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Comment by NoSmoking

Wow! at level 31 and with my wife at 32 this one was a surprise. Only 3 guys but they summon treants. It seemed like about 4-5 of them. We killed them all, but almost died :P I've heard its easy, but its always if you kill the main guy then run like hell heh.. If you stay and fight, it will be a good battle.

Comment by 4231

Not very hard if you are able to do enough damage quickly. Mage has probably the easiest work (completed this right now, level 28). Nuke Ordanus, frost nova the guardians, finish Ordanus as fast as you can (Fire blast, Cone of cold...). Grab head -> jump out -> slow fall ;)

Comment by 2369

Very easy to do as a Warlock. Just SS yourself, run upstairs and res. To kill Ordanus you send in your VW and start nuking. Sacrifice the VW when it's about to die and finish Ordanus off. Take his head and jump out the window :)

I did this at level 27.

Comment by amputec

Ordanus comes with two adds who spawn multiple treant elemental adds. Either nuke ordanus grab the head and run or bring some friends with you! Power in numbers!

Comment by 7262

Ordanus is located at (61,52)

Comment by 5782

I got owned!! Lvl 28 shaman; solo. I wasn't quite expecting to fight three, let alone 5 with their added treants.
I made the jump off, but the fall finished me off... grrr gravity.

Comment by Orik

I soloed this with my 27 hunter. All you need to do is killed Ordanus, loot him, then run. Bring a party of 2 because the 2 other guards will come for you.

Comment by Baller

did it on my lvl 27 druid alt, if u have a little patiance, u can get Ordanus only with only 2 guards, u have to kill him quick! loot and die, if u wanna solo, i dont see how its possible to survive this alone!

Comment by 25838

Did it solo with lvl 28 ock did not die, nor come close this is how. Cast curse of tongues on Ordanus then ignore him and have your void walker tank the two guards lay your dots and drainlife on the guards spam it cause you will be getting hit with lightning from Ordanus. After a lil bit the guards will go down send VW after ordanus use healthstone if needed and finish him off. If done correctly this quest is very soloable and infact easy. as a lock that is =P Have fun =)

Comment by 25838

Ps ignore treants till after you down the guards and Ordanus they don't hit hard enough to do any major dmg.

Comment by Dyer

Very easy as a 28 'lock. Just sent in my VoidWalker on him, put all my dots on him then I just Shadow Bolt spammed him. Killed him in 2 or so Shadow Bolts, sacrificed VW, grabbed head and jumped off. Didn't get hurt at all.

Comment by arjung

Just did it as 28 pally

Judge Crusader, consecrate, hope for SOC for 1-2 swings, Hammer, Judge command, bubble , loot , jump

Comment by 10100_

Easy as cake! I did this as a lv 25 rogue with a lv 26 mage.

I snuck in and sapped 1 guard (I had improved sap), and then the mage sheeped the other, then we both just whailed on Ordanus like there was no tomorrow. We killed him and I got the loot right before sheep and sap dropped. Sadly, the mage was a bit too slow in jumping over the rail and got nailed by the guards and the 6 summoned treants... but <3 vanish!

Comment by 42509

Skip this. One of the most annoying quests in the game.

Comment by 43903

Also, the co-ords are for Ashenvale (its not obvious)

Comment by 47481

Easy as pie as a warrior, level 28. Charged in.. hit intimidating shout so the guards run, hit retaliation and smoked Ordanus. Ran outta the tower afterwards.

Comment by 46469

Easily soloed it with my 29 mage, throw up mana sheild, frost nova, blizzard, arcane exlosion 5-6 times, cone of cold, mana sheild, evocation, arcane explosion another 4-5 times and that should do it :) enjoy.

Comment by plasmasnakemg

Just did this quest on my 27 druid, and I think they may have removed the tree zerg. I killed him and looted the head, no zerg. Decided to fight the guards, no zerg. Lost a bunch of health, Warstomp on cooldown, run away, still no zerg. Jumped off the walkway, they moonfired my furry butt and I died when I hit the nearest roof, no zerg.

I've never seen them moonfire before, so I think maybe Blizz took away their tree zerg and gave them moonfire in latest patch.

Comment by 18650

just did it as 30 priest. mind controlled one guard to attack the other til he died then killed ordanus and the other guard. only healed once. (vampiric embrace rocks)

they did the moonfire, no ents.

Comment by Kavex

http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=4273

Comment by freak45

hes lvl 29 and spawns 2 lvl 29 guards with him

Comment by 69286

this was very hard for a level 24 hunter, but i did it!!!!

Comment by darkxpunk

This... Hard... HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!
Level 30 - Orc Warrior

Here is a list of my armor:
....

And I killed him 5 Shots - His little guards 6 shots each - No Tree guys got summoned... ROFL... I pity you foo!

Comment by 53628

-Coords are right.
-Ordanus can be seen at the first lvl of the tower, he runs quickly so if you can get him as soon as possible that would save you alot of time
-i was able to solo it as a lvl 26 hunter.

Comment by 47767

There are nightelf druid's in bear form along the way. 1 outside, 2 on the bottom floor, 2 more on the top floor and one walker on the last outside ramp to Ordanus. I was a 31 mage, and I just attacked him, and ignored the guards. He died near the door and i slow fell back down to the ground. Only had to kill one druid on the way back up and collect the loot. easy peasy.

Comment by VolantKnave

32 mage.

At that level it's easy to pull several druids at once and take them down with arcane explosion.

At the top, I polymorphed Ordanus and arcane explosion'd the guards, just to be on the safe side. That was unnecessary, as I could've easily taken him out together with his guards.

Comment by 22642

28 Warrior - solo'd. The treants no longer spawn, so simply pop Retal, and take down Ordanus, while Retal takes down the two adds. Easy mode.

Comment by 73924

I just finished this as lvl 29 Rogue, very easy. I stealthed in (though it took a little time avoiding the bears on the narrow way up), sapped one of the guards, and then attacked Ordanus (who is no threat at all).

Comment by 76896

OMG this was easy.. As a rogue go in stealth and sap Ordanus then attack the one on the left with gouge the other will come but a good crit will allow you to attack em and hit for half power. After you kill him go for other immediately. If it loosk like a cast from anywhere kick em to interrupt it. After you kill the second tree attack ordanus. He was simple with a couple gouges and sinister strikes.... Very Very Very Soloable with a lvl 31 Rogue. Good Luck!

Comment by Zefyrus

Soloed with 27 lvl undead rogue. I saped Ordanus and kill the other 2 really easy (I was 50% hp when Ordanus came). Had to use vanish, coz he rooted me and started nuking from where I couldn't do anything, but I went behind him then and owned him pretty easy.

Comment by 83613

soloed 28 warrior, cake with retaliation.

Comment by 99332

Top of the building. Very easy as 30 mage.

Comment by 9649

Due to the tweak where he doesn't summon treants anymore, it's possible to solo him as a 28 druid.
Stealth in kill ordanus then deal with the two adds beside.

He does entangle which might be dangerous for other classes.

Comment by Babetastic

I just soloed this as a level 25 (hit 26 after I killed the last mob) Demo Warlock. I made it all the way up to the top where I ended up dying after my Voidwalker got killed (He aggro'd all the mobs in the room with Ordanus). Luckily, I had soulstoned myself so I waited until the mobs dropped aggro on me, soulstone rezzed, summoned my voidwalker again, healed and waited for one of the remaining mobs to pat. After we killed the pat, I ascended the spiral again and sent my VW into the room where only Ordanus and one mob remained. I dotted Ordanus, feared the other mob, health funneled my minion, redotted Ordanus, and feared the other mob again. Ordanus died, so I sacrificed my VW (he was about dead anyway) and downed the remaining mob pretty quickly. All in all it wasn't too terribly difficult since I had my soul stored and was able to resurrect right there instead of having to run back. I am not sure how easy it would be to solo this quest at level 25 for other classes, but as a Warlock it isn't impossible.

Comment by Brainer

Soloed him as lvl 26 rogue.
Sapped one of the guards, gauged Ordanus, killed the other guard, reapplied gauge on Ordanus and killed the sapped guard, afterwards tried to vanish, but failed because of some dot. However, managed to kill him with bandaging and regenerating combo points during gauges (have imp gauge).

Comment by 104796

easy lvl 28 pala

Comment by ezechiel

nice quest
done it as lvl 27 priest, along with two low level (24 and 23) warlocks
all infos here are correct

Comment by Balala

May some updates... there are 2 adds lvl 27 on his side, but he dont spawn any treants.
Solo'ed as Druid 27.
No big trouble, Ordanus its a caster so, keep going down in the ramp and he wont be able to cast on you, get the adds down first, and go for him.

Comment by 132262

were is the tower ?
i can find it
can anyone help?

Comment by Madrak

At level 27 I had difficulty on this quest as a Shaman solo although I did beat it on my first try. I have decent AH blues. I would suggest having someone help you on the quest. The re-spawns are long enough that you can kite the mobs back down the tower (Ordanus is at the top @ 62.51 and is a 3 pull)

Comment by 130343

@ ste25ste you asked:
> were is the tower ?

they wrote:
Ordanus is located at (61,52)
Also, the co-ords are for Ashenvale (its not obvious)

Comment by pewpewmoo

Soloed at level 25 w/ hunter. Took out the bear guards on the way up, sent bear pet in to pull aggro and concentrated fire on Ordanus. Ended up dying, but bot until I'd killed and looted.

Comment by syntheticFreak

I soloed this at level 28 paladin. was pretty easy. fight to the top, look round the corner and select ordanus. run in and kill him, he goes down pretty quick, loot him, run back out and jump off the tree :P

didnt even need to kill the other 2

Comment by 151768

Did it as a 26 rogue, not that hard. Killed him pretty quickly, grabbed the head, ran but didn't quite escape the other two.

Comment by chiqitabanana

I solo'd him 27 warrior tauren. I focused attack on ordanus,killed him took head and then by luck i didnt die while fighting the other two. Fun quest!!!

Comment by 164498

preety easy quest. soloed as a 25 rogue. sapped 1 ad, killed ordanus, grabbed the head and ran out. didn't even use any of my cooldowns :P

Comment by rm2k3guy14

Easy as a 27 Rogue, I was lucky as one add was not there.
I just sapped the only add, and opened ambush on Orandus, I had him at 25% when the add came unsapped, I had to pop evasion and killed him with 11% health, looted and ran :)

Comment by skribs

Solod on a 26 priest. PW:S and wait for weakened soul to fade, pull with nukes + SW:P, fear the adds, then burn down ordanus. When shield runs out, reshield. I'm not geared at all, and I stayed above 75% health the whole time.

Comment by 113367

Ordanes is located at the top of the tree houses. He is easy to solo(soloed with my 27 shammy), you need to watch out for the adds but that is all.

Comment by 328220

This was a little bit tougher then I first thought; the druids getting up to the tree was not bad it was Ordanus and his friends that hurt me. As a level 28 Warrior only two things I can suggest for all classes; 1st make sure no adds are here that can aid in combat, 2nd make sure all cool downs are well not cooling down. For warrior I suggested to charge at Ordanus hit a little bit and as soon as enough rage cast Intimidating Shout to fear them and he is easy from their.

Comment by JJax

solo as a 25 troll hunter, standard gear, no zerker needed.
run the ridge to the left of the building.
kill the first guy at the door
kill the two inside.
stay pet on passive in the bottom floor.
go up ramp 1/2 way, drop fire trap, continue up and drop freeze, ( two traps are nice!)
continue up ramp to aggro either 1 or 2 guys, go down stairs.
if only one aggroed left the ice thaw, he will nail the fire on his way down, turn pet on him and kill. if two > kill the first and wait for the second (whos in the ice ) and kill him.
go up to the ramp to the room, possibly third pat there, kill him, if not he is on the outside ramp...kill him.
just before the boss room, spin the view so you can see the boss, target him and send pet in. move to the doorway cast pet mend and DPS boss down... at the last few health points toss a multi-shot, drop an ice, trap 1st add , move in and take on the 2nd add, ice will drop kill him. loot away.

Comment by MajorMage

He's in the top room of the tree.
Coords: 62.1, 51.2

Solo'd as a 29 Pally.

Edited for spelling.

Comment by 4989

Do this with:
The Sacred Flame
and Laughing Sisters if you're a mage.

Comment by omslemming

soloed this with 26 rogue, you can stealth to the top mind you its not easy, the mobs seem to have excellent stealth detection, ive got 3 points in master of deception but was still seen once by one of the bears on the way up, luckly my vanish was off cooldown so i used this and got rid of all the aggro.

Anyway when you get to the top hes got 2 guards with him, now im saying this from a rogues point of view, sap one of the guards then nuke down ordanus as fast as you can dont worry about anyone but him just enable evasion and hit as hard and fast as you can then when hes down grab the head and leg it. it was even harder for me one of the bear guards from outside was coming up the ramp and ran into join the fight so I fighting off 3 adds. I had to use 1 healing potion becuause of this and I died on the way out but I managed to grab the head b4 I did and just ressed at the graveyard.

Overall very tricky at mid 20`s level but doable with a bit of luck. Having said that I have no idea how a class without thr ability to stealth would manage this.,

Comment by 526868

counts towards Loremaster of Kalimdor

Comment by 563812

do-able for 26 fire mage, frost nova the 3, while held scorch ordanus twice then fire strike the 3, as they come spam mana shield and aoe. i survived but only just.

be aware the building has 3 levels, i got to the second level, didn't see the exit and had to come here.

Comment by 3Freak

Solo'ed as Druid 23.

Comment by thatonegeek

If you realize you are at the wrong building, just follow the path back and you'll find the correct one.

this is vague. there are paths leading to each building, but no path connecting them.

there are two buildings within Raynewood Retreat, and standing at one you won't necessarily see the other one. the first and easiest to find (and wrong) one is close to the main road that goes east/west through Ashenvale. this tree has level 40 pvp Darnassus guards, so unless you're going back and doing this quest after level 60 it should be immediately clear that you're in the wrong place.

it's easier to take the road north toward Felwood. (alternatively you could take the "path" from the southern tree, if you feel like killing the Laughing Sister mobs. Shadumbra also walks up here) if you take the road, then about a third of the way to the border there's a marked path leading up to a second tree. currently, this tree is the one that's identified on the zone map as Raynewood Retreat... i don't recall this being true in earlier patches of wow, but that's cool.

tldr: lookit the map. go to Raynewood Retreat. climb the tree. kill. lawl.

Ordanus can be seen at the first lvl of the tower

i found him on the top level. does he path down to the first floor?

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This quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed.

Bring Ordanus' head to Braelyn Firehand near Sun Rock Retreat.

	Ordanus' Head (1)

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They thought that they could halt the flow of magic. They were mistaken. They thought that they could hide Ordanus, but I will have his head!

Magic grants me true sight. Yes... there he is. A crossroads... At the top of a great tree in Ashenvale Forest. A name... Raynewood. One of the eldest sons of the forest god. They spirited him away from the peak before I could find him, but his time runs short.

Bring it to me and I will share with you a mighty gift.

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