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1.	Naaru Technology
2.	B'naar Console Transcription
3.	Shutting Down Manaforge B'naar
4.	Shutting Down Manaforge Coruu
5.	Shutting Down Manaforge Duro
6.	Shutting Down Manaforge Ara

Storyline
Netherstorm Distraction at Manaforge B'naar Measuring Warp Energies Naaru Technology B'naar Console Transcription Shutting Down Manaforge B'naar Attack on Manaforge Coruu Shutting Down Manaforge Coruu Shutting Down Manaforge Duro Shutting Down Manaforge Ara Sunfury Briefings Outside Assistance A Dark Pact Aldor No More Socrethar's Shadow Ishanah's Help Deathblow to the Legion Manaforge B'naar Bloodgem Crystals High Value Targets Shutting Down Manaforge B'naar Stealth Flight Behind Enemy Lines A Convincing Disguise Information Gathering Shutting Down Manaforge Coruu Return to Thalodien Shutting Down Manaforge Duro Shutting Down Manaforge Ara Kick Them While They're Down A Defector Damning Evidence A Gift for Voren'thal Bound for Glory Turning Point You're Hired! Assisting the Consortium Assisting the Consortium Report to Engineering Essence for the Engines Elemental Power Extraction Invaluable Asset Zapping Dr. Boom! Consortium Crystal Collection A Heap of Ethereals Warp-Raider Nesaad Request for Assistance Rightful Repossession An Audience with the Prince Triangulation Point One Triangulation Point Two Full Triangle Special Delivery to Shattrath City Pick Your Part One Demon's Trash... Declawing Doomclaw Warn Area 52! Doctor Vomisa, Ph.T. You, Robot Back to the Chief! The Archmage's Staff Rebuilding the Staff Malevolent Remnants The Annals of Kirin'Var Searching for Evidence A Lingering Suspicion Capturing the Phylactery Destroy Naberius! Curse of the Violet Tower The Sigil of Krasus The Sunfury Garrison Down With Daellis A Fate Worse Than Death The Unending Invasion Potential Energy Source Building a Perimeter Krasus's Compendium Torching Sunfury Hold Unlocking the Compendium Summoner Kanthin's Prize Ar'kelos the Guardian Finding the Keymaster Capturing the Keystone Run a Diagnostic! Deal With the Saboteurs To the Stormspire Diagnosis: Critical Testing the Prototype All Clear! Success! A Not-So-Modest Proposal Getting Down to Business Formal Introductions A Promising Start Troublesome Distractions Securing the Celestial Ridge The Ethereum Ethereum Data Potential for Brain Damage = High S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E Delivering the Message Recipe for Destruction On Nethery Wings Dimensius the All-Devouring

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Comment by 7450

Pretty easy one, only different from before is that you get more normal mobs and elite in the end, no need to even kill the elite.

Comment by 5288

About three times more mobs spawn to try and stop you, so it's harder than the other manaforges but still pretty easy so long as you have the suggested 3 people. Elite spawns at the end, he's also straightforward and easy to kill.

Comment by 18571

Possible to solo for - I did it as 70 lvl feral druid with equipped tanking gear.
Mobs are spawning fast and I was able to kill only few of them, but they are not hitting too hard, so just attack those trying to stop countdown (channeling beam toward console) and survive two minutes. I've died 5 seconds before shutdown but still completed the quest.

Comment by 8601

The conrtols are at, 25, 38

and entrance is at 25,41

Its a good idea to clear room before doing it, 2 Elites spawn. Any extra mobs would suck. AoE classes would be the best for this.

Comment by 32973

I don't think this is soloable unless you can do decent AOE.
Mobs keep spawning in a group of 3.

Even you don't have to kill the elite to complete the quest.

Comment by 28469

not difficult at all for a shaman, for every single manaforge quest, i just pop fire elemental, and anything that gets close is destroyed

Comment by 94437

We did in 2man group. Not hard nor easy

Comment by 40483

We had probs with 2 warriors and a disc/holy priest. The priest kept drawing aggro for some reason. One of the warriors switched to his fire mage and the cloth wearers still had probs but the tank was able to hold out long enough for the shutdown and soloed the 70e.

I would never call this the cakewalk previous contributors have implied because there are so many mobs you can't tell where they're all coming from, the guy you take the crystal off of in the first place respawns and, of course, the 70e shows up.

Maybe in tier or arena armor it's easy, not so easy if you're still working on aquiring your set.

Comment by 8792

It's possible to walljump up the interior side of the Manaforge after triggering the shutdown, from there all the mobs will evade, all you have to do is keep them in combat for two minutes, no fighting necessary.

Comment by 64664

Did this with a Prot Warrior, BM Hunter and Enhancement Shaman. Warrior gatherting mobs while the other 2 killed the mobs. Any AoE aggro spell/skill will work to stop them aborting the shutdown.
Just did it with Demoralizing Shout and Thunderclaps. At some point the sight becomes rather slim, especially when the Elite bloke comes. But there will be a few more groups behind him. That's where we failed first time. We didn't see the other group stopping the shutdown. So pay attention and use Shield Blocks and Shouts like all the time. :}

The first post was a bit misleading though. Thought that it was one of these Blizzard quests that says you need X ppl, while in fact you can do it just solo. But this one is really advised to get more people for.

Comment by WarMaster

This is soloable as a 70 holy pally in Kara gear.

Don't bother trying to kill anything (too expensive on mana). Just pick up all the mobs trying to stop the deactivation with consecrate. I did this, as well as inadvertently picking up 3 or 4 engineers and the "overseer" or whatever which respawned.

Just spam heals until quest complete, then bubble 'n run. :)

Comment by 132010

I just solo'd as a T5ish ele shammy. Though in truth, I cheated. I was able to keep all the mobs down for most of the fight, used Earth elemental to tank after the first minute. Then I died. At the end of the timer, I hit self res, and got the complete (while failing) Only way it could have been better is if I had selfressed to Frostshock after.

Comment by 107517

soloed as a hunter.... killed first two waves, ice trapped the rest, died when it had 15 secs till shutdown, and the elite was trying to stop it >.<

I didn't released, tho, so i completed the quest, wooo.

Comment by Alikat

Not solo-able as a 70 Kara-geared boomkin. Mobs are fairly squishy, but there's just too many of them. Elemental Shammy's and mages would be a great benefit to bring for AoE. Geared pallies can probably solo this no problem.

Comment by 131009

This is a bit of a stretch to do, but if you're wanting to solo it with your big shouldered, tauren male self, there is a way to do this (it takes two exploits of the area, though).

First, head into the forge and clear the four nethermancers that are positioned around the center of the forge. Grab the activation crystal, and head out of the South-East entrance.

Once you're outside, get on your mount, back a way a bit from the entrance, and fly in fairly high through the doorway. It's pretty random when it happens, but normally you can fly through the entrance and stay mounted in the forge (if it doesn't work a few times, just keep flying in straight without pausing; it shouldn't take more than a minute of attempts). Fly to the normal spot in the forge for using the evade bug trick, and make sure you're properly positioned before you touch down; you'll probably dismount the moment you touch anything (As to why you kill the nethermancers when doing this, they can aggro as you fly in, and there isn't a high enough ceiling to drop aggro from them).

After all that, you can just do the evade bug trick as normal where you hit mobs as they come in. One thing I've noticed about the evade bug is that sometimes the big guys will still channel a shutdown once they start, so try to tag them before they get a chance to cause a problem.

Comment by 138516

I'm going to try and explain how to evade glitch the mobs... here goes:

As said above, in this paragraph -

Once you're outside, get on your mount, back a way a bit from the entrance, and fly in fairly high through the doorway. It's pretty random when it happens, but normally you can fly through the entrance and stay mounted in the forge (if it doesn't work a few times, just keep flying in straight without pausing; it shouldn't take more than a minute of attempts). Fly to the normal spot in the forge for using the evade bug trick, and make sure you're properly positioned before you touch down; you'll probably dismount the moment you touch anything (As to why you kill the nethermancers when doing this, they can aggro as you fly in, and there isn't a high enough ceiling to drop aggro from them)

So you walk to the door facing the control panel, kill the four mobs outside the door. Get on your flyer... any flyers... not sure about flight form, but try it. Fly through the door and dismount on the control panel. You should be floating... and the blood elf warlock people will be shooting you. You have to kill them. You can clear them out first. Or you can just fly up there and burn them down.

Activate the shutdown and the mobs will run in and start channeling. You need to stop the channel, so, abilities like Multi-shot, Seed of Corruption, Volley, well really any just damaging ranged ability will work, but where your stopping multiple channels at once is more effective.

Comment by 156207

Totaly impossible as 70 za/kara geared rogue!

Comment by 345549

Solo'ed as decently geared 69 retri paladin. Cleared some space around console (~40 yards is enough), and started shutdown. Kept killing mobs around, and when this scary Chief Engineer Gork'lonn appeared, just Repentance him. So he stood as a statue his 60 seconds, which is MORE than enough to finish the event and get out of manaforge. Much easier than it could be.

Comment by Catriona

Just barely managed as a 70 enhance shaman with puppies out. Popped them when I noticed I was getting in over my head and didn't even notice that the mo'arg guy was elite until he was dead; just figured there were lots of those little guys beating away at me. Used a healing pot and maelstrom-healed myself two or three times. Completely forgot to activate Shamanistic Rage in the sudden panic. That probably would have helped.

Comment by leonadis

I am level 78 fury warrior with blues & greens and finally completed it after numerous attempts. Never died but couldn't quite make it, even trying many of the ideas here. I think I've found the solution. If you have decent health, dps & armor, all you have to do is attack the npc's that are trying to restart the forge, then go to the next npc. You don't have to kill them just attack. This will interrupt their attempt. During the lulls between mobs kill everyone that remains..

Comment by janan2

I am lvl 73 ret pali and I read everything and tried some of the ideas mentioned. But I could not fly in. After I walked in and cleared floor, I started countdown but although I thought I engaged anything that came near I must have missed some because it kept on shutting down. I managed to stay alive but it is hard to keep on top of everything while engaging in a fight with numerous mobs and trying not to die. Seems like it would be better to go with a friend who can keep eyes peeled for anything that attempts to stop the shut down while you are engaging most of the other mobs. Or I will just wait to gain a few levels lol.

Comment by tworley210

They may have finally fixed the glitches in these Manaforge Quests. I simply flew in and my Level 69 Fury Warrior killed everything in the place while obtaining the necessary shutdown crystal.
It seemed fairly easy to click the controls and as the NPC's came to restart the forge kill them. 5 or 6 attempts by the station personnel and the forge shuts-downs. I've done 3 of the Forge's so far.

Comment by 1440987

Shutting Down Manaforge Ara http://youtu.be/z8uCd0z-bQQ

Comment by Aurleis1

Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ipREe5bJo

1. Shutting Down Manaforge Ara
• Accept the quest, Shutting Down Manaforge Ara, from Anchorite Karja at coords 32.0, 64.2 (Area 52).
• Travel north, to the inside of Manaforge Ara, at coords 26, 38.
• Kill Overseer Azarad, and loot the Ara Access Crystal from its corpse.
• Click on the Ara Control Console, located at coords 26.0, 38.8, and select, "Begin emergency shutdown."
• Kill mobs that target the center of the Manaforge with blue beams.
• After two minutes, the Ara Control Console will shutdown (if you were successful).
• Exit the Manaforge, and travel south to Area 52, to coords 32.0, 64.2.
• Turn in the quest to Anchorite Karja.

Comment by WoWGnGP

i made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjEE3neLr6M&feature=youtu.be

Comment by b6i6o6

This quest was very hard to solo as a Fire Mage. Note that you need to aggro the mobs so that they don't interact with the manaforge console, but you do NOT necessarly have to kill them per se. In fact, the only way I manage to succeed at this quest is by popping Invisibility when I was going to die, then re-aggro the mobs again with Frost Nova, then Blink away, then die miserably when they caught up with me. However, since I survived long enough until then and it took time for the mobs to return back to the console afterwards, the timer of the quest eventually reached the end and I got it completed when I was a ghost back at The Stormspire after dying.

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Shutting Down Manaforge Ara

Travel to Manaforge Ara and obtain the Ara Access Crystal from Overseer Azarad. Use it at the Manaforge Ara console to shut it down.

Performing quests for the Aldor will cause your Scryers reputation level to decrease.

	Manaforge Ara Shut Down (1)
	Ara Access Crystal (1)
	Suggested players: 3 (1)

Description

One manaforge is all that keeps Tempest Keep functional. After we bring Manaforge Ara down, Kael will have to resort to depleting whatever energy he's got stored up.

Travel to Manaforge Ara, in the northwest, and deliver the final blow that we need by shutting it down.

The last access crystal is in the possession of Overseer Azarad. Be warned that we expect heavy opposition in the last of Kael's functional manaforges. You're likely to need the assistance of reliable friends.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Overseer's Signet			Karja's Medallion

You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with The Aldor

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10323))