Battle for Darkshore Strategy Guide

By Sanghelios Updated: 2020/01/06

Warfront Queue RequirementsOn Whispered WindsDori'thurTrouble in DarkshoreNathanos BlightcallerEffects of GearHeroic WarfrontsHeroic WarfrontNormal and Heroic Differences

The health and damage of all enemies has increased and will scale with the number of players in the Warfront.

The cost of Siege Vehicles has been increased to 160 Iron.

Cordana will occasionally join the fight, assaulting your bases. Due to her being very powerful, you will need most of your raid to repel the assault. When you bring Cordana down to 60% health, it will cause her to hearth back to the safety of their base.

Heroic Warfront RewardsQuick TipsWoodIronHorde vs. Alliance DifferencesThe battle itself will progress the exact same for both factionsWoodWoodWoodWoodWoodall specifics such as building and troop names will have both their Horde and Alliance counterparts listed. Stage 1: Establishing a FootholdWoodIronFor Auberdine!

Clear Enemy Forces from Auberdine.

Defeat Deathguard Captain Vandel / Nevara Nightshade.

Clear a Path to Bashal'aran

Rescue your allies located nearby.

Bashal'aranBashal'aran

With your allies, clear a path to Bashal'aran.

Reclaim Bashal'aranBashal'aran

Defeat Blightguard Captain Thedric / Archdruid Andrenius

Reclaim Bashal'aran

Stage 2: Build and ExpandWoodIronBashal'aranBashal'aran

If you have already upgraded your Flight Master's Whistle to be usable in the Darkshore Warfront, you can use it at any point from here on out to return to Bashal'aran quickly. The method of obtaining this upgrade is later in the guide here.

Capture Lornesta Mine and Cinderfall Grove

Wood and Iron are both generated passively once their related bases are captured. Alliance players start with a passive Wood generation, capture of Cinderfall Grove further increases this.

GatheringWood

Passively generated Iron and Wood is collected from the War Chest at Bashal'aran. The amount stored is shown under your objectives tracker in parenthesis.

Wood

Looted from enemy siege weapons and rare spawns.

Piles of Wood around the map.

Horde Only: Chopping down trees with the Lumberjack's Axe.

Iron

Looted from enemy siege weapons and rare spawns.

Ore Chests located near Lornesta Mine.

Building

Ancient of War / Barracks

Altar of Elders / Altar of Storms

Hunter's Hall / Armory

Tree of Ages / Stronghold

Glaiveworks / Plagueworks

Tree of Eternity / Fortress

WoodIronDefending

Eastern Road: Cinderfall Grove

Central Road: Ashwood Depot / Forlorn Crossing

Western Raod: Gloomtide Strand

A base is lost if your friendly NPC champion dies. This NPC will be named and holding your faction's flag at each base.

If a base is lost, an enemy champion with reinforcements will immediately spawn and need to be defeated to retake the base.

If your commander dies, you lose the battle.

Stage 3: The Northern Shore

Spend your Wood and Iron before going on the offense for additional support such as bodyguards at the Ancient of War / Barracks or buffs at the Altar of Elders / Altar of Storms. At this point of the Warfront, you will passively generate resources you may need for later use.

Capture Bases Along the Center Road

Forlorn Crossing

Ashwood Depot

Lor'danel

Gloomtide Strand

An Archdruid / Abomination at Gloomtide Strand costs 100 Iron.
A Chimera / Bat from Ashwood Depot costs 100 Iron.

After capturing Ashwood Depot, a quest becomes available to upgrade your Flight Master's Whistle to be usable in the Darkshore Warfront. This is very useful to get back to the base to collect and spend resources quickly.

Capture Lor'danelAshwood Depot Ancient ProtectorAzerMEK Mk. IIAncient ProtectorAzerMEK Mk. II

Destroy the Off-Shore Defenses

One final wave of enemies will fly in at Lor'danel once you capture it, fight them off to keep the siege vehicles alive and the foothold held.

Tool Barrels can be found at Lor'danel to repair damage siege vehicles.

Players may do bombing runs, throw bombs, and fire ballistas at the enemy defenses off shore.

Attempting to approach the Dredge before the defenses are destroyed will cause you to take massive damage.

Defeat the Enemy Commander

Comments

Comment by Shadow12000

Minor error, Trouble in Darkshore for the Horde comes from Dark Ranger Velonara by the warfront table, not Nathanos.

Comment by Acaulis

Last paragraph, "Defeat the Enemy Commander" - no mention of the "Enemy Commander" on Heroic who kills raid members repeatedly with the row and column of fire damage ("Burn Horde scum"). I've done this several times as Horde with the raid leader yelling to stay off the steps (boss does reset) and to pick up the dropped glaive which is supposed to interrupt the fire damage. I've never seen any glaives, although I've heard the audio that the boss has dropped one.

Comment by alpanhell

Doesn't mention a single thing about how to queue for Heroic Darkshore?

Comment by Mondoblasto

If you're going to be doing a Heroic Warfront, make sure to pick up both the Heroic and the normal version quests, as completing a Heroic will count for the normal quest. Two birds, one stone!

Comment by snowdream

You must be level 120 and ilvl 335

After the level squish (9.0), you must be ilvl 60

Comment by splunk

Appears to be bugged currently (patch 9.2.7). For Horde at least, Maiev just resets during battle and you can't complete it.

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