I dinged 30 this evening, and made the mistake to think I'd have the Felhunter in a flash. (It's almost 5 in the morning.) This is absolutely one of the most annoying quests I've ever done. Luckily I had the flight paths that were needed.

The quest itself. (Alliance)

First you get the quest at your warlock trainer. (Doh.)

- He'll tell you to go talk to Strahad Farsan in Ratchet. (The Barrens.)
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- After doing that this guy tells you to go talk to Krom Stoutarm in Ironforge.
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- Krom'll ask you for 2 items, a Moldy Tome, found in Hillsbrad Foothills,
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And a Tattered Manuscript, found in Thousand Needles.
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( I put my Hearthstone in IF during this part, it saved me some walking. )

- After you've received these two items you return to him. (Yes, Krom.)

Out of these two items he'll craft the tome, and tells you to go fetch 3 Rod of Channeling,
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Dropped by Dragonmaw Bonewarders and Dragonmaw Shadowwarders in Wetlands.
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You have to bring these items back to Strahad Farsan in Ratchet, where you'll summon a Felhunter, and kill it. After you've done ll that you get to summon your very own. Hooray.

I got mine right when I hit 30, soloed the whole thing.

Here's how to do it:

1) get the quest from the warlock trainer (stormwind for alliance, orgrimmar for horde)

2) go to ratchet. The first time I went, I went to Menethil and took the boat to Theramore, and then swam north right on the edge of the ocean. It takes a while, but unending breath makes it much easier, just&nbsp put your char on auto run and steer him once in a while. Just be sure to stay well clear of the higher lvl mobs.

Once you get close to ratchet you can go to shore, there are some pirates to the south and some other lower level mobs you can avoid or easily kill. Watch for horde here if you are pvp... there are usually a few stragglers here, 2 or three horde that range from their teens up to 30's and a couple 60's once in a while.

3) find the quest guy, he's across the main street up a the hill near the little tower. if you are standing ont he dock, the tower is to the right side of the main road in ratchet.

4) Once you get the next quest, wait for the boat on the dock. if there are horde, either hide and wait for them to leave, or run to the boat and hope you make it on before they kill you. once on the boat, you'll get rezed when it goes to booty bay, so either jump off or let them kill you again and just rez at the graveyard and walk to town.

Get the flight path in booty bay and fly to IF.

5) Talk to the guy in the hall of explorers for the next part of the quest (sorry horde, don't know your half of this one)

6) The first half of the tome is up in Hillsbrad, west of southshore a ways on the beach. location is 27,72. I didn't have the flight path to southshore yet, so I flew to menethil and then hopped in the ocean for another swim north. stayed at the very edge of the ocean and just put it on autorun. There's some murlocks to dodge towards the end, but mostly a really easy swim.

The murlocs are easy to kill, just find the camp with the book (there was a chest next to it, but you can just run your mouse over the shore until you spot it). they are easy to kill one at a time. Once you are done, head over to southshore and get the flight path there.

7) Next you need to head back to the barrens for the other half. this is a bit of a trek, and you have a few choices. a) hearth back to ratchet and walk, b) fly all the way down to booty bay from southshore and take the boat to ratchet, saving your hearth for later, c) fly to menethil, and take the boat to theramore and walk to the barrens (a little dangerous, high lvl mobs in the swamp outside theramore, but it's not too bad, d) fly to booty bay and take the boat back to ratchet.

8) once you are back in the barrens, walk south towards thousand needles. when you get to the border you'll see the elevators ("the lift" or something) with 2 horde guards. at this point i was attacked by a lvl 30 warrior (snuck up on me, dammit) but luckily i had my succy out and she charmed him while i dotted him and feared/bolted him till he died. bet he felt stupid. anyway, the guards should be an easy kill, so don't be afraid to take them out. ride the elevator down and hang a left and hug the wall on your left as you travel south east.

9) I ran into more horde here, 2 lvl 30's who killed me when i completely lagged out. very lame of them. make sure you have your SS on. I found the cave at 43,32. ran into the same 2 horde that killed me before, killed both of them when they were separated (lock and a hunter - revenge is sweet), but then they came back and killed me again :(. I logged out and back in at this point because they were camping my corpse, so after about 5-10 mins i logged back in and rezzed outside of the cave and went back in. no sign of them after that, and found the chest with the other half of the book&nbsp just to the left of the entrance in the middle of the cave.

10) once i had the other half, it's back to IF you go. I had my hearth set for SW, so I ported back and flew to IF to return to the library.

11) once you have the tome from him and the next part, fly up to menethil and head east on the road. When you see the graveyard on the right, bust out the VW and walk up the hill. You'll see the guys with the skeleton pets - those are the ones you want. Kill a few till you get the 3 rods - they drop pretty frequently, and the guys respawn pretty fast, so if you kill them all just wait a minute for a respawn instead of hiking into the camp with the other guys.

12) Once you have the rods, either hearth to ratchet (if you set your inn there) or fly down to booty bay and take the boat back. get your VW out and turn in the quest.

13) wait for the 2nd summoning circle to appear - the first for me was green, second was pink. once it appears, use the tome and it will summon the felhunter. kill it quick (should be really easy) and it' yours! enjoy!

Strahad farson is in ratchet on the left, up the hill in the little hut.