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Comment by 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.

Comment by 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.

Comment by 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.

Comment by Vlad

Stealth class can get to him without problems.

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Comment by Thottbot

I think I've discovered the trick to this guy.

First of all, he is a rare spawn, so it will probably take several stratholme runs to make him appear. If he does appear however, you should take full advantage of this opportunity.

Forresten will appear in one of two general areas. He will appear in the vicinity of the Market Row Postbox (usually he is next to some steps or underneath a building overhang). If you're doing a Scarlet Strat run, and he's spawned here, glance to your right after you pass through the booby trapped area with all of the bugs.

The other place he'll appear is in the central area of Festival Lane. I have noted two places where he'll appear there. One is directly to the right of the huge doorway to Elder's Square (where that chapel and the service entrance are located). The other is under another building overhang to the left of that.

Now, if you are able to find him, there is a trick to this which I believe I discovered. Some people report that he will respawn after a while. This is true, and there is a way to accelerate it.

Step one, kill him. Loot everything off of him.

Step two, check every known spawn point where he might appear. In one of these areas, you will find a lone plague ghoul that recently appeared. Kill the ghoul.

Once you kill him, either another ghoul will spawn, or Forresten will respawn soon afterwards. You know that Forresten will respawn soon if his corpse disappears shortly after killing the ghoul. If another ghoul spawns, kill it.

As near as I can tell, his respawn time is approximately 10 minutes if you do this. This means that, provided you have cleared all of the regular mobs, you can have very many opportunities to kill him (and get the piccolo of course) before everything respawns. Granted, you will have to deal with the occasional Eye of Naxxramas or Abomb respawn, but that shouldn't be much of a problem.

So, that said, good hunting!

Comment by Thottbot

I am a 60druid. Dont know if you can solo him as rogue since he has Evasion as passive skill. Nwm ill tell you what to do.

First of all get the Key to City.

Go to Service entrance.
When you are inside the instance you can see the first group that are made by 3-4 ghouls rest skeletons.

If there is a Ghoul in front of the gate, you just have to run out and resett instance... well.
If there is a skeleton you have like 75% chance that there are only 1 ghoul beside him. If its so, go in stealth/invisibility on the side that there is _no_ ghoul. Hopefully there is one on the right side and you just go left.
If there is a ghoul on left side go as near the wall as possible and go behind the house and go around the house. Stay in front of the house.

When you have come so far there is a % that he has spawned between 25-50%.
Well you guys that dont know where he spawnes go to the big entrance to scarlet side and stand in middle.
When you are here do /target H. If hearthsinger doesnt come up as target just reset instance again and do the stuff ive said again.

If hearthsinger forresten comes up as target go "out" from the middle of the gates in stealth so no one can see you.

If he has spawned to left he is _always_ linked to 2 other ghouls and many other mobs on the way, you have to reset instance again.

If he has spawned to right side you go to the corner on right and moonfire him so he comes (Notice that there is a ghoul that patrols on this spot). When he comes to the corner you go back to the middle of the gates. Back a little bit so he wont add the patrolling ghoul. Now just hope you get the Piccolos.

If not its not a waste of time, you get 1 rare item that enchants to <Large brilliant shard> and a corruptors scourgestone.

Well goodluck and yes i have done this, took me 3days to get the Trinket but i was not so active in running him. Read the important following lines.

*** The first spawn of mobs is almost 80% that you get a nice spawn so you can get to the middle of the gates***

***Druids, i prefered to do moonfire and starfire since he has lesser DPS with his bow, Nice armor equiped Druids can solo him "easy"***

***Make sure you have mana/buffs and even a mana potion if you dont have a good gear since i almost run all out of mana***

Thanks to Lanzo a guildmate that made this comment possible.

Comment by Thottbot

I am a 60druid. Dont know if you can solo him as rogue since he has Evasion as passive skill. Nwm ill tell you what to do.

First of all get the Key to City.

Go to Service entrance.
When you are inside the instance you can see the first group that are made by 3-4 ghouls rest skeletons.

If there is a Ghoul in front of the gate, you just have to run out and resett instance... well.
If there is a skeleton you have like 75% chance that there are only 1 ghoul beside him. If its so, go in stealth/invisibility on the side that there is _no_ ghoul. Hopefully there is one on the right side and you just go left.
If there is a ghoul on left side go as near the wall as possible and go behind the house and go around the house. Stay in front of the house.

When you have come so far there is a % that he has spawned between 25-50%.
Well you guys that dont know where he spawnes go to the big entrance to scarlet side and stand in middle.
When you are here do /target H. If hearthsinger doesnt come up as target just reset instance again and do the stuff ive said again.

If hearthsinger forresten comes up as target go "out" from the middle of the gates in stealth so no one can see you.

If he has spawned to left he is _always_ linked to 2 other ghouls and many other mobs on the way, you have to reset instance again.

If he has spawned to right side you go to the corner on right and moonfire him so he comes (Notice that there is a ghoul that patrols on this spot). When he comes to the corner you go back to the middle of the gates. Back a little bit so he wont add the patrolling ghoul. Now just hope you get the Piccolos.

Its not a waste of time, you get 1 rare item that enchants to <Large brilliant shard> and a corruptors scourgestone.

Well goodluck and yes i have done this, took me 3days to get the Trinket but i was not so active in running him. Read the important following lines.

*** The first spawn of mobs is almost 80% that you get a nice spawn so you can get to the middle of the gates***

***Druids, i prefered to do moonfire and starfire since he has lesser DPS with his bow, Nice armor equiped Druids can solo him "easy" in bearform***

***Make sure you have mana/buffs and even a mana potion if you dont have a good gear since i almost run all out of mana***

***You can only do 5 instance reset every hour so go out and farm larval acid or play on you'r alt while waiting***

EDIT: This seems hard but its NOT! and its worth the job.

Thanks to Lanzo a guildmate that made this comment possible.

Comment by Thottbot

When you first open the gate, it's important that you don't go right next to it. The little gear cursor thing will turn active before you are actually flush against the gate. Then, you shouldn't be attacked as soon as you open the gate.

Next, cat->stealth and go left or right (basically wherever there isn't a cadaver). If a cadaver was in front of the gate, you are now dead. Reset. :)

I haven't actually gotten Hearthsinger Forresten in a good place yet (only done 6 resets so far) but it seems like this technique will work well.

Comment by Thottbot

Soloed him 4 times post 1.7. He's dropped the piccolo thrice and the woolies once. I want his damn blouse ...

Comment by Thottbot

Okay, so he is still in Strat UD after 1.10.

Has the spawn rate increased, or he still a rare spawn?

Comment by Thottbot

according to the people that commented in Magister's Boots... no. He just spawns at 4 different places.

Comment by Thottbot

I attempted to try to solo him, but I have problems resetting instance to get the first cadaver to be placed far from the gate. Just walking out and in doesnt reset the instance.. I've tried waiting outside instance for a while too.
Its easy to notice that the instance hasn't been reset since it takes several seconds to open the gate the first time and it says "Key To The City needed", but when I return it opens instantly..

Comment by Thottbot

Dropped Magister's Boots today, 04/10/06.

Comment by Thottbot

As a mage, I do not recommend trying to solo this guy. He has MASSIVE resistance to all schools of magic. I don't post here often, but because I was not warned of this, I'm moved to warn others. My mage has all +damage/+%crit gear with a total of +2% to hit w/ spells plus the pvp trinket which decreases magical resistances of the target by 20. Even with this setup, after 5 attempts, the most I could get him down to (using all my cooldowns, trinkets, stones, and a health pot) was about 15-20%. Just get any other random person to help you out once you find him and it's way easy to finish him off. The Magister's Boots for my .5 quests dropped the first time.

Other tips:

1) Use a Dream Vision potion to check to make sure he's there. They're pretty cheap to make and that way you don't waste invisibility potions.

2) Often, you can take out the skeletons nearest to the gate one by one. Just kill one, exit the instance before you die, then go back and kill another. This allows you to sneak by without an invisibility pot.

3) He seems to resist fire less than arcane/frost. This may have been just coincidence.

4) Definitely use the PvP trinket that decreases target magic resistance. I forgot to equip it once, and quickly noticed that he was resisting way more...arcane missiles were hitting for between 50-100 the whole time, if not completely resisted. Besides, this is just one of the best trinkets a casual player can get. Add it to your inventory!

Hope this helps other mages looking for their booties. Good luck all!

Comment by Thottbot

well for 1 hes NOT a rare spawn... he just moves to 4 different places in strat if u wanna kill him u just gotta look for him cosmos tells u the 4 places he spawns inside the instance and every time ive been there he has been in 1 of the 4 spots... just look for him hes there trust me :D

Comment by Thottbot

Me and another mage farmed him 2 man for a good while last nite.

What we did was walk in *not going to explain resets.* kill the mob CLOSEST to the gate, and the mob to the most left. those are the only 2 that will aggro a 60 when walking by. Focus Fire on the first guy, burn him down, run out if needed, then remove the second guy.

No to the tunnel *im not going to explain spawn points either, get atlas.* did a /target hearth to see if he was in either 2 close spawnpoints. One is to the left *hard*. One is to the right *Easy*. If he is to the right, mind the ghoul pat, and the horror pat. Kill the mob closest to the corner of the tunnel, then you can pull hearth singer to the tunnel which can very much be 2 manned. He uses a bow, so you actually need to walk into the tunnel to kill his LoS.

As for the left side, you have to kill as many as possible, then frost nova, and run out.. It works, i got my boots last nite. Now im working on my buddies. hope this helps.

Comment by Thottbot

He seduces, works on males too^^

Comment by Thottbot

I smoked him every day. I ran in and FDed out of range of the first mob, ran to hearth pulled him and ran around both corners so he didn't range me and tore him to peices. The only thing he has going for him is his seduction... My tip on that is to let your pet hit him for a while, then start attacking. He will seduce you, then when you come back awake, heal your pet. Then attack again. In my experience he seduces only 2-3 times, so once he's got no seduces left, he's gone.

Allyougot
Level 60 Hunter
Dragonblight

Comment by Thottbot

Currently soloing this mob with my druid for the Songbird Blouse

Current stats:

Instance resets - 24
Times hit instance reset limit - 4
Successfully stealthed to the spawn area - ~10
Hearthsinger spawned and in the correct place - 3

drops:
3x Corruptor's Scourgestone
2x Magisters Boots
1x Woollies of the Prancing Minstrel

Looks like this is going to take a looong time :P

The scourgestones kinda made up for it though, got my AD shoulder enchants now :>

EDIT: finally dropped on my 28th run =D

Comment by Thottbot

Solo'd this guy today. He's pretty tough for a mage - the poster above wasn't kidding about resistances. You still can kill him, but you gotta give him everything you got.

Make sure you have mana shield and a mana ruby up before you start. Start with pyro/fireball. If you don't hit for at least 1000, run out and try again.

You need to go all out DPS on him. Fireball, fireball, and fireblast whenever its up. (I'm scorch spec'd, and but scorch couldn't put out enough DPS in time).

If you need healing potions, you can loot them from the crate that sometimes appears to the left :D Just kill the non-elite and run out, then come back and loot.

Comment by Thottbot

Above posts are very good, especially those about his resistances. If you can avoid doing this solo, I HIGHLY recommend it. It would be a cake walk if you get ANY help. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anyone at 2AM last night, so, as a frost mage, I had to struggle to take him out solo. Here are my two cents from the experience:

Dream Vision Potion: As posted above, definitely worth the coin to buy some Dream Vision potions. They'll pay for themselves with equipment repair savings. Simply open the gate (without aggroing mobs of course), step back quickly, drink the potion, then move forward immediately before the gate closes. Move to the tunnel on the left. Type "target h" and hopefully he's around the corner to the right.

FIRST GROUP OF MOBS

1a. Having two skeleton in the center and left positions at the first gate is definitely the easiest. You can reset the instance until you get this configuration if needed, but then you have to worry about the 5 resets per hour lock-out.

Clearing the left-most mobs is worth it so you can make an easy escape later (see below). Plus I didn't have any luck with the invis potions. IIRC, the skeletons had about 2800-2900 health; the cadavers 7800-9000.

Here's the easiest way I found to clear them solo as a frost mage (w/ ~250 +spell dmg gear).

- Target one of the left skeletons
- Open the gate
- Fire Blast to get initial aggro.
- Immediately start backing up into the tunnel.
- Just before the mobs reach you, cast CoC to slow those in the front of the pack.
- Keep backing up and once the back mobs have caught up with the slowed one, Frost Nova.
- Turn around and blink to near the entrance.
- Turn back and cast Frostbolt, Frostbolt, Fire Blast. Target should be dead. If not, spam CoC and Arcane Explosion as you zone out of the instance. You could also use Cold Snag if it's cooled down to make this very easy.
- Repeat for each non-elite skeleton. Only need to kill the left-most 2-3 mobs to walk by them all at L60.

1b. Even if you have cadavers in the left-most spots and don't want to reset the instance for whatever reason (e.g. almost at hourly reset limit), this is still soloable, but harder.

- Optional: Clear the non-elite skeletons first. This makes it much easier.
- When you're left with only elite cadavers, open the gate and move in to the left.
- Mobs will aggro. Keep moving.
- Cone of Cold for initial damage
- Frost Nova to freeze them.
- Blink to the west.
- Turn and do standard AOE tactic (i.e. 2 Blizzards, CoC, Frost Nova, Blink, Repeat).
- In addition to this, I had to throw in a few Fire Blasts to kill the first cadaver. They have about 9K health.
- Once the "targeted" Cadaver is dead (should die first if you're throwing in Fire Blasts), either continue AOEing the others or zone if near OOM.
- Repeat if necessary. Yes, a pain.

Also recommend Mana Ruby, Mana and/Healing potions available, any other mana restore trinkets, robes, etc. cooled down. Ice Barrier was also invaluable.

HEARTHSINGER FORRESTEN

The above posts cover clearing to and killing Hearthsinger pretty well. Few comments as a Frost Mage:
- He doesn't have a lot of HPs. Maybe 3.5-4K IIRC.
- Yes, he's VERY resistant to spells, particularly to frost and arcane. On multiple attempts I would get roughly 50%+ of Frostbolts resisted and Arcane Missiles were doing 100-150 each. (This is with roughly 250 +spell dmg gear.) Definitely favor % chance to hit and resistance reducing gear over +dmg gear, if you have any.
- Clear the mob nearest to him then zone out so you don't have to kill the linked group.
- I led the fight with a Fireball. Yes, even as a frost mage. Lucked out and it did full damage so the fight was on!
- Fireblast then pull him to the tunnel. If you're lucky, he should be down to about 2K health.
- Stand at the tunnel entrance so you can hide when needed.
- Now hide for a second to pull him within range of Fire Blast, then move back out. He should start shooting his arrows at you.
- Fireblast+nuke with whatever works (Fireball, Frostbolt, AM).
- Watch your health! Use Ice Barrier, Healing Potions, Mana Ruby liberally.
- Mana shield didn't appear to block his arrows.
- I even had to duck behind the wall near the end to use bandages without being interrupted (300 first aid). This will cause him to move to the corner of the tunnel entrance where you're hiding. Once bandaging was done, I cast Frost Nova through the wall to block him, refreshed Ice Barrier and then finished him off.

Yes, lot of detail here, but I figured the more the merrier. Hopefully this and the good posts above will save you some time.

Btw, he didn't drop the boots! :( Got the piccolo, but heading back tonight.

Comment by Thottbot

Farming this guy for the piccolo at lvl70 is trivial. You can walk past all the trash.

Comment by Thottbot

Can anyone confirm that the piccolo still drops from heathsinger since 2.0.10? I have famred the absolute crap out of this guy, for example i had 8 song bird blouses in my inventory for a while, and I have never seen a single piccolo. Everything else on his loot table has dropped 7 - 13 times =(

Comment by Thottbot

indeed it still drops.. i've been farming him for about an hour.. got 3 of them among the other blues he's dropped. farming LB-Shards and stones is 2nd only to just getting this trinket

Comment by Thottbot

That piccolo is the best item in the whole World of Warcraft, you have to admit.

Comment by Thottbot

u obviously havent seen sparkly necklace yet

joke, it is a good item but what gate do i need to go through to meet him?

EDIT: sry not sparkly necklace, i ment Tarnished Silver Necklace

Comment by Thottbot

Woooo, found heartsinger on the first run, dropped on fist kill (rogue rules)

Comment by Thottbot

piccolo dropped the fourth time i killed him today. other hearthsinger loots included tome of arcane brilliance, the ridiculously gay pants, the pink chest and, strangely, magister's boots.

Comment by Allakhazam

Soloed as a 60 shadow priest (Mostly blues, a few epics)

Was going for the piccolo (i love the toys in this game!) Anyhoo, Mind visioned to get him to spawn near the entrance. Killed 2 mobs from the first pull, then i could sneak all the way to the hearthsinger, who was just to the right after the gate (There was a group near him that was really close to him, but did not pull with him) Soloed him easily, unfortunately the mage boots dropped and not my trinket, and now i'm locked out of the instance cause i couldn't get him to spawn there again...

Comment by Allakhazam

So can u do this with an invisi potion?

Comment by Allakhazam

I managed to solo him a few times today (Druid, of course).
As said before, reset the instance until the elite ghouls stand away and to the far right of the gate, open the gate and let it close. Shift into cat-form, open the gate, stealth and the don't hug the left wall, marry it ;) The ghouls will always turn towards you, but won't aggro.
Then simply sneak to the archway on the left and check around the right corner for him.
ATTENTION! Watch out for the two mobs patroulling the yard!

Simply pull and kill him.

Comment by Allakhazam

Druids:

Enter via. Baron side and stealth past the first pull, then travel left to the tunnel that leads to Scarlet (or Live) side Strath. Walk to the end of the tunnel, to your right should be something that looks like a house with a kind of verandah over it.

Make a macro /target Hearthsinger and see if he's infront of that house. If he isn't, reset the instance. If he is, pull him into the tunnel with Moonfire or Starfire.

Soloing him from here is pretty easy. He dodges alot, so don't rely on Bash + Heal - Bash if you can, but make sure you have time to do a Swift heal if it fails. Just keep hitting him in bear and with the occasional moonfire and you should do fine. He's not too hard.

Comment by Allakhazam

60 Druid here..was able to get by the initial mobs at gate, had to reset for the skelly to be in front, but no prob getting past them. When I entered the arc, I hit my macro to target hearth, was pleased to see him pop on my screen, but couldnt see him around the corner to the right. My question is, does he stand in front of that house to the right? And since I didnt see him, i'll assume he was on the left, which is bad.

Comment by Allakhazam

if i were to use the run/feign method to get to him, could a 55 hunter in all blues/purple solo him?

Comment by Allakhazam

How often/frequently can you do it? Is it limited to x times per hour? Do you have to leave a certain amount of time between resets?

Once you've killed Hearthsinger, will he respawn in the same place (and if so, how long does it take?), or so you have to reset it again?

Thanks!

Comment by Allakhazam

Has any mage got to him? It's the 'getting-to' part that I find hardest. Everytime I open the gate at UD strath, the ghouls always aggro, no matter where I stand to open the gate.

Comment by Allakhazam

Killed him 20+ times
got the 1st 4 on the blue list 20 times
hasnt dropped the boots yet..../sigh

persistance is a virtue....i dont have

Comment by Allakhazam

So far i've gone to Stratholme twice and he has been theres twice each time i've gone, I haven't seen the blouse drop but my friend and I both have the piccolo, makes for a fun time in Ironforge :)

Comment by Allakhazam

I was able to solo Hearthsinger on my mage (mostly just blues) by killing the nonelites in the first group one by one. Then I moved past that group as the elites were off to one side.
Hearthsinger was to the left of the courtyard through the gate. I had to kill 3 more nonelites from the leftmost group (running out after each kill) and one elite (he was tough: nuke him once, free the group, nuke again) who had 7K hp's.
Then I waited on the Pat's and pulled Hearthsinger. He died easily enough, I had to be careful not to kill him where he stood, but to pull him through the gate so I could loot him safely.
He dropped my boots!
He had about 6K HP's, and just used his bow to very little effect.

Comment by Allakhazam

confirm.
Today we w8ted 20 minutes checking 4 spawn points. He don't spawn :(
So we just reset instance and do 3 runs on him.
Rainbow Girdle dropped 3 times :(

Comment by Allakhazam

Please - where is he ?

Comment by Allakhazam

What's happened to him in 1.10?

Comment by Allakhazam

This guys a flamer. Hahahaha, look at his items, even try them on. It looks great!

Comment by Allakhazam

The trick to sneaking past the first group of mobs Baron side is to reset until there isn't an elite at the very front or the left of the group. A front or left elite will see through stealth every time. Even my rogue friend couldn't make it through with distract.

Been sitting here for more than 15 minutes and haven't seen him respawn yet. Anyone know for sure if he still does?

Comment by Allakhazam

Any info about trying it with invisib. potion and Feign Death? Do u think it could work?

Comment by Allakhazam

where does he spawn in scholo now?

Comment by Allakhazam

are these sets hard to get? cuz all i read about these items is that its nearly impossible to get them... anyone here have a picture to prove they have the set?

LvL 55 undead mage, guldan server.

Comment by cathis

Did it with a 60 rogue, PVE spec. if you time it right you can run without agroing any ghouls. just distract them and run along the wall. survive with 5% health after using all cooldowns and health pot.

Comment by Nutzbdragon

drops the best trinket in game, Piccolo of the Flaming Fire

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