solo'd at level 40 took the time to clear the camp FIRST then take quest. Walked out completely unhindered.

To find him follow the north road (there are only two in the swamp) and go to the very BACK of the Fallow Sanctuary village (nice place..&nbsp lots of guys with glowing eyes, foul breath, and irradiated giants).

Galen's stuck in a cage, calling for help.&nbsp He wants you to help his escape.&nbsp

Of course once he's out he runs through the thickest group of MOBs he can find.&nbsp He aggro'd 6 guys my first try.&nbsp Everytime I tried to pull them off, he'd go and attack another, pulling a few more.&nbsp I couldn't heal him (L45 Pali) or buff him..&nbsp so let him die, abandoned quest, started again within minutes.&nbsp

So..&nbsp how to make it easy?&nbsp Clear first couple camps on south side of road (7-8 mobs, all varieties).&nbsp Be quick b/c they respawn quickly.&nbsp After that he'll finally get smarter and head down by the water.&nbsp Now you contend with crocolisks, the occasional Fallow (couple of the big ones too), but no more camps.&nbsp He hits the road and walks rest of the way out (watch out for wandering Horde "explorers" in area).

Once out of camp, he thanks you, tells you where to find his camp, the disappears into the swamp.&nbsp To turn in quest, go to his camp (see screen shots above) and find his lockbox.

Good luck.

Nurzaak
L45 Dw Pali, Wildhammer
"Stormchasers"

Like all escort quests, this one is stupid. Galen chooses to tromp right through the Lost One camp rather than, oh, going *around* it. Don't attempt without either a group (hard to come by in SoS) or numerous excess levels.

If you clear out all the imp mobs and control the runners it's not SO bad... but yeah, he's an idiot.

TIP: Whilst doing this quest, clear the 4-5 Warlock mobs, the 3-4 HUGE mobs(forget their names) and around 5-6 crocs and hunters down the river, and DO NOT LOOT them. Doing this will cause a much longer respawn time, just loot as you run by, completed this quest first time on a 40 hunter.

Yeah, goofball runs off and aggros every imp in there.

Thin out the camp first if you are on your own.

It is infact north of Stonard put your back to stonard and walk north and you'll see billowing smoke, the lock box is there but 4 gators and a cat guard it so be ready.

Just as an FYI ~ clearing all the mobs you think are in the way isn't good enough ~ after thinking I cleared the mobs I died a sad sad death ~ not realizing I couldn't heal the little jerk.
Now since I had the mobs KILL ME I know where to clear them from. Wish me luck!

edit - this is literally 20 seconds later . . do NOT rez where you died ~ it takes less than 10 seconds for them to wipe out a lvl 41 druid LOL

edit - ok done finally ~ just kept dying and each time I'd killed more so not many to get rid of ~ DRUIDS use BEAR form or DIRE BEAR ~ escorting aggros (after the initial 6 or 7) about 5 mobs along the way.

GOOD LUCK

Solo'd as a 37 Mage. I didn't know which way he'd path, so failed the first time, had to run away and reset, but after that, cleared out the camp first before initiating the quest, then follow him around, never had more than two at a time. On a side note though, he doesn't stop before charging into more mobs, so bring some potions with you if you're going to do it solo.

I had the same problem! I cleared out the camp, at least near his cage. We got attacked by a crocolisk, & as soon as I killed it he vanished. Can't find him anywhere, & I still have the quest (not failed, like the first time I tried & let him die).

Be sure to thin out the campsite first.&nbsp I let him die and now I've been sitting around for near an hour waiting for him to pop.&nbsp Meanwhile I've thinned the camp several times already... they respawn very quickly.

Be careful of the rift beacons when you are fighting through the camp

you may notice a magic cast on your from the riftseekers. It will summon two mobs so keep an eye on this, so that you're ready to kill them when they arrive.
They have low HP, but if you're in the middle of a fight it gets hairy.

Died using my 42 Mage.

Yeah I definitely can't find his camp, "The swamp North of Stonard".

Yeah thats nowhere to be seen considering the whole damn map is a swamp.

Anyone can help out with this?

as everyone said, at the beginning galen pass right in the middle of the area, I suggest you to clear the area first, then do the quest staying in front of galen and pulling back a mob if galen is going near (in fact quite far) of him because he is used to run forward when a mob attacks him aggroing another 3-4 in the path ^^'

for ppl who don't have coords here's the map of the footlocker for the reward: http://classicdb.ch/?object=32569[/url]

Just to clarify ... perhaps this is a change in recent patches, but this guy IS healable. I was able to apply Power Word Fortitude and keep him healed. I also noticed after he ran right into the middle of a camp, pulling 9 mobs at once and wiping quick, that on the second run of this quest a few mins later he chose to go a different route, completely skirting the main part of the camps and going along the river instead. The most I had to fend off of him that time was a croc and a One mob at once, and that was it. The first time sucked, but the second time it was cake because he took a different path. And he IS healable, at least as of today's date. Not sure when that change happened, but don't let the other comments that he isn't scare you any further ;)

I was following him, after I cleared the camp and he disappeared, walked the path to his camp, but there was no sign of him. Anyone else have this issue?

Followed the directions from above, exact.

Just solo'd it at level 38 mage.. yeah he does run threw every lock the and there imps pretty much terr you apart. just keep close

Make sure to clear all those forgotten ones at the closest camp (Warlocks with imps), they will all aggro if you do not, and if you do this quest around the proper level, you are very likely to die from them.

The best way to do this quest is to clear out some of the Lost Ones ahead of time. The most notable camp to clear is the one to the southwest of Galen (which generally has 2 seers and pets, and several other Lost Ones). After this camp, most of the Lost Ones that attack will be encountered singly, two at most.

The more annoying part of this quest, I felt, was that Galen (obviously, as he's just been locked up) doesn't give you the reward. You have to go hunt down his campsite north of Stronar and open a chest to recieve both the exp and the item.

This quest gives 3900xp after patch 2.3 I was on lvl 43.

I recommend doing http://classicdb.ch/?quest=1389  in order to clear the area

I thought I had cleared the area, but as soon as a caster attacked him he stopped hitting the mob he was on and ran at it, thus pulling many many more mobs.

Not doing this again...lol.

have searched the swamp north of stonard and can't find anything but beasts

found his lockbox but it says its covered with grime

I was actually too high, the quest was green at lv42. But still it was a nice reward - 2850 exp, Alliance reputation increased by 50, 85s plus a shield which you can sell for 62s or disenchant for around 1g. Unlike what other people have said, it's definatly worth your while.

For those of us who dont have cosmos or whatever:

Looking at me map, from Stonard, follow the letter R (from the word stonard) directly north. The island north of the R is where the tent is. It doesn't show anything on the map. Once you get close enough you'll see the tent and smoke. Hope this helps more than the other posts helped me.

Edited, Feb 28th 2007 8:29pm by riskicow

whoever came up with this quest and programmed the NPC's path is either an absolute retard or sadistic a-hole.

really not worth it

Galen's Camp is directly north of Stonard between Stonard and the norhtern most path. It's hard to see. Head a little sw from where Golen leaves you.

To be more precise, the coordinates of Galen's Strongbox is 47,39.

Edited, Sat Feb 5 00:21:22 2005