Was first to finish it on Al'Akir and I will try to list the tips here:

Best combo
The best combination for completing this quest is:
4 Paladins, 1 Priest (harder to get to event, but easier to complete)
3 Paladins, 1 Mage, 1 Priest (easier to get to event, but harder to complete)

Don't bring warriors for the sake of "warrior holds aggro from mage" crap or "rogues have very good dmg output" crap
You need good Paladins for this quest, as unleashing correct seals will do Area Effect damage to all ghosts withing 10 yards[/i]

You need highest ranks in following Seals:

• Seal of Wisdom (rank 3) -> Banality
• Seal of Justice (rank 1) -> Malicious
• Seal of Righteousness (rank 8) -> Corrupted
• Seal of Light (rank 4) -> Shadowed

Don't spam Judgements
Wait for stun effect fade from ghosts between unleashing next Judgement (takes about 4 seconds).

Stay in North-East corner until boss comes
Stay in North-East corner until boss comes and refresh as much as possible (drink mana potions, heal, resurrect, buff).

If you fail, you have to restart instance
If you are wiped out after activating quest event, all doors leading to the basement will be closed, so you must reset instance to restart event.
If you fail abandon and re-accept quest to receive the items for starting the event.

At boss pray that you don't get a message "Server restarting for maintenance" which had happened to me.

Protector
Al'Akir

Just did it a second time last night, so have done it successfully with both 3 pallies, warlock, priest as well as 4 pallies and a priest. Followed the advice here to great effect, but I'll write-up everything we did in case it helps even if there's some repetition.

Getting to the event:

• Big trouble we had with four pallies and priest was the room with the summoners, as the summoner would run off and get to close to the next group and then summon skeletons til we wiped, which happened a few times. Without a mage for counterspell or shadow priest for silence or whatever, make good use of your hammers of justice and if the next group gets pulled, concentrate on at least taking down the original summoner before wiping/divine interventioning. Might be slow going, but with a bit of stubborness you'll get through.
• Rest is fairly simple. Without a warlock/mage, the whelp room can be cleared by pulling them out into the next room and having one pally tank the Handler while the rest take a whelp or two each. Consecrating pulls too much damage on one person really.
• Risen constructs and Rattlegore, easier now post patch, should be able to pull them all alone without trouble with a bit of patience. One pally tanks with a shield, seal of fury, judged fury and consecration while being healed by the priest and the rest just do damage.

Before the event:

• We were all positioned in the SW corner both times, which worked fine. When the third wave happens, some spawn on top of you here, so be ready.
• Judgement order is of course Wisdom, Justice, Righteousness, Light. It's a good idea to have all the pallies arrange them in that order on their action bar to keep the order easy to remember and quick to access.
• Make sure everyone has health pots, mana pots, bandages etc if possible and the like, always good to have in reserve if things are getting cut close. Make sure all the pallies have a Symbol of Divinity, and is up to speed on how Divine Intervention works too. Using this, I was able to stop a wipe on the fourth wave as the priest was safely tucked away in the corner (course, it was my pull that nearly wiped us, but anyway...).
• Pallies shouldn't be doing anything but applying the seal, judging it when it's their turn, and meleeing. As long as the spirits are kept stunned, they're not a problem. Things like exorcism are a waste of mana. After judging, it's good to reapply the seal immediately to have it ready and also get its benefit in the fights, especially on the last wave.
• Keep devotion, concentration and shadow resistance auras on.

The waves of spirits

• In general, stay hidden in your corner (priest at the back), all bunched together and deal with the spirits that are immediately on you each wave. Pallies should have an order established for the judgements so one is in effect all the time on the spirits. Once a particular fight is done, take the time to drink a bit and see if any more spawn in aggro range. After a while, if none are forthcoming, have someone run out and pull some of the far off ones with an exorcism.
• The aspect is slightly bigger than the other ones, watch out for when he appears. Some of the time, he doesn't aggro immediately, letting you shackle at your leisure while finishing off groups. If he gets to close to your corner, might be an idea to leave him shackled there then run out and finish the others before coming back to him.
• First wave: Easy. Non-elites and gives everyone a chance to practice their judgements. Basically the warm-up round.
• Second wave: Little tougher. Elites this time, but pretty much the same as before. Only thing to watch out for is that they look similar enough to the first wave to be confused for them, make sure everyone knows to switch seals for judging.
• Third wave: Harder now, big swarms. In the SW corner some spawn directly on top of you, be ready for them. Best to wait and see what heads towards you and drink up when you can.
• Fourth wave: The hardest part really. Casters, so they can damage you from a distance. After the initial ones, when you're getting ready to pull the next batch yourself, there's one that likes to run out to the west side on its own that looks like a tempting pull. This is the one I nearly wiped our group on, because he's linked to some others and they're then split apart when they attack. Bite the bullet, and pull a central one when they're collected together, so you can use the judgement stuns to your advantage again. And, of course, make sure the aspect is shackled while everyone gets their health and mana back up for the Deathknight fight. You'll need it.

The Deathknight:

• It's debatable whether he's hard or easy to take down, but one thing he certainly is is tough. He can really take a beating and also pack a respectable punch when he wants to, a string of hard hits can take a fair chunk off anyone's health.
• The thing to watch out for on him is that it's going to be a long fight, you'll win by outlasting him and eventually grinding him down. Don't blow your mana too early, you'll need it for the long haul on this guy. Happily, beyond the endurance game, he isn't too bad really. Just stick it out and don't despair if his health doesn't seem to be going down all that fast.
• Put away the two-handers and leave the consecration button alone, you'll want a couple of pallies or more with shields on using seal/judgement of wisdom/light to keep their health and mana topped up for heals. It might be an idea to have someone tank him as before, though this may be troublesome if the designated tank gets possessed.
• Keep blessing of wisdom and salvation on the priest.
• His possession trick kind of messed me over in terms of leaving me somewhat disorientated. Still, pallies are never known for the dps at the best of times, so with my one-hander and shield on I was more of annoyance than a threat when I turned on a team-mate, and at least he was nice enough to keep me healed. Drained all my mana though. :\
• Try not to die, you only get one shot at this. Keep your health fairly well topped up at all times and if you're in trouble pop a potion or shield and bandage. Blessing of Protection the priest if he's in trouble, if he runs out of mana too he may need to take a sit down break to regenerate some. Have your Lay on Hands button within easy reach. Again, use seal of wisdom to claw back some mana when you need it.

Post-fight

• Revel in the glory of victory a while, you earned it. You complete the quest by looting the charger's soul from the deathknight's corpse, then running over to the placed scryer and using it in your inventory (right-clicking) to redeem it. Then run over to the ghost horse and complete the quest. After doing this, you should have a new spell in the holy section of your spellbook, 'Summon Charger', next to the old 'Summon Warhorse' one and with a similar looking but yellow in colour logo now post-patch. This is what to look for to know everything has been completed as it should have been and to ensure you've got your shiny new mount. Getting caught up in the excitement of getting your mount makes it easy to get confused if you try and rush this part without reading everything carefully of course. :)

We ended up doing this tonight with a Warrior, 2 Pallys, Warlock and a Priest.&nbsp It wasn't easy, thank god we had a soul stone.&nbsp I think the trick along with doing:

Wave 1: Seal of Wisdom Judging.
Wave 2: Seal of Justice Judging.
Wave 3: Seal of Righteousness Judging.
Wave 4: Seal of Light Judging.

Is that you stay in 1 corner and pull them to you.&nbsp I could be wrong, but I think thats what saved us from a total wipe.&nbsp GL PALLYS!

The paladin epic mount quest in a nutshell:

1: 150 gold to get censor for exorcising spirits in Terrordale. You get this from the priest trainer in Ironforge in the

Mystic Ward.

1a: Exorcise 25 spirits in Terrordale. There are green glowing circles around in the ruins of Terrordale (near the Terrorweb

Tunnel exit). Use the censor within these circles and 1-3 spirits will spawn. Simply kill them until you have killed 25 of

them. The green circles spawn relatively fast. I soloed this portion and took approximately 30 minutes.

2: 150 gold, 40 Runecloth, 10 Arthas' Tears, 6 Arcanite Bars and 5 Stratholme Holy Waters. Turn all this into Grimand Elmore

who is in Stormwind's Dwarven District. He is located in the far SW corner. He will walk to the forge in the center of the

Dwarven District and create the barding for you. After this he will run back to his normal standing spot where you can then

speak to him again to get the Barding.

3. 50 gold and 20 Enriched Manna Biscuits. Travel to Southshore and speak with Merideth Carlson the Horse Breeder in the

stables. She will give you Manna-Enriched Horse Feed. I would personally suggest actually reading this quest because it gave

me a chuckle.

4. Now you need to go to Dire Maul West to get the barding blessed. This part is easy and quick. Make sure you have the

barding and Manna-Enriched Horse Feed on you and someone with the crescent key with you. Go into Dire Maul West and simply

run past all the mobs. We did this with a level 55 in the group without grabbing agro. We ran around the right. Tendris

Warpwood is in a room opposite of the park from where you enter the instance. When you get to the other side of the park, go

down the long ramp to his room. He's easy to kill. I tried to solo him for fun just to see if it's possible for a paladin

with the key to do this alone, and I personally was not able to. I simply didn't have the DPS to take him down fast enough. I

was using Seal of Command with Seal of Wisdom released on him for mana regen. If any paladin is successful in actually

soloing him, please let me know how you did it because I wouldn't mind being able to farm him for my Foror's. :)

Anyway, once he's dead, an Ancient Equine Spirit appears (a ghost horse) and will start walking or running around. It took me

a second to catch him, but once you do, you complete the quest and get the Blessed Barding.

5. Now for this part you will need to talk to Lord Grayson (the Paladin trainer taking you through this line) with a Pristine

Black Diamond and an Azerothian Diamond to get The Divination Scryer. Now you're ready for the last part of the quest a run

into Scholomance.

6. Once in Scholomance you want to go down to Rattlegore's room. Kill Rattlegore and clear the room. Place the Scryer in the

middle of the room and spirits will appear in different locations. The names will be Banality, Malice, Corrupted and Shadow.

You must use the Seals of Wisdom, Justice, Righteousness and Light respectively. When you release the seal you will do damage

and stun in an approximately 10 yard radius. It is important for your group to stay close together and is extremely helpful

to have two or more Paladins with improved Judgment. You will get several waves of each type of spirit and they will appear

in different areas around the room. After taking out so many of a certain wave, an Aspect (i.e. Aspect of Banality) will

spawn. That is the "mini-boss" of that wave and the next wave will spawn after you kill him. There will be times when you may

stop and eat or drink while fighting these waves. I strongly suggest you do that when possible. The Corrupted spirits are

scary because they came in one wave and there was something like 10 of them. So be extra prepared for them. Once you take

care of all the waves, the Death Knight Darkreaver spawns. He is a 62 elite, but is easy to kill. He does mind control and I

think fear, which are the only notable abilities that he used while we fought him. Once you kill him, you loot the Charger's

Lost Soul from his corpse. There will also appear a paladin epic mount in ghost form. Use the Charger's Lost Soul in your

backpack to redeem it. At that time, you'll be able to complete the quest by talking to the epic mount ghost.

So here's the total list of cash and items required for the Paladin Charger Mount:
350 gold
10 Arthas' Tears (Herbalism)
6 Arcanite Bars (Mining/Alchemy)
40 Runecloth
5 Stratholme Holy Waters (Boxes in Stratholme)
20 Enriched Manna Biscuits (Must be friendly with Argent Dawn to purchase)

Here's a quick guide:

150 gold, 10 Arthas' tears, 6 Arcanite, 40 runecloth and 5 strat holy waters for the barding to Grimand in SW's Dwarven

district.

150 gold to priest trainer in IF for censor.

Go kill 25 spirits in Terrordale, using the censor to summon them.

Take 20 Enriched Manna Biscuits and 50 gold to Merideth Carlson in SS to get Manna-Enriched Horse Feed.

Run DMW to kill Tendris Warpwood to get the barding blessed.

Bring an Azerothian Diamond and a Pristine Black Diamond to Grayson in SW for the Scryer.

Go to scholo's ossuary and summon the Darkreaver to get the charger's redeemed soul.

Welcome to epic mount land. :)

Baradier
60 Paladin
Thunderhorn

I now know why some people say the quest is a cakewalk and others say it is not do-able. Both are correct. The quest is buggy! I have experienced both so I know. You will either complete this without trouble or fail miserably. Please do not flame me with corrections. If you have something to add to help great! Please keep it constructive. I found the lack of advice/help on this quest frustrating and wish to make it easier for people who follow me.

I will now recount the problem areas and how we overcame them. This quest is very do-able and you can have your mount on the first attempt if you follow the advice below. I am not saying this is the ONLY way to complete it. It is how we did and what I learned in the process I think can help others.

Composition of Party
Number of Paladins: Paladins are required to complete the end sequence. 3 is your sweet spot of balance between getting to room without trouble and ease of completing the end sequence. 4 makes the end sequence do-able even if they things go buggy on you. But with 4 Paladins, the trip to the room will be harder and longer (It is do-able). If you want to be sure you complete the quest, 4 Paladins would guarantee you complete the Judgements portion. You should have a priest. Not only do you get heals you get crowd control with shackle. This is invaluable in end sequence (see below).
Rest of Party:
Slot 1: Paladin
Slot 2: Paladin
Slot 3: Paladin or Warrior or Rogue
Slot 4: Paladin or Mage or Warlock
Slot 5: Priest

Journey to the Rattlegore room
There is nothing special to note here it’s just kind of slow. Take your time and you will get to the room. The only thing worth mentioning is the room with the whelps. They have a nasty damage over time that can easily kill you within 3 to 4 seconds if you do not cleanse. You will be spamming cleanse. Be ready for it or take the durability hit when you die.

Rattlegore room
The risen constructs hit hard! No big deal but without a tank the healer has to be on it healing the Paladins. Some Paladins in my group had a shield and one-hander and two of us used two-handers. What worked best was alternating stuns and alternating tanking. Really the Risen constructs are just time consuming and no fun. You should pull them one at time into the hallway outside room to fight. The puller and the priest go to doorway together for the pull. There are a couple of them that are real close and unless you time it just right you will pull two. Better to shackle one and fight them one at a time. Rattlegore will come with a little buddy. Just shackle his buddy then finish Rattlegore alone then his buddy. The risen constructs are capable of killing the cloth wearer in one hit (I have seen it) so have priest in a safe place and have a good mage not pull agro.

Judgement Sequence
Now that the Rattlegore room completely empty of any mob. You can begin the end sequence “Judgements”. Everyone needs to stand in one corner (see diagram). You will enter the room and turn right. The party should stay in that corner the entire time. Some people suggested placing the Divination Scryer in the opposite corner. You can’t do that. It must be placed in the center.
Aura’s to use: devotion, shadow and concentration. If you don’t have three Paladin’s use devotion and concentration on the first three waves and switch to shadow and concentration on the fourth wave. The fourth wave are caster that do shadow damage. So make sure that the priest has given the party “Shadow Protection”.
Coordinate Paladin’s Judgments: You must have a good group of Paladin’s that are willing to work together. Our judgments do more damage than the mage can do and it has a good chance of stunning for 5 seconds. Work out a sequence of Paladin 1 judge wait 5 seconds Paladin 2 judge wait 5 seconds Paladin 3 judge and repeat. Most parties fail this quest for one of three reasons. (1) They panic and don’t coordinate their judgments or (2) They pull the entire third wave (3) They kill the fourth ghost sub-boss to soon (more on this in a minute). The order of judgments is as follows.
Wave one: Judge Seal of Wisdom
Wave two: Judge Seal of Justice
Wave three: Judge Seal of Righteousness
Wave four: Judge Seal of Light

Ghost Mini-boss: This is important. To get time to eat and drink between waves of ghosts, have your priest shackle each wave’s mini-boss. That is what triggers the next event. This is not true between the first three waves, but it might be good to practice because when you kill the fourth wave mini-boss you will summon Death Knight Darkreaver! If you have some ghosts left to kill and you are low on health/mana you could wipe with the Death Knight is summoned early. Others have.

What to do: Your party is at full health and in the correct corner (point x on map). You run to center of room and plant the Divination Scryer in center of room (point D on map) and run back to group. You will agro ghosts so when you get back to group the fight will already be started. The first wave is easy. Good chance to practice your judgments and loosen up. When a group that has been killed relax and wait for next group. You don’t need to pull. The second wave is a little harder but not hard. You will begin to use up some mana so be ready for third wave. Eat and drink.

Third Wave: You are all in the correct corner and the ghosts are not coming so its time to pull as everyone is buffed and has full health/mana. The ghosts to the left look like the perfect group to pull (there are only three of them) DON’T! This will bring all 9-11 ghosts. Instead go to the right and pull the ghost in position G on map. This will bring 6-7. No problem if judgments are timed. Then you will have ones and twos that come to you.

Fourth Wave: They will agro on their own so wait. Eat/drink. These are easier than the last wave. But be ready to shackle the mini-boss ghost. Before you release the mini-boss ghost kill all the ghosts (All!) Then regenerate your health and mana. You can’t eat/drink so just wait for it to regenerate. When you’re buffed and in good shape release the ghost mini-boss and kill him. Death Knight Darkreaver will be summoned immediately! No time to rest. Some tricks the Death Knight has is some sort of lay on hands to heal himself when he is low on health. The Death Knight Darkreaver will/can mind control one of your party. For us he MC’ed the mage who smited me and killed me instantly (I was low on health and in process of getting a heal). He is really pretty easy. But, if you kill the 4th mini-boss early you could have your hands full!

Darkreaver is dead now what? Loot “Charger's Lost Soul”. Every Paladin on the quest can loot it! All will complete their quest regardless of who used their scryer. You must go to the planted Divination Scryer and right click on “Charger's Lost Soul”. It will turn into “Charger's Redeemed Soul” You have now completed your quest. Go to Charger’s ghost and turn in your quest. You now have your Epic Mount!

Rattlegore room

X = Where party stands entire fight
D = Where to place the Divination Scryer
G = Which ghost on the third wave to pull

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     | x                   |
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     |          D          |
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     |  G                  |
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Edited, Wed Jun 22 14:34:38 2005

When you start the fight, put the scryer as far as you can in the NW corner, and stand in the SE corner. For the first 2 waves, you can single-pull the spirits. Last two waves are groups of 3+. It's not a hard fight as long as your pally (or pallies) use the proper judgement on the mobs, I've done it with only the pally with the quest before with minimal problem. The order is Wisdom, Justice, Righteousness, Light. The spirits will have names that hint at what to use (Banality, Malice, Corruption, Shadow) At the end of each wave, an Aspect of (wave name) appears, basically supposed to be a miniboss for that wave, but they're easy. Once the boss comes up, he goes down quick and the pally has his mount!

You summon the spirits in the same room as Rattlegore stand in.

Clear it and place the divination scryer in the NW corner but still on the mound (which rattlegore stand on). Tell your party to stand in the SE corner before you start.
As soon as you place the scryer ghosts spawn but they are easy to kill so just run to the other players and kill the ghosts. You can judge seal of wisdom (I used the highest rank on all seals and it worked just fine) to stun them for a few seconds. Also works on the aspect. Second wave isn't too hard either, few elites but can be pulled one and one. Judge seal of justice to stun spirits and the aspect. Third wave is three groups of three elites. Do NOT pull the middle group first. Start with the group by the door and take the middle group last. When you pull the middle group all remaining groups will aggro. Remember to judge seal of righteousness on both spirits and aspect.

Might be useful to put the shadow res aura on for the last wave. The last wave was easy too, few elites spawn every now and then. We had to wait a while betweent the spawns. Good time to rest and drink/eat. Use seal of light on spirits and the aspect. When the aspect is killed the boss will spawn. He's easy to kill.
Loot the boss, use the charger's lost soul to get the charger's redeemed soul and hand in the quest :)

Did it with a 70 hunter, 70 mage, 70 shadow priest, 69 rogue and me, 61 pally. Its really easy when you figure it out and do it right, hope some of you won't have to do the same mistakes we did. If you wipe, abandon the quest, go back to your trainer and take it again. Reset the instance and do it all over again. We couldn't find any other way to finish it.

Good luck!

Got it first try. I read the above comments and it helped a bunch! Group up in a corner, set scryer in opposite corner.

First Wave = Wisdom
Second Wave = Justice
Thrid Wave = Righteousness
Fourth Wave = Light

It's best if you use the highest rank of each seal, though if your pallies have different ranks, they actually do stack.

Bunching in the corner is needed if you actaully want a break in between attacks. You can med and rebuff all day till you're ready to pull the next bunch. Just sit there and AOE and Exorcise the ghosts as well as releasing your seals. Oh, and Baby Baron is a joke, totally easy. Good luck!