Coliseum Boss Preview From MMO Champion

Blizzard hasn’t officially gone into much detail about the boss fights in the Crusader’s Coliseum coming in patch 3.2 but that doesn’t stop us from finding out more things about it using other means. MMO Champion has released some sort of a more detailed preview on the bosses for both the 5 man dungeon and the raid dungeon based on the information currently at the Public Test Realm (PTR). Based on what I’ve seen, it looks quite interesting and could provide a lot of insight into the Wrath lore but I still think that it might seem quite underwhelming after coming from a raid like Ulduar.

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The 5 man dungeon is quite interesting and in fact at this point it intrigues me more than the raid encounters. First of all, all the bosses players encounter are not strangers since they’re right there in the Tournament Grounds. According to the achievement Heroic: Trial of the Champion from MMO Champion [Alliance|Horde], players will face the champions of each race for your faction while also fighting the Black Knight (him again!), Eadric the Pure (the guy who gives the Threat From Above Quest) and Argent Confessor Paletress. I’m guessing that the Black Knight is the only one we really kill while the other two we just defeat in combat since they’re with the Argent Crusade. The Confessor encounter is interesting since we get to experience memories of famous encounters in World of Warcraft such as Van Cleef, Nefarian, Prince Malchezaar, lady Vashj, Heigan, Cyanigosa and even Hogger!!! This is based on the achievement <strong>Argent Confessor and some data mining MMO Champion did. Now since the preview given to us by Blizzard said there will only be 3 encounters and there are 5 champions + 3 more bosses, I’m not sure how these fights will be. Perhaps one champion, the Black Knight and Eadric for the three and then the Confessor will be a 4th heroic only boss?

Speaking of achievements, there’s one that looks pretty funny called I’ve Had Worse but I’m not sure how paladins and shamans would take it. Go to the achievement link above to read the whole text since it’s too long but part of it involves not having a Shaman or a Paladin in the group. Something tells me this is Blizzard’s attempt to have some laughs and it’s really not going to be part of the live version of the patch but who knows.

I don’t have much to say about the raid dungeon based on what MMO Champion found out. All I can say is this. It seems like based on the achievements shown in MMO Champion, players have 50 attempts per lockout period to finish the whole thing and will get achievements for players with 25, 45 and 50 attempts left at the end. this is the new tribute system where players will get better loot depending on how many attempts they have left after the last boss is defeated. While the last boss is still labeled Final Boss in the PTR files, some data mining done and the achievement The Traitor King suggests that Azjol-Nerub wasn’t the last we’ve seen of Anub’arak.

So patch 3.2’s Crusader’s Coliseum looks pretty nice and maybe better than I expected. Hopefully Blizzard is right about this being an epic and lore filled encounter.