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

Blizzard recently released a Battlegrounds Q&A where the Lead Content Designer Cory Stockton talks about some of the things the development team has in mind for the future. The two main discussion points involve Battlegrounds and participation during the leveling process and the upcoming Battleground, Isle of Conquest.
The big thing that’s coming in patch 3.2 concerning Battlegrounds is that they’re going to make experience gain in battlegrounds available. This way players can do some leveling up by doing just battlegrounds, although at a slower rate than if you were to go out and quest. Experience gain will be not be …read more

Aside from the Coliseum dungeon that’s coming out in the Argent Tournament Grounds, the Isle of Conquest is another one of the announced major features of the upcoming major patch, patch 3.2. As announced, the isle of Conquest is going to be the newest battleground added to the game. It’s said that it’s going to be somewhat like Wintergrasp and Alterac Valley combined but up to this point we didn’t really know what that meant.
WoW-EU CM Vaneraswrote a post about the new details of this new battleground. Looking at the details, I can see why an Alterac Valley comparison is …read more

Since the long awaited patch 3.1 has been released and allowed to gain some steam, Blizzard has decided to keep our interests up by teasing us with some details about the next major patch. If you look into the WoW Community Site, some cool features were listed to highlight patch 3.2 which has the title Call of the Crusade.
Considering that we’ll be able to meet the Lich King inside the Icecrown Citadel by patch 3.3, it makes sense that patch 3.2 would be about events and preparations leading to what will happen in patch 3.3. In fact, that’s exactly …read more