- Author: Luxrah
- Date: March 21, 2023
- Updated: August 5, 2024
- Expansion: World of Warcraft
If you want to play just about any content from the Legion expansion, you must first find your way to the Broken Isles. How you go about getting there depends on whether you have played through the expansion before. If you have, you should be able to skip some of these steps.
If you’ve been to the Broken Isles before on any character in your Warband, you can get there via portal or Dalaran Hearthstone. But to actually play through the Legion story, or if you’re a new or returning player who hasn’t played the Legion expansion at all, you will have to go through the introductory quests. We’ll start there.
Starting the Legion Story
The first step in getting to the Broken Isles is to start the Legion storyline. If you haven’t reached level 50 on any character yet, you may need to complete the Dragonflight introduction before these options become available. We have a separate guide for that here. Once you have completed the introduction, you should be able to start the Legion expansion. Your character must be at least level 10 to start these quests.
This introductory quest chain will take you through a few quests in your capital city before sending you off on the Broken Shore scenario. Demon Hunters get their own separate quests, which we’ve given its own section for convenience.
There are two ways to start the Legion story:
- Warchief’s Command Board
- Head to the Warchief’s Command Board next to Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar. Clicking on the board, you should see an option for “Broken Shore.” Selecting this option will start the quest chain below.
- Chromie Time
- Find Chromie near the Orgrimmar Embassy. Speak with her to select a timeline. Select “The Legion Invasion” to start the quest chain below.
Whichever way you choose to start these quests, this is the order you will complete them:
- ! Legion: The Legion Returns
- If you’ve already done this quest chain on another character, you can skip to the end by talking to Holgar Stormaxe. This will put you on the quest “In the Blink of an Eye.”
- ! To Be Prepared
- ! The Battle for Broken Shore
- This quest leads you through the Broken Shore scenario, which we will cover in the next section.
- ! Fate of the Horde
- ! Emissary
- ! Demons Among Us
- ! Keep Your Friends Close
- ! In the Blink of an Eye
There are two ways to start the Legion story:
- Hero’s Call Board
- Head to the Hero’s Call Board in the center of the Trade District in Stormwind. Clicking on the board, you should see an option for “Broken Shore.” Selecting this option will start the quest chain below.
- Chromie Time
- Find Chromie near the Stormwind Embassy. Speak with her to select a timeline. Select “The Legion Invasion” to start the quest chain below.
Whichever way you choose to start these quests, this is the order you will complete them:
- ! Legion: The Legion Returns
- If you’ve already done this quest chain on another character, you can skip to the end by talking to Holgar Stormaxe. This will put you on the quest “In the Blink of an Eye.”
- ! To Be Prepared
- ! The Battle for Broken Shore
- This quest leads you through the Broken Shore scenario, which we will cover in the next section.
- ! The Fallen Lion
- ! Demons Among Us
- ! Illidari Allies
- ! In the Blink of an Eye
Demon hunters have their own unique route to the Broken Isles as part of their class introductory quests. Completing their starting zone quest chain will get you to where you need to be. This quest chain starts automatically when you create a new demon hunter.
- ! The Invasion Begins
- ! Enter the Illidari: Ashtongue
- ! Enter the Illidari: Coilskar + ! Eye On the Prize + ! Set Them Free
- ! Meeting With the Queen
- ! Before We’re Overrun + ! Enter the Illidari: Shivarra
- ! Orders for Your Captains
- ! Give Me Sight Beyond Sight
- ! Hidden No More
- ! Stop the Bombardment + ! Their Numbers Are Legion + ! Into the Foul Creche
- ! The Imp Mother’s Tome
- ! Fel Secrets
- ! Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Illidari! (Havoc) OR ! Vengeance Will Be Mine! (Vengeance)
- ! On Felbat Wings
- ! The Keystone
- ! Return to the Black Temple
The Battle for Broken Shore Scenario
The Broken Isles introductory quest chain will lead you through a scenario in which you must fight your way through Burning Legion forces in the Broken Shore. Demon hunters have their own separate route to the Broken Isles which does not take them through this scenario.
Completing this scenario is mostly a matter of defeating enemies. You will have help from a large team of NPCs, which should make it fairly trivial. There is a lot of roleplay in this scenario, and in many places you will find yourself waiting for an NPC to finish a speech before you can proceed. There are a few cutscenes too. Sit back and enjoy!
- Stage 1: The Broken Shore
- You’ll reach the Broken Shore by boat, and your group will gather on the beach to prepare.
- Stage 2: Storm The Beach
- Kill demons and destroy Anchoring Crystals.
- Stage 3: Defeat the Commander
- Kill the demon commander.
- Stage 4: Find Varian (Alliance) / Find The Others (Horde)
- Run up the hill until you trigger a cutscene.
- Stage 5: Destroy the Portal
- Destroy the Shielded Anchors.
- Stage 6: Raze the Black City
- Kill enemies, destroy Anchoring Crystals, and release prisoners from Legion Cages until the progress bar reaches 100%.
- Stage 7: The Highlord
- Follow your group and wait for a roleplay scene to play out.
- Stage 8: Krosus
- Defeat the demon Krosus.
- Final Stage: Stop Gul’dan (Alliance) / Hold the Ridge (Horde)
- Fight enemies until another cutscene triggers, ending the scenario.
Portals to Dalaran
Once you have reached the Broken Isles on any character, you will be able to access the continent via portal on all of your characters. Here are the locations of the portals:
Mages can create a portal for their party members with Portal: Dalaran – Broken Isles. For personal use, they also have Teleport: Dalaran – Broken Isles.
You will need to be able to fly to take this route.
There is a portal to Azsuna in the Stormwind Portal Room. Click it, then open your map, and you’ll see the city of Dalaran floating off to the east of your current location. Fly up and eastward to head there.
You will need to be able to fly to take this route.
There is a portal to Azsuna in the Orgrimmar Portal Room. Click it, then open your map, and you’ll see the city of Dalaran floating off to the east of your current location. Fly up and eastward to head there.
Getting a Dalaran Hearthstone
Whichever route you take to get to the Broken Isles, you will finish in New Dalaran, where you will receive your Dalaran Hearthstone. This is an extra Hearthstone specifically for this city, so you don’t need to set your regular Hearthstone here. This item can be found in the Toy Box window of your Collections interface. Once it has been unlocked, it will be available to all of the characters in your Warband.
Order Halls and Beyond
Now that you’ve reached the Broken Isles, there’s plenty more that you can do! A good place to start is unlocking your class’s order hall. You can find out about how to do this in our Legion Intro Guide.
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