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Arathi Basin

Battleground for 15 a side, levels 20–60 · Same as Classic Era · read from the Forever client, build 1.60.1.70755. All instances →

Arathi Basin loading screen

The Arathi Basin is one of the main staging points of war between the Humans and the Forsaken in Azeroth. The League of Arathor seek to reclaim lost lands for their benefactors in Stormwind, while the Defilers – elite troopers under the watchful eye of Varimathras – seek to sever the vital connection between the Humans and their Dwarven allies to the south.

What the client says

  • A battleground.Its map row is typed 3, the client's number for a battleground; an arena is 4.
  • Not rated.Its queue row carries no rated team size, like every Classic Era row. Two Forever rows do: Battle for Gilneas at 10 and Hyjal Crater at 5.
  • Fifteen a side.Levels 20–60. Also drawn by the Random Battleground queue.
  • Built on 7 of its 16 terrain tiles.Those 7 tiles carry 3,287 placed objects and 26 buildings. That is 0.9× the built area of Warsong Gulch.
  • Dressed for a player.A loading screen, a description and 7 named areas (Trollbane Hall, Defiler's Den, Farm and 4 more).

What it does not say

  • Anything the server decides.Objectives, scoring, start positions and rewards are set by the server, not the client tables.

Each line is read from the Forever client, build 1.60.1.70755: the map and queue tables for what it is, its terrain files (measured on build 1.60.1.70425) for how much of it was built.

What else the client carries for it

Read from the tables around the map row, each block only where the build has something: nothing here is typed in. What the server decides (prices, vendors, scoring) is not in these tables.

Marked on the map

5 points the map marks.

  • Blacksmith
  • Farm
  • Gold Mine
  • Lumber Mill
  • Stables

Level brackets

The queue splits players into 5 brackets.

  • 20–29
  • 30–39
  • 40–49
  • 50–59
  • 60

On the world map

Filed as a map outside the zone hierarchy, under Arathi Highlands.

Achievements and counters that name it

  • Master of Arathi Basin: Exalted with Arathi Basin

Counters the game keeps:Arathi Basin bases assaulted · Arathi Basin bases defended · Arathi Basin battles · Arathi Basin Honorable Kills · Arathi Basin Killing Blows · Arathi Basin victories · Bandage used most · Bandages used · Battleground Honorable Kills · Battleground Killing Blows · Battleground played the most · Battleground with the most Honorable Kills · Battleground with the most Killing Blows · Battleground won the most · Battlegrounds played · Battlegrounds won · Deaths in Arathi Basin · Food eaten.

Criteria the client defines for it, owned by no achievement row:Arathi Basin Enriched Ration · Arathi Basin Field Ration · Arathi Basin Iron Ration · Arathi Basin Mageweave Bandage · Arathi Basin Runecloth Bandage · Arathi Basin Silk Bandage · Complete Arathi Basin Battlegrounds (3) · Kills in Arathi Basin (25) · Win in Arathi Basin.

How much of it was built

A map's terrain is stored as tiles, each 533 yards square. Counting only the tiles with something actually built on them (which leaves out the empty ground a map pads its edges with) gives each battleground's real built area. Warsong Gulch is the yardstick.

Hyjal Crater5 a side4.4×
Darkspear Islands15 a side3.0×
Alterac Valley40 a side2.1×
Battle for Gilneas10 a side1.1×
Warsong Gulch10 a side1.0×
Arathi Basin15 a side0.9×

Built area as multiples of Warsong Gulch. Every tile of every map was read, not sampled.

End to end2,133 yardsAbout 5 minutes on foot, 3 mounted
Built tiles7 of 164×4 grid, 2,133 × 2,133 yards
Scenery placed3,28726 buildings, 6 ground textures

One caveat, because this is the figure most worth quoting. Built area is where terrain work exists, not where a player can walk. Alterac Valley's mountains are built ground to a level designer and a wall to everyone else. What this establishes is how much was made, not how much is playable, and not what the map is for, which only its queue rows say, and the card above states.

Every measured PvP map

Scenery and buildings are placement counts, read from every tile of each map.
MapQueueBuilt tilesvs Warsong GulchSceneryBuildingsTextures
Hyjal Crater5 a side35 of 354.4×8,7445841
Darkspear Islands15 a side24 of 253.0×2,4619125
Alterac Valley40 a side17 of 352.1×3,5547019
Battle for Gilneas10 a side9 of 161.1×2,031387
Warsong Gulch10 a side8 of 161.0×1,1151911
Arathi Basin15 a side7 of 160.9×3,287266

The evidence, tile by tile

For anyone who wants to check the numbers rather than take them. Each square is one 533-yard terrain tile as the client stores it, shaded by how much scenery sits on it; a dashed square is ground with nothing built on it. This is where every figure above comes from.

Show the terrain grids
Hyjal Crater5 a side · 35 of 35 tiles built
Darkspear Islands15 a side · 24 of 25 tiles built
Alterac Valley40 a side · 17 of 35 tiles built
Battle for Gilneas10 a side · 9 of 16 tiles built
Warsong Gulch10 a side · 8 of 16 tiles built
Arathi Basin15 a side · 7 of 16 tiles built
nothing built 1–99 pieces 100–299 300–599 600+— hover a tile for its exact counts

SOURCES — the built-area figures on this page are read from the World of Warcraft: Forever client, build 1.60.1.70425: each map's own terrain files, every tile of every map, with a tile counted as built when a doodad or a building is placed on it. Nothing here is taken from another site. Reproducible with node scripts/measure-map-terrain.mjs --json.

Quests · 4

  • Arathi Basin Resources! Level 25

    Win the battle for Arathi Basin, get an Arathi Resource Crate, and return it to Sergeant Maclear at Refuge Pointe.

    Objectives

    • Arathi Basin Mark of Honor

    Who takes it in

    • Turned in to Sergeant Maclear named in the quest's summary

    Those are read from the quest's own wording, not from a sighting on the beta.

    Sources: the beta client's quest cache, 13 October 2026 (questcache.wdb, build 70338) · the beta client's quest cache, 6 October 2026 (questcache.wdb, build 70235)

    Rewards

    You will also receive:

    XP2,000 55s

    Reputation:

    The League of Arathor +200

    Arathi Basin Resources! on Wowhead ↗ Full page for this quest →

  • Cut Arathor Supply Lines Level 25

    Win the battle for Arathi Basin, get an Arathi Resource Crate, and return it to Deathstalker Mortis at Hammerfall.

    Objectives

    • Arathi Basin Mark of Honor

    Who takes it in

    • Turned in to Deathstalker Mortis named in the quest's summary

    Those are read from the quest's own wording, not from a sighting on the beta.

    Sources: the beta client's quest cache, 13 October 2026 (questcache.wdb, build 70338) · the beta client's quest cache, 6 October 2026 (questcache.wdb, build 70235)

    Rewards

    You will also receive:

    XP2,000 55s

    Reputation:

    The Defilers +200

    Cut Arathor Supply Lines on Wowhead ↗ Full page for this quest →

  • Arathi Basin Resources! Level 35

    Win the battle for Arathi Basin, get an Arathi Resource Crate, and return it to Sergeant Maclear at Refuge Pointe.

    Objectives

    • Arathi Basin Mark of Honor

    Who takes it in

    • Turned in to Sergeant Maclear named in the quest's summary

    Those are read from the quest's own wording, not from a sighting on the beta.

    Sources: the beta client's quest cache, 13 October 2026 (questcache.wdb, build 70338) · the beta client's quest cache, 6 October 2026 (questcache.wdb, build 70235)

    Rewards

    You will also receive:

    XP2,750 1g 10s

    Reputation:

    The League of Arathor +200

    Arathi Basin Resources! on Wowhead ↗ Full page for this quest →

  • Cut Arathor Supply Lines Level 35

    Win the battle for Arathi Basin, get an Arathi Resource Crate, and return it to Deathstalker Mortis at Hammerfall.

    Objectives

    • Arathi Basin Mark of Honor

    Who takes it in

    • Turned in to Deathstalker Mortis named in the quest's summary

    Those are read from the quest's own wording, not from a sighting on the beta.

    Sources: the beta client's quest cache, 13 October 2026 (questcache.wdb, build 70338) · the beta client's quest cache, 6 October 2026 (questcache.wdb, build 70235)

    Rewards

    You will also receive:

    XP2,750 1g 10s

    Reputation:

    The Defilers +200

    Cut Arathor Supply Lines on Wowhead ↗ Full page for this quest →

What the beta server told the client about each quest that sends you into Arathi Basin: the task, its objectives, who hands it out and who takes it in where the quest's own wording or the beta log names them, and the rewards, with item names, money and experience from the client tables. ★ marks quests that did not exist in Classic Era; Wowhead has no page for those yet. Every quest also has a page of its own.

Areas inside

Trollbane Hall · Defiler's Den · Farm · Blacksmith · Lumber Mill · Gold Mine · Stables

Same as Classic Era · map 529 Sources: Forever client build 1.60.1.70755 · the beta client's quest cache, 13 October 2026 (questcache.wdb, build 70338) · the beta client's quest cache, 6 October 2026 (questcache.wdb, build 70235)

Classic Era
  • Classic's Group Finder listed it for levels 30–60

Every instance

Dungeons & Raids

51 instances
With a level set, doors you cannot enter yet lock and instances near your level light up.

5 group size, 10v10 players a side 28 Group Finder level, entry level with a plus, or a battleground's level band Confirmed raid Blizzard has confirmed for Forever Announced announced, not in the client yet Not confirmed 40? in the client from Classic, not announced ★ new in Forever ◆ changed