* To get the key from Silixiz, pickpocket him. If he doesn't have anything to pickpocket, kill him and wait for him to respawn, then do it again.

* First floor: Mutated Drones. Ambush will instakill them. If you're alone, ambush one, run, then come back and ambush the other.

* Second floor: Patrollers. Rupture works very well here and takes off an abnormal amount of life.

* Third floor (outside): Lookouts. Eviscerate (even a one-point eviscerate) will transform them into green slimes that are easier to kill.

* Fourth floor: Gallywix. Ambush him to lower his life to 50%, then the rest of the fight is as you would expect. If you're level 20, bring a friend -- he hits hard. After he's dead, take his head and lockpick the chest (need skill ~85 I think) and you're done.

This is entirely doable solo at 20 if you're mildly twinked and remember to use the weaknesses of each mob. Being 22 would help of course seeing as you have access to skills like distract and vanish.

Some notes of my own to add to the above post:

- Part 1, Pickpocketing
Make sure to approach Silixiz from behind and use pickpocket as far away as possible (5 yd range), otherwise he's sure to detect you. Kill him afterwards, both as a courtesy to the next rogue coming to do the quest and in order to avoid him aggro'ing on you in case you have to run away during the rest of the quest.

- Part 2, Mutated Drones
This seems to be the hardest part. Be very careful and only approach one of them when they turn their backs to you and spam ambush till it connects (their stealth detection is insanely high). Then run till you drop aggro and do the same with the other one.

- Part 3, Patrolers
These mobs are weak to rupture, but they're very easy to kill even without it. Probably the easiest part, just good ol' hack n slash works on these guys.

- Part 4, Lookouts
Nothing else to say about them really... just get that 1 CP as fast as possible and immediately Eviscerate. Very easy to kill that way.

- Part 5, Gallywix
Make sure to have Evasion and healing potions ready and not cooling down before engaging. Open with Ambush to drop him to 50% health, then immediately pop Evasion (he hits very hard, you don't want to waste a moment without it up) and just hack away. Pop a healing potion if necessary. If you're close to dying, make sure he's facing away from the stairway entrance. Didn't try this myself, but supposedly if you die with him facing the stairs, he'll stay in that position when he resets making it nearly impossible to ambush him without being detected.

Another note:
You do ABSOLUTELY want to use Ambush in the parts that recommend it and you need a dagger in your main hand for that. If you've been using two swords up to this point, get a dagger for this quest. Even if it's a level 1 grey one, doesn't matter, you can just switch to your usual weapon right after you Ambush. Also, be sure to get your dagger skill up to a decent level, you don't want your Ambush to miss.

I just did the quest, and some people have inaccurate information.&nbsp Just to clarify:

* To get the key from Silixiz, pickpocket him.&nbsp If he doesn't have anything to pickpocket, kill him and wait for him to respawn, then do it again.

* First floor: Mutated Drones.&nbsp Ambush will instakill them.&nbsp If you're alone, ambush one, run, then come back and ambush the other.

* Second floor: Patrollers.&nbsp Rupture works very well here and takes off an abnormal amount of life.

* Third floor (outside): Lookouts.&nbsp Eviscerate (even a one-point eviscerate) will transform them into green slimes that are easier to kill.

* Fourth floor: Gallywix.&nbsp Ambush him to lower his life to 50%, then the rest of the fight is as you would expect.&nbsp If you're level 20, bring a friend -- he hits hard.&nbsp After he's dead, take his head and lockpick the chest (need skill ~85 I think) and you're done.

Some of this overlaps with the above but I'll go into more gory detail about soloing this --

Requirements
If you're going to solo this, I would recommend waiting until lvl22.&nbsp I believe the others who testifed they soloed this at lower levels, but I find that vanish and distract are *extremely* helpful here for every level of the tower and particularly for Gallywix, and also being able to have a healing potion (lvl22 req, just buy one from the AH) helps a lot.

Get your lockpicking skill up to 100 (or at least 80) from the ship in the "Plundering the Plunderers" quest.&nbsp It's kinda boring repeatedly picking the lockboxes but there's no reason not to max out your skill... I just looked over my quests and read a newspaper while clicking alternately on two boxes...

Be sure your equipment is repaired because you will probably die repeatedly (I died 7 times and yes I did read all the comments here beforehand so it was just a matter of execution).

Get lots of flash powder for vanish.

Get a few healing potions or at least lesser healing potions.

Make sure ambush, eviscerate, stealth, vanish, distract, pickpocket, expose armor, rupture, evade are on your toolbar because you'll need all of them.

On dying
One important note is that if you die in the tower, you can resurrect on any floor... not sure if this is obvious to everyone.&nbsp This allows you to bypass some of the respawned monsters that you've already killed and start right where you left off.

Silixiz key
I had no trouble stealing the key from him using distract with my lvl22 with 2 points in Master of Deception talent.&nbsp If he has no key, kill him and then come back later, maybe do the goblin quests nearby while you kill time.

First three levels
Ambush, rupture, eviscerate the first three levels as others have mentioned.&nbsp For the first level, distract to get them to face away from you, ambush one and then either run/vanish then ambush again, or 1on1 the other.&nbsp For the next two levels, distract, sap one then kill the other, or just take both of them on.&nbsp You can always use up your vanish or evades here because you're probably not going to get through the whole thing without dying at least once, and remember the next time you resurrect you can bypass whatever you've already killed.

Gallywix
I had a lot of trouble sneaking up on him.&nbsp When I went up the stairs, he was staring right at me, so I couldn't even get line of sight to distract him away from me without getting aggro'd.&nbsp A trick I found is that he tends to keep looking in the direction he was facing when he killed you last.&nbsp So I just made sure he was facing away from the stairs (i.e. looking right out the tower) when I died, then the next time I could get behind him to distract and ambush.

If you ambush - vanish - ambush, he's deadmeat since each is triggered to take off 50%.&nbsp Even if you only get one off (e.g. if he sees you when you're coming up the stairs before you ambush), it's still no big deal.&nbsp If you put on evasion, start off with a 4+ point expose armor, and use a healing potion, you should be able to kill him reasonably.&nbsp This means you don't really need vanish either, in case you used it up earlier -- you can just stealth up and ambush him, then fight as normal.&nbsp Note that if you try the ambush-vanish-ambush method, you don't have much time after you vanish before he pops back to max health!&nbsp Immediately ambush him once you've vanished.

Of course don't get the chest until after you've completed the quest.&nbsp The first time I went up the stairs, someone else had killed Gallywix and I opened the chest, and got poisoned.&nbsp It at least lowers your agility, I'm not sure what else (some others above claim it lowers stealth).&nbsp So actually I had to kill Gallywix while poisoned :-b.

Each floor has a "key" ability that finishes the guys off quickly, if not instantly.

First Floor

Ambushed one, vanished, ambushed the other.

Key Ability: Ambush kills them in one shot.

Second Floor

Ambushed one, ruptured him for the kill. Then I used Sinister Strike on the other and ruptured him.

Key Ability: Rupture slaughters these guys.

Third Floor

Sapped one, Sinister Strike then Eviscerate to turn him into ooze. Finished him off then killed the sapped one.

Key Ability: Eviscerate turns them into weak oozes.

Final Floor

Easiest floor. Don't get scared by the Elite title. Ambush him, vanish, ambush again. Dead.

Key Ability: Ambush. It does 50% of his health in damage.

There you go. I didn't notice anyone posting about Rupturing the second floor. I loved this quest... Just like a Rogue is suppost to be. Sneak in, kill, sneak out.

Pre-reqs: You'll need a locking picking skill of at least 85 (might as well get 100) in order to complete the next quest, so I would recommend doing the Plundering the Plunderers (https://classicdb.ch/?quest=2381) quest to get your skill up to 100 before completing the next quest. You will also need to complete “Deep Cover” (https://classicdb.ch/?quest=2458) in order to talk w/ the questgiver. Otherwise, he is ?? red and will attack you.

Location: The tower is right next to the quest giver (55,6).

IF YOU ARE A BLOOD ELF: The next quest in the chain is bugged and the weaknesses described above don’t work and it is impossible to solo until about lvl 25. I just completed this by grouping with another non-Blood Elf rogue. I just did a "/who 20-21 rogue" and whispered any non-BE players if they did the poison quest yet. Found an undead rogue who hadn't and invited him to group. Walked him through the steps (as outlined above) and he was able to take them out fine

Instructions above about weaknesses are accurate. I’ll simply summarize quickly.

1- (outside on the left) You need to pickpocket the key from Silixiz. If he doesn't have anything to pickpocket, kill him and wait for him to respawn. He only gives one key per respawn. To be nice to the next guy, I would kill him after you have the key.

2- (First floor): Mutated Drones. Key Ability: Ambush kills them in one shot. You can ambush one, sprint away. Then come back and ambush the other.

3- (Second floor) Patrollers. Key Ability: Rupture takes off extra damage.

4- (Outside - third floor): Lookouts. Key Ability: Eviscerate turns them into weak oozes. A one pointer will transform them into green slimes that are easy to kill.

5- (Top floor) Gallywix. Key Ability: Ambush. It does 50% of his health in damage. Ambush him to lower his life to 50%, then the rest of the fight is as you would expect. You might have to gouge/bandage and pop evasion to finish him, but he is killable at 20. If you wait till 22, you can Ambush then vanish and Ambush again. After he's dead, take his head and lockpick the chest (need skill ~85 I think) and you're done.

IF GROUPED: When you group w/ someone else who has this quest, you have to each pickpocket the key off Silixiz and each loot the dead body of Gallywix for the head. This means that you have to:
a) pickpocket the key
b) kill Silixiz and wait for the respawn
c) pickpocket the key again for the 2nd player (repeat for next guy)
e) after killing Gallywix only have 1 of you loot the body and chest (you'll need to wait for respawn and kill him again and whoever loots will get the poison debuff)

DONT LOOT THE CHEST UNTIL YOU HAVE THE HEAD. You will get a 7 day debuff that lowers agility and makes it easier to detect you in stealth. If you have to come back for Gallywix with the debuff, you are going to get spotted pretty easily when you try to amush.

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When you go to get the key from Silixiz make sure you stealth and steal it from him. I killed him the first time and he doesn't drop it. Also you can pickpocket it with very low skill, I did this at level 20 with 80 lockpicking and it worked fine.

The guy in the top of the tower, forget the name, is a level 24 elite, so if you do this at level 20 like I did bring friends.

Last but not least, make sure you use the whistle from now on if you go near Fizzule, we aggroed him accidentally and got smoked for our trouble.

I was quite stumped on this quest since I just got level 20 and wanted to get my poisons. I have to admit this quest was pretty fun when I figured it out.

Before you go, MAKE SURE your lock picking is about 85, I didnt and had to do this quest twice. If your lockpicking skill is low, go south of ratchet in the water is a pirate ship. In the ship are multiple chests that you can just keep opening over and over and over until about level 120 or so. I stopped at 100 because it was taking too long to level up, but this is the best place to get those levels, just make sure you are above 85 in lock picking.

First: stealth behind Silixiz and pick pocket him. If he doesnt have the key, kill him (make sure the 2 undead walking around the tower arent near, or pull him into the hills), and wait for his respawn to kill him again. Make sure he is dead for the next part regardless of whether you got the key on the first try or not.

Stealth into the hallway on the first floor of the tower. Do not enter the room or the two mutated level 25s will see you. If you agro one of them, you will agro the other, so run out of the tower as far as you need to in order to lose agro and try again. The idea is the sneak up behind the closer one and ambush him. Even if you are really low level, the ambush will instantly kill him ( my level 20 killed him no prob). If you dont get ambush off, run out until you lose agro and run back. Hopefully you killed silixiz otherwise he'll agro you too, and your chances to make it out alive are lessened. Once you ambush-kill the first mutated undead mob, run out with the other chasing you. You probably are too low to kill him, so lose agro, go back, and ambush him because he too will die in one shot from ambush.

Stealth up to the next floor, but stay on the steps so you dont get agroed by the two patrolling goblins. These two are pretty normal level 22s. ambush one without agroing the other, and pull him downstairs so the other one doesnt find you mid-fight. Kill the first one, rest, stealth, ambush the second and kill him right on floor 2 since nothing is left to agro. No special moves will do anything for these two patrolling goblins.

Stealth up and get to the third floor. There is a door leading outside to where the lookouts are. Try to get ambush off on the first one and pull him inside so you dont get agroed from the second one. Eviscerate ASAP because when you evischerate the lookouts, they turn into a green goo and their life gets halved. This is why I love this quest, highly original. Killing them one at a time should be no problem. Once you kill both, stealth and proceed to the top of the tower.

The level 24 Elite is standing there in all his glory with his back always facing you so ambushing is easy. If you are high enough (upper 20s), you can get away with soloing this guy. It's still tough though. Ambushing him instantly takes away half of his life, but he's still a pain(hits mostly between 100 and 120, at level 20 I only have about 580 life which means about 5 hits and im dead). Because I had to come back, and I had already killed him once, an alternative to killing him again if you made the same mistake as me is sapping him. He is a humanoid. What I did was sap him, get the chest, and RUUUUN. I made it out alive =). Only do this is you already killed him and got his head because you do need his head. A group of 3 level 20's should do the trick, or just 2 if one is a healer and the other is a rogue.

Hope this helps =)

Did this at level 23 and my guild mate did it at 24 using the same method (he did it first ))

Stealth up behind him and ambush him. You should take half his health. Instantly vanish and he should turn around again. Ambush him again and he should die.

Easy :)

first floor: ambush( instant kill)
second floor: rupture (the first decrease it takes in health will kill it)
third floor: eviscerate ( turns to goo and takes almost all its life even if its only a 1 point eviscerate)

elite boss: ambush it'll take almost half his life then I hit evasion and SS, gouge backstabbed him to death.

this works alot better at level 22 when you have distraction. the first floor mobs saw me very easily
good luck

It works.
It works as stated here.

Use Ambush on the drones.
Use Evisverate on the upper goblins.
Use Ambush on Gallywix.

I suggest having a healing potion and a thistle tea with you.

Do not use Garrote.

For a detailed briefing (German) have a look here: http://blasc.planet-multiplayer.de/?q=2478

Edited, Fri Apr 21 10:56:28 2006