This entry is incorrect I think.

The reward for the darkreaver menace is http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=20134
Skyfury Helm.
SO.........

Where does this helm come from?

Yay, more shamen only gear with +spellcrit. I wish i could just DE all my pally healing gear and give the shards (now nexus crystal) to shamen, cuz they obviously need more stuff.

Can someone clarify, is it the helm of latent powers you get, or is it the skyfury?

Because the Skyfury looks like the Earthfury helmet while the heml of latent power looks like the Ten Storms helmet... Equal UGLY AS HELL that is.
You look like a bird with that helm -.-

Did this last night (patch 1.6.1). I found it really quite easy, considering some of the comments that were on Thottbot and Allakhazam.

Everybody needs to stay in one corner. We used the corner on the right as you enter the room. Our party makeup was protection warrior, mage (with instant AE of course), holy priest and two shamans with resto up to NS. Warrior had full +def tanking gear (the best ottainable outside MC), the other shaman had 7 elements + earthfury boots, the priest had full devout, I wore my +250 healing mail, and the mage had mostly magisters with a handful of other blues and greens.

The first wave will be non-elites, 12 of them or so. They all aggroed us at once, so this is what you bring your mage for. AoE, with heals on the mage.

We got little to no time to get out of combat after the first wave, so mash that level 55 water button, because as long as you start drinking in that few seconds, you can keep drinking until the next wave of ghosts are upon you.

The 2nd wave were all melee ghosts from memory, and they're elites. We kept stoneskin, earthbind, mana, health, GoA and windfury up at all times. Don't waste mana on magma and fire nova totems, it's of the utmost importance that the shaman(s) keep all their mana for when the priest goes OOM, which will happen very often. This wave wasn't particularly hard, as the ghosts for some reason didn't link all at once, meaning we could take them down almost one by one with good use of shackle.

The next wave, from memory, is the hard wave. Somewhere around 9-12 elite ghosts spawn in groups of three, and they all aggro you at once. Even if you range pull them from your corner, the other groups will run (float?) over to where the group you pulled were, then head straight for you. This wave is extremely hard, bordering on impossible. I hope you brought your ankhs. Our prot warrior is very skilled, and he held aggro on all of them. If you have a rogue a secondary warrior (or you, the shaman, if you have neither) use the 'target lowest health' hotkey, which is V or B by default I think, and have everyone assist that person to kill a target. DO NOT have the mage AoE. Kill as many targets as possible, and when you're about to wipe, which is very probable, run into the corner (I mean very corner, mash yourself up against that wall) and wait to die. Self-rez, and rez everyone. The quest will not fail if you wipe. Med up (you won't get aggro if you're in the corner) and pull the last few mobs, who will again link on you. We got 5 mobs down before we died the first time, so the last 4 or so were cake.

The final wave involves some caster ghosts who cast shadow bolt. Make sure the priest gives everyone shadow resist, and put down grounding totem.

After each wave, a named mob will come. The name is always "Aspect of ...". The final wave's named, "Aspect of Shadow" from memory, is the only one worth mentioning. He casts shadow bolt volley, and has a shield of some variety which is purgeable. He was really the only one we needed to concentrate for. What we did (cheap tactics 4tw) is to keep the nameds constantly shackled, and have our own spirit and mana/health totems regen us to full health. It takes a long time, but it can make the ensuing waves so much easier, considering you don't always get time to drink.

After these waves, the Darkreaver will spawn in the middle of the room. Med up and buff up, you have plenty of time. The boss looks somewhat like Baron Rivendare, and is quite fun to fight. He has a Balnazzar-esque mind control, and he always used it on one of our shamans, burning our nature's swiftnesses and healing himself. Mind control CAN be purged (use rank 1 purge so as to not knock of another buff) and can of course be dispelled by the priest. That's really the only interesting thing he did. He has a lot of HP and hits relatively hard, but nothing a skilled warrior and priest shouldn't be able to handle, with the shaman throwing the odd heal in. Put a searing totem down, there's no more mobs after this one so you don't have to worry about aggro. After he dies, the head is lootable and can be looted by more than one shaman. Link to the mob with loot table. He dropped Oblivion's Touch for us, which is the most awesome looking wand I've ever seen. But it's borked to attack as a melee weapon, so if you get it, you'll have to wait until 1.8 or 1.9 to have it fixed.

Turn in the head to the shaman trainer in Orgrimmar to receive the Helm of Latent Power, or post patch 1.7, the Skyfury Helm, which has a graphic similar to the earthfury helm, and stats:

13 strength
14 stamina
12 spirit
2% crit with spells
1% crit with melee

Edited, Tue Sep 6 01:58:48 2005

From patch 1.7 notes: "The Darkreaver Menace" quest has had its reward improved; any Shaman who has already completed the quest should speak to Sagorne Creststrider in Orgrimmar to get their new reward.

It looks like Blizzard has someway improved the helm.

I have found that have your healers on a mage. have the mage AOE constantly. he will get allt he aggro, your healers MUST be constantly healing him, the rest of the party can take a guy at a time. By doing this we pretty much run through it.
After each big group the mage drinks his water and onward we go. I have done it this way a number of time and except the first time we ran it no one dies. Well at this point in the instance anyway.
After the mass mobs the stradegy changes.
Hope this helps U get through a rough start.

The helm, in my opinion, is very good. However, the quest is impossible to complete as it is. I've tried two times, both with very good groups of people, and failed both times. Alliance have a way to deal with the third wave, but the Horde do not. I'm waiting for a Blizzard tweak to the quest, but I doubt it'll ever happen.

Maybe since it is the Helm of "Latent" Power it will get some major loving in apatch one day, or maybe have some amazing abaility that summons the Earth Mother to wtfpwn your enemies or something. So I'm dreaming, let me dream kthnx.

it is NOT worth the reagents ...

o.0

GIVE

Supposedly the reward for the new shaman quest.

It's good, but given the difficulty of the quest (and the cost of the pristine black diamond)...