Quick Facts

Series

1.	Report to Spymaster Thalodien
2.	Manaforge B'naar
3.	High Value Targets
4.	Shutting Down Manaforge B'naar
5.	Stealth Flight
6.	Behind Enemy Lines
7.	A Convincing Disguise
8.	Information Gathering
9.	Shutting Down Manaforge Coruu
10.	Return to Thalodien
11.	Shutting Down Manaforge Duro
12.	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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Comments

Comment by 8258

You'll need at least 2 people for this quest. It may seem non elite at the start but when the timer ticks down to the last seconds an elite will spawn with several non elite adds. Completed this quest as a 69 Warlock with a 69 Mage.

Comment by 20161

Obtaining Ara Access Crystal is easy to solo, but before you start shuttdown, clear whole room and get full mana and all buffs.

Comment by 18893

Note that the tanking necklace has the exact same stats as the tanking necklace obtained from the Hound-Master quest in Blades Edge.

However, http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31696 (Natasha's Battle Chain) vendors for 3G +, and this only vendors for 70 S.

Every little bit helps when saving up for the Epic Flyer.

Comment by 21955

I would strongly recomend taking 5 people or 2-3 people if you have a mage. The ammount of spawns is actually huge, and while i find that most group quests can be soloed or done with a lot less people i think this one needs more than 3.

Comment by 28506

I did it with priest and warrior, wiped 10 seconds before shutdown but it still counted (we waited those 10 seconds dead :P)

Comment by 9626

Just a quick note, even if you die you can still complete the quest if they don't stop the shutdown.

My group died with like 10-15 seconds left, and we completed.

Comment by 34285

any1 know the coords to manaforge ara?

Comment by deggdegg2005

Soloed as a frost mage. Just gotta keep them off the machine long enough for it to complete, which can be done with careful use of double Ice Block and AOEs. I actually died with a few seconds left but still got credit.

Comment by azade

Me and a friend tried this quest. Im Scryer and hes Aldor so i figured that because the quest have the same goal it have to be able to do together. But we tried 4 times, after the first Ara Engineer the quest somehow bugged and it stopped and we never completed, and everytime we watched so no mobs was trying to shut it down. Still we did not complete nor did we get a text telling us that we failed... very wierd.

Comment by 16126

dunno how ppl could do this quest with 2 ppl or maybe allone,
i prefered 4 or 5 ppl for this quest, im a full frost mage, and i can play em, and a tank we can´t do it together.
there are lots of waves with mobs, mage got probs with oom, means take some pots with u.
other problem is, that the respawn rate is very fast ( from the normal mobs )..
maybe its doable with 2 , but there where another group which dies with a lock and a priest to.
after they joined us it was easy and without any probs doable.

Comment by 61392

Manaforge Ara is at loc 29,41.

Comment by 2784

Duo'ed it as a 70 Holy Paladin with a 70 Warrior. Was SUPER easy, I didn't even have to do much

Comment by 51517

all the shutdown quests are easy soloable by a rogue, cause the mobs don't try again to stop the shutdown after an interruption, so sap as hell and don't break stealth except for mobs u can't sap as the elite in the final q.

Comment by 66431

Level 70 Mage Magtheridon, Solo'ed.

Comment by 67634

You obviously haven't done the quest because the mobs it spawns are demons and they can't be sapped. Your tip does apply to the first 3 forges though.

Comment by delete

Soloed this as a 70 warrior (put on all my tanking equipment and kited all the mobs around the room with piercing howl) but I still didn't get credit for the manaforge shutting down. I got the 30 second warning, but 30 seconds later nothing happened despite the fact that none of the engineers were fixing the forge. I think blizz may have changed the quest so you don't get credit unless you kill the 70 elite that spawns.

Comment by TheMercenary

The Quest rewards listed on this page are inacurate.
The real rewards are

Karja's Medallion
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30377
and

Oveerseer's Signet
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30365

Just thought you everyone should know putting up a screenshot to verify it.

Comment by 73580

Soloable as a warrior. Took me a Healthstone, Arena Grand Master Shield and Shield wall but I lived for two minutes.

Start tanking the initial three mobs for rage, then once three more come run into them and piercing howl, now just run around close to the center of the forge and spam piercing howl, if the mobs daze you face them for a second and then run away again. Use Healthstones/Charged Crystal Focii/Healing Potions as needed.

Blow Shield wall on the last 10-15 seconds, even if you die after the quest still counts. Just make sure not to release =P

Oh also wear gear with alot of stamina and avoidance (My warrior had 12.5k HP, 13.7k with commanding shout)

Comment by 17200

Solo'd as a rogue. Combat swords, didn't die once, but it really needs to be played flawlessly.

I ended the fight with 163HP.

Comment by 52125

Just duoed it with a 70 hunter and i'm a 70 warlock.

Key to the way we solved it was that I enslaved one of the engineers and banished the chief engineer while we were clearing the little adds. Had to use a couple of pots and take the time during the breaks to bandage, but we did it.

Comment by 86119

Easy 2 man with 70 fire mage and 69 shadow preist. Mage AOE's groups until the eleite shows up then run around doing a frost nova and psychic screams until the quest completes then run out.

Comment by 84707

I'm a lvl 70 Protection Paladin and i had read what everyone said above and i solo'd it. Its not easy to Solo. But the jest of it is you have to survive for 2 Minutes after you start the shutdown and defend the console.

If your a Clothy you may need help form a Melee DPS that can take the hits while defending as they come in waves just like everyone else said above.

As a Paladin i did this on first try. I had on full tanking gear and as soon as you kill the oversear and start the shutdown. Start to tag the mobs around the console and use SoL or SoW and just play defense and move around while defending the console but same time try to pick up all the stray mobs. They come in waves just like everyone else said. You can drop a consecration once in a while. Key is just make sure the control is shutting down all the time. At the last 30 seconds the big engineer demons show up like 3 of them and the overseer does respawn and show up also (Should be 2 mins by then). Its one big mob fest. At that time i had my 2 mins already and i completed the quest. But by them i had like 20+ mobs on me all at once. I had to use LoH and pop a mana pot. In the end i died from just too many adds and out of mana. But that was a bit after the quest was completed. Its soloable but get ready for one long rolling fight. If tank use Tanking gear. It was a hell of a lot of fun.

Comment by 16029

Also solo'd as a Protection Paladin and must agree with Galoheart, it was a riot! I also had my full tanking gear on before I began. I had to LoH at about 30sec left and then bubbled when it was complete and ran out without dying. Didn't even have to pot... :)

Consecration is great to use to instantly get the NPC's off the console and immediately attacking you. Have fun all you fellow Tankadins!

Comment by Paps

Soloed as a 70 Holy Paladin in full healing gear. Just put blessing of light on yourself, rank 1 consecrate to tag the mobs, and heal away. You'll be spamming max rank holy light on yourself by the end, so you might have to use a mana pot and/or bubble.

Comment by Nubslap

Solo'ed as a PVP specced afflic/destro lock.

Seed of corruption spammed the little guys, dotted up and feared the big guys. Died with 10 seconds left after the elite spawned and got the completion.

Fairly simple, with the aid of a healthstone, a pot and howl of terror, I found it very easy to survive the 2 mins.

Comment by 41980

Soloed as holy pally too, really not that tough, judge wisdom, spam concecrate, holy light as needed and voila!

Mind, I do have 1800 healing, plus 50 with a pot I took, and yes, I did use a rejuv potion as well, but really not anything to write home about, fairly easy compared to the threads that i just read above!O_O

Comment by 6440

A trick to solo this is to wall jump, I did it as a 70 frost mage.

First clear out the casters on in the center of the room. Then face the crystal that you use to start the event, and go to the left side of it. There should be a slit between the crystal thing and the dome beside it- you can jump towards this and then from there jump up to the top of the dome.

You'll need to either have ranged aoe or be quick with targeting to finish it from here. Just do anything to damage the guys that run in, I used rank 1 blizzard as soon as any of them tried to stop the shutdown. You can't get hit up here, and you can easily solo it with some good aoe.

Comment by 88789

Just soloed as a Prot pally, not very geared. 10.8k Health and 424 Defense.

Pretty much just stayed alive for the 2 mins, Bubbled, Lay of hands and then Blessing of protection right at the end when the elite spawns to count down the timer then died.

No pots, Health stones and self buffed.

Can be done solo

Comment by jamina1

Solo'd as a 70 destro lock. Used rank 1 rain of fire on the little mobs standing on top of the dome behind the crystal. Took a few tries as one inevitably got away from me, but did it without dying!

Comment by 118228

Just soloed this as a 70 holy paladin. As people have correctly stated above, you do not need to kill any of the mobs; you just have to attack the technicians to stop them stopping the countdown and stay alive. Spam holy light with divine illumination and concentration aura, bubble and either a pot or lay on hands should last you the 2 mins. Even if you die towards the end, you can still complete the quest; just make sure not to release.

Comment by 88101

Reward seem to be changed in 2.4

Comment by 142902

Easily solo'd as a 67 rogue with 2 health pots

Comment by 30706

Still doable in 2.4.2, solo'd as frost mage. Evading them still works (unless u fall down like i did halfway through) and kiting them around for the full duration works as well, make sure nobody is touching the manaforge and you'll be fine (unless your manage to pick the one dead end for your escape route and failing invisibility like me ^_^)

Comment by alcy

Patch 2.4.3 Status = Bugged.

Tried to solo with my Dreamstate Druid, 3 attempts and called it quits. I killed \ interrupted each mob inside 0.5sec\before they even touched the center and the Shutting down messages continued up to 30 seconds left (each try). Seemed like mobs just kept and kept spawning without Shutdown and eventually I would get !@#$ed up by the core-carrying demon.

Invited a random Fire Mage, fought 4 Minutes with neverending mobs and we moved out due total oom and nothing happending. Killing the elite demon made no difference. Can't believe I wasted 30min+ for this crap. I wrote this so you might not have to :P

Comment by childofnewlight

Solo'd it as a 70 healadin in almost full merciless...killed all mobs... none of them canceled the shutdown... bugged at 30 sec... I used 2 or 3 mana pots, countless fel iron bombs, bubbled twice... only for it to fail... ticked beyond all belief... great accomplishment... no reward... sucks.

Comment by Gimlyly

It is possible to do this with members of the opposite faction.

Comment by Kaedalmael

Has anyone tried enslaving Silroth from the forge camps and bringing him over this far? Or would he leash back to the forge camps before you could get him this far?

Comment by rwoody

I completed this recently as a 70 pally. I tanked most of the small mobs and healed through the damage (i'm ret), and killed the elite with about 5 guys on me. Make sure you clear the room before you start so you don't get more mobs than you have to.

Comment by 68688

Solo'd as an Arms Warrior with a mix of event epics (Scourge Event, Hallows End), 3 raid epix, random blues and 4 greens (So I'm not the best geared warrior out there by far).

All I had to do was round up all the mobs, and spam whirlwind and execute when sudden death popped up as much as I could (and ofc MS)

Popped Bladestorm when I had about 5-6 on me at once, but would not waste it on just the little spawns.

The elite did kill me, but with only about 10 seconds left to the countdown.

I DID NOT RELEASE.

The 10 seconds passed, and I got credit even while I was dead.

And that's how I did it!

Comment by Etreum

I found it impossible to do (solo) as a 69 Retribution Paladin. I never died. I killed the elite at least five times and from what I can tell all the mobs, but it always seem to be one that sneaked in at the very last possible second and turned the forge back on. Five times, same deal.

Follow up... I went for it one last time. This time I got killed because I was running all over simply trying to prevent anyone from restarting the forge. While at the rezz spirit, it told me it was shutdown and completed... lol

Comment by 409787

I just soloed this as a 67 prot pally. Killed all the mobs that came in including the elite and survived for way over 2 minutes but the shutdown never completed for me...

P.S- Died at the end when the overseer charged me at the end

Comment by diamondtear

Solo'd as a 71 surv hunter. Try to keep things under control as long as you can, clear the whole room and use explo+frost traps.

Comment by 621151

Can be done solo by ranged classes (and perhaps with throwing weapons for melee) by using a trick.

Jump up on the control console and simply disrupt the adds disruption by hitting them with som espell or something. They cant see you up there, so they will simply stand and do nothing. Continue untill done.

After a while they will despawn, and quest complete without being harmed at all :)

See jump video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOr6daa4iGE

Possible as of 06/25/2010. (by a shadow priest)

Comment by 611800

This and other Shutting Down quests seem to be bugged ATM. Did this today and quest auto-completed as soon as I looted the crystal.

Comment by 975210

As a rogue, I was able to solo this without ever entering combat. I found that while there were too many demons for me to kill all of them, if I sapped them when they cast their beams, they wouldn't try to cast it again when they regained their senses. With this method I was able to solo the entire thing without ever entering combat!

Comment by gamerunknown

I one shot the elite mob and the quest reset, then I waited again and let it emote before killing, getting credit this time.

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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 Scryers will cause your Aldor reputation level to decrease.

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

Description

You've done much better than any of us anticipated. Manaforge Ara is the last of Kael's working manaforges. You'll find it northwest of here, though you're likely to have to do some circumnavigating to get to it. We want you to shut it down.

The last access crystal is in the possession of Overseer Azarad. This is Kael's very last source of energy as far as we know, so expect heavy opposition. I'd bring a couple of friends along if I were you.

Hmm... Azarad. What an odd name for a sin'dorei.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Manastorm Band

You will be able to choose one of these rewards:

	Thalodien's Charm

You will also receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

250 reputation with The Scryers

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10365))