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Comment by Mouzi

Easy soloable even if it says it is a group quest. Fly in to the Iron docks flightpoint. Make sure to stay high up on the higher levels, if you venture down to the bottom you will probebly die faster than you have time to utter a weak "yelp"!

There are ammunniton boxes and barrels scattered around the place, pick up so you have at least 30 ammunition, go to one of the cannons (not the launch ones, the suprise I felt when I was shot out into the middle of the packs instead of shooting at them was something I don't want to experience again). From the safety of the cannon see them orcs fall! Rinse and repeat.

There are elite patrols even at the higher levels sometimes, so be aware where you step. Stealth past, or wait for them to pass.

Should you have a group at hand, make sure to kill all rares, they drop more apexis crystals and gear, and contribute to the daily count. Kiting works if you don't have a tank.

Comment by Wildcupcake

This doesn't have to be done in "just" a party of 5. It can be completed with a whole raid group. Goes a lot faster with 40 people killing stuff. Probably makes it easier to find a group aswell.

Comment by LeoZan

This Comment section will cover "How to Group // Solo.... Assault on the Pit
Good luck and i hope these will give you some good idea on how to do it.

- Have Added some of the "SOLO" Methods.
- Will Increase in future with more about Group Method Rares and drops.

Solo Mode:
These are the first following items you want to look for...
Mine Cart Require 30x Ammo= Follows a Rail for 20 seconds, Throw Mines while your inside. 47,29
Bombardment Signal Flare - 30x Extra Potent Ammo Box = Causes 35 Yard Wide AoE Effects at your given location.
Iron Star - 20x Extra Potent Ammo Box = Roll away an iron star to crush the Iron Horde beneth it.
Burning Blade Crystal - 20x Extra Potent Ammo Box = Sends away to crush the Iron Horde (reaches aprox 50 yards)
Iron Prisoner Cage - Open Cages - 7% progress.
Iron Turret - 30x Extra Potent Ammo Box = gives you (~30 shots)
Training Manual = adds 2% to progress. (its a Book).

Note: Raid Groups wont benefit from using Mechanics or rescue Cages.
- Raid benefits however still from "books" but mainly killing.

Note: Iron Star, Bombardment Signal Flare - Can be found on most location within the Quarry.
Iron Turret road up a small hill is at: 47.48 , 30.08

- Ammunition is all from "Wooden barrels", Mine storage, Huge Metal Boxes... It is easy to find :)

Avoid using "IRON TROOP LAUNCHER" = Sends the player into suicide positions.
Or sends you safetly to the oposite side of "The Pit".

Group farming:
Rares: Fight the Power
- Primal Spirit is never garantied, a chance as bonus to gain.

Maniacal Madgard = Loot Unpopped Pustule Pendant & 1x Primal Spirit
Blademaster Ro'gor = Loot Ro'gor's Slippers of Silence & 15x Apexis Crystal
Inventor Blammo = Loot Blammo's Blammer & 13x Apexis Crystal & 1x Primal Spirit
Horgg = Loot Horgg's Bandolier & 12x Apexis Crystal & 1x Primal Spirit

10-40 Apexis Crystals.
Can drop 620-630 Gear (Uncommon to Epic).
Grants 6 to 40 gold.

Single-easy:
- Pick up an "Orange-firey" Crystal. - 5min Buff causes insane AoE effect.

Edit: Updated the post mainly for SOLO suggestion purpose!
Edit: Added "The Pit" Rares achivement, and corrected some information.
Edit: Changed the Solo-tools to links and uploaded Photos to wowhead.
Edit: Added another few Rares and it drop items.
Edit: Added another solo mode "Open friendly trapped Caged people".

Comment by Gymlea

You get this quest in your Garrison's Town Hall, at the War Map, which is on a table, and has a blue daily exclamation point. Fly to as far north and west in Gorgrond as you can get. There is a Flight Master at Iron Docks, pick this flight path up.

When you get there join a standard group of five: tank, healer, three DPS. Use Group Finder, Premade Groups, Find Group, and Quests. There will be many groups.

Comment by 79637

This is a raid wide quest, even if it does not say so.

Go to the group finder and select 'premade groups' -> 'custom'.
You will most likely find several raidgroups for this quest. Join one and roam with them.

Comment by hnikar

To complete this quest, you must kill Orcs.

Picking up ammunition will allow you to use the guns in the nearby area. Currently there seems to be a bug when grouping with a raid and you may not get credit for your kills in the guns.

The best ones are the Iron Demolisher (costs 30 ammo) or the Iron Star(20).
I do not suggest using the Troop launcher (Most of the time it will put you in a place where you will die, the places it doesn't you don't want to be there anyway.)

You can also burn small books which you can find in the area for 2% gain.

Comment by Fivetwo

You can do this quest as a raid~~, but Apexis Crystal and Primal Spirit won't drop while in a raid group.~~

Comment by henryfletch

Contrary to what people in some raid groups will say, the Iron Horde at the bottom of the pit do count towards the 'total' - If anything, in a large raid it might be easier to farm the bottom since they respawn faster and there are much more of them.
(Bear in mind Primal Spirit/Apexis Crystal does not drop in raid group)

Comment by Shamazon

In my opinion I have found that this is the best and most efficient way to do Assault on the Pit and can be done solo which entails using a cart for 30 Extra Potent Ammo Box and throwing grenades at groups of Orcs in the canyon.

The instructions on how to do this are as follows:

Get into The Pit using the break in the wall at (50,37)
Follow the wall to the west
Turn right upon reaching a broken down cargo trailer and follow the path it is on at (46,34)
After reaching the bottom of the path there will be an open area with a few huts and mobs hanging around, there is a fair amount of Extra Potent Ammo Box laying around here in boxes and piles of cannonballs, ignore the mobs and run straight to the cart at the edge of the cliff at (47,30) but make sure you have at least 30 Extra Potent Ammo Box before using it, if you have aggro of any of the Orcs you will lose it upon entering the cart
Throw the grenades supplied with the vehicle at the groups of Orcs in the canyon, I belive it may take more than one grenades per Orc to kill
When you reach the end there will be an Iron Troop Launcher ahead of you. Use this to get back by firing fully to the left and aim to land on the cliff level with the top of the crane to the left of the tower or use the vehicle UI by adjusting inclination to the middle of the 5 bars in red
The area with the huts and the cart on the edge of the cliff should be on your left
Rinse and repeat!

Each cart trip should earn about 25% progress and last about 20 seconds but make sure you have Extra Potent Ammo Box which can be collected by right clicking on Extra Potent Ammo Box piles which are not hard to find, you will need 30 to operate the cart.

Edit: Thanks mgibbonsjr for the feedback, I have updated the instructions to a step by step guide and added in coordinates for convenience!

Comment by varenne

Assault on the Pit video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb4HxFWD_FI

Comment by Ahjen

Also known as The PITA.

Be very careful about stepping out of "The Pit". If you do you will lose all of your collected ammo. This is especially easy to do at the northwestern bridge. There is a large cannon here, a slope downwards and a bridge across. If you run up the slope and onto the bridge you have to cut it very close or you'll leave the pit area.

You will also leave the Pit any time you move to the "upper" plateau.

Comment by Tassit

Are there any Alliance factions that we gain reputation with killing these guys?

Comment by teebsalot

Video guide for all achievements tied to Assault on the Pit Daily:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Ly7nwVdv0

Comment by perculia

Location: Northern Gorgrond, to the west of Blackrock Foundry. Closest flightmaster is Faronn Dustwalker.
Rewards: 0 Apexis Crystal
Related achievements: Fight the Power, In Plain Sight, Iron Wings
Related Reputation: Laughing Skull Orcs
Related Garrison Invasion: Iron Horde Invasion!
Related Loot: Unpopped Pustule Pendant from Maniacal Madgard, Studded Gronn-Stitched Girdle from Durp the Hated, Blammo's Blammer from Inventor Blammo, Horgg's Bandolier from Horgg, Ro'gor's Slippers of Silence from Blademaster Ro'gor, Morgo's Unstoppable Ramming Helm from Morgo Kain

Strategy and Mob Percentages

Pick up the ammunition in boxes and barrels and go to the Iron Demolisher (costs 30 ammo) or the Iron Star (costs 20 ammo) and shoot the Orcs. Do not go to the Iron Troop Launcher as it will shoot you.

Destroying Training Manual or freeing prisoners in Iron Prisoner Cage also awards credit. The quest mobs hit pretty hard as they are intended for a 5-player group to defeat.

Mobs that increase progress % per kill (click to view)

	Kill Iron Horde Rare Elites (20% each)	Maniacal Madgard
	Durp the Hated
	Horgg
	Morgo Kain

	Defector Dazgo
	Inventor Blammo
	Blademaster Ro'gor

Kill Iron Horde Tier 1 (1% each)

Iron Warden
	Iron Enforcer
	Irontusk Trampler
	Iron Bulwark
	Irontusk Trampler

	Iron Wolf
	Iron Cauterizer
	Iron Banshee

	Gruesome Torturer
	Iron Bloodburner
	Iron Deadshot

Kill Iron Horde Tier 2 (5% each)

Drudge Gronn
	Iron Warden

Hulking Brute

Kill Iron Horde Grunts (.5% each)

Iron Reinforcement
	Iron Laborer

Iron Laborer

Destroy Training Manuals (1% each)

Free Rangari Prisoners (2% each)

Comment by Gymlea

Ninja groups abound. This has devolved into mostly ninja groups, which can be identified by the lack of Primal Spirit drops. They should drop by the dozens every minute. If they do not then the Group Leader is collecting them all. As I write this they are worth 50g each, at the AH on my server, after being converted to Savage Blood.

Comment by JoserraGamin

Remember to bring your Bodyguard follower to this quest since, when you use the flare, the deaths count to increase the reputation with them.

When you use the iron stars, or the cannons, you wont get reputation with them.

I made a video soloing as tank this quest, and to make it easier, you can use the Burning Blade Crystal and Gronn Cannon.

Comment by Esoth

I fell in the pit
You fell in the pit
We all fell in the pi-eee-iittt!

Comment by Fruhauf

A simple SOLO spot for just grinding kills from 0 to 100%:

This is for those of you who, like me, don't feel like messing around with all of the other various ways to raise your completion bar (picking up ammo, doing things with said ammo, iron stars, etc.)

The non-elite Iron Laborers that are found all over the pit each count for about 1% per kill. However, most of the time they have an elite that patrols around them. The area I'm posting about has MANY Iron Laborers with NO elite patrol; and they respawn very, very quickly.

Coordinates are around 48, 23. I will post a picture of the area on the map as well as a detailed photo of the spot I'm talking about.

http://i.imgur.com/jaMGIMs.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Sc4t4fl.jpg

2 things to keep in mind: Unless you have invisibility potions or spells, you may need to suicide yourself once to get down here initially (I found this spot by accident after falling off a nearby cliff). Once you get there, the orcs are very easy to kill and you should be able to hit 100% and hearth out in no time (depending on how many mobs your character is able to handle at once, of course).
The other thing is that while there is no elite patrol near these mobs, there ARE elites "nearby", so just be mindful of your surroundings and try to always pull out of the way to the main corner (see second posted image for clarification).

Comment by yzq85

This is perhaps the only group daily apexis quest you'll need to do to get your Securing Draenor achievement, which is part of the meta achievement to get your Draenor flying.

Comment by PrimeFusion

I completed this as a Beast Master Hunter. I recommend going to 48, 23 as Fruhauf suggested and stand where his second picture shows, near the dark area. Once there, I was able to clear out the dark area and then kill the Iron Laborers along the wall. When the Mechashredder 5000 was off cool down I would use that to quickly kill the Laborers. Make sure to watch for respawn which happens fairly quick.

While time consuming to do it this way it worked for me since I prefer not to group for quests.

Comment by SleepyMouseDoor

Thanks to Fruhauf - this was exactly what I was looking for!

Comment by gmdwight

I was able to complete this quest while doing Bonus Objectives at The Fel Forge/Ironhold Harbor in Tanaan Jungle. It seems the orcs there count toward this quest.

Comment by Phychopathic

Has one had the credit for this daily being taken while doing stuff in Tanaan Jungle. And then the achievement not satisfied for the assaults requirement to fly.

Comment by zCourge

Got this quest completed automatically when doing Assault on the Throne of Kil'jaeden - beware that this does not count towards the achievement Draenor Pathfinder

Comment by oggeboyn

this assault on the pit

if someone else has this quest is it shareable to raid

or ur forced to wait for it in your garrison

Comment by 1494380

does anybody have this quest to share would be greatly appreciated

Comment by papajorgio

I managed to do this quest all by myself. The trick is to only kill the small miners and avoiding the big ones. As a night elf druid I can go into Prowl on Cat Form and Shadowmeld when a big ones finds me and I am desperate. I am still able to get lots of ammo to do side objectives. Only took me around 25 min to go from 0% to 100%.

Comment by Downhitted

This quest can only be picked up on the table in your garrison. The content change each day so if you need this for your meta Securing Draenor and you can't pick it, you will have to wait till another day.

Comment by Wimbleton

With all due respect to the designers, this is the worst of the quests needed for flying in Draenor. It's sort of like spending a long August weekend in Newark after your car broke down and everybody is in a bad mood. Right, I know that's normal in Newark but this is like normal on steroids. Because you won't be able to find a group easily, you can spend hours wandering across realms and other parts of cyberspace looking for partners or you can just take a different approach: this is like a 10,000G fee for a rare mount. There is no direct cost for flying in Draenor....other than your repair bills. So be prepared to die a lot. If you are a squishy, go to Burning Man for the weekend and let the DK do it. The flying is worth it and as far as that sarcastic laughter from Irvine goes....well, you keep paying the bill, right? So do I. Forgot to mention more thing: if you're a Nelf, Shadowmeld doesn't work there. Working as intended? Who knows?

Comment by cyberguy1976

Don't make the mistake I made ... Patch came out and this quest was all I had left .. I accepted the quest and went to the location to solo it ... then was called out to work ... came back next day and quest was gone ... you get the quest finish it then ... I will be waiting each day for it to pop again ... anyone know how many days it takes to come back in rotation?

Comment by donaldjacob

Just did this solo...super easy. Find a spot with lots of laborers (lvl 100) Jump in your shredder and mow them down. Super fast re spawn time. Happy flying from here on in! Had grouped up in a raid in grp finder...can not be done. Need to be in party or solo. Good luck!

Comment by FenixTheDragoon

This quest is the only thing standing in the way of me having flight on Draenor. 11, 12 days now. Not once has it appeared. Naturally, it's shown up twice on my alt who doesn't have the rest of the achievement done. Basing something like flight off of an RNG mechanic like this, I don't know, seems criminally stupid to me. Anyone have the home address of the dev team member responsible? I just wanna chat, honest.

Comment by Flitzy

Thanks Blizzard. Let's make flying require a completely random GROUP/ELITE quest because grinding and banging your head on a keyboard is fun. >_<

Comment by kinglui

Here is another way to easily solo this quest.Ride along the northern slop (47.3,19.8) to the ramp (50.8,22.8).You might have to kill the patrolling irontusk trampler.Once there,kill the approaching iron laborers and pick up their crates.Walk down the ramp,keeping to the right,picking up everything on the way until you reach the lone laborer sitting in front of his tent.Kill him , walk back up the ramp and wait for the laborers to respawn.Once you have a 100 ammo stealth down to the iron turrets(49.3,21.7) and shoot away.
Repeat as necessary,

Comment by BlackRobe1

One helpful tip for collecting ammo -

Look for the Elite mob - Irontusk Trampler - he's a big mammoth type beast pulling two ammo crates.

Fly up to him until u aggro him. Immediately fly away - he then carries on walking away but leaves the crates of ammo for u to pick up risk free !

Comment by staron

I am going to comment on this quest from a solo perspective.

This quest takes place in Gorgond. The Pit is a pit (literally), a quarry, immediately left of the Blackrock Foundry on the map.

The nearest flight point is Skysea Ridge but you can also fly to Iron Docks.

The mobs are mostly level 100-102 Elites with HP of about 400K-700K. Some of them hit really hard and are also casters, doing a lot of magic damage.

As a Paladin tank ilvl 675 it is very hard to solo 2-3 of these Elites at the same time, depending, the Hulking Brute for example took tiome to kill and had to use some cooldowns.

I presume that with similar level gear it would be very hard/impossible without a tank and a DPS and/or healer.

One technique is to approach from the North West, from the Iron Docks flight point, and there you will see a number of elites in front of you, you could pick them out one at a time, very carefully so uyou do not pull more than one by mistake. It may take a long time, but if you can kill one on your own then it might be a reliable solution.

Another technique is the one mentioned here by Shamazon. He describes getting in from a break in the wall at the South, then making your way to 47.20, 29.80. That is the location of a mining cart which you can get into, and it then rolls downhill on its rails, and while it's moving you can throw grenades at a numbner of mobs at the bottom of the pit, thereby scoring points. You would need to pick up ammunition before entering the cart, at least 30 ammo, or it won't let you. You can pick up ammo here and there, and there is a counter bar at the bottom of your screen showing how much ammo you are carrying. After the cart has reached its stop, you get thrown out, but right in front you and slihghtly up there is a Troop Launcher cannon, which you get into and launch yourself back up to the cart. Then you repeat the process until you have 100%.

There are serious problems with that technique and I will describe here what you will face and the easiest solution!

Your target location is the cart at 47.20, 29.80. To get there you can run, aggro an army of elites, you may then be able to go invisible, shadowmeld, stealth - or even die and then run back to your corpse.

If you have Tom Tom you need to mark this location so it is clear on your screen and on the map. You will have to visit this location a few times.

Once you are at the cart, by location 47.20, 29.80, you need to collect at least 30 ammo, or it will not let you run the cart. Ammo is available around you in buckets, boxes and on palletes etc, all around the cart. Some of the ammo is guarded by non-elites which you can carefully kill without pulling the other elites that are around.

You then get into the cart and it starts rolling downhill, pretty quickly, you will have to press 1 for launching grenades into the mobs right at the bottom of the hill, you will need to be really quick to get out as many shots as possible before the cart reaches its stops.

Now you need to get back up into the cart and repeat until you have completed the quest. The previous technique described asks you to get into the Iron Troop Launcher that is right ahead of you and launch yourself back up. This is very hard to get right and you can find yourself somewhere at random with plenty of Elites to go past to get back to the cart.

The easiest and simplest solution is get on yuour mount, or runm whatever and follow the tracks back up to the cart. Doh! But remember to stay on the tracks as they bridge over gaps on the rock and you might fall otherwise. So get on your mount and follow the tracks back up to where you started from.

Remember to look out for more ammo - there is a large crate right where the cart stopped - next to the Iron Troop Launcher that we will not use to get back up.

Please upvote this post because it is dead easy to complete the quest this way and it may be helpful to others.

Comment by Xhukari

Pretty easy to solo as a spec that gains a big heal on killing blow of xp gain/honour (Victory Rush for Warriors and Dark Succor for DKs). All you need to do is head to the bottom (prepare to die on the way), and find the huge line of laborers, they're weak and can be easily AoE'd, plus, they trigger your Dark Succors or Victory Rushes for each one killed. They spawn quick, and every 2-3 gives you 1%... so in 15-30 mins you could reasonably complete this atrocious quest! :)

Comment by Grimnarl

I read some posts about using the mine cart, but it simply didn't work for me. Goes too fast and you can't target the orcs below fast enough. What I did instead is, collect bombs, but don't over do it. Once you have 80 or so, don't try to get to 100 because I was at 95 and got one more bunch and it erased the 95 and I ended up with 10. 0_O

One thing to note is, anything you kill in the area gives you quest credit, so it might take awhile, but you could simply solo a couple at a time till you eventually get 100%.

What I did was go past the cart mentioned in other posts, head down the tracks, pick up a flare and shoot that into the mobs, then continue to the point where the cart ends. There's one elite there, and after you kill it, a doomroller or something forget the name exactly. You need bombs to power it. You get in it and start it and it ejects you, then rolls down the hill and mows down lots of orcs. You can't direct it tho. But it will respawn quickly, like in a minute or two, and if you have more bombs to power it, send it off again. There are a few of these in various places in the pit.

To get back to a safer area, use the launcher, but I was not able to aim it, except up or down. So aimed the highest, launched, then when I was high up, used a Goblin Glider to sail to the rim.

On the rim above the village area are some elephants dragging sacks of bombs, fairly easy to kill. And grunts with small boxes of bombs that go to and fro, so you don't need to brave all those elites in the village to get bombs.

I was able to solo in an hour or so, but am an I-level 700 Hunter.

Comment by Vatic

I just Ran Back And Forth killing the lvl 100 laborers till i was at 100 percent!

Comment by Rexaur

Tried to solo this with a 110 lock full cleared all mobs just using my void walker and aoe...cleared everything twice no completion...did blizzard patch this so its not soloable ?

Comment by Ehayen

I wasn't able to turn in this quest.

The quest giver left the garrison and was replaced by another daily quest giver when I returned.

There was no ? on the map and I talked to all the usual NPCs who accept turn-ins for garrison support quest. None of them were talking.

Edit: I take that back. He was hiding in the mine after a garrison assault.

Comment by miguemur

Rewards no experience with the Laughing Skull Orcs sadly.

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Assault on the Pit

Assault the Blackrock orcs at the Pit in Gorgrond.

	Assault the Blackrock orcs at the Pit (1)
	Suggested players: 3 (1)

Description

The Blackrock forces based out of the Pit in Gorgrond make up the bulk of the Iron Horde army. If we crush them on their home soil, the rest of the Iron Horde will have little hope of standing against us. If you choose the battle, bring friends. The Blackrock won't be defeated easily.

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Apexis Crystal

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

12,000 reputation with GarInvasion_IronHorde

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(36686))

Guides

Guide to Apexis Crystal "Assault" Dailies