The full quest chain for The Battle of Darrowshire:

• 1. Little Pamela
• 2. Pamela's Doll
• 3. Auntie Marlene
• 4. A Strange Historian
• 5. The Annals of Darrowshire
• 6. Brother Carlin
• 7a. Villains of Darrowshire
• 7b. Heroes of Darrowshire
• 8. Marauders of Darrowshire
• 9. Return to Chromie
• 10. The Battle of Darrowshire
• 11. Hidden Treasures

Villains and Heroes do both need to be completed in order to get Marauders. However, Defenders of Darrowshire (the Uncle Carlin chain) does not need to be completed in order to get to The Battle of Darrowshire.

Western Plaguelands - 42,18

Inside of the Town Hall.&nbsp Take a left as you enter Hearthglen, up the road, you will see two 56 elite paladins outside on both sides of the doors along with archery targets.

The book is inside, you will face 2 more 56 elite paladins as you enter the building, then one more inside the next small room.&nbsp Finally two more right beside the book.

Completed as a 56 Warrior:

1. Ran in and died near the front

2. Went shield/1h and pulled them

3. Hamstringed both

4. Warstomped

5. Ran and grabbed the book, died and spirit rezzed.

Western Plaguelands
42.18 (sumwhere in heartglen)
63.57 (sumwhere in gahrons withering)

Quest starts in Eastern plaguelands, but gehron's whithering and hearthglen are in WESTERN PLAGUELANDS

Jesus - took me 2 hours running arround darrowshire in eastern plaguelands trying to find the missing items -- - ---

WESTERN PLAGUELANDS After you receive the quest is where the items you need are located.

This quest is of moderate difficulty to do without dieing. I did this as a level 60 warlock.

The shield is the easiest, but watch out for aggro from the haunts standing around the grain silos (If you did the time rift quest in Andorahl for the bronze dragonflight you will recognize these structures).

The book is in the main (large room) of the building at 42,19 on the table just as you enter the room. The building has a large clock tower. I had to kill 7 mobs to get the book safely. I pulled the two guards in front of the gate to Hearthglen down the road a ways and feared them unto death. All of the mobs can self heal so this makes the quest difficult especially if fighting two at a time. I was able to go left upon entering the town and stayed close to the left wall and bypassed the mob just to the right.

Follow the left path up around up the hill and the building is straight ahead on the left, next to the ballista missile sqaud. There is a 61 elite that walks up and down the road so watch out for him. I pulled the mob standing to the left of the stairs in front of the clocktower building down the road and killed him. The mob standing on the right of the stairs I pulled behind the building where I could fear him so he couldn't heal. This makes killing the mobs very easy. Next, I had a double pull from just inside the entrance, again, around the back of the building so I could fear. They died, but took longer. The little room just before the main room has one mob so I pulled him around back a took care of business. I then had my void attack the two guards in the main room grabbed the book and ran. I didn't use sacrifice since when you get so far away from your void he disappears you leave combat immediately and you get your soul shard back. Right before the entrance to Hearthglen I summoned my horse and fled cackling all the way.

Just soloed with 55 combat rogue.
Some tips to fellow rogues:

- Carefull with the part at the barn, it's a bit nasty coz some undead tend to hide good but they can still aggro you and they won't hesitate to bring company with them. Clear the space behind the barn from any spiders/bears/undead and lure the rest over there.

- One you get the shield, don't be afraid of the "Haunted" debuff. It's just an ornament. A ghost may spawn once in a while spamming stuff but luckily it's presence passes out of the attention of any mobs.

Now for the Hearthglen part, it was the first quest where I had to face radar mobs -I call them that way coz they have this thing above their heads. They have almost the double aggro range compared to normal mobs and they see you in stealth like it doesn't exist at all. Even if you turn them around with Distract and get close to them (in order to sap or w/e), they will still aggro you, probably because The Scarlet Crusade has invented underground movement sensors.

However, even though these sentinels have supernatural vision, they're probably deaf or dumb, meaning you can aggro any of the 4 of them guarding the gate without the fear of aggroing another aswell. So, do whatever is necessary to kill at least 2 of them so that you can pass unoticed (Evasion is required at every attempt to kill). Don't worry, the respawn time is way too long.

Once you get inside the fort, things are much easier. Just stay the hell away from other radar mobs and head to the City hall. Sap everything in your way to the main room. If you have cooldowns in your skills, I suggest you wait a bit until they're ready.

Load up some mind numbing and crippling poisons, any agility/stamina/strength scrolls you have on you and prepare for a tough fight. Sap the left paladin, and kill the other VERY carefully, controlling him with stuns and kicks not to heal himself and not to start running around the room like crazy coz he might bring the other paladin in the room next door, ruining that way your hopes for ninjaing the book. Should that happen, Vanish and start over. Continuing our plan, kill the right paladin as fast as you can and trying to save as many abilities you can. Once he's dead, quickly move to the top of the room (if you haven't done it already) and bandage yourself. Kill the other mob saving kidney shot for when he starts running.
These mobs use:
- Heal
- Bubble
- A kind of strike (which damages you)

When the second paladin hits the ground, go stealth -> sap the paladin next door (likewise "girl next door"), take the libram and gth out of there. Probably, the gate guards wouldn't have been spawned at that time, so you can go out the same way you went in. If, however, you enjoy danger -like me- you can train everything in your way using Evasion+sprint and spice things up!

Stealth detection rofl. Blizzard ftw. I hope they don't put lazers on Arthas.

Soloed this as a lvl 59 Hunter. When you come to the right house. Dismiss pet. Run in and feign death in the far end of the room. Res and put out an icetrap. Call pet and heal up before you start to fight the Lord. Finally take on the two palas at the other end of the room. The book is now yours for the taking. The shield is outside the barn on the right corner from the front, not inside as has been suggested. It takes a little patience and is absolutely possible to solo.

I suggest at least a small group to do this quest and the ones that follow it for anyone below lvl 60. This quest is a chain with a followup. Once you complete "Heroes of Darrowshire" and "Villains of Darrowshire" you are then able to get a new quest from Carlin Redpath called "Marauders of Darrowshire". Finish that and you can get "Battle of Darrowshire." Then "Hidden Treasures" is last and gives you a choice of these quest rewards:
[Ring of Protection] or [Archlight Talisman] or [Magebane Scion]

Good luck to you and I hope all goes well!
Also if this was helpful to you please rate it up. TY!

~Tessalyn, Dragonblight server

This was incredibly easy as a priest. you can get inside hearthglen without fighting anyone - just run past the initial guards and go left, there you can find a safe spot where the mobs following you will turn back. From there run to the entrance of the town hall. Then just shield and run in. The book is glowing and is on a table to the left in the main part of the town hall. Once you get next to the book, fear the five or six guys on you and loot the book, then re-shield and run out.

I am thinking before you do this quest, go do the https://classicdb.ch/quest=5862 quest. This quest will change you into a scarlet crusader for 30 minutes and at this time you will be allied with them. So u can stroll in the scarlet base and take the quest item without much incident.

If you plan your questing accordingly you can do this easily. Good luck to all.

Quest is no longer elite since patch 2.3 and have a group tag by a mistake I think. Whole Hearthglen's mobs nowdays lost their Elite status and now they are simply lvl 54-57 humanoids. Only thing you may want to know is a 61 lvl elite Paladin patrouiling near city gates and Town Hall and very rare 60 lvl rare mob (Scarlet Judge) spawn in building there your libram exists.

58 priest

This is easily soloable if you're ready to die for it.

Mind soothe the gate guards and the paladins on your way to the town hall, run in and die in the far end of the town hall. Run in, rez and mind soothe the pallyes. Loot, fear if you get an unlucky add, run out. You can get outside of leash range before you meet another mob. Mind soothe your way out.

Think this may be possible without death, if you know where the book is. First table in main room of town hall, btw. :)

This is how i done it. I had some magic powder on me, it puts a monster asleep. I ran in and died. Walked back and rezzed and and bandaged. I put one of the guards asleep near the book and began building rage. When my fear skill was ready i targeted the sleeping one and feared the other...grabbed the book and ran like mad.

I bought the magic dust from the AH for like 10s

Hope this helps

Shield part:

• Go the field kill 2-3 sourounding mobs and take it

Libram part:

• Go to hearthglen

• Dismiss ur pet

• Run in the room in the middle of it and click FD

• Get up and call ur pet

• Send your pet to tak the mobs

• While ur pet fights open the libram

• Run out and FD again

Ur free to go!

Use the usual method of getting nearby by mounting past the first guards and veer left, when you're near the Town Hall get your Imp out first, SS up, and zerg into the town hall. If there are less than 6 mobs just HoT them and grab it. If there are, run toward the empty space and let them kill you. Pop the SS and summon your VW. Send him in to agro both, and rush over to grab the book. By the time you get the book he'll be nearly dead, hit Sacrifice and start hauling ass out of there. You should be able to get them to leash back before your Sac shield up down.

The Shield is at 64,57
Outsite the Barn

The Libram is at 42,18
Inside the building, aka the Town House, in the largest room at the back

Both Objects hav shinny auras around them...

The shield is easy. The Libram takes some work. I am level 60 hunter, I used Freezing Traps and Viper Sting,to drain mana and rapid fire. I was able to kill 1 pali b4 the other came out of the trap. (these are the Pallies outside the building, and the two just inside the entrance) My spec is 0/20/31.

Inside the building where the Libram is, I set a freezing trap for one of the Pallies set my pet on the other, got the libram, AOTC and recalled pet and was outta there.

Some people just have to accept that not everyone uses Cord Mods....so heres a better explination of locaction...it IS in WPL. Shield is located in Gahrrons Withering, outside of barn, right side of barn door....East WPL...use your map.&nbsp If you play it right, you might only have to kill 1 or 2.

Libram is in Hearthglen which is in the top middle portion of your map.&nbsp A little harder to get.&nbsp Run in if youre mounted...pretty simple..when you come up to main gate turn left...theres a small area to chill and mobs will de-agro.&nbsp Health and/or Mana up.&nbsp Town Hall has a big clock tower attached. Yes you can do it without ablility to stealth....if you cant scream/fear then bring someone who can...once inside make a quick left, a quick right, and waaaaalaaaa. its on the table with 2 on each side...

Simple as lvl 60 shadow priest

Hola back youngins.

-Reverrend
Vek linash
Word to your mother
BRH fo life.

People are trying to do this in an unnecessarily difficult way.&nbsp I rode in and around to the right, didn't need vanish at this point, the mobs were so far spread apart that I managed to kite them around into an opening and stealthed when they gave up... got past the first 3 paladins in the building simply enough using distract and the cabinet that runs behind one of them (which you can jump on).&nbsp In the main room, waited until the named walked to the far end of the room and threw a distract for him just to give an extra little bit of time, sapped one paladin, blinded the other (can't believe how few people thought of this), easily looted the book and vanished.&nbsp Took 5 minutes, L56 rogue.

Ok, I solo'd this as a druid.

When facing the building, kill off whatever mob is on the left of the entrance as he's in the kiting path. They're pretty easy to solo when they're alone.

Stealth in the building and get to the back of the room where it's safe to pop out of stealth. Put on your tanking gear and get as much stam on as you can. Cast regrowth on yourself and rejuvenation, then hit cat form and make for the door. Target the left Scarlet Paladin (closest to the libram) and faerie fire him as you're going out the door. Keep faerie firing him everytime the cool down comes up (spam the button) as you don't need to be facing him to get it to affect him.

Head out of the build and jump off the right ledge. Head towards the tower with the spiraling staircase which is about 100 game yds away. Keeping faerie firing that Scarlet Paladin you first targetted. Head between the 2 guards of the tower and head up the stairs all the way to the top of the tower. On the way up the stairs stay close to the edge and try to land faerie fires on the guard.

At the top, turn right and jump off from that side towards the front of the tower. At this point stop faerie firing. In catform, you'll take around 600dmg from the fall. Pop out of cat, rejuvenate yourself, back to cat form and head back to the building. By the time you get to the front you'll be out of combat and can stealth back inside.

The right guard which I did not target was back in position. The left was not. I pulled the right guard to the back to the room and solo'd. The left guard never showed up.

Not sure how easilly reproducable this is for futured druids, but it worked for me. (^^)b

As a 56 rogue this quest was actually fairly easy, although i see how it could be very difficult for some classes:

For the libram, i ran past the two front guards of Hearthglen without bothering to stealth (they would see me anyway), and partway into the entrance. Before aggroing the other two at the end of the entrance i pulled vanish and stealthed right on into town hall (with a few distracts here and there). Went to back room, sapped the one closer to the back wall (away from the other room) and then blinded the other. Clicked the book, waited 5 seconds. Somehow a pally from the other room saw me and aggroed towards the end of the loot, but she couldnt get to me before the timer was up. Grabbed the book, vanished, stealthed out.

The shield really doesnt even warrant an explanation. Pull mobs one by one around the shield until you have a clear path to loot. Quest complete.

as of Tuesday July 5th it works properly, I got 5800xp at 59

Did this earlier today, solo with 1 death.

Run into the town hall, turn right and die at the lecturn / pulpit. Run back from GY and ressurect at the pulpit, buff sta etc.

When ready, mind soothe both guards at the table, move forward to see the guard in the doorway and mind soothe her. Get to the book mind soothe will run out, scream the guards and loot. Shield then run out.

The shield is located at

Western Plaguelands
Gahrron's Withering
64,57

This is the field with wraiths and haunting visions in.
The shield is in front of the barn that has the two silos to the right of it.

Solo'd tonight as a 60 feral druid...the shield was dead easy, stealth close, take out 2 of the ghosts that were near the shield, and loot!

The book was much more difficult...took out the 2 guards at the main entrance of Hearthglen as they see right thru stealth - rooted one, bear formed the other one until roots broke, then shifted out, stunned em, rooted again, and finished off the first guard. I was able to heal myself before the roots broke again and then took out the second guard. On to the town hall... stealthed in to the last room where the book is on the table guarded by the 2 pally's. I started off by throwing a rejuv & regrowth on myself, quickly shifted to bear and got started fighting (cant root indoors as others have said). When the pallys go to heal I would bash (stun) the one that I was fighting so she couldnt finish her heal. Used my frenzied regen, got her ALMOST dead and she started running around the room. I used this chance to shift out (had about 400 health or so by now) and used war stomp to stun the one still on me, throw a healing pot, regrowth and a rejuv, and then back into bear to finish off the one running around the room. After the one was dead it was straight forward from there...I gotta say it was a very tough fight tho with them healing each other.

Tuha

Edited, Jan 9th 2007 1:39am by JeepboyTJ

I tried running into the hall for the libram as a 58 fire mage, threw up a mana shield, gathered all the mobs into a bunch in the main room away from the table, frost nova'd them, then got stunned by one of them after mana shield dropped. I was able to blink away with a tiny amount of health left, clicked on the book, it gave the progress bar (like 4s to open book I think), then my character promptly sat down in the middle of it interupting the book opening. I don't know what that was about. Of course by then the mobs had broken the nova and I died.

Then I spirited into the hall, realized the rare mob Scarlet Judge was there (and apparently why I was stunned). So I waited for the judge to reach the back of the room on the dais, res'd and sheeped him, evocation and a heavy runecloth, then remembering the advice of someone earlier regarding the use of the winterfall mechanical yeti, I summoned him in the middle of the room. Of course he aggros the sheep first, and was unable to do any damage to the Judge. I resheeped the judge when the yeti was at about 2/5 health, and the yeti stopped aggroing. Bandaged the yeti, then threw up a mana shield and walked into the two elites near the book, the yeti drew one (guess you have to summon him before drawing aggro to get him to grab everyone), the gaurd in the hallway behind came up and I was able to frost nova the remaining two, get the book and get out without a problem. So, I guess that was a wasted use of the yeti, oh well :)

There use to not be any mobs inside by the
Libram. Looks like in a recent patch they
added 2 guards by the libram and the guard
closest to the hall is linked to the left
guard. So that's 3 56th level elites you
must contend with now.

I just solo'd it as a rogue. What I did was
sap the guard furthest from the hall. Then
blind the other guard. Also evasion. The
opening of the libram aggro's the hall guard.
But you have time to loot. Then hit vanish.
If something goes wrong vanish early try again.

Edited, Tue Mar 7 21:34:20 2006

Make SURE you click the BOOK. In the heat of the moment with a bad camera angle, it's easy to accidently click a chair through the table. Let me tell ya, having a seat while you're trying to grab and go....sucks.

Everyone complained soloing with a druid in this q.I have tryed and maneged from the first attempt.I'm a lvl 58 feral druid and I'm alchy.I killed the 2 guard at the entrance since they can see through stealth.Then I went in stealth all the way until the town hall.Inside there is one more pala but he doesnt atackif u aggro the 2 palas that are at the table.That was good:P.I went in the back of the room where they didnt atack and made severial potions : Superior Defense, Elixir of Fortitude, Brutal Force and agility.Then I ate a giant omlette (+12 sta and spirit).I went at them in catform after casting regroth+rej on me.I pounced one of the guards one of the guards then I lowerd his health at about half then I &*!@ed normal...barkskin+regroth+rej and then the HT.Notice that in the mid time they healthemselfs but at a high cost of mana.They can heal in total like 4 times.After this I beared,bash one one tryed 2 heal, mangle, and a few more atacks then I build up rage for frezyed reg.B4 I was at 800 health I activated frenziee reg.They have healed now at least 3 times.Bash was ready again.I bashed one of the pala, normalform+major healing potion+barkskin+inervate(mana low:P)+regroth+rej+HT.By now both of the palas have exhausted all of their mana.Very easy from here.Bear form, kill one of th pala(v easy if u ask me) then heal and kill the other pala.Piece of cake.After they are out of mana they are easy targets.So if u are alchy feral druid u can try this way.U only have to use Fortitude, Defense,Brutal Force , agility (for high crits) and a major healing potion.Hope this helps.Have fun!And .. DRUID RULES :P

56 NE Priest, solo'd.

The shield, as was said before, is super easy. It is located in front of the barn and has a purple glow to it. Very easy.

The book is difficult. Up into Hearthglen, and into the Town Hall, there are 2 56e Paladins in the doorway, 1 more in a hallway and 2 more guarding the book. Basically, I ran into the Town Hall as far as I could and placed myself right on top of the book (on the 1st table in the main hall). Of course, I died quickly and made a ghost run back upto my corpse. If you don't know where the book is, stay Ghosty and find it. You need to revive on it. Once you are ready, revive, hopefully only where the 2 book guarders aggro you. At that point, Psychic Scream, Shield, Open Book, Die.

That's all. I assume a Mage could do it as well by falling back and using Frost Nova to snare the 2 guards and then open the book and maybe Blink out? Rogue can Stealth it. Warrior can fear it as well. Lock can VW sac if they have instant summon. Paladin can bubble up. Hunter can FD away and use the pet as bait. Druid? Shaman? Anyways, some helpful stuff, I hope.

I wanted to share how I solved this problem with my 58 warrior. As a warrior, I lack the ability to stealth, etc. To get to the town hall, I had a palidan escort me to the building and we both got killed in the lobby by 3 Scarlet Palidans from inside and 1 from outside. The computer's strategy in my encounter was to fight us 1:1 with a palidan while the other healed them full time. My Palidan escort went offline due to a power outage, so I returned to the room alone. In the room with the libram were 2 55 elite palidan guards. I rezed in front of them at the table, hit rage, then intimidating shouted to fear them away, grabed the item and ran out the door. Made it to the street before the 5 guards got me. I thought I was out of luck until I remembered our ability to fear opponents. GL to future warriors.

I have no idea if this was a fluke or what, but i walked right into Hearthglen in stealth (i'm combat/assassination spec) right into the building, walked into the main room stood on the table got the book and left without ever fighting or seeing a guard for that matter...