Posted by iTZKooPA on Friday, February 27th, 2009 - 13 Comments
Tags: 3.1, 3.1 gear, 3.1 weapons, argent crusade, argent tournament, content patch, Patch, patch 3.1, ptr, tier 8
Project Lore has been hitting Patch 3.1 pretty hard this week. It all started on Tuesday when the servers went down for general maintenance. This allowed Blizzard to pop v3.1 onto the PTR and post the official patch notes. As the week has rolled past, various bloggers have plugged their thoughts on the big picture, small but exciting details and incremental changes. Today we will give you hard information on the ninja implementation of the Argent Tournament and a first look at some of the upcoming gear.
We didn’t get many details when the Argent Tournament was announced on Tuesday. Basically, all we knew was that it would be organized by the Argent Crusade, and would open up new daily quests with a collection of rewards from gear to mounts. After much poking and prodding by the community, Blizzard Poster Zarhym laid the groundwork for the tourney .
- The Argent Tournament is a permanent event . It will not disappear like the Naxxramas/Wrath Invasion or end upon completion like the Gates of Ahn’Qiraj.
- Players will begin working with the Crusade to construct a massive, instanced, none PvP-based, coliseum. It’ll be added in a later patch indefinitely - think Isle of Quel’Danas mechanic.
- The event is currently in Icecrown, but Blizzard is still working on the content. So it may not be relegated to a single zone.
- The tournament itself will launch with Patch v3.1. Additional content will be forthcoming in subsequent patches.
- Blizzard has given a reason for such a tournament when a war against the scourge is progressing. The Crusade believes that their competition will breed the best warriors and filter out those who can lead. Coupled with that, it unites all contenders behind a single banner and purpose.
Courtesy of MMO-Champion, I present you with the Argent Tournament’s collection of banners and tabards. The gear and mounts can be found individualy in this meta post, but don’t get too giddy. Some of this stuff will cost hundreds of Champion’s Seals - the new currency being launched with the tournament.
You also may want to take a peak at the Tier 8 weapons and sets that Boubouille and co. have dug up. Everything looks awesome, so long as you ignore the diamond-shaped 2h sword series and the atrocious Druid set. My personal aversion to Blizzard’s interpretation of daggers continues however. In my opinion, daggers should be very small blades, not the size of my arm - or SolidSamm’s entire body - but they new ones do look cool. I just wish they were more compact.
Can I get an Amen on the Druid set being awful? I know they are earthy and all, but come on. That is probably the most ridiculous set of shoulder armor I have ever seen. On the flip side, I absolutley love the Rogue set. The helm and the rest of glowing aspects of the collection make it simply badass. I can’t wait to fail at collecting it. Why a stealth character would want to glow is beyond me though…
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By Varren on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 10:51 am
The Argent Tournament? Unreal! :O
By Kalcifer on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 11:18 am
The lock gear is awesome looking especially with those staffs. Pally gear looks not so awesome. I suppose it’s so we can laugh at them while they kill us.
By Alayea on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 11:39 am
The Argent Tournament sounds promising at this point, but I’m feeling a bit wary about the whole thing. I’m going to with hold judgement until more details emerge.
The shaman gear looks… um… different. That’s as poilite as I’ll get. It’s just that when I look at the set, I don’t see any indication of “nature”, which what being a shaman is supposed to be all about regardless of spec. The druid set looks a lot better at living up to that expectation, though. Don’t understand why you think it’s so “atrocious”.
By Dumdrakk, Executus on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Great post! Shammy gear looks pretty cool!
By Zeb on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
shamans are all about the elements not nature and their gear looks awesome
By Hatredy on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I thought the Rogue set look horrible
I really want some new dailys to do so on to the tourny
By sandwix on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
i do think that the druid shoulders look kinda iffy, but i like the helm model. i also think that the pally helm looks stupid, and the shaman set looks like all the other shaman sets have looked like
By xxdeathangel on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
y r there four colours? i wish you could choose between two colours when you get t7 adn 2 diffrent dcolours t t7.5 so u cna ahve some originality lol
By Jasper on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Paladin T8 isnt great, but will be alright aslong as you hide the head
most important though, we dont have the worst looking set 
i had to laugh when i saw the druid male set :p
By Dudeofdeath on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
OMFG Why are they making all of the druid sets look so retarded?! It’s starting to piss me off
All the other classes get cool looking gear and we get some ugly ass armor. Not fair 
By Sylvester on Saturday, February 28th, 2009 at 10:12 am
The shields looks umm… Special along with the 1handed swords
By Blaze on Saturday, February 28th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I think the druid set looks great and it doesnt really matter too much as druids never see there gear as there almost always in a shapeshift form
By xxdeathangel on Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 1:52 pm
well im just glad palies dont look retatrded anymore lol, oh well the ehlm will look kool with my sik human haircut