New Epic Mount & Instance Run.

Asked a nice friend in game if she can help me with the quest. A lvl 70 Paladin, ended up with 3 lvl 70 of her friends giving me a hand on the quest which seem more than enough firepower to say the least. We had a Mage, Shaman, a Holy Paladin and myself. We then headed to Eastern Plaguelands and then into Stratholme.

We didn't enter Strat through the regular front door of instance, as it seem we took a back or side door entrance into the place and the Chapel was close by as it seem like first building on my right from the side entrance. Not sure if someone used a key but i suspected so. The Mage & Shaman cleared the way to the chapel easily killing everything and was just like that i was inside and extinguished the flame burning there. Was a Elite Paladin standing there with the blue ? and after i extinguished the flame he said some stuff at that and then he attacked and we down him easily since it was a few of us. After that several other Elites rushed through the entrance and attacked us but the mage and the shaman had it all covered and i really didn't had to do much there barely got 2 hit off on the sword. After that i got the complete quest completion notification for extinguishing the light flame. Great!

As we left the light chapel it seem like a full instance run was on. I had no idea we were even doing a full instance run as i was not on Vent with the others, i just thought we were heading back out somehow as i could barely tell where i was at as the place seemed like a big maze to me with the sky glowing red above with oodles of undead basically everywhere. After a little while as we seemed to be taking on more group of undead mobs i had the feeling we were doing a full instance run. I was along now for the ride.

I've never done Stratholme Instance or the few before it so this was just GREAT! Good opportunity to see how lvl 70's play and well i get to run the instance. You got to figure with getting to Outland at 58, who attempts to runs these instances anymore? Not much of anybody i can think of. I never hear in trade, looking for group for Strat. So we killed lots of undead everything and lots of undead in mass groups and these were lots of elites also. Undead have a lot of Runecloth to say the least too. I got to consecrate allot, and cast demon Exorcism and Wrath Spells to knock out undead in masses, with lots of floating yellow numbers everywhere. WoW! The Mage and Shaman did allot of chain killing and it was cool to watch. There was lots of BOP blue pieced everywhere, too bad nothing i can ever use much as we passed on them. We got many pieces as BOE and i did not win the roll on much of those. All the BOP i passes on. Did get a few blue pieces and a Priest codex i will keep for the Alt Priest.


We killed lots of Scarlet Crusaders in Strat going through hidden doors everywhere. Mage had the key for the doors. A key dropped for strat i guess, we rolled and no luck getting it. Maybe when I'm 70 i come back and kill undead Protection Paladin Style in Strat. I did get lots of Argent Dawn rep points for all the kills, and some experience points also at 60, just too bad i was not wearing my Argent Dawn Trinket, Duhh! It was in my bag too. Again picked up lots of Runecloth everywhere. We got to a chamber the mage entered and fought some guy, he seemed to be really tough. The mage fought him since the shaman had left, the holy paladin healed and i backed up healed Flash of Light from outside chamber. First time i ever really did so much support healing or spammed Flash of Light. The guy was on low health, mage was low on mana, the guy turned into a big demon and i went in consecrated and casted Exorcism and after 1 or 2 other spells he was dead. We downed the boss guy, i didn't even know it was the boss since i was healing the mage before, i barely looked to see. Cool. We owned Stratholme!

The mage port the remaining 3 of us out the instance to Shatt, and then i took the portal back to Silvermoon and head to the paladin trainer to see the boss lady for the quest and i got about 8300Xp, New Summon Spell, All Riding Skills for 150 & the Paladin's Blood Knight Tabard. WOOT!! Yeah!! I feel like a real Paladin now somehow. I tried out the new Epic Mount with the new spell and its alot faster, even glows a bit too. I decided to wear my Blood Knight Tabard as its my right of passage as a Paladin and proud to wear it. I think i will just keep wearing it vs wearing my guild tabard for a long while... who knows till when. It was a good right of passage to earn it the Epic Mount, Blood Knight Tabard at least i took hits to get it.

Edit: Some day soon i will revisit Stratholme if not to get that Key also. But it would be nice as a challenge to solo it. Some people seem to get bored at 70, soloing stuff may seem fun just to do as a challenge in Epics.

Continue Mount Quest

Turned in Holy Water to the Paladin Boss Lady and got a followup quest to obtain 4 one items to continue the quest. Per the quest seem all 4 were to be fairly easily otainable IF you had the gold.

One item a powder i obtained from a vendor inside the Rogue area, that sells rogue poisons, obtained it for 145gold. The next item another powder i obtained at a reagent vendor a powder for 45gold. Next item was a Azerothian Diamond i obtained that at Ah quite luckily at 2.5gold as the other 8 listed was for 16gold each minimum. Last item was a Pristine Diamond which i also obtained that for 14gold buyout on AH as there were only 2 listed. It may be a quest for the mount buy the mount quest do cost a fair deal of money to gather some the items, though less than the other classes a bit if you compare. So far so good.

The followup quest now is to head to a chapel inside Stratholme and extinguish a flame. Checking with a few higher level friends seem i'm gonna need a bit of help to do this as it seem if doing the quest will need some lvl 70 help as doing the quest it seem you will have to fight 5 Elite Paladins at lvl 60 or so inside the chapel all at once to complete the quest. Gee. I would have rather to try and solo it but, seem i rather have the help this time for once. So the next quest i guess is really getting the help to do the next part of the Paladin Mount Quest inside Stratholme Instance, will see when i can get this done.

Paladin Epic Mount Quest Cont..

Been busy with some other things and clearing up bank inventory and such so not too much action. However today went to work on the Paladin Epic Mount Quest a bit, solo as usual.

Headed out to Eastern Plaguelands to Light Chapel Hope took the wing rider, first time i guess by way of flight. Found the location of Tyr's Hand in the South East corner of the map which would be direct south of Light Chapel Hope area. Heavily guarded by elites 54-60 all casting Scarlet Crusaders it seems. Never one to like casters much.

Fighting the elites were not too bad one on one. Most were OK to fight, the Enchanters were not bad but their Arcane Magic did eat at my health a bit. Too bad Paladin don't have a arcane aura as it be much easier so did have to try to kill them quick. My 1H weapon need some serious upgrading as the elite seem to do as much damage as i do looking in combat log. Had a hard time figuring out which one of building was to be the Abby to look for the Holy Water i needed to find.

Wasted a lot of time trying to move from building to building. Once i drew too much adds going up the hill (wrong way) and died. Got killed by elite paladins i guess. They seem to do as much or more damage than i did (need weapon upgrade much). In death i figured i roam around to find correct building. Turns out it was the building entering the location on your left of the square. So headed there. Fought the Eilite Paladin Guards one at a time, used the boomerang to pull(nice to have). Was not too bad. Found using Mana Tap and Arcane Torrent when they start casting helps to silence them a bit in spell casting because they self heal.


Entered the abby and drew two Elite Enchanters directly inside and they cast Arcane Magic so it eats away at your health. Didn't have any protection to these spells so just have to down them quick. Inside the abby best to go to immediate left, no guard there that side. Ahead in next room three guards down them quick. Best to Mana Tap all these guys to build charge and release it when they casting or stun them whichever works, they all seem to reheal on low health. A guard walks back and forth other room to here also so he got me first in fight but i got him in end.


Straight ahead in next room ahead NOT up the stairs but the next room is the holy water on the table. All three Elite Enchanters are together next to table so hard to pull. So i rushed in and started fighting. I down one. Got the other almost down and died there. No LOH it was on cooldown, forgot to use a heal pot. Arcane Spell damage did me in from the casters though. Did the quick corpse run back from the grave yard not too long. resurrected outside the room, recharged health and mana and entered the room and this time quickly down the other two. Picked up the holly water on the table for the Epic Mount Quest. I left the abby and fought the respawn elites on way out and out the Base camp and was not as bad leaving as it was entering with the benefit of knowledge of the casters. Headed back to Silvermoon turned in Quest.

Paladin Epic Mount Quest

On my visit for Paladin training i picked up the quest which i guess is to get the Paladin Epic mount. Had to go visit the Boss lady and a quest to obtain some items.

6 Arcanite Bars
10 Sungrass
5 Dark Rune
40 Runecloth

All of these easy for me to obtain. As a Alchemist, i had stacks of Arcanite Bars transmuted sitting in my bank. Sungrass i had in my Bank for Herbs. I had stack of Runecloth from fighting in Winterspring sitting in the bank for unknown reasons so didn't had to buy. Did had to buy the Dark Rune though on AH for 23g for 4 ... Ouch. Couldn't be bothered to go quest for it.

So now i had the followup quest on turn in to head to Eastern Plaguelands to kill some undead engineers and destroy some engineer units something like that. First time heading to Eastern Plaguelands so was interesting. Fighting undead is easy for paladin, we got all holy spells for undead at that. So was a easy quest. I ended up completing it easily and then bit of grinding on undead for even more runecloth. I had forgotten my Argent Dawn Trinket in the bank so could not obtain Stones for Argent Dawn so didn't bother to grind much. Did get a bit of rep increace.

I wondered around Eastern Plaguelands a bit and found the Argent Dawn Hide out Camp way to the east corner or Plaguelands at "Light's Hope Chapel". I just got the Flight Path here and didn't take any quests. Most i need to get with Argent Dawn is Freindly to get a few alch recipies that's about it. Unless there is something special i can get maybe. Everything in Eastern Plagueland seen to be lvl 54 and above. I also found "Statholme" wandering around and made my way right up to courtyard. I think i have to return here for the Epic Mount Quest