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For Ashbury's background and appearance in Gilneas, see Baron Ashbury.

Baron Ashbury is one of two of the Gilnean eastern lords convinced by Lord Godfrey to go with his plan. Later he was resurrected by the Forsaken along with Lord Godfrey and Lord Walden and have fled into the Shadowfang Keep along with his companions shortly after the failed assassination attempt on Sylvanas Windrunner. He is the first boss of the instance.

Contents 1 Tactics summary 2 Normal Abilities 3 Heroic Abilities 4 Objective of 5 Strategy 6 Loot 7 Videos 8 Quotes 8.1 Scene after death 9 Patch changes 10 External links

Tactics summary

• Heroic: Ashbury periodically Asphyxiates the whole group down to 1 health, then casts Stay of Execution which heals the group and himself. Interrupt Stay of Execution after no more than 1 or 2 seconds so that the tank doesn't get one-shotted, or you can interrupt it immediately if your healer can heal the tank immediately. AE heals to counter Wracking Pain. Save cooldowns for after he casts Calamity.

Normal Abilities

• Asphyxiate: Inflicting shadow damage every 1 second to all nearby enemies.
• Mend Rotting Flesh: Heals Baron Ashbury for 10% of his health.
• Stay of Execution: Heals all nearby allies for 50% of their health.
• Pain and Suffering: Inflicting the target with shadow damage every 1 seconds.

Heroic Abilities

• Asphyxiate: Inflicting shadow damage every 1 second to all nearby enemies.
• Stay of Execution: Heals all nearby enemies and allies for 10% of their health every 1 second.
• Mend Rotting Flesh: Heals Baron Ashbury for 25% of his health.
• Pain and Suffering: Inflicting the target with 2260 to 2739 shadow damage every 0.5 seconds.
• Calamity: Inflicting 4875 to 5125 Shadow damage on all nearby enemies every 1 second.
• Wrecking Pain: Inflicts Racking Pain on the party, inflicting 10000 shadow damage and increases shadow damage taken by 20% for 2 minutes. Stacking debuff.

Objective of

•  [18] Sniffing Them Out
•  [18] This Land is Our Land

Strategy

HEROIC

Phase 1

• Right after Asphyxiate don't attack Baron Ashbury and let his heal tick 1-2 times before interrupting him. Otherwise he will proceed to kill someone since everyone's very low on HP.

Phase 2

• The boss will stop casting Asphyxiate on Phase 2.
• Phase 2 starts around 1 million HP. Baron Ashbury transforms and starts dealing massive AOE damage. Tanks should leave their damage reducing abilities on cooldowns for phase 2 and healers and DPS should leave their best abilities on long cooldowns for this phase.
• If there's a DPS capable of throwing AOE heals around it might help having him help the healer with the healing on phase 2.

Loot

Normal

Baron's Scepter Item Level 21Disenchants into: [Small Glimmering Shard]: 1 Binds when picked up Mace One-Hand Speed 2.40 23 - 45 Damage (14.1 damage per second) +2 Strength +3 Stamina Durability 70 / 70 Requires Level 16 Equip: Increases your hit rating by 2. Sell Price: 18 88

Robes of Arugal Item Level 21Disenchants into: [Small Glimmering Shard]: 1 Binds when picked up Cloth Chest 66 Armor +6 Stamina +7 Intellect Durability 110 / 110 Requires Level 16 Equip: Increases your critical strike rating by 4. Sell Price: 7 58

Wolfmaster Cape Item Level 21Disenchants into: [Small Glimmering Shard]: 1 Binds when picked up Back 33 Armor +5 Agility +3 Stamina Requires Level 16 Sell Price: 5 90

Heroic

Baron Ashbury's Cuffs Heroic Item Level 346Disenchants into: [Dream Shard]: 1 (99.5%) [Abyss Crystal]: 1 (0.5%) Binds when picked up Cloth Wrist 507 Armor +252 Stamina +168 Intellect +112 Spirit Durability 45 / 45 Equip: Increases your mastery rating by 112. Sell Price: 5 5 96	Boots of the Predator Heroic Item Level 346Disenchants into: [Dream Shard]: 1 (99.5%) [Abyss Crystal]: 1 (0.5%) Binds when picked up Leather Feet 1080 Armor +205 Agility +337 Stamina Yellow Socket Socket Bonus: +10 Critical Strike Rating Durability 65 / 65 Requires Level 85 Equip: Increases your hit rating by 130. Equip: Increases your critical strike rating by 150. Sell Price: 9 41 79	Traitor's Grips Heroic Item Level 346Disenchants into: [Dream Shard]: 1 (99.5%) [Abyss Crystal]: 1 (0.5%) Binds when picked up Mail Hands 1451 Armor +205 Agility +337 Stamina Blue Socket Socket Bonus: +10 Agility Durability 45 / 45 Requires Level 85 Equip: Increases your haste rating by 130. Equip: Increases your mastery rating by 150. Sell Price: 7 56 19	Gloves of the Greymane Wall Heroic Item Level 346Disenchants into: [Dream Shard]: 1 (99.5%) [Abyss Crystal]: 1 (0.5%) Binds when picked up Plate Hands 2061 Armor +151 Strength +337 Stamina Red Socket Socket Bonus: +10 Mastery Rating Durability 45 / 45 Requires Level 85 Equip: Increases your parry rating by 205. Equip: Increases your expertise rating by 114. Sell Price: 8 80 79
Robes of Arugal Heroic Item Level 346Disenchants into: [Dream Shard]: 1 (99.5%) [Abyss Crystal]: 1 (0.5%) Binds when picked up Cloth Chest 1160 Armor +554 Stamina +262 Intellect Red Socket Blue Socket Durability 135 / 135 Equip: Increases your critical strike rating by 202. Equip: Increases your mastery rating by 162. Sell Price: 9 97 32

Videos

Quotes

Ashbury will occasionally talk to the prisoners before the fight:

Towards Magistrate Henry Maleb

• Baron Ashbury says: If I had my way, you would be long dead. Your kind disgusts me.
• Magistrate Henry Maleb says: Better to rot in this cell than live as a dishonorable traitor.

Towards Forsaken Troopers

• Baron Ashbury says: I'm trying to convince Godfrey to just kill all of you to end your misery, but he keeps telling me no. More pain and suffering for the lot of you, then!
• Forsaken Trooper says: Bastard.

Aggro

• Tally ho! The hunt begins!

<spell> Cast

• This is just too easy...

<healing spell> Cast

• HA! Let's at least keep it interesting.

During the fight, the prisoners will say the following

• Magistrate Henry Maleb says: Tear him apart!
• Forsaken Trooper says: Yeah, get him!

Death

• Killed by lowly commoners, how droll...

Scene after death

Alliance

Packleader Ivar Bloodfang says: Pathetic.

Packleader Ivar Bloodfang says: Keep moving forward. My men will dispose of this sorry bag of bones.

Bloodfang Berserker says: Bones?

The Bloodfang Berserkers begin to salivate heavily.

Packleader Ivar Bloodfang says: Control yourselves! We're here for Godfrey's head above all else. Relish in the spoils of war later!

Packleader Ivar Bloodfang says: We have to push forward if we're to put an end to him. Follow me, I'll open the courtyard so that you can spearhead our assault.

Packleader Ivar Bloodfang says: What a pathetic lock! Godfrey is going to have to try harder than this if he wants to defeat us.

Horde

Deathstalker Commander Belmont says: You're more skilled in combat than I thought.

Deathstalker Commander Belmont says: Very well then. Let's get the courtyard door open so we can continue our mission!

Deathstalker Commander Belmont says: This lock should be easy enough to pick.

Deathstalker Commander Belmont says: There we go!

Patch changes

Patch 4.0.3 (15-Nov-2010): Added. 

External links

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB