Argent Tournament Dailies: Battle Before The Citadel
by Michael Sacco 
Apr 17th 2009 at 5:30PM
Congratulations, Argent Champion! You've progressed past the Valiant rank and become a true Champion of the Argent Tournament. You're the finest that the Tournament has to offer and you've made your city proud.
And that means playtime's over ... again.
Yep, it's time to kill some Scourge outside Icecrown Citadel again, but this time you're after their commanders, the ones you've so deftly avoided in the past.
Let's go!
Talk to your city rep in your faction's tent. You must have completed the entire Valiant quest line, including the Valiant's Challenge, to take part in this quest.
As before, your rep will send you out to Corp'rethar, the Horror Gate, to assist the crusaders who've set up camp there. You should be familiar with the area by now.
Mount up on your warhorse and get ready, because this challenge is a little different than what you're used to.
Head south from the camp. Use your Shield-Breaker to kill ten Boneguard Scouts and move past them to come face-to-face with the tougher groups.
Unlike previous sorties down here, you'll receive no credit for killing the Boneguard Footmen. Simply run them through.
Your next task is to defeat five mounted Boneguard Lieutenants. As before, these guys start off with one stack of Defend, so pull them with a Shield-Breaker and cut them down with Thrust to defeat them. Don't pull Boneguard Commanders with them or you may have quite a bit of trouble.
Now for the Commander. He starts with three stacks of Defend and a much smarter AI than you're used to with the mounted Valiants you've fought in the past, and definitely smarter than the Lieutenants. Use everything you've learned in your training to take them down -- Shield-breaker and Charge for dropping his defend stacks, strategic running away for Charges and Thrusts, etc. It's a tough fight, but at this point your horse can handle much more punishment.
With those objectives completed, head back to your faction's tent and receive your reward.
Reward: Champion's Seal x1, your choice of Champion's Writ or Champion's Purse, and 13g 23s
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
shystechris Apr 17th 2009 5:37PM
How much is in the purse?
=)
elstor Apr 17th 2009 5:43PM
I hope you mean money
Blake Apr 17th 2009 5:50PM
10g on the PTR, no one can be this far on the live realms yet.
Slablaadje Apr 17th 2009 5:45PM
10g
john Apr 17th 2009 5:51PM
I don't understand how you could be a champion yet--takes 25 valiant seals and you only get 5 a day from dailies. 3 days to valiant, 5 days to champion. In theory, no champions until next Wednesday.
J Apr 17th 2009 5:58PM
Next Tuesday, actually. It's seven days total, since day 3 of aspirant and day 1 of valiant overlap.
Nathanyel Apr 18th 2009 4:45AM
second that. I know you US guys got the patch one day earlier, but I just turned Valiant yesterday, how could someone on Live already have the 25 seals?
scott Apr 17th 2009 6:30PM
if you want to get technical I will be champion before wednesday I plan to hit champion sunday night :D Go Darnassus
HankD Apr 17th 2009 6:12PM
Next MONDAY... it overlaps twice.
All together now:
Patch came out Tuesday...
Tues/Wed/Thu Aspirant... you test for Valiant after doing the Thu dailies...
Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon Valiant... you test for Champion after doing the Mon dailies...
Ta da! Champion on Monday... or at least I will be with my three mains. :)
Thander Apr 17th 2009 7:28PM
Michael Sacco, why did you decide to cover the dailies in seemingly random order?
It would make more sense if you started with all the aspirant dailies, then valiant, then champion. I assume you will do a final post with everything in order, but it doesn't make sense why you didn't do that to begin.
Idontlikertards Apr 17th 2009 7:39PM
Maybe if you did your research you wouldn't sound like a tard. He did cover all the other quests before hand. This would be the third installment.
outlier Apr 17th 2009 9:43PM
only 1 Champion's Seal? Sigh, its going to be a while to get all the mounts from the event.
Lish Apr 20th 2009 8:44AM
There are other dailies you get as a Champion that also give Champion's Seals. You're not going to get just 1 a day.
Deb Apr 17th 2009 9:47PM
*mega confused*
I don't get this. Is this the part of the game where I can't play because according to the state of AZ and others, it's gambling? Or is it some other part of the game that has a similar name?
Gulbrandt Apr 18th 2009 2:20AM
If you've been doing Argent Tournament dailies since the patch was released, you were Aspirant, and today you should be at the Valiant stage.
It'll be a number of days before it's possible to do the Champion quests, which is what this is. It's a preview of things to come, if you've been doing your Valiant dailies, this will come in handy in a few days. :)
The Argent Tournament grounds are in Northeast Icecrown, north of Sindragosa's Fall. The grounds are new as of patch 3.1, and if you haven't been there yet, you talk to the person at the western edge of the grounds to start your quests. There's no gambling to be had, so people of Arizona should be just as able to do these eventually as anyone else.
Danny Apr 18th 2009 8:15AM
Arizona has not part in this. I live in phoenix. No gambling involve. dam noobs.