Culling of Stratholme
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| Culling of Stratholme | |
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| CoT: Strat, CoT 3, Old Strat, Stratholme Past | |
 The Culling of Stratholme loading graphic | |
| Location | Caverns of Time, Tanaris |
| End boss | Mal'Ganis |
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| Advised level | 80 |
| Player limit | 5 |
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- For non-quest related information for the zone, see Old Stratholme.
The Culling of Stratholme is the name of the fourth Caverns of Time wing, which will be released in World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.
It will be a 5-man, level 80 instance centered around helping Prince Arthas purge the city of Stratholme from the grain-infected populace. At the end of the instance players will fight and defeat the Dreadlord Mal'Ganis.[1] [2]
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Background
The Culling featured Arthas in a mission to rid the city of Stratholme of its infected inhabitants before they were reanimated as zombies. The only things in his way were the dreadlord Mal'ganis and Uther and his men...
"Old Stratholme" — as stated by Tigole at the gaming convention in Leipzig, Germany in August 2007[3] — will be set during The Culling, the sixth mission of the human campaign in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Prince Arthas arrives outside of Stratholme, realizing that the people have been infected by the Plague of Undeath by the Dreadlord Mal'Ganis. At first ordering Uther the Lightbringer - who refuses - to purge the town, Arthas disbands the Knights of the Silver Hand and takes it upon himself to burn down the city and kill everyone in it, to prevent them from becoming part of the Scourge. The purging of Stratholme is one of the first acts in Arthas' descent into madness and evil, eventually becoming one of the Lich King's greatest death knights and later the Lich King himself.
Walkthrough
When the party zones in they will see what appears to be an underground dig site. Further up the stairs they will find Chromie, who asks them to use [Arcane Disruptors] to identify the crates with plagued grain so that Arthas will arrive and "purge" the city.
Once the party has found the five crates of plague grain, Arthas will arrive at the scene, together with Jaina and Uther. After reenacting the starting scene from The Culling, Arthas orders you to get inside and start purging the city.
Arthas and his group of loyal Alliance troops will stand and guard the exit gate while 10 waves of undead goes through the city. After 5 waves has been killed, Meathook will appear. After another 5 waves, Salramm the Fleshcrafter spawns.
After the undead threat has been dealt with in this part of Stratholme, the party along with Arthas will start running through the city to get to Mal'Ganis. But on the way there in the town hall, the Infinite Dragonflight has a surprise waiting for him. In the disguise of ordinary humans, they will stop at nothing to stop Arthas in his tracks and manipulate the time line. While Arthas merely believes that the Infinite Dragonflight is just an ally of the Scourge, he will later find that the real mastermind behind the dragonflight invasion is Chrono-Lord Epoch. After having dealt with him, the group moves on through a secret backdoor.
Now back in the streets of Stratholme, Arthas finds that the undead invasion has started as the streets are littered with undead ghouls, crypt fiends, abominations and necromancers. After battling through the groups of undead minions, the group arrives at the only part of Stratholme not infected and finds the boss of the instance - Mal'Ganis.
After Mal'Ganis has fled from the site, Arthas will thank the group for assisting him in purging the city, and spawns a chest with rewards.
Bosses
- Infinite Corruptor (Heroic only)
Notes
Uther and Jaina appear, with dialogue from WC3 [4], but Arthas' lines have been re-recorded by his new voice actor.
Video
Gallery
 Design layout from Blizzard Worldwide Invitational |
 An early Beta shot of Crusaders' Square |
 The sixth mission of the human campaign in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos |
 Arthas in Stratholme |
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