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by Matthew Rossi 
May 22nd 2009 at 3:30PM
Tipster Brian pointed us at the under development page, which is now listing details for Patch 3.2. It's looking pretty interesting, all told. More Argent Tournament! We're going to present a screenshot of the changes from the Under Development page after the jump, but just to make sure your appetites are whetted, so to speak (or type, I'm not actually talking) here's a detail: there will be a new battleground called the Isle of Conquest, a large scale siege between the Horde and the Alliance.
But wait, there's more!
Yes, there's more. The Argent Tournament expands, with new dailies and rewards, which is a welcome addition for those of us gearing up alts I'm sure. And we now know that when Patch 3.2 launches we'll see a new Arena season. But for me the really interesting news is Crusader's 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." Emphasis most definitely mine. What does this mean? Will it be PvP or PvE? Are we talking a scaleable instance with a 5, 10 and 25 man version? Pure speculation on my part leads me to wonder if we'll see something like a Violet Hold style event, with random opponents spawning to fight a party or raid sized group, but as of now all I know is what you know. I'm really, really curious about this.
"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." Emphasis most definitely mine. What does this mean? Will it be PvP or PvE? Are we talking a scaleable instance with a 5, 10 and 25 man version? Pure speculation on my part leads me to wonder if we'll see something like a Violet Hold style event, with random opponents spawning to fight a party or raid sized group, but as of now all I know is what you know. I'm really, really curious about this.
Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, News items, Instances, Raiding, Alts, Battlegrounds
Reader Comments (Page 4 of 4)
Lemons May 23rd 2009 4:48AM
Although that sounds somewhat cool, I sincerely hope something like that DOES NOT happen. An entire arena changes its scenery to conicide with the boss your fighting? Why? How?
Is there going to be a wizard (who secretly wishes he was an interior decorator) standing on the sidelines saying "You shall now face Ragnaros!" *poof* "You are now in HIS realm! Appreciate the rocks! I was up all night painting those!"
Zbegra May 23rd 2009 8:10AM
@Lemons: Magisters Terrace was merely a setback ;-))
yeah I see your point, lore-wise It's silly.
Dreyden May 23rd 2009 2:44PM
Ring of Blood / Amphitheater of Anguish = No trash mobs to speak of.
After all that trash in Ulduar, I'd love nothing more than to get phree epic lewts with no trash mobs between bosses :DDDD
Although, I guess they could make mobs spew out of every hole and crevice before the boss gets there. Somewhat harder/logical. :/
Frorgon May 27th 2009 2:52PM
They should make it so it pits guilds against each other. So 2 guilds can go into the same raid and compete to see who does better on bosses, etc. That might be cool.
ckm May 28th 2009 9:45PM
what date(or month) will this patch be released
Peter B. Jun 2nd 2009 8:10AM
To me this whole suggestion that the new 5/10/25 man encounter will be a face off with old raid/instance bosses sounds fantastic. The idea of actually getting to fight old raid bosses the way they were meant to be since right now old world is basically handled in two ways:
Using level 80 characters with WotLK gear or using near equal level characters (60-ish in MC for example) with TBC gear which is on a totally different scale than old world stuff.
Being a latecomer to WoW (I started around patch 2.3-2.4) I never saw the level 60 cap so the only times I've been in a place like MC was with my 80... and two more. Hell, some classes can solo raid bosses (screw you DKs and pallies with your abilities to heal!)
I'd love to actually be afraid of Ragnaros for once.
RetPallyJil Jun 2nd 2009 12:30PM
More jousting!
More jousting!
More jousting!
More jousting!!!!!!!!
P. S. Should jousting (see above) be involved in the new BG, my four year hatred of PvP just might end.
P. P. S. More jousting!
Nmonger Jun 16th 2009 10:25AM
New 5, 10, and 25 man? New BG? Sounds great, sorta... Not really interested in new content right now until Blizzard fixes the current content. I'm tired of jumping around outside of instances because Blizzard's servers can't handle enough instances as it is. At least make the PvE servers suffer and stay off the lawn of the PvP servers. I want to actually enter an instance the moment I walk through the door. I don't pay to play a game where I have to jump around outside of an instance for 30 minutes.
Kinarth Jun 16th 2009 11:17PM
I am suprisingly excited about this patch. If it's today I'll be very happy! I have VERY high hopes for the new content.
Adam.Hassellind Jun 21st 2009 12:34PM
In the next major content patch, we intend to adjust mount requirements to further improve the leveling experience in World of Warcraft. In addition, cast times for summoning all mounts will be reduced to 1.5 seconds, down from 3 seconds. The following is a breakdown of the upcoming cost and level requirement changes we are making for each riding skill.
Apprentice Riding (Skill 75)
60% land mount speed
Requires level 20
Cost: 4 gold
Mount cost: 1 gold
Mail will be sent to players at level 20 guiding them to the riding trainer
Journeyman Riding (Skill 150)
100% land mount speed
Requires level 40
Cost: 50 gold
Mount cost: 10 gold
Mail will be sent to players at level 40 guiding them back to the riding trainer
Expert Riding (Skill 225)
150% flying mount speed; 60% land mount speed
Requires level 60
Cost: 600 gold (faction discounts now apply)
Mount Cost: 50 gold
Can now be learned in Honor Hold (Alliance) or Thrallmar (Horde)
Artisan Riding (Skill 300)
280% flying mount speed; 100% land mount speed
Requires level 70
Cost: 5,000 gold (faction discounts now apply)
Mount Cost: 100 gold
A couple important things to note:
* First mount at level 20, and fast land mounts at level 40.
* Learning to ride ground mounts is getting significantly cheaper, as are the mounts themselves.
* Learning to fly will also be significantly cheaper, mostly because faction discounts will now apply. But the base costs for slow flying and the mounts have been reduced as well.
* You’ll be able to fly at level 60, but only in Outland and only if you own the Burning Crusade expansion.
* There doesn’t appear to be any change in Cold-Weather Flying in Northrend.
This is a very interesting bag of changes! I can’t wait to see it in action.
[edit] And an important aspect that I missed: it looks like the slow flying mounts will be a good bit faster than they used to be — +150% vs the current +60% speed in the air!
[edit #2] Blizzard has added more information about faction discounts for flying mounts to the original thread:
* Slow flying (now available at level 60) will get faction discounts from Honor Hold (for Alliance) and Thrallmar ( for Horde).
* Fast flying mounts (available at level 70) will get faction discounts now from Honor Hold or Valiance Expedition (for Alliance) and Thrallmar or Warsong Offensive (for Horde).
In addition, they offered more details about changes to class mount quests and travel-related class skills:
Movement Speed Training By Class
Druid
* Travel Form: Requires level 16
* Flight Form: Requires level 60 (150% flight speed)
* Swift Flight Form: Requires level 70
Hunter
* Aspect of the Cheetah: Requires level 16
Shaman
* Ghost Wolf: Requires level 16
Paladin
* Warhorse: Requires level 20
* Charger: Requires level 40
Warlock
* Felsteed: Requires level 20
* Dreadsteed: Requires level 40
lwalker7065 Aug 5th 2009 8:17AM
havent been able to get into any realm for two days of trial version.is this a selling point to upgrade to full version?have deleted and re-downloaded with same results,any suggestions would be helpful and may still sway me to upgrade!