It should be noted that you don't have to kill just Raging Crawlers, Ferocious Foreststriders, or and specific type of Murloc. Any of the crab, strider, and murloc enemies around Darkshore and Ashenvale can drop their respective key parts, albeit probably at a much lower rate.

Top of Gelkak's Key - drops from the Crawlers arround the quest giver at 56, 13

Middle of Gelkak's Key - drops from Murlocs which are WEST of the quest giver, they are in the water arround the sunken ship. Not north like mentioned before.

Bottom of Gelkak's Key - drops off Plainstriders to the east, in the forest.

Edit: It is confirmeg that the drop order of those Keys is random, but the coordinates remain the same, and the same mobs drop them.

The correct order is (can confirm with wowhead)

Top of Gelkak's Key - drops off Giant Plainstriders to the east, in the forest.

Middle of Gelkak's Key - drops from Murlocs which are WEST of the quest giver, they are in the water arround the sunken ship.

Bottom of Gelkak's Key - drops from the Crawlers arround the quest giver at 56, 13

This is a very easy quest, I got most of the keys within 1 to 8 kills. I did not have to do the merlocs by the boat nearby, I was able to get that key off the merlocs down the beach by the turtle carcass. The encrusted reef crawler dropped the next key with only 1 kill. The hardest was the Giant Foreststrider, but only because I was not sure it was the right creature and it took 8 kills before I found it. This is the lead quest in a series... I believe the last quest is an elite one. I'll find out soon enough. Good luck

Gelkak Gyromast is at 56, 13.

For people who don't have coordinates he's just north of the "I" in "Ruins of Mathystra" on the shoreline. He's standing on a tiny hill right by the water.

i still have Gyromast's key. any1 knows if there's a follow-up? (i have completed the quest)

And the Murlocs are the Greymists out in the water nearby. At least, that's where I found MY key part.

I did this solo as a level 20 druid. I found it easy to take down the First Mate by employing Entangling Roots after every two spells I cast--the robot never had a chance to hit me!

I found all sections to the key right by NPC from Raging crawler beneath him...fom Giant foreststrider slightly to NE of him and last piece from murloc near shipwreck in sea next to him. Hope this helps ^^

It's true that all of the creatures all around Darkshore drop off these items but the way Sequnix first described is the best way to do it coz' you can easily kill them off in the close proximity of the quest giver thus solving the quest under the 5 minutes of gameplay!

don't know if i was just lucky or what, but i had a 100 % dropchance for all 3 keys.

Confirmed that they drop from nearby crabs. murlocs and plainstriders

you get the keys from: Giant Foreststriders, Raging Reef Crawlers, and Greymist Tidehunters or Gremist Oracles.. doesn't matter which Greymist it is, one of them will carry one of the keys.
note: both Greymists are behind Gyromast around the broken ship. the Raging Reef Crawlers are right beside Gyromast. the Giant Foreststriders are off the beach to the northeast from Gyromast. be patient and you will get all 3 keys.
P.S. just so you know, when you get Gyromast's robot and bring it to him, it will turn on you and start attacking you, don't forget it is level 20 and is an elite.

It is actually a "Raging Reef Crawler"

took me ages to figure out that i needed to kill the birds too wasted soo much time on this

Find the lvl 16 mulocks down the beach for the middle part, random drop killed about 20 before I got the key.

-Z

I got the top part from a Raging Reef Crawler, the middle from a murloc south of Auberdine (in the little hut camp where Murkdeep spawns), and after killing tons of Giant Foreststriders, I got bored and went off to grind a little.

Imagine my surprise when the bottom part of the key dropped from an Encrusted Tide Crawler!

Don't know if it's supposed to work like this, or if the game somehow lost track of which mobs I'd already gotten parts off, but if you're struggling, I guess it couldn't hurt to go and grind on crawlers for a while :)

i dunno were to turn the keys in at plz give me directions cuz i cant find him/her.

i found one key almost on the other side of the world while doing another quest lol

middle key got it from first murloc I killed, bottom key from first crawler, for the top Key I killed all the giant foreststriders near Gelkak but did not get it, got this key from a Giant Foreststrider near Grimclaw ( the white bear) to the south of Grove of the Ancients.

Got my drops from:

Crabs around the questgiver.

Giant foreststriders north of the questgiver.

Murlocs on the beach south of the questgiver ( Around a giant tortoise carcass).

the top of the key I got by killing striders near where you rescue volcar south of the ancient grove.

-Z

I killed all most enough striders to level around the escavation. Still, I cannot seems to get the key to drop. I have the other 2 parts.

I found all 3 parts of the key. They were fairly easy drops. The key the murlocs drop was dropped by some murlocs who were guarding a washed up dead sea creature on the beach. In my case I was well-south of Auberdine -- I think it was the shell of the sea turtle.

The ragin crawler was also in the deep south area. I think I was on the shore west of Remtravel's Excavation site.

The most confusinig was the "Ferocious Forestrider". Normally the quest-givers are pretty accurate, and I check to make sure the mob is the right type. Turns out the game doesn't have a mob named "Ferocious Forestrider". The drop comes from "Giant Forestriders". I got mine to drop on the first kill.

As for the bug: Though the quest log shows that I am now 'complete' and I have all 3 parts of the key, I cannot turn it in to Gyromast -- nor does he have the common yellow "?" above his head. He wont say anything more to me that "Hi, how ya doin".

I encountered the same type of bug on a former quest, submitted it to tech support and got a reply back that they *know* about this bug. The last time I found that the NPC finally got the yellow "?" over his head about 2 days after I completed the quest. My guess is they have some database problems and it hasn't quite figured out that I've completed it.

I HATE this quest. The foreststriders look to much like chocobos...and they cry...

As Maldrid said below, the key parts were all located (at least for me!) within the immediate proximity of the NPC. One part on first Foreststrider I came to in the woods above the beach one part on Encrusted Tide Crawler just down the beach by the First Mate, and final part on an underwater Greymist Tidehunter guarding the shipwreck just behing the NPC. Easy hunting!

u turn in this q at 56,13 a wee guy standing on a rock!

This mob will only issue or complete the quest when the first mate is not active on the map... if you can't get the ! or the ? above his head then chances are that the first mate is alive and just a little south of him along the beach. if you wait for about 3 to 5 minuets the first mate will despawn and the captain will once again be willing to talk with you

The murlocks are in he boat right behind the dude (where you get the quest).. The striders are right in front, the crawly things right on beach by him give the 3rd part. Don't need to go out of eyesite of the questgiver.

ok everybody can hate me if you like, but i'm just saying it's possible...

upon getting the quest, i immediately turned and shot a nearby crawler. part of the key dropped.

i went a little ways north along the coast and sent my voidwalker after the first pair of foreststriders i saw. one of them dropped part of the key.

then i walked south and west along the shoreline til i found some murlocs. wasn't very far. the last part of the key dropped on the first kill.

fastest quest i've done in darkshore. this time. it's taken longer on other occasions. maybe it's the luck of the gnomes.

happy hunting.

Argh, I'm a lvl 18 Druid and upon completing my other quests, went north on the beach to give this one a try.

Can someone please give me the cords as to where the quest giver is?

I started completing this quest by accident. I had it in my quest log when I started doing gubber blumps quest.

Anyway, I got one key off of the murlocs that are in the two wrecked ships near of auberdine.

Then I got one key off the encrusted reef crawlers near the mouth of the cliffspring river.

And I saw some of the giant forestriders just across the bridge when heading towards ashenvale. It's quite a way past ameth aran.

Haaz
Night Elf Druid
Aggramar Server

Edited, Fri Dec 24 16:07:37 2004

I sent in ticket and yellow ? popped - interesting

i killed a giant forester between Remtravel's Excavation and the shore, then on the shore, i killed a murloc (from the ones round the turtle looking creature) i had a bit of trouble finding a "ragin" crawler, so i killed an encrusted crawler on the off chance and it dropped part of key....I only had to kill one of each and q was complete!

You do not have to go all the way south to get the Giant Foreststrider like I did. Yes they need to be lvl 18-19 or so but there are some right near the beach in the forest. It's really close to where the first mate is. My friend got the key from there and they are between the beach and the serpent people that have the relics. Closer to the beach though so no need to run south anymore.