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1.	Trelane's Defenses
2.	An Apprentice's Enchantment
3.	Attack on the Tower
4.	Malin's Request

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Comment by 4413

The tower is located at around 18, 68

Comment by Orik

Bring a good group with a healer and a tank. Their a lot of ogres in the tower and you'll aggro a lot of them.

Comment by 7799

As you work your way up the tower that will be a box on each level. After opening a box and taking the object out several mobs will spawn (3 for the first, 4 for the next, and 5 for the last).

Comment by 30557

Solo-able if ur a rogue. I suggest being level 40 and Imp Sap helps.
Simply sneak in, locate box, sap ogre, open her up, and vanish to avoid the numerous ogres that pop up.

The first one is the trickiest as there is two ogres that pass by it.

Funny thing is the ogres I made pop up never left as far as I know, so there is 3-5 ogres just sitting around the chests,sucks to be the group trying to do that.

Comment by 24102

As a 42 Paladin I had to zerg my way up the floors, dying next to the crates, one by one. I got it acomplished soloed after a few corpse runs. :-)

Comment by Alexi

I was able to solo this as a level 41 Druid, just stealth to the boxes and wait for the ogres to path away (at some of the boxes there are ogre paths), unstealth and wait for it to cooldown then shift into caster form grab the box and shift back into cat form and restealth (you don't get flagged for combat right away).

Comment by Thottbot

I was Druid lvl 50 when I did this.
I found a few things out that can make it easier.

I passed the first chest (didn't see it) and whent for the second.
When the ogres came I was already on my way to the third floor - and they didn't follow.
I took the third chest - and jumped before the ogres reached me. They didn' follow.
Finally I toke the first chest, jumped to the bottom floor and left the building.

Those 'summond' ogres seamed rather stupid :-)

PS You still have to figth the 'standard' ogres thou.

Comment by Thottbot

The tower is at 18,68 in Stromgarde.

Comment by Thottbot

1st stair landing - 18,68 Phylactery
2nd floor - 18,67 Ember Agate
3rd floor - 18,69 Orb

If you use the tower's defenses you can pretty safely sneak all the way up to the 3rd floor and work your way down, be quick about it and you should be fine. =)

Comment by Thottbot

46 Pally & 45 druid. We both forgot the agate and was too lazy to go back to the bank to get it. Wrong move! Died once on 1st landing, once on second floor, once on the third and then on the way out. lol

Comment by Thottbot

Did it with my 44 Rogue. I snuck in, looted, and used stealth as soon as I got the item. That way I avoided battles. :) Should start at the very top of the tower though, as you'll have some difficulties sneaking past the extra mobs that pop up.

It's very easy. :) Have fun.

Comment by Thottbot

undress yourself, run in fear loot chest and die, realease at next chest do the same
Chests are at different floors, at 18,68 in Stromgarde

Comment by Thottbot

Dont forget the agate, found with the summoned guardians we were able to gain access to the tower with out to much trouble. I dont wanna see how bad it is with out we both had it so it was ez for me.

Comment by Thottbot

-Druid lvl 42-

Very easy to do for druids - in cat form with prowling

What i did :

Sneaked into the tower, killed the mobs inside, even on the top floor.

Afer that I looted the second chest, by doing that some mobs spawned(See questlog) and starting running towards me.
I'd go in catform again and prowled.. no problems.

After that I looted the chest on top floor, same tactic.

And last I looted the first chest, same tactic again.
No probs doing that, didnt die at all , didnt use defenses.

All you have to do is following this intructions and you will succeed.
Just do it quick ;)

Comment by Thottbot

This quest is even possible for a rogue without using the enchanted gem to set off the tower's defences. I managed to get all three items as a level 42 Night Elf Rogue just by some careful stealthing and waiting for the right moment to open the chests. So I didn't need to fight a single ogre. So cool.

Comment by Thottbot

it's really easy for hunters;
-dismiss your pet
-get to the tower by the edge,activate defenses
-open the first chest,frost trap quickly, run to the second one, feign death and the adds will go
-wait for fd's cooldown
-open the second chest, run to the third one and feign death again
- open the 3rd one,frost trap, jump down, start running, you should be able to make it alive to the entrance, fd for the last time to be sure
- get back to arathi and deliver it..

Comment by Thottbot

i -soloed- this quest as a 41 druid.

the tower is in the far right back corner of stromgarde, near where you were killing shamans for the agate. its got 2 ogres guarding the door, cant miss it.

use cat form, stealth all the way through to the top.
(DO NOT OPEN THE FIRST TWO CHESTS!)
get to the top chest and go night elf. wait a second, open the chest, grab the loot, then QUICKLY cat form and stealth. the summoned ogres run around in circles looking for you, so if youre nervous sneak back into a corner and wait for a clear path to the second floor.

do the same for each chest and waltz right on out!

if i can do this at 41, anyone can.

Comment by Thottbot

this quest is extremely hard unless you are a rouge. As son as you open the chest, like 5 lvl 38-40 elites come out. So i would get the first chest and then let myself die. I would go to the second one as a ghost and resreect and then loot it and repeat this for the third. Don't worry about the repair of armor. The next quest after this will tell you to go to stormwind to talk to someone and he will give you 90 silver

Comment by Thottbot

When you first are inside the tower, you can resurrect just next to the the chest´s and open them. Then you die (problaly) but come back and resurrect. you can "easily" come in to the the tower if you go outside Stromgarde Keep, follow the wall on the westside - go all the way very close to the outside wall there is a crack in the wall - then You only have to kill 1 lvl 38 Elite, or just run inside the tower and get smashed :-)

Comment by Thottbot

If you're a druid, this can be done easily solo using your prowling capability!

I did this alone (lvl 44 night elf druid), as follows:

Walk into Stormgarde and turn right, then left, then shapeshift into cat form and prowl. Keep going straight and then you see the first ogres. This place is FULL of ogres, but you can walk past them easily prowling. Enter the tower and go to the top floor.

You will see the chest lying down and only one ogre around. Don't think that this is the only ogre you'll have to face though! As soon as you open the chest, 5-6 ogres are running to you, out of nowhere! So before shapeshifting to your normal form again, examine the ogre's movements to see his route, and wait for the proper time where he is the farthest awaw from the chest.

At that moment, shapeshift to normal form, open the chest, get the item, go back into cat form and prowl as quick as you can!

If you do all of this quickly, you'll enter the prowling state when all the ogres are really close to you, running to kill you. The good thing is that once you prowl, they stop, they can't see you at all, and you can even walk among them to go to the lower level.

In this level, the same applies. One ogre and one chest, do the procedure as fast as you can and you'll be prowling a breath away from all the ogres.

The last one is the most tricky one, since it's on a small place in the ladders. There are three ogres guarding around and you must examine their movements and routes to judge when the proper time is. The first time I didn't manage to open the box and died. Then I ressurected right next to it, carefully examined their routes and managed to get the item right before they were about to attack. Then I jumped down, walked all the way out of the Keep and the quest's done!

I don't know what that azure thing they give you is for. I didn't activate it.

This quest gave me 3000 XP, and the next one in chain is only to deliver an item in SW, which gave me another 3500 XP. So I got 2 XP bars quite easily!

Good luck!

P.S.: The exact coordinates for the 3 items are mentioned in a post by some other user earlier in this page.

Comment by Allakhazam

priest lvl 42
just shielded and enter running to the top floor
scream, opened the box, died near the middle one,
ressed, shielded, scream, opened,
run to the bottom, same..

Comment by Allakhazam

I soloed this as a level 46 Mage....Tough to do and stay alive but easy if your willing to die and run back three times.

1) Walk in to tower frontage and get to first chest and die.

2) Come back and res right next to chest when orgres are furthest away. Loot chest and die again.

3) Walk back as spirit and res by second chest.

4) Rinse, lather, repeat.

5) Got whole quest done alone and only died three times. Could never find a group to do this the right way so it had to be done this way as a solo mage.

Comment by Allakhazam

I would recommend jumping onto the wall before you go down the ramp. Look for a streetlamp on your left. Run around until you see a campfire n jump down. This will save you both time and damage. BTW if you die ANYWHERE inside the tower you can rez ANYWHERE inside the tower.

Edited, Mar 15th 2007 6:57pm by fivered

Comment by Allakhazam

This is a really really crude way of doing it but it works with a little bit of patience.

Grab a few potions and make a run for it lol. You can cut straight to the tower without fighting if you walk the ledge. Right before you go down the ramp towards the ogres theres a iron cross kinda looking thing on the right. Jump up and run all the way to the tower. You can run basically to the top if possible.

Rez and make your way back to the top of the tower. Get to the very top and rez next to the first chest. If you can feign do so if not jump down to the next chest and get slaughtered all over again. Rinse and repeat.

The bottom chest requires a little bit of timing. Wait till both the ogres start walking away. Once they're far enough away clicky clicky make a run for it.

Once you do that you can either run towards the guards on the alliance side of the keep or resurrect at the spirit healer.

Nice xp and easy follow-up quest.

Comment by Allakhazam

At first, I went around the ledge, got to the tower, then (stupidly) tried to take on one of the Lords (42 feral druid). It worked pretty well until his health went up to full instantly after I backed up into a corner. I decided to make a run for it, and got almost inside before getting owned. I went back as wisp, and decided to try catstealthing. It worked pretty well. I got inside the tower and started up the ramp before I noticed an orge was coming down. I nearly jumped out of my skin and mashed the s key. I was so focused on staying away that I almost ran into the other one coming down the other ramp. I "ran" (stealthed i guess) back to the other one and followed him up. I found the first chest and waited until the scary orges were all gone. I unstealthed and immediately had an Orge Lord on me. I ran, all the way up the tower, where i got hit by a lightning bolt and died. But then (gasp!) I noticed that my wrists had turned yellow! The horror! I decided I would go back there, and repair bills be damned. I went up to the top, and rezzed between the two guys. Cat form, stealth, wait until that damn shammy walked away, then got chest and catstealthed because I had read that here. Then the Orges all showed up, and I passed the time waiting for the shammy to give me a clear shot at the way down by finding room in my inventory for my armor, which I didn't want to mess up mor than I already had. (almost done. damn this is a long post.) I went down as soon as I had a chance, got to the 2nd one and did the unstealth loot cat restealth thing again, but this time there was one right on me. I wondered how the hell I was going to get out of this, but then (again) I saw this person (not sure what race or anything, just someone) running around, clearly either a bored 70 or on the same quest. The orges all went after him, and I jumped down and ran to the next chest, which I got easily and then catstealthed out of there. Outside, I saw a bunch of dead Ogres and some ? Hordies running around. I /lolled and /bowed, then ran out of there and turned in the quest.

Comment by Allakhazam

For me, this went exactly as scoolio described, except that I died the fourth time before I could get out and get away. ^_^;; Just make sure that each time you die, you're somewhere inside the tower. This could be fought with a full party of mid-40's or three lvl 50's, but at 48 this quest was gray and I didn't get squat for xp. The reward hardly covered the equipment repair costs, so this was a serious waste of time. >_>

Comment by Allakhazam

Azure Agate is a one time use item so use it wisely.

When you use the Azure Agate on the device outside of the tower several water elementals will be summoned outside and through out the Tower. They won't last long though.

Since I couldn't find anybody to help me do this part I just would die in tower then go revive next to each chest when it was unguarded and loot it then die again from the ogres that appeared after you loot each chest. Each chest is on a different floor of the tower.

Comment by Allakhazam

when you active device outside , it give you 4 element guardians , lv 38 etile. In my opinion, activate or not does not effect the result of quest. However, if you dunt activate , you dunt have guardian that fight beside your. Each floor has a chest. By opening each chest, 5 mob will appear. Repeat till you done all 3 chest.

Comment by Allakhazam

I know Im kinda high fot the quest, nut I just finnished it and my heart is pounding. Some great fun! Im a druid and I went in solo in cat stealth form. I timed the opening of the chests when the the patroling ogers are away from me as far as possible, opened the chest and looted then went back to cat form and stealth. As I did this each time A swarm of ogers ran to me.. i thought I was dead, but they missed me. I snuck past each and up to next chest. At the last chest They ran to me just as I re-stleathed and I jumped from top floor to bottom, using cats grace I wasnt hurt. It was one of the moments Ill remember about the game. I hope it helps someone who cant get a group. BTW Did not use the Agate

Comment by Allakhazam

quest xps rewards is 3000

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest is easy if all the players in your group have decent reflexes.

Each chest you loot spawns 3 to 5 elite ogres. Remember, though: You aren't locked in combat when the ogres spawn. They charge toward the chest. Therefore, if you can escape before they see you, you needn't fight them, at ALL.

See where this is going?

I did this solo with my level 45 Paladin, and my only death was fighting the pair of Boulderfist Lords at the tower entrance. One got lucky with back-to-back criticals, and my heal spell didn't fire off in time. Not a big deal. I didn't need Lay on Hands, though there were fights that took both BoP and Divine Shield.

Here's a quick walkthrough. Read this BEFORE you try it, so that you'll know what you're up against! Some of these moves require VERY precise timing to execute properly.

1. Start with the MIDDLE chest.

Find it on a landing about halfway up. It's called Trelane's Lockbox or something like that. Clear all ogres around and below it before you open it.

a. Once it's open, 4 ogres appear, 2 on each side. They charge toward the chest. IMMEDIATELY pick one side and charge the two ogres, then keep charging past them while they follow. Pull them as far away from the other two as possible, preferably down a couple levels. Don't worry if you fall, the damage won't be more than 20% of your health, and you can fight them on the ground floor.

b. Dispatch them, then deal with the other two. If you did this right, you only fight two at a time. The fights are about equally hard.

c. Repeat until everybody has looted.

2. Second, do the TOP chest. This one is actually easier solo, for reasons that I'll get to shortly.

a. Make sure everything is cleared, all the way to the top of the tower, before you loot the top chest. This time, face the middle of the tower when you loot the chest. SIX ogres appear, three on each side. Now you have two options:

Option (1). If you're in a full party, you can beat them three at a time in an identical fashion to the middle chest. Pull one side of Ogres to the opposite end of the tower. Remember, they're charging toward the chest, so pull by circling PAST them, toward the wall that's OPPOSITE the lockbox. Fight there. You should only have to fight three at a time. It's hard, but feasible with a good group. Repeat until everybody has the item.

Option (2). If you're solo, the moment the ogres appear, charge the center of the room, and fall all the way to the bottom. If you move quickly enough, they will never aggro, and you will never have to fight any of them. This is the option I did.

3. Do the BOTTOM chest LAST. The reason is that there's NO way to avoid pulling aggro from ALL the ogres who appear on this one. There are three or four of them, making a difficult fight. DONT FIGHT THEM. Run out! Have your tank go first, so that he pulls all the aggro. Bring a potion just in case. You might want to heal your tank a couple of times, also, because you're running a gauntlet past at least six enemies. Keep running until you leave Stromgarde Keep. If you die, so what? You're done!

Comment by Allakhazam

soloed as a 45 hunter...now when i say 45 hunter, don`t think that i fought my way through...it is imposible to solo by fighting...i just abused the heck out of feign death, so to all my fellow hunters out there, i recomend that you get to the right side of the tower(by fighting), dismiss your pet, activate the defenses, and go collect them from mid to top, and from top to bottom...if you get dazed or get a very big bunch of agro, just FD...i did this quest without the Water elementals `cause i got killed after i took the mid item, so it should be fairly easy for the rest of you guys

Comment by Allakhazam

I went up and down the tower without noticing the first chest: Trelane's Phylactery. Some players complained too they couldnt find it. The thing is that usually you are being chased by several ogres so you dont take the time to look around. If you die, then thats the time to locate the three chests.

A tip: dont use the azure agate. It will attract like 5 ogres to the entrance, its better to go inside and kill them one by one.

If you are dead inside the tower you can rez in any floor you like.

Ogres respawn fast in this area. Go straight to the tower. Best way is taking the second road right. You end up at the right flank of the tower. There in the corner, its possible to jump and get to the tower, it will take you like 20 seconds jumping, but it works.
Also, you can jump to the tower from a broken house on the left side.

Usually, you die several times before completing this quest. I completed at level 36.

Comment by Allakhazam

Easy peasy for a 42 rogue. Never had to fight... just stealth in and stealth out. Ogres have very bad eyesight.

Comment by Allakhazam

LOL you know wats funny I did this quest alone at like 43. Here is wat to do go up to the top rememeber all the chest locations and open the top jump to the second jump to the first and run out. If all goes well and u jump down as quickly as possible you sudnt agro much and if you do they take time to chase so just run for now until the stop.

Note its best to do this when the ogres outside are cleared cuz you can just run away quicker.

Comment by Allakhazam

Well at level 42 druid I stealthed into the tower, followed the ogre on the right side of stairwell, and kept from underfoot.

At first level got the chest, and turned back into cat and reset prowl....did not move when all those ogres popped. Waited a few mintues and inched my way to the edge of teh stairs anddropped down onto ground.

Followedthe other ogre up the left side of stairway, passed the crowed, up to the second level and basically followed teh ogre in a cirlce till he passed the chest and repeated the same thing. When they popped I had moved a bit but kept body to wall away from chest, easier to get away...

went around them inch by inch, watching for the circling ogre. and then crept up to the top level, that was easier, did the same thing, and moved into the little alcove when the ogres popped while stealthing (prowl).

After that I simply dropped down onto the stairway, kept down the stairs, dropped again onto lower level stairs avoiding the crowded ogres on first level...snuck out of doorway to freedonm! :)

With no deaths!

Comment by Allakhazam

Soloed the end of this quest with my lvl44 warrior. I had done the first two chests in a group, but we missed the first one and then had to quit.

All ogres except the two guarding the tower entrance can be pulled one by one, and I disengaged after killing one of those two, healed up and took down the other one. Inside the tower I again killed them all one at a time and I thought I had the mission nicely wrapped up. Wrong - I just couldn't find that damned last chest. Ogres started respawning all around me and before I knew it I was dead - I died like 3 or 4 times before I was on top of things again. And whatever u do, DON'T use that "defense" system - it'll aggro every ogre in the vicinity and once (very soon) they're done with the water elementals they come for you. It's more like a burglar alarm system. ("Dear burglar, please push this button so we know where to look for you...") :-(

Anyway I read the posts here, realized that the last ever-to-burn-in-hell chest really was inside the tower (many thx, sangocad!) and finally found it: it's on the first landing of the staircase, in a dark corner to the left. (As seen from the tower entrance.) I snapped up the gadget, swallowed an invisibility pot and ran for it. Soo easy, once u know where to look for it...

Ector, lvl 60 Human pala, Khadgar
Maeglîn, lvl 45 NE warrior, Khadgar
Brottor, lvl 25 Dwarf priest, Xavius
Draugîn, lvl 23 NE hunter, Lothar
Elòmë, lvl 21 NE druid, Lothar

Comment by Allakhazam

Ok, this is how I did it on my old lvl, 41.
I activated the security system, then Aspect of the Cheetah. On that moment guardians all over the tower spawned, I ran in, and looted the chests before they died. Tada. :D

One last tip. Do the top box at last. There is only one Ogre there. If you die you can easily go up with ur gost and resurrect. Only 1 ogre. And on my run one of the defences where left alive, so I looted and ran like hell! =:D

Edited, Fri Nov 4 02:39:43 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

Lvl 41 Rogue.

Stealthed all the way into the tower, missed the 1st box Trelane's Phylactery, and headed to the 2nd box. Waited til the pat was farthest, then opened the box. WAY more than enough time to loot and restealth. Mobs didnt even flinch. Walked by them to 3rd floor and repeated. Headed back down to the Phylactery, and once again, looted and restealthed before the mods rushing the chest aggroed me. Simple and painless, didnt even use Distract / Vanish once. Easy for druids or rogues. 3000 xp, 110 rep (Human).

Comment by Allakhazam

I went into the main keep bldg up the road on when you enter and it was full of Mages so I am assuming I was at thew wrong spot.

Comment by Allakhazam

At lvl 44, I received 3500 xp for completing this portion of the quest. Skuerto will then send you to speak with another npc in the mage quarter in SW (don't recall his name) and that gave me another 2000 xp. So for a total of 5500 xp, it wasn't too bad.

Edited, Jan 18th 2007 3:56pm by slinkywink

Edited, Jan 18th 2007 3:57pm by slinkywink

Comment by Allakhazam

ThaForge, that's the best way to do it. Otherwise this quest is insainly hard for the junk reward and insulting exp.

Comment by Allakhazam

Did this today with my 38th level rogue.

Could stealth right next to the ogres
without any aggro. Didn't even fool
with the defenses thing. Just stealthed
to each chest then restealthed. You have
plenty of time- but should always have
your vanish cooled down in case. Only
the chest at the very top aggro'd the
main guy. Hit vanish problem solved.

Whole thing took maybe 15 mins max.

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest is rather simple if U R equal in level to the mobs If U R not U may have a greater agro radius and that could be a problem. All that you need to do is come in the the entrance of the area that the ogres occupy within the destroyed keep. Jump up on the rail to the left and run around to the keep. Jump down and run inside and get killed. come back and recon the place in order to find the boxes. Once you find the boxes you can rez next to each in succession, get the item die, come back and do the next one. Not too Heroic, bit it does let U solo the thing.

Comment by Allakhazam

Yust activate the defenses, go in, open the lower box, directly stealth again and repeat on all the other boxes, by the time the mobs spawn from opening the chest your long gone and the gaurdien is kicking thare azzes.

Comment by Allakhazam

Soloed as 43 druid. I only fought ONE ogre at the tower base (the one behind the "activation stone")", to be able to activate the defenses. then stealthed, in while the fight was going on, and got the 2 upper boxes. Got the lowest box a bit after the fight between defenders and ogres, but managed to stealth out without fighting at all.

Comment by Allakhazam

For the Rogues out there... solo'd this with Rogue at lvl 37. Stealth into the tower and begin the climb - start at the very top of the tower and make certain that you are able to re-stealth. Grab the loot, re-stealth and then move to the next chest...

For the record, I did not use the gem to initiate the security system... I simply walked in and opened the chests, grabbed the loot

Comment by Allakhazam

How you get to the tower once you go in the front entrance of the keep?

Comment by Allakhazam

This quest was incredibly frustrating as the defences did nothing really; I just graveyard zerged it 3 times.. ugh.

Comment by Allakhazam

soloed it with my lvl 42 warlock in less than 5 minutes!
i summoned my voidwalker .. used the soul ressuruction spell.. went to the east side of strmgrade keep (from outside) .. found a crack on the wall .. entered the tower .. looted the 1st chest .. went up and looted the 2nd one .. went to the third floor and my void died (all the mobs were attaking him coz he has an ability to draw the enemy away from mne to attak him) then i died .. summoned again in the same spot with my soul res .. looted the 3rd chest and died.. summoned at the spirit healer and went to refuge point to finish the quest :)

Comment by Allakhazam

Hi!

yep, this quest was a pain in the ***. i dueled this with a nightelf druid. we wiped twice. didnt like the quest at all but still we had fun while grouping. :)

if you can avoid this quest - do so! :)

Comment by Allakhazam

Hopped on the wall and ran to the tower. Started running for the tower entrance and got killed. Rez'd at grave yard, ran to tower and explored until i found the footlocker. Then wait for the mobs to move away, accept resurection, open the footlocker.
Repeat.
Repeat.

Comment by Negoksa

This quest is soloable if you apply the death run method, start on top floor, loot, die repeat on floor below. Otherwise prepare yourself with a full group of 5.
Ogres summoned when opening a chest will disappear after a certain amount of time (15/20min),so if if you attempt a death run i'd recommend getting naked, prepare yourself to die and be patient. any class with a fear/root will be able to buy enough time to loot a chest before dying

There is a ledge at the right of the entrance of the ogre zone, you can jump on it and hug the wall to the right to skip almost all the area. This will allow you to enter the tower easily and then rez on it to get out as easily

Comment by sawier

Soloable by rogue easily, just wait for your Vanish CD before you open each chest

Comment by Ranadicus

Each of the first two chests when looted will spawn 4 elite ogres to attack you. I got 3 Maulers and a Shaman each time. The last chest will spawn 5 elites. The defenses were pretty much useless except for the third chest on the upper floor where one elemental survived to participate in the final battle. If you do this as a group each member will have to loot the chests individually, however you'll only be attacked the first time.

Comment by stinkyfinger

This quest is obnoxious. It's fine if you're a single-player, but the instant one person has to open a chest, four or five elite ogres spring out of nowhere at the location of the chest. Of course they don't just despawn once you die, so unless you can take out five ogres at a time, you're going to get the top one, die, middle one, die, then bottom one, then die. Wait probably five minutes for everything to despawn, then repeat for every member of your group.

Yes, stealthies get a free pass, but not if they are in a group and the item that causes water elementals to spawn is useless because all it does is creates more ogres. The only "clever" solution I thought they might be aiming at is it's possible to maybe kill ogres at the base to gather enough water elementals in the tower to help you get each. That might work if there isn't more than one person running it, because each loot attempt draws a lot more ogres.

Comment by Turicus

This is the dumbest and worst designed quest in vanilla/classic WoW. All the comments are either "Just die three times to loot the boxes" or "Loot and stealth lol", which most classes can't do, to bypass the actual quest. If you do this at the appropriate level, you'll probably die a couple of times even with 4-5 people. The Ogres are way too powerful and too many. Stupid quest, not worth the xp and reward with how many times you die and have to run back.

Comment by PilsnerDk

I can attest that it's possible to solo without dying, managed to do so as a lvl 45 Paladin. First, run around the high ledge all the way to the tower. Kill the one ogre blocking the entrance to the tower. Now activate the defenses, and all the water elementals will spawn. Run into the tower quickly, and run past all the mobs all the way to the top, note the location of the chests on your way. All the mobs inside will be busy fighting the water elementals.

Now loot the chest on the top floor and run/jump down immediately to the floor below, ignoring the ogres that spawn and come for you. Loot the chest there, then drop down once again and loot the final chest. Hurry out, run north and as far away as you can get. I managed to "escape" with only one Boulderfist Lord following me, which I was able to kill.

Comment by benjamin66

My hardcore lv44 hunter die for this quest. I'm so stuipd that I try to solo it. Strongly recommend you give it up in HC. Just not worth it.

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Attack on the Tower

Find Trelane's Phylactery, Trelane's Orb, and Trelane's Ember Agate, and return them to Skuerto at Refuge Pointe.

	Trelane's Phylactery (1)
	Trelane's Orb (1)
	Trelane's Ember Agate (1)

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Here's what your lookin' for: Trelane's phylactery, Trelane's orb, an' Trelane's ember agate.

All three should be in chests within the tower an' you shouldn't have a problem opening the chests on your own; you just have to be careful of the ogres.

The tower's defenses won't take care of 'em on their own; you'll need to have your weapons at the ready. Those ogres find out you're there and stealing from 'em, an' they'll be sure to put the hurt on you.

Be careful, an' good luck.

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The following spell will be cast on you:

	Burst of Experience

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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

100 reputation with Ironforge

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(696))

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Pre-Questing Guide for Phase 3 - Season of Discovery

Attack on the Tower

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