So easy that you are probably missing it.&nbsp :)

The turn in is down the hall to your right after the Ring of Law on the way to the Shadowforge City.&nbsp As the quest states, it is a statue of the dwarf and it requires Ironfel which drops from the guy that an above poster states is in Shadowforge City.

Can anyone give more information on where to find the NPC that drops the Ironfel?&nbsp We get past the Ring of Law and into Shadowforge City, but we did not have time to explore that well.&nbsp Is it fairly linear but just a LOT of NPCs to fight to get to him?

Enter Blackrock Depths. Go directly forward, through the large open area, and enter the Eastern tunnel on the far side.

At the first left, turn and enter the "Ring of the Law".&nbsp After completing the mini-event, take the Western door, and run up the ramp into the "Eastern Garrison".&nbsp At the top of the ramp, immediately turn right, and run up the steps to the upper level of the "Ring of the Law".

Run around the viewing gallery to the tunnel on the far side. Go down the ramp into the Shrine of Thaurissan.&nbsp At the bottom of the ramp, turn right, and go to the end of the tunnel.&nbsp You will see the statue at the end of the tunnel to turn in the hammer.

It's easy for rogues and druid to stealth there. He's in the room right behind Incendius, therefore any walkthrough on soloing Incendius can be used to get to him. I can stealth to him with the shadowforge key in less than 5 minutes with virtually no risk.

With or without the key you can do it with a stealth team (rogues and druids).

Without the key:
Just stealth into the arena (straight across the first circular room). Dogs can see through stealth but at 60 this just means you have to be wary of the patrols a little. Once you're in the arena everyone get up off the the arena floor proper, on the curved rock section to the right as you enter. One person step on the grate in the middle to start the event and then join the others fast (all stealth). Now just wait. Once the spawns have been around awhile the gate to the left of where you entered opens regardless of whether you've fought, go through there and...

With or without a key:
...you enter the same room you can get to with the key after opening the two gates and the door from the beginning, the one with the big gear in the lower area of the room. Don't activate the big gear, you don't need to do it to get to fineous and it can make exiting the instance at the end harder. So from the gear room stealth down the hallway (if you find yourself in the circular arena again you went the wrong way) and when you get to the "dead end" jump out the window to your right, the one with cannons pointing out of it. Hop down, then follow the platform towards the elemental guards, keep going past incendius (although I highly recommend killing him too, he's cake for more than one person and drops FR gear, just be wary of getting knocked back into the lava) and tadaa! There's fineous standing in the next room. He looks like he stays there but it you wait a looong time he patrols which gives you the chance to clear the adds around him.

He does hit like a truck, hard to take him out with less than 3 60s. Me and another 60 druid couldn't do it although I think it's doable, got him to less than 50% but then lagged to death in the end.

Turning in requires that you backtrack all the way to the gear room. Without the key this is not possible since you jumped out the window so I suggest everyone just get naked and jump in the lava. Once you're in the gear room keep taking the stairways up and you will be on the spectator level. circle around, and exit via the matching stairway on the other side. Hang a right, go all the way to the end of the hallway and jump up on the fire stand on the LEFT (jump on it by approaching from in front of the statue, you will have to get pretty close to some mobs to do this and the jump timing is irritating but keep trying and you'll get up). You will find that you can go behind the statue on the left side! Get back as far as you can and you can unstealth and click on the statue to turn in without any aggro. Gratz you got your key u da bomb.

After u get the ironfel go back to the arena and go upstairs to where the spectators are, go across ( towards the north ) and make a right, the statue is in there, one rogue can sap and distract while the other rogue/druid can loot the statue.

Just enter BRD, skip the Detention block and enter the Ring of Law. After the event, go up to the Garrison. If you are there, turn around ant take the stairs up, left of the entrace you came in. Walk the upper area of Ring of Law and you will see some enemies in the next hallway. Kill them and look right, there is the Monument. But go left now and enter Shadowforge City. Enter the first house and fight your way to the stairway down. If you move on, you will see Incendius on a platform below. Walk the whole half ring there and enter the last room, not the Vault! Kill the golem, the first group of engineers and golems and the patrolling golem. You will see Fineous Darkvine. Just wait there. Once in 5 mins he will patrol up all the stairs and check anvils or something. This is the time to kill him. Attack him and disturb his heals, he will drop Ironfel. Now get all the way back to the Monument, described earlier and kill the elites and RARE in front of it. Use the statue and the key, and some money, is yours!

If you are lvl 70, you can solo it i think, I can, but I think you won't need anything there.

Just tried Duoing him , 57 rogue and 60 rogue . Took some tricks to clear the top alcove he walks to but After engaging him it became quickly apparent he is not possible to do. Well unless you are seriously Twinked out .....but then you wouldnt be needing this key in the first place. The guy is a pally and can hit for over 1k =/

You can turn it in solo as a rogue.&nbsp Stealth up to the statue (across the arena upper level, down the steps on the east side of the arena, make a right turn go to the end of the hall...)
When you see the two flame pots, sneak over to the left side, and face the fire pot and the upper level that the statue sits on.&nbsp Back up a step and then jump forward.&nbsp You should be able to walk behind the statue from here.&nbsp First, pop a distract to make everyone look away form the statue (center it behind the flame elemental guy so you get bothe twilight elites turned around) and run back to behind the statue and activate it.&nbsp Continue and end the quest you will get your key and some cash.&nbsp Stealth before the distract wears off and walk out.

---peace

Me, (lvl 59, several greens, combat spec) and another rogue, (60, mostly blues, also combat spec), duo'd the mob that drops the hammer necessary for the key.&nbsp Using Zero260's excellent instructions we got to a room with tons of "Wrath hammer Constructs" We killed the one that is by the top of the ramp, (ramp goes down north from the door, then takes a 90 degree turn west, again heading down, then takes another 90 degree turn south creating an up side down U.&nbsp You will enter on the right side of the upside down U)&nbsp There are also some dwarven workers in an alcove to the right, 3, be careful not to aggro them when killing the first stationary Construct, as they hit hard even though non elite.&nbsp

After you kill the dwarves, there is a patrolling Construct.&nbsp Kill him, and now you should have most of the right part of the upside down U to yourselves (the part before it begins to turn into a ramp)&nbsp Look across, and you should see Fineous Darkvire at the bottom of the left side of the upside down U.&nbsp He will stand there for quite a while, but eventually if you wait, (5-10 minutes by my estimate, its a while, be patient)&nbsp He walks up the ramp to where you cleared the stationary, and patrolling construct, and the dwarven workers.&nbsp Here you begin your battle.&nbsp

I cant say exactly the best way to beat him, but basically my buddy got aggro first, and we brought him down as far as possible.&nbsp He used evasion and a major health pot.&nbsp After he was close to death, he vanished leaving me with the aggro.&nbsp I used evasion and blade flurry, and got down close to death.&nbsp I kidney shotted him and popped a major health potion.&nbsp then after we downed him, we looted the mallet and got outta there =D

Second part of the quest was going to the statue to finish the quest.&nbsp There are 5 mobs guarding the statue, 2 elites, (flame guard, and twilight something or other, and 3 dwarven peasents)&nbsp Best way to do this would be to duel sap the elites, (providing both have IMP SAP.)&nbsp Seeing as I wasnt specced with it, we chose the sure fire way out, I put on evasion, and sprint in stealth, then sapped one of the elites, and ran like hell drawing the aggro away from the statue.&nbsp The other rogue, clicked on the statue, and turned in the quest getting the key.&nbsp Remember there are 2 "continues" before you actually finish the quest.&nbsp so do a rapid fire before your pal dies, and the mobs run back.&nbsp (the runner prob will die, i died even after i did a vanish, you aggro like 3 groups)

were is the shine of thuarissan, is it in brd or in the ruins of thuarissan and if it is..were is it?

Okay, I did the rescue the princess quest and it was bugged...she wouldn't release from his spells and kept attacking. I pst'd a GM...FORGET IT.&nbsp Have to abandon it and do it over.&nbsp So if you dropped your key...you have to redo the quest.

Also, it is not a random drop.&nbsp It is a quest item that is picked up EVERY time.&nbsp If you get that Ironfel, you turn it in, and that's it.&nbsp

The quest itself can ONLY be picked up when dead.&nbsp You HAVE to listen to his whole schpeil...(sp) then when done, the exclamation point will pop up over his head.&nbsp If it doesn't listen again, cuz you didn't listen to it all the first time.&nbsp It is in Fortwright's Tomb on the way down in to BRD before the molton span and the final chain on that big tomb sitting in the middle of the room.&nbsp GOOD LUCK :)

Jocelynn (Boulderfist)

This was semi hard to find, but once you find it... it's easy. Take a group.

From the Ring of Law ("upstairs" when there crowd is). If you enter from the archway to the on the west side, directly across from you and on the top is another archway. You have to make your way over to it via killing the crowd (unless you did the ring of law event, they turn yellow).

Once you get over there, you enter the Shrine of Thaurissan (it's an area, not a true shrine object)

Kill the mobs and the patrols and turn right (headed south). Near the end is the statue of Franclorn. Pyromancer Loregrain (a rare spawn) has a chance to pop right in front of it.

Kill them and turn in the quest. Walla.

The statue is right behind where the Rare Pyromancer spawns.&nbsp Make a right after passing all the spectators above the ring of law.

This guy is a tough fight... I used everything I had against him.
Killed him the first time, it was extremely hard, but I was happy... looted him, no hammer... realized I didn't have the quest >.<

Second time, very hard again, but I killed him, died at the same time. Ran back, looted him, then stupidly jumped off the lava and happily died, thinking I needed to talk to the ghost again.

Nope.

Let's hope the last part is easier... I just want my damn key so I can farm for the Ace of Elementals!

A guide to the monument:
Enter the instance open the door to your left. Then the next one on your right and then the other one on your left again. Take the stairs up and then go straight on to the stairs leading up. Go around the stands and you will find the stairs leading down. Go down to the room and then right all the way. The "Monument of Franclorn Forgewright" is @ the end of the room.

Thats the path... you need to go with a group unless you are a rogue. You must do the arena event to make Neutral the people on stands. As a rogue level 57 i stealthed all the way and then i went back of the "Monument of Franclorn Forgewright" and i completed the quest without aggroing the mobs.

If you have the ability to stealth past all of the mobs, you can use the Ironfel hammer on the statue without getting aggroed. Just jump up between on the fire brazier on the left of the statue and the tall platform that the statue is on. Hop onto the platform after that and head behind the statue. Back there, you can turn in the Ironfel hammer for the key without having to fight. Worked for me.

Hi, Im a lvl 60 rogue and I was wondering if it was possible to stealth to the Architect ( Fineous Darkvire) and if it is , could some guide me?

Does Ironfel not drop everytime Fineous Darkvire is killed? I had the quest this past weekend and killed him but he didn't drop Ironfel. I thought that quest drops (of this kind) in instances were supposed to be 100%?

Edited, Sat Jun 25 16:32:23 2005

where do I find 'Shrine of Thaurissan'?

if you use the shadowforge key to get to the ring of law, how do you get to the arena so the dwarves wont attack you?

This quest is not sharable too.

after you kill lord incidious run to other end of ramp there youll fight some fire elementals the u can go to fd chamber he has a bunch of golemes around him take out left side first then pull him back on to ramp. after u get iron fell off him, you need to run thru ring of law on the top side and go to shrine go right, down the hall to the end, shrine is there at end. and tada shadow forge key! lol not easy by no means but doable :)

Searching the ruins outside BRM and I can't find this statue. Where do I bring Ironfel?

Oh nevermind, it's the Shrine of Thaurissan, nvm.

Edited, Mon May 29 13:33:26 2006

In the "Ring of Law" u have to beat the arena and when your done the dwarves wont attack u.

I made the same mistake in assuming that you placed ironfel on the statue in the ruins in burning steppes... I didn't have ironfel, but my mage buddy did. wasted alot of time out there for nothing. the statue is after a miniboss on the upper level of the ring of law (above the arena) getting to that point is easy, its getting to fineous again that I am having trouble with.

where is the statue?

man where the #$%^ is Shrine of Thaurissan ?inside BRD?

Hehe, I did this quest at level 70 for the fun of it with my Paladin. Because you're level 70, you can skip nearly all the mobs besides the Arena event without getting aggroed.Even at the Shrine itself where Pyromancer whatshisname was there with his 2 cronies. I was actually able to walk right beside them (hugging the wall of course) and 'talk' to the statue and complete the quest without them even aggroing me at all. Although, I did kill them all after I was done just for fun. :D

is there anyway to recover this key ?