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1.	He Called Himself Altruis... He Called Himself Altruis...
2.	Survey the Land
3.	Buying Time
4.	The Master Planner
5.	Patience and Understanding
6.	Crackin' Some Skulls
7.	It's Just That Easy?
8.	Forge Camp: Annihilated

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Comment by jshms

Easily soloable as a demonology warlock. All demons here can be feared and banished and with the felguard it makes it a cake walk.

Comment by Slap

They can be chilled and rooted. Nuff said.

Comment by kelpu

Bit of information on these mobs. The tinkerers come in packs of 4 at a time. Seem to be leashed to one another. The engineers sometimes cast the magnetic pull spell which pulls someone to them, making them hard to kite. This only happened once of the 3 kites I did solo on them so I'm not sure if it was just a bug, or if its just something they do very rarely. Its definitely less common from them then it is on the next to quest encounters in the chain. The Legionnaires are just a straight melee type elite, hit fairly hard.. Not something to go toe to toe with unless you have a bit of backup.

Comment by micro23

Perfect coords as always.

Comment by chonchu

From this part on the chain, all the others requires a group to kill a couple guys so if you don´t wanna waste ur time now just look for a group to do the whole chain.
After this step you gonna do one in Shat´tar, another one around Shat´tar, fly back to this NPC, enter the forges one more time and your done.

Comment by Duerre

Solo'd this part of the quest as a 66 feral druid. The tinkerers are easy in bear form. Engineers are not totally hard but if you don't work it right, they might kill you. The legionaires are prob the most difficult for a feral druid. Charge them and kill their cannons first, then bash, shift out, entangle root them and heal. Once healed, just let the root take it's corse so that bash can cool down. Then go back in for more. Tank, bash, root, heal... takes some time but works like a charm. Keep some health potions on hand to use incase bash is dodged, blocked, parried, etc. You should be ok. ;-)

Comment by Declannic

Level 67 undead shadow priest with good gear... don't recommend trying to solo it as the first engineer I came across pwned me pretty hard.

I would like to thank Dradyn (lvl 67 Tauren Hunter) and Tanaka (Tauren Prot Spec Warrior) on Draka for helping me with the rest of the quest line. Once you have a decent pug, all but the last quest are a cake walk.

Comment by mahajrod

Solo'd easily by a level 66 balance druid - mobs are not immune to roots.

Comment by junga

I solo'd easily by a lvl 66 full frost mage.
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Comment by Fayden

As a 66 Frost Mage, I could kill every monsters but the Legionnaires. They hit about 1,000 non-crit, they have about 31,000hp and they have an ability to make us jump. Also, as soon as we leave the camp and get on the grass, he goes back to his spot.
Tinkers are easy, just focus on one. They can't be sheeped since they are demons.
Engineers can be a pain if they use their ability "Magnatical Pull" (Not sure of the name). If they do, blink out fast or prepare to frost nova, otherwise you'll die soon.

All of them hit hard on a cloth class. That's why you can't be hit or you won't solo the quest.

Good luck and hope this helped.

Comment by mrgamer

lvl69 42/0/18 arcane/frost mage... very easy to do that quest solo

legionnaries are harder than the rest, but they are still very doable.. just kite them with frostbite+permafrost, or if you are full frost with bonus frostnova given by the elemental

just aoe the tinkerers and the engineers have just 18k hp

Comment by Garnock

Did this quest as a lvl 67 Demonology Warlock. I enslaved a Felguard Legionnaire. And i wasted about 5 Soul Shard's couse the enslavement broke. But it was fairly easy... Did it in 10 mins =)

Comment by chimp

As a Level 70 Hunter I soloed this.

The Legionnaires can be kited to Garadar where they will be attacked by the lvl 70+ guards.

Note: they can ONLY be kited if you first kill the Fel Canon they stand by.

Send pet in aggro canon, kill canon then recall pet. The Legionnaire will follow. Keep running and jump shooting Concusive Shot (to slow him down) and Serpent Sting (to damage him). When appraoching bridges, where a jump shot could result in a long fall, drop a Frost Trap to slow him down.

Hopefully by the time you get to Garadar the sting would have done enough damage for you to claim the kill before the guards slaughter him. Make sure to keep attacking while guards are pounding on him though.

Comment by Ricca01

Wanna say were the mobs r instead of how well u work at solo? Thats nice to know but would be better to know were i need to go to "solo as a whatever".

Comment by Bloodylock

Helpful note for locks: when u enslave felguard, kill some mobs, and when hp of your felguard will be low, dissmiss it, fear, dot up and nuke, so it would be faster completing it.

Comment by frostymage

This quest is soloable as a frost mage. The tinkerers can be AoE'd down, and the engineers are a fairly straightforward frost kite. If the engineers use their Magnetic Pull ability, quickly blink away or Frost Nova and run.

The Legionnaires are a bit more problematic. As mentioned earlier, they are only kiteable if you take out the cannon they are at first. Put up Ice Barrier and Fire Ward, and start out by nuking the cannon. When the Legionnaire reaches you, Frost Nova and finish off the cannon. Cone of Cold the Legionnaire for the snare, then start kiting it around. Watch out for the knockback, which has a surprisingly long range.

Comment by newsteadmission

Co-ords please.

Comment by rothbart

if you are a hunter, here is your strat

i solo'ed this quest as 70 hunter, but the strat i used could be used effectively to solo even if you are 67-68.

For the legionnaires, you can pull these without aggro'ing the cannons, hit from range with anything but serpent sting. Turn pet growl off, place freeze trap on ground and back up, keep shooting. he gets trapped, wait for trap cooldown.... (helps to have survival spec with 30sec trap CD) pop trap with aimed shot, shoot more place trap, repeat until dead.

for the engineers. use the basic pet tank and mend strat, your pet will probably die unless you have alot more stam than i did, after pet dies, do your best to follow the legionnaire strat, the engineers have a magnetic pull which makes it more difficult, but it is still possible.

Tinkerers, have pet attack the pack of 4 making sure that he gets hits on 2-3, cast mend pet, this will aggro 1-2 onto you, trap 1. then just kill 'em. they are simple.

general tip, there are lvl 67 and 68 legionnaires and engineers, the 67's are FAR easier =]

Comment by Ladimore

Grabbed a legionnaire, tanked another legionnaire. When the target was dead, I fearkited the one I used as tank.

As for the cannons, I sent the VW to tank the first legionnare, while I nuked the cannon. When the cannon was "dead", I enslaved the legionnaire, and sent him over to another legionnaire. While he was "tanked", I nuked this cannon aswell.

The tinkerers were very fast murdered by my "legionnaire-pet" :)

Also used Legionnaire as tank for the Enginneers.

I was lvl 67 Affli.

Comment by paidaros

easy for a lock. Just enslave one elite demon and make him attack the others. So simpled

Comment by duathorthad

I soloed this as a 66 Frost Mage. The Legionnaires are the hardest. The tinkers can just be aoe'd to death and the engineer just has to be kited.

The Legionnaire hits hard so be careful. You also cant pull it far onto the grass or it'll evade and run back. Best to clear away any surrounding mobs, I used this rotation:

Have Water Elemental take first shot at him
Use Elementals' nova spell to root mob
Frostbolt
Ice Lance
Use your own Frost Nova
Frostbolt
Ice Lance
Repeat

Comment by ShRoOmZzZ

wow.... we really dont care how u can solo it on a druid, or solo it with a warlock... i rly dont wanna read a paragraph on how u soloed it. just post cords... idiots

Comment by loozerr

Soloed with lvl 70 fire specced mage with normal lvl 70 instance gear.

None of the mobs were immune to frost nova, dragon's breath's disorient or the snare from Blast Wave.

Mobs hit very hard, so always stay at safe range.

Definately not easy, but doable when you blink at right moment, etc. :)

Comment by FirefoxUzi

The Legionaires are kitable, which is exactly what I had to do because I couldn't find a group for the quest.

I kept Aspect of the Viper up, turned growl off of my pet, and used arcane shot/serp sting/conc shot as often as they were up. I also dropped immolation traps to do more damage, and then went to ice trap as i got low on mana.

Be sure to shoot him every 5-6 seconds (which arcane shot should cover) so that he doesn't lose aggro. You should be able to get in an auto shot here and there though, so deaggroing should be no problem.

Comment by belfonzus

Can be done with a 70 resto shammy easily enough. 5/5 in healing focus, and an earth shield. I used my fire elemental to help kill one legionnare, and earth elemental for the other.

For the engineers, just pick them off one by one, keep earth shield up on yourself and flame shock up on the mob. Heal up regularly, and keep batting away at him.

For the little fellas, easy to take a group of them. AOE flame totems really handy here.

Comment by moenbase

I don't know if this only counts for the server Arathor...
Some Fel Canons seems to be bugged. Meaning, sometimes a canon will be shooting you without you even been able to see it. And you do take damage. However, you sometimes can still mount up.
Pets can aggro and kill it.
Another bug is the Fel Canon with a range that seems to go all wild, it can shoot ya even when you are in a town! This one doesn't seem to do damage, but you can see the green flickering on your character.

Some Engineers may also be bugged, when you die and try to attack the Engineer it'll just evade everything, and it won't attack you.

Great tip for warlocks using enslave demon is really awesome. Those Legionnaires have a lot of hitpoints and hit very hard. However they will grow aggressive to you very quickly. So maybe only one mob at a time to play it safe.

Comment by Chk177

To be honest it looks like those mobs can be hit by all kind of cc, like fear, root, slowing effects etc.
Only thing they cannot be hit by will be... Hibernate, Polymorph and Sap.
Also... as others have said quest is piece of cake as warlock.

Comment by Moggy006

Solod as 66 shadow priest. It's gonna take everything you have. He runs about the same speed as you but can be feared. Keep dots and shield up, shadowfiend when you need to, and just kite him. Try not to get hit too much and I wouldn't recommend leaving shadow form.

Comment by Tresorthas

Might be a recent fix for the enslave-demon overuse, but now the legionarre breaks free of my enslave demon within 10-15 seconds, although im lvl 70.

Comment by Reich

Soloed as a level 70 Protection Warrior. It wasn't fast, and it involved pulling off just about every trick short of 30 minute cool-downs, but it's possible.

Comment by Euryticles

Soloed as a 66 Warlock fairly easy. Just enslave one of the Felguards, kill another Felguard while Health Funnelling them and DoT'ing. I killed the one with 6k health left on the one I enslaved, then dismissed, feared, and DoT'd for the second kill. The tinkerers are a piece of cake, and the engineers are easy if you can get them alone. Make sure if you die from a felguard that breaks his chains that you enslave a different demon next else they'll break fast.

Comment by Nefarion

Just did this as a 66 hunter, BM specced with Aimed Shot and 2/3 Hawk Eye. The Tinkerers and Engineers can be tanked by your pet just fine, but you'll need to kite the Legionnaires.

Start out from a max range on the Legionnaire, with Aspect of the Hawk on. Make sure your pet's Growl is off auto-cast, and Hunter's Mark is up. Start out with your best 3-shot combo (Aimed->Arcane->Auto if you have Aimed Shot, Steady->Arcane->Auto if not). Immediately begin running towards the road (to kite along it), and sick your pet on him. After a few yards, when you are out of range of the cannon's shots, pop Aspect of the Cheetah. Get a Serpent Sting up on him for constant damage (and keep it refreshed!). From there, rotate Arcane Shot and Distracting Shot to keep his aggro while your pet, Serpent Sting and Arcane Shot eat away. When Frost Trap is up, drop it and turn around to spam your high-powered shots, then resume running like hell. If you are BM specced, do the same with Intimidation. And if you find yourself low on health, pop Freezing Trap and bandage up.

At some point during that battle your pet will pass up your threat, and get aggro. At this point, pop Mend Pet and use it as a chance to unleash some high powered moves. When the pet dies, resume your kite. You also will be unable to use Aspect of the Viper, because you will need Cheetah to keep at a range. Because of this, I recommend grabbing a mana potion.

Also, if you are Alliance, head south on the road, otherwise you may run into Garadar and get owned by guards. Likewise, Horde run north; if you pump out too little damage, the mob may last until Telaar, and you don't want to run into guards there.

Comment by Tahhec

I just soloed this part with a level 70 Frost mage. This is extremly easy if you just have the right timing.

To kill the legoiners, simply pull at max range.
When pulled you will agro the cannons too. But if you blink away from them directly as they aggro you´ll loose them.
After this just spam away with frostbolt and alternate between frost nova and blink to keep distance.

Engineers go down just as easy, but with diffrent tactics since they are a bit hader to kite.Again, pull att max range and alter between nova and blink to keep distance.
If they use the magnetic beam to pull you close, simply pop Icebarrier and run away.

The Trinketers are the easiest part, simply nuke the first until he ide, by that time hes buddies should have come inte melee range.
Nova them and then run away. Use Blizard to do some damage and slow them down. after that hit them with Cone of cold. Blink away and then nova them again, now finish them of with Blizzard.

Did it in 10 minues without dying once, so this is truely one of the easiest group quests in Nagrand.

Good luck, you won´t need it.

Comment by klipseracer

The only thing I couldn't solo was the Legionnaire as a 68 Spriest. He his really hard and wasn't much I could do to subdue him. The Engineers were easy though.

Comment by Chath

I soloed this part of the quest as a 66 frost mage, I read the other's comment after i've started the quest, and it seem's that the other mages have trouble killing the Legionnaires and I can't understand why :P I killed both my Legionnaires, and I didn't even use pet once during this quest.

I thought that this quest was a real cake walk, and i'll give you my tips how I did it.

Engineers:

The engineers have a really pain in the ass Magnetic Pull, but I try to save my blink for that, and then just own them :D They are really just doing frostbolt+ice lance combo when they're frozen, so you might get that double crit if your lucky :D

Legionnaires:

The legionnaires have an annoying jump effect, but I try to stay at max range when I start, and then just kite them with frostbolt and frost nova. I did not use pet on any of these, and I don't understand ppl that does, unless they want them to go down fast :P If you really can't solo them, try frostbolt abusing with rank 1, to get an easy head start after blinking etc.

Trinketers:

Just really easy mobs :D If you have imp CoC, just pull all of em, I usually get to kill one of em before the 3 other's reach me, then just frost nova + CoC and you should be fine :D

I Hope this helped someone!

/ Chath

Comment by lectrick

67 lock here. Having some trouble trying to solo. First try, tried to banish the demon and kill the fel cannon- banish failed and I got owned. Second try, successfully banished the demon, took out the cannon, bandaged, enslave demon failed. Curse of exhaustion to kite, feared, curse of elements to make enslave demon stick, tried enslave demon again, it worked... and promptly broke after 10 seconds. Since my health was still down from the first failure, got owned again. :(

I say you're not a n00b if you can't solo as a lock that does not have 5/5 in Suppression and is below 68.

Comment by geekwar

Solo'd as a level 68 Enhancement Shaman. I could handle up to two engineers at a time. Spirit Wolves were all that was needed. Earthliving weapon helped give the instant heals a little push but I never dropped below 67% HP.

Go in, fight an elite with all totems down and spirit wolves out.
Once it's down pull a set of 4 tinkerers while SW cools down
Repeat

Patch 3.02

Comment by Romppu

Easy to solo as a lvl 66 frost mage. You need elemental only in the Legionnaires, stun it, nova it and always keep your Ice Barrier up.

Comment by killabozz

You can solo this as a Death Knight by first nuking the cannon, then doing damage to the Felguard Legionnaire and when he is low just kite and nuke with Chains of Ice.

Comment by Mimeisthai

Soloed as 66 frost mage using some suggestions above (I used my pet for extra insurance).

There are two legionnaires on the northeast side of FC:F that can be pulled solo without cannons, and there's also a demon gate on the southwest side of the camp where there are two engineers who can also be pulled alone.

Basically, I did what others did which is to kite them around in a tight circle near where they were spawned. Legionnaires are hardest since they can do the most damage, but I had a few pots handy just in case, plus the mana ruby.

In the case of engineers, I died the first time since I wasn't aware of Magnetic Pull (which btw doesn't work on the elemental, so just keep as much distance as possible), but after that I didn't even take a hp of damage. Using the pet to start off, slow the engy with FB / IL, used pet's nova and then mine when it broke. By the time it was out of the second FN, it was pretty much dead.

Comment by Kaefor

Solo'ed as a 67 Feral Druid.

Here was the strat I followed, mileage may vary.

Tinkerers

Cast faerie fire while in bear form let them come to me to avoid any possible pat agro and swiped to death.

Engineers

Cast faerie fire while in bear. Waited til 80-85 rage then cast berserk and mangle/maul til I was out of rage. Bash, entangle, heal, HoTs. Cat form to quickly finish and get the most out of HoTs.

Legionnaires

Put my heal set on that had me at 350 sp 430 healing. Entangled the legionnaire and quickly nuked down the cannon. From there it was simply starfire spam so long as he was rooted. If I ran low on mana I just kept him rooted and let me 350 spi regen some mana. First one took quite awhile but the second one went down pretty quick.

Hope this helps.

Comment by Faradize

a dk can solo all parts, except the last one.

Comment by hermeska

Solo'd as a 69 Prot Warrior. Didn't have that much decent gear, mostly quest rewards. Charged the cannon, shockwave, killed the canon, then took the Legionnaire down, didn't even have to pop last stand, my trinket or Lifeblood. Engineers were easy as pie.

Comment by mwilsonf

Soloed as a 66 Unholy DK. Send in your pet to the legionarres, hit follow and be at max distance. It'll come back and you won't have a cannon on you.

Comment by pallylock

I soloed this as a ret pally, I used repentance for the full duration and just let my mana regen when I got low.

Comment by beastyman

soloed as 73 hunter

Comment by Trolled

Solo'd fairly easy as a level 67 BM hunter.

Tinkerers were a piece of cake, but they pulled 4 or so at a time. Just pull them, send pet (Crocolisk, for anybody wondering. Bear would work too) and have him hold aggro while you just volley them down.

Engineers were also easy. Pulled one at a time (which is simple, really, you have to try to get more than one), mend pet, and just dps him down while the pet holds the aggro.

Legionnaires were the hardest of the lot, but weren't too difficult, didn't have to kite at all. Mend pet first, and then send the pet in. They hit for 500-700 damage normally on my pet with 49% physical damage reduction, and my mend pet was ticking for 749, so it wasn't too challenging. At times, had to distracting shot and dps him while he struggled to get to me while my pet got a few extra ticks of the mend pet in, but did that no more than once per Legionnaire.

Good luck to anyone soloing, it's one of my favorite parts of being a hunter.

Comment by Hammerdaddy

Solo'd as a 66 Prot Warrior. Strategies:

Go to the Forge Fear Camp (closest to quest giver). This camp is lower level, elites at 68. There are two legionnaires posted near the middle of the camp. I took those out first. Be careful, they will respawn before you finish the others.
Next move to the left wall (cliff) There are Tinkerers there. Attack the one closest to you and back up to avoid drawing unwanted attention from Engineers.
After that, kill one of the engineers that you will have seen further into the camp.
Find the next bunch of tinkerers just a bit into the camp - kill those.
One more Engineer and you are done.
I didn't have any health potions on me or I would have used one on the Legionnaires. So, to be prepared you should probably have at least two.

With Legionnaire's: Pop Bloodrage, charge cannon, kill cannon FIRST, alternate spamming interrupts (concussion blow, shockwave) with damage skills (devastate, shield slam, revenge, heroic strike), make sure to keep your shouts active (battle shout, demoralizing shout). You shouldn't need to activate Shield Wall, but use it if you have to (you won't need it for Engineers or Tinkerers). Oh, and activate berserker rage to keep your rage levels high enough.
As with any elite you want to slow his attacks and stun him whenever possible! I finished the legionnaires with about 1000 health left (out of 8789) each time.

Tinkerers will all aggro at once, but it isn't an issue, they all go down easy.

Engineers: If you can handle the legionnaires, this is easy. Watch for their proximity to Tinkerers so you don't aggro more than you want to.

Happy hunting!

Comment by BULLON

Soloed as 66 DW Frost DK all i did was kite with chains of ice and spam howling blast/death coil.
it took forever but i got 2.5exp/kill =P

Comment by taurchen

this is a group quest but my little sadyfrass ret lvl 69 pally did it all by her self i started at 24.35,40.42 pull my first 4 gan'arg tinkerer then move to 23.38,38.58 for my first mo'arg
engineer then to 23.65,38.56 for the second and the third i pull from 23.33,37.49.
then i went back to24.97,39.15 and pull my first felguard legionnaire then run to 23.30,41.09
so that the cannon dont get me then 2 sets of consecration,judg light,crusader strike,divine storm and exorcism and down goes felguard 1,then to 26.06,34.58 pull the second guard run to 26.38,33.37 get away from cannon and another set of my pally best and the 68 elite was down.
thats how i did it.

P.S. thanks kaniget for ur ret pally lvling guide ur spec is the bomb in and out of instances.

Comment by turrat

The Legionnaires can indeed be feared and horrified. Solo'd by a 66 shadow priest in full heirlooms. Pre-shield, dot on the run (so you don't aggro the gun), reshield when it breaks. When second shield breaks, use Psychic Scream, more shield, and Disperse. Psychic Horror if you spec for it. Basically don't let them hit you too much because it really, really hurts. Definitely have to eat and drink afterward, but definitely doable. Same strat for the Engineers, but they go down easier. And the non-elites are a joke.

Rest of the chain I had to get help for, so you might as well get a group for this one too though.

Comment by ewonline

Solo'd as a level 66 Retri pala, with no special gear at all.
Tinkerers are fairly easy, come up in packs of four, just used the Consecration and Divine Storm, as well as the usual Judgement of Light (Seal of Command) and Crusader Strike for individual blows.

The Engineers are quite easy too, just used Crusader Strike, Judgement of Light, Exorcism, & Divine Storm. Needed to heal once or twice.

The Legionnaires were slightly harder, used the same spells as above ^, as well as Repentance & Hammer of Justice to heal, also consuming a Super Mana Potion when out of mana. Needed to heal several times.

Comment by SchwarzMann

All these elite quests are retarded now, two expansions later you can't find anyone to do these with. Have fun inconveniencing ur high lvl friends to come help you with these crappy reward quests because blizzard is too lazy to get off their asses and adjust Outland to its current state. A retarded little ghost town. So much for still having fun with the old content, all that remains are the gay unfun grinding quests. Hooray blizzard thanks for making me dish out 100+ dollars for this ^&*!.

Comment by wschlichtman

Pretty easy solo for 66 BM hunter. Keep pet mended and use Kill Command. Attack one tinkerer, feint until pet gets aggro, then pick em off in order as the pet attacks. The elites are cake.

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I made i playthrough of this quest if anyone wish to see how to do it :)
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Altruis the Sufferer in western Nagrand has asked that you kill 2 Felguard Legionnaires, 3 Mo'arg Engineers and 8 Gan'arg Tinkerers.

	Felguard Legionnaire slain (2)
	Mo'arg Engineer slain (3)
	Gan'arg Tinkerer slain (8)

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As long as the transporters stand, nothing we do to the forge camps will have any permanence. We must find a way to destroy the Legion structures.

I need time to devise a plan of attack. If you can keep their engineers and tinkerers busy, it would greatly slow down their progress, buying me the time I need.

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