The main gate will lead to the Live Side, while the service entrance will lead to the Undead Side.Д®ngineers can blast their way through the Service Entrance using Seaforium ( or better), and blacksmiths a skeleton key ( or better). When using the dungeon finder the end boss, and thus the side of Stratholme your party needs to clear, is determined by the entrance you are ported to. However, both 'sides' are part of the same instance and players can complete both tracks. Stratholme is divided into two parts: Scarlet Side or 'Live Side', which goes from the main entrance into the Scarlet Crusade-controlled citadel, and Scourge Side or 'Undead Side', accessed through the Service Entrance to the east of the main gates (which requires a key or Lockpicking 300) to the Scourge slaughterhouse. Death knights (one, Lord Aurius Rivendare).The questgivers for Stratholme - Crusade Commander Eligor Dawnbringer, Master Craftsman Wilhelm, and Packmaster Stonebruiser - will appear inside the instance at the main gate at the service entrance, Crusade Commander Korfax and Archmage Angela Dosantos - who give quests for the Scourge side - will join them.

On the undead side, Baron Rivendare, who - despite his beheading - returned to Scourge service in the Scarlet Enclave and Naxxramas has been replaced by Lord Aurius Rivendare. Cannon Master Willey, Archivist Galford and Malor the Zealous - the other main bosses in the Scarlet wing - are now undead as a result, known as Willey Hopebreaker, Instructor Galford and Commander Malor, respectively. On the Scarlet side, Balnazzar has since shed his human form and killed all of the Crusaders with him, raising them into undeath and calling them 'the Risen'. The instance portal inside the main entrance, which before Cataclysm was sealed behind a gate, is now open. This has changed in Cataclysm, as the gate between the Festival Lane and Elders' Square has been permanently shut, resulting in two separate dungeons within the same instance (much like the Scarlet Monastery's four separate wings). The two sides were still accessable from either side, resulting in one large instance. Stratholme was originally divided between the forces of the Scarlet Crusade, led by Grand Crusader Saidan Dathrohan - secretly possessed by the dreadlord Balnazzar - and the Scourge under Baron Rivendare.

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