I recently 2-manned this quest as a level 27 fury warrior working with a 28 feral druid. The druid started off in cat form, but found it was necessary to switch to bear form early on in the fight due to the amount of damage being dealt to us. He did need to switch to caster form to lay down a few heals during the battle, though if you have a group of 3 or more, healing probably isn't necessary for this fight.

After you place the banner, two Enraged Foulwealds (https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=12921 https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=12921) will spawn. If you're on the ""totem mound"" where you placed the banner they'll attack you, otherwise they'll attack the banner and eventually destroy it if not attacked. After a while (or once the first are dead, I'm not sure), another two will come. Expect a lot of angry bears and no chance to rest!

Eventually Chief Murgut (https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=12918 https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=12918) will spawn who, if you've survived so far, shouldn't give you any problems. Have fun :)

The mound is at 56, 63.

Actually, Murgut spawns on a timer after you plant the banner. There will *always* be two furbolgs to fight.

My advice, don't kill any of them. If you can cc, do so. if not just bring them to near death and save your mana and use your cooldowns judiciously until Murgut spawns.

Then kill the two quickly, kill Murgut - profits!

A nice trick about this quest, the basket Murgut drops (which contains the totem) can be looted by anyone who has the quest, even if they were not in the group who killed Murgut.

I showed up once 3 or 4 min after some other group did the quest, the basket was still there so I simply looted it and was done :-)

To acquire this quest, you first have to complete Between a Rock and a Thistlefur (https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=216 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=216) which is given to you by the same NPC.

Also confirming this; any class with a reappliable CC can solo this, and I'm sure others can too. I just did it solo as a 25 mage (the ""normal"" way, with a 28 rogue, ended in disaster after I ran OOM and his health ran low). I figure some simple strategies would be a nice addition.
I also noticed while doing this quest that, at the path just out of the area a few paces north there is a log, and if something goes wrong, you can go up the path and jump onto the log pretty easily - this will evade both mobs, and unless you can get back quickly and get them off the banner, it will die... but you won't!

When Murgut spawned, unsure that it was a consequence of the mob being at full health, but one of the two mobs I was fighting despawned.

Mage - this one's obvious, and it helps (a lot) if you're frost. The two mobs will spawn, sheep one of them, and kite the other. Rank 1 frostbolt is your friend; it slows, and can proc frostbite. Use debuff timers if you have them so you don't waste mana. I recommend bringing at least a lesser mana pot.

Warlock- this one's obvious too, just abuse fears. Make sure the local area is completely cleared or you're in for some bad news; keep out a voidwalker just in case, for the extra tank and for a sacrifice. I recommend fear juggling using rank 1; try not to spam it too much or you will run oom, but don't aggro extra adds! Alternatively, you can use your VW to tank both of them and just spam health funnel and bandage.

Rogue - trickier, but doable. I couldn't do this until 28 on my rogue, which lessened the mobs beating up on me (and also saved me on the boss.) Don't pop evasion until the boss spawns; if you can sap at the beginning, do it, and crippling kite the other. If you want, put crippling on both hands, but at least have it on your main hand. My suggestion would be to abuse the log at the top of the path; kite one down, evade it back, run to the totem and restart. You may need to blow sprint on that, but that's fine. With gouge and crippling, you shouldn't need it to escape.

Warrior - not sure if this is doable; bring a health pot. Try to keep hamstring up on both mobs, and when your health dips below half, use your fear and bandage. Worst case, you can run to the log, evade them, chase them back, charge one of them, then tab -> swing or thunderclap to get them off of the totem. It's not a problem here if you kill them as a side effect of the kiting, just don't drop too much health.

Hunter - incredibly simple, really. Try to keep one spam trapped, and have your pet on the other. Make sure that your pet has all of its non-growl spells OFF autocast, to keep the mobs alive. It would also help to have your pet have aggro on the trapped mob, so between casts you won't get hit, and you can continue spamming mend pet. Then you can distracting shot -> trap the add, and repeat.

Unfortunately, I'm in doubt that a priest, paladin, or shaman could solo this. A druid might be able to, but it would be very hard, and you wouldn't need a guide if you can pull that off.

Druid lvl 24 - easy going:

1) Don't use thorns
2) Kick in the flag and start pummeling one foe until he has like 10% of his HP left, then the other one.
3) Stay around the flag and heal yourself for the next 90-120 seconds, I think. Your mana should be fine
4) When you see the ""boss"" coming, use thorns and quickly finish off the 2 foes
5) Kill the lvl 26 noob and you're done, very easy :)

25 Feral Druid - I completed this quest by staying in bear form and healing when needed, i had reached all the way up to Murgut and died.... *add swear words here*.. When i went back to my body Murgut was still there. So if this happens to you dont worry, he wont de spawn by the time u get there :)

My tactic was:

1) I planted the banner.
2) I waited until the first two Foulwealds came, then I jumped onto the barrel.
3) The Foulwealds attacked the banner and then disappeared with the banner.
4) I repeated step 1 and 2.
5) I waited until the Foulwealds disappeared and then Murgut came.
6) I jumped down from the barrel and killed Murgut.I tried this a few times but it apperently didn't work, but I found out a much much easier way to do this.

1) Plant the banner on the top of the hill.
2) Jump up on the barrel thing to the east.
3) 2 mobs will spawn, they will go evade since they now can't attack you.
4) Wait. After 3 exact after you've planted the banner Murgut will spawn.
5) What will happend now is the hard part. The 2 mobs will despawn, and Murgut will start running away. What you need to do is to attack Murgut after the 2 mobs has despawned but before he has despawned himself.
6) Kill him. it's just one lvl 26 mob.
7) Loot the green glowing totem.
8) Turn in the quest.

Edit for clearify.