If you're lazy as me and have a higher leveled character beside the one you're doing the quest on you can just go with the quest-char to the place of the event and start it. then you log on your higher char and kill the centaurs. log on the questchar again and loot the banner piece. Presto :)

This is the last in a line of quests that had you killing centaur and centaur leaders the Barrens over. This final quest spawns a battle between Horde forces and Centaur forces. The Horde forces are typically overrun by the Centaur, unless you help.

In order to get Warlord Krom'zar to spawn, a number of centaur must be defeated. Krom'zar is no pushover though, he's a level 20 elite and comes with a pair of bodyguards, and there's also the rest of the centaur to worry about. Best to do this with others, and the Horde forces can also be counted on to help.

These are the tricks:

Don't let the defenders fall.&nbsp If you see the NPCs fighting the centaurs, support them don't let them die.&nbsp I think (not positive) that if too many defenders die, you lose the battle and Krom'Zar doesn't come.

Otherwise, stay at the fringes of the battle so you don't get overwhelmed.

When Krom'Zar shows up, mark him (a Hunter is good for this).&nbsp He's in the middle of a pool of centaurs.&nbsp Ignore them concentrate all your ranged firepower just on him.

If he's killed, it doesn't matter if you die -- though don't Release Spirit until _after_ he dies!

After the battle, he won't leave a corpse.&nbsp Instead, look for a banner.&nbsp It's tall but thin, and easy to miss.&nbsp Right-click on the banner to get a piece of it.

For those who didn't do the quest right away.

To start the event, just simply talk to him(Quest Giver) and ask "Where is Warlord Krom'zar?"

And you'll see couple of Horde Defenders and Kolkar starting to appear. West of the bunker your at, to be more specific.

This quest can be very deceiving. It is yellow at like lvl 19, but even at a level as high as 22 it cannot be soloed without immense trouble.

Warlord Krom'zar appears on the southern side as far as I can tell, and he comes with his two buddies. The best strategy is to fight only in the south battle so as to get the upper hand with the NPC's on your team. If the Kolkar are outnumbered when Krom'zar appears, then the NPCs can help you with damage and aggro.

The biggest thing to watch out for is the casters that cast Lightning Cloud. It is an aoe attack that will completely destroy any kind of upper had that you can have by wasting your NPC's. If you are careful of that then getting the upper hand is possible.

Overall the best strategy is to just get another lvl 20 or so to help you with the quest. No matter what happens, usually 2 people can DPS him down before he kills them both.

The location of the bunker is the first building West of Rether Deathgate the dude who give you the quest. You have to ask him where the Kolars are or something like that. Then all hell breaks out West of the burned out building West of Rether Deathgate. There must be twenty Kolars that span when you ask.

This quest is impossible to solo as a 23 shaman. I do not believe the guy who said he did it at 18.

Edited, Fri May 6 19:39:33 2005

I'm sure much easier with 2 people, but I was able to solo as a level 19 hunter. I'd recommend waiting to 20, though, since it took me a couple tries and I finished at about 5 life.

Get the southern fight thinned out. Hunter's mark a bodyguard and lay a trap. When Krom'zar and guards are fighting orcs, hit Krom'zar with a sting and then dps down the marked guard. Krom'zar and the other guard will probably kill off the rest of the orcs and come for you. Drop a trap, concussive shot Krom'zar, sting the guard and put the pet on the guard. Run away from the battle toward the south. The trap, pet and sting should kill the bodyguard, leaving just Krom'zar for you to kite using jump-spin concussive shots and a run-through wing clip if he gets too close. He'll follow you pretty far, so make a wide loop south of the road. Kite and dps using pet (taunt OFF), traps, and jump-spin sting and arcane shots.

I solo'd this as a 23 priest with no pots, but with bandages.&nbsp I died a bunch of times before I realized that the Kolkars eventually retreat.&nbsp So just hang back, help the NPCs out, and just figure out which side the Warlord is on.&nbsp Some ppl say to heal the NPCs, but they respawn so quickly it's almost not worth it.&nbsp The Kolkars will thin out as they retreat--try not to engage the Warlord before this happens or they'll slaughter you with sheer numbers.&nbsp

I was able to draw the Warlord way back towards the hut where the questgiver is, and that worked amazingly well because that's where the horde NPCs spawn and then they immediately started helping me out.&nbsp

To recap--be patient and don't target the Warlord early if you're soloing.&nbsp This quest is really an exciting challenge compared to the other mindless stuff we normally have to complete...

You need to finish this chain quest http://classicdb.ch/?quest=852 to get this;)

Attempted it as a lvl 19 Warrior.&nbsp A lvl 31 mage happened along to give me a hand.&nbsp Couldn't stop me from dying 3x in a row.&nbsp Then she died too.&nbsp I started playing it cautious, picking off the centaurs at the edges and constantly backing away because they respawn all around you otherwise.&nbsp Me and the orcs were kicking butt on the right flank, but somehow the mage had split off far to left.&nbsp She killed the character and the battle ended.&nbsp Though she was in my party, I never saw the flag and couldn't loot it.

I tried 4 more times in a row, this time I always went to the left cuz that's where the baddie shows up.&nbsp As soon as I picked him out he would charge me along with 4 of his buddies.&nbsp I died fast each time.&nbsp The last 2 times I was very careful to pull him alone, and I thought I had it in the bag.&nbsp Then surprise, out of his butt comes two more baddies.&nbsp Really, he somehow gave birth on the battlefield cuz they weren't there while I pulled him 50 yards out from the battle line.&nbsp I killed his two bodyguards, but then he killed me.

I saw the notes on here about how you should target him, then let the orcs finish him off.&nbsp So I tried that.&nbsp Didn't work at all.&nbsp The orcs fell like grain to the scythe.&nbsp Total wimps.&nbsp Kolkars slaughtered them as fast as the orcs could spawn.&nbsp I didn't even see a single centaur fall, once I was dead.&nbsp I think I'll switch allegiance to the Kolkars.

Insanely this shows up as merely yellow difficulty in my quest log.&nbsp Yet it's eaten every potion I've had and my armor is falling off my back due to dying so many times.&nbsp An interesting quest but way overpowered.&nbsp Also, not easy to form a party around, because it's at the end of a long painful chain.&nbsp

I did this last night with my 19 Tauren Druid and a friend 22 Undead Rogue, we just kinda mixed in with the grunts, got a total of maybe 7 kills (as measured by non-insta-decay corpses) out of the ~50 centaurs that came, the grunts got the rest. I never even saw the boss come in, friend killed him while I was working on some normal guys. The banner is not loot per se, its a usable (gear cursor) item standing straight up over the boss' corpse, a tall vertical flag.