Stratholme Service Gate in WoW Forever

Open the Gate

For the choice between gates and the Main Gate bosses, start with the Stratholme guide. The Service Entrance opens with the Key to the City, which Magistrate Barthilas drops. Your first time, either enter through the Main Gate and kill him inside the city, or use one of the other openers.Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: wowf.io: Stratholme Service Gate guide, Before you go, checked Nov 8, 2026.

• Lockpicking 300
• An Arcanite Skeleton Key
• Seaforium charges

Opening the Service Entrance also sends Barthilas running to the front of Slaughter Square, so groups entering this way fight him there.Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: wowf.io: Stratholme Service Gate guide, stop 9, checked Nov 8, 2026.

Route Through the Undead Side

Three gates shape the run, according to wowf.io:Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: wowf.io: Stratholme Service Gate guide, Before you go, checked Nov 8, 2026.

• Service Entrance: Key to the City.
• Gauntlet gate: Opening it starts the Baron's clock.
• Slaughter Square gates: Need all three ziggurats cleared.

The Slaughter Square gates need more than the three ziggurat bosses. wowf.io says all the Thuzadin Acolytes inside each ziggurat must die too. Once they are dead, a yell about the Slaughter House being unguarded tells you the gates are open.

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Levels are wowf.io's and are provisional, because ForeverChanges says boss levels on its page are still Classic's. The client's encounter list has the same names and IDs as Classic Era, which does not prove the fights are unchanged.Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: wowf.io: Stratholme Service Gate guide, numbered stops; ForeverChanges: Stratholme Service Gate, loot note; Forever client DungeonEncounter, Map 329, compared with Classic Era; checked Nov 8, 2026.

Boss Notes

These come from wowf.io's guide. It does not cite kill logs, so use them as a plan and adjust.Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: wowf.io: Stratholme Service Gate guide, numbered stops, checked Nov 8, 2026.

Stonespine. Pull him away from other mobs. The bleed hurts, so the tank should use defensive cooldowns.

Nerub'enkan. He roots with Encasing Webs, lowers armor with Pierce Armor and keeps calling Crypt Scarabs and Undead Scarabs. Clear them with area damage.

Baroness Anastari. Possess takes over a party member. Damage that player to half health to break it, then heal them. She also uses Silence and Banshee Wail, and Banshee Curse should be removed.

Black Guard Swordsmith. Do not click the Blacksmithing Plans mid-pull. He attacks whoever clicked, and also casts Banshee Curse.

Maleki the Pallid. Interrupt Drain Life, Frostbolt and Drain Mana. Ice Tomb locks the tank away for a few seconds and he turns to someone else, so hold out until the tank is free.

Magistrate Barthilas. Mighty Blow knocks the tank away, so put the tank's back to a wall facing away from the group. He also uses Draining Blow and Crowd Pummel.

Ramstein the Gorger. He comes out once every Venom Belcher and Bile Spewer in the square is dead. Trample hits everyone nearby, and Knockout sends him to the second name on threat. Keep a taunt ready.

The Slaughter House assault. When Ramstein falls, a crowd of Mindless Undead rushes in. Clear them with area damage. Then the Slaughter House doors open and a group of Black Guard Sentries comes out.

Baron Rivendare. Unholy Aura keeps hitting everyone nearby, so ranged players and the healer stand far back. Mortal Strike cuts the tank's healing, so push heals when it lands. Raise Dead brings skeletons that he sacrifices with Death Pact to heal, so kill them as they appear.

The 45-Minute Timer

Opening the Gauntlet gate makes the Baron call out, and 45 minutes start counting down. When time runs out he kills his prisoner. Groups on Dead Man's Plea should clear the three ziggurats and Slaughter Square without stopping. Kill him in time and Ysida's cage opens.Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: wowf.io: Stratholme Service Gate guide, stops 2, 12 and 13, checked Nov 8, 2026.

If you finished The Medallion of Faith on the Main Gate side, Aurius offers Aurius' Reckoning in Alonsus Chapel and joins the Baron fight. You finish the quest with him after the Baron is dead. ForeverChanges lists that quest as a changed one, paying 9,950 XP instead of 8,850.Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: wowf.io: Stratholme Service Gate guide, stop 1; ForeverChanges: Aurius' Reckoning, Changed in Forever; checked Nov 8, 2026.

What to Bring Back

Rivendare's headline drop is Deathcharger's Reins. ForeverChanges lists it as a bind-on-pickup level 60 mount, and its Forever record adds "Teaches you how to summon this mount." It prints no Forever drop chance.Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: ForeverChanges: Deathcharger's Reins, item record, checked Nov 8, 2026. The full per-boss lists are on the Stratholme loot page.

The quests that finish on this side include The Active Agent, Above and Beyond on Rivendare, and Dead Man's Plea. The Horde-only Ramstein quest ends here too. See the Stratholme quests page for givers and rewards. Long travel chains are easier with a route addon, so compare RestedXP and Zygor.