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Comment by 61473

She uses Arcane Explosion, with a pretty long casting time (equal to Galvandar's Whirlwind) and Polymorph.

Comment by koekje

The alliance captain is to weak they can easily 5 or even 3 man her. kinda feel sorry for her

Comment by 84773

I don't feel sorry for her....she's a bitch

Comment by 84659

As of 2.3 she also summons water elementals, but just like her they go down easy

Comment by Holkin

Recently a hotfix has been applied to increase both Balinda and Vanndar's hitpoints

According to a post by Nethaera:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=3881818193&postId=38815489673&sid=1#27

The HP of Balinda and Vanndar has been reverted to normal, negating this post.

Comment by 67340

I see many a raid wipe on her now. After many, many AVs on multiple classes it seems that only five (intelligent) Alliance are enough to disrupt and wipe the Horde raid. AoE and multi-fearing classes are especially effective.

Comment by Nycteris

There will be changes to Balinda Stonehearth in the upcoming patch 2.4 Below is taken from Blizzard's website.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=4982B71D9A0EECA485374BEE4178B0BC?topicId=4311227692&sid=1

"Also Balinda Stonehearth has been studying her spellbooks to become a more challenging opponent to the Horde and will do more damage with her spells. The additional health we recently added to Balinda and General Vanndar Stormpike will no longer be needed with these improvements and will be changed back to their previous amounts with the patch."

Comment by 22103

Wiping on Belinda will still be less of a setback than wiping on Galv. Horde will just respawn at IB and ride unchallenged to the Alliance bunkers and SH. Alliance will have to get much smarter, sending two forces: one to defend Belinda and one capture/defend IB if they want to win with the wiping strat.

Comment by 102674

Uses Cone of Cold infrequently for around 1k damage, Arcane Explosion for around 500, fireballs for a decent amount, and summons a water elemental which does very good damage now, around 700 a hit, with a cast time of 1 second or so. Her elemental has it's own aggro table, and will often attack your healers.

Her fireball can no longer be interrupted,

As a shaman who heals, I usually get off a heal or two before kiting it around the place using the center wall to block off its line of sight with me, and for the longer stretches of it, I drop a grounding totem and keep running.

She goes down much faster with her health's reduction back down to standard, so it shouldn't take long unless alliance disrupts

Comment by 38153

Horde players need to remember that killing Balinda, while a nice bonus, is less important than holding our towers and destroying Alliance bunkers.

I've seen (bad) teams spending twenty minutes trying to kill her over and over again while Alliance happily destroys our towers and takes Frostwolf. Tactically speaking, she is irrelevant and you should not waste time on her.

Comment by Rarehunter

Not much need for a tank on Balinda. Practically anyone can tank her as long as they can aggro drop to someone else when they're hit by a spell (hits quite hard, maybe 2-3k). You can also use the barrier past the entrance to LoS her.

Comment by 250222

I try to save Balinda whenever I play Alterac Valley. It's a lot of fun, particularly if you can rally a few others (nothing beats the QQ in BG Chat when you start spamming "SAVE BALINDA" or any of her sayings!).

I believe they've removed Polymorph though, never seen her cast it.

Comment by 191458

Apparently Ice Block was added, saw her do it in AV today, was very surprised.

http://hdimage.org/images/l3082eekkit54o34ub89_ocrnhot051009155030.jpg

Comment by Tyowinn

You should atleast kill her with 10+ horde, if alliance come and trying to save her you can still defend yourself

Comment by 237145

shes actually really easy to kill...
2 manned her with a destro lock in relentless and icc geared fire mage
dropped fairly fast, both of us survived thought she took a fair bit of health of me
overall really easy.

Comment by Stonehearth

SPOILERS:

Captain Balinda Stonehearth and Vanndar Stormpike make an appearance in a very enjoyable quest line within Hillsbrad Foothills in Cataclysm. They're challenged by a warrior named Orkus while on the way to meet a Worgen captain, Packleader Ivar Bloodfang, who make quick work of him and his pet. Orkus is keen for revenge and follows them to their destination - with devastating consequences.

This quest line is available to the Horde (the whole of Hillsbrad is Horde only now). It was a nice surprise to see Balinda and Vanndar appear outside of Alterac Valley. Further down the chain, we also see Captain Galvangar and Drek'Thar.

Screenshot of cutscene: http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/7051/wowscrnshot091410040844.jpg

Comment by 703510

Tank and spank, np.

Comment by Stonehearth

Captain Balinda Stonehearth:

Level 45-49: 85,500 health
Level 45-49: 213,800 health (increased in patch 5.0)
Level 50-54: 253,200 health
Level 60-64:: 172,800
Level 65-69: 270,400
Level 70-74: 514,320 health
Level 75-79: 608,790 health
Level 80-84: 3,224,200 health
Level 85: 3,874,500 health
Level 90: 19,697,840 health

Greater Water Elemental:

Level 45-49: 5300 health
Level 45-49: 12,828 health (increased in patch 5.0)
Level 50-54: 15,198 health
Level 60-64: 13,310 health
Level 65-69: 19,920 health
Level 70-74: 30,846 health
Level 75-79: 36,525 health
Level 80-84: 193,600 health
Level 85: 232,470 health
Level 90: 1,181,900

Will update with all brackets once I get this information. :)

Comment by Ethlin

Sadly kind of a pushover, but Blizzard seems to support the rush, if it fails turtle strat now. After playing AV many times on both factions, I'll say Galv is a bit harder, but he is pretty easy to.

I wish they were both tougher, while I am not a fan of long AVs, I would enjoy if it wasn't a total rush ignoring everything in the BG.

Comment by razzamatazz

A skilled range DPS can solo Balinda by line of sighting her casts at the entrance. LoS her at the very end of the cast, and she won't hit you a single time. Switch to the opposite side of the entrance and continue the LoS strat when she crosses the room to you(she moves toward the corner when you are LoS to reestablish target). This is especially useful if your team is slow and you are the first one there. Don't be afraid to pull her and get the damage rolling.

(Be aware that a single alliance can wipe you with any stun or root, and you can accidentally reset her if you aren't careful in the entrance hallway)

Comment by Alastoraa

It is not recommended to mana burn her, as her melee attacks actually hit for significantly more damage than her spells.

Comment by breadlord

The true Queen of the Alliance, she must be defended at all costs.

There are those in the battle for Alterac Valley that may tell you otherwise, even tell you that saving her life will cost the Alliance the victory, but it's all the better when they are proven wrong, and her life is saved against their loud pleas.

Comment by Adunai

Rylai Crestfall mentions her after landing the killing blow on a player or enemy commander.

Rylai Crestfall says: Thought I was a pushover like Balinda? Ha!

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Captain Balinda Stonehearth <Stormpike Captain>

This NPC can be found in Alterac Valley .

Captain Balinda Stonehearth <Stormpike Captain>

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