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Alliance Leveling Guide Borean Tundra Guide Level 71-72

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Alliance Borean Tundra Guide Part 4
Level 72

  1. Arrive at Transitus Shield and turn in Traversing the Rift, and get all the quests:

    • Basic Training
    • Nuts for Berries
    • Reading the Meters
    • Secrets of the Ancients
    • Have They No Shame?

  2. Head north and kill Coldarra Spellbinders until you loot a Scintillating Fragment, a random quest drop item from them. Get the quest Puzzling... from it.

  3. Return to Transitus Shield and turn in Puzzling... and get the follow-up The Cell.

    Next, we're going to loop around Coldarra - make sure to aim for the following objectives. They don't need to all be finished in this one loop.:

    • Kill 10 Coldarra Spellweaver
    • Collect 10 Frostberries from Frostberry Bushes
    • Kill 3 Glacial Ancients for 3 Glacial Splinters
    • Kill 3 Magic-Bound Ancients for 3 Magic-Bound Splinters

  4. Head north and enter the building to find a blue globe near the entrance. Click it to obtain the Northern Coldarra Reading.

  5. Head west and kill General Cerulean and loot the Prison Casing.

  6. Head southwest and obtain the Western Coldarra Reading.

  7. Head southeast and kill Warbringer Goredak and loot the Energy Core.

  8. Head southeast and obtain the Southern Coldarra Reading.

  9. Return to Transitus Shield and use the turn in The Cell.

    Then, use the Augmented Arcane Prison to summon Keristrasza. Get her quest, Keristrasza and turn it in and get the follow-up Bait and Switch

  1. Make another loop around the Nexus, to finish completing all of the following objectives:

    • Kill 10 Coldarra Spellweaver
    • Collect 10 Frostberries from Frostberry Bushes
    • Kill 3 Glacial Ancients for 3 Glacial Splinters
    • Kill 3 Magic-Bound Ancients for 3 Magic-Bound Splinters
    • Gathering 10 Crystallized Mana Shards from the Crystallized Mana around the cliff edges.

  2. Return to Transitus Shield and use the Augmented Arcane Prison to summon Keristrasza. Turn in your quests:

    • Bait and Switch and get the follow-up Saragosa's End
    • Basic Training and get the follow-up Hatching a Plan
    • Nuts for Berries and get the follow-up Keep the Secret Safe
    • Secrets of the Ancients and get the follow-up Quickening

Then, talk to Keristrasza and say that you're ready to face Saragosa. You will be teleported to an empty platform. Use your Arcane Power Focus to attract the weakened Saragosa. Kill her and loot Saragosa's Corpse.

How do you get off the platform with Saragosa? Use the Augmented Arcane Prison to summon Keristrasza and turn in Saragosa's End and get the follow-up Mustering the Reds and ask her to return you to Transitus Shield. Turn in Mustering the Reds and get the follow-up Springing the Trap.


  1. Head northwest and kill Coldarra Wyrmkins for 5 Frozen Axes.

  2. Head down into the ravine and collect the Nexus Geological Reading near the Meeting Stone on the south side of the Nexus.

  3. Head counter-clockwise around the ravine.

    • Kill Arcane Serpents for 5 Nexus Mana Essence
    • Shatter 5 Blue Dragon Eggs

  4. Reach the northerneast entrance (its not on an edge, but rather an entrance leading towards the center) to The Nexus and use Raelorasz's Flare. Follow Keristrasza and you'll enter a flying sequence.

  5. You'll land around this area. Finish collecting the objectives as you head back to the Transitus Shield.

  6. Return to the Transitus Shield and turn in your quests:

    • Keep the Secret Safe
    • Hatching a Plan and get the follow-up Drake Hunt
    • Reading the Meters and get the follow-up Postponing the Inevitable
    • Springing the Trap and get the follow-up Prisoner of War

  1. Ride northwest and stand in the open and look up to see Nexus Drake Hatchling flying around. One will fly around the point 1 marked on the map - use the Raelorasz's Spear when its in range, then wait for the effect for it to turn friendly.

  2. Ride back to Transitus Shield. Turn in Drake Hunt and get the follow-up Cracking the Code. Also, get the quest Drake Hunt again since its a daily quest and gives full experience for another go!

  3. Head north and kill Inquisitor Caleras for the Azure Codex and the nearby Coldarra Spellbinders for 3 Shimmering Runes.

  4. Head northwest again and spear another Nexus Drake Hatchling.

  5. Return back to Transitus Shield and turn in:

    • Cracking the Code
    • Drake Hunt

That finishes Coldarra - also, you've gathered the four quests for The Nexus - Have They No Shame?, Postponing the Inevitable, Prisoner of War, and Quickening. Try to join a group for The Nexus at least once, because one complete run through and turning in all of those quests gives you an extra 70,400 experience in addition to the instance experience.


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