLatent Kor'kron ChestpieceLatent Kor'kron GlovesLatent Kor'kron HelmLatent Kor'kron LeggingsLatent Kor'kron Spaulders

Unbending Spirit - Shaman

Tallgrass Guerilla - Hunter

Secessionist - Paladin

Reformationist - Priest

Perjurious - Warlock

Malcontent - Druid

Insurrection - Warrior

Insubordination - Death Knight

Dissident - Mage

Disowner - Rogue

Crimson Schism - Monk

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Comment by misacki This argument is way to similar to the "Pearl Harbour" vs "Hiroshima" debate, and in the end its quite equal. Comment by Tush This argument is way to similar to the "Pearl Harbour" vs "Hiroshima" debate, and in the end its quite equal.Comment by Bellona79 Soooo anyone else thinking about April 1st coming up? Was the first thing that came to mind when looking at the headline. The picture with drawn panda's took away every doubt left... :) Comment by mdodge2007 For you Alliance goons raging about Theramore I got two words.

Camp Taurajo.

So STFU you're not above doing the same crap. While we're unseating Garrosh someone should unseat that pompous racist nutcase Varian too.Comment by woodford079 For you Alliance goons raging about Theramore I got two words.

Camp Taurajo.

So STFU you're not above doing the same crap. While we're unseating Garrosh someone should unseat that pompous racist nutcase Varian too.Comment by Tush For you Alliance goons raging about Theramore I got two words.

Camp Taurajo.

So STFU you're not above doing the same crap. While we're unseating Garrosh someone should unseat that pompous racist nutcase Varian too.TheramoreAstranaarSouthshoreCamp TaurajoComment by wrongheaded It always disturbs me a bit how shallow some players are. If you look at the pretty Alliance races and the not-so-pretty (aside from blood elves) Horde and go "yup, those Horde guys sure are the bad ones!" you failed the test. Both sides have committed what we would today call atrocities and war crimes. I guess some of you don't know about that time the Alliance put every single orc they could find in concentration camps. And that was only after some of the humans had to be talked down from genocide! But hey, I guess reading from Hitler's playbook and trying to murder children is OK as long as you won the war, right?

What really drew me in during Warcraft 3 was how you start off playing the pretty-boy paladin and it's just like every generic fantasy story. Then his good intentions lead him down a road that involves deception, murder, and finally corruption by the evil he was trying to fight. Meanwhile we learn that some orcs are trying to move past the blood curse, struggling in an alien world to find a home for themselves as the baggage of their past crimes continues to haunt them. Or how the forsaken have to fight the control of the lich king and liberate themselves, only to be betrayed by their fellow human beings because of their grim new appearance. Is it any wonder they turned so sour?

This is what I love about the current state of Warcraft - it challenges us to look beyond those trained pavlovian responses of "humans good, orcs bad" and see a more nuanced world. Or at least that's what it's supposed to be doing... some of y'all need to get with the program! Comment by Animosa I fear the worst, that it will become a second Azshara. :( Comment by woodford079 It always disturbs me a bit how shallow some players are. If you look at the pretty Alliance races and the not-so-pretty (aside from blood elves) Horde and go "yup, those Horde guys sure are the bad ones!" you failed the test. Both sides have committed what we would today call atrocities and war crimes. I guess some of you don't know about that time the Alliance put every single orc they could find in concentration camps. And that was only after some of the humans had to be talked down from genocide! But hey, I guess reading from Hitler's playbook and trying to murder children is OK as long as you won the war, right?

What really drew me in during Warcraft 3 was how you start off playing the pretty-boy paladin and it's just like every generic fantasy story. Then his good intentions lead him down a road that involves deception, murder, and finally corruption by the evil he was trying to fight. Meanwhile we learn that some orcs are trying to move past the blood curse, struggling in an alien world to find a home for themselves as the baggage of their past crimes continues to haunt them. Or how the forsaken have to fight the control of the lich king and liberate themselves, only to be betrayed by their fellow human beings because of their grim new appearance. Is it any wonder they turned so sour?

This is what I love about the current state of Warcraft - it challenges us to look beyond those trained pavlovian responses of "humans good, orcs bad" and see a more nuanced world. Or at least that's what it's supposed to be doing... some of y'all need to get with the program!Comment by Sirslaughter159 I personally believe that Garrosh Hellscream, in the end, will become the final boss of Mists of Pandaria. His hatred could spawn dozens of high powered Sha. There is good to him, if you ever played in stonetalon. There isn't much of it but it's there. Which leads me to my personal thoughts of how Pandaria will end.

* Final boss is Hellscream. Both Alliance and Horde can face him. After fighting him down to about 25% health he attempts to use a pandarian artifact, he is stunned and a massive sha of anger emerges which engages the heroes in combat. After getting the Sha of Anger down to 1% the Sha attempts to take everyone with him. Hellscream jumps in front of the bast to save the heroes who defeated the sha. When hellscream lays dieing, he is asked by some person why did he do it. He *smiles* and responds that he finally understood what his father was thinking and dies. Both alliance and horde look at each other and agree that enough blood shed was spilled today and part ways, weapons sheath, at least for now. *

Personal thoughts, any likeness or similarities are coincidental. Comment by kingja No Horde are the "bad" ones because they are written that way in Lore. The Orcs came through the Dark Portal and decimated Stormwind and killed every human in their path in their conquest. So we put them in concentration camps and imprisoned them. They were punished for their crimes. The Horde (as a whole isn't evil) but the Orcs and the Forsaken are very much evil and if you cannot see that then you are either blind or you have no concept of what good and evil is. Read up on some lore and then come back.Comment by woodford079 Completely forgetting about the "little" fact that they had been corrupted and were being controlled by the Legion and prior to Nerzhuls corruption by Kiljaeden the orc's lived happily alongside the Draenei in peace, or that it was a human who opened the dark portal, a human who gave into power and purged his own people and became the Lich King or how a certain Katarina could blend into the higher councils of Stormwind with the corrupt arrogant humans that live and work there, or a leader who doesn't pays his citizens for there hard work in rebuilding the city only to be bitten in the ass by them.

Do you see where this is going? If you truly think that one side or one faction is more "evil" or "good" than an other you are a blind fool. They are both the same and can be as noble or brutal as each other, I might even go as far say that Blizz has slipped up abit here with the ol Orc vs Human and put to much focus on them rather than maybe putting equaling it out with the other races.

P.S apologies for any misspelling as this was some what rushed, I hope you see the point Woodfoord as I could start on the elfs prior to any alliance/horde and Illidan...Comment by TomatoSauce Top image makes me laugh :) Comment by iqgod86 Thrall saved Azeroth from deathwing

without the orc, nothing lives till this day

End of Discussion Comment by CaoimheX I guess some of you don't know about that time the Alliance put every single orc they could find in concentration camps. And that was only after some of the humans had to be talked down from genocide! But hey, I guess reading from Hitler's playbook and trying to murder children is OK as long as you won the war, right?Or how the forsaken have to fight the control of the lich king and liberate themselves, only to be betrayed by their fellow human beings because of their grim new appearance. Is it any wonder they turned so sour?This is what I love about the current state of Warcraft - it challenges us to look beyond those trained pavlovian responses of "humans good, orcs bad" and see a more nuanced world. Or at least that's what it's supposed to be doing... some of y'all need to get with the program!Comment by Lordplatypus First off, READ THE GODAMN STORYLINE IN TAURAJO.
They left holes in their lines for civillians to retreat through.

Southshore?
I think Admiral rogers says it best.
I grew up in Southshore. My parents are buried there - what's left of them. Thrall saved Azeroth from deathwing

without the orc, nothing lives till this day
Theramore? More like Theraless amirite?Comment by woodford079 CaoimheX I agree with you 100%. You spelled everything out perfectly and with crystal clarity.

The Orcs invaded Azeroth. They are not native to the world. They came here to conquer and destroy it. Yes the Alliance put them in concentration camps. We imprisoned them for their crimes. I consider that an act of mercy. They were imprisoned not killed. They have never given a human such mercy. The Forsaken are not welcomed by humans and they are not trusted by any race - not even the Horde ones. They have one goal and only one goal to kill every living being on Azeroth and convert them to undead. I have nothing at all against the Trolls or Tauren. They are noble races who want peace. The Blood Elves simply want peace and although they did commit crimes they have paid for them and are not what I would consider evil. The Goblins are basically nothing more than hired mercenaries with no real loyalties or allegiance to anyone other than who ever is paying them the most. Thrall is good. He is a honorable, respectable and trust worthy Orc. The only one! If the Orcs would follow in his foot steps then they could reshape their future and make amends for their past crimes. But as of right now the Orcs and the Forsaken are very very very evil and warmongering. Comment by woodford079 First off, READ THE GODAMN STORYLINE IN TAURAJO.
They left holes in their lines for civillians to retreat through.

Southshore?
I think Admiral rogers says it best.
I grew up in Southshore. My parents are buried there - what's left of them. Thrall saved Azeroth from deathwing

without the orc, nothing lives till this day
Theramore? More like Theraless amirite?Comment by Smeisqualityfoot I personally don't understand why everyone needs to paint motivations and moral statements on whole races and factions with massive, broad brushes. It comes back to the key question that Mists poses: Why do you fight?

I would have thought that anyone following the Mists story line would have by now noticed that it's the decisions of individuals that matter. Lord Zhu went through a fall and redemption in 5.0, and the conversation above shows how he has tempered from it. He fights to defend home, and the sanctity of their holy places.

The klaxxi story pretty much states that should the old gods return, the klaxxi will side with them. Yet anyone who did the quest chain though would have a lot of respect and fondness for the klaxxi, and it's only in their total trust and respect for the player that they take you aside and tell you this. They fight to strengthen their race, weed out the weak. They don't intend to take over Pandaria. Are they evil?

The Jade forest shows what happens when mindless war breaks out in Pandaria, and the quest designers were smart. They made the players become so invested in the statue, then made us learn why it exists, then it get shattered. So much guilt to be felt, and Yu'lon isn't even angry. Yet Nazgrim and Taylor don't see it. Are they evil? Why do they fight?

The mogu turn out to be quite a complex story too. They were the keepers of Pandaria, and they acted on the words of the titans, till the titans fell silent. So after an age of war and infighting, the Thunder King rallied them around his words and his voice. He gave them meaning, and purpose. They fight to create their version of order. Are they evil?

Anduin and Wrathion are both young, powerful princes with the same goal in mind: save Azeroth. Yet they have completely competing viewpoints - power and knowledge used for the right end goal justifies use VS every action being one that is morally right. Is Anduin naive? Is Wrathion evil?

Garrosh is another complex character. He's actions are decisive, his views are black and white. yet in the end, his basic motivation is to preserve the orc race, and create a legacy where no orc should suffer again. In itself, that is a good goal, but it's in his implementation, and his "with me or against me" attitude that the evil is shown.

It is the choices and decisions that each character makes that defines them, same as you. Warcraft's story has a complex set of moral threads, it is an injustice to the story to paint a black and white moral label over a race, or faction. Look deeper. Comment by Keelerak Begone Horde scum, the Alliance shall have Pandaria!

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