While patch 3.2.2’s main feature will be the revamp of the Onyxia’s Lair to tune it for a level 80 raid encounter, we’ll see a bunch of other nice changes in that minor patch. They already said that they’re going to deal with the problem in the first encounter of the Trial of the Champion so that players will no longer feel the need to exit the dungeon after the dismount. Well according to MMO Champion, Trial of the Champion has a nice surprise that’s already in the PTR.
Basically what they found out was a new nifty looking dagger called …read more

Trial of the Champion is definitely an interesting idea for a dungeon run. It’s a short but rewarding run that also has pretty unique encounters and can be pretty challenging especially for players new to the fight and most especially in heroic mode. There’s also very little “trash” mobs, making you get into the real action right away.
The first encounter with the three random champions starts on horseback and is fought jousting style similar to how players do the Battle Before the Citadel quest when grouped with other people. Then players are dismounted and will have to fight the champions …read more

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

The testing has finally started for the Trial of the Champion (Crusader’s Coliseum 5 man dungeon) in the Patch 3.2 PTR. So far the word is that the encounters are quite buggy but we’ve already gotten a glimpse on the kind of loot that drops from the bosses on both normal and heroic difficulty.
The first bit of good news is that every single piece of loot that drops from the bosses in this 5 man dungeon is an epic quality item much like the gear that dropped from Magisters’ Terrace in The Burning Crusade expansion. This will give those alts …read more