I did this quest this afternoon, no problem at all, for 27-28 hunter with a well-trained pet. All three went down pretty easy - esp with the hippogryph, send your pet in to take the aggro and pepper him with everything in your spellbook. He's lvl 31, and came up as a pale red number for me, but i didn't take any damage at all. Enjoy!

You can pull sharptalon to the guards at the outpost easily with a voidwalker. I did this yesterday as a level 25 lock.

Surely that ""level 20"" is a typo? The enemies are level 25, 28, and 31... no way can a level 20 character handle this solo.

Shadumbra, for example, is completely immune to shadow damage--which means my warlock was helpless against her.

Seems there is still some confusion about this.

All three drop something, right click on the item that drops and it will activate the quest. Blizzard forgot to include that in the tooltip.

worth completin' all 3 kills, once all handed in I still got an extra 3grand + xp (at L32) which made the naff hunters cape reward bearable!

There seems to be some sort of bug with this quest. I walked up and it had a yellow exclamation point, but when i tried to accept it only had the option of complete quest. I did ""complete"" it, but i can no longer even see the yellow exclamation point. I did not receive exp for the quest either.

This probably doesn't need saying but for the inexperienced I will anyhow. None of these beasts are tameable.

To add to Jagged's post on the coords of the mobs, here is a https://vanillawowdb.com/?maps=331:410650580541630500740681 map of their general spawn areas.

Ursangous (bear) - 41,65
Shadumbra (cat) - 58, 54
Sharptalon (hippogryph) - 74, 68

Posted a screenshot of my map with the locations where i found each mob :)

-Tea

I just had exactly the same thing happen to me. I was not paying attention and thought I just accepted a quest as usual, then I checked in list and it was not there. Chat log says ""The Ashenvale Hunt"" completed. NO XP EITHER

Update:

This seems to be the way the quest was intended to play out.

Quoted from https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2 edgewynn<div class=""quote"">First start by talking to Senani Thunderheart :
The Ashenvale Hunt quest (https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=6383 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=6383) (https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=12696 https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=12696).
Then you kill the 3 mobs and each item will start its own quest turn in back to Senani @ Splintertree Post

Ursangous's Paw: just north of the Talondeep Path (39.67) 1950 xp
(https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=23 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=23)
Shadumbra's Head: just west of Raynetree Wood (54.54) 2200 xp
(https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=24 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=24)
Sharptalon's Claw: just south of Splintertree Post(73.61) 2450 xp
(https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2)

Plus you get 3050xp for final completion of all 3.

Also to note is that Sharptalon is very near Splintertree and easily kite-able to the guards there. Being that he is level 31, it was the only way for me to take him down as a level 26 priest.

Thank you to all who clarified this quest; I didn't accept it right away and then ran around Azeroth trying to restart it, unsuccessfully. I finally put in a GM ticket and the reply was simply to kill the 3 beasts....GM did not explain that they each start their own quest and that the quest isn't lost because it's not in my quest log!

All three are easily soloable for 27 fire mage in 17-22 blues.

Here is a macro that will target and mark each one with a skull

/tar shadumbra
/tar ursangous
/tar sharptalon
/script SetRaidTarget(""target"", 8);

This quest does count toward Loremaster of Kalimdor - as does all of the kill turn-ins.