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Kommentar von CharlzO

Midway through the fight, Balnazzar shifts from his humanoid form, into a demon, taking flight. Overall, it isn't a hard fight, just keep up the DPS throughout.

Kommentar von galaxygoddess

THe best way to handle him, is your tank pull him to the far wall, and your healer stand with the back to the exact opposite wall.

He does an AOE stun and when I stand back like this I don't get caught up in it and I cna keep our tank alive.

He drops the flask of wisdom recipe and I have yet to see the stupid thing drop in my 78 runs of this place. *sigh

Kommentar von defektunge

As a bit of useless trivia, Balnazzar was one of the random names given to Dreadlord heroes in Warcraft III.

Kommentar von 38623

i just soloed him and whole strat scarlet ,

Anonym 70 UD Warlock Talnivarr

Kommentar von 49153

Balnazzar is dead why does he live!!!! Blizzard fuckes the whole entire warcraft history !

Kommentar von catchmeifyoucan

I think really maybe Varimathras didn't kill him maybe he used somekind of spell that mayeb i don't know teleported him somewhere else or something like that because i don't think varimathras has guts to do that because he was so nervous when he wanted to do it even ner'zhul said that it's forbidded for dreadlord to slay dreadlord.

Kommentar von SeanDamnit

Solo'd as a 70 frost mage. ~9k health/mana in mostly pvp gear. Just barely got him down though. If I were a bit more organized it would have been better.

I just blasted his human form down with my water elemental out, then tanked or semi kited the demon form until my water elemental ran out of mana. Ice blocked, let the elemental die, cold snap'd a new elemental and continued. I had to use a health pot and bandaged.

Kommentar von Kanana

To solo Bal with a BM Hunter:
1) Kill through to him how ever you want (Run and FD works sometimes). I chose to fight it.

2) Clear all around his room and the hallway

3) I say with a BM Hunter because you pet will be taking a lot of hits.

Setup:
Set up a snake/fire trap (you're choice I chose snake) just inside the room. Mis-direct on your pet and pull him to the trap. Have you pet tank him near the doorway (inside a ways) and stand away in the back.

Phase 1:
Keep Improved mend pet up all the time because he will stun you to where you cant heal your pet and your pet might die.

Just before he turns into Bal; place a trap, mend your pet and serpent sting him.

Phase 2:
Same thing with the first phase; keep mend up 100% (the sleep is much nastier than the stun) and place another trap and sting him,

2 times in a row he has slept me just before his death and my pet and serpent sting had to bring him down.

A Few notes:

-A turtle is an awesome pet for soloing low level instances with there high armor and shell shield ability. Any other high armor pet is fine as well.

-If you pet doesnt have at least 45% mitigation with 6k hp; prepare for a short fight for Balnazzar can hit and crit hard

-If you dont have at least 6000 mana; you may run out. You need to do all the dps you can within a short about of time. Steady shot is your best friend here.

Useful talents (You wont be able to get all of them)
Endurance Training (BM)
Thick Hide (BM)
Improved mend pet (BM)
Ferocity (BM)
Bestial Discipline (BM)
Bestial Wrath (BM)
The Beast Within (BM)
Efficiency (Mark)
Go for the throat (Mark)
Improved Stings (Mark)
Combat Expertise (Sur)
Survivalist (Sur)
Improved Feign Death (Just in case :D) (Sur)

Kommentar von 102753

i have heard he is some how related to the act of the creation of corrupted ashbringer and the highwarlords morgaine's son stabbing his father

Kommentar von 65759

anyone got tips for a feral druid? Tried cat form, tank gear, didnt work well

Kommentar von Corbon

He might fear you at least once throughout the fight, making you an easy target for his Shadow Shock which hurts even at Lv 70. The PvP trinket solves that problem. He also mind controls, but like Baroness Anastari and Kirtonos, won't use it when you're fighting him alone.

Kommentar von 51192

Possible, but definitely tough for a combat (19/42/0) specced rogue. Basically, this is what I found about the fight as a rogue:

Don't use any of your cooldowns while fighting Dathrohan. He's fairly easy to burn down, and will at most get you to 50-60%.
Balnazzar is the hard part. I blew all my cooldowns upon engaging him, attempting to burn him down ASAP.
Balnazzar crits for about 1300, so Evasion is really important here. Hope to get a lucky streak with 4-5 dodges between each hit. It helps a lot.
Unlike other mobs in the instance, you won't automatically resist his Mind Blast 90% of the time (guessing it's because he's level 62 and thus green rather than grey to you). Therefore, it may be an idea to use Cloak of Shadows if you're near death and he begins casting at you.
Use everything you can; potions, Charged Crystal Foci, whatnot. I was at about 400 HP when I killed him.

(This is all as a rogue in mostly tier 5-level gear, with 1/8 tier 6 and a few random MH/BT items. I'm thinking it might be easier in PvP gear due to the more stamina and lesser chance of receiving crits.)

Kommentar von Afrozombie

you can solo as a tank warrior but it will take you a very long time
Its recomended that you bring another person along that you know and split the loot since the drop rate for blues here is very high compared to other instances that drop BOE blues. Soloed all the bosses in the living side and killed bal within 2 minutes prob less
3 orbs dropped
5 BOE blues
and the tank warrior had D/E skill so we got some ok stuff all in all

Kommentar von oosweetdan

I just soloed Balnazzar, as a 5/11/45 ret pally pre kara gear, i used loh and armor +trinket and an ap +trinket, i didn't use ether of my bubbles but i ended with less than 200 hp left so they might have helped.

was working on my Vanity Dungeon 2 set but the boots have a crazy low drop rate...

Also side note i did sneak in, i only killed about three groups, using inviso pots and my eng trinket

Kommentar von 133573

And i have an question for all lore lovers. What is this guy doing here??? He was after by Verimathras at sylvana's command,before him Verimathras killed lord Garithos also at sylvanas command so why is he alive again???
And btw i think i can solo him with warr but not sure must try :D

Kommentar von Oppenheimer

Trivial to solo as a Holy Paladin - seal & judge wisdom, and gradually whittle down his health with exorcism and holy shock to be on the safe side. Keep your health above 50% in case he manages to CC you.

Stick up Shadow Resist aura to get ~90% resistance on his annoying Psychic Screams and Mind Blasts, and you're set! It took me about 5 minutes.

Kommentar von angorashi

An overall simple fight as a mediocre-geared aff lock. I'm geared in 3 S2 pieces, 2 T4 pieces, and the rest is kara/heroic gear. Not all that great, 11k health with blood pact on, which you'll have if you're aff.

There really is nothing special to this fight, just do the same thing you do with all of your fights: fully dot, make sure siphon is on, and draintank. While on my first run I had to healhstone when he turned into demon, becaus eI was running strat for the first time for kicks and didn't drain enough to last him out, I got him with over half health the second time.

The second time, I just kept unstable affliction, corruption and of course siphon lif on him, but this time I put Elements on him instead of Agony. Pretty much, it buffs siphon/drain life, which in turns heals you more. I'd reccoment it for any boss fight.

There's nothing to him, tank'n'spank fight.

Kommentar von Core

If you fight him as a shaman and use totems, he doesn't consider you "alone" anymore and uses mind control, instantly evading and resetting as your totems switch too and there is no enemy left. Particularly annoying because your tremor totem is very helpful here.
The solution: Summon a fire elemental. It's immune to mind control and doesn't switch if you get mind controlled. The tremor totem will dispel you soon.

Kommentar von 208864

just solo'd as mage 10.6k hp 9.6 k mana with about 200 hp left...not a very friendly fight

Kommentar von forgottenone

Thought he would of had his graphic changed to the same as Varimathras and Mal'Ganis.

Kommentar von 153653

But why is he an NPC in strath....I mean he is the most powerful dreadlord of Mag'Ganis and Varimathras....Balnazzar should be a 25 man raid boss in an instance in Northrend imo.

Kommentar von 310260

I'm puzzled as how he is in the game. Wasn't he killed by Varimathiras in The Frozen Throne?

Kommentar von 67121

I went to get the Strat achievement with a group of strong 80s, and we killed Dathrohan so fast he never changed into Balnazzar. If you want the achievement, let only one guy fight him until he changes. :)
It'd been so long since I was in Strat that I had to look him up here and go back to solo him to get my 10 ach. points. It was late, so I hearthed out after killing Bal only to realize that I'd AGAIN forgot to burn the damn library for the archivist quest.

Kommentar von 222376

It can be assumed that he is dead for good now, seeing how one of the ways to prevent the cycle of "Rebirth" that the Dread Lords have, is to decapitate the enemy.
And one of the quests requires the head of Balnazzar

Kommentar von Daralyn

Is Varimathras loyal to the Forsaken?'

are you joking?...

He is a Dreadlord...if it will be chance...he will tore Sylvanas to pieces and claim his hand on forsaken alone, to make a bloody mess from all Azeroth

Kommentar von 556119

Does anyone know if he still drops the recipe for distilled wisdom
as so far killed him 10 times and nothing , so just wanted to make sure it still dropped as i want it for my holy palli :D

edit : just got it to drop after 14 runs :)

Kommentar von speedywill

if memory serves correctly in Warcraft 3 Balnazzar was the biggest out of the 3 dreadlords
Varimathras (red) Detheroc (green) were about the same size but Balnazzar (purple) was taller and let out more bats than the other 2

Kommentar von 108775

Cataclysm Spoiler here:

After the disbanding of the Scarlet Crusade, Balnazzar dropped the disguise of the High Crusader, and went on a killing spree, eradicating the 'living side' of Stratholme City. Then he used his wicked skills to raise his former servants as undead minions, referring to them as 'Risen'. Thus, the instance Stratholme is now fully undead-dominated, with the Scourge and Risen forces facing each other on the cursed streets.

Kommentar von Sirvi

so in future sight...Ol' Varimathras will be coming back again-I assume...as well as with thrice killed Balnazzar. Yeah, of course Stratholme was merely a set back the FIRST time.

You think Balnazzar would learn his lesson by now seeing he is the NPC that has been killed 3 times already.

Kommentar von 748485

Very fun dungeon, had many bosses, some challenging some not. When I first accepted the quest I had seen the picture of the boss and thought to myself it would be a very hard boss, but after going to him he seemed to be not that hard, and he had some decent drops, I liked how two of the quest givers spawned to the boss to complete the quests after the battle.

Kommentar von cryptlord99

I'm still waiting for the return of Tichondrius

Kommentar von 44464

I don't think you can kill another player under the effect of Domination. The loudmouth jerk of a shaman ended up mind controlled during the fight and I landed what should have been a killing blow. Instead of dying, Domination broke early and left the shaman with 1 HP left. Damn!

Kommentar von 886820

If you kill Balnazar then Maxwell Tyrosus appears and says that if you kill a dreadlord in the real world his soul goes back to the Twisting Nether and he reborns.He also says that he might be planning new evil deeds with his brothers.

Kommentar von Thottbot

It's simple... Varimathras didn't really kill Balnazzar, and is a traitor.

Guess blizzard thought that the twist in the storyline outweight the missing explanation for his death.
Blizzard is know for making great and complicated stories for their games... And I can't ever imagine they would make a mistake like that.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Here are my theories on the whole Balnazzar thing. First off, "Dreadlords aren't allowed to kill their own"? I was suspiscious of this when he first said it. Since when do Dreadlords follow ANY kind of rules? Varimathras likely made this crap up. He was supposed to kill him to prove his loyalty, and very well could have, yet he's still alive. As one poster mentioned, he may have allowed Bal to live, thus proving disloyalty to Sylvanas. It's sort of like Stormwind's Onyxia situation, where one force (Balnazzar and the Scarlet Crusade) is attacking from the outside, while another (Varimathras and the Deathstalkers) is subverting it from within. As for why Bal would be attacking the Scourge, it's not the Dreadlords who betrayed the Burning Legion, it was Ner'Zhul. The Dreadlords were the Legion's means of making sure Ner'Zhul did what they want, and he betrayed the Dreadlords, and thus the Legion, by commanding Arthas to kill Mal'Ganis when he first picked up Frostmourne.

One last note: Whatever reason Balnazaar survived, Varimathras undoubtedly knew. If he held any real loyalty, he would likely have told Sylvanas.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Balnazzar died..then he respawned lol

Kommentar von Thottbot

Food goes in the mouth.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Tell me. If balnazzar came back why didnt Dethoroc huh. I dont understand that. If Balnazar survived why not Dethoroc? Plz answer and i shall be happy =)

Kommentar von Thottbot

http://www.wowwiki.com/Balnazzar

Kommentar von Thottbot

There is a book somewhere in the game that explains why Balnazaar is alive. I'm not giving the location away because, well, I really don't remember where i read it. But it explains everything you guys, (And the demonic roleplayer) are bickering over.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Just killed him with 4 people: Me (Druid), Warrior, Paladin and Rogue (All level 60�s)

Now that was nice!

Kommentar von Thottbot

very easy boss, much easier than the baron, he doesn't even hit very hard, his health and toughness is also about average. He can be tricky for inexperienced groups though:

You NEED a good dps regimine on him to end the fight quickly, or else if the fight drags on he'll probably eventually start MCing people and fearing, which is where it will get really hairy, especially if he targets the healer when the party is running about like headless chickens

Provided the warrior (or whoever is tanking) holds the agro, has his pvp trinket equipped in case of a sleep, is spam healed by the main healer and the rest of the party don't accidentally pull the agro off him for too long, he will drop quite quickly

Kommentar von Thottbot

I belive Blanazzar and Varimathras thought up a plan before sylvannas attacked varimathras as they knew they could not defeat her:

phase 1: Varimathras submits himself before syvannas and offer her eternal loyality in exchange for his life.

phase 2: Let dethoric die at sylvannas� hands.

phase3: After balnazzars army is defeated Varimathras pretends to kill belnazzar, balnazzar pretends to die.

phase 4: Balnazzar founds the scarlet crusade.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Lore wise, it's against the law of the dreadlords to kill each other. So when Lady Sylvannas told Varimathras to kill Balnazzar, it's unknown if Varimathras didn't kill Balnazzar accidentally or purposely.

It's pretty #$%^ed up though. Balnazzar sends his brother to tell Lady Sylvannas to join him, and finds out Sylvannas recruited him.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Since we handed his head to argent dawn.

Kommentar von Thottbot

maybe he just ressed at the spirit healer, and is weak cause he still has ressurection sickness? :P

Kommentar von Thottbot

I Like Demons and i Will post Pictures of Them)

http://www.roguetroopers.com/screenshots/balnazzar.jpg

Kommentar von Thottbot

"Sylvanas, Varimathras, and Garithos approached Balnazzar, and Sylvanas ordered Varimathras to kill his brother as a testament to his loyalty to her. Varimathras was abhorred. Killing another Nathrezim was forbidden, but Sylvanas was adamant. Balnazzar was sure that Varimathras would never take that final step. He was wrong. (Though we see Varimathras kill Balnazzar, we don't know if Balnazzar's survival was intentional or accidental)."

Edit: Bah, didnt see someone already posted this.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I have an idea.... ever met two people with the name John? Maybe Balnazzar is a popular name for dreadlords... like Chris... or Stephen.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I really wish the lightforge boots would drop... been there like 12 times now, and the epic book of the dead dropped already... funny how it's only a .3% drop and 10% for my boots. Makes me sad.

Kommentar von Thottbot

are u talking about. Where have u heard him been called that. I only have heard him as Balnazzar from WC 3 where he comes from

Kommentar von Thottbot

I JUST got done playin WCIII and the expansion today. Balnazzar does die at the hand of Varimathras, and even if he didnt completey kill him, why Stratholme? Why not go to OL?

Kommentar von Thottbot

this the brother of Varimathras and some other dreadlord

Kommentar von Thottbot

soloed as of 29/05/2007
pally 4tw!

Kommentar von Thottbot

Balnazzar is soloable at 70.

Kommentar von Thottbot

The reason why Balnazzar is still alive in the Strat run is so you can try to farm his items, come on its a RPG game not real life!

Kommentar von Thottbot

Brann Bronzebeard mispelled Balnazzar's name as Balzannar.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I thought balnazaar was dead...

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Dropped him tonight and got Recipe: Flask of Distilled Wisdom... YAY

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Is there some secret to this? Tried it in a 5 man group and we got our asses handed to us. He still had 63% or something.

And yeah I thought he was dead too.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Either Scarlet Strat is easy as hell, or the people I play with just rock...

60 Warrior
60 Paladin (that's me, as main healer)
60 Warlock
59 Paladin
59 Hunter

No mage, no rogue, no priest. Even with a horrid pull in the last half of the instance we didn't wipe once. Only people who died was Warlock a few times throughout, and 59 Paladin at Wiley cause he was healing me instead of himself :P

Anyway, Balnazzar wasn't really that tough, I imagine it would be even easier with Fear Ward/Tremor Totem. Just make sure the tank is always pulling him to one side of the room and everyone else is as far away as possible. His AoE stun has a 20 yard range.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

If a warlock did Enslave Demon on this guys would'nt they become the new leader of the scarlet crusade with Balnazzar as their pet/slave?..

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Of all mid-instance bosses, this must be the best one to farm money on. Apart from the chance to get Righteous Orbs on the way to him, he drops 2 BoE recipes/patterns which both sell for a lot of money, a reasonable chance for Book of the Dead (BoP though) and the rest of his loottable has a fair vendor price, for those who're not an enchanter.

Edited, Oct 10th 2006 at 12:45am PDT by Mennotijms

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I went with a group last night that consisted of 2 70's and a 68 and Balnazzar showed up as a 68 Elite!

lets just say wer weren't expecting that.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

He must be an undead demon then.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Balnazzar looks so cool and is so easy!(ofc if u know what to do - casters should stay away from him and thats all)
He needs some buff in stamina or damage - he's probably the easiest 62 lvl mob.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Got right to his door, then the priest left, didn't say a word. I was pissed, I want demonshear bad too, seeing how its easier to do a Strat Live run, then try to farm rep with the circle.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

hehe, sucks when he MCs the main tank with no priest. wiped an MC gear'd our group 5man. goes to show these bosses can still hold their own no matter what gear you've got.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

It make's senses the scarlet crusade wasnt always evil if you did all the quests and scarlet dungeons(and the heros in SM armory) plus i doubt he would die so easily he will probaly be back and better then ever that i know

Kommentar von Allakhazam

dropped truefaith pattern and both helms for my 6 man group, right after shadowcraft shoulders and devout gloves. would have been a perfect run if SC wasnt ninja'd by our hunter.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

soloed as a feral druid 70 lvl

the guy is quite easy to kill
some shadow resistance equipment will help cause he casts Mindblast often - approx. 1500 shadow damage with no ShR equipped
(I was ok with ~140 ShR)

in the most cases I have no need to shapeshift for selfheal - improved leader of the pack ftw)

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Where is this guy?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

That MC sucks. Any way to get around that crap?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

essential that the mt gets his whole attention. i stood in the door, healin from there - got no stuns. priest was inside the room, he got put to sleep etc - i dispelled and healed all the time.
he mindcontrolled our rogue, but the mage sheeped him :P

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I tanked this guy in grays and red gear and we beat him, 5 man.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

soloed today 29/05/2007
pally4tw!

Kommentar von Allakhazam

i hate this guy... effing lightforge boots never drop

Kommentar von Allakhazam

no balazaar never died >_> even if he did the legion would bring him back as he is allready dead

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Solo'd for teh flask recipe, got it 5th kill (lucky i guess) I was also trying for idol of brutality from that magist barth guy, killed him about 40 times still no idol
anyways hes easy as long as you have the cleft hide set. bfore he transforms, ( when the other guy has 50% health, barkskin and full heal, go back to bear and then ur set to go for balnzarr. Healing while fightin bal is not recomended as it nvr seems to go well.

Shadow resist gear is A nice + but not neaded (my resistance is 30) my frist fight I got very unlucky all his mind blasts hit and soem crited. since then 90% of his MB resist and i finsih the fight with 70% HP.

moral of the story is you run a risk of dying without and shadow resistance gear.

BTW I im far from having epic gear, all blues and one epic pvp mace. so just about any druid should be able to pull it off.
Happy huntin!

P.S most of his Mind blasts hit for around 1000-1500 and depending on his mood he casts them about one every 20seconds or so. Most will be resisted. I have seen him cast 3 or 4 back to back so you nvr know.

Edited, Jan 11th 2008 6:44pm by mydruiddontheal

Kommentar von Rothia

The Dungeon Set 2 also called Tier 0.5 is aquired through a fairly lengthy, somewhat difficult and expensive quest chain through which you upgrade Dungeon Set 1 pieces.
After completing Rückkehr zu Bodley which is one part of the chain, you will recieve Handbuch: Räuchergefäß der Anrufung and Räuchergefäß der Anrufung.
The manual describes where the brazier can be used to summon a variety of bonus bosses with rare loot in the following dungeons:

BRAZIER OF INVOCATION: USER'S MANUAL - Where to find Haunted Loci

Düsterbruch East | Isalien
"The open-aired chamber where Alzzin der Wildformer resides is one of these haunted loci."
Räuchergefäß der Beschwörung

Lower Schwarzfelsspitze | Mor Grauhuf
"Should you seek to raise the echo of Mor Grayhoof's spirit, Kriegsmeister Voone's chamber is a haunted location."
Räuchergefäß der Beschwörung

Live Stratholme | Sothos' und Jariens Erbstücke appears after defeating Sothos and Jarien
"Thus it is that another of these haunted loci is The Crimson Throne (Balnazzar's room) inside The Scarlet Bastion at Stratholme."
Räuchergefäß der Beschwörung

Scholomance | Kormok
"This makes Ras Frostraunen's chamber one of the haunted locations where the brazier can be successfully utilized."
Räuchergefäß der Beschwörung

Upper Schwarzfelsspitze | Lord Valthalak
"As you must know, this makes Lord Valthalak's abode, what is now Die Bestie's chamber in Blackrock Spire, the last of the haunted locations."
Räuchergefäß der Beschwörung

Kommentar von DivineK

He just teleported me?

I thought I'd note here that while soloing him as a level 80, I got him down to around 3k health, was just about to deliver the final blow, but then he teleported me outside to where Timmy the Cruel was currently located (I had skipped Timmy)! Then a good portion of the Scarlet mobs I had left alone aggroed me all at once as I had to storm back through the Scarlet Bastion again. He had reset and returned to his Scarlet form.

Very frustrating and likely an extremely rare occurrence... but it begs the question "why is this in the game?"

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