The Baron Run for Fun and Profit!
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Bastosa on Friday, February 27, 2009 - 33 Comments Tags: baron mount, baron rivendare, baron run, farming, grinding, rare mount, stratholme
Bastosa on Friday, February 27, 2009 - 33 Comments Tags: baron mount, baron rivendare, baron run, farming, grinding, rare mount, stratholme 
Fresh on the heels of my post about cool things to explore in the old world, I thought I would take a moment to highlight one of the more interesting ones: Stratholme. I will say this now, I am extremely lucky. I received the Baron mount on my 4th attempt. For those of you who don’t know what that means (I was surprised to learn how many are unfamiliar), let me explain what I am talking about.The Baron mount, or The Deathcharger's Reins, is an epic ground mount that drops from the final boss of Stratholme’s dead side: Baron Rivendare. It has a 1 in 100 drop rate. This has been greatly increase recently as it used to be 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 5,000 before that. Now that it exists in the world of attainability, lots of people spend time farming for this unique mount. Doing the “Baron Run” is not only a great way to get Argent Dawn rep for those of you going for Argent Champion (be sure you have your Argent Dawn Commission equipped!), but there is that great carrot of a mount at the end to keep you grinding away.
Stratholme is a level 60 instance, and can be easily soloed by level 80 characters, and with a little more work if you are 70+. If done correctly the Baron run can be completed very quickly, with some able to do it in under 10 minutes. The easiest place to start is at the service entrance, far to the east of the main entrance in Eastern Plaguelands. To do this you must have The Key to the City. If you do not have the key, simply go in the front. You can also have somebody else open the gate for you, or even pick the lock if you have the ability. Once inside, make sure you kill Magistrate Barthilas as this will make future runs much simpler!
Trash is packed tight in Stratholme, so you best policy is to kill things as soon as you aggro them so they don’t pull other mobs. That being said, a vast majority of the trash is completely skippable due to a very small aggro radius, especially for level 80s.
In order to get access to Baron Rivendare, there are 3 bosses that must first be killed: Baroness Anastari, Maleki the Pallid, and Nerub'enkan. None of these bosses should present a challenge at high level, just make sure you enter their temples after the boss dies and kill all of the acolytes. You can find a great map of where to find these guys at Wowhead.
Once the acolytes are dead you will gain access to a new area full of abominations. These must all be killed in order for the door to Rivendare’s room to be opened. It is good practice to save one for last, and kill him in front of the door to the Baron's chamber. That way, you can run in before the door shuts. Once this happens you have one more boss to kill: Ramstein The Gorger. Get him down and go kill the Baron! The run is quick, and I wish you luck on the drop! If you aren't lucky enough to get the mount, be sure and pick up all the loot, as it can be sold for a suprising amount of gold.
Reader Comments (33)
i never said they the people who run the place 100s of times have no life iam the last one to call someone a no life my life is school and WOW but if you have so much free time on your hands why not somthing usefull do some quest run some BG run some instances their is a big world of warcraft ou thier explore it. You have the right to play any way you want and we have the right to say how we feal and i feal runing the place 100 and somting times for a cool looking epic land mound is not worth it i say run up to 20 times if doesnt drop than just drop it do somthing usefull their have been allot of blogs about this subject but no one has answered my question why is it such a big deal
I'd solo it more >.< but I'm a frost DK w/ bigger aggro, and a passion of hatred against that 10 min. disease
i did 58 and lost the will 2 carry on :(
Damn yoooooou!
I have been farming that mount ever since Vanilla and still to this day have not seen it drop. Not even once. It got so bad that after BC came out we started a count (I'm up to 529 runs as of last night) and some of my friends have started a pool.
Then again, it took me over a hundred runs to get my LF spaulders too, so maybe the RNG just hates me. :)
I don't understand why people question how some will run this instance over 100 times to get the mount. Pretty simple answer...THEY WANT TO RIDE IT!
Who cares if YOU wouldn't do it. They do and they want to. This thread is about people sharing their experiences getting what they want. It's not an open invitation to say 'do BGs or pvp more' or 'do more quests' or anything like that. You spend your time in game doing what you like and let others do what they like.
I'm a mount whore who will grind any instance that might drop a mount. I hate pvp and BGs. Don't tell me that I should do something I don't like because YOU don't like the idea of grinding for the mount. I don't tell you to quit pvp and go grind for stuff, so don't tell folks like us to play differently just because you would.
For the record, no Deathcharger here yet, either. It will be mine, though. Oh yes.......it will be mine.
I got it on my 5th run - yeah!!
I read about this on Friday and after some runs that night I decided to see how I would fare in there. Needless to say i kicked it's butt and got my charger on the first try. I remembered my argent dawn token and I spent a few hours last night getting to exalted for another achievement. Major win.
Strath is super easy . I could run throughit in 10-15mins at 70 on my combat rogue now at 80 takes 5-10mins still have yet to see my mount drop but have mad lots of gold. Got exalted with Argent Dawn b4 the patch but i still wear the trinket to get those +rep tokens and trade them for Deable puples and sell the abyss crystals. So all in all Strath is not a bad place.