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First time I visited the Gorge, 273 people were doing the quest. My 60 Druid came back again and it was one of the easiest I've had to do in a long time, if you have stealth. If not, maybe an investment in an invisibility potion would get the job done.

Seems to me the shards on the ground fall into 2 categories: closely-guarded and loosely-guarded. Skip the closely-guarded ones (where starting the loot timer aggroes a giant) because there are enough loosely-guarded ones. I picked up 6 inside the gorge and the remaining 4 outside and didn't aggro anyone after the first try at learning the difference.

The Time-Constrained Player can't afford to fight the giants with a Druid. Of course I can shift out of bear and heal but it simply takes too long for the rewards, which in many cases are the TCP's greatest annoyance: nothing. Zilch. Zippo. Nada. So stealth it had to be, but then it was easy.

If you don't have stealth or invisibility, there are still several shards (4 or 5) that you can get to without aggroing a giant but they don't seem to respawn very quickly, so you might have to use alternate methods, some of which are excellently described above.&nbsp Worth doing this one.

Really easy as a shaman just ran by stonclaw looted ran away with earthbind hehe.

Did this easily as a 58 Hunter. Got 2 shards on the South edge of the chasm, had to sic my pet on a giant one time in order to loot a shard and then got out of there before the pet died. Got 4 on the path down into the chasm (on the Northeastern end), all in plain sight and no giants guarding them, then 2 more near giants but I never got aggro. Got one more freebie on the way back up (saw it respawn), and the last one was on the Northern edge of the chasm, I had to distract a giant with my pet again.

So, I have no idea on the drop rate from the giants, but if no one else is doing this quest, there should be lots of shards available. If you don't have a pet to sacrifice or distract with, then you should still be able to finish the quest without fighting the giants, just wait for respawns on the path.

Game on,

The Oneiromancer

Freezing trap does not work on the giants, so no trap, loot and run for hunters. They are, however, perfectly kitable, so this is easily and quickly done with a hunter. I was 55 and had no problems.

I submitted a GM ticket about not being able to loot the shards lying on the ground, and was told that it was a known issue, and that a resolution is being worked on.

<shadow priest- using fear here really helps alot!

I'm a frost mage so I can't fear and my frost nova is useless (they're immune). But I found a cool way to do it! Summon water elemental, make him stay, shoot one frost bolt and while giant is killing him, you can get to the crystals :)

With patch 2.3 you only need to gather 4 shards but the quest text says "
Bring back 10 frostmaul shards, and my lucky charm will be yours."
Bugger

Ok, I can't speak for any other class but if you're a Warlock I'd suggest going here even if you don't have the quest.&nbsp This is one of the best and easiest XP grinding areas I've found yet.&nbsp The giants are Fearable, which basically makes them trivial.&nbsp Just send in the pet to hold the aggro for a few seconds while you cast dots, then as soon as the giant starts coming after you just fear, and then cast your remaining dots, lifetap, drainlife.&nbsp That's it, they never even touch you and with rested bonus I was getting 1200xp PER KILL!

Apparently these guys do hit pretty hard, but if you're a 'lock then you'll never know it because they'll never hit you.&nbsp It's beautiful.

I'm finding this quest VERY tough as a 58 frost mage.&nbsp No sheeping allowed, and the bad guys are immune to all my other mob control spells.&nbsp Can't distract/tank them with the water elemental, either since they're immune to everything he throws at them too he won't even attack them.&nbsp All you can do is cherry pick the easy ones, but there is NO room for error and if you agro one, you basically die unless you're in a place where you can blink away and run.&nbsp Forget about killing one, might as well try to burn a charging bear to death with a cigarette lighter.

Update to this: I found bugnaz's information helpful.&nbsp Also, if you can slow fall, you can stand on the edge of the cliff at 64,65 and jump down into that little ruined temple.&nbsp if you stay close enough to the cliff, you won't agro the giant at the entrance to the temple, and there are two shards you can pick up in there.&nbsp If they're the last two you need, you can hearth/teleport/die intentionally and get out of there.&nbsp (You can also just barely run down there from the entrance without dying.)

coords?

Easy shards for example:
(seen from north to south)
- one right before the bridge (61,65) - no mob near
- one more further to right, near wood (60,65) - 1 mob near but far enough
- one more further to right, but walk around, to go "down" (58,63) - no mob near
- one more further down the path (58,65) - no mob near
- one down the path (59,67) - 1 mob near but far enough
- one left after bridge (62,72) - one mob near but far enough

That is all so far i can see.
Getting 4 pieces is no big problem.

The mobs hit you around 300, with around 600 crit. Pretty hard.
That is with stoneskin totem!

take hint: as priest i just come to shard on ground,when guard come fear him then take shard and run.they dont hit you in most situation and u get stuff for quest^^

Most of the shards on the ground are down inside the gorge itself. There are a number of safe corners that you can run to to drop aggro when the giants leash back to their spawnpoints. They hit reasonably hard but move slowly: you can outrun them on foot. With a bit of patience and watching their movement patterns, it's easy to collect 10 shards in a few minutes without having to fight them.

soloed this quest with a warlock (56) easy just fear and kill ..

Yeah, if your not lazy you can simply loot the crystal's from the edges of the canyon all the way around, I just ran around the perimeter and completed the quest without having to down a single mob, just make sure to watch your aggro.

Soloed as 57lvl rogue. Took me 5min to complete this quest. Just collected the ones on ground.

as a 56 mage i was able to grab all the easy ones, just like everyone else, but got tired of waiting on the respawns. So, since I am frost, i decided to try to aggro the giant to my elemental, then loot and run away. Do not try this, because as soon as i clicked the crystal on the ground the giant aggroed onto me, and had an easy time of killing me

As a rogue, this worked for me: Try to get as far away from the Giant as possible, and start the extraction. If he starts to attack, just use your "blind", which will give you plenty of time to get the shard. Then just run away (or vanish), they are slow. OR, you can get your combo points up and kidney shot them, but that may be cutting it close.

I solo'd this as a 56 Shadow priest, didn't have a problem at all.

sololed it by 56 warrior, but 2-3 times died :( used piercing howl to run away from these blue big guys :D
4 shards, 9350xp 90silver.

theres many on the way down!

Seems to be a typing errer in my realm.. or somtihng. becouse in the quest text it says 10 shards but in the part where it says objectives it says four. i hope that i only have to do 4. :)

Soloed as 56 BM Hunter, if u gonna try to down these Giants withount being 60 then i suggest downing only the Preservers, they have less HP and do alot less damage.

solo'd ass a 56 combat rogue...around the edges of the gorge I found 3 and on the right side on ur way into the gorge I got last one...didnt have to fight a thing just stealth in and out! Easy.

When i did this on my main the (group) thing got to me so i asked a friend to come help me... it was easy... he killed 1 of the elites..... remembering this when it came to my alt i knew where to go and what i was up against....

i didn't aggro any of them.... i went to 58.64 and there were 3 right there with no mobs... the fourth 1 - I had to go in a bit and there was an elite walking around but he never came close enough for me to aggro... maybe i was just lucky but this quest can be done without a grp

If you are a hunter, you should not have any problems with this at all.

I gave a shot at the giants as a level 56 BM hunter, and as long as I had a Mend Pet on 2 times in the

fight I could take them down pretty fast. Even the level 60 ones will be piece of a cake.

As for the Shards, theese can be taken easily without pulling, just look around.

-Vekkerklokke @ Dunemaul

As a 57 Prot Paladin I was able to solo the giants while collecting the shards down below. Unfortunately none of the spawns up above were up, forcing me to have to deal with giants face-to-face. :/

Gear & Spec: http://www.warcrafter.net/sandbox/52437

Mats: Heavy Runecloth Bandages, Major Mana Potions
Buffs: Righteous Fury (Improved), Blessing of Sanctuary, Ret Aura

vs Level 60's - Pull while mounted, run to a cubby hole where the pat wont reach you. Keep up JoL + SoL and Holy Shield. HOJ when you get to ~10%, then Holy Light x2. Continue on, drink the mana potion when your mana is low. When health gets low again Bubble, then Holy Light x1 and bandage. The mob should die shortly.

vs Level 59's - Pull while mounted, run to cubby hole, keep up JoL + SoL and Holy Shield. HOJ when it's on cooldown. When you get to ~10% Bubble then Bandage. If you get low again, HOJ then Holy Light, but I never had to heal a second time.

Level 59 Shadow Priest, i was able to take down the Elites, i just made sure i was fully buffed - Fortitude, Inner fire, Touch of weakness, And kept PW:Shield Up.

First i cast Vampiric Touch + Vampiric Embrace and SW:Pain to help keep my health and mana up. I then cast Mind Blast and Spam Mind Flay until Mind Blast has recharged. Make sure you keep PW:Sheild up as soon as you can cast it. Also to reduce dmg being taken use Psychic Scream and spam Mind Flay while its under its effect, this i found to be good for getting health and some mana back up.

The elite might cast a healing spell therefore use dispel magic and it will unbuff the elite of its healing spell.

easy quest :) dont scare for these elites

Simple as a 55 warlock, you can kill the 59 mobs without much of a problem, which is what I lucked into, ended up grabbing my last shard on the way out.

Picked up 2 on my way down, ran around nekkid by foot, speed enchant on AB boots <3 no hit whatsoever even when agroing directly by walking trough the giants... got to a safe ridge where I lost agro... used the mechanical yeti on a big guy and picked the remaining 2 crystals. peace of cake... ran off by mount (suprisingly they were hitting me when mounted, but not when I was running by foot) done as 58 orc warrior.

Many of the players here are right. You can get four walking down into the gorge without encountering a single giant, but with some real luck you can actually down a giant as low as 56 solo if you are a pet class. Barely.