View more from World of WarcraftBlizzard Gives Preview of 3.2: Call of the Crusade
Blizzard has given us a preview of what we can expect to see in Patch 3.2: Call of the Crusade on the Under Development page on the official Web site. In the next major content patch, you can expect to see the expansion of the Argent Dawn tournament with new dailies and rewards; the Crusaders' Coliseum, which will include challenges for 5, 10 and 25 players; the new Isle of Conquest battleground; and the start of Arena season 7.
According to Zarhym, the battleground will be like "Wintergrasp combined with Alterac Valley with a few more twists." Of course, no dates have been released for when the patch will make it to the PTR or go live.
GryphonStalker has already started a thread on Call of the Crusade in our WoW general forum, so feel free to add to the discussion. You can keep reading after the jump for the full text from the Under Development page.
- The Argent Tournament Expands: With the help of Azeroth's heroes, the Argent Crusade will finish the Argent Coliseum just in time to call for all brave citizens to prepare for battle with the Lich King. New dailies, rewards, and more will be available at the Argent Tournament grounds to lure adventurers into the coliseum.
- Crusaders' Coliseum: In order to prepare for a siege on Icecrown Citadel, players will be called by the Argent Crusade to test their mettle in the Coliseum. 5-player, 10-player, and 25-player challenges await inside.
- New Battleground: Isle of Conquest, a new large-scale siege Battleground, will be open. The Horde and Alliance will battle head-to-head for control of strategic resources to lay siege to the keeps of their opponents.
- New Arena Season: Season 7 will officially start, paving the way for all-new items and challenges.
Uh... Strand of the Ancients is almost exactly like Wintergrasp. Has Blizzard really become so bankrupt on creativity that they need to rehash the same thing AGAIN? I'm not alone in the opinion that the newer vehicle component Blizz seems married to isn't something I want to see every corner I turn. Occulus and Malygos are not fun because there are points where your character and ability to play it are meaningless. At least in those PVE examples, skill of some kind is still required. But in WG, this just dumbs down PVP, allowing anybody with no talent to just grab a catapult and roast players that would whoop their tail in EVEN combat.
No thank you. Alterac Vally presents an amazing possibility for strategic fun. To revisit it has great potential. To make yet a third Wintergrasp when the first is already available every couple hours and the second is available all the time is unwelcome.
The Coloseum will be a 5 man PvE instance, and then also a 10man and 25 raid instance. The way it has been described is like the circle of blood/arena of anguish quest lines.
Expect to fight with a party in an instance a series of bosses in an arena like manner. You will not be PvP ing in the Argent Tourney.
A lot of the stuff they've implemented has been for lower level players as well (dual talent spec, glyphs, etc).
My guess would be that we'll see some major content added in early November, just in time for the Christmas sales push.
The Argent Tournament Expands: With the help of Azeroth's heroes, the Argent Crusade will finish the Argent Coliseum just in time to call for all brave citizens to prepare for battle with the Lich King. New dailies, rewards, and more will be available at the Argent Tournament grounds to lure adventurers into the coliseum.
Then a few months later the dailies, rewards and more will be nerfed to lure adventurers OUT of the coliseum.
reactions are like a box of chocolates... you never know what you are going to get. If you can't handle that, don't open the box!!
Otherwise, I'm intrigued.
SO much stuff
2 months away at least
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