World of Warcraft: The Ties That Bind Quest Guide (Isle of Dorn)

The Ties That Bind is the max-level chapter of the Isle of Dorn story in The War Within, and it is the one that turns the earthen from rule-bound titan servants into a people who choose their own path. It runs 17 quests deep, ends with a city-wide declaration and a fight against a titan construct out over the ocean, and pays out gear, Valorstones, and Council of Dornogal reputation along the way.

Quick answer: The Ties That Bind is a 17-quest level 80 storyline on the Isle of Dorn. It opens with After the Storm, picked up from Alleria Windrunner in Dornogal.

Requirements to start The Ties That Bind

Everything in the chain is tuned for level 80 characters, and the whole thing sits in the campaign section of your quest log rather than in the normal zone list. Before the first quest shows up, check the following.

Level 80, with the Isle of Dorn leveling campaign finished.
The Fleet Arrives, taken from Moira on the ledge at roughly 36, 81 in Dornogal, which is where this thread of the campaign originally picks up.
After the Storm, offered by Alleria Windrunner in Dornogal, which is the first of the 17 steps.
Enough renown to keep going. The campaign gates a later point behind rank 4 with the factions, including Assembly of the Deeps.

If the chain seems to vanish, open the campaign tab of your quest log. It tracks this storyline separately from side content and tells you where the next beat is, including any renown requirement holding you up.

All 17 quests in order, with rewards

#	Quest	XP	Reward
1	After the Storm	5,900	10 Valorstones
2	Dhar Oztan	1,450	Gold only
3	Conduit of the Southern Storm	5,900	10 Valorstones
4	Charging Up That Hill	11,750	10 Valorstones
5	Heeding the Call	11,750	10 Valorstones
6	Rook Rally	14,700	Lightning-Scarred armor
7	Ground Pounders	1,450	Gold only
8	Goldbricking	11,750	10 Valorstones
9	Metal and Stone	11,750	Algari weapon choice
10	Home to Roost	1,450	Gold only
11	Strays	5,900	10 Valorstones
12	Flight Training 101	11,750	10 Valorstones
13	Flight Training 102	11,750	10 Valorstones
14	Flight Training 103	11,750	Stormrider Flight Badge
15	Paying Respects	11,750	10 Valorstones
16	The Edicts	1,450	Gold only
17	Titanic Failsafe	14,700	Stormrider wrist armor, 500 Council of Dornogal

Two steps hand out real gear choices. Rook Rally drops a Lightning-Scarred piece matched to your armor type, either the Cowl, Vest, Coif, or Legguards. Metal and Stone lets you pick one Algari weapon from a spread that covers an axe, mace, shield, dagger, censer, warglaive, and hatchet, so take whatever fills the worst slot on your character.

Dhar Oztan and the stormrook ritual

Take After the Storm from Alleria Windrunner and fly down into Dornogal to check the wounded. You need to assess Stormrider Malsand, Stormrider Vokmar, Stormrider Edelmaw, and Stormrider Hunfrid before the quest will progress.

Thrall points you toward Rooktender Lufsela, who immediately runs off to the upper overlook. Follow her up, hand in After the Storm, and take Dhar Oztan.

Completing After the Storm — Handing in After the Storm to Lufsela on the overlook, with Dhar Oztan offered next. Shown at 02:05 in FocustaGuides’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Fly out to Dhar Oztan and report to Olbarig to close the quest and pick up Conduit of the Southern Storm. Question the earthen pilgrims scattered around the site and inspect the weapons and shields for clues.

In the tower’s upper section, loot the Storage Chest for the Conduit of the Southern Storm. Bring it back to Lufsela, turn it in, and accept Charging Up That Hill plus Heeding the Call from Olbarig.

Turning in Conduit Quest — Olbarig hands over Charging Up That Hill once the conduit is delivered. Shown at 06:35 in FocustaGuides’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Work your way up the mountain path. Charged Spirecrystals feed the conduit, Storm Wolves get in the way, and Stranded Pilgrims along the route count toward the second objective. Check back in with Lufsela once the conduit is charged.

Climb to the summit, turn in Heeding the Call, and accept Rook Rally. Lufsela channels the ritual while waves of Rampant Air and Thunder Elementals attack, so keep them off her until the cinematic fires and free-willed stormrooks answer the call. Speak to Thrall afterward to wrap up Rook Rally and take Ground Pounders.

Completing Rook Rally — Thrall closes out Rook Rally after the summoning ritual succeeds. Shown at 12:52 in FocustaGuides’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Drilling the earthen recruits on the shore

Ground Pounders sends you across the Isle of Dorn to the beach where Horde and Alliance forces are massing. Hand it in to Adelgonn, then take Goldbricking from Overlord Geya’rah, which is simply a matter of sparring with the Undisciplined Earthen trainees loitering on the sand until enough of them have learned their lesson.

Geya’rah passes you to High Exarch Turalyon for Metal and Stone. Click the weapon racks holding axes, hammers, shields, spears, and crossbows to arm the recruits, report back to Turalyon, and pick your Algari weapon reward. Adelgonn then gives you Home to Roost, which is a short flight back to Dhar Oztan to see how Lufsela’s new recruits are doing.

Flight training with Kurdran Wildhammer

Strays comes off Home to Roost and has you sweeping the countryside around Dhar Oztan for wandering stormrook recruits, nudging each one back toward base. Once they are all accounted for, speak to Kurdran Wildhammer at Dhar Oztan to finish Strays and start the three flight lessons. Each one puts you on the stormrook Shraubendre.

Flight Training 101: fly through the rings in the air, then land at The Orecrag to turn it in.
Flight Training 102: use your aerial abilities to destroy the target dummies floating around the training area.
Flight Training 103: bomb the Shalemaws in the skies above Sunken Shield, then fly to Sunrise Shadow and report to Olbarig.

Finishing the third lesson hands you the Stormrider Flight Badge and Olbarig gives you Paying Respects on the spot.

The Edicts, the construct, and how to confirm the chain is done

During Paying Respects, drive away the Faithful of Zirix nerubians assaulting Zarein, Baelgrim’s stormrook. Once they are defeated, go back to Olbarig and accept The Edicts. That quest takes you to The Proscenium in Dornogal, where the earthen leadership gathers. In the cinematic, Councilward Merrix and the council break the edicts and proclaim all earthen Unbound.

Merrix then gives you Titanic Failsafe. Mount Shraubendre, fly out over the ocean, and bring down the Colossal Titan Construct that surfaces there using your lightning bolts and aerial surges. Fly back into the city and speak to Alleria Windrunner at The Coreway to finish the quest.

Turning in Titanic Failsafe is the confirmation that the storyline is closed. The turn-in pays 500 Council of Dornogal reputation along with a piece of Stormrider wrist armor, no further quest appears in the campaign tab of your log for this chapter, and the storyline’s achievement fires.

Commander Haalien and the Ripped Missive in Shadowgale Forest

A separate objective under the same name plays out in Shadowgale Forest, near the Shrine of Akir, and it is a short kill-and-loot job rather than a long chain.

From the shrine, head east past the cave and cut through the shallow water. Al’Aketh Stormchasers and Al’Aketh Footsoldiers patrol the path, so pull them one at a time instead of running the whole stretch at once.

Moving East Past Cave — The route east past the cave runs through shallow water and straight into Al'Aketh patrols. Shown at 00:32 in PazarGamingGuides’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Clear the Footsoldier and Stormchaser guarding the approach, loot them, and top yourself off before pushing any further. The commander sits just beyond this pair.

Fighting Footsoldiers — Pulling the Footsoldier and Stormchaser separately keeps the fight manageable. Shown at 00:45 in PazarGamingGuides’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Heal up, then engage Commander Haalien, who greets you with a line about the ritual already being complete. Kill him and loot two items from the body, Commander Haalien’s Severed Head and the Ripped Missive.

Preparing for Commander — Top off your health before opening on Commander Haalien. Shown at 01:11 in PazarGamingGuides’s video. Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Right-click the Ripped Missive in your bags once you have it. Reading it accepts the follow-up quest and marks the next destination on your map, which is how you know the step registered.

The Ties That Bind in Eversong Woods

Eversong Woods has another quest bearing this title as step nine in the Sins of the Past storyline; it is currently on the public test realm for patch 12.1.5, Curse of Ula’tek. The quest requires level 90, can be shared, and has you board the Rickety Canoe for a trip to Atal’Utek, or ask Liadrin to teleport you there. Its rewards are 13,700 experience, 34 gold 16 silver, and the Amani Fishing Canoe.

Access to the Coiled Isle needs to be unlocked through the Legacy of the Amani and An Island of Fangs storylines first. Without that, the quest boots you off the island and strands you on the Zul’Aman Skybridge.

That version is still in testing, so its details can shift before it reaches live servers. The Isle of Dorn chapter, on the other hand, has been in the game since The War Within launched with patch 11.0.0, and it is the one that most people mean when they go looking for The Ties That Bind.