I've looked all over Stratholme and can't find where he spawns.
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Wow, this guy actually has a back-story. He's in the book "Of Blood & Honor".
The ambitious paladin who served under Tirion Fordring at Mardenholde Keep, Barthilas' parents were murdered in the Second War and he was ordained a paladin just as the war was ending. Vexed at not being able to avenge his parents firsthand, Barthilas had cultivated a festering hatred of all orcs as a young man. When Tirion was found attacked, Barthilas immediately assumed that it had been an orc, and began to scour the countryside for a force of them. After Barthilas discovered that Tirion had protected the orc, he oversaw every stage of the paladin's degradation. After Tirion was exiled, Barthilas made every effort to ensure that the orc, Eitrigg, was humiliated and brutalized during his execution, and was horrified when the orc was saved. Barthilas begrudgingly assumed his new position as head of Mardenholde. Apparently, that didn't last long. Tirion can be found between West and East Plaguelands, north along the river that divides the two. Eitrigg can be found in Thrall's chamber in Orgrimmar.
Quite possibly one of the easiest mini-bosses in Strat-Baron and one who has a very solid loot table, most importantly, the key. Still, after Maleki and Baroness have dropped a shadow bow and crappy cloth, it's always nice to see a mob like Magistrate drop *solid items* for a variety of classes.
I've fought this guy dozens and dozens of times, and this has never happened.
I was having HORRID lag, constant D/C's, I logged back in after one and into another lag spike, but I noticed somthing different, his corpse wasn't the normal frankensteign thing: http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/5415/barthilas3fq.jpg Can anyone explain this?
pretty simple really, once hes been looted and your through the gate after a little while he will turn into his normal self again its what he really was, well dont have to be through the gate but yeah, most nof u probably know this but he came to Baron (ages ago) asking him to help conqure stormwind, because the king was gone missing and the child which has stormwind now is no match for the baron, so he came asking for help to slay him, the baron refused his offer saying his time will come i may do it on 1 condition, u help me defeat the living! that come to my lair. and so its magistrate barthilas became who he is guarding the east wall gate with tghey key until u kill him and the spell baron put on him to help him along the way failed!
soloable by level 70 or no?
just soloed as a 70 prot warrior in pre kara gear. cake
lol 70 lock solo this no prob
well for me at least...no teir armor
70 feral druid.
Cake. Pre Kara gear. Yeah, okay. /end sarcasm I have good gear. Over 18k armor in Dire Bear form and this guy got me. I had him down to about 30% when I had to pop out for a couple heals (I was about to 30% also), and he did this damn spell interruption thing a couple times, and that was all it took. I even had Barkskin going and he still killed my heals. Beware Druids. Either tank him all the way down, or have some really good pots, cause if you gotta pop out, his hits are a killer. Getting re provisioned and will try again. Going to try using stun on him and see if I can get off a big heal.
If you're going to try and solo him as a druid, know that it's a pretty hard fight because although he doesn't have a ridiculous amount of health, he does hit pretty hard, and you'll most likely need to pop out and heal at some point, and during that window is where you'll probably face problems.
I thought I'd go into Stratholme today and get the Piccolo of the Flaming Fire. I tried to get in the back door and realized I had never gotten the Key to the City on that character (my 70 restoration druid). So, I'd go kill the Hearthsinger then sneak over and attempt the Magistrate. It took me about eight attempts, but I finally managed. Hit regrowth, immediately after sit and drink to get that little bit of mana back, then moonfire him, faerie fire him, rejuvenate, lifebloom, and go bear form (don't even try cat form, he hits like a truck). Reduce his attack power as your first step in bear form, then lacerate him five times and maul him as many times as you can before your health reaches about 50%. Lacerate him again to refresh it, then bash him, put all three HoTs on yourself, and get back into bear form. Immediately refresh that Lacerate, then keep mauling him until your regrowth finally runs out. Here's where luck comes into play. You won't have bash back, so you'll have to pop out, Barkskin to reduce the damage a little bit, and do your HoTs. If you're lucky, he won't use his pummel move that prevents you from healing and will no doubt kill you. If and when you managed to get your HoTs back on, use innervate and get back in bear form, lacerate him up, and repeat using the bash technique until he's dead. Nature's Swiftness might help if you find yourself low on health coming out of bear form and don't want to risk getting interrupted, but like I said, I'm a resto druid. My final attempt came right down to the wire, with him at 2% health and me out of mana and in my final shot at bear form. I finished him off with about 5% health and was a little more than ecstatic, since I got my piccolo on the same run. :)
As a feral druid I struggled with him at first, but in the end found I was just trying to be too fancy.
What worked for me was to start out by casting a regrowth, 3 lifeblooms, then shift to bear at charge range. Immediate faerie fire, charge, then demoralizing roar. Lacerate/Mangle/Maul til he's dead. Oh, after in melee I backed myself up against a wall so he couldn't punt me into mobs.
Re: Magistrate Barthilas by MichaelLaursen, Score -1.9
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server: jaedenar easy beans man, solod him just recently Was to laisy to clear whole room, and was afraid to pull agro if i want to ambush him in catform did Hots on me and i pulled him with fearie fire and wnet direktley to bearform just damaged him, and used the bearform heal wast that much of a problem Got my idol btw :) ( Feral druid lvl 70, 2 epix)
Soloed - 70 resto druid, just keep dot(s) (MF,IS) up on him, maintain 3 LF on yourself and occasionally use a reju.
Takes a min or 2, not so hard with inner & a little mana pot. Leather healer gear makes it easy
You'll need at least a respectable amount of dps to be able to solo him, meaning that protadin soloing is extremely difficult. (Level 66)
The magistrate frequently enrages, which stacks up to 25 times. A full stack means his attack power is increased by 375 (or 425, can't remember which) and his attack speed is increased by 100%. It puts you in a very bad situation.
Soloed him as level 70 Destruction lock with some kara and some arena gear. VW wouldn't hold for long, so I just dotted up, nuked and sacrificed, HS and potion. 25% health left after fight
wanted to farm that trinket from the rare mob... to make is faster i need the key from this guy, so as 70 holy paladin i thought 'this should be easy'. how wrong i was, got him to 10% using bubble and lay on hands. damn enrage stacked 25 times.
Thanks for all the comments about how you easilly soloed this boss. Now how about a comment explaining how to get to him when all the gates to the church are locked...
I just killed him with my 70 Feral druid. Was easy. He didnt get me below 70% health. He is not stun immune. Pounce, mangle, Shredm Mange, Rip. Bear form, Lacerate till 5, mangle when its up. over. And my gear suck.
Re: Magistrate Barthilas by ScourgeCrusher, Score -1.8
No one cares how easy he is or that you solo'd him. it doesnt help one bit. This isn't a palce to show off how macho you are, this is a place to provide help.
The problem is, How does one get his key without already having other keyed members? Annoying.
I zoned in to have a look on my mage, and this guy was sitting there right past the gate, and not in his usual spot at all! (the backdoor)
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