Next major content patch changes

When the next major content patch launches we will be introducing epic quality gems and updating the perks for each profession. Please keep in mind that any of this information may see further changes before the patch launches.

The design recipes for cutting epic gems will be made available for purchase with Dalaran Jewelcrafter’s Tokens and there are several ways to obtain raw epic gems:

* Prospecting Titanium Ore
* Alchemy transmutations
* Purchased with Honor
* Purchased with Emblems of Heroism


Coinciding with the implementation of epic gems and the gain that Blacksmiths will receive through their perk from these new gems, we have gone through all of the perks in every profession and increased their values to match up accordingly.

Alchemy

* The Mixology benefits from Northrend elixirs and flasks have been increased
* Added a new pattern for Flask of the North, usable by players with a high alchemy skill. The recipe is purchased from the honor potion vendor. The Flask of the North increases your spell power, attack power, or Strength for 1 hour, and is usable in arenas. It is not consumed when used.
* Endless Healing Potion and Endless Mana Potion no longer usable in arenas. Amount of health and mana has been increased, and the cooldown reduced. They are still usable everywhere else.


Blacksmithing

* No changes will be made to this profession; it will continue to have the 2 additional prismatic sockets (which can hold the new epic gems)


Enchanting

* Values on Northrend ring enchants increased


Engineering

* Increased benefits from Hyperspeed Accelerators, Hand-Mounted Pyro Rocket, and Reticulated Armor Webbing glove modifications


Herbalism

* Increased healing from Lifeblood (Rank 6)
* Lifeblood now scales slightly with maximum health
* Lifeblood no longer affected by global cooldown


Inscription

* Master's Inscriptions increased


Jewelcrafting

* Dragon's Eye gems stat bonuses increased


Leatherworking

* Fur Lining values increased


Mining

* Toughness (Rank 6) provides more Stamina


Skinning

* Master of Anatomy (Rank 6) provides more critical strike rating


Tailoring

* Embroideries improved

Patch 3.2 - New Argent Tournament Updates

With the release of the Secrets of Ulduar, the Argent Tournament opened its doors to heroes from all over Azeroth and saw champions arise from the ranks to take on the challenges before them to prove their worth. In the next upcoming content patch, Call of the Crusade, the Argent Tournament will be expanding its influence and players will be able to experience all-new dailies, rewards, and areas of interest.

Two New Quest Hubs
A new Cult of the Damned camp now sits overlooking the Tournament grounds and spying on the activity below.

Located on an island north of Icecrown, the former tuskarr village known as Hrothgar's Landing is a mist-shrouded staging point for Sea Vrykul raids upon the ships of the Silver Covenant and the Sunreavers in the waters between the island and Icecrown.

New Dailies and Rewards
Just when you thought you had seen and done it all, the Argent Tournament throws out the gauntlet once more and adds a new line of quests and rewards for players who have become exalted with either the Silver Covenant or the Sunreavers. Earn seals by participating in three additional random dailies and earn brand-new rewards.

* New Tabards: Alliance characters will be able to earn the Silver Covenant tabard and Horde characters will be able to earn the Sunreaver tabard currently seen being worn by NPCs on the grounds.
* New Mounts: New ground and flying mounts will be available for both Horde and Alliance. Alliance will be able to purchase the new Quel'dorei Steed and Silver Covenant Hippogryph. Horde will be able to purchase the new Sunreaver Hawkstrider and Sunreaver Dragonhawk.
* New Pet: A brand-new pet, the Shimmering Wyrmling, will be available to characters of both factions who distinguish themselves.


Argent Crusader Dailies and Rewards
A new line of dailies and rewards for players who have earned the title of Crusader will be available with two random seal-awarding dailies.

* New Heirlooms
* New Argent Crusade Banner
* New Argent Crusade Tabard: Ports you directly to the Tournament grounds.
* An Upgraded Squire: As any good squire should, this upgraded squire now has a mount.
* New Mount: A new Argent Crusade paladin-only charger will be available.


The Black Knight Returns
Just when you thought you had seen the last of the Black Knight, he makes his astonishing return to Tournament. Wait, didn’t you kill him?

Update - Upgraded Squire

We just updated the information about the squire with the following bit.

* An Upgraded Squire: As any good squire should, this upgraded squire now has a mount and can be called forth every eight hours for three minutes of duty. The upgrade cost is 150 Champion Seals and your squire will also offer one of three services: bank, mail, or vendor access.

is there an ETA of when the next big patch is coming ?

Please, please, please, please, increase dragon gem to 100 ^^

+ they didnt even update blacksmithing, they are such slackers.

Liquify wrote:+ they didnt even update blacksmithing, they are such slackers.

The upgrade is: You can equip epic gems in your prismatic sockets.

LOL love this one:

Once the Yogg-Saron encounter is started players outside of Yogg-Saron's area will begin to go insane, after 15 seconds.

Muhaha: Punish afk peeps with just starting encounter.

In the next major content patch, the construction of the Crusaders’ Coliseum on the Argent Tournament grounds will be complete, and it will hold new challenges for players. We’d like to share some details on the new dungeon, which represents the next tier of content for the game, but keep in mind that this is still in development and subject to change. The Crusaders’ Coliseum will include:

New epic 10- and 25-player raid dungeon with five encounters, with each encounter being unlocked one week at a time
A more intuitive structure for harder encounters. This raid dungeon will have four different versions: 10-player, 25-player, 10-player Heroic, and 25-player Heroic, with each one using a separate lockout.
Introduction of the Crusaders’ Tribute! Each of the Heroic mode instances has a new tribute system that will limit players on the number of attempts they get in the Coliseum each week to present a greater challenge for the most battle-hardened heroes. Additional rewards can be earned depending on the number of attempts left in the tribute run each week when the final boss is defeated.
New 5-player dungeon with three encounters that will include Champion’s Seals as each one is defeated
New tier of armor and weapons that are modeled with Alliance- or Horde-specific themes

Itsybitsy wrote:LOL love this one:

Once the Yogg-Saron encounter is started players outside of Yogg-Saron's area will begin to go insane, after 15 seconds.

Muhaha: Punish afk peeps with just starting encounter.

Even people in Ironforge?

Itsybitsy wrote:New epic 10- and 25-player raid dungeon with five encounters, with each encounter being unlocked one week at a time

Fair enough, bit like SWP.

Itsybitsy wrote:10-player, 25-player, 10-player Heroic, and 25-player Heroic, with each one using a separate lockout.

Okay... seems a bit unnecessary.

Itsybitsy wrote:Introduction of the Crusaders’ Tribute! Each of the Heroic mode instances has a new tribute system that will limit players on the number of attempts they get in the Coliseum each week to present a greater challenge for the most battle-hardened heroes. Additional rewards can be earned depending on the number of attempts left in the tribute run each week when the final boss is defeated.

This is interesting, but seems just like more annoyance on top of the number of instance types.

Itsybitsy wrote:New 5-player dungeon with three encounters that will include Champion’s Seals as each one is defeated
New tier of armor and weapons that are modeled with Alliance- or Horde-specific themes

More seals is always good, hope theres a normal and heroic version of the 5 man.

Overall, some of the stuff seems interesting, but if this is aimed as a tier above Ulduar I can see Ulduar being forgotten very quickly. Really depends on how good the gear is, and how tough the bosses are.

Itsybitsy wrote:10-player, 25-player, 10-player Heroic, and 25-player Heroic, with each one using a separate lockout.

Glocken wrote:Okay... seems a bit unnecessary.

I would like the heriocs to be the bosses locked on hardmode which imo is what I hoped blizz would implement.

Wonder how differant the signups will be if we only do the heroic versions if it goes live.

ITSEH! POLL!

should we do heroic (ie hard mode) only in 3.2?!!

gogo

Make ur own poll :p

/agree with Shiatan. No "ok.. let's just do it normal mode, since hardmode is.. hard"-option!
I'm very interested to see how this tribute thing pans out, howmany tries you get per week etc. One more action taken so that farm-status isn't reached within a few weeks. Sofar i like it. ^^

they have over complicated it yet again to help the socail guilds will blizz ever get anything right? .... also with this 1 boss a week crap meens America's gana be getting world first cause they get there chance the day before EU that sucks Give us EU guilds a chance to be up there with the americans. yet again another let down on its way i think. atleast ulduar there are some challenges which can be accessed through uping damage and speed you do a boss i hope they implement that here aswell.