Just did it as a 56 frost mage. Just time your cool downs and you can do it. And yes, you have to kill him last to loot the hammer.

location is 27,86.

good luck ;)

I tried this as a lvl 56 warlock. Died with succy and vw, infernal did it quite easy. Just summon your infernal to their heads, DoT the main guy, drain life, i had instant howl of terror which helped me to escape.

57 Frost Mage. Died twice.

The mobs hit *hard*. Try to use water elemental's Freeze ability to pull most of the aggro of the mobs. Pray for crits on the named as they seem very rare on him.

Just soloed this as a 56 ret pally. Had to use BoP to heal to full, and had to use lay on hands.

Just a note, I killed Mercutio FIRST and still got the hammer.

56 prot pally. Toughed it out, killed them all. Blessing of sanctuary, kept holy shield up, judge and seal light on main target. Had to bubble once (and used bandage) and two (uninterrupted) holy light's. Ended with near half HP and no mana. Not pretty, but still had LOH and pots left.

Extremely poorly designed quest, someone at Blizzard didn't use their head properly. Quest is yellow at level 55, not group-marked, and still calls for fighting four enemies level 55-57 at once.

Did it with ease, 57 frost mage. Right after clicking the mound and waiting the bar thru, immediatly move back and jump over the fence near you. If you are far enough the mobs will not aggro you and you can start with your own opener. I used my water elemental's freeze and frost nova to dps down mercutio. I could've ran after that and looted when they de-aggro'd but I just killed the rest.

Did it as a 58 Shadow Priest.
Shield up.. wait a few seconds and unleash hell on the named dwarf. Fear the others and keep burning the guy. Shield up again.
Eventually, fear again if you can.
He should be dead by then. Looted him.. no problem.

Quest is possible to solo but you have to use everything at your disposal to get it done. I did it as a 59 Fire Mage, cleared the area around the gravestone and enough around me so that I could do some kiting. After you click on the gravestone, head North (based on your minimap) just far enough to avoid aggro. Use Combustion and hit Mercutio with Pyroblast but as it is casting, target one of the adds and get ready to sheep. Immediately following the Pyroblast, click your sheep button and retarget Mercutio. By the time sheep cast, the other guys should be on top of you, use Dragon's Breath and then Blast Wave to give you some room, blink away and used whatever you can to kill Mercutio. If you want you can stick around to kill the other 3 adds or just run off until you're out of combat and go back to loot your hammer. Make sure you have a health pot or Healthstone ready because you might have to use one and/or both if you have them. The way I did it pretty much relayed on getting crits on Mercutio so that Ignite would help bring him down.

That's what I did to do this quest but other then that good luck and happy hunting!

JUst solo'ed as a 55 fire mage, it wasn't that hard, jus had to watch out when they came near me, cause they hit for alot. I just combustion on, pyro, fireball, a fast scorch, then DB, bs, blink away a scorch and a fire blast. still had my frost nova then to lock them in place to run away.

Just solo'ed as a 55 prot pally. super easy. just kept seal of light on mercutio, when he died, switched to next mob and kept going till they all died. I used one pot, and ended up at 1/2 hp and mana.

Solo'd as a 54(yes, 54) frost mage! I read here before about that you don't need to kill him last so I summoned water elemental and nuked him hard. After he was dead Ilooted and ran, used healthpot and kept on running until I left combat and took mount to go to the quest giver.

Ok this seems beyond bugged. It seems like if you kill him near the grave everything is fine and you can loot him before you kill anything else. If you pull him away his body just disapears when he dies. It might have something to do with the vicinity to the grave but I'm not sure.

Easy Peasy for me.. 56 fury specced warrior.. Just recklessness + deatwish. Then 1 Bloodthirst and 1 Hearoic strike and he's dead.. Looted and ran away. Peace of cake (:

Took a Divine Shield, health pot, and Lay on Hands, but it's done. (Soloed 55 Pally)

If you are a Priest this is fairly easy.

1. Clear the 2 mobs near the grave and the fence.
2. Touch the grave. (Remember this is only an activation mechanism there is no loot! )
3. When the timer completes turn around and jump over the fence at the southern hill or run a bit north so thet you ar out of aggro range.
( If you stand at the grave Mercutio and his adds will come from the left side of the building. )

Now instead of raw power just use Mind Control, in this you have 2 choices, you can
either MC Mercutio to take down his life, when i first tried this his adds managed to kill
him so no loot for me, you might be able to keep him alive by running around tho.
Second choice is to MS one of his adds wich will only put Mercutio back like 500hp
but the MC:ed add will die, one add less seemed to matter alot for me.

When MC breaks, bubble up and MB-MF-Fear-MB-MF or whatever you like.
As said in the above posts, shift-loot Mercutio as soon as he is down, when you die they all de-spawn.
If you fail there is no cooldown on the grave-activation so just try again at once, the respawn rate of the other
mobs in the graveyard if fairly short. Also, graveyard is just a one minute run away, no marathon if you die.

58 Shadow priest

Rogue57 .. spec Subtlety
- Open grave
- as soon robers appear Distract, but toonly Mercutio stay there
- sap one of robers when they reach grave (even if distract stop working M will stay there)
- Attack M : premeditation, cheap shot, hemo... as 2 robers reach you Evasion and blind one, back to M, S&D and nuke him. When evasion going to end, Preparation and Evasion again.. nuke him down, loot, sprint :) ...

Notes :
- I didn't have to use one potion... i didnt have one potion =P. But for safety reason get one if you can.
- When escaping (after succes or not) hold Q or E .. not W or they will daze you and kill
- Graveyard is near so dont fear to die.. lots of satisfaction after soloing it

I managed to solo this with my 57 combat rogue. Ok , i had to vanish away from the last 2 adds but i still killed the main guy and got the hammer :)