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How to Unlock Nightborne Fast in Dragonflight

May 27, 2021 by Archdruid Andoris 15 Comments

A quick guide to every step required to unlock the Nightborne allied race in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight

Figuring out how to unlock allied races from past expansions can be challenging — especially if you are new to World of Warcraft. To make things more complicated, unlock requirements have changed over time, but online guides and forums have not been updated. In this article, I want to give you the most up-to-date information to unlock the Nightborne allied race fast in Dragonflight. At a high level, here is what you need to do to create a Nightborne character.

You can unlock the Nightborne allied race in Dragonflight by completing 2 steps (requires level 45+ Horde character):

  1. Earn the Insurrection achievement by finishing the Suramar storyline
  2. Complete 4 recruitment quests, which start at the Orgrimmar Embassy

For the remainder of this article, I will explain how to get to Suramar, what storylines you need to complete, and how to begin the recruitment quest chain.

Let’s do it! 

How to get to Suramar in Dragonflight

Screenshot of Suramar in World of Warcraft

After reaching level 45+, make your way to Legion (new) Dalaran via your Dalaran hearthstone or portal to Azsuna found in the Orgrimmar or Stormwind portal rooms.

If you haven’t been to Dalaran before, you can visit the Hero’s Call Board in Orgrimmar and select “Fight the Legion.” This will provide you with a scenario and a quest that grants your hearthstone at the end.

After arriving in Legion Dalaran, make your way to The Violet Citadel found on the city’s west side. Once inside the citadel, talk to Archmage Khadgar to pick up the quest Khadgar’s Discovery. Once you complete that quest and a few other small ones that all take place in that same room, you will be teleported to Suramar to help First Arcanist Thalyssra.

If you have already been to Suramar, you can get there by flight path directly from Dalaran.

Screenshot of new Dalaran map in World of Warcraft
You can get to Suramar by accepting Khadgar’s Discovery in The Violet Citadel

 

Complete the Suramar storyline

One of the most confusing aspects of unlocking Nightborne is completing the Suramar storyline. Most guides will simply tell you that you just need to do the story until you earn the Insurrection achievement.

But how do you start those storylines? Can you skip some quests to unlock Nightborne faster?

To answer these questions, I decided to make a little graphic to show you how all the quests connect. The graphic is a treemap that displays the name of each storyline and first quest in the series to unlock Nightborne.

Map of all quests required to complete Insurrection achievement in World of Warcraft to unlock Nightborne

As illustrated by the graphic, you can begin the Suramar storyline by accepting the Khadgar’s Discovery quest with a level 45+ character. This can be a Horde or Alliance character. Still, I would recommend using a Horde character since you will need one for the second part of the Nightborne unlock anyway.

While you are picking up Khadgar’s Discovery, you’ll also want to pick up and complete Uniting the Isles because it will unlock world quests in Suramar. This is important because the An Elven Problem storyline requires you to complete 10 world quests in Suramar. Sadly, completing the 10 world quests will take at least 2 days due to the availability of quests, so be ready for that *sad face*.

I left out several storylines in the graphic that you can skip if your only goal is to unlock Nightborne. These are required for the Good Suramaritan achievement but should be safe to ignore for the unlock. If you find any issues in the graphic, let me know in the comments so I can update it for other players.

Here are the skippable storylines:

  • Breaking the Lightbreaker
  • Moon Guard Stronghold
  • Jandvik’s Jarl
  • Eminent Grown-Main
  • Tidying Tel’Anor

Overall, these storylines will take you a while to complete. If I had to guess, I would say that it would take 6 – 7 hours over a couple of days to finish.

If you are having a hard time following the questline, I would recommend you download the BtWQuests and BtWQuests: Legion addons. These amazing mods add a quest journal, complete with a quest tree that lists out prerequisites and locations for quests. It is so helpful!

Once you finish the storyline and earn Insurrection, you are most of the way there in your mission to recruit the Nightborne.

Do the 4 recruitment quests

With the Suramar story completed and achievement in hand, it is time to recruit the Nightborne.

To begin the recruitment quest, you need to visit the Orgrimmar Embassy. Once inside the building, Ji Firepaw should offer you a quest called Thalyssra’s Estate that requires you to travel back to Suramar. From there, you will go through some backstory in Silvermoon before returning to the embassy to unlock Nightborne.

If you are curious, you will need to complete the following quests:

  • Thalyssra’s Estate
  • Silvermoon City
  • Remember the Sunwell
  • The Nightborne
Screenshot of Orgrimmar map with embassy location
Once you finish the Suramar storyline, you can start the Nightborne recruitment at the Orgrimmar Embassy

If you are looking to unlock other allied races have included a few frequently asked questions below. If you are working on unlocking other allied races, here is my quick allied race unlock overview and links to detailed guides for every race.

AllianceHorde
Dark Iron
Dwarf
Highmountain
Tauren
Kul TiranMag’har
Orc
Lightforged
Draenei
Nightborne
MechagnomeZandalari
Troll
Void ElfVulpera

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. How long does it take to unlock Nightborne?

Given the length of the Suramar questlines, I would expect it to take you around 6 – 8 hours to unlock Nightborne from scratch. However, it could take much longer if you need to level a Horde character to level 45 to start the recruitment quest.

Q. What classes can Nightborne be?

The Nightborne allied race can play as 8 different classes in World of Warcraft. They cannot play as demon hunters, druids, paladins, or shamans. Every other class is fair game, including:

Death Knight
Hunter
Mage
Monk
Priest
Rogue
Warlock
Warrior

Q. What racial traits do Nightborne have?

Nightborne characters have 2 active racial abilities. The first is Arcane Pulse, an AoE burst which deals damage and slows enemy movement speed. Damage pulses occur every 2 seconds over a total of 20 seconds. The slow movement speed lasts for a total of 12 seconds.

The second active racial ability is called Cantrips. This allows the Nightborne to summon a book that grants access to their mailbox for 1.5 minutes.
Outside of that, Nightborne have 3 passive racial abilities, including:

Ancient History – Inscription skill boosted by 15
Magical Affinity  – Deals 1% more magic damage
Arcane Resistance – Take 1% less arcane damage

Final Thoughts

Unlocking the Nightborne allied race requires completing a significant portion of Suramar’s storyline and a short recruitment quest. To begin, you will need a character at or above level 45. You can start the Suramar storyline from The Violet Citadel in Legion Dalaran. All in all, the process is will likely take a few days of questing to complete.

Thanks for reading, and enjoy exploring Azeroth on your brand new Nightborne Manasaber!

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I'm glad you found me! I am a veteran World of Warcraft player who has played off-and-on since the game first released in 2004. I have been a guild master for several guilds with the focus of helping new players learn how to play the game and try new activities like dungeons and raids. I hope the guides and information on this site help you on your journey thorough Azeroth!

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Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    December 30, 2022 at 5:27 am

    Thank you so much for this! I will say I was unable to start “A Change of Seasons” until I had completed “Giving It All We’ve Got” – Just in case there’s anyone else out there like me that’s starting from scratch 🙂

    Cheers!

    Reply
  2. novaknight says

    December 1, 2022 at 3:43 am

    Do you still have to complete Uniting the Isles? Friendly rep with 5 factions? That is a ton of work, after doing so much to get this far.

    Reply
    • Avatar photoArchdruid Andoris says

      December 2, 2022 at 6:02 pm

      Sadly, as far as I know, yes… Uniting the Isles is required to unlock world quests (including those in Suramar, which are needed for the storyline). I am working on unlocking all the races on a new account and will be re-testing Nightborne soon. I’ll let you know if I find out anything else when I do.

      Reply
  3. Annon says

    September 14, 2022 at 12:02 pm

    Started at 11pm and finished at 7am. You don’t need to wait for the daily quest anymore there’s going to be 11 quest available once you get that quest from Khadgar allowing you to do world quest.

    Reply
  4. Aaron says

    September 12, 2022 at 1:35 am

    Hey! Can you please confirm how I may unlock Nightborne without having to do any of the raids? Or do you actually have to complete them?

    Reply
    • Avatar photoArchdruid Andoris says

      September 12, 2022 at 1:41 pm

      Hey Aaron, try talking to the person who gave you the quest again. There should be a dialogue option to skip group content (raids/dungeons) for all the allied races! Let me know if that doesn’t work.

      Best, Andoris

      Reply
  5. Anonymous says

    July 7, 2022 at 3:47 pm

    I love you

    Reply
  6. Voodoo says

    January 23, 2022 at 1:02 pm

    I could have been done with this by now if I would have known I was going to need 10 world quest for storyline An Elven Problem. Now I just waiting……

    Reply
  7. Anonymous says

    December 17, 2021 at 2:07 am

    Thank you for this guide, it helped a lot and there is no other alike.

    Reply
  8. Anonymous says

    November 19, 2021 at 5:08 am

    Are the quest still rep gated? After completing the nightfallen but forgotten achievement, I received a quest to hit honored, and the other quest chains aren’t involved in insurrection. I’ve searched around and there’s something about giving people fruit, but that quest isn’t available to me anywhere.

    Reply
    • Avatar photoArchdruid Andoris says

      November 21, 2021 at 5:21 am

      I don’t think they are rep gated anymore from my testing. You could try to download the BtwQuests and BtwQuests: Legion addons. It is a great resource that allows you to select quest chains and hover over the quests to see what requirements you are missing. If you have TomTom installed, you can also click on a quest to create a waypoint that guides you to the next quests. Hopefully that helps!

      Reply
  9. Anonymous says

    October 6, 2021 at 8:19 am

    Thank you

    Reply
  10. Zonefighter1 says

    August 28, 2021 at 7:00 pm

    Holgar Stormaxe did not give me the option to skip anything. Must have to have done it on one character in order to skip it.

    Reply
    • Avatar photoArchdruid Andoris says

      August 31, 2021 at 12:45 pm

      Updated the article to avoid that confusion.

      Reply
      • Pouncer says

        October 28, 2021 at 9:01 pm

        I am working on it now, and You do have to complete some of the Good Samaritan line in order for the last quest to be completed.. I tried to skip all of Good Samaritan, and I couldn’t complete A Change of Seasons when I did. It is a bit confusing because wow doesn’t have any way to track your progress, and w/ the quest lines being so long, you can easily get lost as to what you can, and can’t skip.

        Reply

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