Comments on: The Argent Tournament in Patch 3.2

By: Thala

Thala — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:51:39 +0000

The converted heroes can be single-pulled or 3-pulled (with a hunter’s multishot) from their groups and probably pulled in other combinations. Just have to be at range, they are NOT linked in the normal way, but will pull all their friends if you stand to close to one.
I frequently break up those groups of 7 into 3+4 using multi-shot as the first pull (and keeping pet on passive at start so he doesn’t body-pull the other 4).

By: Frijona

Frijona — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:08:52 +0000

If I ever get around to doing this content, I’ll definitely come back here for the information! I would like to have a little kid running around on a pony to do errands for me.

By: Ency

Ency — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:21:16 +0000

On my DK, I tried Death-gripping one Fallen Hero and quickly got overwhelmed when the whole bunch came down on top of me. I died last night from what I think was a DoT from one of the cultists several seconds after I killed him.

My main dislike is that they are that much more time consuming: I could stack them before with Blood of the Chosen or Slaves to Saronite (for the AC rep). Now between those, the Hodir dailies, and Troll Patrol, and going to HF to pickup the sword, I spent two hours last night just doing dailies. And I am looking at that same grind for at least a couple more weeks.

By: Loosh

Loosh — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:27:38 +0000

This has nothing to do with this post, but I was wondering what holy paladins were planning on gemming now.
Pre-patch I know most were going straight intel, but now that doesn’t seem like a great idea.
:P

By: Ancro

Ancro — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:31:07 +0000

On a personal level, I haven’t done the BBtC quest in weeks without having done it with the group that did TfA with me, so this change doesn’t hurt too badly. It might take a little longer, since the Commanders survive individual hits better, but it might even be shorter since you don’t have to compete quite as much for spawns. The change to Taking Battle isn’t that bad either – the Cult of the Damned have this giant set up northwest of the tournament now (you get pointed in that direction with the return of an old enemy, it was only a flesh wound after all) and they seem to have much less health than the average Icecrown mob.

By: Honorshammer

Honorshammer — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:55:54 +0000

When Battle Before the Citadel changes to require 3 Commanders, it should be changed to a Group (3) quest.

By: jeffo

jeffo — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:43:22 +0000

Pulling a whole wad of converted heroes at once is actually a lot of fun for a paladin (even a Holy) — it can get a little dicey, but it’s a great place to use Holy Wrath. It will be a little less easy now that Exorcism will have a cast time, though.

By: Siha

Siha — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:42:59 +0000

I suspect they changed it because there’s often spare Commanders sitting around cluttering things up, while Lieutenants are hotly contested; this will even it out a bit more.

As for the Converted Heroes, if you’re careful and pull from range, you can pull them one at a time – you wait until they’re in a line formation, then pull one off the end. I’ve done it before, but it’s easy to mess it up.

By: Rollandren

Rollandren — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:33:50 +0000

The requirement of killing 3 Boneguard Commanders seems like the one that will really hurt. The changes to the “Kill Scourge” quests aren’t exactly pleasant, but they just mean you’ll need to spend another ten or so minutes farming. I can see the large packs of Converted Heroes being a pain for someone with little AoE though. Managing to pull out and solo one Boneguard Commander is hard, pulling three out is likely to be a chore. On the other hand, since most people seem to group up for the quest it’s unlikely to make much of a difference. I wonder a lot about how the newer dailies will go.

By: Phyllixia

Phyllixia — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:33:34 +0000

Gah… the changes to the current dailies suck.

Well, they would suck if I actually did them more often :P