Hellfire Peninsula is the first zone encountered in the outlands.  It can be reached by walking through the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands (located in the southern section of the Eastern Kingdoms). 

 

Notable locations

 

The Stair of Destiny

            This is where you will find yourself as soon as your travels through the Dark Portal are complete.  Thirty paces away from the portal is a fantastic fight between good and evil, between demon and those who strive to protect life.  I wouldn’t suggest running through the lines of combat to being your journey in outlands!  To the left you will find a Gryphon Master who will send you to Honor Hold.  If you are allied with the Horde, to your right you will find a ride to the Horde town of Thrallmar.

 

Honor Hold

 This is the stronghold for Alliance in Hellfire Peninsula.  There is an inn here where you can buy all of the typical things available in an Inn.  The innkeeper offers two new flavors of water as well as new food!   The new water available here is Filtered Draenic Water [Use: Restors 5100 mana over 30 sec, Requires Level 60], Purified Draenic Water [Use: Restores 7200 mana over 30 sec. Requires Level 65], Mag’har Grainbread [Use: Restores 4320 health over 30 sec. Requires level 60.] and Bladespire Bagel [Restores 7500 health over 30 sec. Requires level 65].  This is where you will find your first several quests. There are quests located in all of the typical places – in the inn, in the keep, and random NPCs located around Honor Hold.  The quest rewards are quite nice, and pay a substantial amount of gold.

 

The Legion Front

            Some quests near Honor hold will send you here, where the Burning Legion are fighting against those who would stand against them!

Expedition Armory

            Located in on the edge of the southern portion of Hellfire Peninsula, you will lay to rest the souls of men slain in battles of the past.  Quests will send you here to recover lost articles and free the souls of the poor souls who remain.

 

Zeppelin Crash Site

            This is located northwest of the Expedition Armory.  The goblins that have crashed here will send you looking for parts for their zeppelin as well as part of edible creatures located around the crash sight.

 

Bombing Runs

            There are some fun quests that send you into battle on a flying mount, dropping bombs on the enemy.  These quests are located in the North east section of Hellfire Peninsula.  These quests are repeatable for added fun!

 

Hellfire Citadel

            This is home to foul orcs who are created to serve Illidan in his battle against the forces of good.  It is also home to three instances, Hellfire Ramparts, The Blood Furnace, and the Shattered Halls.  Hellfire Ramparts and The Blood Furnace are available to players at level 60.  The Shattered Halls are available at level 65.  The Blood Furnace is located on the top of Hellfire Citadel, Hellfire Ramparts are located on the middle level, and The Shattered Halls are on the lower level of Hellfire Citadel.

 

Thrallmar

            This is the Horde starting town.  Similarly, your beginning quests are here.

 

Pools of Aggonar

            Quests will send you here to Blistering Oozlings (picture ectoplasm) and Terrorfiends.  You will also kill Arazzius the Cruel.  He is located towards the northern most part of the Pools of Aggonar and is guarded by Mistresses of Doom.  When engaging a Mistress of Doom she will spawn 3 imps.  She is easily soloable.  Arazzius the Cruel is best killed in a group at level 60

 

           

 

Quests also have you pour a potion on the bones of Aggonar.  The bones look like a large dinosaur skeleton at first, but upon further inspection you realize the are the bones of an enormous ancient demon.  Cleanse him by pouring out the provide potion on his corpse and fight the demon that spawns.

 

The Temple of Telhamat

            The beginning quests of the zone will eventually send you here, where you will find more quests!  You will also find a new flight point making it convenient to go back and forth from either Thrallmar or Honor Hold.

 

The Ruins of Sha’naar

            Here you will find an Draenai enslaved to Arzeth the Merciless.  Find the Draenai leaders in the camp and complete the quest to kill Arzeth and free the enslaved Draenai.

 

 

There are of course more places and quest locations, but these are a few places the easy to finish quests send you.

 

Trainers

 

Profession Trainers

Skinning Trainer – Honor Hold Inn

Grand Master Jewelcrafter – Honor Hold Inn

Grand Master Tailor – Honor Hold Inn

 

Gryphon Vendor/Trainer

Honor Hold Keep

 

Instances

There are three instances in Hellfire Peninsula.  Some of the quests obtained around Honor Hold and Thrallmar end up sending you to Hellfire Citadel, specifically Hellfire Ramparts and The Blood Furnace. The Shattered Halls are for higher level players and also located in Hellfire Citadel.  The interesting part about instances is that the difficulty setting can be increased to obtain better gear.  To change the difficulty setting The Ramparts and The Blood Furnace, you need to obtain a key, which is obtained by reaching a certain reputation with Honor Hold.  To key to Shattered Halls is obtained by killing the end boss of The Blood Furnace

 

The Hellfire Ramparts is actually a very short instance.  There are three bosses, Watchkeeper Gargolmar, Omor the Unscarred, and Vazruden.  One of the quests will have you pick up a part from each boss, so if you are in the habit of not looting mobs, remember to check the corpse of each boss. 

 

Watchkeeper Gargolmar

 

This fight is a typical tank and kill fight, easily killable with any sort of tank, healer, and dps classes to fill the five man group.

 

Omor the Unscarred

Omor the Unscarred is the second boss in the Hellfire Ramparts.  He is easy to manage with a tank and DPS.  He casts a curse that should be dispelled by mages or druids in the party.  He also has an aoe that does a decent amount of damage to party members.

 

Loot:

Jack Black must play World of Warcraft. Tenacious D!

 

Vazruden

 

            Vazruden is the final boss in Hellfire Ramparts.  You fight both Vazruden and his dragonVazruden charges members of the party but is still tankable like the majority of bosses in five man instances.  His dragon will shoot fireballs at you in the sky while you fight Vazruden, and then breath fire on the group when he lands.  Tanks should make sure he is pointe away from the party.

Loot:

 

The Blood Furnace is longer than The Ramparts, but still fairly short and easy to win.  [Intro stuff]

 

Three comprise the boss makeup for The Blood Furnace.  These bosses are The Maker, Broggok, and Keli’dan the Breaker. During the fight through the Blood furnace you will hear yelling from Magtheridon, whose blood will apparently be the end of you and who desires to overthrow Illidan.

 

The Maker

 

This is the first boss of The Blood Furnace.  He mind-controls a random person in the group.  This person should be crowd controlled and dps should continue to attack The Maker.

 

Loot:

Broggok

 

Broggok is the second boss of The Blood Furnace.  The encounter begins when the lever in front of his gate is switched.  After the switch has been thrown, Orcs are released in four waves on the left and right walls.  The orc packs are easy to kill, but the danger is running out of mana before Broggok finally is released.

 

 

Broggok doesn’t have many hit points and is easily killable provided healers have mana to keep the group alive.

 

Keli’dan the Breaker

 

Keli’dan the Breaker is the final boss of the Blood Furnace and holds the key to the Shattered Halls.  Keli’dan the Breaker is surrounded by 5 guards.  Kill his guards first, then focus on him.  He has a flamestrike that deals a significant amount of damage.  When Keli’dan the Breaker begins to glow, the party should back out of range of the flamestrike.  After he casts flamestrike, continue to kill him.