The Riverglades is the new contested zone World of Warcraft: Forever added for the mid-30s to mid-40s, on the east coast of the Eastern Kingdoms, south of the Badlands, east of the Burning Steppes and Redridge and north of the Swamp of Sorrows. In the live game’s data its 19 named areas run from level 36 to 44, and its dungeon, Krol’dok Stronghold, is level 40 to 45. This WoW Forever Riverglades guide shows how each faction gets there, what every subzone holds and how the zone fits a 35 to 45 leveling route.
Blizzard’s own quest count doesn’t agree with itself. The What’s Next panel recap and the launch article promise “more than 150 new quests”, while the Found Photos panel recap says “nearly 200 quests for Horde and Alliance players”. Neither lists them, and we found no full count from the live game by November 5. The same Found Photos recap calls the zone roughly the size of Stranglethorn Vale.
How solid this is: area levels, flight points and the boat dock come from the live game’s data (build 1.60.1.70790 of November 4, still the newest on November 5). Town details come from Warcraft Wiki, whose Riverglades pages were written from beta data before launch, and the dungeon entrance from Warcraft Tavern; we haven’t checked either in the live game yet. We couldn’t get a quest list. Herb and ore spawns come from GatherMate2’s Wowhead data for Forever, collected before launch, so read them as a minimum. Everything else about the launch is in our WoW Forever hub.
Riverglades Level Range
The Riverglades is a level 36 to 44 zone by the live game’s own area levels, which matches Blizzard’s “mid-30s to mid-40s”. Every subzone in the game’s data carries a level, the one that sets the XP you get for discovering it, and in Classic zones it usually sits close to the creatures around it. The low end (36) is in the south around Farholde Keep, level 38 covers the middle of the zone from Sunnyglade and Rog’mar to Powderfuse Port on the coast, 40 to 42 is the north, and the top (44) is Twilight’s Shroud, a Twilight’s Hammer camp in the west.
Fan sites listed 35 to 45 before launch, and our WoW Forever zones by level guide uses that range. Krol’dok Stronghold is 40 to 45: Blizzard first printed 40 to 55 and corrected it on the forums.
How to Get to the Riverglades
You reach the Riverglades on foot from Redridge, the Swamp of Sorrows or the Badlands, or by boat from Tanaris. The first trip is by road or sea; after that, the flight points carry you: Farholde Keep for the Alliance, Rog’mar for the Horde. The ways in on foot are from Warcraft Wiki; we haven’t ridden them in the live game.
| Way in | Best for | How |
|---|---|---|
| From Redridge | Alliance | Fly to Lakeshire. Blackrock Pass, the road north toward the Burning Steppes, lets you turn east into the zone west of Bristle Hills; Redridge Pass enters south of them. Then head south-east to Farholde Keep. |
| From the Swamp of Sorrows | Horde | Fly to Stonard and ride north through Redridge Pass into the south-west of the zone, then north-east to Rog’mar in the middle. |
| From the Badlands | Horde (from Kargath), level 40 and up | Ride east across the Badlands. The way in is north of Twilight’s Shroud, close to the level 44 Twilight’s Hammer camp and the walls of Krol’dok Stronghold (42). |
| By boat from Tanaris | Both factions | Fly to Gadgetzan and take the Steamwheedle Cartel boat from Steamwheedle Port east of town (Tanaris 68.6, 23.0) to Powderfuse Port (80.6, 54.6). Rog’mar is a short ride west, Farholde Keep a longer one south. |
| From the Burning Steppes | Alliance with the Morgan’s Vigil flight point | Warcraft Wiki’s only listed way in from this side is Blackrock Pass, right by the Alliance town of Morgan’s Vigil. Horde players who fly to Flame Crest would cross a level 50 to 58 zone and pass that town. |
Alliance: Lakeshire is the quickest start, and Morgan’s Vigil is the same pass from the north if you already have it. Coming off the boat, remember that Rog’mar sits a short ride west of the port, so give the Horde town room on your way south. Horde: Stonard is the closest Horde flight point to the zone. From Kalimdor, the boat skips the zeppelin trip: fly to Gadgetzan, sail to Powderfuse Port and ride west to Rog’mar.
Riverglades Flight Points
The Riverglades has two flight points with routes, one per faction, plus flight masters at Powderfuse Port with no routes in the live game’s data. Coordinates are Riverglades map positions from the live game’s data.
| Flight point | Where | Faction | Flies to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farholde Keep | 60.6, 81.6 | Alliance | Lakeshire, Thelsamar, Morgan’s Vigil |
| Rog’mar | 59.6, 45.1 | Horde | Stonard, Kargath, Flame Crest, Hammerfall |
| Powderfuse Port | 76.8, 53.0 (gryphon), 79.0, 52.3 (wind rider) | Both (one master each) | No routes in the live client’s data |
Powderfuse Port’s gryphon and wind rider masters have no route in the live game’s data, and the beta’s Alliance hop to Farholde Keep is gone. Whether Blizzard adds routes later is unknown. Our WoW Forever flight paths guide has the whole network and every boat.
Riverglades Subzones and Levels
The Riverglades has 19 named areas in the live game’s data, from Wheeler’s Grange at 36 to Twilight’s Shroud at 44. Three are towns (one Alliance, one Horde, one neutral goblin port), two belong to ogres and the Twilight’s Hammer holds at least one camp; the rest are farms, camps and watchtowers going by their names and the map. Positions are the middle of the area the in-game map highlights.
| Subzone | Level | Where | What’s there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheeler’s Grange | 36 | South, west of Farholde Keep (54, 78) | Farmland next to the Alliance keep. Warcraft Wiki says you can swim south from here to the Swamp of Sorrows. |
| Meadowsbrook | 36 | South-west (45, 81) | The game’s data files it as the zone’s ranch. |
| Southern Watch | 36 | Not on the zone map | Nothing published yet. |
| Bristle Hills | 37 | West (27, 63) | The hills you cross from Redridge; Blackrock Pass lies west of them, Redridge Pass south. |
| Farholde Keep | 38 | South coast (65, 83) | Alliance town of the Brotherhood of the Horse under Knight Commander Demar Brant: flight master, inn, mailbox, stable master, anvil and forge, no bank or auction house (Warcraft Wiki). |
| Rog’mar | 38 | Middle, on the river (59, 46) | Horde town and flight point, with a Blacksmithing trainer (Gur’dok) in Zockify’s beta data. |
| Powderfuse Port | 38 | East coast (77, 52) | Neutral goblin harbor with the boat to Tanaris and flight masters without routes. Beta data adds a Mining trainer (Grungle) and the Goblin Engineering trainer Melbin Powderfuse. |
| Sunnyglade | 38 | West of Rog’mar, on the river (46, 51) | Warcraft Wiki says the Twilight’s Hammer holds it and its mage tower still stands. |
| Elbrim’s Farm | 38 | Between Sunnyglade and Rog’mar (52, 46) | Sunnyglade’s farm in the game’s data. |
| Turner’s Logging Camp | 38 | West of the river bend (38, 61) | A logging camp. |
| Terral’s Watch | 38 | South of Rog’mar (60, 64) | A watchtower on the zone map. |
| Ashwood’s Fall | 38 | Not on the zone map | Nothing published yet. |
| Eastwind Shore | 40 | Not on the zone map | Nothing published yet. |
| Windstead | 41 | North-east (76, 34) | A small settlement (Warcraft Wiki). |
| Twilight Hollow | 41 | Not on the zone map | Nothing published yet. |
| Bolder’ok | 42 | North (66, 16) | Ogre settlement. Warcraft Wiki lists it as Horde-aligned, its ogres having left the Twilight’s Hammer; no second source confirms that yet. |
| Krol’dok Stronghold | 42 | North-west (44, 27) | Hostile ogre fortress around the dungeon. The entrance is on its south-west side. |
| Twilight’s Shroud | 44 | West (27, 44) | Hostile Twilight’s Hammer camp, the highest area in the zone. |
| Forlorn Pit | 44 | Not on the zone map | Nothing published yet. |
Five areas (Southern Watch, Ashwood’s Fall, Eastwind Shore, Twilight Hollow and Forlorn Pit) have a level in the game’s data but no highlight on the zone map, so we can’t place them. That doesn’t mean they’re empty; the zone map simply doesn’t outline them.
Blizzard names the groups you’ll meet in its Found Photos recap: the new Powderfuse goblins, the Twilight’s Hammer and the Brotherhood of the Horse, plus ogres. Warcraft Wiki adds gnolls, murlocs, harvest golems and wildlife such as boars, coyotes, crawdads, crocolisks and vultures.
Krol’dok Stronghold Entrance and Level
Krol’dok Stronghold is the Riverglades dungeon for levels 40 to 45, an ogre fortress in the north-west of the zone. Warcraft Tavern puts the entrance in a cave west of the fortress’s large gates, at 37.5, 37.5. Forever’s zone map draws a walled gate just east of that spot (about 41 to 46, 36.5), so the two fit, but Warcraft Tavern’s page rests on pre-launch data and we haven’t checked the cave in the live game.
In a straight line the entrance is about 1,100 yards from Rog’mar and about 1,800 yards from Farholde Keep, so the Horde has the shorter ride. Twilight’s Shroud (44) lies about 500 yards south-west of the cave. We have no position for a meeting stone yet.
Blizzard’s dungeon overview sets the story: ogre outrunners have been kidnapping travelers and raiding settlements across the Riverglades, and the stronghold is a sprawling fortress of workshops and camps. The outdoor fortress is a level 42 area in the game’s data. The live game’s data also holds two Krol’dok Moulding items that start quests and two keys, the Krol’dok Compound Key and the Krol’dok Ogre Key; what they open and where the quests lead isn’t public yet. The only boss named so far is Overlord Mugg (Warcraft Tavern).
For the other eight new dungeons, see our new dungeon locations guide and WoW Forever dungeons by level; our dungeon quests guide covers quest starts.
Gathering, Skinning and Fishing in the Riverglades
The Riverglades is new, so there’s no Classic data for it, but GatherMate2’s Forever data (from Wowhead, October 17) already lists herbs and ore here: 28 Goldthorn, 25 Kingsblood, 17 Wild Steelbloom, 12 Khadgar’s Whisker, 9 Liferoot and 7 Stranglekelp spots, plus 18 Iron, 14 Silver, 13 Gold and 3 Tin. Goldthorn grows mostly in the western half, between the Bristle Hills and Sunnyglade, and most Iron sits in the south-east around Farholde Keep. The data is from before launch, so expect more spots once players have gathered here; even now the zone suits Herbalism from about 125 to 220. No fishing data yet. What else we can say:
- Ore next door: the Badlands, which borders the zone, has Classic’s ore spawns in Forever and far more of them (GatherMate2’s Wowhead data: 100 Gold, 51 Mithril, 51 Truesilver and 49 Iron spots). Our ore farming guide maps it.
- Skinning: the boars, coyotes, crocolisks and vultures Warcraft Wiki lists should give Heavy and Thick Leather at levels 36 to 44, as Classic beasts of that level do (our estimate).
- Cloth: gnolls, murlocs, ogres and cultists at these levels should drop Silk, and Mageweave from about level 41 (our estimate from Classic drop rates).
- Trainers: Powderfuse Port has a Mining trainer, Grungle (77.6, 51.8), and the Goblin Engineering trainer Melbin Powderfuse (77.8, 50.9), from beta data on Zockify and WoW-Professions.
Where the Riverglades Fits a 35 to 45 Leveling Route
Go to the Riverglades at 36 or 37 and you can stay until 44 if the quests hold up. Our WoW Forever leveling guide slots it at 37 to 42, after Stranglethorn and Desolace and before the Badlands, the Swamp of Sorrows and Dustwallow Marsh. The layout helps: the 36 to 38 areas sit around both faction towns, the 40 to 42 areas in the north, and when you’re done the boat at Powderfuse Port drops you in Tanaris, where most routes go in the mid-40s.
| Level | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 30-35 | Arathi Highlands, Alterac Mountains, Hillsbrad | City of Dalaran (28-33) |
| 33-38 | Stranglethorn Vale, Desolace | The Drowned City (35-40), Maraudon quests |
| 36-38 | Riverglades south and middle: around Farholde Keep (Alliance) or Rog’mar (Horde) | Wheeler’s Grange, Meadowsbrook, Sunnyglade, Elbrim’s Farm, Turner’s Logging Camp, Terral’s Watch |
| 40-42 | Riverglades north: Windstead, Bolder’ok, Krol’dok Stronghold | Krol’dok dungeon (40-45) |
| 42-44 | Twilight’s Shroud, or the Badlands and Swamp of Sorrows next door | Uldaman in the Badlands |
| 44-48 | Tanaris by boat from Powderfuse Port, then Feralas and the Hinterlands | Zul’Farrak |
Expect the Riverglades to be busy in launch week. Stranglethorn and Desolace cover the same levels if it’s packed; our WoW Forever zones by level guide lists every zone around it.
Riverglades FAQ
What level is the Riverglades in WoW Forever?
The Riverglades covers levels 36 to 44 by the live game’s area levels, which matches Blizzard’s “mid-30s to mid-40s”. Its dungeon, Krol’dok Stronghold, is 40 to 45.
How do you get to the Riverglades as Horde?
Fly to Stonard and ride north through Redridge Pass, or take the Steamwheedle boat from Tanaris to Powderfuse Port and ride west. Pick up the Rog’mar flight point once you’re there.
How do you get to the Riverglades from Redridge?
From Lakeshire, ride north toward the Burning Steppes and turn east into the zone through Blackrock Pass, or take Redridge Pass further south. Alliance players then head south-east to Farholde Keep.
How many quests are in the Riverglades?
Blizzard says more than 150 in its What’s Next recap and launch article but nearly 200 in its Found Photos recap. No full count from the live game was available on November 5.
Where is the Krol’dok Stronghold entrance?
According to Warcraft Tavern, in a cave west of the fortress gates at 37.5, 37.5 in the north-west of the Riverglades, just north-east of Twilight’s Shroud.
Is there a boat to the Riverglades?
Yes. A Steamwheedle Cartel boat runs from Steamwheedle Port in Tanaris to Powderfuse Port for both factions.
Sources: Blizzard’s What’s Next and Found Photos panel recaps, its launch article and dungeon overview; area levels, map highlights, flight points and items from the live client’s game data (build 1.60.1.70790); town details from Warcraft Wiki, the Krol’dok entrance from Warcraft Tavern, herb and ore spawns from GatherMate2’s Wowhead data (GatherMate2 Data add-on, October 17, 2026 file), trainers from Zockify and WoW-Professions. Screenshots and map: Blizzard Entertainment.