Patch 3.2.2: Trial of the Champion improvements
by Alex Ziebart 
Sep 26th 2009 at 8:00PM
Trial of the Champion polish also comes in the form of the first encounter working a little differently. How many of you said 'forget this' and started running out of the instance after you won the mounted phase, just to work around all of the odd little bugs? Most of you, probably. There's good news on that front, too: You don't need to run out anymore. The battle ends after you win the mounted portion. The NPCs reform over by the gate and you can start the next phase of the encounter at your leisure. I'm pretty happy about that, because I was getting a little tired of Mokra being a big pansy and not getting off of his mount after we won fair and square. Typical cowardly orc, you know?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Instances, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Aniwarp Sep 26th 2009 8:14PM
I just found this out today after making a fool out of myself being the only one to run out.
jorge_av Sep 26th 2009 8:12PM
We can get Abyss Crystals even faster now? Nice.
Dt Sep 26th 2009 8:19PM
Should have been in from the beginning in my opinion but I'm glad they changed it for the better.
scarab2501 Sep 26th 2009 8:22PM
This is awesome news! But sad I can't go make a sandwich and go to the bathroom and discover life on other worlds and master telepathy and how women think while I wait for the juicy parts to start!
But... "Typical cowardly orc, you know?" C'mon! Orcs are probably the only WoW race who are very likely to run into battle without thinking, without showering and wielding sharp things all over his/her body! My Elemantal Orc Shaman loves to run around and die shamelessly all the time!
Gíant Sep 26th 2009 8:35PM
Wanna know why that line was added?
*Fan Fare*
*User skips the "Pageantry"*
Okay, okay, I'll get to it; It was added as Troll bait. And you(probably 10 more people by tomorrow this time) bought it hook, line, and sinker.
KA-CHING!
scarab2501 Sep 26th 2009 8:43PM
Oh but you see not only am I not a Troll, as you put it, I clearly mentioned I'm an Orc. Silly boy. Also Trolls don't have any fun or good comments whereas mine was just shy of brilliant! Only short cuz I play, you guessed it, an Orc!
brownyboi Sep 28th 2009 7:13AM
@Giant
Come on... the original Orc comment was obviously made in a light hearted way, as was the response.
Just an amusing bit of witty banter.
Humour, y'know?
zappo Sep 28th 2009 9:38AM
"This is awesome news! But sad I can't go make a sandwich and go to the bathroom and discover life on other worlds and master telepathy and how women think while I wait for the juicy parts to start!"
You can still run Culling of Strathlome.
Feyd Sep 26th 2009 8:30PM
For The Orc's!!!!!!!
rawrawrawr Sep 26th 2009 11:50PM
For the Orc's what?
Deathgodryuk Sep 27th 2009 1:54AM
For the Orc's improper punctutation!!!!
syco Sep 27th 2009 2:57AM
For the Orcs' reputation for just clumping excessive exclamation points at the end of their collective sentences.
Alanid Sep 26th 2009 8:56PM
It's a shame blizz can't implement a fix like this:
Bug Fix: Common Sense: Players should no longer stand in big green puddles and wonder why they died so fast.
Erthshade Sep 27th 2009 12:20AM
You'll never see that in patch notes.
You can't fix stupid.
Angus Sep 27th 2009 2:17AM
Our raid healers have a saying in my guild.
"We can't heal stupid."
Whenever a DPS dies due to the floor killing them, they get that response.
Silversol Sep 27th 2009 2:27AM
"We can't heal stupid."
Darwin would be proud. /tear
Lupius Sep 28th 2009 12:52AM
They fixed that with the smart targeting system of aoe healing.
Many times I've told healers to stop healing people who refuse to move out of the bad, but their CoHs and WGs keep them alive anyway.
Matt Sep 26th 2009 8:59PM
Funny thing is that now it appears that the champions are the ones running out. They run towards the gate and disappear before resetting. At least that's how it looked on my screen. Blizz certainly has a sense of humor.
Hoggersbud Sep 26th 2009 9:26PM
Yeah, that's usually how NPCs change states, basically being replaced by a new one.
yayforwow Sep 27th 2009 3:59PM
In Soviet ToC, champions run out to reset YOU!