The Test of Righteousness

I have recently completed the level 20 paladin quest and have a few tips to share. One of these is a big time saver if you have a main on the same server as your paladin. This is the quest you pick up that begins the chain ( http://www.thottbot.com/?qu=1653 ) and ultimately earns you Verigan's Fist ( http://www.thottbot.com/?i=4190 ). The first part of the quest has you recue a woman under attack by defias thugs. This part is easy if you have a couple of people with you (tip: it is right near the exit from Deadmines - find some dungeon goers to help you for two minutes).

The next part has you go to a quest mob outside of Ironforge, who then asks you for 4 items. The first two are easily obtainable, the other two are a little harder.
1) Go into deadmines and kill a goblin woodworker to get the whitestone oak lumber. This is fairly straightforward.

2) To get the ore, go to the quest mob in the tailor's house in thelsamar, loch modan. He will send you to the ogre camp (northeast loch modan). The crate is out in the open about halfway into the camp. You don't need to kill more than about 4 ogres to get it.

Now the harder bits. There is unavoidably a lot of running at this point, but here are some timesavers.

3) Run to Menethil Harbour, Wetlands. Get the flightpath and then hop onto a boat to Auberdine. Here you will find a quest mob in a building to the north of the inn. Set the inn as your hearth location, then get the quest to return a Kor gem. Get the flightpath and then run south into Astranaar. Once you enter Astranaar you will see a mountain line on your west. Once you are past it go west to the coast and then north and you will reach Blackfathom Deeps. You will find a corrupted kor gem on a blackfathom naga (i only had to kill one just inside the cave to get it). Hearth back to Auberdine and hand in the quest to receive the purified kor gem.

4) Get back on the boat to wetlands, set Menethil Harbour as your hearth location, and get ready to do some more running. To me, this was the most annoying part of the quest. You need to go north into Arathi Highlands (get the flightpath there), then west into Hillsbrad Foothills. Grab the flightpath in Southshore and continue west into Silverpine. This is horde territory. The path is reasonably safe since there are dalaran alliance-friendly mobs the whole way and Silverpine mainly has horde players up to about the same level as you are.

Follow the signs to Shadowfang Keep. In my case i logged out right outside the instance and came back with my main, a 56 priest. The item you need is a hammer in the stables at the far end of the courtyard. To get there you fight through to a small cell block and free a mage who then unlocks the door to the courtyard. Clear everything up to the stables and your pally has a clear run to get the hammer. Invite a friend, who does not need to enter the instance, to join your group (i made mine leader) and then logout. Login as your pally, join the same group and go in and the instance will be right how you left it. Of course you could just do this dungeon with a group of people, but i would guess that it is tough to find people who want to trek all that way for a dungeon the level equivalent of Deadmines.

Leave the group and after 60 seconds you will get a free hearth back to Wetlands, where you can hop on a gryphon back to Ironforge. At this point you hand in the quest at Ironforge and Verigan's Fist is yours. In case you're wondering how long you will use it, in my own case it was replaced with a level 30 blue (Viscous Hammer - http://www.thottbot.com/?n=688759)

I hope this is some help to anyone who has a low level paladin, or who is considering starting one.