Argent Tournament Dailies: Learning the Reins

This is a series of daily guides intended to guide you through the Argent Tournament as quickly and painlessly as possible. We'll have guides for each daily going live in the weeks to come. Keep your eyes peeled and your lances ready!
So, Argent Tournament aspirant. You want to start beating up dudes on their mounts, right? Of course. Any aspiring champion does. But before you can, you'd better familiarize yourself with mounted combat controls.
Don't worry! Your Sunreaver or Silver Convenant reps have you covered, and they'll even pay you to learn how!
First, visit the Tournament grounds and find your faction's base of operations-- the red Sunreavers tent or the blue Silver Covenant tent.
Stop by your faction's tent and speak with your reps.

The first thing you'll need to do once you've picked up the quest is to grab a lance, without which you can't ride the mount to which you've been directed. The lances are located in weapon racks located all around the Tournament grounds, but the two most convenient racks are right in your faction's tent.

Just right-click on the rack to receive your Lance. And make sure to equip it! If you don't, you can't mount your trusty steed.
Speaking of, you can't hop on any mount just yet. There's a specific Stabled Quel'dorei Steed or Stabled Sunreaver Hawkstrider that has your name on it. Find the stables, located on the southern side of the Tournament Grounds, make sure your Lance is equipped, and right-click on the Steed.

Once mounted, you receive a new set of controls, like most vehicle mounts.

Each corresponds to an action you need to perform on the target dummies, located around the Tournament Grounds. You can enter the Valiant's Ring and engage any of the dummies there or find some of the scattered dummies -- any labeled dummy will grant you quest objective credit so long as it's attacked in the proper fashion.

Tournament Ranged Target: Hit your Shield-breaker button at range to break the target's defenses. Do this twice.

Tournament Charge Target: Engage the dummy by pressing the Shield-breaker button at range and then hit your Charge button while its defenses are down. Do this twice.

Tournament Melee Target: This is a little more tricky in that the dummy will counterattack when you Thrust. To prevent yourself from getting two-shot, make sure to have a full stack of Defend (3 stacks for 90% damage reduction) before you rush in and use Thrust five times.
Once you've completed your target practice, return to your faction reps -- and revel in the superiority that comes with experience. Maybe soon you can ride a mount you don't look ridiculous on!
Reward: 13g23s at level 80 and 2 x [Aspirant's Seal].






Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Offeep Apr 8th 2009 6:14PM
Not exactly an auspicious beginning.
Alkaios Apr 8th 2009 6:13PM
Iseewhatyoudidthere
Mognet T Apr 8th 2009 6:15PM
Can't wait for this new daily grind. It actually looks fun!
Ozmodius Apr 8th 2009 11:20PM
As am I. I know they're kind of repetitive, but like the dailies that allow you to progress to more / better quests. The best examples of this would be the Isle of Quel'Danas and the Dun Niffelem dailies. The articles and videos that I've seen all show an interesting series of quests that span over several days as you build rep, or in this case, earn tokens.
The best parts to me are the new pets and mounts being offered which will earn me the 75 pets and get me closer to the 100 mounts.
richard.ashton Apr 8th 2009 6:16PM
:D
Firestride Apr 8th 2009 6:23PM
Oh boy is there a joke to make about stacks of protection before you thrust!
Leejin Apr 8th 2009 6:31PM
They want me to TRIPLE BAG it?? Wow...
Now I've double bagged it before... but geeze.. 3?!?!!??
Catiya of Feathermoon Apr 8th 2009 6:35PM
i was wondering- is it possible to earn that Quel'dorei steed as a regular mount?
AyaJulia Apr 8th 2009 6:38PM
May I suggest broadening this article to include both Horde and Alliance audiences, particularly where the mount you're required to use is concerned?
Neodarkmatter Apr 8th 2009 6:48PM
There really isn't much difference between the Horde and Alliance dailies. They both have you do the same things. The Horde tent is South of the Alliance tent and all the steeds are located outside the tent.
In regard to the objects for the daily above, they are all in the one location for both Horde and Alliance.
AyaJulia Apr 8th 2009 11:39PM
Well, you'll have the more idiotic of the Horde running around looking for a Quel'dorei Steed, that much is absolutely certain. There's absolutely no reason not to toss in a "(or Sunreaver Hawkstrider if you're Horde)" in there. Not doing so is just horrible, horrible journalism.
sinthar Apr 9th 2009 11:05AM
"Speaking of, you can't hop on any mount just yet. There's a specific Stabled Quel'dorei Steed or Stabled Sunreaver Hawkstrider that has your name on it. "
Direct quote from article.
Wots the problem with that?
Horrible horrible reading skills shown
AyaJulia Apr 9th 2009 12:32PM
sinthar: Maybe you've heard of this little thing called editing?
Kakistocracy Apr 8th 2009 7:03PM
So how many "unicorns" are there in WoW now?
I hope the next expansion lists on the box "Even more Unicorns!" among the new features.
RetPallyJil Apr 8th 2009 7:58PM
Well, this is the only unicorn mount.
If you are thinking of the paladin Charger, it's a horse ... the horn is on the armor, goofball.
Hansbo Apr 8th 2009 8:24PM
Well, the Zhevra does kind of have a horn. So it's a unicorn.
A zebra unicorn.
Jamesisgreat Apr 8th 2009 8:31PM
Well technically the one in this article seems to have 4 horns, so wouldn't that make it a quatricorn?
Kakistocracy Apr 8th 2009 8:38PM
Four horns or two ears and one horn that branches close to the base? The Zhevra has a similar arrangement.
Zhiva Apr 8th 2009 11:20PM
Invisible Pink Unicorn, please! =)
Kakistocracy Apr 8th 2009 11:42PM
Shhh! That's the class mount for the next hero class!