Might want to pick up "Onward to Ashenvale" from Thundris Windreaver while you're there... 9 Silver and some XP to talk to somewhere in Astranaar, the inn-city in Ashenvale. About a 2 minute run (non-speed-increase) from the top of the zone, and also where the flighpath is.

I'm a 25 Ret Pally (I was a twink at 19 so not everything will be just as easy for you), and i'm flying to IF to turn the quest in as I write this.&nbsp This is how you get each piece:

The first section, where you have to defend Daphne Stilwell from the Defias is not too hard, and not too easy.&nbsp It's really yourself that you have to look out, since she has a very good amount of hp, and regains it after each 'wave'.

For the Whitestone Oak Lumber in Deadmines, I can solo until the ogre, but since you need ranged to pull him, I suggest a group.&nbsp You just have to get to the goblins, and they should drop it the very first kill.

For the Jordan's Refined Ore Shipment, you have to go to Loch Modan, in Thelsamar, into the house with the Tailoring Supplies guy on the porch.&nbsp Talk to Bailor Stonehand, and take his quest.&nbsp Then go Northeast across the lake until you start seeing the ogre encampment.&nbsp Go in, and keep going until you reach a tree with the item you need under it.&nbsp Grab it and finish the quest for the shipment.

For the Smithing Hammer, Get to Southshore (Run there if you do not have the flightpaths), and then run east along the road until you reach Silverpine Forest.&nbsp Follow the road up the hill and into SFK.&nbsp You may need a group for this, but since you're a pally, you might have Turn Undead.
See if you can sneak upstairs and past as many pats and mobs as possible.&nbsp You will arrive into a courtyard.&nbsp Jump out and run to the stables to get the Hammer (On a log inside).

For the Kor Gem, you have to go to Auberdine, in Darkshore.&nbsp Take the boat in the Wetlands, and talk to Thundris Windweaver.&nbsp He'll give you a quest.&nbsp Run south until you reach Ashenvale, and then run west when you reach a path.&nbsp Keep running northwest from there until you reach the Instance, and swim under the little barrier.&nbsp Pop up in the otherside, and kill the Naga in there one by one until it drops.&nbsp Return to Thundris, and then Return to IF to complete the quest.

Regarding soloing SFK....

I did it on my level 20 retri pala with green items apart from the Cruel Barb from the deadmines, would recommend a few health pots too.

To reiterate what one of the other posters said about SFK, it is advisable to pull multiple mobs back to the entrance, or if too far away just kill one and try to run out as fast as you can, for the gate I just used Divine Protection and quickly talked to the NPC, death is a given here.

One thing I found out is that when up the second set of stairs I think it was (There will be a raised platform to your left with a wolf and a worgen on it) you can aggro the worgen from the lower platform and the wolf doesn't come after you along with him, maybe a fluke, worth testing though, but also worth hanging a right whilst getting rid of the other two mobs so you don't agro him too soon.

When in the courtyard it is fairly easy to get along the left side, there is only one double pull and I found it best to get rid of one of the wolves and one the ghosts to make sure I didn't get agro problems. The worgen do put on an anti-magic shield but it has a short duration and shouldn't cause too much bother.

Once you have killed the mobs on the left by the wall you can get into the stables just enough to get the quest item without agroing anyone inside.

Hope this helps someone, and as this is my first post to wowhead I hope I didn't make any community nonos.

The kor gem is the easiest, for my point of view...

what u wanna do is take the boat from menethil harbor in westfall to auberdine, when u arrive, be sure to take the gryphon master, and then start walking south. once u reach ashenvale forest, u got 2 choices, go take the gryphon master first in Astranaar, or move directly to blackfathom deeps.... BFD is to ur right side, once u enter ahenvale. there you will see the instance entrance, and monster from lvl 18-20

just start killin the naga's (fish ppl) and you'll get it soon enough, you do not have to enter the instance, just start killin outside of it.

then its shorter to walk to astranaar and take the gryphon or whatever those NE things are called, and fly back to auberdine to move back to wetlands or wherever you want to go.

hope this helps,
Arius, Guild master of Keepers of the Valor

I did this quest at 23, which i think is the lowest you can be unless you are in a group and I think that a group would have helped sometimes.

The first one I did was the ore and it is by far the easiest. The ore is next to a tree in the middle of the ogre place, not in a cave.

The next one that I did was the lumber. I just got in a group for VC and got the lumber as we ran through the place.

After that I headed to Auberdine by way of boat and got the gem quest. I just ran down the coastline unill I got to the ruins. The place you go in is one of the first ones one the left if you are looking at it from the coast. I just went in and swam under the water to get to the entrance. I had to kill a few saytr's to get to the tide priestess but i just killed them one at a time untill i got to her. I killed her easily and got the gem. Then you just have to go back to Thundris.

Finally is the Shadowfang Keep part. This is possible to solo at 23. Once inside you go to the right and immediatly run into a wolf and a worgen thing. I couldnt ever kill both at once so I would just kill the worgen guy, run out of the instance, heal up, and head back in and fight the wolf(which will immediatly attack you when you zone in). Work your way up the winding stairs untill you come to an empty hallway. At the end to the right is the door that leads to the stables. Because it is closed you have to let lose a guy locked up in a jail cell. At the end of the hallway to the left is where you have to go. Once looking down at the jail area all you have to do is go invincable, pull the lever by the center jailcell and go inside and talk to the guy. He will go unlock the door while you try to stay alive as long as possible by healing yourself and using a potion. Then you will die after awhile. Run back to the instance and the door will be open. Once looking at the courtyard area, all you have to do is kill the guys close to the stairs and along the left. I advice pulling the mobs up the stairs to prevent extra aggro. Once inside the stables there is one worgen inside and a bunch of non-aggro horses. Kill the worgen without hitting any of the horses and you will find the hammer siting on a crate right inside the stable.

Just soloed the entire quest at level 22. It CAN be done.

The Ore Shipment is cake since Blizz nerfed the ogres in Loch Modan. The Kor Gem is just a lot of running to get to BFD. You have to go underwater and into the cave, but you don't need to enter the actual instance.

The tricky part starts with the smithing hammer. The pulls in SFK are all 2 at a time, if done right, and very easily managed (I didn't need to exit the portal, but I suppose you could do that if you're not burning pots/scrolls/elixirs). As said above, the one death in the jail cell area is unavoidable - that boss simply cannot be taken down alone at that level. All I did was jump down, bubble, open the cell and talk to the NPC, and then died. As long as you don't release until the dude gets the door open, you can run back and finish up with minimal effort.

In Deadmines, Rhak'zor is very soloable with the right consumables up, and even easier if you spend a little money on a Clefthide Armor Kit for your pants. After that, it's a cakewalk to the mast room. Watch out for the pat after Rhak'zor, then just pull the first goblin in the room and get your lumber.

Personally, I think doing it all solo is a good way to hone your skill and challenge your wits a bit - plus the XP is a little better. :-) I picked up the quest after I dinged 22, and was nearly 23 before I turned it in, doing no other questing in the interim.

Finished this today the same day I got it at Level 20.
You can solo the first parts of the chain quest but the 4 parts you need to gather for the last step are harder.

You can solo the Shipment stage by sticking to right hand side of Ogre camp adfter entering from the west. You will nee to fight 2 ogres on way in. The box is behind a tree a few yards in front of main cave.

The Hammer in Shadowfang keep is hard because there are about 4 times you have to fight a 18 and a 19 elite at same time. As I have engineering I used explosives and target dummy to get it done but it took a long time.

The Wood i did in Deadmines with a 49 Warrior who happened to be hanging around. I doubt i could have solo'd that. Wood dropped off first goblin in Shredder's room.

The gem from BFD kicked my a__ for awhile as it didnt drop out front and I went into instance to get it. 21 elites I couldnt kill on my own so called in priest friend to help. Dropped of fifth priestess (that looks like a naga). Handed back in and Whammo, awesome 25.6DPS mace.

you find bailor down in a house under the grund&nbsp west from the inn. in theslamar

I finished this quest thanks to a lot of the previous commments. If anyone needs help or advice on this quest, feel free to leave a post here with a question and i will help as best i can.

~BlazeBringer

my only problem with this quest was finding bailor and his cord are 35,45 in thesamar, lochmadon i hope that helps everyone ^^

Thanks to everyone who took the time to post the above guides and how to's as I read them all for tips and info.

I was able to solo all the way though and was doing pretty good pulling 2 at a time at Shadow Fang Keep.

The hard part is when you pull more than two as our dps is not great enough to take them down quickly.

I had reset the instance once and was getting a bit disheartened at the part where the dog pens are, its difficult to control just pulling two.

Being faced with a second reset of the instance, a guild was going to do a run/tour for some of their lower level guild members and they had one slow open.

It worked out really well as they did need the extra help - being lower level raises your aggression range/radius to very high levels and can cause an entire room to pull on top of them.

If you head over to the horse stalls the Hammer is right there on a light brown crate click it and you are on your way to Iron Forge and a new future with a great Hammer.

Solo'd as a lvl 23/24.

SFK as noted, takes a bit of practice but not too bad.
Ore, np.
Got gem on 1st mob.
Deadmines is definitely the trickiest. Got to Rhak'zor and tried him unbuffed (apart from aura and blessing) almost got him. The returned with: well fed, stamina and intellect scrolls. Beat him down with Razor's Edge and the shield from the earlier part of the quest. Finish off with a mana pot and Lay on Hands and Rhak goes down.

Gear was greens except as noted and spec was ret/prot evenly split.

The ore shipment box is next to a brokendown cart amoost straight NE from the campfire.&nbsp I got to it without fighting any orges at all.

Followed divietti's instructions for Shadowfang part of the quest - worked great.&nbsp Died a few times, but was able to solo it at lev 23.

The key thing is that you don't need to kill all the guys by the prison doors.&nbsp Just pull the lever, go into the cell and talk to the guy.&nbsp I died right after talking to him and he had opened the door when i came back.&nbsp

I wish they dident include instance runs in this quest since its not worth the time if you ask me

i saved your wife , the least you could do is give me the hammer for free !

As a lvl 25 ret spec I was able to solo the first deadmines boss to get to the goblins after several unsuccessful attempts. I had to use BoP, Divine Protection, Lay on Hands, 2 Silk Bandages, 2 Healing Potions, a Fishliver Oil and it was still very close. Needless to say it will save you a lot of trouble if you get a group for this part.

I had this experience at Level 24:

Refined Ore Shipment & Kor Gem - Easy to get solo.

Smithing Hammer - Hard, but definitely doable solo - hardest part is the two on one mobs, and releasing the prisoner to open the gate for you - luckily you can die after freeing him (make sure you ask him to open the gate!) and he'll still open the door, just give it a minute before you release to the graveyard.

Lumber - I'm having trouble with this and will likely have to find a group if I want to do it at 24. Rhak'zor just hits too hard for me to stay up - easy to get to him, and you can pull him without attracting the two mobs near him - but the only way to do this is like the guy above did, and even then I think you need a lil' luck. So basically get a group unless you wait a few levels...

Ore- 21, 72 in loch modan
Hammer- instance at 46, 72 in silverpine
Gem-First talk to Thundris Windreaver (37,40)
&nbsp I dont know the instance coordinates, but the etrance is all the way on the northwest of ashenvale on the shorline (there is only one place where ashenvale touches the sea)

Lumber- There is no coordinates for this becasue it is in the deadmines instance. Heres what you do. If you dont know where the instance is, find a group doing it (there is always at least 1) and they wil show you. Go into the instance until you see goblin woodcarvers and kill them. The drop rate is about 75%. Hearth or finish the instance

~Hope this Helped!
&nbsp ~BlazeBringer

solo'd this at 24... fairly easy as long as you control the aggro it'll just take a couple hours to run through.

It happens I joined a guild right before getting the quest. I asked help for the 1st part (tome of valor) and a lvl 40 pally helped me with it. Once I got this quest i was a litte P.O.ed after reading notes item. I was thinking SILVERPINE?
So i went back. Happed we found another pally do same quest lvl 20. during deadmines he ask us if he can join the guild. He quit old guild and joined ours. we traveled to Loch held out on that quest til later and headed to Silverpine. Shadowfang Keep was awesome with the werewolves and soundtrack.(Shadowfang Moonwalkers are werewolves, all of theyre species deal with night or moon.) Did BFD but other 20th had problem with kor gem. then we hit the hay.
Next day we do oger part and get hammer.

TIP: Go to Silverpine at like 1:30-3:30

What is the average time you think it will take to complete this quest starting at Deadmines?

How long do you think it will take to complete this quest?

I just did this at level 21-22, and for those of you trying this quest at that level without a level 56 buddy or main character to help, or an active guild, here are some tips:

1) Deadmines - this is straightforward as the entrance to the DM usually has a group getting ready that you can tag onto. Take another quest in there with you if you can, eg Van Cleef's Head, as it makes the trip more worthwhile. The oak drops fairly readily from the goblins.

2) Ogres - I tried to solo this and the directions by Vjay on this page hold good, ie use the SE entrance. However, some of the ogres are tough for a lvl 21 to handle alone, and if they are all alive and waiting on your route into the stronghold the best thing to do (I found after dying a few times) is wait for another player to happen along, tell them what you need and go get it. I've been back there for another quest since and whilst I haven't needed help for that one I noticed that usually a player or small party will come along every 20 mins or so. The ogres are fairly well spaced out so you should only expect them to double-team you near the ore itself.

3) BFD - again, the directions on this page are excellent. BFD itself is certainly not one to do solo. The main problem is that the elites down there when you first swim through are too strong and too close together, so you will be constantly double-teamed. You might get lucky with the very first combat if the satyr guard is not there near the priestess, but if she doesn't drop the gem and you have to go further in, lvl 21-22 is too low to last very long. My tip: wait for a group and join. Could be a longish wait as BFD is off the beaten track - I had to wait about half an hour on a Friday evg at 8pm. Make sure you tell them what you want and that the gem actually drops from the mobs before the entrance to the instance. The team I joined was happy to help and the gem dropped on about the 4th priestess. Judging from some of the posts about the gem this is possibly a bit lucky. You can then decide whether or not to leave or go through BFD with your group.

4) SFK - apart from the running, which others have mentioned, the difficulty here is finding help. Again, lvl 21-22 makes soloing SFK a very unpleasant and unlikely prospect. In particular, it's very difficult to pull just a single mob from the first room in the instance. I was always double-teamed and died distressingly quickly. The village right next to SFK is no use for help as no-one visits and late at night it gets taken over by Moonstalkers or similar who attack just about anything that moves. After a very long and fruitless wait at the SFK entrance I eventually went back to Southshore and yelled for help. After a couple of yells a lvl 32 paladin offered to help and he essentially did the job for me in SFK [thanks!]. Diplomatic note: given the time taken in getting to the hammer, you might want to take pity on your guide once you've got it and opt to leave rather than go right through SFK. Get clear on that before you go in as otherwise it's a difficult conversation to have in a courtyard full of mobs.

This is a long and sometimes tedious quest but you do see the world, and the reward and offers of help along the way make it well worth it. Good luck!

you can solo the ogres at lv20,at least i did.still have to do other three parts.

Is the box inside the caves :(?

The worst part is Shadowfang Keep, with the honor patch is really hard to stay alive...
When you're in, no problems anymore thougt, only be alert not to aggro more than 2 mobs. You should be able to pull one mob alone quite everytime though.

P.S. Try to have the quest before managing to kill Van Cliff, so you'll clear the Deadmines in party and get the Whitestone Oak Lumber really easily

Edited, Wed Apr 27 06:08:23 2005

the ore is in one of the boxes. the group of boxes going by the map is not between the G and R but infact just above the space between the R and O.

I just got Kor Gem drop off of a 21 Oracle right after you swim into the cavern. Didnt even see a Naga

I just finished this quest at level 25 and it is very well worth it. I am soloing level 29 mobs with the hammer now!. I did it all just me and a level 29 rogue. It starts in the cathedral in Stormwind. the description is very easy to follow. I think the refined ore part is easiest and you might want to do that first.

Bailor isn't talking to me :(( plss help me. im a paladin lvl 25 i found the ore but, when i open the box is empty,i think because i didin't talk to bailor :((( helpp are there more then 1 box of bailors ore ?

Edited, Wed Jul 6 04:15:41 2005

Im at Loch Thelsamar where is Bailor?

Was very deliberate (died twice at each dungeon) but did it alone. It took a lot of time but got major XP. Started at level 23. Advice here was wonderful.