The release of the last two class Q&A’s at pretty much the same time should have been a hint that it was coming but somehow Patch 3.2 Call of the Crusade came unexpectedly and surprised a lot of us. I was expecting it to take at least a few more weeks but it’s here!
It’s quite messy right now as usual. It always is on patch day. Everyone checking out new stuff, dealing with lag especially in Dalaran. In fact I just got booted and got stuck on the loading screen. I’m now just waiting for everything to stabilize just like …read more

We’ve seen Q&A’s for both the Crusader’s Coliseum and the Isle of Conquest battleground but here’s a joint one that answer some new questions. Instead of Ghostcrawler, the following people will be answering the questions this time: Game Director Tom Chilton, Lead Encounter Designer Scott Mercer, and Lead World Designer Alex Afrasiabi.
Crusader’s Coliseum
To be clear, the 5 man encounter is called Trial of the Champion. The raid encounter (both 10 and 25 man) is called Trial of the Crusader while the heroic mode of this encounter is called Trial of the Grand Crusader.
Trial of the Champion should roughly on par …read more

Just yesterday I wrote about the Argent Tournament and touched on how the gear you can get from them can be great upgrades for your characters. This is especially true for the epic weapons that is equivalent to something you could get from heroics or Naxx 10 and you don’t even need to raid or be in a group. The Crusader’s Coliseum offers us more of the same thing in that we’ll see pieces of gear that have a higher item level than usual. CM Zarhym lists them in his forum post:
Trial of the Champion (5-player) normal mode: Item level …read more

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 …read more

The past few days, it seems like Blizzard has been working on hyperdrive to release more information to the community about various subjects concerning the upcoming patch 3.2. Patch 3.2 has 4 major highlights, the new Battleground Ilse of conquest, the new Argent Tournament content, the Crusader’s Coliseum and the Season Six of the Arena Tournament. Since the first two have already been touched on, it’s now time to talk about the details released about the Crusader’s Coliseum.
As you know, there’s a Coliseum going up in the Argent Tournament grounds which we even helped build by doing those daily quests …read more