Solo'd as a 26 warlock (all points in afffliction). I cleared everything above the pit. Then I sent my voidy in and used ""Suffering"" to draw all aggro on him. I was able to loot just as he died. Sacrificed in time. And ran out. Would have worked better to have recalled the voidy and then told him to attack with them at the top of the steps). I ran out but ended up getting mauled by mobs that had respawned (I had been in there awhile).

Even if you're soulstone is used up the GY it's a short walk (30 seconds tops).

COMBINE WITH: https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=846 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=846

which is at the crossroad to Dustwallow

I'm sure you could do this as a hunter if you have a good tanking pet.

Just soloed it as a level 26 warrior.

My method was to pull the add between the two stairs leading down to the room with my taunt because I had no ranged weapon, getting him low enough to run away in fear and having him run to one of the adds in the room, solo pulling one of them since mechanics are different in a situation like this and the entire room will not be linked. After first add was pulled, I let the fleeing mob get up and finished him off and did the exact same thing with the newly pulled mob. I repeated this step until there was just two level 26 mobs left, went down and finished them after eating up and being back to full health.

I most likely would not have managed this without first aid, I used bandage whenever they were off cooldown and the current mob was running down to get a new one. There is also a possibility of the mob not running down to the lower room but instead running to the sides, either you can kill it and rest up and use another mob from upstairs or wait for respawns and try it all over again.

I did this because I love a good challenge in the game. Clever use of game mechanics, nothing more to it. Good luck if you try it yourself!

Just soled it retri pala 25lvl. Simple cleared top and pulled general with two guards (just get close to one on the left so it agro and then run back on top) and killed them, then killed rest and looted box.

Sometimes the captain and the box are on the last level of the keep, right next to the beds... people that are familiar with dwarven constructs will not have a problem with finding him.

I soloed this as a level 26 arcane mage. I put up mana shield along with my usual buffs, sheeped Twinbraid, and then ran to the side of the pit to force the rifleman to chase me on foot along with the rest of the mobs. Then I hit them with Frost Nova, Blizzard, and then about two Arcane Explosions which was enough to bring them all down. After that it was just a matter of soloing Twinbraid, which isn't too hard (he only has around 1k hitpoints).

Be warned that you may experience several misses against Twinbraid unless you have a lot of hit on your gear. This applies to Polymorph as much as it does anything else. If you pull Twinbraid with the rest of the room, there's a fairly good chance that the group will wipe you out.

Soloed as a lvl 23 rogue. First time I ran in not knowing what 2 expect, and died in the process.
Then I looked up this page and saw I needed to sap the rifleman. I quickly ressed and vanished near him and sapped him in the vanish. After that it was an evasion run up that mantle to a point they couldn't attack me from the ground and a quick loot. Died after that again, but got the quest done :)

Horrible quest. Normally, named NPCs are either elite or slightly fatter, but this level 30 - is a total abuse. Despite any possibilities of 2 add pull and crowd control - soloing this guy while he is red (all levels below 26) is hardly possible. If you are not a hunter, warlock or overgeared healable class - use the hint of looting a box and corpse running.

Perhaps a reference to Lord of the Rings and Gollum?

If not, certainly a very interesting lore piece!