Honor Hold

Honor Hold is the primary Alliance town on Hellfire Peninsula. A refuge of human, elven, draenei, and dwarven explorers, Honor Hold is the first major town Alliance explorers will encounter while traversing Outland. The town holds a flight path, inn, keep, destroyed barracks, mage tower, stables, blacksmith and a variety of profession trainers and vendors. Vestiges of the Sons of Lothar, veterans of the Alliance that first came into Draenor, have steadfastly held on to this Hellfire outpost. They are now joined by the armies from Nethergarde Keep, Stormwind City, and Ironforge.

The settlement was originally founded as the primary base of the Sons of Lothar under General Turalyon. It had taken months to lay the foundations for it and months more to finish the outer walls and some of the buildings. During that time, the expedition had to fight off repeated Horde attacks, though most had been little more than brief skirmishes or diversions, Honor Hold sometimes even being attacked just by peons. The Sons of Lothar received erratic shipments of supplies and manpower from their homeworld, as the Azerothian side of the Dark Portal switched sides several times during the late stages of the Invasion of Draenor.

The Alliance forces eventually staged a successful attack on Hellfire Citadel. After the Dark Portal was destroyed, the Alliance forces returned to Honor Hold to begin their new life in Draenor - now Outland, and launched search missions for their missing allies.

After the Alliance launched their armies into Outland, their soldiers were shocked to discover Honor Hold and its inhabitants, where Danath Trollbane welcomed them with open arms. From the fortress, the Alliance continued their offensives against the Burning Legion, breaking the demons' strength until they pushed them to the outskirts of Hellfire Peninsula.

The Honor Hold Inn features a mailbox outside; there are a variety of vendors, profession trainers, and various NPCs including:

• Honor Hold inn
• (Cooking Trainer)
• (purpose unknown)
• (quest-giver)
• (quest-giver)

• Alchemist tower
• (Overlooks graveyard)
• (Wanders to Keep and Inn)

• Honor Hold keep
• (quest-giver)
• (quest-giver)
• (quest-giver)
• (quest-giver)
• (walks back and forth to talk to Danath and Father Malgor Devidicus).
• (In front of Keep)

• Blacksmith and yard
• (also quest-giver)
• (purpose unknown)
• Quest Giver
• (reputation-based goods vendor)
• (quest-giver and vendor;Deals in Mark of Honor Hold and Silken Thread)

• Stables

Below Honor Hold (to the west, immediately below the town) are the Honor Hold Guard Tower and Mine.

• Guard tower and mine
• (quest-giver)
• (quest-giver)
• (quest-giver)
• (quest-giver for quests inside mines)

• Flight

• Shatter Point

• Temple of Telhamat

• Allerian Stronghold

• Shattrath City

• The Stair of Destiny

Honor Hold reputation is gained through various means in Hellfire Peninsula. Mobs and bosses in Hellfire Citadel in addition to quests in town reward Honor Hold reputation. As of March 2007, in Hellfire Peninsula, the following mobs give reputation if you are neutral. These mobs will not give reputation once you are friendly with Honor Hold. Note that these mobs will stop giving reputation at Neutral:2999.

• Shattered Hand Acolyte
• Shattered Hand Berserker
• Shattered Hand Captain
• Shattered Hand Grunt
• Shattered Hand Guard
• Shattered Hand Mage
• Shattered Hand Warlock
• Bleeding Hollow Necrolyte

You can gain reputation in all Hellfire Citadel instances until you are Honored. Once Honored, standard Hellfire Ramparts and Blood Furnace will no longer yield reputation. Using an will help you gain reputation faster. (25% reputation increase)

To make the best use of available resources, it is recommended that you grind reputation with Honor Hold through Hellfire Ramparts and Blood Furnace. If Revered or Exalted is your goal it is recommended that you save your quests in Hellfire Peninsula until the later parts of Honored or Revered. The Honor Hold quests grant a total of 10,785 rep points for non-humans (11,863 for humans). So if you save every single rep-granting quest (including Through the Dark Portal (Alliance)) until after hitting 5999/6000 Friendly, then by the time you're able to run Shattered Halls, a single non-heroic run should put you at Revered.

Gaining reputation through Revered and Exalted requires access to Shattered Halls, which requires level 68 and the ability to open the locked door via the key quest or a lockpicker. After receiving the Heroic key for attaining Honored, the grind to Exalted can also be helped by Heroic runs at any of the Hellfire Citadel instances.

Due to the lack of representatives in other areas, there is a large gap during which you may not attain any Honor Hold reputation from questing and killing mobs in Outland once you depart Hellfire Peninsula. Until you are able to gain reputation within Shattered Halls, you may wish to focus on grinding reputation with other factions as you level.

Players that enjoy PvP can grind reputation with Honor Hold through the Daily quest Hellfire Fortifications (Alliance). This method rewards 150 reputation per day, and can be done all the way through Exalted. This quest also rewards the player with 3x that can be used to buy PvP gear from the quartermasters in Honor Hold and near Telredor in Zangarmarsh. Marks earned during PvP may be spent on. These flags will increase your reputation gain by 25%, increasing the value of a Shattered Hall run to ~2000 reputation.

Faction items sold by Logistics Officer Ulrike:

Total Reputation Gained: 13,060

• Arrival in Outland (+250 reputation)
• Journey to Honor Hold (+250 reputation)
• Fel Orc Scavengers (+250 reputation)
• Ill Omens (+25 reputation)
• Cursed Talismans (+250 reputation)
• Warlord of the Bleeding Hollow (+250 reputation)
• Return to Honor Hold
• Fel Spirits (+250 reputation)
• Digging for Prayer Beads (+75 reputation)
• The Exorcism of Colonel Jules (+250 reputation)
• Trollbane is Looking for You
• Drill the Drillmaster (+1000 reputation)
• Hellfire Fortifications (Alliance) (+150 reputation)
• Weaken the Ramparts (Alliance) (+350 reputation)
• Heart of Rage (quest) (+350 reputation)
• Zeth'Gor Must Burn! (+250 reputation)
• An Old Gift (+250 reputation)
• A Job for an Intelligent Man (+250 reputation)
• The Legion Reborn (+250 reputation)
• The Path of Anguish (quest) (+250 reputation)
• Expedition Point (quest) (+10 reputation)
• Disrupt Their Reinforcements (Alliance) (+250 reputation)
• Mission: The Murketh and Shaadraz Gateways (+350 reputation)
• Shatter Point (quest)
• Wing Commander Gryphongar (quest)
• Mission: The Abyssal Shelf (+250 reputation)
• Go to the Front (+25 reputation)
• Disruption - Forge Camp: Mageddon (+250 reputation)
• Enemy of my Enemy... (+250 reputation)
• Invasion Point: Annihilator (quest) (+250 reputation)
• Dark Tidings (+250 reputation)
• The Blood is Life (+350 reputation)
• The Longbeards
• The Arakkoa Threat (+250 reputation)
• Waste Not, Want Not (quest) (+250 reputation)
• Laying Waste to the Unwanted (+250 reputation)
• Unyielding Souls (+250 reputation)
• Looking to the Leadership (+250 reputation)
• When This Mine's a-Rockin' (+250 reputation)
• The Mastermind (+250 reputation)
• The Dark Missive (+250 reputation)
• The Heart of Darkness (+250 reputation)
• Overlord (quest) (+500 reputation)
• Gaining Mirren's Trust (+250 reputation)
• The Finest Down (+250 reputation)
• Rampaging Ravagers (+250 reputation)
• Entry Into the Citadel (Alliance) (+250 reputation)
• Grand Master Dumphry (+25 reputation)
• Dumphry's Request (+250 reputation)
• Hotter than Hell (+350 reputation)
• Pride of the Fel Horde (+250 reputation)
• Fel Embers (+250 reputation)
• Turning the Tide (quest) (+500 reputation)
• Imprisoned in the Citadel (Alliance) (+500 reputation)

• The keep's room with Danath Trollbane is called the War-Room.
• Most of the Sons of Lothar in Honor Hold are now old and gray-haired, with the younger-looking Caretaker Dilandrus saying he was born here.
• In the graveyard there is a grave which when clicked on reads "Here lies the remains of a Peon stout hearted. He tried to fight, but only farted."
• In Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal it was said that the Alliance Expedition instead built a fortress called Vanguard.
• The music for Honor Hold (and many other Alliance settlements added in The Burning Crusade) appears to be a rendition of Chopin nocturne Op. 27 No. 1, though using brass rather than piano.
• During the beta, upon Kargath Bladefist's death, his plans about a massive Honor Hold invasion were to be found.

Bastion de l'Honneur Honor Hold