Legacy of the Ancients

This quest starts from [item=115467] which drops from a [npc=85199] (visible only after you have [building=41]). It requires that you kill 4 ancients, each in a different zone. They will spawn only when you are harvesting medium-sized Timber (not Small Timber). You'll be placed immediately into combat with them, so be ready. If you run out and drop combat, they will disappear.

It is possible to harvest Timber outside of the areas marked by the quest on the map, and they are usually found more frequently in areas with level 100 mobs, which I'll list as suggestions below. You can also click the mob's names and see on the map where most people have found them.

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• [npc=85271] - [zone=6719] (Socrethar's Rise)
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• [npc=85272] - Gorgrond (Everbloom Wilds)
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• [npc=85273] - Spires of Arak
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• [npc=85274] - [zone=6755]
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Updates:

6.0.3 Hotfixes: November 25
"Lumber Mill: Legacy of the Ancients has increased spawn rates of Medium Timber around the Botani Marsh area in Shadowmoon Valley."

Generally speaking, in Shadowmoon Valley, medium Timber is now plentiful all up and down the river from The Nightmarsh to Blademoon Bloom.

Let it be said---To get this Quest you must first have a lvl 2 Lumber Mill; TWO-- find the Petrified Ancients (393K HP). I located him in Everbloom Wilds-Gorgrond. SouthEast of the Everbloom Overlook Flight path. or even easier the words "Everbloom Wilds" on the map in Gorgrond ==> to the Right of the M....in the Green patch on the map between the ^^Green grass^^ ridges on the map... Kill The Petrified Ancient and he Drops the Quest to start this whole Quest.
Only Posting this because i could not Find it anywhere else... all the other Comments just say you need to collect the 4 items from each of the ancients but not how to actually start the quest.

To start this quest you must find one of the petrified ancients with peon corpses around it and attempt to cut it down. The lumberjack you summon will try to tell you it's a bad idea before being killed by the tree, at which point you can kill it for the quest item.

I had the rank two lumbermill when I did it, don't know if this is required or not.

The ancient I killed was in northern Nagrand, but I've seen them in a couple places, the easiest to find is just south across the river from the Ancestral Grounds in Nagrand.

Also, when doing the shadowmoon ancient, I couldn't get the guy to spawn from logging the low level areas, and had to go to Socrether's Rise to the south.