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Comment by ace22b

Inside the Steam Vaults, if you jump to the right off the bridge before first boss, you will see it underwater.

Comment by klown

Easy to get invited to a clear instance to and then grab it.

Comment by 5712

This has been changed with 2.0.7. When you open the chest, a level 70 elite mob will spawn. He has approximately 20,000 hp, and hits for 750-950. The key fragment is looted from him.

Comment by 20761

Killed the Second Fragment Guardian easily with a 70 Hunter and 69 Paladin when the rest of the group left after a partial clearing. Just had to let pet die and use Feign Death to get past the last 2 naga groups and elemental group. If you're doing this, wait to the right of the pillar for the elementals to pat away, as their AoE will bring more people into combat. You're likely still going to need a group to clear 5 or 6 pulls before you get to that point however.

Comment by 17073

Did it on my own as rogue, stealthed in, avoid the big bogs ofc, get into the water. Stun the guardian + evasion. Easy kill no pots required

Comment by 25747

I confirmed today that it is still easily soloable as a 70 Rogue (Hemo). Stunned him to 50%, used Evasion and Ghostly Strike and burned him down the rest of the way without a problem.

Comment by 27574

Not only can you solo him as a rogue, but you can blind him. So this should be possible even for people without leet skills.

Comment by 15529

Soloed.
- 70 rog, 30/0/31 dagger specced.

I did equip my Aldor sword in order to sinister it, bandaged once while it was blinded - better safe than sorry. Easy manageable.

Comment by atomix

Just stealthed and soloed also. 16/2/43

Comment by Althal

Stealthsoloed this one too. Mutilate build, average/not that good outland gear. Used blind+bandage and a pot for it.

For those who haven't been to the instance before. Just walk straight forward, avoid the stealthdetecting Bogs and move to the water. When you get to a ramp just jump into the water to the right and the container is on the bottom. Any underwater breathing buff is nice to have, like the berries from the quest in nagrand.

Use poisons for extra dps. A trick is also to open the container, cheap shot and get 5 combo points then vanish. The guardian will be resetted but still summoned and you will have 5 combo points in the beginning of the fight. Could give you a little bit better start.

You could probably also use crippling poison and swim away from the guardian to bandage if you haven't got blind.

Don't forget to use all your cooldowns like trinkets etc etc.

Comment by 32686

Extremely easy as a Feral Druid. Do a 5 point Maim if you need to heal. I only needed 1 Renew.

Comment by 30910

Easy as a druid.

I stealthed in, headed towards the 1st boss, the fragment barrel was to the right of the ramp to the 1st boss underwater. If you still have your Negrand Cherries now would be a good time to use them. After the 70 Elite came out, I only needed to heal once. Then he was dead.

Good stuff :)

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Comment by 29954

Duo'd tonite with 2 mages. One was Arc/Fire, other deep fire. Basically there is this little rock hill to the the left of the bridge that leads to the last bosses, this is where you want to run to.

We both used invisibility and ran as close to it as we could. Then right when we had 1 second or so left on it we both chugged a Lesser Invisibility pot which gave us enough time to get the top of the hill.

At this point you can jump into water and not have to worry about any mobs.

We had one swim down and open it then swim back up to the top while one hammered it. When we got low on HP we staggered our frost novas to keep him off of us and bandage. Neither of us died. We were quite impressed :]

So it is duo'able with 2 mages :]

Comment by wodelaotian

stealthed through as a mage, together with a hunter, both 70. I used invisibility and a swiftness potion, while the hunter used Invisibility Potion and Aspect of Pack. We had just enough time getting to the water.

Comment by mrgamer

just soloed with my mage alt, with 715 spelldamage 43/18 (arc/fire) with 6800hp

just used 2 invisibility for reach the place and then used sheep/bandage and burned him to death using some kiting :)

Comment by 28509

Solo'd as hunter 42//13//6 used the duel mage trick, aspect of cheeta with invis potion. pot runs out some what near ramp, then u can easily get up on rocks w/o aggro. then had misdirection on pet then snake trap :) and w/e aimshot and whats not

Comment by Kalthra

Solo'ed as a single mage, lvl 69 ;) with super healing pot, combustion, evocation, adept's elixir, DB, BW, fireballs, mana shield... all those things :P

Comment by 47084

i helped a friend with that,but then we killed the guardian,the key didnt drop!!Does any1 know why?

Comment by kuruya

Soloed with a 41/20/0 BM hunter.

Its really easy if you know what to do. First buy some invis potions (lesser will do to) Then use your pet to pull the first 2 naga's.. run and FD a couple of yards behind them? stand up, use your Invis potion and run behind the pillar. Ressurect your pet, run into the water ( dont need to pull the naga's) and kill the arcane guardian. Hope this will help

Comment by LoKHor

Duo'd on my rogue with a rogue guildie. Very easy to duo. He just used evasion and I mutilated from behind. It died very quickly - one slice and dice at four points and then cold blood evis at the next five :)

I also soloed this on my brothers druid a while back. Then again, that was before there was such a thing as an arcane guardian XD

Comment by 14578

You do need another to help you with this, it is doable with a druid and rogue combo. Tried to solo but with the 70elite that spawns when opening the container its not going to be probable.
I waited til a group finished the last boss and asked if one could help me get the fragment. they were more than happy to help out.
you can /who the steamvault to see who is in the instance.

Comment by 26605

70 BM hunter in all quest gear save for one or two Ramparts items -- so, not exactly ubergeared. I used a single Invisibility Potion: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=9172.

As stated before; use pet to draw 1st 2 naga. Run just behind and around the corner to the left behind them. Careful with the wandering patrol that circles just behind the 1st pull. I waited until they were at 12 o'clock, sent pet, ran in and around the corner, and then FD. (Make sure you already have AoC on already -- and MOST DEFINITELY BEFORE you pop an Invisibility Potion -- if you pop the potion and THEN AoC, you'll undo invisibility.)

Wait for the pat to get approximately to 3 o'clock of their pat and pop out of FD, pop your Invisibility Potion and run like crazy for the pool. By the time I got there invisibility wore off, i aggro'd a naga, but FD was up again so just FD'd in the pool.

Rez pet. Buff if you like. I used a Scroll of Stamina V http://www.wowhead.com/?item=27502 on my 70 Boar pet Baconbits and also a Sporeling Snack http://www.wowhead.com/?item=27656. Used Bestial Wrath, Scorpid Sting, Aimed Shot, Rapid Fire, Multishot, Arcane Shot and just went apesh** on the guy. Kept dropping heals on my pet, but missed the last one and he died just as the Guardian did. However, the key was mine. Hearthed, and rez'd Baconbits.

Hope this helps for those hunters having trouble getting a group or who just like a little challenge.

Comment by 90504

This key is easy to get for a mage.
Get to the lake like this move shows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sfoc0Od-iY&mode=related&search=

so you'll need a swiftness potion.

I thought the elemental would be hard so I waited for a friend to help me but then I got bored and tried,
and killed him.

I lvled 70 yesterday so my gear sucks and I got specc: 10/48/3
I used 1 Major Combat Healing Potion which only gave me around 1200 hp. And I didnt even need it. When the elemental died I had 2500 hp left.

Oh, and didnt use any trinkets.

Comment by 96421

Be careful not to go near the bog lords because they detect stealth.

Comment by 48863

ok guys for those who dont want to risk it dont think about soloing it. it depends on luck on how much u crit. i tired it and he had 3k life left when died. so dont get inspired buy guys who post that it is easy. better get someone to help or go with a group and after this one just leave it :P

Comment by 103814

Done it by 69 lvl rogue. When u open a container, u have 1 sec to use your stealth before guardian appears. Then u just need stun him and kill. I've used one bandage at guardians 52% HP.
Easy :p

Comment by 22525

This is easily soloable by level 70 (frost) mage. I only used my own skills, not any potions. Killed first pack. Killed patrol. Used invisibility and ran in to water. Opened container. Polymorphed the mob. Swam to max range and popped elemental. Started nuking him and didnt even have to use frost nova or any cooldowns execpt elemental to kill it.

Comment by 5845

Soloed this with my shaman, 1 lesser invisiblility potion + earth elemental + reincarnation. Ran as far as i could with my invis, then popped earth elemental and ran, and died in the water and reincarnation. Used the fire elemental to kill the guardian.

Comment by 122364

This bugged for me and I could not spawn the elite. My character kept attempting to draw his bow (I'm a hunter) and I kept getting "Invalid target" errors. I removed the bow and got "You must have a ranged weapon equipped".

I don't know what's going on though. Anyone else get this before?

Comment by Rangvald

Soloed this yesterday as a lvl 68 rogue. This is how I did!

Stealthed to the first 2 mobs who saw me, died and run in again.
Second try I was spotted buy a giant who can see thrugh stealth, so I died again :P
Third time I figured id go naked to save cash. Got all the way to the big ledge you can walk up right before the water.

Now, I did NOT equip my gear! I swimmed down and opend the container and died again. Why? If I open it to fight I wont get a Stealth-opener, but if I die, he will NOT reset so the next run I can swim down to him and get a cheap shot in! :)

So basicly my fourth run I got to him in stealth, and the fight was rather easy as a Combat rogue. Had to blind and bandage once, but ended up with 60% health when the mob was dead.

Good Luck rogues :)

Comment by 139650

You can found it at underwater 47-19,5

Comment by 153148

I just soloed this as a level 70 -hunter-...although my Engineering skills came in very handy.

There's not a lot of finesse involved here; by using a combination of my Gnomish Cloaking Device, Rocket Boots Xtreme, and Feign Death, and using your pet to draw a couple mobs away before you make a break for it, you can rocket your way to the pool of water in a few steps.

Clearly not the easiest way to get it, but it is possible.

Comment by Chummy62

Just found it in the pool to the right of Hydromancer Thespia at 53.00-24.08. Dive in, swim down to the bottom and you will see it.

Comment by BroncoFan17

Steam Vaults. First boss area. There's a ramp at coords 48 / 29 that goes down to the water. One you're in the water hang a left. It's right there. I tried to add a screen shot of the map. I don't know if it went or not.

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