New Dailies Worth Your While?

The Argent Tournament is just one of the mountains of new changes in patch 3.1.  On the surface, it looks like just another time sink, but could they really be worth your time and effort.  It certainly looks as though they might, but you’ll have to judge that for yourself.

So here’s a quick walk through about how to get the whole thing started.  It’s not tough, but you might be able to shave a few minutes off the start if you know exactly where to go and what to do.  After that it’s just all grabbing dailies from the same spots, and you’re on your own at that point.

First, run up to the FP in Dalaran and talk to either Officer Van Rossem or Sky-Reaver Klum and get a flight to one of the big Icecrown blimps.  From the blimp, fly to Far northeast Icecrown to the Argent Grounds at (71.2,24.26)

Pick up the Quests “The Argent Tournament” and “The Blastbolt Brothers from Justicar Mariel Trueheart in the big tent at the far west side of the grounds at (69.7,22.9). Grab the FP from Helidan Lightwing at (72.57,22.63) and then it’s over to turn in “The Blastbolt Brothers” to Mr. Bezzle Blastbolt.  Pick up both the daily quests here from the Blastbolt guys: “Jack Me Some Lumber,” and “A Chip Off the Ulduar Block.”

Now we’ll turn in “The Argent Tournament” either to Magister Edien Sunhollow (for Horde) at (76.27,24.36) or Arcanist Taelis (for Ally) in the Ally tent at (76,20).  Then Accept Mastery Of Melee,” “Mastery Of The Charge,” and “Mastery Of The Shield-Breaker.”

Now that you know where the two major NPC locations are, we can move on to questing locations.  First complete the three mastery quests on the North side of the grounds around (72.8,19.3) where you will find the three practice target types.  If you’re doing this on more than one toon don’t forget that you have to talk to the NPC’s on each toon – its part of the quest objectives.  Once complete; run back, turn them in and accept the three new dallies.

Two of the quests are the same, for the first few days at least.  As we progress and things change later, we’ll let you know.   So grab four quests the first time including “Up To The Challenge,” “Training In The Field,” Learning The Reigns,” and the other rotating quest – one of “A Worthy Weapon,” ” A Blade Fit For A King” or “A Blade Fit For A Champion.”

Go back to the north side of the grounds where you learned to whack all the target dummies and do that again.  Then you can fly down to () just south of the Argent grounds to kill the scourge.  Make your way to Dalaran (or close-by anyway) and then west to (15,34) and use the Lumberjack’s Axe on the Crystalsong Oaks in the area around the huge tree.  Every time you chop a tree a level 80 angry oak spirit will attack you, not tough though.

Next, use the Crystal at (15.75,42.48) to Teleport back up to Dalaran and take the FP to whichever zone is needed for the rotating quests.  Once that one is complete; fly to Storm Peaks to finish up by using the Goblin Chisel (the bomb) in your inventory on Ulduar Blocks of Stone.  The best location seems to be around the engine of the Makers at (40.47,56.38).

Now you can just fly from Storm Peaks to Tournament Grounds and turn them all in.  Pretty easy gold since the whole thing won’t take you more than 20 minutes max every day.  Now, this only takes you through the first 3 days, and we’ll post on the next portion again in a few days once we run through it a time or two.

There are some pretty nice weapons as rewards for all of this as well as various mounts and pets and other goop, we’ll get to all of that later since you can’t even get them until much later down the line.  Good luck on the tournament and as always, Dominate.