Hello everyone!
After finishing up the Legion Fall Campaign, heroes of Azeroth are rewarded with a unique
class mount.
For the paladins it’s Cyssa Dawnrose who tells us to go meet up with Grayson Shadowbreaker
who wishes to speak with us about an important matter.
Grayson has helped out with equiping paladins in the past and even supported alliance paladins
with obtaining their unique epic mount.
These days you just pick up the Charger as you level up, but back in the day there was
a whole questline attached to it with Grayson showing you the way.
He had you spend a lot of time, materials and gold, but in the end, you ventured forth
into Scholomance and redeemed the spirit of your mount, binding it to carry you in battle.
It was somewhat of a tedious task that involved months of obtaining materials and sending
paladins all over Azeroth.
Thankfully, times have changed and we now have most of those materials at hand.
That being said, he wishes to help us obtain a new mount, something worthy of our title
as Highlord.
In order for us to begin, we require a stonehide leather barding which is a defensive armor
for a horse.
Something strong, thick and heavy obtainable from either a leatherworker or the auction
house, but the barding needs some improvements to become worthy of the steed who will bear
it.
Alard Schmied in Dalaran is the finest smith and knows how to modify the barding, but he
will require some materials namely leystone ore and a Suramarian Sapphire which we pick
up at the Evermoon Bazaar for 500 ancient mana.
This jewel’s cut allows it to trap light within it, giving off a cool, blue glow.
Our smith goes to work imbuing the bard with leystone and the jewel, some of his finest
work if he does say so himself.
Next our journey takes us into Stratholme where some much needed materials and our mount
itself is waiting.
“Welcome, Highlord.
I’ve been making preparations for the ritual to cleanse the barding.
But so far, we’ve been unable to secure the holy water.
I sent in three of my best men to search for it, but they’ve not returned.
I fear for their safety.
Perhaps someone of your skills would be better suited to recover the water.
Please, take a pair of my paladins with you.
Who knows what’s still lurking in this place.”
We get to pick 2 paladins to accompany us into stratholme, either a healing, tanking
or dpsing one, and we’re here for 2 reasons.
1 is to purify the barding by both material and immaterial means.
Once, when Stratholme thrived, before the plague and the purge, it produced holy water
capable of cleansing even the darkest of magics.
This is the material part that we need, water that has been used for many different quests,
even the classic paladin mount quest, and there may still be caches of it lying untouched
that we can use.
As we go through the city we also save the paladins who were send in before us who had
a run in with a nasty shadowy figure, a necromancer who also tries to stop us by summoning Pestulon,
osseine and Rotmouth.
None of these unholy beings will stand in our righteous way and I have to say, I really
enjoyed going through Stratholme again.
This place has such great atmosphere, some of my first videos were about soloing this
place for the Rivendare mount and of course the speedruns they introduced for this place...great
memories.
With the water collected and the paladins saved we return to grayson to purify the barding
“Excellent job recovering the water, Highlord.
And you have my deepest thanks for saving my paladins.
I’ll apply the water to the barding.
The rest, Highlord, lies with you and your weapon.”
Channel your holy power through your artifact weapon onto the barding.
“It is done!
The barding is ready.
Now we go to Rivendare’s crypt to confront his specter.
MOUNT UP PALADINS!
WE RIDE!
They’ll bring up the rear while we’re inside dealing with Rivendare.”
Grayson doesn’t feel like using his mount and just walks through the city expecting
to deal with Rivendare.
The original boss of Stratholme was Baron Rivendare, who in life was friends with none
other then Kel’thuzad who convinced him to join the Cult of the Damned.
Rivendare eventually became a death knight and was placed in control of the burning remains
of Stratholme.
He held the city against the Scarlet Crusade and a number of heroes before he was eventually
defeated.
Undead don’t stay dead for very long as Rivendare evgentually joined Kel’thuzad
in Naxxramas where he become one of the Four horsemen, replacing Alexdros Mograine.
His son took over in Stratholme, a son named Aurius Rivendare who actually joined adventurers
in taking down his father, but died in the process.
Now outside the slaughter square we find big piles of corpses stacked up and inside the
Slaughter House there seems to be one missing...
“Where is his body?!
It should be here!”
“Someone’s taken it!
This does not bode well...”
Raemien the Soultake, the shadowy figure that tried to stand in our way has resurrected
an army of undead and sitting proudly on top of Shadowmane.
He will spread the plague over this land once more and all will bow before him, but we do
not stand alone in this battle.
Our forces, the Light is with us in this forsaken place as we take on the Soultaker and all
the rotten corpses that try to drag us down into undeath with them.
“The beast is bound, Highlord!
The Light has favored us this day!
Let us reconvene at the Sanctum of Light.
There you can bard the beast safely.
When you’re ready to leave, speak with me and I’ll see to our safe return.”
We have our purified barding and we’ve taken out the necromancer, leaving his undead mount
Shadowmane to be embraced by the Light, very reminiscent of the original mount quest in
which you took on the death knight Darkreaver and judged the spirit of his mount to be worthy.
Cinematic: Approach the beast with our bard.
Shadow is embraced by the Light and restored to a mount worthy of our highlordieness.
It even bows down and it can fly, without wings!
Beat that invincible.
We’ll be keeping a more watchful eye on Stratholme from now on and the Highlord of
Azeroth claims their Golden Charger, the fanciest of all of the horses.
You can also buy the different color variations from Crusader Lord Dalfors after unlocking
all the artifact traits for your different specs.
The Vengeful charger for the Ashbringer, Valorous Charger for the Silver Hand and the Vigilant
Charger for Truthguard.
And that is how paladins obtain their unique class mount, now I’m hoping to be able to
show you all of the class mounts and while I have been keeping up with the Legion fall
campaign, the follower questline is taking a bit more time to complete.
I haven’t kept up with follower missions on alts at all, I didn’t expect it to become
a requirement, but hopefully I’ll be able to complete that soon enough and bring you
all the juicy videos I can.
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