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Shadowmoon Valley Spleendid! The Second Course... The Main Course! The Path of Conquest Breaching the Path Blood Elf + Giant = ??? Tabards of the Illidari Dissension Amongst the Ranks... Besieged! To Legion Hold Setting Up the Bomb Blast the Infernals! The Deathforge Minions of the Shadow Council The Fate of Flanis The Summoning Chamber Bring Down the Warbringer! Gaining Access Invasion Point: Cataclysm The Art of Fel Reaver Maintenance The Fel and the Furious News of Victory Illidari-Bane Shard Capture the Weapons The Hermit Smith Additional Materials Fresh from the Mechanar The Lexicon Demonica Underworld Loam Tear of the Earthmother Bane of the Illidari Quenching the Blade The Sketh'lon Wreckage Find the Deserter Asghar's Totem The Rod of Lianthe Sketh'lon Feathers Imbuing the Headpiece Thwart the Dark Conclave A Ghost in the Machine Harbingers of Shadowmoon Teron Gorefiend - Lore and Legend Divination: Gorefiend's Armor Divination: Gorefiend's Cloak Divination: Gorefiend's Truncheon Teron Gorefiend, I am... Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth Enraged Spirits of Water Enraged Spirits of Air Oronok Torn-heart I Was A Lot Of Things... A Lesson Learned The Cipher of Damnation - Truth and History Grom'tor, Son of Oronok The Cipher of Damnation - Grom'tor's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The First Fragment Recovered Ar'tor, Son of Oronok Demonic Crystal Prisons Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart The Cipher of Damnation - Ar'tor's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The Second Fragment Recovered Borak, Son of Oronok Of Thistleheads and Eggs... The Bundle of Bloodthistle To Catch A Thistlehead The Shadowmoon Shuffle What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets... The Cipher of Damnation - Borak's Charge The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered The Cipher of Damnation Karabor Training Grounds A Necessary Distraction Altruis Karabor Training Grounds A Necessary Distraction Altruis Against the Legion Against the Illidari Against All Odds Illidan's Pupil The Book of Fel Names Return to the Aldor Varedis Must Be Stopped Return to the Scryers Varedis Must Be Stopped Tablets of Baa'ri Oronu the Elder The Ashtongue Corruptors The Warden's Cage Tablets of Baa'ri Oronu the Elder The Ashtongue Corruptors The Warden's Cage Proof of Allegiance Akama Seer Udalo A Mysterious Portent The Ata'mal Terrace Akama's Promise Kindness Seek Out Neltharaku Neltharaku's Tale Infiltrating Dragonmaw Fortress To Netherwing Ledge! The Force of Neltharaku Karynaku Zuluhed the Whacked Zuluhed the Whacked Ally of the Netherwing Ally of the Netherwing Blood Oath of the Netherwing In Service of the Illidari Your Friend On The Inside The Great Netherwing Egg Hunt Enter the Taskmaster A Job Unfinished...

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Comment by 13105

After heading down the ramp, he is on the top floor in the very far back on the ground.

Comment by Titaniumx

34,39 inside the deathforge

Comment by 12782

Enter the cave at 40.38, then rich 34.39. You need to speak with dead dwarf.

Comment by unclevinny

I just want to say that this was a craaazy quest to do solo as a 68 priest. I did it w/ no deaths, but there are a lot of mobs that gave me trouble. It's quite a distance from the "cave" entrance to get to the dead dwarf, and along the way there are patrolling engineers, infernals, and infernals that spawn if you walk too close to them. So be careful!

Go down the hall, turn right, then left, then right again I think. Just keep going all the way, and finally you find the dwarf.

Comment by Abzilla

I would suggest doing this in a group to speed up the process. I did this as a solo full prot warrior, at one point I would die, run back, and there would be respawns, by the end I just run in, die, res, run in some more. He is at the VERY FAR BACK, and every inch of the place has 68+ mobs. So get a group going and finish it in one go.

Comment by 29553

this quest is ridiculous for a warrior. I think I died 5 times before completion. Get a healer before doing this quest.

Comment by 27400

Easily soloable as a Warlock (I'm a demo 'lock, but I'm sure other builds would work just as well). Nice rep grinding too (Marks of Sargeras)

Comment by Sleuth

http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=21727
Flanis Swiftwing is the NPC you have to talk to.

Comment by 37829

This quest can be annoying for a firemage. There are infernals along the way that are immune to fire, beware. Other than that, it's a relatively easy quest.

Comment by durnt

there is something buggy it seems with some of the dormant elementals...they seem to respawn the millisecond you kill em

Comment by Jezalov

Yeah, the respawn time was very annoying, had a hard doing the quest as a 67 hunter. Died once :P

Comment by 52268

The coods are corrects! Enter in the cave at 40,38 in cave speak with dwarff!

Comment by 44697

Easiest way I found to do this was to make sure I had enough bag space, take off all my gear and suicide run through. died twice on the way (with no cost) - and once i got the pack, just hearthed out

Comment by Zurik

soloed with a lvl 67 markmanship hunter

Comment by 53446

Just dont break the balls , only kill whats "standing"

Comment by 48892

Easy as a lvl 70 feral druid. Going in was no problem. Going out I tried to do it the easy way and hit Dash while prowling. Unfortunately, I passed too close by a dormant infernal and got hit by fire which broke stealth. I almost made it to the entrance though.. :P

Comment by 64470

Actually this was easy with 2... 70 shaman and hunter... but i could have soloed it too... for the Dormant Infernal just need to stick to the middle... they have a really small Aggro range...also depend on class and built... but generally easy... just need to be aware of the Tinker/Elemental Pat... died once but that is cause I was careless.

Comment by 55952

The Deathforge is plain ridiculous. The respawn rate is insane, mobs aggro from very far away, the mobs use ridiculous abilities (Shrapnel bomb, mines), and getting adds is easy. When you die, the mobs will have respawned, leaving you no safe place to rez.

Bring a friend, or expect to die a lot.

Comment by 70855

Hi

"I'm Lock armed with Rabbit ears and and my enchanted plastic spoon from KFC and I easily solo'd this quest. I rock! You suck. I know having a pet never really means I solo anything, but I like to say I solo'd it.

PS blizzard plz nerf warriors."

:p

Really annoying quest.

Comment by ookluh

Got discouraged when I saw Kagrosh, the Horde's NPC.. almost ran out, but went a little further - turns out Flanis is in the room just beyond him.

Paladins, don't forget that there are demons (including the Tinkerers), so make sure to use your Demon combat abilities. Soloed this as a 70 Prot Pally with no problems (though I was fortunate enough to not really have any adds to each group that I fought while in there). The Dormant mobs don't attack unless you attack them, so don't Consecrate near them.

Comment by 6660

More precise coordinates for Flanis are: 34.6 39.9

Comment by 57777

The quest is hard to solo, period. I did it quickly with a 70 mage and 70 lock. I died a few times trying to solo as a 70 lock. Just too many mobs and tinkerers are damned hard to solo in cloth as affliction.

Nothing complicated, just work your way back to the coords.

Comment by 83931

Better than having any exact coordinates for the corpse, simply go to 40,38 as stated above, take the tunnel to the right. Move to the very end of this tunnel, it will be quite a lot of mobs to fight on the way and the the fact that newly made elementals to craft infernals are being escorted from the summoning room into the "factory" and they are being spawned regulary. When you reach a door requiring Deathforge Key you've reached a milestone, skip the door and keep moving. Next into the narrow tunnel, keep in the middle and fight the newly made infermals and after those you will meet two deathforge guardians. Behind them stands a summoner with his demon, kill him and you've free passage to the corpse of Flanis.

If you're a ranged class the corpse of the summoner might drop down over Flanis, so you don't do the mistake of not being able to find him like I did (went back out again thinking where the heck this guy could be), so I was there twice. Fortunatly I checked extra carefully and his corpse was under the summoner :-)

Comment by Heisenberg

An easy solo quest for a 69 warlock. Take your time, banish when necessary and watch out for the patrol with the fire elemental (easily dealt with using banish, of course)

Comment by Fulle

For people with stealth, I suggest being really careful in the hallway on the way down, as there are some pats that literally SPRING through, back and forth.

One of them ran into me, and that caused about four orcs to link, and I died in the middle of the tunnel. Died again after doing a corpse run, and so on until I was able to rez at the very end and successfully defeat the one mob there.

Comment by 121980

This quest is easy, u enter the cave at 40.38, just follow the way down to 34.39. were u speak with the "dead" dwarf and get Flanis's Pack..

I did this as a Firemage, not that hard, didnt die once. just had some probs with the infernals (fire ressit)

Comment by 9807

Run to 34.6, 39.9 on the map and take your gear off, die in that exact spot.

Run back to your corpse by entering the cave at 40,38.

Rez in the corner and eat and drink, talk to Flanis laying dead on the floor.

Hearth Out.

What a dumb #$%^ing quest.

Comment by 51879

Something i found extremely annoying was the Deathforge Tinkerers running all the way from the corridor to the dwarf's body..

I did this as a druid, in stealth, and the first time they saw me and aggroed a hell of mobs :(

So be careful, i used dash to get away as fast as i could when done.

Comment by Einzig

The three quests inside Deathforge; The Fate of Flanis, The Summoning Chamber and the followup, Bring Down the Warbringer! are admittedly quite tough to solo for anyone who can't stealth in or handle at least 3-4 mobs at range. As a BM Hunter I had a few close calls but after the third trip in to get the Warbringer I had a good strat.

Move down the ramp killing the guards, wait for the pathing fire elemental and escorting tinkerers, send pet on elemental, the two tinkerers will head for you in short order and as soon as the elemental drops about 25%. They will plant a bomb near you, so trap one, move away from bomb, feign death, burn down the elemental have pet intimidate the untrapped tinkerer, burn it down and by that time the trapped one will be ready.

For the warlocks my normal strat is send pet on Warlock, kill imp and finish up warlock. The bridge you cross to reach the room with the infernals will have 4 warlock/imp mobs and one pathing in the centre. You can take out the guards at the start of bridge, take out the pathing one and then move across safely taking out the others. If you've killed the pathing fire elemental before the bridge, chances are it will be coming through again by the time you get through the warlocks, so watch your back.

After the bridge you'll see the portcullis door to the left (go back to here for Warbringer), hug wall and move forward to the right. The tinkerers here will likely bring one to help so watch the adds. Don't kill the dormant infernals (suspended orbs), they won't aggro you. At the end of the hall in a room is Flanis. Like mentioned above, the mob I killed landed on his body and I had a hard time seeing him on the floor.

As an aside, sure corpse runs are fine, stealthing is fine, but It is really worth clearing the mobs in the area to complete quest if you can handle it or have a friend to help. After the three quests I had 3x Fel Armaments, 25 Marks of Sargeras, 6 Greens, almost 3 stacks of cloth and the coin drops from mobs. Add the gold reward for quests at 70 and your getting close to 150g. Not bad for about an hour of work. To be honest with some better gear I'd be tempted to farm this area in the future.

Good luck.

Comment by 142060

solo this quest whive my druid NE lv 67

Comment by 122243

dont know if it was just me but seemed prety easy as a lvl 70 fury warrior.Respawn time was normal to fast but nothing special

Comment by 121595

These quests in shadowmoon valley are ridicules for warriors if you don't have a partner save your self from being killed like 80 times and go quest somewhere else.

Comment by dalalphabet

I was able to solo this as a resto shaman, but only just. The piles of tinkers and their incessant bombing, making you do a dance the entire time you're trying to fight, is pretty ridiculous and I found myself having to drink several times going in and out.

The tinkers (I am assuming it was them, as they were the only thing I was fighting when this happened) activate the dormant infernals and cause them to attack you.

One thing I did do, because I really hate fighting that set of 2 tinkers + infernal soul, if I saw it coming I dropped off the bridge to the area below. It takes a couple of minutes for the next set to spawn, and at least all you have to deal with on the way out of there are the guardians. If you are level 70, you may be able to get away with just jumping up on the railing to avoid them. They *do* see you at level 70 when you are only pressed against the railing, however I was able to pass them by at one point while walking on the railing at a point where jumping down would have meant a fiery death.

Comment by FourDeuce

You can also disrupt the summoning from the other side of the pool, so when you finish this quest, on the way out, jump off the right side of the bridge. When you get down to the water you can heal up and get ready for the disrupting quest. You don't have to get too close to the summoning to disrupt it, so all you have to fight there is the elemental(once you use the tool you brought with you).
Of course, this is if you picked up both quests before you started this one. ;)

Comment by pikamaster

EASY quest as a lvl 67 feral druid by using prowl's cat moves
this message was writing with my wii (wii internet) xD

Comment by 378621

enter the cave and keep going to the back of that floor. i recommend stayin to the left, as there are less mobs. i'm a lvl68 warrior and i died tons, so i say group if possible. not impossible to solo, just tons easier and less costly repair wise if you're in a group. even a 2man group is enough.

Comment by 336691

I just solo'ed this (71lvl pro pally) and found this laughibly easy, just stay to the left til you get to the infernals and you will not aggro many mobs. then do not mess with the unformed infernals just kill the ones walking around. The final mob where flanis is is just a normal so nothing special about it. Have fun and happy questing.
J.D.~

Comment by EllieBelly

I got DOWN there ok with a level 69 arcane mage but I died coming back OUT. Just too much aggro to deal with. I did finish the quest at least.

Comment by 435166

Just completed as a lvl 68 retri paladin. Very soloable. Go down the ramp into the Deathforge, take the first cave on the right. Stick to the right hand side of the cave and you should only have to fight about 1/2 of the mobs. Follow the previous advice and don't touch the glowing balls.
On the way back out I got about 3/4 of the way before running into respawns.

All in all not too difficult a quest as long as you avoid aggroing more than 1 mob at a time.

Oh and a tip for fighting the summoners, kill the imp first (I used exorcism, 1 hit kill, and aggro's the summoner) the imp's have low health/armor but do a respectable amount of damage.

edit: oh and if you use AoE spells whilst fighting the tinkerers you destroy their mines before they go off.

Comment by 442410

easy for druids just prowl to the room with the dwarf kill the mob in the room i used treants on summoner and i killed the imp got backpack and prowled out.

Comment by 611711

I just soloed this as a 71 Arcane Mage in 15 minutes. Once I saw the earlier comments about how far into the cave I needed to go, and how many mobs I had to deal with on the way, I just used Invisability to sneak past as many as possible. Ended up only needing to kill three mobs, none very difficult. Note that you can walk right past the Dormant Elementals. No need to spend time killing them.

Comment by angel61400

Solo'ed as level 68 protection warrior. It was pretty easy; never died and only used a couple bandages and one health potion. Finished in about 15 minutes.

Stay away from the glowing balls toward the end because they respawn immediately - try to stay in the middle when you get to them.

I hearthed out after getting Flanis's Pack because I would have had to fight my way back out and didn't feel like it.

Comment by Perf3ctskill

Here's how to do this->

Enter the cave, stick to the right hand side(killing the gaurds and summoners). Once you hit the summoner room, stick to the RIGHT WALL. Once you see all the infernal gaurds(and the tinkerers running around). Just make a full on sprint to get to this blasted dwarf(I use HoP(Hand of Protection).) Once you make it to the end GRAB THE Backpack! You can respawn above the dwarf(if you die where the dwarf is).

Good luck.

Comment by Obolon

As a level 67 combat rogue with no enchants and only quest rewarded gear, stealthing my way in, I found that I was still spotted quite often. Once in a fight, other mobs ended up getting in on the action and dying was the inevitable outcome. Then I realized that I had Steath of the Stalker, a reward from a quest called Ridgespine Menace in Blade's Edge Mountains. Once I drank that I stealthed right in, sapped the mob standing over Flanis's body, killed his pet, then took the pack and stealthed my way back out.

Comment by 823485

79th level warlock is a piece of cake soloing. Finding the darn entrance, don't ever take directions from this warlock.

Comment by Fluffmeister

Yup, that'll teach me not to read the quest properly! I did manage to battle my way past all the guards and kill the final summoner and imp, and thought I'd wasted my time as the room was a dead end. Didn't notice Flanis's corpse there, which you have to speak to!

Comment by 964140

Soloed this as a level 72 BM Hunter. Yeah....it was tough!The worst part is the number of mobs with little demons. If you're still finishing off a set of them and another set spawns or walks you're way, it can be more than you bargained for.

The first time I tried, I got all the way to the end of the tunnel and Flanis wasn't there like everyone said (there was no one else around that may have just retrieved the bag). Got killed on the way out (of course). He was there the second time though.

Good luck!

Comment by Caelus

I don't know what I'd do without Prowl.

Probably be 10 levels higher from all the mobs I've skipped.

Just be careful, some of the mobs move really fast and might bump into you. Then you're dead.

Comment by 924646

67 Rogue solo! The coords are correct for the entrance. I did a little something different than what I've seen here tho. Flew onto the hillside opposite and stealthed into the cave (along the right side) from there. Made a mistake n ran into a brazier, lost stealth n got smooshed the 1st trip in but, live n learn. 2d trip in got all the way no probs n killed bad guy number 1 n split. OOOPS forgot the 'pack' from the dead guy layin on the ground under my kill n had to go back in and retrieve. Buffs used that worked best, Stunned the little imp runnin around next to target n dealt with the target solo. Stun, Cheap shot, Poison, Kidney shot n by that time most should be down. If not, enchant yer daggers or something. By the time yer in there tho your poison capabilties should be maxed, so DON'T FORGET TO RE-UP YER POISONS. Next, was just getting out of the cave n turning right to the entry of the final part. That was simply easy peezy! Stealth to the lowest part n stun the 'center' guard. The other 2 won't aggro. Had a need for coffee so just kept stunnin him till I was done :) Targeted the summoner, Cheap shot, poison n down he goes! By then the stun is off the guard n on my butt but, they're just practice anyway. Fire elemental form the lava awakes n gets on yer butt too but, he went pretty easy also. Stealth back out of the cave to the entry, stunned the only guard there, hit the bird n took off with a smile. Peace!

Comment by AchimPeters

Can't be emphasized enough: There are two entrances to cages. The one you used before in earlier quests, all the way down the ramp, is the wrong one. The right one is half way down the ramp, easily to be missed, particularly if you're flying to the one "you know to be the right one".

If you're in the right one, make your way all the way to the (half way right) end. You don't need to get through the gate on your left.

Comment by 1117886

Don't know why so many had such problems. I thought it was pretty straightforward.

I solo'ed it with a 68 prot warrior. Was careful to fight as few as I could at one time, using taunt. I killed everything in the place going in, found the body, and only had to kill a few more on the way out.

Pretty simple all in all.

The hardest part was figuring out where to find the body.

Comment by 1440987

The Fate of Flanis http://youtu.be/ozYDvYowcMM

Comment by Boxofbeer

The Fate of Flanis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-Iwe4vM2M

Comment by Aurleis1

Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDHpEA18Zc4

1. The Fate of Flanis
• Accept the quest, The Fate of Flanis, from Stormer Ewan Wildwing at coords 40.4, 41.2 (Deathforge).
• Travel north, and enter the Deathforge at coords 40.1, 38.3.
• Follow the passage to 37.2, 41.7, and then turn right (west).
• Follow the path to coords 34.6, 39.8.
• Loot Haalum from Flanis Swiftwing, a dead dwarf laying on the ground.
• Exit the Deathforge.
• Travel south to coords 40.4, 41.2.
• Turn in the quest to Stormer Ewan Wildwing.

Comment by playeralittle

I did this on 1/17/17. I am a pally lvl 70 with pretty good but certainly not great gear. Actually heirloom mostly. Blizz must have really adjusted the difficulty on
this quest as I had no problem at all and didn't even come close to dying even once. I am not a really good player either so it isn't me it's the difficulty of the quest.

Comment by Pypode

I’m obviously visually challenged. Took me forever to see Flannis lying at his feet. All the way in the back. Not through the gate, as mentioned. Sure enough the body of the summoner hid him.

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The Fate of Flanis

Stormer Ewan Wildwing at Deathforge Tower wants you to search the Deathforge for Flanis Swiftwing and recover Flanis's Pack.

	Flanis' Pack (1)

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Wing Commander Nuainn originally sent three of us out here to keep watch over the Deathforge and to gather information. Flanis Swiftwing volunteered to try to infiltrate the Deathforge, but we haven't heard anything from him in days.

I fear the worst, <name>. Flanis is a skilled scout, but if he's gotten in over his head, we have no way of knowing. Search the Deathforge for him and recover any information or items he might have collected.

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