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Kommentar von Fl43cH3

Die Koords aus den englischen Kommentaren stimmen nicht. Das Grab ist exakt bei 24.6, 79.9 und beschwört bei Benutzung vier Adds, einer davon droppt das gesucht Artefakt

Kommentare

Kommentar von 1437

The quest used to be bugged so you had to kill Mercutio last. This has been fixed. Kill him first, get your hammer, and get out.

Kommentar von 4362

OK, this is extremely difficult to solo as a rogue, but I just did it as a 59 rogue. I am combat spec with a 16.57% chance to crit (not sure if that will make sense once BC comes along, but anyway...) it took me a few tries to figure out how to do it... first thing is make sure you have major healing potion or two.

First click the mound of dirt next to the gravestone. The mobs walk in instead of spawning right away so immediately stealth. Next, if you wait for them to get to the grave they start to mill about, which makes it a bit hard to position yourself, so distract them before they get to the grave. Cheap shot Mercutio and immediately use evasion. This should keep you alive for most of the fight. once evasion wears off, blind one of the graverobbers to try and lessen the DPS intake. Also watch out for your health as you'll need that health pot eventually... I was close to dying so once mercutio fell I Vanished. His body didn't disappear or anything, so I waited a few seconds for a bit of health to come back. Once I had some health I looted the corpse real quick and sprinted away.

Hope this helps someone...

Kommentar von 5338

You do NOT have to kill Mercutio last in order to complete this quest. Take him down and loot the body as it hits the ground.

Just pulled it off today, got the hammer then took it hard from the rest of his buddies.

Kommentar von 3360

Just did it as a 56 frost mage. Just time your cool downs and you can do it. And yes, you have to kill him last to loot the hammer.

Kommentar von kreghx

location is 27,86.

good luck ;)

Kommentar von Nines

There is no need to kill him last.

Just did it on my 59 rogue killed him first, looted him and received Taelen's Hammer from him - the 3 cronies were still alive.

But this only worked if i did not CC one of them first. If i sapped one of them at all then i couldn't loot the hammer no matter in what order they died.

Now this may apply to other forms of CC but it certainly applies to the sapping of the target. I just spent a good hour testing this out, and at least in my case this is what occured.

I just used Mechanical Yeti and he took the damage long enough for me to tear Mercutio down loot the hammer and vanish.

Kommentar von 4208

I tried this as a lvl 56 warlock. Died with succy and vw, infernal did it quite easy. Just summon your infernal to their heads, DoT the main guy, drain life, i had instant howl of terror which helped me to escape.

Kommentar von 25267

You can see an NPC named Taelon in Old Hillsbrad Foothills instance, in one of the houses of Southshore. He wields this toy hammer.

Kommentar von 11314

completed on 2/23/07 Madoran server.

I did NOT kill any other npcs other than the named. Focused on named, looted, and ran for my life.

I think this quest has probably changed, I dunno why else there would be so much disagreement.

Kommentar von 22023

Coords: 28:86

Kommentar von 35468

57 Frost Mage. Died twice.

The mobs hit *hard*. Try to use water elemental's Freeze ability to pull most of the aggro of the mobs. Pray for crits on the named as they seem very rare on him.

Kommentar von 28526

Just soloed this as a 56 ret pally. Had to use BoP to heal to full, and had to use lay on hands.

Just a note, I killed Mercutio FIRST and still got the hammer.

Kommentar von 35086

56 prot pally. Toughed it out, killed them all. Blessing of sanctuary, kept holy shield up, judge and seal light on main target. Had to bubble once (and used bandage) and two (uninterrupted) holy light's. Ended with near half HP and no mana. Not pretty, but still had LOH and pots left.

Kommentar von 40642

Extremely poorly designed quest, someone at Blizzard didn't use their head properly. Quest is yellow at level 55, not group-marked, and still calls for fighting four enemies level 55-57 at once.

Kommentar von 36827

Did it with ease, 57 frost mage. Right after clicking the mound and waiting the bar thru, immediatly move back and jump over the fence near you. If you are far enough the mobs will not aggro you and you can start with your own opener. I used my water elemental's freeze and frost nova to dps down mercutio. I could've ran after that and looted when they de-aggro'd but I just killed the rest.

Kommentar von 46512

Did it as a 58 Shadow Priest.
Shield up.. wait a few seconds and unleash hell on the named dwarf. Fear the others and keep burning the guy. Shield up again.
Eventually, fear again if you can.
He should be dead by then. Looted him.. no problem.

Kommentar von 24833

Quest is possible to solo but you have to use everything at your disposal to get it done. I did it as a 59 Fire Mage, cleared the area around the gravestone and enough around me so that I could do some kiting. After you click on the gravestone, head North (based on your minimap) just far enough to avoid aggro. Use Combustion and hit Mercutio with Pyroblast but as it is casting, target one of the adds and get ready to sheep. Immediately following the Pyroblast, click your sheep button and retarget Mercutio. By the time sheep cast, the other guys should be on top of you, use Dragon's Breath and then Blast Wave to give you some room, blink away and used whatever you can to kill Mercutio. If you want you can stick around to kill the other 3 adds or just run off until you're out of combat and go back to loot your hammer. Make sure you have a health pot or Healthstone ready because you might have to use one and/or both if you have them. The way I did it pretty much relayed on getting crits on Mercutio so that Ignite would help bring him down.

That's what I did to do this quest but other then that good luck and happy hunting!

Kommentar von 26575

JUst solo'ed as a 55 fire mage, it wasn't that hard, jus had to watch out when they came near me, cause they hit for alot. I just combustion on, pyro, fireball, a fast scorch, then DB, bs, blink away a scorch and a fire blast. still had my frost nova then to lock them in place to run away.

Kommentar von 17208

Just solo'ed as a 55 prot pally. super easy. just kept seal of light on mercutio, when he died, switched to next mob and kept going till they all died. I used one pot, and ended up at 1/2 hp and mana.

Kommentar von 43405

Solo'd as a 54(yes, 54) frost mage! I read here before about that you don't need to kill him last so I summoned water elemental and nuked him hard. After he was dead Ilooted and ran, used healthpot and kept on running until I left combat and took mount to go to the quest giver.

Kommentar von Avalonia

Ok this seems beyond bugged. It seems like if you kill him near the grave everything is fine and you can loot him before you kill anything else. If you pull him away his body just disapears when he dies. It might have something to do with the vicinity to the grave but I'm not sure.

Kommentar von 67072

Easy Peasy for me.. 56 fury specced warrior.. Just recklessness + deatwish. Then 1 Bloodthirst and 1 Hearoic strike and he's dead.. Looted and ran away. Peace of cake (:

Kommentar von 31213

Took a Divine Shield, health pot, and Lay on Hands, but it's done. (Soloed 55 Pally)

Kommentar von 73325

DO NOT use vanish after killing mercutio without looting him first, I did this and his body poofed.

Kommentar von 80318

If you are a Priest this is fairly easy.

1. Clear the 2 mobs near the grave and the fence.
2. Touch the grave. (Remember this is only an activation mechanism there is no loot! )
3. When the timer completes turn around and jump over the fence at the southern hill or run a bit north so thet you ar out of aggro range.
( If you stand at the grave Mercutio and his adds will come from the left side of the building. )

Now instead of raw power just use Mind Control, in this you have 2 choices, you can
either MC Mercutio to take down his life, when i first tried this his adds managed to kill
him so no loot for me, you might be able to keep him alive by running around tho.
Second choice is to MS one of his adds wich will only put Mercutio back like 500hp
but the MC:ed add will die, one add less seemed to matter alot for me.

When MC breaks, bubble up and MB-MF-Fear-MB-MF or whatever you like.
As said in the above posts, shift-loot Mercutio as soon as he is down, when you die they all de-spawn.
If you fail there is no cooldown on the grave-activation so just try again at once, the respawn rate of the other
mobs in the graveyard if fairly short. Also, graveyard is just a one minute run away, no marathon if you die.

58 Shadow priest

Kommentar von daros

Rogue57 .. spec Subtlety
- Open grave
- as soon robers appear Distract, but toonly Mercutio stay there
- sap one of robers when they reach grave (even if distract stop working M will stay there)
- Attack M : premeditation, cheap shot, hemo... as 2 robers reach you Evasion and blind one, back to M, S&D and nuke him. When evasion going to end, Preparation and Evasion again.. nuke him down, loot, sprint :) ...

Notes :
- I didn't have to use one potion... i didnt have one potion =P. But for safety reason get one if you can.
- When escaping (after succes or not) hold Q or E .. not W or they will daze you and kill
- Graveyard is near so dont fear to die.. lots of satisfaction after soloing it

Kommentar von mattarot

I managed to solo this with my 57 combat rogue. Ok , i had to vanish away from the last 2 adds but i still killed the main guy and got the hammer :)

Kommentar von 35072

As a Druid, I managed to solo this quest by moonfire kiting him to and then around the nearby PvP tower. Start off with Starfire, then Moonfire, then travel form away from him... then wait for the Moonfire DoT to be up and hit him again with it, you should be able to do so before he leashes. Make sure not to just spam moonfire unless you're in caster gear / balance spec... you'll go oom before he dies and then you're pretty much screwed, as engaging his group in melee will result in swift death.

Good luck.

Kommentar von DanJack

Just did this as a lvl 55 hunter and was very easy!

Here is how I did it.

1. Kill all the guys around the area 1st
2. Get Mercutio and his crew to spawn.
3. Lay a Frost Trap
4. Shoot them, with arcane shot and serpent sting
5. Head north to the path and kit them along the path
6. Feign death when needed and let pet tank
7. Lay another frost trap
8. Do step 4 again till he is dead,loot, then feign death again.

Oh and if your not sure how to kite here is a link on how to do it =)
http://www.wowwiki.com/Kite

Oh and I also got lucky and got there to find black lotus... so there spawn in that area too.

Kommentar von 85937

i did it as a 56 frost mage... just put ice barrier on... clicked on the pile of dirt beside the tomb... pulled out my elemental... made him attack mercutio so he'll get the pull... and i just runned in circles.... frost nova his adds and attack with frostbolt whenever it was possible... keep ice barrier and frost nova in mind... after you kill mercutio just put ice barrier... loot the corpse and run for your life...

Kommentar von 88874

I did this fairly easily with a 57 fire mage. Dont worry bout sheeping because the mobs get right on you and you could use the time to cast again while you have them frozen after you cast your pyro/fireball whatever on mercutio. I popped him once with pyro, froze mobs, popped off a fireball, then fireblast blastwave then hes dead..... I blinked away then waited for mobs and froze again, then just ran to mercutio and looted the hammer and i was off. Note: You can just run away and reattempt if u dont see it heading your way. U will need a potion. Coords above are right

Kommentar von 71125

Gave up trying to solo this as a feral druid (57). I'd put a few HoTs, cat form, then load him up with bleeds and switch to bear to try and wear him down. The adds however, just chew you up.

Even in bearform I was taking 85x3 (per add) + 130 (from merc.) = 385 per swing
In catform i was taking 130x3+180 = 570 per swing

stats:
cat: 2.7k health, 1.5k armor, 23%crit, 630ap
bear: 3.5k health, 5.2k armor, 283def, 22%dodge

Imho, this quest is alot of work and alot of dying for 6K xp.

Kommentar von 98440

Not easy, lvl 56 combat rogue. Here is how i did it... Sap one add, cheap shot Mercutio and blind another add. Evasion, blade furry and adrenaline rush.. do as much damage as you can to Mercutio then use a major healing potion and kill him. Vanish. Heal yourself ASAP, go stealth and loot Mercutio. Sprint and run away. Mercutio's body will disappear in a few.. so try to be as fast as you can.

Kommentar von 104192

I've managed to kill him finally, has a druid, after dieing 3 times

open the grave and go back so you dont get aggro, start with starfire, and then moonfire, travel form, when the moonfire dot reachs the last 2 or 3 secs cast moonfire again and travel form again, use inervte to regain mana, I used a mana potion too, when he died i just loot his body and let the adds kill me, done...

Kommentar von 105572

This was not easy to solo as a resto Shaman at 55, but here is how I did it.

Started by clearing out all the trolls around the grave, and those along the fence and in the trees behind it. Earth shield up and dropped an earthbind totem behind the fence. Opened the grave and let the guys spawn, then jumped over the fence and stood behind the totem.
Let them stop at the grave then pulled Mercutio with a lightning bolt, then used natures swiftness to cast another one isntantly. Then I ran around dropping earthbinds whenever the cooldown was up and using frost shock to slow him down (since it is off DRs again). Took about 4 tries sometimes I would get a troll or get gouged and beaten down. If you are a resto Shaman at level 55 I would recommend just getting some help to avoid the repair bill.

-Used 1 major healing potion.

Hope this helps anyone, was a very annoying quest.

Kommentar von 108461

It *is* possible as a feral druid. (was 57 at the time)

My sequence (you should only attack Mercutio): Open grave. Back up so you don't aggro them right away. Cast Regrowth, followed by Rejuvenation. Switch to bear form. Faerie Fire, Demoralizing Roar then swich it up between Mangle and Maul. You can also use Frenzied Regeneration when it's warranted. When you're around 40-50%, cast Barkskin. Heal yourself with Healing Touch, then follow it up with Regrowth and Rejuvenation. (Use a healing potion if you need to, they *might* kill you before you get the first heal off) Switch back to Bear Form. Mangle/Maul until Mercutio's dead. Shift-click his body so you auto-loot, go into Travel Form, run away with his kid's little toy warhammer.

Kommentar von WoWFace

FYI.

is possible as Fury Warrior.(lvl 59)

Kommentar von Epitaph

Okay folks,

No one cares if you can solo it anymore, it's obvious they nerffed it and it should be easily soloable by anyone 58+. Sorry to be blunt, but theres way too many redundant points here.

Something I haven't seen anyone say is this:
Zaeldarr the Outcast quest mob is located inside the lower level of the crypt. (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=6021) from LHC.
You can also pick up the Hameya's Plea quest (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=6024)

Kommentar von 72187

Looks like VW is the way to go for locks. Even if you have you have taken the talent path of having a Felguard minion, he hits hard but not hard enough (even @ lvl 59) to survive long enough for you to loot the item. VW in, focus yours and his attacks on the mark.

Kommentar von 42910

Did as a lvl 56 Resto Druid.

Spawned him and went kitty form stealth... Moonfire Kited down all the way down the road... grabbed the hammer.

Ended up dying in the end.

Took a mana pot and innervate.

Kommentar von wodelaotian

Done it as a 55 combat sword rogue.
Distract the group, cheap shot Mercutio, evasion, adrenaaline rush, dps dps dps, potted around 20%, Mercutio dies, loot the hammer, vanish.

Kommentar von 97593

Level 55 arcane mage -> open grave, walk back towards hill, fire ball, fire ball, fireblast, POM fireball and kite back into the hills. Fireblast when the cooldown is up. Kite group away from Mercutio's body, frost nova, blink back in, loot!

One of the guys resisted my frost nova, but I was able to loot the hammer before dying.

Kommentar von 54672

just did it (57 mage) just run past them frost nova and kite him with fire blast
easy as pie :D

Kommentar von 96156

If you're a hunter and one of then hits you, Feign Death until they all aggro your pet, then run away and DON'T STOP!

Kommentar von 62852

The other dwarves that are with mercutio are more an annoyance than anything. if you can take them out of the fight in some way and burn down Mercutio with a vengeance, you should be golden.

Just handled on my 57 Shadow Priest: VT, SW:P, VE, Fear bomb, mind blast, flay, shield, rinse, repeat. easy stuffs.

After Mercutio died, I just shielded and ran off. You can go back and kill the dwarves after they leash back to the dirt mound (which I did, because they deserve to die), or just wait until they despawn, grab the hammer, and make Fordring all teary eyed.

Kommentar von 130787

I only received 1750exp after finishing this quest

Kommentar von 22837

soloed as a 58 feral druid (terrible gear, all quest rewards no AH etc). Wait until they get to the grave, standing outside of the fence for easy running access. Root merc, regrowth/rejuv and go bear form and start killing the grave robbers. If root breaks before you have done decent dmg, run. Otherwise barkskin + reroot merc before he gets to you, heal/innervate. I only had to root merc three times (once without barkskin, but there were only 2 robbers left). When that root broke, I just tanked both and killed the last robber, shifted out and healed, etc.

Ended the fight with close to full mana, no pots used. Had to run on 1st attempt because of early root break.

Kommentar von 18686

55 enh shaman. keep a bait totem in front towards where they spawn, then put the earthbind behind it so they will destroy your bait and leave the earthbind alone. then keep a frost shock mercutio after hes almost out of the earthbind and run out of there all the way until your earthbind is up again, pop it and keep running, then frost shock mercutio again to make sure he wont despawn. by now the adds will have despawned and its only you and mercutio, pop all cds, use all your mana and profit

Kommentar von Skreeran

Soloed as a 55 Spriest. The fight isn't that hard at all if you 1. are a priest, and 2. think it through. I MC'd Mercutio and that his annoying little friends get him within 10% health, Mind Blasted him, Pyschic Screamed his adds away, grabbed that hammer, and ran my $%# off. Really, MC makes everything easier when it comes to quest bosses with adds.

Kommentar von 179354

Soloed this quest as a well equipped lvl 57 hunter. I let my pet tank and take all the aggro when killing Mercuito. When he dies, the mobs come after you, simply feign death and chose one to focus your dps on... mend pet, major healing potion, feign death, and your clear! easy as cake!

Kommentar von 180416

Just soloed on a 58 Fire spec mage. It took a few tries, but once I got the pattern down it worked. I targeted Mercutio from a safe distance and used , , . By that point, the mobs had all reached me, so I did , , , , then and another finished him off. I had auto loot set, so I right-clicked and ran for my life.

Kommentar von Panzel

Just did this quest this morning on my 55 hunter. The name of the game is kiting. Now, I did this with a serpent because of the ranged dot. What I did, was clear all the mobs leading from the lake side to the grave, and activated the quest. Used my pet to pull using followed by a quick succession of shots and a and went to work. It is important to constantly renew the DoTs on Mercutio and to keep at least 10 yards ahead. If you can spare it, turn around and shoot him with an arcane shot. When you run out of path, run around a small hill and U-turn it. Keep doing this until he dies, auto loot, and feign ^^.

Kommentar von Ergates

This is physically impossible to solo as a Paladin. Attempted it around five times, got my ass kicked to hell and ended up simply abandoning it.

Kommentar von 130895

With the 3.02 patch, must have become much easier. Soloed with a 56 prot warrior, used fear right at the start and Last Stand once closer to the end. All guys dead, Mercutio first.

Kommentar von Seiru

Soloed this as a 54 prot warrior, without having to fear, or loot + die. Single target dps with a rotation of shield slam, revenge, and concussion blow, and use thunder clap whenever it's up. Also keep demo shout on all the mobs. Use your cool downs strategically, and you'll be all right.

Kommentar von Darthmrkew

This is good, but hard quest to do when 57 or lower rogue

This is little to do list for rogues to complete it

1) Go to 24,8:79,7

2) "Use" the grave and immediately use stealth.

3) Use distract to make them look away.

4) Sap one of higher lvl buddies.

5) Premeditation and Ambush on Mercutio.

6) Blind second buddy.

7) Attack Mercutio before blind fades.

8) Ghostly strike and Evasion.

9) Keep attacking Mercutio and when you have low hp use potion.

10) After his death DO NOT VANISH. Loot the body and then vanish.

11) Return to Tirion.

Hope I helped.

Kommentar von 345919

Quite easily solable as a 56 ret pally with average- to below-average gear. When Mercutio came running, I used Repentance on him. That gave me just enough time to finish off the three 54s, and then I could deal with him alone.
A general tip for all healers: Heal before you need to. That way, by the time you're done casting, they've hit you for enough that you don't overheal. I healed twice during the encounter, and I didn't need any pots.

Kommentar von 328142

Done as 55 enhancement shaman, suicide style. Start up with 2x lightningbolt, stormstrike, eartshock, lava lash, lesser healing wave-spam untill full health, set stoneclaw totem down, stormstrike, earthshock, lava lash, loot.

Took a few tries, I managed to get him down on first one but didn't know that he despawns. >.<

This was the 3rd try, or so.

Kommentar von 427892

Warlock, destro, 57, had my Voidwalker out, and finally managed to solo it when I remembered to use Howl of Terror after sending the VW in and DoT-ing Mercutio. Followed him to finish him off, finally got him once the other mobs ran back to me. I looted, then Howl of Terror again, then tried to run - a zombie ended up finishing me off, though.

Soulstone was on cooldown because I'd already tried and died, and I didn't feel like waiting a half hour doing nothing. =)

Kommentar von 120824

dont bother trying this quest its impossible

Kommentar von tyleriam

just managed to solo as a lvl 54 retri pali with bubble

Kommentar von 466593

Soloed as lvl 55 elemental shaman. I died a few times before getting the quest done, but in the end I got the hammer and survived.

After I'd clicked the grave, I run back to get some distance and dropped a stoneclaw totem between me and the mobs. Then lightning bolt and flame shock to Mercutio from max range. After the stoneclaw totem was gone, I dropped earthbind totem to get some distance again, healed and continued to cast spells at Mercutio. Repeated the whole thing, looted the hammer and ran.

Kommentar von ograymic

Soloed first time as a lv54 Holy paladin, Using concentration aura and BoW, I just spammed Flash of Light while judging and holy shocking him and his adds down. Walked away with 1/4 mana, some runecloth and a toy hammer for my efforts. This quest must have been nerfed as Tsoky suggested.

Kommentar von 526868

Counts towards the Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms achievement.

Kommentar von Thottbot

DO NOT LISTEN TO THE ABOVE POST. THIS IS WHY HE DISSAPPEARS

IF you are HAVING trouble with him disappearing then you are NOT staying at the grave when he comes out. Make SURE you stay at the grave and he will yell something then charge you.. then you are done and can get the hammer then run from his adds.

Kommentar von Thottbot

phew got wiped twice but managed to do it third time.
Most important factor that helped me were potions. Went to IF before fight, bought greater stoneshield potion, winterfall firewater, intellect boost scroll. Also used my last charge of my mechanical yeti. Stay standing on top of the grave and let him come to you, concentrate on him and (if you're a paly) just keep in recasting SoC and shield+heal if neccessary. If you use a greater stoneshield potion beforehand (+2000 armor for 2 mins) then you won't be able to use a healing potion in the fight unless it lasts for more than 2 mins because of potion cooldown. Also if you happen to be in IF get a priest to give you blessing of fortitude before you go, very useful :D

Kommentar von Thottbot

the cords are 27,86.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Not an easy quest. After 4 deaths, I copped out and summoned an Infernal. Costly, but effective:

- Clear nearby trolls
- 'Use' the dirt mound and stay near it (to avoid the 'disappearing corpse' bug)
- Summon Infernal (stun + AoE aggro)
- CoA + Corr + Immo on Mercutio Filthgorger
- Howl of Terror
- Finish off Mercutio Filthgorger
- Loot
- Run

Kommentar von Thottbot

Don't even try soloing it, It's impossible!
This quests a &*!@#.
End of statement.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I am standing on the dirt mound, and my coordinates are 28,87.

I just couldn't bear to see hundreds of posts above without a single reference to the correct coordinates. Spent 20 minutes scouring 27,86 and the fenced-in graveyard right near there.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Hey all. I'm a level 60 Rogue, spec'd Combat daggers. 5/8 NS, GG, and CHT. I found this a very easy quest.

1: Open the grave and Stealth right afterwards.
2: As all his mobs walk towards you, Sap the named, pop Evasion, blade flurry and Slice and Dice. The first two mobs should go down easy and the named should awaken while taking the third.
3: Finish off the 3rd guy and immediatly use blind on the name. This will give you enough time to back off and bandage yourself. If he awakens while your fighting the third mob then you can still blind him and have enough time for bandages.
4: Open up with Gouge on the name followed by: > Backstab > SS or 2 > Gouge > Backstab > Kidney shot > Thistle Tea > 2 backstabs and he should be down No prob.

This is a easy strat for any medium or well geared Dagger Rogue. Also, I killed the name last and did not get the body bug some people talk about.

Kommentar von Thottbot

This quest can be solo'd at 60.

Location 28,86

1) Stand right on the dirt pile
2) Right click dirt pile to start the quest which calls the 4 non-elite mobs that come.
3) Stay on the dirt pile until you loot the hammer cause if you are even a few feet away, quest will fail.
4) Kill the 57 named mob only (you dont have to kill the rest) and quickly loot the hammer
5) Run, kill the rest or die, doesn't matter cause you're quest is complete.

Please vote for this post and "unvote" all the crap written above. LOL.

Kommentar von Thottbot

QUEST IS NOT AT 28,86 - - IT's AT 28,87.

The O T H E R Grave/Dirt Mound is at 28,26 -- and it's an entirely different quest -- one which you can acquire by working your way into the crypt itself and clicking on a scroll on the floor at the bottom of the stairs.

And YES if you are a druid this quest is UBER challenging to solo. I gave up after 4 deaths and brought a priest.

--- ever notice the folks that seem to say such and such quest was SO EASY to SOLO often tend to be rogues?

Kommentar von Thottbot

Frostmage lv 57.
1. Loot the dirt.
2. 4 mobs spawn, ~30 yd away (named + 3, around 5k hp) At the start they are waking to you, out of combat.
3. 5 blizzards and a few frost nova later they are dead. (maybe use a mana pot)
4. Loot the questitem from the named mob.
5. Done, go deliver quest :)

And yes, I was around 40 yd from the dirtpile and the named around 30 yd away from it when hi died. So that you have to stay ontop of the dirtpile for the questitem to drop is false!

Kommentar von Thottbot

where do i hand this in? totally forgot who i got it from. coords of quest giver please.

D.

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Its a bit easy for hunters...Because when you use the pile near the grave Mobs are on the way the lvl 57 is the target.my pet taunts the mobs and i killed the lvl 57 mob but when you heal your pet all themobs are coming on your back so i used feing death to avoid them and 1 trinket at least i died but i ha.d take the quest item the cords of the grave are 28.86

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The 56 druid who said this was not hard at all is wrong. I attempted this as a 57 druid, and I play this druids well and i have decent gear for my level.

The fact that makes me question the legitimacy of the druids post is that the fact that the main guy gouges you quite a bit, making it nearly impossible to do any channel casting.

However if you have innervate and a major mana potion you can solo this as a druid:

1. clear the area of all zombie trolls, specifically to the north
2. buff and mana up
3. click the pile
4. quickly go north till u see the broken side of the gate, turn around and cast starfire then moonfire on Mercutio (sp?)
5. go to travel form *not cat form, takes too much mana
6. when your moonfire DoT is about to break recast it again by jump while running forward and turning around while in mid air, make sure you're face back forward before u land.
7. repeat this process while heading east on the path and he should die right when your about to enter EPL
8. use innervate when at about 400 mana
9. use mana pot when oom

They wont run away and reset because he has a dot on him.

Just in case it might be a good idea to bind a rank 1 moonfire to a hotkey just if your low on mana but HAVE to reapply the DoT before it runs out.

Good luck and have fun.

MTree

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The easiest way to do this as a priest is to mind control Mercutio Filthgorger. His adds will then attack him. If you want to be able to loot him, though, you have to take off mind control just before he dies and finish him off with a mind blast (otherwise no sparkles). Then fear the adds and loot.

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cant make it with my lvl 60 druid :( the boss hitting very hard

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Best thing i figured out to do is to open grave, then run to the little corner near the graveyard....wait for them to come....they won't aggro on you right away and they don't despawn for like 20 seconds....target the leader with your most powerful attack and just nuke him down...loot and RUN!

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Solo'd as a level 55 frost mage

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soloed at lvl 55, just pull a void out and wait for them to come, as soon as they do, have him aoe aggro and dot up the main dude as much as possible

as soon as hes fully dotted howl of terror and nuke him down, i looted with plenty of time, but i barely managed to finish the adds. I could have easily ran after i looted it

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Finally, I managed to solo this at lvl 61 Holy Priest.

This is how I did it:

1. Dig the loose dirt on the SE corner of the The Undercroft greaveyard. It will call 4 non elite greave diggers.
2. Use Mind Controll for the named boss and others will attack him.
3. When others have ALMOST killed him, make him run away from you char to breake mind controll.
4. Then they all attack to you. Let them come closer and use Psychic Scream to make them flee.
5. Kill the boss fast, loot him and RUN :)

If you let the others kill him, you are not able to loot the Hammer :(

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57 rogue solo.

dig up dirt, stealth, kill main guy popping all your cooldowns trinkets etc, loot, vanish... win.

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Took me 5 tries but I nailed it down as a 59 Shammy solo.

Lay down these totems:
- Searing
- Earthbind
- Healing Stream
- Grace of Air

Click on the dirt and pull with a LB followed by a Flame Shock. Immediately switch to Stoneskin Totem before mobs go melee. Now activate Shamanistic Rage (and Blood Fury / Beserking if you have it) and burst down Mercutio. Ghost Wolf and run away to drop agro on the rest of his adds (or if you can kill them too if you can).

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soloed as 58 hunter, clear area of mobs, set pet to aggressive, the boss comes forward first, so pet attacks him and takes all the aggro then i used beastial wrath and rapid fire to kill him asap and loot... also got aggro at the end and feigned death and ran while adds killed pet, but i did get to loot the hammer.

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My warrior just did this quest with a priest. As you would expect I tanked them all while he healed me. I killed all of the grave robbers first then killed the named. It is kind of a pain to do it in that order because the named incaps over and over but I did not have any trouble finishing the quest. We both had the quest and had no problems with the corpse disappearing.

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As a 57 balance druid, I just finished this one with a 55 mage buddy of mine. He kept distracting the adds while I worked on Mercutio, hitting him with moonfire, insect swarm, roots, and starfire. It was really tense towards the end because I finally managed to get the drop and my buddy killed off one of the dwarves, but we were both almost out of mana. I gave him innervate, he finished off the last two, and we rode away.

I love mages.

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Note: I left my pet on the grave, looted, then moved NW of the grave. The robbers came up behind me, not from the grave. And it stunk, so don't stand there.

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Has this moved or are my co-ordinates wrong?

I found the mound of earth at 24.6, 79.9

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Shadow specc'd, solo'd at 59.

Touched the dirt, drew them all. Used a Mind Blast/SWP as the came at me on the named. Fear'd them and kept ALL my DPS on named. MB Flay Flay MB = dead. Looted corpse as scrubs attacked me. Shield, run, fear, done.

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Ok,

First time I did this I sent my VW in thinking, this will be easy... not so much... they incapacitated my VW came after me and kicked the snot out of me (they're pretty tough for non elites)..

Round two, same deal only this time I AoE fear.. doesn't last long enough.. damm, dead..

Round three, when they incap my VW I sac and continue to unload on the name to try and loot him before I get whacked... no luck on that try either...

WTF!

Round four... "I wonder if they can incap my Inferno?" So I tried it... easy as pie that time around... as I was looting I checked my inferno's status and he was down to about 10% so I hit the hills running!

Long story short... use your inferno and save yourself the hassle =)

Enterrador
60 Orc Warlock
300 Engineering
300 Mining

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completed this quest solo as 57 warlock.

first I tried the usual "let voidwalker tank" tactics, while fearing the boss (he's the one that uses gouge), and wiped like 4 times in a row, not even getting close to succeding.

Then I changed tactic, and it worked amazingly well, but only if you're a warlock I'm afraid. Open the grave, run away from it so you don't aggro the dwarves. When they stand still, drop an infernal on them, then immediatly fear the named dwarf.
Keep him feared through the fight untill the 3 adds are dead, and just heal the infernal. Maybe drop a corruption and curse on agony on whichever dwarf it's hitting, but don't nuke away. Between the infernal's melee damage and it's fireshield, it can hold aggro from all three adds untill they are dead. Then it's one on one against the named dwarf, which is easy enough.

Ironically the infernal was a hairbreadth from killing me once it turned aggresive :)

Edited, Aug 14th 2006 at 3:13pm EDT by mikalj

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As always, I should have checked this string before opening the grave. Got the same results as others. The dwarves surprised me and kicked my butt. Since I'm a warlock, I decided to try the inferno suggestion from earlier post. First, I decided to farm a couple of soulshards as my stash was down and in the meantime an Alliance came in and opened the grave. I was about twenty yards away, killing a mob and for some reason, the dwarves agroed on me instead of the Alliance. Then the Alliance guy jumped in and joined my VW who was agro'ing the dwarves. I stepped back, targeted the named and burned him down. Walked right into the middle of the fight without drawing agro and grabbed the hammer, and the last I saw of my VW and the Alliance, they were fighting dwarves. HAHAHA! Rotten!

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27,86

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shadow priest, solo'ed at 60.

i did as the very first poster suggested, with my own little behaviour scheme;
shield me, back off and wait for them.
mind blast + sw:p + mind flay
(now all are hitting me, and they all have arrived "at me")
fear, shield, mind blast, mind flay mind flay.
shift+rightclick loot, run away, shield and fear again.

tada. killed only one, the named one, did not even hurt the others. this at 16th feb. 2006, patch 1.9.(4?)

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Ok I did this quest earlier with a 60 priest and it wouldn't allow me to loo the body. Then I did it with a 60 warrior who also had the quest and we both could loot. It turns out that all party members have to have the quest to loot he hammer.

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Soloed these guys four times in a row, 58 Pally... Hammer hasn't dropped once! Must be bugged... =/

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so, The Grave and mound are right in the Far Left of the Yard at the tomb in the back, can't miss it. Just be ready for the 4 Dwarves that come running and beating you with shovels.

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It is possible to Solo this quest as a mage.

1. Clear the trolls from area around dirt pile and the side of the temple.

2. Click on grave. Immediately once opened, run for the hole in the fence down the same side of the temple

3. Come round to near where you opened the dirt but on the outside of the fence.

4. Grave Robbers mill around the dirt but you're not close enough for them to attack you.

5. Pick out Mecutio and hit him PyroBlast, then hit Presence of Mind and hit him again with PyroBlast.

6. Then hit him with FireBlast.

7. By this time, they're on you. Hit them with Frost Nova. Back a distance then hit Mecutio. Kill him quickly.

8. Activate Mana Shield and then loot his corpse and run for your life.

Edited, May 24th 2008 9:30pm by tomasdinari

Edited, May 25th 2008 10:04pm by tomasdinari

Edited, May 25th 2008 10:04pm by tomasdinari

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i got 6000 xp at lvl 57... needed help tho

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57 warlock, felguard pet.

greater stoneshield potion, create soulstone just in case - usual buffs. dig the mound, target the dwarf, howl of terror, put pet on dwarf, usual dots, bolt him, dwarf dies, loot him as soon as he drops and RUN!

Jobs a good un :)

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18 / 33 / 0 >> Fury/Arms Warrior

Got about 4 Epic Defense items, anyway, went Defensive stance with full rage and full health (killed a mob and ate some food) then attacked Murcutio, had a few sunder armor on him and used Itimidating Shout, then went Duel Wielding in Defensinve stance, and back to 1hand + Shield when the adds got back, Murcutio died, I looted the Hammer thingy and used Piercing Howl to escape with about 10% Health

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Hunter lvl 57.
Ok, I am BM.
I put a Slowing trap thing. sent my pet in used my CD's and when my pets hp was at 50% i did a multishot. the trap slowed to mobs so i didnt get them on me instantly.
I moved around alittle while shooting the main dude.
When i killed him i let my pet die. while i ran away and did Feign death.

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Since this looks near-impossible for Druids to complete solo, I'll try to explain what I did. (Level 60 Druid) A word of warning, though, this is rather dependant on spec and equipment. Not all Druids will be able to use this without finding some workarounds.

This is what I used that not every Druid has:
1- Second Wind trinket. I guess using Innervate would do the same, it's just nice to have both if you really need more mana.
2- Feral Swiftness talent. Makes you go 30% faster in Cat Form.
3- Feral Faerie Fire. Cast Faerie Fire in Feral forms with no mana cost.
4- Insect Swarm. Instant Cast DoT.
5- War Stomp. Tauren racial skill.

So, I headed to the graveyard. (This was like my 8th try at this point and on the previous attempts I tried to tank them all which resulted in complete failure.)

After activating the grave, try to get on the other side of the fence. This won't block the mobs, but it'll allow you a quicker escape. Make sure you killed the few zombies that could be in your way.

Now, when the grave robbers group approaches, target the named. Blast a Moonfire and Insect Swarm and quickly shift to Cat. The Dwarves have like 115% speed so if you stay in Caster form, they'll pummel you, but with the 30% speed from Cat, you could actually outrun them. Don't, though.

All you want to do is get ahead of them, make sure they can't hit you. Keep using Faerie Fire to make sure you keep aggro. When both DoT's are over, shift out, blast another Moonfire and Insect Swarm and shift back. At some point you'll run out of mana so use Second Wind or Innervate.

I suggest running towards the quest giver. There's not a lot of mobs in the way, and as mentionned somewhere else, he might help you kill the mobs if you haven't killed them by the time you get there.

In my case, the named did not drop from the DoT's but started to run slower, and then he walked. It's a sign he might turn around soon and you'll lose him. He had like 300 HP left so I turned around and attacked him, using Claw twice and he died. I didn't have the disappearing corpse problem so I ran a bit further with all 3 grave robbers on my back. I shifted out, hit War Stomp and shifted to Travel Form. I looted the corpse and ran till I lost aggro from the 3 adds.

My suggestions if you lack one of the things mentionned above:
1- Second Wind: Use Innervate instead.
2- Feral Swiftness: Try to go Travel Form, but you'll have to shift more often to make sure you keep aggro. (Since you won't be able to spam Faerie Fire in that form)
3- If you have Feral Swiftness but not Feral Faerie Fire, going Cat Form won't help much, stick with what's suggested in #2.
4- Insect Swarm: Stick to Moonfire. You might not do enough damage to kill him before you reach Fordring though, but he'll help you.
5- As long as you don't have the disappearing-corpse bug, you can just outrun the remaining adds until they drop combat and then you can loot the corpse.

Hope this helps a few Druids. :)

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Solo'd as a 58 warrior. Recklessness, fear and a major health pot = success.

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Did this with a lvl61 priest last night Died the first time because we both ran out of mana. While pondering, he mentioned that he had one charge left on his mechanical yeti.... Oh! I had just gotten mine and not used it yet.

So that's what we did -- Two yeti to sort of plant the gang of MOBs, me to tank with AofE one after another and him to heal and shield me.

Went pretty efficiently. Gotta love the little mechanical yeti!

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As a lvl 59 rogue...loot mound, then stealth. Turn around, sap one of the grave robbers, not Mercutio, then blind aonther helper. Immediately open up on Merc, evasion, major heal pot, and hope he drops, auto loot, vanish. The blinded helper will join the fight, so it isn't a cakewalk for a lightly armored Rogue, but if your spec'd to dish out major punishment, it's doable.

I also was using deadly posion 4 on both weapons, as well as elixir of greater defense, and a elixir of major agility, and I was still down to about 20% health when I vanished.

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attempted to solo as a lvl 60 shaman. I was able to kill the named dwarf, but after that got my ass handed to me by the other grave robbers. To add insult to injury, when I popped to loot the named corpse, his body dissapeared :(

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the cords are 27,86.

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frost trap, aimed, jump shot worked like a charm @ 59 hunter, had no troubles at all.

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it's 4 guys, i'm 60 warrior 31/20 - all i did was retaliation while focusing on mercutio, sweeping strikes + execute, execute, execute, execute

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as a lvl 60 Hunter I found it to be very hard to kill him. so what I did was:

1. put a frost trap @ the dirt mound
2. open the dirt mound
3. run to the right and get an aimed shot in on mercutio exaclty when he runs into the trap
4. run away and keep aggro of mercutio on yourself with arcane shot
5. the adds will go away and you will have mercutio all to yourself
6. get the loot as fast as possible, he disappears within seconds

Edited, Tue Feb 7 10:26:02 2006

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27'86 like it says below, really tough quest just managed to solo as a 58 hunter, kited till Mercutio was dead. looted, could of ran but i slowly finished the others off, ran out of mana when the second mob died, didn't have to use any pots.

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I had like 10 go's at it now. firstly tried to burst him, but his corpse immediately decayed. After a few attemps, I then mind-controlled him and used him to bring another dwarf to around 30% and he died while I Mc'ed him. Killed the rest but only the last one had loot, a few silver but no hammer. He gouges so mind-controlling another dwarf is a bad idea. Without any viable means of crowd-control (sheep) as good as impossible to solo the way it's set up.
Can anyone tell me why Blizzard made such mean conditions to this quest?
I mean, it's not like you get any reward at that point in the chain, its merely the beginning after rounding some normal mobs up...

Edited, Wed Oct 12 10:41:56 2005

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This quest cheats - I will add that to the list as well.

I killed the named first and it instantly dissapeared. Feared the rest and went to get the loot before I died - nothing there. Body decays in about three seconds.

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Killed as a 56 hunter with turtle pet, no traps used.

Sicced pet on him with intimidation, put turtle into shell shield.
Popped aimed shot, rapid fire, serpent sting.
They incapped pet, I fded when they ran up to me.
Aimed shot when they ran back to pet, they killed pet but Mercutio was at no health and a normal shot finished him. FD, get up, loot.

Crylisha
Whisperwind

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CONFIRMED.
The corpse despawns of you pull him behind the gate. I killed him 3 times behind the gate and the corpse vanished every time. Stood near the grave and killed him again - hammer droped - corpse did not despawn.

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the quest kinda cheats.. once you kill the named, loot him immediately after kill. If you kill him first, and you don't loot right away his corpse seems to dissappear quickly

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I found after two rounds of spawning and killing them that only one body would remain after the fight. Previously I had killed him first because he hit the hardest and one of his minions would be the body left which I would loot for 12s or so.
If you kill his add's first then kill him last his body hangs around and you can loot the hammer without any problem.

Might want a major health pot on you too, as a protection spec warrior I needed one in each fight.

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I just brought a mage...

-56 hunter

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im a 56 warrior, with a armor set that gives me about 4500 health, i was dead before i took even 10% of the named dwarves health away, its just not possible to do it alone unless you are a lock or a hunter, even then it will be difficult

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back of the sepulchur building. Don't confuse this with the dirt of pile w/ a ? that's for another quest. go further back, and you'll see a grave stone.

This one is a dirt pile in front of a gravestone, and its sparkling. usually a troll mob is patrolling there. kill the ud troll mob, Food and Drink up and be ready for a battle .. .

a boss dwarf and 3 underlings. You do have a chance to run, but they'll just mill about ...

They Spam stuns . ..

the problem with most dwarven bosses in the game is they got a good stun and with 3 of them using, they'll get you. for those dependent on magic to heal , this might turn out bad . . .

start your heal w/ enough time to cast and to withsand a few stuns.

I had to pot b/c of their stuns.

Cloth / leather folks might want to bring a pal, or hunters use a strong pet to tank, cuz these guys drain hp fast.

Lucky I was playing balance druid, lvl 60 had her summon 3 treants, they killed one guy, but the fight lasted long . . . so they died half way .. . I had her use bear form, because then they'd only crit for 100-200 on her, and that was "bear"able

sux cuz the game really lets you know how weaksauce your armor is if you're behind (like you're lvl 60 and the gear you're using says must be lvl 51 to use etc), the named dwarf was critting for 300 and the other dwarves were 100-200.

A buddy of mine said go outlands and get geared up then do some of the fighting quests for plagues, makes it go easier.

notes:

on looting . . . all four bodies dropped, then I had to heal quick and fight off the ud troll mob that respawned. Then eat / drink cuz I saw she still had pvp flag from capture the towers. The bodies still remained, its been fixed, on my server at least

if you're a pally /or plate class, and get trumped, don't worry, this is hard, merco and boys finshed off death knights, a belf 59 when I was doing the troll quests, and later another was a lvl 60 nelf (rezzed her and helped her fin the quest)

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Rough. Decided to try to solo it as a level 59 Druid. Twice I quickly got pwned by the four guys, heck, they even stunned me when I tried to heal. The third time a Horde duo (Rogue and Shaman, both around 55-57 I think) wandered into the area . . . *coughs* I waved at them, then released the dirt, and quickly tagged Mercutio . . . who ignored me and ran at them. They killed him off while I tanked the 3 others, then pulled one guy off me and finshed him off while I did the other two. I love getting help from the other side :) Oh, and Mercutio died FIRST, and still had the item, even though I had to wait till all were dead to loot him. All had corpses.

Edited, Sat Jun 4 15:32:39 2005

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I actually didnt know what to expect, I thought it was simple fact of just looting the dirt. But then the dwarves came. I did this with a pally, I basically dropped a frost trap and let my pally fight Mercutio with my pet, multi shot once to aggro all the adds and ran around the circle to keep them from attacking me and the pally and paused to take a few shots at Merc. As soon as he was dead I ran up and looted the body and we both killed the adds.

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57 rogue.

I already knew where to look for the hammer, as I had seen the false grave earlier.

Anyway as I approach the spot I see a lvl 60 paladin fighting off several dwarves. At first I'm think she looted a Blood of Heroes but as I got closer I saw that they were graverobbers. I decided to give her a hand so I went into stealth and went to work on the mobs. Afterward I asked her what that was all about and she said it was for this very quest. Since I had given her a hand, she helped me when I looted the grave.

It was a rather tough fight, if only because it takes so long, haha.

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This quest is stupid as ever. Tryed to solo at lvl 58 on my warlock. Sent VW in to tank the guys, pulled the named guy away, killed him, looted, and the body vanished. totaly stupid.

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All we need are the coords, the rest is irrelevant!

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57 fire mage, I died super fast the first try but then figured it out.
once they spawned I targeted named and fireballed, frost novaed then blinked.
then then another fireball, fireblast and blastwave. loot then run.

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I did this quest as level 58 beast master hunter. To do this quest solo, get your pet to hold aggro, then kill main guy. When he dies loot, and then you will die soon after. If you aren't a hunter or warlock, then either group up or don't bother.

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Easy as a rogue. i did it at 57 solo. I used adrenaline rush and evasion, then vanished after i burned him down. If your not a combat rogue, you may want to use a thistle tea if you dont think you can do it fast enough without it, but even without it you should be fine with evasion.

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This is bugged ... twice i've done this today and i kill Mecutio and go to loot him and his body disappears ... i cant kill the remaining mobs (always 3 mobs ... 55 - 56) and they all disappear when i vanish

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Well, I did this as a level 57 retribution paladin no real bothers. Got Seal of Crusader running as soon as I'd looted the earth, and judged it on the named when he came in range (I stood upon the grave). Turned on Command, and nuked as much as I could with Crusader strike + repeated Command judgements. My Uther's Strength proc'd which I guess helped, but the guy was nearly dead fairly soon, as was I. Popped a Major Healing Potion, and proceeded to destroy him and loot for the hammer. I tried to defeat the adds, but realised I had not very much chance, and just died. The adds were not there when I respawned, so I could buff up again and grin at a quest well done.

I didn't have to bubble or Holy Light at all so I imagine other classes without pets of any kind could follow a similar strategy (though maybe not a mage).

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Funny story...
I attempted this 1st time did good as 57 warrior, died before I got a chance to loot.
Im like ok then this time ill try kill him quicker mind you both attempts I did not use health pot.
2nd try got him to 3/4 life...
then I decided no thanks and disbanded the quest, oh btw the guy thats level 54 hunter that thinks hes good cause he was able to do it, mate your playing the easiest class in the game so shut ya face!
Try lvling a warrior and tell me how you go...oh let me guess you have 1 yea yea BS.
Anyway my point is attempt twice, disband 3rd time!

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This is not too hard for a warrior if you follow these steps:
First, make sure you have ALL cooldowns saved before you touch the grave.
Second, make sure you clear the area around the grave
Third, build up your rage bar. Fight the last mob AT the grave.

When the final "trash" is dead and you have 100 rage immediatly bandage to full health and then touch the grave. Intercept the keyholder ASAP, fear, and unload everything you have, loot and get the hell out of there.

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When you try to take it, a 57 and 3-5 54s spawn to kill you. Bring a group if below 60. Probably at 60 as well.

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Did this lastnight with a 56 Druid a 60 Hunter and me a 54 Shaman........It is hard at any lvl beolow 60!

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I actually didnt know what to expect, I thought it was simple fact of just looting the dirt. But then the dwarves came. I did this with a pally, I basically dropped a frost trap and let my pally fight Mercutio with my pet, multi shot once to aggro all the adds and ran around the circle to keep them from attacking me and the pally, paused to take a few shots at Merc. As soon as he was dead I ran up and looted the body and we both killed the adds.

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Done this before on a 60 Mage, easily soloed. :D

...Unfortunately with my other Mage the body also vanishes when he dies. =/

*cry* Time to kill him a 19th time...

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After reading the posts on here, I anticipated a really hard quest.
I did this as a 57 Warrior, 11/0/37, no problem. And it could've been easier, too.
Started the fight by charging them, dropped demoralizing. They were hitting really hard (I had 1h and shield out, almost 7k armor, and they were still hitting for 70-90), so, not thinking, I popped retaliation. 1h + retaliation = weak. So, I dropped to about 1/4 health, and mercutio still had about half, so I hit intimidating shout, didn't think to bandage, and just kept beating on him. Shield slam whenever I could, heroic strike every hit, hit him with a 50 rage execute when he was in range and took him down with two more melee hits.. I managed to loot with 200 health left, and died right after.

My advice for warriors is... shield wall ftw.

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Quest stinks. Killed him several times with no hammer. Gonna try again but stand near grave whole time.

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I have tried killing them close to the grave, but the corpses were still despawning except one add that dropped some silver and runecloth. The only explanation I can see is that you cannot run away from the grave before initial aggro. You have to stand there and let them see you for the event to start properly. I did that and the third time I killed him, he finally dropped the hammer.

Soloed when I just turned 60 on my feral druid, but it wasn't easy. I rooted one add, went bear and swiped them. When my hp went down I drank a pot, used barkskin and healed myself. Back to bear and frenzied regeneration. One try I used a Mechanical Greench that actually held the aggro of one of the adds for some time. There are four mobs in total.

Edited, Jan 3rd 2007 10:15pm by noelle

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Easy quest m8:) Frost nova get back Blizzard call water elemental use his frost nova blizzard again:) Use ur own again or use a cone of cold and frost nova (Let water elemental attack mercurius) and thats is done Use some arcanes if not all is dead... And loot and than nuke the horde warr who is trying to kill u in the meanwhile...

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I did this last night with a 60 warlock in my guild. It was tough cookies, because my weapons and armor had already been damaged to about 75% from getting ganked by Duskwing 3 or 4 times.

The dwarves are pretty tough, though. So expect a challenge out of this. Very, very hard to solo.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Solo'd this as a level 56 Warrior. Took a Superior Healing Potion. Shoved shield on, killed a troll near and got full rage then ate some food to get back to full health, had about 80 rage at that point. Spawned the guys from the grave, then theres 3 or Level 55's and 1 Level 57 start walking towards you but aren't instantly agro'd.

Equip'd shield, ran into him (don't charge as you should be in defensive for next bit - anyway, you're rage is already well over half). Used Shield Wall, got the Level 57 one to under half health before shield wall wore off, then I used Intimidating Shout and all the other lvl 55's scattered, drank a Superior Healing Potion as I was at around 50%, and I switched to battle stance and re-equiped offhand weapon and finished the Level 57 off, fear on the other mobs wore off just as he died, so I looted the hammer (was at 25% at this point), so I used Piercing Howl when they all came back and I did a runner.

Pretty tough, but was a fun fight :)

Kommentar von Allakhazam

As of 1/26/06 (patch 1.9) his body de-spawns upon death. Submitted a ticked and a GM tried to tell me it was my UI causing the issue... I mean heck, some stuff I can see, but a de-spawn? Anyways, fortunatly I'd done it with a buddy who had the same issue (and uses no UI mods), so they accepted it and will (hopefully) be fixing it soon.

Edit: Tried the above solution and it worked for me, thanks!

Edited, Wed Feb 1 06:48:46 2006

Kommentar von Allakhazam

60 warr, 31-0-20 build, axe of the deep woods, full imperial plate armor lol...

trick is, autoattack a zombie so you have a full rage bar to start, and diamond flask... you did pick the flask, right?

start fight, demoshout, thunderclap, and go to town on mercutio... int shout at the right moment and you'll make it away alive. i didn't though heh heh heh.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Tried this a few times solo (as a 60 tauren hunter) and managed to kill the named, mouse pointer hovering over him so I could auto-loot the hammer quickly, but the corpse despawned the instant he died both times I killed him solo, before it even registered as a corpse under my mouse.

I was standing around reading these posts near the grave when I heard someone fighting dwarves in the background. A 60 night elf hunter had spawned them so I went back into the game to help. I helped him kill one of the guards, and then accidentally tagged the named. It ran to me while the two other guards were still on the night elf, so my pet and I killed him. Quickly looted his corpse but it did not despawn like before. The other guards were on me then (he had either died or feigned death at that point) so I feigned and they left me alone.

He came back and tried again, this time he tagged the named first and I helped him kill it, corpse did not despawn and he looted and ran.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

At least one of them loves to do Gouge all the time. If you can't help but to stay in melee range and have nothing to keep the adds away, bringing a friend is a very good idea. Tried this with a lvl 57 Druid in bear form, and it probably would've worked if I hadn't been stunlocked most of the time. :x

Kommentar von Allakhazam

solo'ed at lvl58 as rogue, sap one, evade/BladeFurry/Adrenaline rush kill the main guy, loot the hammer off him and vanish, only got to about 1/2 health, pretty easy.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Just sap 1, nuke Mercutio loot him quick and then vanish, did it solo on lvl 55

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Grave is at 28,86

Attempting to solo as a protection warrior, but unfortunately, it's not working so well for me. "Hit like a girl" spec is a pain to solo anything. Time to pull out the Barbarous Blade and chop this guy down... if I can.

Edited, Mon Jan 9 08:49:25 2006

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Soloed as lvl 55 shadowpriest with a major healing potion.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Coords, so you don't have to scroll through 3000000000000 success stories, are 28,86.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Whatever you do, do NOT Vanish after killing Mercutio. If you need to Vanish, make sure you loot Mercutio's corpse for the hammer first.
Apparently, disengaging from the fight resets the quest (ie. mound of dirt respawns).

Edited, Sep 18th 2007 11:35am by abaper

Kommentar von Allakhazam

This quest cheats :| only the last thing you kill leaves a corpse, which means you have to kill the hardest guy last, giving him lots of time to gouge your face out :{ like that person said, bring some friends..

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I totally ninja'd this on my 57 warrior. Built up full rage on all the dead trolls, spawned the graverobbers and charged mercutio. Feared the other 3 mobs, killed mercutio and grabbed the hammer, then ran away :P

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I actually didnt know what to expect, I thought it was simple fact of just looting the dirt. But then the dwarves came. I did this with a pally, I basically dropped a frost trap and let my pally fight Mercutio with my pet, aimed shot once to aggro all the adds and ran around the circle to keep them from attacking me and the pally and paused to take a few shots at Merc. As soon as he was dead I ran up and looted the body and we both killed the adds.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

lvl 60 (holy) priest
Triggered spawn, ran back a bit
Mind controlled 1 of the cohorts until he died, then dropped SW:Pain and Holy Fire on Mercutio, AE Feared him and his 2 remaining buddies away, then nuked Mercutio till he died. Shielded myself again, and the body was gone. Not seconds from killing, but litterally as his corpse hit the ground it disappeared and I got the message that I didn't have the rights to loot that corpse. Then the 2 remaining robbers blew through my shield and 3k hp while I sat with my jaw on the ground.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

EDIT: it works fine, but you have to stay onto the graveyard, and try to kill Mercutio near it.

Edited, Jul 23rd 2006 at 9:52am EDT by Glennascaul

Kommentar von Allakhazam

56 Rogue, 31/16/0

First time I tried this, I used a major health pot, evasion and still didn't get him. I first tried picking their pockets to see if maybe it was a pickable item. I ended up having to vanish with Mercutio having about 5% health left. This was a bad start because I didn't get to use any opening, my distract wore off before I could finish trying to pick all their pockets and they started attacking me.

The second time around I changed tactics a little and went for all-out DPS instead of trying to keep Mercutio stunned and beat on him.

I applied Instant Poison V to both my swords, and opened with a garrote. Evasion went up immediately, and I used sinister strike to build up 5 points. As soon as I had 5 points, I popped cold blood and used eviscerate. From there, I used sinister strike to build points. The first point I got went to a slice and dice.. then points from there went to eviscerate. Any time riposte was available, I'd use it.

As soon as he died I used vanish to get away from his adds. At that point, I backed up and bandaged.. looted him, then sprinted away from the adds. This time around no health pots were needed and the fight ended with about 25% health left. The only buff on me was echoes of lordaeron @ 3% damage to undead (so it didn't apply here).

Kommentar von Allakhazam

First time I did this, I was expecting just to pick the hammer up from the grave, and instead a named and three mobs popped into view and murdered me. At least (if you're Alliance anyways) the Graveyard is nearby in Darrowshire.

Second attempt, I reconsidered my options. Opened the grave with the tomb in view, the structure to the north in front and the mountain behind me. When the named spawned I instantly dotted and proceeded to kite him and his 3 adds, running up the mountain so I could hop over the fence onto the other side, trying to avoid the mossflayer undead. Even so, I still ended up training one or two, but if you keep running they eventually go out of combat. All the while I kept up Pain on the named, then eventually turned and nuked him with a mind blast when he got low enough, around 20% health for me. Ran towards corpse, feared, and had just enough time to loot the hammer before the train of variously pissed off mobs which I had been running from the whole time caught up to and beat my ass to death.

Handed in for 6K XP.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Did it first time
insta poison both weapons popped Greater stoneshield potion
Stealth immediatly
Sap one
cheap shot boss
blind one
pop evasion
concentrate on boss
used defilers talisman
preparation and second evasion
died just after i looted and was sprinting away
Should have survived easily as i forgot to use Helm of Fire and thistle tea and vanish

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Twice now I have killed Mercutio and twice now his body has vanished upon his death. No chance, whatsoever, for me to loot. This quest is aggravating me to no end after seven tries and two "successes," all of which have yielded No hammer.

Of the comments posted, some state they've killed Mercutio, looted and high tailed it out. Others have said that they had to kill All the dwarves And Mercutio because the last mob to die will have the hammer. I'm siding with the latter as that is apparently the case for me.

Lvl 58 rogue at the time of this post. Sapped one, put one to sleep, blade flurry and evasion were used in addition to one major healing potion and I still visited the GY. I was too stunned at the sight of the corpse instantaneously disappearing a second time (after Double-checking these posts) that I totally forgot I'm a rogue with vanishing capability. /sigh

Edited, Fri Sep 9 23:01:14 2005

Kommentar von Allakhazam

60 human priestess, 20/31/0

Died once, because I didn't know what to expect. Second time, I opened the grave, and ran. I made far enough away that they stood around and didn't attack me. I mind controled the 57, then killed the rest with the help of a major healing potion. There was only one corpse, and he didn't have the hammer. I'll have to try this again later, and maybe mind control a weaker one.

I submitted a ticket, and was told the quest was working as intended (don't you just love that response?).

Edit:
I tried it again, this time with the help of a sixty human warrior (much easier this time), BUT with the crucial difference of having disabled all my MODs before logging in and attempting the quest.

I only use CTRaidAssist, Decursive, and CT_Core, but to be safe, they were all turned off, and the quest worked, well, as intended.

Hope this helps!

Edited, Thu Sep 15 22:22:45 2005

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Don't see how a druid can solo this. Bring a friend or two if you're a druid. One crappy root isn't enough control, and the remaining 3 can't just be tanked unless you're a feral monster (I'm restoration).

Kommentar von Allakhazam

The main guy is the one with the hammer, and his body disappears quickly. So either kill him, loot & flee, or kill him LAST

Kommentar von Allakhazam

How is this not Elite?

I have tried it 4 times now and i just don't get how these guys can hit so hard and not be elites. I'm a lvl 60. My pet and I can normally handle 3 or 4 57-60 lvl mobs with no problems but these guys hit so hard that pet dies too quickly for me to heal and before I realize it, I'm dead too. Something weird is up with this quest. Bring help.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

After just completing forgetting I have sap (which I often do outside of instances for some reason), I got this done rather quick.

Open grave, stelth, distract, sap one of the adds. Then premed to get the extra 2 combo points and shadowstep. I chose garrote to get the guaranteed 900-1100 (I forget how much exactly with AP bonus and ShS bonus), evasiongot 4cp, ghostly strike to get to 5, rupture (again, I'd rather get the guaranteed damage) and then pound away.

I beat him with about 15% of my health left and that included me looting him as I was getting beat on to avoid any potential problems other had with the corpse disappearing.

My recommendation for sub rogues, go with the two DoT's over ambush, backstab, and/or evis

Kommentar von Allakhazam

You need to kill him last and than it works fine.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

This quest is either bugged or just stupidly
implemented. You get 5 seconds if that to
loot the corpse and if you miss it the first
time you have to go through it all over again.

As a 60 rogue I opened the grave and stealthed.
Sapped the back grave robber and targetted the
main named mobed. Evasion and a major healing
pot if necessary should be on hand.

Anyway I had the problem the priest had. You
do not have permission to loot the corpse. And
It'll be gone before you get a second chance.
Very frustrating quest.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

... as a 59 hunter, it was quite easy. Just use keep serpent sting on him and use arcane shot when it's up. When he dropped I sent my bird to hold the adds while I looted and ran off.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

SUmmon Yeti.

Summon water elemental.

Fall back when u are facing the gravestone and wait for spawn. Throw everything i got at the dude and he falls within 45second. Loot the hammer and run.

Frost spec,

Chillout lvl 57

Kommentar von Allakhazam

29.6, 79.7. basicaly a mound of dirt behind the building at the undercroft. should be sparkly.

Why play as a holy priest? For the challenge. And this is one of them. And holy priests just feel right for me. Did this as a level 59 holy priest. Took a couple tries due to a couple noob mistakes. First one is I forgot you have to loot the damn thing!- the body despawns after you die. Stupid me. I killed the guy then tried running out of combat (didn't work, they adds killed me). Second time I made the noob mistake of putting my shield on after I aggro'd them. Took too long before I could reshield. So third time I did it right, shield before opening the dirt mound. hit em with devouring plague and shadow word pain. I tried a holy fire, but that was interrupted. Think I hit a renew and a flash heal at this point then reshielded. hit holy fire, mind blast, and I think I got one smite in. At this point it was renew and flash heal time again. Then reshield. Think I finished him off with smite (I do have talents to improve smite damage). Then loot quickly (unlike the first time argh) and then just die. you'll never escape- I tried anyways.

edit: gear was mid 50's AH items. spec was almost all holy except 5 in spirit tap, and a couple in discipline.

Edited, Feb 1st 2009 8:34pm by thrashering

Kommentar von sandreid87

Follow-up quest is: Of Lost Honor.

Kommentar von needaname37

Beat this guy with the mind control trick on my priest, just be ready to loot him quick because his body will despawn quickly, well before you can get back after resetting the guards.

Kommentar von dbmaus

For same-level warriors attempting this in Classic, you can kite the named away from his adds. You'll need to clear a path on either side of the building. Then spawn the group, charge the named and hit Intimidating Shout. Or more accurately, wait for him to break the gouge that he instantly applies, then shout. Backpedal or strafe-jump him away and just keep kiting, eventually the adds will peel.

Kommentar von Blutelf

Split Mercutio from his adds by doing this:

stand away from the grave after clicking the earth pile
pull Mercutio only from range
turn around and run away
tag ONLY Mercutio once more with an instant cast range spell (throw weapon/shoot bow) or autoattack ONLY him while you are running
the rest of the mobs will eventually run away as long as you did not do anything to them
kill Mercutio

Kommentar von TheOhr

Soloed as a 54 hunter. Jumping over the fence makes the mobs run around it. Just jump back and forth until they are dead. See related video for exact spot.

Kommentar von ronamadeo

Actual Solo Strats with no body despawning

Clicking on the dirt spawns four mobs. You need to kill the one named "Mercutio," which is hard solo for some classes. There are lots of problems with Mercutio's body despawning if you kite him, but the trick is to kill him near the dirt pile, and as long as you do that, it seems you can do all the kiting you want to split the pull.

So:

Click the dirt.
Pull the pack.
RUN, and keep re-tagging Mercutio until the others give up.
Pull Mercutio back to the dirt pile and kill him there.
Loot.

As long as he dies near the dirt pile, you should be fine.

Kommentar von MicroMachine296

I soloed this quest at level 58 as a Warrior. My strategy was to pop shield wall (and last stand since I'm prot), stun all the mobs with a bomb ASAP, use my death ray trinket on the named NPC, then use intimidating shout to get the other mobs off me long enough to kill Mercutio. Looted the hammer and then died to the rest of them, but that was all I needed for the quest.

Kommentar von Hatesauce

This quest is @#$%ing stupid. Barely doable as a level 59 holy priest. Spawns like 6 guys and the level 57 you need to kill hits and has hitpoints like an elite. Plus even if you manage to kill him but die in the process he despawns and you need to run back and do it all over again. This quest is one of those #$%^ty troll quests the neckbeards at Blizzard put in just to piss people off. In anycase, make sure you Holy Fire from a distance SWP, sheild, fear, then spam smite him before you get stunned, burn your cd heal and pot. Kill the main guy while the adds hammer you. Shield again loot the hammer, fear. Took 3 tries.

Kommentar von Arphox

I strongly recommend bringing friends, as I could not do it alone as lvl 58 shadow priest, they killed me easily.

Kommentar von naturalbornlazy

Soloed as a fury warrior, but this should work well for many classes.

Next to his grave there is a hole in the fence. When you jump through, the mobs will path all the way around the fence to get to you.

I suggest you practice jumping through it from both sides, and then:

- Pull the group and do damage to Mercutio
- When you get around 40% health jump through the fence and start bandaging, pot, etc
- Kite as many times as needed to kill Mercutio
- Loot him, jump through one last time and run to ditch the adds

Kommentar von Zhett

Ranged classes without good CC can cheese this the following way:

The fence near the mound of dirt has a dent in it that you can jump over with good aim.
Because the spawned mobs are all melees, they will start walking around the fence every time you hop to the other side. Just keep casting/hitting the boss until he goes down and loot him.

I recommend clearing the area of regular mobs first and practicing the jump a couple times.
This worked for me as a level 60 Enhancement Shaman. I had little hope of completing the fight solo the regular way.

Kommentar von PriestJohnBig

Soloed in classic as an Enha shaman with 2h (Treant's Bane) and BRD-DM-Strat/Scholo gear.

Dropped Grace of Air, Stoneskin, HP5 totems, nuked the sh*t out of him and looted fast.

Needed approx. 183dps. He has 5.6k hp.

Died after looting him, from his minions. Got him after 3 tries.

Kommentar von terrymusser

Here is the EXACT location.

Within the Eastern Plaguelands there is an area named The Undercroft.

You will find Tirion Fordring's Grave (stone) and a loose pile immediately west of it at 28.3 x 86.9.

Kommentar von Sharknad0

Use the fence to kite everyone, kill the primary mob, loot, then do what you can to get out of combat or die if you cant kill all. Easy solo. You will see the broken spots in the fence that are easy to jump.

Kommentar von TheCrazyScot

Easily done as an aoe frost mage. Just make sure you clear the area first so you don't agro anything else.

Kommentar von pawtrees

soloed as a resto druid by jumping back and forth on the black fence nearby, they run all the way around and it gave me time to dot the main guy down.

Kommentar von silverhawke249

i couldn't jump through the fence well enough, the mobs still hit me through the fence, and they hit pretty hard.
so as a 54 hunter, i kited him towards WPL. as the more recent comments say, the adds stay leashed even if you don't touch them, so might as well throw in Mehrfachschuss off CD. rank 1 Arkaner Schusss in case Automatischer Schuss didn't go off.

now the problem is when he gets low on HP, he slows down. at this point, i chuck my pet at the adds, making sure all three are hitting my pet. didn't work well enough so i Totstellen as well. now, they are all hitting my pet, so i do an Gezielter Schuss at Mercutio to get him off my pet, kite him a little and he goes down. Totstellen, and the adds are gone. loot hammer, done.

amusingly, i went far enough that my pet just despawned instead of dying so hey, i don't have to feed it afterwards :P

Kommentar von uberjack

After you click the pile of dirt, a mob (who drops the quest item) and some adds spawn.

You can quite easily solo him with any class, by ange attacking him (with ranged weapon or spells) while kiting him around:

There is a hole in the fence pretty close to the pile of dirt, that you can jump through (tho you need a bit of space to jump, so you dont get stuck on it).
Once you jump on the other side, all mobs that are attacking you will run a long way around the fence, during which you can hit the quest mob with
a spell or few ranged attacks, jump back through the hole and repeat.

Kommentar von Gundor2

Super easy to solo as lvl 59 Rogue.

Regardless of the other posts here, this was much easier than I thought.

I just cheap shotted the boss, instant evasion, blade flurry, adrenaline rush and slide and dice. The boss died when I had like 50% health left and I didn't even use health potion.

Then I looted and vanished and quest completed.

Classic Wow, October 2020.

Kommentar von GibbleFenwick

Man the little legs on Mercutio's body guards can pump!

Kommentar von vulkara97

B*ll@#$% quest

Kommentar von Barkk

Behind Crypt in The Undercroft 24/79

Kommentar von Stealtho

Post Wotlk prepatch - New Coordinates 25,80, right by the Undercroft building.

Kommentar von twanmans

Do not try this quest solo on hardcore. YOU WILL DIE.

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Begebt Euch zum Tiefgewölbe im südlichsten Abschnitt der östlichen Pestländer und sucht nach Taelans Hammer. Kehrt zu Tirion Fordring zurück, sobald Ihr Eure Mission abgeschlossen habt.

	Taelans Hammer (1)

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Wenn Ihr Taelan helfen wollt, zurückzubekommen, was er verloren hat, müsst Ihr Gegenstände aus seiner Vergangenheit zusammentragen.

Der Erste dieser Gegenstände ist ein Spielzeug, das ich ihm zu seinem 7. Geburtstag schenkte. Es war sein wertvollster Besitz. Ein winziger Kriegshammer, die exakte Kopie meines eigenen.

Als man mich wegen Verrats verbannte, erzählte ihm seine Mutter, dass ich gestorben sei. Man brachte ihn zu meinem angeblichen Grab beim Tiefgewölbe, wo er den Hammer zusammen mit seiner Erinnerung an mich begrub - für immer.

Ihr müsst Euch zum Tiefgewölbe begeben und Taelans Hammer holen.

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Vervollständigung

Belohnungen

Ihr bekommt:

Belohnungen

Bei Abschluss dieser Quest erhaltet Ihr:

Wenn du Folgendes im Spiel eingibst, kannst du überprüfen, ob du das schon abgeschlossen hast:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(5781))

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