My Pally

Well, my brother's multi-boxed shamen and my protection paladin finally hit 60 (and then some). Purchasing shamen mounts are fine, but for my paladin things were a little trickier to do.

Fortunately I have 2 level 70 characters, a hunter and a shaman. Luckily I was able to do most of the paladin 60 mount quests by myself. As for the dark runes I farmed them out with my enhancement shaman in Scholomance. Now I got this idea from a forum posting or wowhead.com comments. You don't need to clear all of Scholomance or even kill any bosses. All you need to do is clear the 2 rooms with Necromancers and Dark Summoners. Now these mobs don't have a great drop rate (15% and 12%), but it's alot easier than soloing the whole instance by yourself in greens, blues & 2 pvp weapons :).

First of all I finished up the quest chain to acquire the key to Scholomance (not too bad 20 mins, astral recall FTW). Then it was off to Scholomance. After entering the instance, clear the 4 skeleton mobs and open the gate. The next room can be skipped or partially cleared to make your way to the second room.

Now you should be in a hallway that leads to the Room of Summoning. Kill the patrols 1 by 1 and then go for the groups of 2-3 around the bone piles. When clearing the groups ALWAYS KILL the dark summoners FIRST! And watch your health and don't wait too long to heal (you might get silenced). The dark summoners have a 12% drop rate for Dark Runes, so don't get too excited :).

It's off the the third room (necromancers), where you'll need to pull out all of the stops for 1-2 groups of 4! Start by killing the patrols 1 by 1 again, then go for the group of 3, directly right of the gate. Slowly pull each caster group back into the Room of Summoning by using the Line Of Sight method. When I got in trouble with the groups of 4 I used my Elemental totem. That allowed me to heal to full health and continue clearing the mobs. Rinse and repeat.

On my first run I looted 2 dark runes and on my second run I received another 2. Finally, I ran Scholomance a third time and got the last dark rune.

I was quite surprised and thrilled I was able to clear those 2 rooms by myself! I mailed the dark runes to my paladin and then it was off to finish off the quests. On the second last quest I partied up with my brother's shamen to complete True Masters of the Light, which required me to loot some water from Tyr's Hand (east side of Eastern Plaguelands). I might have been able to solo it, but I didn't want to test myself :). After looting the water and turning in the quest, I headed back to Eastern Plaguelands and into Stratholme.

We entered the undead side (right side of the bridge). I had run Stratholme only once before, so my experience was limited. And this was my brother's first attempt at Stratholme. Most of the mobs early on up to the chapel were straight forward, a bunch of regular 57-58 mobs mixed in with 2-3 elite mobs. We cleared up to the chapel and only faced 2 bosses. After clearing the 2nd boss to get the Key to the City. We were ready for the final fight, which went smoothly. Once completed, we headed out of Stratholme and went straight to Silvermoon. There I recieved my Charger and a blood knight tabard!