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Comment by 14562

The Alonsus Chapel is located at undead part of Startholme, it's a chapel like building right after first gate. Get your party inside and let paladin burn the house down. Dude inside will agro, kill him. After this some other npcs will spawn outside and whine about you burning their church. After you dispose of them (only one wave) you'll have your quest completed.

Amazing how easy this is compared to alliance paladin quest (which I assume at this point is pretty much same as shamans skyfury helmet quest).

Comment by KingNothing

Yes, this quest is a lot easier compared to the Alliance Paladin mount quest, which to me is a shame, it was hell for me to get mine on alliance, hehe. But I'm sure the same is true for Alliance Shaman quest, so it balances in the end.

Comment by abbadon

did this yester day. the holy flame your supposed to put out is located in the first small building on your right when you enter the undead part of stratholme from eastern plaguelands (requires a rogue with 300 lockpicking or "key to the city" dropped from one of the bosses in stratholme)

whe you put out the flame the paladin inside gets really mad and attacks. just kill him hes an easy one... exit the building and youll se his guards come riding in on horses, 6 of them not a hard fight when you have lvl 70 helpers when they are dead the quest is finished.

my group setup was me pala lvl 60 mage lvl 60 mage lvl 70 rogue lvl 70.

and a final word : i do have a warlock lvl 60 wich i did the warlock epicmount event in dire maul and this bloodelf paladin mount quest was much easier. i havent tried the alliance paladin quest yet so dont have any refference there but his was indeed an easy enough quest and not to expensive. i guess giver or take a little i spent about g and that includes most of the components you need to collect.

Comment by abbadon

gold spent on this quest line :

quest 1:
6 arcanite bars x 12g = 72g
5 dark runes = free (looted in scholomance)
10 sungrass x 50s = 5g
40 runecloth = free (looted from random mobs here and there)
150g

sum first quest : 227g

quest 4 :
1 arcane catalyst x 45g (reagent vendor bazaar district)
1 crepescular powder x 135g (poison vendor murder row)
1 azerothian diamond x 42g (prospected thorium ore wich i got from AH)
1 pristine black diamond x 4g

sum quest 4: 222g

quest 2 and 3 involves only killing and looting of quest related drops s didnt cost me anything.

total cost for me was 449g
this doesnt reflect the actual cost since this will vary from server to server and time to time all based on trend and access/availability.

the most expensive for me was the azerothian diamond which goes for around 12g each on my server but the the lack of these on AH forced me to buy thorium instead which is priced at 28g for 20 atm and i had to prospect 30 thorium ore before i got it. which means i paid almost 4x the normal going rate for a azerothian diamond.

Comment by 26074

My suggestion to those Paladins working towards having their epic mount right when they hit 60 is to work on getting these materials early. I'm 58 and I've had all the gold and materials saved up since about level 52. I was fortunate to have a 300+ miner alt that I kept in Winterfall village and just logged on to every once in a while to grab a free Rich Thorium. Got two Azerothian Diamonds and about 15 Arcane Crystals (among other things, including enough Thorium to have 300 Blacksmithing by 56). After checking the AH for weeks, I got a Pristine Black Diamond for 65s. Found 5 dark runes up for 2.5g one morning and grabbed those immediately. Bought the sungrass individually over the course of two weeks off the AH for about 15s a piece (some people just don't know what things are worth to others), and the runecloth... well, I have 300 first aid and over 200 runecloth on my Paladin just from grinding. Just check the AH and rely on the stupidity/ignorance of others. You'll get what you need pretty easily.
Another snippet of advice: Make friends with a 275+ Alchemist, and just give them your thorium/arcane crystals. A good friend of mine was leveling a druid with me, and he was an herbalist/alchemist. Took care of all my transmutes.

Overall, this looks like the easiest "epic" quest chain ever, though I haven't done it yet. But saving up enough money (especially without having to pay for a mount at 40) has been very easy, and I'll have my epic mount and about 3/4 of my flying mount at 60. Good luck to all the Paladins out there!

Comment by murumets

I just solo'd this as a 70 Holy/Protection Paladin. Before attempting it I made sure to get the buff from the Northern tower (+5% HP), but it wouldn't have made a big difference. I just made sure to Flash of Light often and keep myself topped while slowly DPSing one target down at a time. I used one Super Mana Potion and that's it. Use your Arcane Torrent/HoJ to interrupt healing when necessary, but I didn't notice them trying to heal themselves too often.

Comment by CurtisTheGreat

I just finished this quest... and I have to say, I loved the story. Great work on Blizzard's part. I love the whole "evil paladin" feel.

Anyhow, I did this with a group of mostly 60s and a 58 and 59. With two warlocks in the group at level 60 and 59, we just AoE'd the mobs down. I'm a protection pally, so holding the group aggro was a snap and we were done in about 25 seconds.

Comment by 47054

Upon completion of all the quests in the chain, you receive:
33800 experience (or a 2g 2s and 20c compensation at lvl 70)
995 rep. with Silvermoon City

and of course, the epic mount and the blood-knight tabard

Comment by 44812

This is the easiest class quest i've ever done, nothing like the ally pala epic mount quest !
As written above, no need for a big party!
Did this quest 2 days ago with a lvl 70 warrior.

Quest tips.

If you take the front intrance to Stratholme, go to the right to times after each other, an a chapel (church) will appear in front of you, kill the man inside, and set the chapel on fire, 5 sec after a wave of paladins on horse waits outside, kill them and quest is completed ! Good luck

Comment by 53225

BTW, those looking for dark runes, they drop off of basically any demon 50+, you could even farm the demons in Felwood for them, as that's where I have gotten a couple myself. Not hard at all, considering those demons are only level 50.

Comment by Feanoro

Having helped three Paladins get their chargers Alliance side, I can definitely say this chain is much easier.

Comment by Epoc

Just finished this at 63 (holy) with 70 warlock. Kills and the rest were easy, but an important tip - make sure to fight the first Paladin inside the church, if you fight him outside the other 5 run up and despawn as 'the chapel has been defended'.

Comment by Shockna

Is this just me, or does this quest line along prove that the Blood Elves are complete assholes?

Comment by Mister6002

I did the same like hibiscusman.I am now lvl 42 and i already have the Azerothian Diamond ( free from a friend ), Sungrass (5g from a friend ) and Pristine Black Diamond ( 10g on AH). If u got a warlock like me and compare the 2 quests, you can tell that the Paladin 1 is much cheaper and easier.

Runecloth drops lots at lvl 50 so i don't need to break my head for that and Arcanite Bars i can get from a friend when i provide the mats.

GL, Hordelegend, 42 pally on Draenor-EU.

Comment by Eilil

Theres a chruch type thing normally behide Magistrate Barthilas
but theres a table to the top left corner of the chruch that u click on
and then the guy standing next to you will start attacking you then after
he dies 4 or 5 really weak horse men come up and start attacking
you then when they all die u sould be good and done with the quest.

Comment by 43975

The hardest part about this was getting someone with a key to the city ><

Comment by 70265

2-manned it at lvl 66 with a 70 rogue... We didnt aggro a thing till I had to fight the paladins. Very easy.

Comment by 98269

New Record.
lvl65 Rogue, lvl65 Paladin
hint is kill the old guy first cant recall his name,hes the only 1 out of the 5 paladins that heals. if u dont take him out first he will holy light on any other 4 that are nearly to death which makes them impossible to kill.
He's the guy thats kinda bald with some gray hair around his head, when they come on their horse he should be the one on the left end if u are facing towards them, best way is mark him b4 they come inside.

Comment by 95580

one thing that noone mentioned and would only matter with a few select ppl is that THERE ARE 2 GATES that ya need to get thru... this isnt a big deal if ya have a key or rogue.... BUT my pally is a engineer and was using seaforium charges to get thru.... i only took 1 bomb and it sucked... try the suicide thing to res on other side but when ya enter instance it auto resses ya so .. moral of story is if ya usin seaforium charges to get by the gates bring two or else you will be kikin ya self in the arse!!!

Comment by 99628

Heh you do not need the key to the city to enter. The key to the city is used to enter through the back door, for a quick Baron run, since it shortens the time you need to actually reach the last boss. You dont need a key to enter through the main gate.

Comment by Lasthitlarry

Did this with me (63 prot pally) and 57 druid.

Took quite a bit without having the key, but is easily doable with a healer (especially one with innervate)

Comment by 99440

A little clarification. Once you zone in there are 2 sets of "double gates" that you will have to move through. Once you move out from zone in the first set is down on the right at the first intersection, Both gates in the "set" are locked, they are not trapped, once unlocked they stay unlocked but will auto close, anyone can right click to reopen at that point.

Once through that "set" down a ways on your right is another "set" of double gates(these are open), no traps, once you clear down to these gates simply walk through. The Chapel is just ahead of you on the right. There was a named up front when we did it, fairly easy kill for a 70 rogue and me a 60 pally.

Once inside the chapel its pretty anti-climatic from there, you douse the flame, the pally inside attacks (easy kill), the 6 pallies outside show up, again extremely easy kills. Rogue never went below 95% health and all dead in less than a minute from start of the event. The toughest part is clearing down and thats a breeze if you take your time and don't get carried away.

Comment by 112169

I was a little confused at first because I never ran many 60 instances. The best entrance to use is the Service Entrance that is marked by the cave southeast of the huge Stratholme writing on the map in the Eastern Plaguelands. You need the key to the city or a rogue to use this entrance, however. It was green to my 375 lockpicking rogue.

Upon entering, open the gate immediately inside the instance, kill the first group of mobs, and you're ready to roll for the quest because the chapel is right next past the mobs you just killed on the right. It's a big stone building that looks like..well, a chapel. Go in, use the stuff, kill the dude, then five elites spawn. Kill them and you're set like jet. Had no trouble at all with a 62 ret pally and 70 mutilate rogue.

Comment by Ninoa

This is a purely informative post for freshly dinged 60 paladins with a 70 buddy that hope to pull off the Stratholme boss by themselves.

I have a level 70 feral druid (S1/S2 gear) and just succesfully helped my 60 retri paladin partner with getting his charger. The paladin mostly just stood and watched because he had just switched to a new weapon and had to train his swords so he couldn't hit a thing. :P I handled the groups of skeletons by going cat and taking the non-elites out first. You can use bear form if you want to be safe but I didn't really find it that necessary. Once the paladin started the event, the first boss (he's alone) is a total pushover. After that, the 6 paladins spawned, but I was fine taking them out one by one in bear form. I believe one of them healed (possibly more, can't say for sure), so try to watch out for that. I never really came close to having to heal.

I believe most decently geared melee classes can pull this off just fine (especially if the paladin actually contributes). Casters may have a problem with handling the 6 adds, so you may want to bring a tank in that case.

I strongly recommend going with someone that has the Key to the City so you can enter through the back entrance. The paladin's quest boss is right at the start of the back entrance. If your 70 buddy doesn't have the key, suggest them to go grab it from Magistrate Barthilas ( http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=10435 ). He'll be spawned in the same area as the paladin's quest boss if you enter Stratholme with a party that does not have the Key to the City. Your 70 buddy should be able to dodge most if not all mobs on the way. When your 70 buddy has killed Magistrate Barthilas and looted the key, he can use it to open the gate on the right side of the chapel and leave the instance. He then should be able to open the gates that are keeping you from entering Stratholme via the back entrance. Congrats!

Comment by savagy

1) Bring friends.
2) Go through backdoor, much much faster.

Comment by 115093

Just did this quest with a lvl 70 Schaman and a Lvl 60 heal schammy.

Pretty easy its doable with 1 70 schammy, just make sure he puts up the earth elemental and if he is any good hell make sushi out of the 6 adds that come running.

Comment by 34921

So just a note since the information was unclear here, you first fight the npc there who gives the quest inside the building he is a 60 elite paladin.

After killing him or maybe after a short time since the first guy went down fast, 1 wave of 4 level 60 elite paladin npcs spawn, based off the names i would assume they represent the 3 talents of paladins and a leader.

All in all very easy compared with the warlock epic mount quest fight but in my opinion not as fun

Edit: turned in quest at 66 got 17,000 exp =)

Comment by 118464

Patch 2.3.2

Did this at level 60 (Ret spec) with a 70 Warrior (Fury) and 70 Paladin (Holy)
To be honest, it was overkill. The 70 Warrior could have solo'd it.

You enter UD Stratholme through the gate (Requires Key to the City) or a Rogue to lockpick.
Enter that way, it saves a bunch of time. If you don't have the Key or a Rogue to pick, you need to enter through the main Stratholme entrance, and fight your way toward the Undead side.

If you enter through the backdoor gate (with the Key to the City), you only have to kill 1 group of elites. The first building you see is the Chapel.

Run in, use the extingushing mixture on the flame. The Paladin in the room will aggro YOU. If you are squishy, use Hammer of Justice to stun him until your tank (or 70s) can get him. He goes down fast.

After he dies, FOUR (not six) but FOUR elites will run in the Chapel. We killed them fast with AOEs. Holy Wrath and Concecrate works wonders. Make sure you are ready with the Hammer of Justice, Repetance, Arcane Torrent, Counterspells, Spell Locks, etc. They try to heal right before they are killed.

All in all, this took about 5 minutes to complete. It was extremely easier than people on Wowhead make it sound. Spend 10 minutes asking nicely in trade chat for a couple 70s to help you. Most likely you will get at least 1 70 Paladin offering, as they know what it's like to need help with it.

Good luck, and enjoy your mount!

Thanks to Benn and Riccardo for helping me!

Buffy
Horde Ner'zhul

Comment by 110075

Recently helped a Paladin do this. As a Rogue who turned 70 only fairly recently, I was able to do it with some help of him healing, though I did use every cooldown I had. Didn't have much of a problem, but every cooldown was used.

Comment by 129177

Reading many of the posts here, I decided the best thing is to get a lvl 70 rogue to help me (although anyone with a backdoor key will do). After advertising for about 20 minutes in the trade channel I was able to get someone to help, you must make sure to mention that it is a short quest that doesn't take more than 15 minutes (at most). You could offer a tip as an incentive (whatever your budget allows and what you'd think a lv 70 on your server would do for 15 minutes of their time).

A solid group of 3-4 60's should also be able to do it.

Both me and the rogue didn't have any epic gear, and I am a lv 63 prot pally.

Go to tloc: 47,23 in the Eastern Plaguelands and enter via the side entrance. As mentioned you'll only need to fight one elite group of undead. Don't be unprepared, this may be a little tricky if you don't take care.

Then go into the building right behind this group, use the quest item on the flame, the guy inside will aggro. He's very easy to kill, but make sure that you are full of both health/mana before leaving the building (I'd suggest what the one poster mentioned to use "Hammer of Justice" and then let your higher level partner do the rest. Once outside four pally's will unmount and charge. This is the tricky part, for my strategy it was to get them all hitting me while the rogue took them out. Hence, use seal of light, and both Consecration and Holy Wrath . Use any healing potions and don't forget you can make use of "lay on hands" if it gets tricky in the very end a long with healing potions.

After you kill the 4 elite pallys, return to Silvermoon to get your charger/tabard.

Good Luck!

Comment by 42461

14,300 experience at Level 60.

Comment by littlidabbi

hmm... is this quest going to stay the same? After Lady Liadrin "sees the light" with A'dal and gives up loyalty to Kael'thas and joins A'dal. It would seem strange that she goes around burning down churches.

And now that Blizzard have started to make the game progress through patches having questlines radically changed shouldn't be a problem.

Comment by 147903

Just finished...got a lvl70 rogue who was farming strat to help me. From the time we went in the back door (called the service entrance for those of you who didn't play pre-BC) it took max 10 minutes. One pull, then into the chapel. It's the first building on your right when you come through the back way. If I was doing it again, probably 5 minutes total. It's so easy......make sure you let whoever you put the bite on to help you know how easy it is......provided you have a back door key.

With me healing, the rogue had absoutely no problem with the first pally, and with the second wave. The second wave was a bit harder than the first dude. I think this guy was pretty well geared, but I'm sure any lvl70 melee and 1 pally to heal could do it.

I offered him 25g to help me....he might have done it for free but I thought it was appropriate. So easy. IMHO the hardest part of this chain for a ret spec was soloing the part in Tyre's hand. Anyways, the effort on the Horde side is minimal. It is more cost effective. But most importantly, that dam riding chicken is the dorkiest mount in the game. And, it's kind of a measure of accomplishment to have the pally or warlock epic mount. By far they are two of the coolest riding mounts in the game.

Oh, I'm sure we could have done it in 20 min or less going in the front door, because it's 7 pulls or so as I recollect, plus you have to dispatch pats and watch out for the eyes. Net net, easy peazy.

Comment by Bu66ie

Well, despite what's posted, this wasn't as easy as it sounded. Attempted to do this last part of the chain as lvl 60 ret spec'ed Pally along with a lvl 70 Rogue that had above average equipment (rare PVP gear and some season 1 arena gear thrown in).

Followed the instructions and went to the locked gate, rogue got us in no problem. Got to the second gate which you don't need a key for. Followed rogue through this next gate to the first mob location. After rogue had started melee, as soon as I attempted to heal him, entire mob aggro'ed on me. Dead. After several tries (and deaths), we learned that the rogue needed to take down about half the mob before I could heal.

Using that knowledge, we were able to get in the Chapel. Single pally was easy. Next, six (not four) elite pally's showed up to defend the chapel. Once again, as soon as I attempted to heal the rogue, all of them aggro'ed to me. Needless to say, after 3 or 4 times of this, we got another level 70 toon (lock) to help.

With 3 of us, it took the 5 minutes. If you don't want to get frustrated, definitely bring at least 2 others to help with this quest.

Once completed, turned quest in for 14300 xp.

Comment by Trollinmotor

Just did this with a 61 prot pally (i did heal a bit) and 2 60 rogues. Just like Lokth said above, open service gate (one of the rogues did it). opened second gate. Killed 8 mobs (3 leet 5 reg) and chapel was right there. Easy. After u burn the chapel first mob went down easy. The other 6 (it was six for us) took a little healing from me. It was close @ the end, we were all down under half health by the end of the fight, and i was out of mana. Hope this helps.

Comment by 160285

Did this as a level 60 holy pally with my 60 prot pally friend. Solo'ed it for the key on my 70 hunter and then unlocked and killed the first little group of skellies right inside the service entrance. Got on my pally, we did the quest in the chapel. Was fairly difficult, repentance was a pain when I was trying to keep my friend up. Had to pot once and use some cooldowns (and I think he may have used Lay on Hands, not sure), but we finished after bout 5 minutes fighting them. :P

We were in Outlands questing gear with a few blues left from high level Azeroth instances. Definately duo'able, but probably would have been a cakewalk with a 70 there. It was much more satisfying to duo it, though. :)

Good luck to those who do this and have fun with your epic charger. :D

Comment by 118155

Also note that if you fail killing those 4 dudes who spawn you have to resset the instance to do it again

Comment by 45709

On my server it costs 100g for pristine black diamond EACH.

Comment by Divyraen

Two-manned this quest(and the skeleton pull) as level 60 PvP spec'd holy pally with level 60 subtle rogue.

The key is, try tank as the healer. In the first pull, I told the rogue to try pull the mobs off me, which disrupted her combo points too much and eventually the pull ended in a wipe. Then I tried to activate Righteous Fury and tank as the healer. The pull worked out well after we took down the Berserkers(they interrupt spells), since my heals don't lose casting time when I'm attacked.

I extinguished the flame and quickly we killed off the NPC who turned hostile. She was able to restealth before the -FIVE- NPCs charged in and started bashing on me. I used the PvP trinket to get out of stun and started throwing Holy Light on myself.(more mana efficient)

Our Kill Order was:
Gregor the Justiciar - This guy Stuns and has Holy Shock(instant heal/damage). It took us awhile taking him down, since his health is often healed to full by "Vicar Hieronymus" whenever it drops low. Eventually we managed to stun him and use Blood Elf racial to AoE silence all pallies for a total of 4 seconds and burnt him down. Half of my mana was used on this pally.
Vicar Hieronymus - The primary healer. Easily taken down by the rogue with all her stuns and kicks.
Aelmar the Vanquisher - The retardin. Easily taken down with no heals on him.
Nemas the Arbiter - A pally that casts Repentance. He shouldn't be a problem at all before Aelmar dies.(who casts Consecration that breaks Repentance) Easily taken down.
Cathela the Seeker - Tankadin. We chatted and cheered for a little while before we finally noticed her and killed her off... took a bit while.

I used a total of two superior mana potions, and things could have been easier I think if I was working with a dps warrior, mage or lock.

The key is - Tank as the Healer. You're in plate for god's sake!

Comment by Shinco

Done this today as lvl 60 Prot Pala and dual logged my brothers 70 Lock. Since I didn't have the key I had to take the front entrance. After killing all the mobs with SoC and dieing 3 times (because i pulled to many :p) I got to the quest room. The guy in the room isn't hard at all. He hitted cloth for like 200 and died in a few secs.

Afterwards I got 5 Elites coming and since they all went for my pala I just bubbled and could cast SoC on all of them while they were bashing on my Shield. ^^

Though I wouldn't recommend to do it this way but I like to share to others that it can be done.

Comment by Wastedcorpse

If you don't have the Key to the City then all you have to do is Divine Intervention someone while standing next to the gate, run back and rez inside the gate, use the lever to open it and viola.
Just did this with my friend's 70 hunter, took just under 10minutes.

Very easy quest.

Comment by 126025

An important note : Do NOT fight them OUTSIDE the Chapel, we did and the paladins despawned, having us to reset the instance. After we stayed in the Chapel and got it complete

Comment by 182982

that was very hard quest my friend help me he run with me to the dungeon :)

Comment by 180981

pretty simple got a couple guildies who were bored to help me with it, had my rogue open back gate they ran in, i switched toons, they open gate they clear area i run into chapel, 60 leet starts attacking, we macked on him for about 20 seconds and he went down. 6 people come running in after some bitching and complaining about burning down their chapel killed em quick enough with a 70 lock, mage and priest helping lol. and simple as that. overall spent on quest ~350-400 gold, didnt buy anything off AH and had the professions i needed...luckily between my rogue who was mining/JC and my pali who was running Herb/Alch i was able to get the bars for free basically, the 150g "donation", 135g for the powder and 45 for the catalyst...and a few runs through BFD totalling about 50-60 gold lol. so overall cheaper but harder to obtain than the regular players mount.

Comment by 193897

Hmm, am wondering, if its possible to solo this at 70 as prot pally?

But yet again, if you wait till 70, you will probably already have obtained 600g riding skill, so there will be no point to do this q, unless you want a shiny tabard and a Dodge Charger

Comment by 166878

Buying(or the money you miss in AH if you farm everything) all the junk for all these quests costs about the same as buying riding skill from vendor. So basically the only price break you get is the 85g for the mount itself by doing the summon charger quests.

The only reason I did them is I wasn't exalted with anyone else yet and I didn't want a gay pea!@#$ mount.

Comment by 166878

If you do this quest with a 70 mage or lok that has key they can easily nuke all the bad guys with AOE

Comment by 163616

Just did the quest with a 60 holy priest and me, a 60 prot pala.

Since we didn't have a rogue or the key, we took the long way round through the main entrance.

The hardest parts were the patchwork horror patrols, since they have a tendency to sneak up on you while fighting the other mobs, and have a lot of health and go straight for the healer after their knockback.

The fight with the Magistrate was also really close, but we made it.

The fight with the paladins in the chapel was no problem at all, plenty of mana and health left at the end.

Both of us were in mostly Outland greens. It took probably around an hour.

Comment by b1ackcat

Make sure you kill Aullius or whatever his name is BEFORE YOU LEAVE the church. The paladin I did it with said the mob was to be pulled outside and killed last, but the 3 times we tried that it resulted in the mounted mobs despawning and us having to reset the instance.

Kill him inside the church then the paladins will run in. Follow the kill order posted above. they will heal eachother ruthlessly and it can get annoying, but with a 70 it's no trouble.

Comment by 201474

I just did this questline (2 September 2008), and if you're looking to save money over the hawk mount like I was, don't do this line! I spent about 120 more gold on the mats than I would have if I'd just bought the skill and epic mount. One of the biggest differences was the rarity of the Pristine Black Diamond. Since it doesn't drop off anything most players in post-BC farm, it's pretty hard to come by. Got it cheap at 80g. Not worth the time, money, and pain in my opinion.

Comment by 213665

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/128/stratholmevw4.jpg

This is all you need to know if you DON'T have the key of the city.

Comment by 113267

Following Daimai's posted map, http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/128/stratholmevw4.jpg made it all very simple.
(If you don't have the key, you'll get it outside the church before you burn it down, easy boss, knocks back, killed with over 50% mana left.)

Spent somewhere around 600 gold on all the quests together, that with a free Pristine Black Diamond.

Level 70 Holy Paladin, ran in, killed off a few packs on the way when I ran in Stratholme, gear was 4 Brutal 4 T6, easy as a piece of pie. Burnt the place to the ground, slaughtered the ghostly Paladins in my way and Divine Shield-Hearthstoned back to safety in Silvermoon city afterwards. Got my mount, got my tabard, spent ~3 hours all together, counting some arena playing in the middle of it all.

CONCLUSION:

Very easy quest, if you are level 70, soloable.
Worth it? Depends on Ah prices and server, but a nice mount it is, gotta catch 'em all!

Comment by annerajb

i helped a level 60 paly friend do this quest as a destro warlock summoned my voidwalker and spammed sbolt as fast as i could. before they killed my voidwalker hellfire on the backdoor as i dont have the key. and again it's all on fast killing before they take down your voidwalker if you are not going to make it run out or try healing your voidwalker by no means try AOE.

Comment by shanny

I just soloed this one with my lvl 64 retri paladin, wearing greenies (6k HP, 4,5K MP, 5,5K armor, 904 AP, 20% crit). I didn't have the back door key so I had to clear the -quite long- way, which wasn't really difficult but required attention. In the way I also killed the mayor to get the key, when his HP dropped a bit and he enraged I had to bubble and heal -that's the only point where I was actually close to dying.

The quest fight was really easy, about the same difficulty as a trash group.

PS. Before the 3.0 patch, of course, I very doubt soloing with the same gear would be possible.

Comment by Quickx

Just soloed this as a 65 Ret Pala, pretty esy, just remember to use heals with AoW and keep Consecration up.

Comment by 223475

did it with the help of 2 70s hunter rogue, I am retr but I healed party at 64

if you dont go from the back door, and get in from normal entrance, turn right, have a rogue that will open that door and stay right soon you will find the building for this quest, inside the building there is a npc with a blue questionmark, this is where you have to be

use quest item kill npc that was with blue questionmark, after u go out kill a group of mobs that spawn

complete

Comment by Agent

SOLOed it with my level 67 Holy paladin, didn't have the key so had to do the long way ... it was pretty hard, but I didn't use my bubble or LoH.
Hardest part was the Magistrate, the longer the fight, the more strong he hits, so I had to heal all the time.
Gear was nothing special, outland greens and 1-2 blues. It took about 30 minutes.

Comment by 11294

With the coming of the 3.0.3 patch, Paladins can learn the Charger spell from the Paladin trainer without doing the quest line. Would anybody know if this quest is still available in the PTR? There doesn't seem to be another way to get the Blood Knight Tabbard

Also what is the lowest level that a Paladin can solo this quest at?

Comment by 48837

I just did the quest in 3.0.2 with my level 60 prot pally and was able to solo it. I was wearing the first 4-5 greens from Outland and various greens and blues from the 40s and 50s. Make sure to have Hammer of the Righteous (the 51 point Protection talent), as it helps DPS greatly.

I had to go the long way to the chapel (no sweat for a 60 prot pally), and the Magistrate was there. He is the hardest fight of the quest (if he's there). I had to fight him about 4 times before beating him (make sure to use cooldowns and pots wisely).

The actual quest guys - the paladin in the chapel, and the 4 spawned paladins are very easy for a prot pally, even if they get a few heals off.

I also found out that if you light the chapel and spawn everyone, but die before killing them, you have to reset the instance in order to start the event again, as the Eternal Flame will be gone when you respawn (as well as the mobs). Thankfully I had killed the Magistrate by then and got the Key to the City.

Comment by vgard

Just did this with my 60 pala, i have 2 accounts, so it was really easy. But not everyone can do it the way I did.. Put my pala on follow on my 70 shaman elemental and used a macro to target him and cast flash of light. Went in the service entrance and went out again after about 5 minutes. Chain lightning and lightning bolt was more than enough to take down most of the mobs. Used Greater Earth Elemental totem on first pull, and walked straight in to the chapel. May not be helpful to most players, but it was easier than expected.

Comment by Fengor

Seeing this quest is how blood elf pallies get their blood knight tabard, and this quest was taken out as of 11/4/08 are BE pallies still able to obtain their tabard?

Comment by Tyristrasz

All in all, a pain in the butt questline (what with all the running around and such), but the reward can be quite worth it. Depending on how much you pay on the AH for all your quest items and such. I didn't even bother keeping track of that particular aspect of it for two reasons: a mixture of heartache and indifference, since the QD dailies and such keep my coffers relatively happily lined.

In the end, the most difficult part proved to be just finding out where the Tyr's Hand Holy Water was. And it's at coords 77.96, 71.01 (as of patch 3.0). Those are the exact coords I had via TomTom standing right in the bowl within that building that was constantly referred to as either the "Tyr's And Abbey" (which of course, it is) or "that one building". Beyond that, it was quite simple.

...Excluding the fact that without a key or someone who has a key/lockpicking high enough, you're not gonna get into the right part of Stratholme without a serious fight. My 70 Mage who's completely decked out in epics (albeit nothing beyond Zul'Aman) got overwhelmed a couple times, particularly by the dude who drops the Key to the City.

But now, I'm one key richer, and sitting pretty atop one of the hottest mounts in the game.

Comment by 289297

Soloed this with my 61 retri paladin. wasnt that hard and i didnt have the key. Just logged in my rogue and let him open the gate and alt+f4 and fast in with my paladin (dont have 2 accounts) and go inside the instance and its open. than i soloed the rest.

Comment by 298935

This wasen't that easy for a lvl 62 holy paladin, i kill the first guy that stand there when you come in to the church but then the other mobs comes in. like 5 elites they just come and trying to kill me and when i'm on my way to do ''Lay on Hands'' then someone does ''Hammer of justice'' So not so easy for me :D

Comment by 312808

Yea its really easy now... Solo'd at lvl 60 as a prot pally...

Lazerturtle on Eldre'thalas

Comment by 260165

Do i have to do the lvl 20 paladin quests to start theese?

Comment by Trevar

Soloed as a lvl 60 ret paladin. It was pretty easy, but likely only because I am well geared.

I did it on Lostianna on Ravenholdt(US).

Comment by 293939

I just bought skill from trainer, almost same price and no quests...

Comment by 155762

at lvl 64 i soloed it, no problem

Comment by AriesShion

Just soloed this on my level 61 pally. No Outland gear. Heirloom weapon/shoulders, Truesilver chest and gloves, and the rest greens and some blue ST/Mara drops.

Sealing and Judging Justice turned out to be useful for interrupting spellcasting when HoJ was on cooldown. Mechanical yeti from Winterspring quest actually was useful in the last room to hold aggro on one of the mobs.

Comment by 389433

Frostmane Server:
This is my First time writing something on Wowhead, but this *!@#eD me off!
Unless these items are cheap DONT do this quest!:
Sungrass, (if you decide to buy it)Darkrune), and pristine black diamond, i spent 200g+ time to do this quest...

Ok, well i SHOULD have checked this quest out before i handed in all the mats for A gesture of commitement, but i didnt and this failed misurably, I dont know how it is on your server but on Frostmane it was expensive, Anyways If you calculate the time it takes to do all this+the mats Most people are in outlands so gold is coming quick, Spending 550g to get the regular 100% mount is FAR FAR FAR more quick, in the long run you save a lot more money i spent:

Runecloth : Free(looted)
Arcanite bar: 16gx6 96g
Sun grass: 10 , for 25g
Darkrune: Ridiculous price of 60g

Total: 186 + 150 = 336g, just on the 1st quest (most people would farm the dark rune)
so about 276g,

4th quest(True master's of light, 2nd part)(this one really hurts)

Arcane catalyst : 50g(Im horde so can be bought in Silvermoon
Crepuscular power:150g(Bought in silvermoon also)
Azerothian diamond: 26g
Pristine black diamond: Whopping 150g

(I spent 722g)(i bought the dark runes)
Total : 376g!
Subtotal: 662g! + the time spent on doing ALL the suckin' quests(this is without
buying the darkrunes) So i suggest bfor doing this quest, check the AH and if the mats are cheap before doing this quest!

Comment by Talvanor

Is this quest chain being removed, come 3.2? They're changing Epic Riding to Level 40, so...
I hope they don't. The Blood Knight Tabard is awesome.

Comment by Ballastik

yea and its horde only tabard =˘(
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Comment by bhorowitz

i'm glad i did this quest. i saved about 200g by doing the quest instead of buying training. and i did it so i could get my awesome BE blood knight tabbard. and once i finished it i got my achivement too!

Comment by 423708

I solo'd do it as a 69 retri paladin northrend equipped. Simple.

Comment by 424220

This quest was removed after newest patch.

If you take the quest and bring all the items to the questgiver, the 'continue' button will appear grey.

I didnt know about it after i did the mistake buying all mats for it. Don't do the same.
(suprisely no one have told here so i made an account just to say)

Comment by 429191

So does anyone know if you can do this AFTER you buy the mount? curious so i dont mess up :)

Comment by iffy

If you're like me and enjoy trying to bite off more than you can chew, be aware that although you can suicide and ghost-run through the outside door of the back entrance, the inner gate requires the key as well. :-/

Do a /who Stratholme and see if there are any nearby helpers. I was lucky enough to find two hunters trying to get the Baron's mount, and they helped!

And yes, I consciously chose to finish the quest and get the Feat of Strength and spend the 300+ gold instead of getting it for cheap in 3.2 Real paladins have Feats of Strength, baby!

Comment by Gnoktish

no my friend still has the quest

Comment by 435155

Just soloed this as a lvl 60 ret paladin with 2 heirloom pieces, 4.6k hp 2.3k mana, it was a little frustrating, but if you have the skill it is completely doable without having the key. You just have to be smart with your pulls and be able to take down the 2 bosses you run into.

Comment by thundagard

I can't believe I just spent 700g and 2 hours to get a tabard. A frikkin' sweet tabard (goes really well with Horde paladin t9), but it's a tabard.

... I don't even have epic flying.

Comment by Brendalis

This quest is a joke! Spent about 450g as has been mentioned so far,,,, then i had 1 item left to buy. Pristine black diamond....went to AH and the were only 2 on. 1 was 950g the other 800g! totally outrageous! As it happens I got lucky and was actually given 1 for free by another paladin who had a similar experience and took pity on me. he even ran me through stratholme and scholomance before that. Blizzard should be shot for leaving a quest like this in the hands of others and the AH!

Comment by Tanman28

Seems fair...we get to burn down a church for our quest and alliance needs to feed a horse magic biscuits... for some reason I think the alliance gets the short end.

Comment by 580885

INTERESTING NOTE: If you are 70 or so and suddenly want to do this quest chain, EXPERIENCE DOES SCALE WITH IT! Whenever you're a higher level and want to do this quest, you'll be gaining a very nice batch of experience for it.

It's a fun quest chain, and you get a unique tabard for it. I think it'd be worth it.

Comment by Imurdate

Im a 67 Holy Pally and had no problem doing this quest. total gold spent

135g for crepescular powder

45g for Arcane catalyst

total gold spent 180g, farmd all other mats thatwerent given to me and then had a lvl 80 prot pally run me threw strat to get last quest done easy peasy...

Hardest mat to get was the Pristine Black Diamond but i got one From ZG off Hakki Priest

other thn that uber easy quest for sweet tabard and now a FoS

Comment by 561934

Running it now. Soloing it on a Lv74 Paladin geared in all Northrend Blues.
Can solo Strath so this will be no problem.

Spent a lot of gold though... Lucky the Paladin is an alt or I'd be too poor XD
Started with 9k gold, currently have about 7k =/

Comment by Bostin

Just solo'd this as a lvl 80 Retri Paladin and I must say it was very difficult... Very very difficult.... Pressing buyout on the 400g Pristine Black Diamond was probably one of the hardest thing's I have ever had to do in my wow life...

Comment by Theodoric

Okay guys, remember. DO NOT DPS DOWN THEM TOO FAST!
I had to repeat the quest 5 times before I got it completed...

Comment by JamesThePaladin

Have you done as I asked and delivered my message? The false paladins of the world must surely know their time has come to an end.

Yeah... I don't see any statues of you being build for uniting to world in a victorious battle against the Lich King.

Comment by 671650

I bought that training and the mount from the trainer. I am level 65 and saw the quest available. Can i do it and still get the Charger feat of strength?

Comment by 620394

Ours is the true way of utilizing the Light, <name>. To show others that would call themselves 'paladins' the folly of their ways, I intend to send an unmistakable message.
The Alonsus Chapel, where the Order of the Silver Hand was founded, seems immune to the destruction of Stratholme. The chapel's eternal flame affords it the Light's protection, but when you use this mixture to extinguish the flame, that protection will be no more. It will burn, and our dominion over the Light will be proven to the world.

Have you done as I asked and delivered my message? The false paladins of the world must surely know their time has come to an end.

Well done, <name>. All who would oppose us would do well to heed the warning you delivered. Our foes should know that they are in peril, from the lowest foot soldier to the mightiest hero.
You have earned your place in the ranks of the masters. Your dedication and prowess serve as an example for all Blood Knights. As a symbol of your new status, I grant you the ability to summon and command the thalassian charger.

/Begins sarcasm. Obviously Blood Knights are PRIME examples of paladins. /Ends sarcasm.

Comment by 547335

This quest is no longer available... That means for the mean time...

No Tabard.

But.... Just got a reply from a GM stating that there will be a new Level 50 dungeon quest when Cataclysm hits that will allow you to get the Tabard if you missed out (like i just realized I did... )

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True Masters of the Light

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

Use the Extinguishing Mixture near the eternal flame in the Alonsus Chapel to remove the Light's protection. Be prepared to fight anyone who may attempt to defend the chapel.

	Remove Alonsus Chapel Protection (1)
	Extinguishing Mixture (Provided) (1)

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Rewards

You will learn:

	Summon Thalassian Charger

You will also receive:

	Blood Knight Tabard

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

500 reputation with Silvermoon City

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(9737))

True Masters of the Light

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