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Commento di ataylor

Hearthsinger is not rare, he just has multiple spawn points. All of them are in the center area just north of the main gate. If you search around enough, you can always find him.

Commento di ataylor

It's sometimes possible to solo this guy. One of the spawn points is close enough to the east gate to reach after dealing with only one set of mobs, and Hearthsinger himself is pretty easy other than a fairly high resistance to magic.

To reach him, open the gate, deal with the first pack of undead, then follow the wall to the left through a gate to an open area with more undead. A little luck is needed: to break through the first group, you either need to stealth past, or take out two mobs. The undead you face will be of two types: elite zombies, and non-elite skeletons. In both cases, you need the closest undead and either the one to his right or left to be skeletons. The zombies are just too tough to solo, and see through stealth.

If you have zombies, leave and reset the instance; they detect steath and are too tough to solo. If you can stealth, walk around. You can go either direction, but left is easier; only go right if there is a zombie to the left. If you can't stealth, kill the two closest skeletons; it's easiest to kill them one at a time and leave the instance to lose aggro afterwards.

Once through the first group of undead, go along the wall through the gate. Type /tar hearth. If he's close by, you'll target him, if not, you'll get an "unknown unit" message. If he's close, check if he's to the right or left. If he's to the left, there are too many mobs around; leave and reset. If he's to the right, congrats, you can solo him! Just watch out for the wandering patrols, you can pull him alone. I recommend running back into the open area behind you to avoid getting adds.

Commento di 6160

This guy is pretty easy to solo as a 70 protection warrior if you wear dps gear for it. I had him spawn twice to the left and twice to the right. If he's to the left you can solo the 2 ghouls near him without much difficulty (i have 11k health unbuffed in dps gear as an orc and they got me down to about 3k). After clearing those 2 ghouls you then have enough room to charge him just make sure you are at or near full health because he will dodge a ton so overpower is a must for soloing him. Sunders don't make too much of a difference against this guy for a 70 you are better off just spamming heroic strike and overpower (when its up). If you get him to the right and decide to pull him back your best bet is a LoS pull and then rush him and slowly creep back to give yourself some breaking room. Other than that he's pretty cake. Good Luck with farming him and have fun.

Commento di Vlad

Stealth class can get to him without problems.

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Commento di 77965

i dont think anyone asked, is he in Deadside or Live side?

Commento di 78251

The pulls and Hearthsinger himself can be soloed by a level 70 pally in good tanking gear (doesn't have to be prot-specced, I did it as ret). The defense on my tanking set is 476, so that may be a good number to shoot for if you're looking to solo to him with the large packs of the undead standing in the way.

It helps to know if you are soloing him, he's a neutral mob. When I pulled him, he was surrounded by two hostile elites. I simply targeted him with Exorcism, ran out of LoS, and he chased after me, making it an easy one-mob pull. The other two elites never made chase.

Commento di 78626

There shouldn't be any "Soloed him as a level 70 whatever..." type posts, hes very easy to solo for anything 70 whatever spec you are, the bleeding hollow orcs in Hellfire Peninsula only have about 1000hp less than him so if you can't solo them you're not only in trouble but very pathetic.

Commento di Aisenfaire

Learn from my mistakes (and save on repair bills):

1. If you are soloing Strat and you can't dispel diseases, you need to bring Jungle Remedies (http://wowhead.com/?item=2633). These will usually work on any diseases you get cast on you (which the undead love to do). You can also use Restorative Potion (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=9030 ).

There are annoying diseases like one that makes you move 20% slower, and one that weakens your attack, and they both last for 30 minutes unless removed.

The deadly one, though, is Cadaver Worms, effect: 150 Shadow damage inflicted every 10 sec. Health regeneration rate reduced by 100%. Lasts for 10 minutes. ( http://wowhead.com/?spell=16143 )

It's cast by Mangled Cadaver ( http://wowhead.com/?npc=10382 ) (Needless to say, if you have to kill a mob and this guy is in there, always try to kill him first, fast, before he can cast his disease on you). Jungle Remedy will not always work, and can fail to dispel this.

If you do not get Cadaver Worms dispelled, wait until the next -150 damage from it has hit you, then bandage yourself up (for nonhealing classes, of course). Jungle Remedy shares the potion cooldown of 1 minute 30 seconds, so you have to keep yourself alive until you can drink it again for another attempt.

Note also that the 100% reduction of health regen means that even if you eat food, your health will not regenerate at all. Only bandaging, healing, and potions will regenerate your health while you have this disease.

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2. Another thing you need to watch out for in here is a mob called Eye of Naxxramas ( http://wowhead.com/?npc=10411 ). It has very low hp, about 1.6k - 1.7k. You will only see it when it's right up in your face (looks like a dark version of Slimer from Ghostbusters) and it'll yell,"The living are here!" and start casting a summon spell that takes about 4 seconds.

You must kill it before it finishes casting or it will summon 2 gargoyles to attack you. (Note that this can be disastrous if you're in the middle of sneaking past some mobs--I experienced having the entire room leap on me and eviscerate me in seconds, because of the Eye of Naxxramas and its 2 gargoyles.)

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3. Lastly, if you're an aoe class aoeing down the mobs, keep in mind that Ravaged Cadavers come to life again after they die, in the form of a Broken Cadaver. It will say in emote text, "Ravaged Cadaver collapses but the broken body rises again!" The broken cadavers have pretty low hp (less than 500), but a bunch of them can finish you off if you're low on hp after an aoe and caught unawares. The broken cadaver's normal hit will do about 75 to a level 70 clothie, and its exploding cadaver attack does 755.

Commento di Bojo

LoL! "Forresten" sounds like "By the way" in swedish! :) made my day

Commento di 72755

This guy seems much easier than he used to be. Has about 6900 hits. :P

Commento di 79687

If you are a rogue who is 66+ and get hit by a disease u can use your cloak of shadows to remove it. pretty useful than bringing the jungle remedies but thats just for rogues

Commento di Salus

Solo'd as 65 feral druid... he was totally pawned.

Commento di Moinsdetrois

By the way, this guy is probably gay.

Commento di Jamuraan

He's not a 100% spawn. Atlas tries to say he's up every time but he's still technically a "Rare" spawn. Took me 3 runs to finally get him to spawn.

Commento di VirgilTheMage

In my experience Hearthsinger has three spawn points that I have seen, and he DOES always spawn. This is them as if you were coming from the rear entrance (hur hur) of the city. They are all accessed by going through the gate on your left from the courtyard just inside of the rear entrance (that requires the Key to the City dropped from the Magistrate close to Baron Rivendare, Undead Side). As a Level 70, you can avoid every group in this little courtyard heading to the west gate just by being careful.

1) He is to the left of the gate, with two aggroing ghouls in front of him. They can be safely pulled away from him without him linking.

2) He is to the right of the gate. If you are a level 70 you should be able to get to him and battle him at his spawn point without aggroing any other undeads (watch out for the patrolling abomination)

3) He is to the right of the gate, however he is much further away than the previous spawn point. You will need to kill The Unforgiven boss in order to get to him here (this boss should not be too hard for a level 70, but watch out for patrols who can link, and his very high dodge rating). After you kill The Unforgiven, you should be able to see Hearthsinger in the next open area surrounded by some undeads.

As a level 70, most of the undead enemies can be avoided simply by being careful (I just did this as a Warrior...a Tauren no less (podgy!), and managed to avoid all the groups. Just had to take care of a couple of patrols).

I would recommend making a '/target Hearth' macro upon starting your farming, and first use it when you enter the west gate that leads from the undead side to the human side (where he can spawn to the left or right of). If you get him targetted he will be in either spawn point 1 or 2, if not you're in for the long haul (you may want to leave and reset if this is the case).

Commento di Schadenfreude

Here's a map with the Hearthsinger's three spawn points on it: http://www.wowhead.com/?maps=2017:474621611621623710

The hearthsinger is very easy to solo. His damage is pretty pitiful. If you don't have track undead, you will find a /target Hearthsinger macro useful. He's semitransparent and hard to see if you're not targeting him.

Pro tip: kill the first group of non-elites, then strip down to your unbreakables if it's your first time through. I had never been to Stratholme before and it took a few tries before I got the dodging down pat.

If you don't have a Key to the City, like I didn't my first time through, you're going to want to go north and then northwest, dodging pulls toward his first spawn point. Watch for junction areas with portcullises: the first one you go through, like thirty rats will spawn and start biting your ass. They actually do a significant amount of damage, so AoE is very useful here. I feigned death, myself. My warlock didn't have a chance of getting a seed of corruption off, sigh.

If he's not at that first spawn point, continue on to the right, again dodging mobs. Four ghosts that dodge a lot will spawn at the next junction point. Again, I just feigned death. Possibly spells or overpower will be more useful here. The hearthsinger's next spawn point is just around the corner past the dodgy ghosts.

Finally, his third spawn point is across this next courtyard-like area, on the south wall beside two ghouls which you will have to fight as well, but if you can solo him, you should be able to solo them without much trouble.

If you're ridiculously lucky and get the piccolo on your first try, well, I hate you. If you're like me, what you want to do next is go through the large portcullised gateway to the northeast of that last spawn point. No surprise mobs at this junction. In front of you will be a little church and a fellow named Magistrate Barthilas. Kill his ass, which is a little harder to do than our prancing minstrel friend, but still very easy, at least for this hunter in pvp blues. He will drop the Key to the City.

To your right will be another portcullis. This is the fabled back entrance to Stratholme. Now you can easily run out and reset the instance, then run back in for another shot at killing the Hearthsinger. The pulls on this side of the instance are super easy to dodge, too, compared to the long way, so there's less pressure to be a stealth class or hunter.

Enjoy your new toy.

P.S. I AM THE DANCE COMMANDER.

Commento di Oswald

Pretty easy to solo as a warlock....

Throw on Detect Lesser Invisibility, Pop up your pet of choice

Walk in (live if you dont have the key)

walk up to the first gate (right side) where the rat trap is, summon an Eye of Kilrogg, make it go in and set off the trap.

SoC one of the rats when your eye is gone, and do something to get enough dmg off to set it off.

Then make a macro... /target Hearthsinger Forresten

Bring out the Eye of Kilrogg again, hit the macro every now and then till it detects him, then look for him.

He is VERY easy to solo, but I recommend throwing a CoE on him, he seems to have a fairly decent shadow resistance. My shadow bolts that hit about 1.4k were only hitting about 600-800 on him, but thats still not much of a problem considering he hits like a teddy bear.

anyway, good luck! I got my piccolo on my second run :D

Commento di MikadoGG

Confirm this guy is easy to get to and kill at 70 (I am a shadow priest with subpar gear) without having to fight almost anything, unless he spawns at his third farthest point on the way to live strat side. And even then you might have to kill one-two pats+The Unforgiven.Just hug the walls and jump over crates when you need to.

The only annoying thing about Forresten and the Unforgiven is that they seem resistant to shadow spells, so I waste half of my mana pool each time on resists.

Nice thing is that this short route also allows you to kill Balzaphon, another easy boss. Between the three of them you get 4 Corruptor's scourgestones per reset. Not counting rep from killing and lesser scourgestones, you get easy 2500 rep with Argent Dawn per hour (5 reset limit), plus nice gold in drops and runecloth. And if you're an enchanter this is truly a goldmine on most servers, because large brilliants are expensive and you can get easy 3 shards per reset.

I had to do this route for two hours tonight trying to get the piccolo trinket off Forresten until it finally dropped on my 10th reset of the instance. Between all the scourgestones+killing rep+blues+greens+runecloth I got 7000 reputation with Argent Dawn and about 300 gold from enchanting materials and runecloth.

Commento di bioworm

I found him on 52.0 / 78.0
Click to wiev on map
He is in front of the shop: Leeka's Shields & Maces

Commento di asloversgo

This guy has to be a rarespawn, yet an extremely common one. I've made two runs in a row now without him having spawned. I've searched all over his spawn points, and no Hearthsinger.
Even so, the countless times I've run this instance, he's always there, yet now he isn't.

Commento di Azrilar

Had the epic shoulders Stockade Pauldrons drop from him today, I notice its not on his loot table on Wowhead yet.

I didn't think world drops included mini-bosses.

Commento di 262652

i can tell u, he is there. he dropped the piccolo and i promptly went to the IF mailbox ;)

Commento di 350604

He isn't much of a Rare Spawn as he is a neutral optional boss who's known for his notorious Piccolo.

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=13379

Commento di Disputor

LvL 73 DK Alt. can do it easily.. bring some disease removal stuffs. First try i got. =)
Now on to the AH to annoy people..

Commento di zariplz

Incredibly easy to grab the Piccolo if you're doing Baron runs; just hang a left before you go to the first boss, inch along the wall and check to see if he's spawned (on the right - near the buildings) there, if not you can go a bit further and check his other spawns.
Though, it's likely you'll eventually get the Piccolo just on the closest spawn if you kill him every time you reset.

I got it the fourth reset (of the day) on the middle spawn point. Just after getting my mount. :)

Commento di Hoshi

Pick this up as soon as you can because we can't be 100% sure what's going to happen during the next expansion, and the old strat we know and love may be no more...

Commento di 200895

I went in to farm him -- 80 mage in some Ulduar gear -- and I could walk past almost all the mobs and go straight to him using the /tar macro as others suggested. If I didn't get the piccolo I was after, I left the same way and reset the instance.

What I did not know was that you can only do that a limited number of times in a limited period of time. I killed Hearthsinger about 5 times in 15-20 minutes and then found myself locked out of the instance with the message "You have been in too many instances." To check whether it was too many of ANY kind of instances, I ported to SW and tested it trying to enter the Stockades, only to find out I couldn't go in there either. Don't know how long the lockout will last... guess I'll find out.

Commento di Venyas

I know this is wrong of me, but judging from all the stuff that he drops, I seriously question his sexuality. I think he's gay.

Commento di frankcastle357

killed this guy the other day fairly simple and he drops http://www.wowhead.com/?item=1973 if any one is intrested in farming a lil money maker :)

Commento di 590425

He's gone,
nowhere..
Not on his spawnplaces :(

Commento di 625199

Could someone mark on the map where his other spawn point is?

Commento di 649400

Hey everyone...For all you that are getting annoyed with the gold spammers nowadays floating around the cities and dropping toons all over town to spell out thier website, note that the Piccolo can be played while they are forming up and this will cause all of thier toons to dance, screwing up the formation.

The gold farmers HATE this and will quickly log out since you have been successful in screwing up their work!

Commento di dimsonf

He still drops the piccolo (3 runs, 4.1)

Commento di 649400

I just got it yesterday on my pally while looking for some rares to DE, so it's definitely still there. Remember, he spawns in 3 locations inside, so you might have to look around for him. (first run, 4.1)

Commento di vivisecting

I found the piccolo while running a guildie through Strat a few times some months ago. Um, I guess at some point in time, I ran out of bag space and was looking for things to get rid of. The piccolo must not have made the cut since I was just looking through my bags for it and couldn't find it :(

So stupid. Guess I'll go farm it again...

Edit: Finally got around to farming it again. Took 3 runs, all in all, took about 10 minutes. Denizens of the AH, dance for me, DANCE FOR ME MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

Commento di MiltiadesBooga

He is fabulous. I love it.

Commento di 920857

this is a bit random but if your a survival hunter this procs the sniper training talent every time it ticks, i noticed this first when i was in the auction house randomly playing the thing for fun and my friend's sniper training was constantly proccing.

Commento di MABGamer6407

unlike the postmaster this guy is oddly part of the boss List yet Postmaster is not. Im kinda puzzled, i think theres at lest 1 other there not added too the Boss list as well.

Commento di CrittinRogue

This guy is a raging, flaming homosexual...Just look at what he drops! Piccolo of the Flaming Fire, Woollies of the Prancing Minstrel, Rainbow Girdle, and Songbird Blouse. Not hating. I'm gay, too

Commento di 1022866

I found him every 5 times it took for the piccolo to drop. All in a row.

Commento di Gophercakes

Was running Undead Strat (East Gate) for the Baron mount when this popped up on my NPCscan. finished my mount run (No bloody mount, of course...), and invited a buddy who didn't have the piccolo and went in to Strat (Main Gate). Hearthsinger was still there, blasted him, and got lucky, the piccolo dropped.

Commento di Blafflamm

Warning, don't make the same mistake i did. Did not read the comments and assumed that Hearthsinger Forresten was a rare spawn like any other!

Forresten IS in the instance every run but spawns at different locations, i learned this the hard way and only checked the area where he is marked on the map from beyond the gate that closes with the rats and thus not noticing the other spots he might be at. Anyhow, the hearthsinger is usually fairly close to the marked spot on the map.

After 51 runs (though very quick 2 minute ones) i finally got the songbird blouse after killing Forresten 11 times!

Commento di 1239045

Overview of (somewhat glitchy) Bonus Objectives of Stratholme (Live Side / Main Gate) as of 6.0.3:

Killed outside the Scarlet Bastion (in any order):

L'Implacabile
Forresten il Cantastorie (Has a yellow nameplate and is ghostly. Always present but hard to see, especially if you're looking for a red name.)
Timmy il Crudele

Spawned after opening 3 mailboxes. Mailboxes on both Live and Dead Sides count towards the total, but if you kill him on the Dead Side, you won't get credit for it:

Postino Malown

Inside the Scarlet Bastion :

Comandante Malor *(Kill before Balnazzar)
Willey Frangifede *(Kill before Balnazzar)
Istruttore Galford

*Note: If you do not do not kill Comandante Malor and Willey Frangifede before killing the final boss, Balnazzar, they will disappear after he is killed and you won't be able to complete the bonus objectives.

Final Boss:

Balnazzar

Commento di Groovejet14

Love Blizzard giving a nod to homosexuality with this boss.

Commento di DrCheis

He isn't actually rare anymore, despite still being flagged as a rare. He will be in every Instance of Stratholme now.

Commento di DrCheis

This boss can also appear in Festival Lane. He is not always where his dungeon map marker indicates he is.

Commento di GDerkon

No way this is 22% on 6.1 patch.. Either I have a VERY BAD LUCK, or its a much lower percentage. I had to run this 15 times to get the drop.

Needless to say.. As said here, he can spawn in 4 points, 2 are near where the Journal says, the other two are at Festival lane, so, if you dont see him on the normal spot, take the right and go to Festival Lane.

Good luck on your hunt!

Commento di Crazybish

After you get past the first small group of adds, do /target he, then mark him with an icon. You can see the icon through the walls and it makes him easier to find. Took me 9 passes to get the piccolo today.

Commento di Tiefflieger

Be aware that this is the stratholme part you can access using the main entrance, not the side entrance which many of you used to get Redini del Nerodestriero.

Correct one (main entrance): http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=2017
Wrong one (side entrance): http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=2017.1

The side entrance part looks somewhat similar and you will even be able to target Forresten il Cantastorie, driving you mad while searching for him. That's because both instance used to be connected in former times, but nowadays you cannot get from one part into the other.

Commento di Musician2111

I killed him after I had killed the main boss, Balnazarr (spelling). While I got the loot just fine I did not get credit for the bonus objective. I suspect that you must do all the bonus objectives before you kill the main boss if you want credit.

Commento di dgonzalez

woohoo, I got it on my first try!

Commento di Arteemis

At the start of the instance make sure you have enemy health bars on and just type /tar he
This way you can easily see where he is and not waste any time running to him.

Commento di askfa1

He's actually right where the map says festival lane.

Commento di Dilph

If you are spamming the instance he can take forever to spawn somethime

Commento di GeertJan

I looted Ottavino del Fuoco Focoso from Forresten il Cantastorie after four runs of normal Stratholme.
If you can't find Forresten il Cantastorie, he may be at two locations, map.

The history of this toy is that it used to be a trinket that could make everybody dance, not just raid members.

Patch Notes 6.1 (2015 feb 13) - Toy Box

Piccolo of the Flaming Fire has been rebuilt into a Toy Box item. Players can channel for 30 seconds to cause those around them to dance with a 5-minute cooldown. Additionally, the effect will no longer interrupt eating or drinking.

Patch 7.3.5 (2018 jan 16) - Toys

A few toys that cause players other than the caster to take involuntary action (such as the Piccolo of the Flaming Fire or Tickle Totem) no longer function on targets outside the instigator’s party or raid group. The Neural Silencer is also more effective against several of these toys.