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Comment by Happyhippy

After you defeat all 8 bosses in this dungeon, the lich king will appear and destroy the floor, letting you go to the subterranean cavern, wich is the raid with the same name.

Comment by Pwnzoar

I just recently tried this on the PTRs, as it is now open for testing. After entering the dungeon, get on the Argent Warhorses. You start out with a long introduction from an NPC, calling out your class, with your respective race cheering for you. Afterwards, three groups of champions from the opposing faction ride out at you on mounts.

You take down the three groups, and then you fight the leaders of the champions. You get them down to pretty low health, then they fall off their mount and lay on the ground. You have to "trample" them, by running over them repeatedly to make sure they don't get back up and get on a mount.

I'm not too sure about this next part, because it is still pretty buggy. This is current as of 6/10/09. If they get back on a mount, when you try to attack them it will say "Invalid Target" and you have to get off your mount and kill them normally. One person MUST stay on their mount and keep the fallen champions on the ground. I don't know specifically what happens after this, as when my group tried, nothing happened to progress the instance to the next stage.

Comment by Saankaa

Essentially the Magister's Terrace of Northrend in that it (judging by the lootlevels) should pose as much of a challenge as the other heroics already on normal. Seeing how it also drops some fairly unique loot, like trinkets with Equip: Armor Penetration, it's safe to say that the summoning stone (if one exists) will be fairly crowded.

Comment by Mumpley

This is how the instance works on Normal Difficulty:

When you enter the instance there are several Lance Racks which when clicked on give you an Argent Lance. Once you have your lance you can ride a nearby Argent Warhorse if your Alliance or an Argent Wolf if your Horde.. The mounts have the same abilites as the mounts you ride for your dailies, with the exception of Refresh Mount.

The Grand Champions
Once everyone is settled on their Warhorses, you can speak with Jaeran Sunsworn or Arelas Brightstar and begin the event. After the herald has announced your group, the door behind him will open up and the Faction Champions will enter. If your Horde, 3/5 of the Grand Champions of the Alliance will be randomly chosen and will enter one by one. If your Alliance, 3/5 of the Grand Champions of the Horde will be ramdomly chosen and enter one by one.

The Grand Champions of the Horde are:
1.) Deathstalker Visceri
2.) Runok Wildmane
3.) Eressea Dawnsinger
4.) Mokra the Skullcrusher
5.) Zul'tore

The Grand Champions of the Alliance are:
1.) Marshal Jacob Alerius
2.) Jaelyne Evensong
3.) Lana Stouthammer
4.) Colosos
5.) Ambrose Boltspark

The Grand Champions will send their lesser Champions in pairs of 3 one at a time per Grand Champion. Once the lesser champions have been defeated, the 3 Grand Champions will group up and attack your party together. Once one has been defeated they'll occasionally attempt to slowly walk towards a Warhorse and remount. You can prevent this by "running" over them on your mount. In turn the victim will be Trampled stunning them for 15 seconds. Once all Grand Champions have been defeated, they'll regroup and become a normal boss fight on foot. You'll have to dismount and engage them normally. Each grand champion is a different class and each have unique abilities with their respective class.

After the Grand Champions have been permanently defeated a lootable chest will spawn, yielding 1 Heroic Quality Epic Item.

The Argent Crusade Represenatives
Now for the rest of the instance, you'll fight on foot. Next, 1/2 of the Argent Crusade Represenatives will enter, either Argent Confessor Paletress or Eadric the Pure. Adds of priests and paladins will also rush in and attack your party. Once the adds are eliminated, the real fight will begin as Paletress or Eadric engage you in person.

Eadric will occassionally cast Radiance, which basicly disorients you if you are not facing away from him. Additionally, he'll throw a Hammer of the Righteous at a stunned target. However if the target isn't stunned they can throw back the hammer.

Paletress is different, she's a very low healthed boss, but at about 25% health, she'll spawn a Nightmare. They can range from Hogger (Yay, hogger!) to Priestess Delrissa and from Edwin VanCleef to Hakkar. Regardless of who it is, each memory does the same abilities. And while that is happening, Palatress will shield and heal herself.

Once everyone is defeated, a cache will spawn giving 2 Heroic Quality Epic Items.

Return of the Black Knight
Now everyone remembers killing The Black Knight, right? We learned he was a member of the Cult of the Damned and we promptly disposed of him. Well apparently, when he was buried, Cultists of the Damned "stole" The Black Knights body and brought him back to life. As an Undead of course.

Now, as the last encounter of the instance, the new Black Knight flies down on his Skeletal Gryphon and kills either Jaeran or Arelas and ressurects them as a ghoul. He'll then engage after talking and use different Death Knight abilites and Death's Respite with his ghoul helping out. When he dies he comes back to life as a Skeleton he instantly begins casting Army of the Dead. At this point the Black Knight will periodically use Ghoul Explode inflicting massive damage if you happen to be near one. When he dies again, The Black Knight comes back to life without flesh or bone but as a Ghost. When he's a ghost he spams Death's Bite, which hits everyone in the group and a single player will be targeted with Marked For Death. When the Black Knight is put down forever without any hopes of returning, you have suceeded in the trial of the champion.

The Black Knight drops 2 Heroic Quality Epics.

3.2 is released. This information is fixed and set in stone. =)

Comment by 404899

From what I can tell you don't need anything to enter, but that all might change when it goes live.

Comment by 434339

Amazingly, on heroic, this instance drops Naxx 25 equivalent gear. Which is item level 219.

Comment by Ssateneth

It DOES drop 219 gear though, confirmed on live servers

Comment by 181858

Notes for the fights, (for Alliance)

At the beginning Jousting Phase, the Blood Elf does a blast wave, the Orc Whirlwinds, and the Undead Fan of Knives, and drops poison Vials, the Undead one should be focused down first as he also has stacking Deadly Poison

For Eadric the Pure, he will cast Radiance, you must turn away from him just like on Yogg-Saron

For the Black Knight, Phase 1, kill the first and only ghoul before it explodes, Move out of Desecration he drops on the ground, Phase 2, AoE down his Army while moving them around to avoid them all Exploding on you at once, Phase 3 Kill him as fast as possible before his stacking debuff that increases Spell Damage taken overwhelms you.

Comment by fireproof52

I'm putting money on the Black Knight Returning in Icecrown Citadel and on engagement, can you guess?

"The argent tournament was only a setback!"

Comment by Bobrik

Ok, Let me clear up this instance a little.
Note: This guide is Alliance only!

You walk in by the most northern entrance.
After you are in, everybody jumps on a one of the horses along the side of the arena and talk to the guy in middle, he will start the event.

You fight on horses, Identical to the daily "Amongst the Champions" in whole 1st round.
Wait a while, and 12 NPCs will walk in, 3 bosses (randomly picked from 5 possible) and 9 trash.

1st round:
Trash will attack in groups of three till they all are dead.
Then the bosses will come, It doesn't matter in what sequence will You kill them.
But - Undead and Orc are the most dangerous, and should be killed first.
Note: Should you die, run to the side and jump on a horse if there are some left ASAP
Killing all of them makes everybody jump down from their horses.
When one of the bosses dies, it's possible he/she will run to a free horse and "revive" with 30k HP. Nothing too dangerous though.

1,5th round:
Equip your normal weapon,
The 3 bosses regenarate to their full health and immediately aggro on the nearest one. I strongly suggest killing Undead or Orc riders first (Undead being given the highest priority)
Note: It is possible to phase out of the instance after the "1,5th" round starts, phasing out/wiping makes the 3 bosses run to the big gate and wait until you aggro them by yourself, this gives you lot of time to prepare for the fight.

2nd round:
Get your drops from the chest in the middle and start the 2nd round by talking to the guy in the middle.
You can get one of the two random bosses, along with 9 Trash in 3 groups (Can be killed simultaneously, but killing the last one will pull the boss).

Eadric the Pure or Argent Confessor Paletress

Eadric the Pure is quite easy, turn your back at him when he starts to radiate, turn your back to him. Not doing so will result in a "middle" amount of damage and fear effect for 3 secs. When he does his second spell (Throwing his hammer) It's possible to catch it (by right clicking it probably) and throw it back at him (If you fail to catch it you get around 15k damage done to you). Targets only one random person.

Argent Confessor Paletress is quite harder, She summons a random NPC (possibility of getting (but not limited to)Hogger or Algalon!) with 362k HP behind random player. I suggest dealing with it (you have to anyway, she's immune to everything as long the NPC is alive). She does not do any more spells that you would need to be aware of.

Should you succeed, loot your reward (chest in the middle) and talk to the guy in the middle again, this will start the round 3.

3rd round:
The Black Knight

This fight consists of 3 phases, which change after you defeat The Black Knight in each of it's form.

1st phase:
Human(?) form(276k hp): Does not do lot of damage, but kill the ghoul he summons and move out of the consecration-thingy.
The ghoul won't be dismissed if you kill his first form and his body explodes in a while.

2nd phase:
Skeleton form(276k hp): Ok, this is quite harder. He will summon an army of ghouls which tend to explode, dead or alive. Nothing else to add I guess

3rd phase:
Spirit form(276k hp): Prepare for a chunk of healing, especially with bad DPS. He will cast a debuff on everybody, making them get 5% more magic damage done to them every 2 seconds. He will also keep debuff on one random player changing each (around) 10 seconds, causing the target to take 200% more magic damage.
He casts a volley of bolts, not hitting that much, but they are deadly for the debuffed player, and possibly other players if the +5% debuff reaches too high number.
Basically, burn him down before he kills everybody.

If you managed to kill him, Grats! Loot the chest and enjoy your new items :)

Post-scriptum- I strongly suggest trying this instance in a normal mode for 1-2 times before going into the heroic.
Post-post-scriptum- Healers, prepare to give out a decent chunk of healing, this is an instance that shouldn't be treated like the other "easy" ones (not saying it's hard, it's just not easy)

I will try to update this guide :)

credits: Me, Lolzii, skyreman, Herlock and rankorr, ty guys :)

Comment by Sounder

Reports are that the item-budget on the loot corresponds to ilvl213, indicating that the ilvl line in the tooltips is wrong.

Comment by craftyard

Mobs:

Champions of the Alliance/Horde

Three mounted champions accompany each grand champion of a city. They use all the basic abilities a normal champion has. On heroic mode they have 75,000 health each.

Argent forces:

Argent Priestesses

Argent priestesses cast smite, mind control and summon lightwells. When they summon a lightwell, dps it down quickly as it will heal the priestess and her allies for a hefty amount. Note that their smite has a short cooldown. Obviously these should be first on your kill list. On heroic mode they have 126,000 health each, and very little armor. Their lightwells have around 9k - 10k health.

Argent Lightwielder

Casts cleave and a holy damage based AoE. The best way to tank these is to obviously have them facing away from the group. These should be second on your kill list. They have the same health as the Argent Priestesses, but considerably more armor.

Argent Monk

These are basically the same thing as as Scarlet Monks you may have encountered in the scarlet monestary. They use Pummel to interrupt spellcasting, but also enrage after a certain amount of time. Once they reach 1 health, they begin "meditating", which reduces all damage taken by 100%, and also reduces YOUR attack speed and movement speed by 70%. This effect lasts about 10 seconds. For this reason, Argent Monks should always be last on your kill list. 126,000 health each, with negligible armor.

Comment by 166189

The item lvl is a bug.
Looted: (213)
In game it says it's Item lvl 219

note: Armor same as items with 213

Comment by Dantonsis

I can't speak to all of the loot, but I know that the Mariel's Sorrow from Eadric has 487 Spell Power (Wowhead shows 461, but the Armory and in-game tool tips both display 487). This is the expected SP value of a 219 mace (see: Pulse Baton)

So... at least some of the loot is properly 219.

Comment by mosu332

the last boss, The Black Knight, drop : The Black Heart , Leggings of the Bloodless Knight , Handwraps of Surrendered Hope
and Uruka's Band of Zeal on normal mode.

Comment by vertibirdo

We have also noticed, that Black Knight in the 3rd phase cannot damage the whole party while moving.
Not sure, whether it's bug though.

Comment by eikyu

The ilevel is correct, Blizzard stated that they will (or already have even if not stated in the tooltips yet) fix the damage and armor (and it seems the stats, too, though they only stated damage and armor).

Comment by 59106

A few tips:

Make sure everyone has 3 shields up before you start the fight.
During phase 1, have someone marking with skulls so everyone can focus fire. If your group spreads out the damage and shield breaking, it's going to be much harder.
Charging does lots of damage. Charge.
When you defeat the mounted opponents, and everyone dismounts, you're probably going to wipe. I would imagine pugs will get better at this as time goes on, but for now expect a wipe. The good news is, when you re-enter the instance, you don't have to do the mounted combat over again. You can start off with the on-foot battles.
During the second half of phase one (on-foot combat), I find it helpful to kill the rogue first (Dwarf if you're horde).
Make sure your tank knows to pull the mobs out of the green ooze on the ground, as not to kill all the melee in your party.
For the final boss of Phase 2, he does some kind of "Blinding Light" ability and it will tell you to shield your eyes. I found that simply turning your character around to face away from the boss when the cast finishes will protect you from this ability 100%. I could be wrong, but it seemed to work for me.
For the Black Knight, I've read about kiting him around to avoid exploding mobs and whatnot, but the times I've done it I've just tank and spanked him. I think if you have a decently geared and competent group, you won't have a problem simply tanking and spanking.

Comment by Maliander

The following wowhead search should give you the loot table for this instance: Normal mode / Heroic mode.

All items seem to disenchant into Abyss Crystals just fine, so farming the normal mode instance should prove an easy source of these. If you still have any Abyss Crystals in the bank, yesterday might be a good time to sell them :)

Comment by smbender

For Horde, if you get Lana Stouthammer (the Dwarf rogue) and Colosos (the Draenei shaman) in the same fight, focus dps on Lana and interrupt the heals being cast by Colosos. If you cannot consistently interrupt, assign one dps to Colosos. This will force him to choose between healing himself or Lana, and will probably give your group a chance to down Lana. We had our mage on Colosos, both for dps and interrupts. He still healed Lana a couple of times, but by the time she was defeated, he only had 20k left and dropped shortly after.

Comment by joneru

Haven't had much luck finding a loot table within wowhead, so here is a link to MMOChampion that has the loot tables for both regular & heroic versions: Trial of the Champion Loot List

Comment by celio22

Not a hard instance when you do it after a while. enchanters are gonna love this for the 5 Abyss Crystals that you can farm on normal. While you can definatly will enjoy the gear from the Heroic. My tank was 10 man Ulduar geared and ended up with 3 almost upgrades and in 2 runs I have received 3 upgrades. I must officially /bow to Blizz on this one. They finaly did something right....for now.

Comment by Manic77

Can the instance be reset on normal mode? In other words, can you keep running it all day long for lots of low level epics?

Comment by 354238

At the moment you probably will wipe after dismount, that's ok. If you get confessor as second boss, use a lot of hots as the dreams keeps fearing your group. DPS should try and self heal as much as possible.in Black Knight encounter, keep cool downs/trinkets for last phase.
overall, found it easy as pala tank and lock, but had difficulty as rogue.
Edit: The loot looked 219 to me on heroic. for example, the 2H Axe dps was 212 while it shows 203 in MMOChampion.

Comment by Zellykins

If you're running this instance over and over the RP opening can get kind of boring. So, have only one person in the zone and have them start the event and only that person will be announced. Then proceed to have the other 4 members zone in.

Saved us a bunch of time!

Comment by 437971

The loot from this instance is amazing. I have posted some screenshots of the loot I got from my first run.

Comment by 316741

I ran this everyday so far on Heroic, and then at least 20 times on regular and I noticed a few things mostly on the first boss. Please feel free to comment if you noticed the same thing.

1.) Most importantly, it appears to me that when you kill one of the bosses on his/her horse, HIS/HER AGGRO TABLE DOES NOT RESET. This means if the tank wasn't at the top, the boss will go straight for that person; not the nearest person as someone previously stated.

So to counteract this: Kill 2 of the bosses together - the most lethal 2. Kill them IN THE CENTER; not near the edges because if they get back on a horse, they will kill the tank as explained below. Then have one group member stay at those two and trample them. At the same time have the tank get off his mount.. switch his weapon, and then taunt these 2 so that he is top of the aggro table. Now that when everyone else gets kicked off their horses only the one boss will go for another player. This creates a much easier situation for the tank to taunt 1 mob off of 1 player versus 3 off of 3 different players potentially.

IT IS imperative that one player stands and tramples the mobs while the tank taunts, or your tank WILL die. Also save any aggro release abilities for when you get knocked off.

This method worked every time when I was able to taunt them and not be beat on by a boss who wasn't being trampled. The leave the instance way is surely easier especially if the people in your group aren't coherent.

2.) Second boss - The healing lady that spawns an add. When she spawns the add, she can't be damaged anymore; therefore, the tank will not be able to aggro her anymore until the add is dead. With this being said, it is quite possible your healer will over-aggro the tank during the "kill add" phase. This means the tank needs to be ready to IMMEDIATELY taunt the lady back when she goes live again. If not the healer could potentially die, which isn't that critical because she doesn't hit hard and has lower hp, but still, no one likes to die.

Just tried it again on Heroic: Worked Perfectly!

Comment by 370797

Does anyone happen to have the /script commands for the music that plays while present in the instance? I would be very appreciative.

:]

Comment by subverto

this guide is from a HORDE player
i've done this quite a few times on regular and only a couple on heroic, but from my understanding i found it easiest to do the place this way

MOUNTED FIGHT
phase 1
get everyone on the mounts, and make sure everyone has their main hand weapon on their action bar so when you get dismounted you just have to tap a button to get it back on, make sure shields are up, then talk to the guy in the middle to start it. while he's talking you can explain the fight to the group because it takes a minute or two for him to finish. then when he's finally done you should see three mobs of three mounted characters of the opposing faction to your right. i like to mark two of them as they charge at the group so the group knows who to kill (it goes a lot smoother) then rinse repeat for the other two.

phase 2
when the bosses charge at you mark two of them and make sure to run over them when they stand to get a new mount (you can get on a new worg if yours dies, too the problem is getting there without getting killed by the bosses)

phase 3
once the bosses are all down they will stand up and fight you like normal bosses, it may help to put up a raid warning telling everyone to switch their weapons back, but i generally tend to just wipe here and be able to sort out what boss needs to die first (i like to get the casters and aoe first) once all bosses die there will be a loot chest in thte middle of the room with two purple items in it. (lv 200 for regular, 213 heroic)talk to the blood elf in the middle to start the next round.
(gnome=mage, dwarf=rogue, draeni=shaman, night elf=hunter and human=warrior/paladin)

this wave is pretty easy if you know what you're doing. first thing you should note is what boss is coming out the gate(with three mobs of three) if the boss is a man its Eadric the Pure if it's a woman its Argent Confessor Paletress. eadric is much easier to kill than the confessor. first thing you should do is kill the mobs, taking out the preistess on the left first, making sure to kill her lightwell if she spawns one. once all the mobs are down take out eadric or the confessor

EADRIC
he is pretty tank and spank, just note that he will start radiate light and you need to turn away from him before it happens or you will be feared. and every once in a while he will target someone with a hammer that will take down a lot of health.

CONFESSOR
the confessor is pretty easy to kill, but her pet is the hard part. just a little bit into a fight she will start an attack that stuns everyone and spawn a boss from a fight before 3.2 focus dps on the shadow or nightmare and i have heard that someone needs to stun her because she heals the shadow. once the shadow dies she will quickly follow.

THE BLACK KNIGHT
phase 1
for this fight i just tank and spank, but make sure to kill the ghoul before it explodes. once he's down all dps should get back and tank should stand on his corpse.

phase 2
he will do an army of the dead attack. tank just needs to hold aggro and stay away from his desecration.

phase 3
this phase can be hard on healers, he will just send little aoe attacks at all the members of the group and it can be hard to heal everyone, but he will die pretty fast, if the group doesnt first.

Comment by 438947

For the Horde party members

Human - Warrior (Mortal Strike Bladestorm)
Dwarf (female :O) - Rogue ( Poison bottle, Fan of Knives and Deadly poison on random melee)
Gnome - Mage (Blast Wave)
Night Elf - Hunter (Thunder arrows (nature damage on hit), Multi-shot and disengage)
Draenei - Shamman (Heals, Chain Lightning and I dont know what else ...I think I saw a stormstrike or something on my healer)

For a mostly melee group
Prioritys should go Gnome/Dwarf/Draenei/Human/Night Elf
Human is near-last because you should just move out of the bladestorm not soak it -.-

mostly caster should be Draenei/Dwarf/Gnome/Human/Night Elf

This is how every single one of my groups does it but It is just a handy suggestion and nothing more

Comment by 111622

Why was my post deleted? It's true. Sometimes when we dismount and fight all of the elites on foot during the first encounter, one of them will stop at 1 health and run back to thier mount and do some heavy damage to players. We've either had to wipe or all zone out to reset the NPC's back to their spots. Also, the threat seems to be very weird after dismounting too.

Comment by mattgaff87

Just in case anyone is curious, the items on the heroic list above infact have an item level of 219 but currently when you mouse over the items it says the item level is 213. I'm sure this will be fixed shortly though!

Comment by 32604

currently the loot listed on for this instance has been the most accurate you can also look via the item levels heroic mode drops a higher level than in normal and also the item levels for normal is the same no matter what the drop is this is also true for heroic mode

the reason for this reply is i noticed True-aim Long Rifle listed in your loot for normal mode

Comment by 255452

I suggest that if u dont alredy you should set your main hand weapon to a hotkey or position on your action bar as just after the fight on "Horse Back" as it were you then go straight into a boss fight so you need to swap your weapon back on fast. also when you fight them on horse back you need to defeat them fast and close together else after a set amount of time they will run back and hop onto another mount luckily they have around 25% only when they hop onto a different horse so easy to dispatch from there.

On Aedric the pure when the warning saying that he is about to cast a light move and tells you to divert your eyes that is exactly what you want to do just face away from him unless your the tank of course also when he does his righteos hammer be on the look out if your the healer coz it does hit quite hard and also stuns the tank.

Comment by 415748

Does anyone know when wowhead are going to update the loot tables and ect?

Comment by 357637

Here is my druid healer perspective on the the instance.

Phase 1.1 Horseback: Run around on horses killing 3 sets of 3 weak mobs, then kill the 3 main bosses on horse back. It appears to work well if you can get one person to kite 2 mobs while you zerg the 1st one. Keep running over the bosses when they are down cause they will go get back on a horse.

Once they are all off their mounts, run out and reset. Mostly because they agro on foot right away and you don't have time to set up properly, seen DPS died right away because they were closest to the bosses.

Phase 1.2 Bosses on foot: Spam big heals on the tank, because they take allot of damage at 1st. If you have the undead guy, yell at the group to get out of the green goo, and if you have the troll make sure the tank picks it up, it will 2 shot a squishy. Once the 1st one goes down healing gets easier, but in naxx 25 gear I get close to 25% mana left after this wave.

Phase 2 Pally Boss: Easy... get in range of everyone and turn your back to boss, keep everyone topped off cause he throws 14K hammers randomly and does the AOE blind.

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Phase 2 Preist Boss: Hard... The priest will summon an add, a random elite, so far I've seen ignis and vancleff. The priest goes immune, but still casts 5k smites, fears, and MCs random people. Can get very hard to keep people alive if you get hit with a fear and a MC

Phase 3.1 DK round 1: Big heals needed on tank, little raid damage, 1 add, so make sure you lead it to the tank

Phase 3.2 DK round 2: He comes back and summons a ton of adds, run tank to get them off you, and then get out, cause they explode on death. Lots of AOE heals if you are melee strong. Big chance to get adds on you if the tank is not spamming AOE. As druid I hot everyone and then shadowmeld to drop agro.

Phase 3.2 DK round 3: He comes back again and goes ape #*@&. Lots of AOE damage, and tank damage, save your cooldowns for this. I usually hot everyone, wildgrowth, then hit tranquility. So far its kept everyone alive.

This instance requires allot of healing and healing quickly, most heroics I can keep a tank topped of with a regrowth and a rejuvenation per pull, and maybey a nourish or 2 during a boss fight. In ToC I find my self spamming heals on everyone as fast as I can during some phases.

Comment by joneru

Reputation Gains on Regular:
The three packs of three mobs on Round 1 each award 5 rep with your current championed faction. Total of 45 rep.

Same goes for the 3x3 mobs in Round 2. Total of 45 rep.

The ghouls in Round 3 phase 2 also award 5 rep, and there is 8 of them. Total of 40 rep

The bosses award 0 rep.

Total Reputation for one run on Regular difficulty: 130

Reputation Gains on Heroic:
The three packs of three mobs on Round 1 each award 5 rep with your current championed faction. Total of 45 rep.

The 3x3 mobs in Round 2 award 15 rep each. Total of 135 rep.

The ghouls in Round 3 phase 2 award 0 rep.

The bosses award 0 rep.

Total Reputation for one run on Heroic difficulty: 180

Comment by rzzr

The graveyard is very close by, easily less than a minute away. If you die don't hang around and watch the fight just head staight back in. First time I did it we wiped as the healer was so shocked to see me again!

Comment by Gylin

I was checking the leather items in here and all the melee version share the same style/look. Just add in the Darkheart chest from the Knights of the Ebon Blade and you have yourself a matched set of epic melee leather with no raids required. The stats are not to bad ethier. Here is the link for the set if anyone is interested: https://www.wowhead.com/cata/compare=47170:47496:47177:47202:47221:47529:47248:44303

Comment by 437043

On average how long does it loot from a patch this size to be included on wowhead?

Comment by Kalx

This is wrong, the chests do not despawn, and there can be two chests at the same time (the champions and the paletress/eadric chest). They do not overlap each other, and they will stay there even after you beat the Black Knight.

Comment by Chimie

A helpful tip for when fighting the Black Knight in his second phase in regards to the exploding ghouls, which often can be the cause of a wipe: The ghouls will stop moving and while standing, slowly increase in size, this is your indicator to get out of the area, and hopefully, claim your achievement!

Comment by 45438

My own killing order recommendation for first encounter (Faction Champions).
FOR ALLIANCE ONLY!

1. Hunter (Troll). Hes hard to tank.
2. Shaman (Tauren) Heals.
3. Mage (Blood Elf) Strong aoe dmg.
4. Rogue (Unded) Poison clouds and Fan of Knives aoe
5. Warrior (Orc) Mortal Strike

Comment by 426948

Not sure if anyone has pointed this out though, but the second boss drops the same loot, regardless of whether it is Eadric the Pure or Argent Confessor Paletress. In addition to this, some speculate that the kill order and race of the Champion Jousters in the beginning of the dungeon have an effect of the yield of the loot after the first fight is over. This too is incorrect.

Comment by 336033

On 3 champions encounter after you knock all 3 bosses off and dismount, it makes it alot easier and much less chance of a wipe if everyone just runs out and then back into the instance. When you first get back in the bosses usually are not there but just give it a sec and they will appear in their little triple formation and you can mark them up and pull that way. I find that alot easier especially for the tank to grab agro and have the encounter go smooth.

Comment by 79671

Req lvl 79 to go in normal Toc !

Comment by Creaca

A quick run down of unmounted Grand Champions follows. This information is assuming you are doing the Heroic Version.

Shaman - Tauren and Draenei

Chain Lightning- Short Cast time but interruptable
Healing Touch - Long Cast time, and powerful. Always interrupt this.
Earth Shield - Instant cast, dispellable

Warrior - Human and Orc

Mortal Strike - 50% Healing debuff, ouch.
Whirlwind - Powerful AoE, have your Melee get out of this asap.

Hunter - Troll and Night Elf

Lightning Arrows - Adds a large amount of lightning damage done to ranged attacks, has 5 charges.
Disengage - The Grand Champion flys back 20 yards. Be careful to keep up with him/her, or s/he may aggro on the healer as you try and deal with the other two champions.

- The Hunters Damage is ~much~ lower if she/he is inside melee range.

Rogue - Dwarf and Forsaken

Deadly Poison - Ticks for about 2k every 3 seconds, cleanse it if you can.
Fan of Knives - Instant cast AoE, because of this and poison vial heavy melee groups should take him/her down first.
Poison Vial - Drops a poison slick in a 10 yard radius, this targets a random member of the group, including the tank. 2k Damage a second.

Mage - Blood Elf and Gnome
Fire Ball - Basic nuke, interruptable.
Blast wave - Powerful insta-cast AoE, heavily melee groups should watch out.
Polymorph - Sheeps a random member of the group for 4 seconds, the Tank can not be targeted by this. (Assuming he has Aggro)
- He also does a dispellable buff that decreases cast time by 50%.

Comment by 230552

#1 is Shaman, Warrior, Rogue, Hunter, or Mage
#2 is Priest or Paladin
#3 is Death Knight

Interesting that there's no Druid or Warlock.

Comment by Caustco

Are any other clothies annoyed at the lack of cloth drops in heroic mode? No cloth drops from the first two waves at all. Cloth drops total: 3, all from the Black Knight. Leather: 6 Mail: 5 Plate:8. With 3 classes that all need cloth, this seems slightly unbalanced. Every time I go, I see plate drop, but only twice have I seen cloth.

Yes, there are drop that clothies can use (Spectral Kris, especially), but even on those we are usually rolling against other armor classes, thus making it harder for us to get anything, and gear up.

feel free to downrank the QQ. ;)

Comment by 424155

OK I tanked H ToC for the first time today (did only as DPS previously) cos we couldn't find a tank. We got dwarf (rogue), human (warrior), dranei (shaman).

We were doing OK until at one stage, I got stunned inside poison cloud for like 4-5 seconds, followed by being thrown 20 yards away. Needless to say this ~10 seconds resulted in a wipe. The comments thus far haven't mentioned anything about stuns or knockbacks though, which of the three Champions had these skills, and are they avoidable?

Comment by 370797

Honestly, with the down rating. My question was perfectly valid, and I assume I'm not the only one curious about the music. Please allow this comment to stay at +0 so at least it won't be ignored by a large number of the people reading this page.

I say again: Does anyone have the /script commands for the music that plays while present in this instance? (Trial of the Champion)

Edit: I wrote Crusader instead of Champion :P

Comment by 338087

I ran heroic ToC a while back as a Blood DK tank without +def gear, and you aren't kidding. They hit pretty hard compared to normal. Our composition was the hunter, the rogue, and the warrior, but I'm assuming the roles are the same even if the races are different.

The poison cloud and the stuns? Those were compliments of the rogue, just like the player class. If you have a DK in the group with Mark of Blood, I STRONGLY suggest he puts it on him. He hits fast and often, so assuming your mitigation and stam are high enough, he'll just be keeping you at the same point, health-wise. Your mileage may vary, but in my experience, it worked. If you have a mostly-ranged DPS class, you can just sort of kite this guy around to avoid his AOE poisons, but it's a bit harder if you're in a mostly-melee group.

The throw was from the warrior. This seems to be random and annoying, and I haven't found a way to keep from getting thrown (such as tanking against a wall) but it also doesn't seem to hurt that bad. It's disorienting, though, and that in itself can cause just as much harm. Expect it to happen, and just be ready to rush back to whoever you were tanking.

The shaman casts the heals and chain lightning, but he never really seemed to be that big of a problem. If you can spare an interrupt, I'm pretty sure they can be countered, though I haven't had to fight him on heroic in a while. I think he can cast Earth Shield which can be a bother, but I've never known a group to have trouble damaging through the heals.

You didn't ask, but I'm offering my insight on the others as well.

The mage will cast a couple of typical mage spells, including Polymorph and Blast Wave. Other than that, ranged DPS. Can probably be ignored if your DPS is high enough to burn through the more dangerous champions such as the rogue. Anyone know if the mage can be poisoned or cursed to delay the casts?

The hunter is just annoying, and had to be off-tanked the last couple of times we got him. He periodically casts Lightning Arrows and hops backwards. Three guesses who he targets. If you can keep the aggro off of the healer, maybe you could get away without an off-tank, but I wouldn't suggest it. Our healers (when they do die) tend to get killed in about three seconds, seemingly out of nowhere. Once in melee, though, he's a pushover.

tl;dr

The poison and stuns are from the rogue, you can move and pop a trinket (or racial equivalent) or something like Icebound Fortitude. The throw is from the warrior, unavoidable.

Comment by rb4havoc

It's too bad one of the memories isn't of Kelidan the Breaker, because then his quote would really make sense: "Who dares interrupt? What is this? What have you done? YOU'LL RUIN EVERYTHING!"

Comment by 423708

Very very simple istance with some good drops.. it' s perfect for new players who want to equip them fast

Comment by 426170

should you be lvl 80 to run this? if so do you have to be purpled out?

Comment by 54884

Do NOT mind control adds at 2nd boss, it will eventually bug so the boss wont go hostile >.<

Comment by specter51095

any1 know the % confessor to eradic the pure if you if any1 knows can they plz post
thx =)

Comment by edwordrules

You can run that instance on normal all day, until every ones bags are full of shards, if there is an enchanter in the group, or you get so bored that you would rather go run people through Dead Mines or the Stockades and realize that you indeed do have WAY to much time on your hands. But its also a good way to get your alts some decent gear. I prefer gearing my alts!

Comment by 446175

After you kill all mounted dudes and get dismounted you can simplify the fight by walking out of the instance. This way when you get back inside the 3 dudes will be in one place and this makes your tank life much easier. Alternatively you could try to kill them close to each other so when dismounted your tank can aggro all of them without running around.

Second part of the Knight fight. All dps try to reduce your aggro if possible and let tank pick up adds first. Then massive AoE from the distance (adds explode)

Comment by 447547

The simplest way to complete this dungeon is this:

Begin event, mount up, put up all 3 shields.
Joust the 3 groups of 3 adds (should be fairly simple).
Joust the boss in kill order (just so everyone knows who to target first).
Make sure you run over anyone who gets dismounted, so they don't get back up. Every once in a while, trample them again.

After jousting all the bosses, you will be forcefully dismounted. Everyone should IMMEDIATELY sprint to the exit. Don't even re equip your gear.

Once everyone has dezoned, everyone can rezone and all three champions will be waiting patiently at the entrance door. Buff, and when ready, have the tank pull (paladins may find a lot of use out of a fully talented avenger's shield, as they can be silenced).

The kill order we've used is this:
Shaman(Tauren)>Rogue(Undead)>Mage(Blood Elf)>Warrior(Orc)>Hunter(Troll)

This may work for you, but it may require revisions (we were fairly geared, so we don't have much trouble.. except for the rogue).
The most important thing is to NEVER stand in the green cloud. It will decimate your health. If you have a Shammy, drop a cleansing totem to deal with the rogue's poisons.
All of them can be stunned and silenced, and dazed.

After defeating the champions, grab the loot!

Then its time for Eadric or Confessor, and their adds.
Adds: Priestess>Lightbearer>Monk. Pull each group individually. Don't even worry about the lightwells, your DPS should be able to burn down the priestess faster than it can heal her (and some specials don't work on it, making it annoying to kill). As soon as she dies, it disappears. If you're in heroic, try to interrupt her mind control. Then kill the lightbearer. Nothing big, tank and spank with light aoe. Then the monk. In heroic he can put a debuff on you, but it'll wear off eventually. Priests can Mass Dispel it. Repeat for each group.

Then the boss becomes aggro.

Eadric: Turn your back to him whenever radiance is about to go off. Big heals if anyone gets hit by the hammer. Otherwise tank&spank.

Confessor: DPS casually until she hits 25%. She'll stun and knock everyone back, and summon an add (some boss or important character from the past.) DPS the add down fast, and avoid hitting her (she has a reflective shield). The add can fear and mass-fear (once on the mass, I think). Then unleash on her, tank&spank.

Now for the BK.

First phase is easy. Tank&spank with an add. Kill the add. Kill the BK. Second phase is bad. KILL THE ADDS FIRST. All DPS on the adds, and if you see one growing larger, run away. If you kill the boss while the adds are alive, they'll simultaneously explode. You're lucky if you can outrun them. If a DPS gets hit by more than 3, they'll probably die. Third phase is a tank&spank DPS race. Burn cooldowns, and big heals on the guy with the mark over his head (he takes 300% damage).

Collect loot; rejoice!

Comment by 98604

Just a friendly reminder to shamans who run this:

After you fight the faction champions, recall your totems before you talk to Jaeran again! A guildmate shaman of mine forgot to do so, and every pack aggroed on to us while they were coming through the entry. We wiped, and when the mobs reset, they did not reset in their normal positions. Needless to say, we had to burn every cooldown we had to get all nine of them down at the same time. >.<

Comment by ttsaypra

People from lv 78-80 can enter this on normal. (Maybe lv 77)

Comment by 385742

I think in the end of the instance after the black knight, Tirion says "Go now and rest; You've earned it", may be a reference to The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion arena? ;P

Comment by gryldrak

People on my server are debating the needed defense for the tank in this instance. Is it 535, as with all other heroics, or 540, as it is for raids? The arguments are getting quite annoying.

Thanks!

Comment by Toxiciity

Minimum Level to enter is 75.

Comment by 111622

The first encounter is bugged. The threat is very weird when they all dismount, and it's a common thing throughout all servers I play on to zone out after dismounting. I'm not sure what Blizzard designed this to do, but even when they burst down my Mount, and I fall off, every single Mounted enemy in the room will target the person that isn't on a Mount and kill them.

Stop deleting my posts, this is true.

Comment by SeabeastRivin

This doesn't seem to be true. Every time I've been dismounted during the fight--assuming other group members are still mounted--I'll immediately leave combat and the champion chasing me will disengage. It's only at the end of the mounted phase when everyone is dismounted that they won't leave you alone.

However, Blizzard has confirmed that they're smoothing the jousting-to-foot transition in 3.2.2, and presumably the other major bugs with the champions will be fixed as well.

Comment by Iceleaf

For its own reasons Argent Lance and faction lance is unique.
Therefore you must have it with you or you wont be able to get it from the Lance rack. If you left it in your bank you just need to fetch it or let someone get it for you to mount up.

Comment by 385392

Remember, Death Knights can use Mind Freeze to stop most spell cast in the fights. It is essencital that you use this when the Shaman is about to Chain Heal, stopping this can make the fight last around 20 seconds shorter. And for heals on the Erik fight, I always have my back turn to him. Only time I turn around is when I use Penneace.

Comment by Hotmilk

I was able to enter this instance (along with Halls of Lightning and The Culling of Stratholme) at level 75.

Comment by 283241

Did anyone else think of the arena in Oblivion when Tirion said "Go and rest now; You've earned it."?

Comment by 451489

Does anyone else find that Blizzard has gave up on hunters? 5 out of 38 drops on Heroic mode are for hunters, I've ran this numerous times and none of them drop... Same with other Heroics, Other gear drops constantly and Hunter gear never drops, And there is also less Hunter gear than other clasess in Heroics. None of what i just said apply's for raids but you need Heroic gear to get into a raid! I'm $%^&ed at Blizzard cause there unfair and don't listen when someone complains so i can onyl express my thoughts to other players and hear there opinions:@ Please reply back with your thoughts on my topic or your own complaint about classes or drops, Thanks!

Klingerjesse- Elune

Comment by 414497

i was hoping 4 some help i am geared with all but 3 things from N ToC i am a DK in frost 4 tanking and dps and im pulling anywere from1.8k-2k in H i need legs shoulders and the banner trinket. the bugger im having is that im only pulling 1.5k-1.7k in H ToC is this good? i am working on getting the attacks right to get my dps to stay at a good lvl. if someone who is leet but not up himself could tell me what i can do to be better that would be good i have all the right gems and enchants and also have the axe edge of ruin my hp is at 17991 armor 12187

Any help will be good

Ta

p.s. what does my dps need to be 4 H ToC?

Comment by 414497

Im all good now ^

Comment by cms2k

Requires level 75 to enter the instance on regular mode.

Comment by 452229

When i had defeated The Black Knight i saw something

Highlord Tirion Fordring: Go now and rest; you've earned it.

Which maybe a quote from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion when you finish and arena match the announcer says "Go now and rest: you've earned it!"

Comment by Babetastic

This is a great place to acquire gear to be equipped upon hitting level 80. I've been running it several times a day for the past few days on my 79 Mage, stockpiling all of the cloth/caster drops I can get to help ease her into raiding when the time comes. It beats the heck out of farming 10 man Naxx and as I said, it can be done multiple times a day. This is also a great place to farm Abyss Crystals if your guild needs them and you've got some extra time on your hands to spend piddle-farting around in TOC! :D

Comment by chz420

A good thing to point out is that, yet again, there is next to no resto shaman gear. And I can say AS a resto shaman that I have seen countless times tanks come and go after getting gear simply and an infinite amount of dps that get all of their gear for essentially free for practically doing nothing. Guess I know now why shaman go enhancement.

Comment by Wuppy

Another tip, for 5 man hc (probably works at normal to, but not tested). It is possible to reset the instance (before you are saved) and get another random first group.

So if you want to get an easy first group, set to hc, run in, get lance, mount and talk to elf; wait for introduction to end and see what bosses are on the mounts.

If you don't like them, run out, reset and run in. Mount, talk to elf and see what for grp you get.

The first mount group will run to the center and wait till you attack; so just stand at the side. Once you have a nice first group, you can start inviting ppl and hopefully have an easy run.

I took me 10 minutes to get shaman, hunter and mage; which was much better then the initial group of rogue, warrior and shaman.

Comment by annerajb

"Yo Tririon i am really happy for you and i will let you finish your long intro scene. that you got one of the longest intro's scenes in the game. But Kaelthas had one of the longest and most boring intro scenes of all times." - Ilidan

NOTE: they where boring after the 15000 time you see them.

Comment by Subarashi

Reputation // Normal Mode

Faction Champions:
3x Grand Champions giving 0 Reputation
9x Champions giving 5 Reputation Each

45 Reputation!

Confessor/Eadric:
1 Boss giving 0 Reputation
9x Adds giving 5 Reputation Each

45 Reputation!

The Black Knight:
1x Boss giving 0 Reputation
9x Risen Champions (Phase 2 Adds only) giving 5 Reputation Each

45 Reputation!

The entire 15 Minutes of your time is worth:

135 Reputation!

Clearly... Blizzard... Intended this to be farmed on a LARGE Basis considering it awards such an "Amazing" *cough cough* amount of Reputation.

Comment by 392518

What does your dps have to be at to run heroic? The normal 1.5k or like 2.5k?

Comment by 454596

As of patch 3.2.2., you no longer have to have someone start the dungeon in advance, nor do you have to wait for the champions to be announced. When you right click on Arelas Brightstar, you now have two options:

"I am ready."

and

"I am ready. However I'd like to skip the pageantry."

In addition, you no longer have to run out of the instance after being dismounted, the bosses just run back to the door by themselves to grab their weapons.

Comment by 31022

There are two very helpful changes to this in 3.2.2:

1) There is now an option to start the initial joust "without the pageantry" which makes the minibosses and their trash jousters spawn almost immediately. This saves several tedious minutes.

2) Those same minibosses now reset themselves back to their entrance gate after they have all been defeated in the joust. It's no longer necessary to run out to reset them.

Comment by 355820

The loot is obviously aimed so all will benefit but healers, especially close to none loot for trees

Comment by 365880

Didn't see it in any of the previous comments, so:

If possible, try to have a shaman in the party either as DPS or Healing, doesn't matter which. If you're unlucky enough to get the Confessor, the Waking Nightmare she summons likes to Fear. A tremor totem is exceedingly useful for shutting that down, especially since you need to be focusing as much DPS on that thing as possible.

On a side note, I don't think its a straight 50/50 chance between Eadrik and the Confessor. I did at least a dozen runs yesterday, and Confessor only spawned once.

Its possible that its 50/50, but I honestly doubt it at this point.

Comment by Revrant

Hope to God you aren't as horrifically unlucky as I am with this instance, I've come to hate it with a passion after initially loving it, 13 runs and 6(7 if I count the Mask with no Rogues) upgrades.

Not a god damned single one has dropped after 13 days, and everywhere I look people are toting around True Aim rifles and the shoulders and the amulet, and I have squat.

This guy right here is about to turn into Eeyore.

Comment by 247577

After spending the past two days working to get the full set of tanking gear, here are the strategies I've noticed that will be helpful to horde warrior tanks in reg ToC:

All bosses in this instance are disarmable, with the sole exceptions of Paletress's adds and Stage 3 Black Knight.

Encounter 1: Champions:
This fight is farely straightforward, simply tank all three bosses. You'll want to use Heroic throw on any casters, and then charge in. group them together and shockwave. You'll want to make sure the warrior or rogue boss is disarmed as often as possible. Shield bash the casters, especially Colosos as he heals himself and his fellows.

Order of importance for kill sequence goes:
Colosos
Hunter
Mage
warrior
rogue (assuming you are watching for poison ground carefully, and have intelligent dps who follow you)

Encounter 2:

The 1st part of these fights are both the same -- kill the adds, activate the encounter. Start from the left facing the boss and go right, this will help you to line up adds for shockwave, as you wont have to turn around to face the mobs after you've charged the priestess. Killsequence will be Priestess, Lightwielder, Monk. Regular drill for multi-tanking, my reccomendation is to save disarm for the lightwielder, as you wont have time to get in a disarm on both the proestess and lightwielder, and the monk has no weapon. Shield bash the heals only, dont worry about the lightwell.

Eadric:
Tank and spank. make sure your party knows to turn around at the light, but you can pretty much eat his hammer no problem even with a pally healing. Your first priority should be to disarm him, as from what I've seen he can't throw his hammer while disarmed. Berserker Rage WILL NOT eat the hammer stun.

Paletress:
Stage 1:
Burn her down, bash the first spell you see, as she doesnt heal at all in this stage. Immune to stuns.
Stage 2:
Berserker Rage will not eat the add summon period (Confession?) however it WILL eat all incapacitate effects cast by the adds. Hold onto to it until you see the add begin to cast, and then pop it. You should be able to get them both in with perfect timing, as the CD on Rage is the time in between fears.
Once the add is summoned, dont even think about Paletress. she ignores all threat and randomly casts at any party member -- make sure anyone who can heal is looking out for the main healer. The add is TnS other than the fears, just a lot of HP to go through, and all adds are immune to stuns and disarm; they deal shadow damage if you want to base a defense on that.
Stage 3:
Once again, burn her down. SHIELD BASH THE RENEW.

The Black Knight:
The Black Knight encounter begins with some dialogue. Use this time to get your party further away from him than you are. A real nice convenience to note is that his threat rolls over in between stages.
Stage 1:
After he kills the announcer, begin spamming taunt on the Black Knight. Pop Bloodrage a few seconds after he lands so you will have energy to slam/devestate once he starts attacking you.
Pop disarm right off the bat, but not more than once during stage 1, you'll want it for stage 2.
Stage 2:
As his threat rolls over onto you anyway, and he spends the first ~5 secs summoning adds, don't worry about fugly just yet. Go arounds collecting up adds while keeping Black KNight as your target -- just cast Demo Shout/TC as you run around in the cast area. Once you've collected as many as you can, get back to the knight, establish some threat, and then pop Challenging Shout. (You ought not to have had to used this yet, and something to note is that the cooldown will be done once you run this again) Shockwave all the adds, single target the Black knight. Taunt any adds that run away, however dont directly attack them. You should have overhead health bars displayed, and start moving once you begin to see the explode. a tank can eat their 3k explode and altogether deal about 25k damage (I think there's about 8 adds). You might be able to eat it, but melee dps can't. move the black knight when adds begin casting, disarm him, kill him (sort of).
Stage 3:
In his lich form, the BK is immune to disarm, so don;t worry about it. His melee attacks also become a lot of magic, so armor mitigation won't do you anything here, nor will demo shout. Use spell reflect, i haven't proven that it works, but im pretty sure it ought to work much like the last boss in UP does. Burn him down, kill him.

Hope this has helped you guys, and I promise all the work is worth it. There's some really nice tank gear in here, and the drop rates are actually rather good.

Praetorianis, Horde Warrior
Onyxia

Comment by 247577

Comment by 441551

until now Crusader's Coliseum(Trial of Champions and Trial of Crusaders) are the best instances at all and they drop cool epics and armor tokens...

Comment by 485438

lol the stuff u want from toc hc never drop when u need it... it only drops when u have better BP

Comment by 332727

Tip to all tanks: Tank the bosses near the entrance portal

It gives time to healers (if ever they die) to come back and get a instant cast heal on you to put you up a little. It could be a total life saver.

Comment by 496916

quick question, do you if you are lvl 80 do u need to be geared or can you do it with just blues and greens?

Comment by 499501

Anyone notice Highlord Tirion yells: Go now and rest; you've earned it. Oblivion refrence ? haha

Comment by 164730

As far as I can tell, Regular Trial of the Champion requires a gear score rating on 890 in order to unlock it with the new Dungeon seeking system.

So for all those new 80's wondering why you can not instantly join it try buying a few pieces off your servers AH that are a high item level and see if you can get it unlocked then.

Comment by pandaren

how much hp would u say a tank needs to start tanking this place on regular?

Comment by phoi

Did it get a serious buff for 3.3?

*edit* heroic

Comment by Wolke

Could I tank this ini on heroic with this gear?

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Bloodscalp&n=Wolke

Comment by Nari

In what level you can use LFD to join this? At least it is not possible at 78

Comment by 253592

FWIW

Just 2 manned with MS war Holy pally.

Comment by hogue

It seems final boss phase 3 damage lesser if you closer to boss. Had very bad times as warlock or hunter dying or finishing near death standing in 10-20 yards range. By standing near boss finishing combat with more than 80% health.

Comment by Bigghammer

Tirion's statement at the end "Go now and rest, You've earned it." is a reference to The elder scrolls 4:oblivion as this is the statement the announcer says after every successful match.

Comment by Hoochie

You need lvl 75 to enter the instance (nonheroic ofc).

Comment by 426498

Is this the only instance without critters?

Comment by Shaitana

Highlord Tirion Fordring's dialogue at the end of the fight is almost exactly the same as the Arena Announcer's in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Fordring: Go now and rest; you've earned it.

Announcer: Leave the arena now and rest; you've earned it.

Just thought it was interesting.

Comment by 544891

OMG OMG i just realized that at the end of the dungeon tirion says : "go now and rest, you've earned it!" Easter egg from oblivion's arena

Comment by 290784

Requires an average ilvl of 164 to queue for normal mode in the dungeon finder.

Comment by yhtomitus

Don't look at the loot tab for the items from the Champion's Cache and the Confessor's/Eadric's Cache as it is not a complete list, go to the page of the Caches instead as it contains a complete list.

Comment by nintendorichard

I don't think this is soloable. I tried to solo it on my Level 85 mage with gear from Heroics, but unfortunately the Argent horse only has 50K HP. In the jousting phase, I easily defeated the three packs of the three champions, but when the three grand champions came, I couldn't beat them. They hit me for so much damage in very little time, and if I tried to back off, they would instantly come at me with a Charge. I also tried to kill them on foot, but they kept charging me and stunning me, even with my mirror images up. Shame, Trial of the Champion is one of my favorite instances in WotLK.

Comment by Keiser

Soloed this on Heroic as a Protection Paladin.

Grand Champions, Phase 1:
Use charge to get from mount to mount. You will effectively get one charge and one spear throw out of each mount before needing to get a new one. By doing this you should be able to keep your primary target at zero armor and dealing at least 14k damage per charge (1 armor). I got all 3 Champs to < 5% hp one at a time then took them all out at once.

Grand Champions, Phase 2:
Warrior, Mage, Hunter. I used Resist Aura for the mage and Seal of Insight. This is the only part I died on, just because I didn't want to pop Lay on Hands with mortal strike on me. I then came back and took them out by popping all cooldowns. After Guardian, Ardent Defender, Divine Protection, AND Lay on Hands, I managed to get the warrior down with about 35% health left. From there it was cake and I gained more life than they dealt.

Eadric:
Easy. Seal of Insight. Occasionally you'll resist his stun and can throw the hammer back for a free 15k damage. I also bubbled out of one and got the hammer as well. His hammer does hit hard if he gets you, so I offset that by casting one Divine Light each time he does his Radiance.

Black Knight:
Seal of Insight.
Phase 1: Cleanse diseases. Faceroll.
Phase 2: I popped Guardian and slowly backpedaled while using Hammer of the Righteous to kill the adds slowly. Holy Wrath can give you a moment of reprieve while his adds are stunned.
Phase 3: I saved bubble in case his stacking debuff became a problem, I could wipe the stack. It didn't. I ended the fight at an 18 stack with 94% health.

Yay for 3 Champion's Seals!

Comment by Yairdv

im an arms warr lvl 79, which gear, should i get 2 enter ToC?
i got lvl 153 gear, and i need 180

Comment by 725641

Just did this solo as a Blood DK, didn't realize it wasn't on heroic till I was done with the jousting though, so only did it on normal so far. If I try heroic sometime then I'll post the results.

The hardest part is the jousting though. You can try to get off as many charges and spear throws as possible before getting knocked off, just stay near the edges where more mounts are so you can hop back on another one. At first I focused on colosus till he was dead, but the problem with that is they'll get back on another mount with a bunch of health. So instead, get each one down to just a couple hits from dead, then finish them all off at the same time. As a DK, when you get knocked off your horse you can pop Icebound Fortitude and that will prevent them from knocking you down, you can do quite a bit of damage on foot before IBF wears off, then hop on another mount. Also if they're wearing you down on foot before you get another mount, IBF plus death strikes will fill you back up easy.

Comment by hascat

Tried to solo this, but I couldn't get past the jousting portion. The mobs would despawn whenever I tried to hop to a new mount. I also tried dismounting, then mounting another one, and the same thing happened.

Comment by ibroadfo

The mobs would despawn whenever I tried to hop to a new mount.

Still happening as of 4.1. Shame, I could have shaved a day off my tournament dailies!

Comment by Flowermuffin

I did actually manage to solo this in 4.1 the jousting by far was the most difficult and time consuming part. I would run to a wolf mount(horde) when I was close to my current mount dying. I would target one first and focus on her until she was down, then I would make sure she was stunned on the ground. Then I would get another down to where the first kill was and made sure they were close together trampled. I focused down the last one near the other npcs and kept those trampled while killing the last target. Took a bunch of tries but I finally got it down! It IS solo-able but takes a bit of effort, after the jousting part it's cake. (Blood death knight 355 ilvl)

Comment by NissaR

Mobs despawning when getting new mount still :(

Comment by CleonanTehGnome

A quick question:

Can you farm Normal difficulty for Champion's Seals?

Comment by 558628

Equip a lance, jump on mount, start the event, then jump off of the mount. You can kill the first three groups of mobs very quickly while dismounted and then jump on a mount for the champions. I can't beat the champions though lol.

Comment by CalaelenDT

Just a heads-up for those who were a bit confused as I was, reputation from the boss' isn't awarded after each individual boss is defeated, but the reputation of all 3 boss' will be added up and awarded at once after the Black Knight has been defeated.

Trash mobs will instantly give reputation upon death, if applicable.

Comment by Crieve

Solo'd this whole instance on Heroic on my Prot / Fury Warrior. I even recorded it: h ttp:// www. you tube.com/ watch?v=Co6HqnOrHLQ

Comment by ntzoid

The following worked fine for me for the jousting phases in Normal and Heroic:

Groups phase: Just use charge and clear one opponent at a time. Switch mount just after clearing a group. It will not reset if you do it at this time.

Champions phase: Use shield throw, charge and switch mount. Do this repeatedly and be patient cause it takes some time.

Hint: You don't need to dismount first to get a new mount. You can jump from the wounded mount to a new one.

Comment by PilsnerDk

Solo'd the place as a Blood DK.

For the small mount phase, just go in without a mount and kill them, they're very weak and don't do much damage. It's more trouble than it's worth to mount up for them.

For the big mounts, I started out on foot, and killed one of them first. It took ages, but I was able to stay alive with self-healing. IB gave a stun-free window to get healed up and get some damage in. When one of the mounts are dead, you MUST mount up, or you won't be able to trample him when he gets up and starts walking towards a new mount. From here, it's a nightmare of coordinating dps, defense, getting new mounts, and most importantly, trampling. It took me 30 minutes in total!

The rest of the dungeon was a piece of cake. :)

Comment by TheRealLink

You can grab a new mount in the beginning battles after each group of 3 mobs is dead. If you're dismounted though, you have to try to beat each group on foot. The next group up will wait for you - unless you are on foot or close to the center area then they'll automatically attack. You can grab mounts repeatedly in the champion encounter though. Haven't beaten it yet.

Comment by rottenzombie

A word to the wise: do not even think of soloing this place.

The mounted combat part has became extremely buggy, the control is very unresponsive, there is a ton of los issues, and the bosses would often get stuck and evade, or stop chasing you and just stand near a mount.

I soloed this place often a couple patches before, but now it has became an absolute nightmare. Just save your time and don't bother with it until blizzard remembers to fix it (very unlikely).

Comment by Thyra

My advice: don't try to solo this unless you're a blood dk that is willing to spend a lot of time and effort to get past the first boss (the 3 guys with their mounts).
I tried it with a paladin (retribution and protection - item level ~407) and it didn't work. I tried to change mounts as fast as possible, because they (= your mounts) die really really fast since you're not able to get 3 stacks of this defensive shield until they attack you.
Trying to kill them without a mount will result in a slow death because of their stuns. They hit for 4-5k on plate (non-tank).

I managed to defeat one of the mounted guys with extreme mount hopping but even if you managed this, you have to pay attention. The defeated guy will crawl to a new mount after a short period and if you can't stop him immediately, he will start to regenerate life on his mount and all the pain starts again. Don't try to leave your mount with this action button, the mobs despawned and I had to start the event again.

In my opinion it's not worth to spend so much time for 3 champion's seals. If you need them so badly, ask friends to help you.

Comment by 962803

finaly solo whit my priest after 2h 1boss:)

Comment by zingar

its not that bad. i actually got it on my first try. just dont worry about finishing them off at first.
start by getting one to like 5-10k hp then work on the next and then the last one
when you get all of them with low hp then you can worry about finishing them off.
also dont bother about casting shield go 100% offensive but of course make sure to always be close to fresh mounts

Comment by arrianna

Can anyone offer advice please?

I am trying to solo with lvl 85 hunter. In the jousting my best strategy is to dismount for the three bosses and take their health down then remount. However when I have done that the bosses stick to the perimeter at different points of the arena making it impossible to take them all down at the same time.

Comment by Esploratore

I'm surprised no one posted about this, now that we solo this one: as a tauren race, if you wipe you CANNOT run back inside the dungeon, the entrance is too small. I had to get resurrection sickness and 150 gold repair bill the first time it happened.

The second time I got quite annoyed, remembered that in a wipe in BH (annoying but useful), sometimes I ressed in the middle of tol barad, at the graveyard.

Only problem was, you cannot take portals when you are a ghost, BUT wintergrasp is also a non-instanced battleground, so I flew there, tried a graveyard at north of it, probably sunken ring, but couldn't climb it, so went to eastpark and ressed, no mass repair bill, no resurrection sickness.

Still takes a while, but if it happens, better than doing nothing for 10 mins + getting 150 gold repair bill!

Except this, soloed as a blood dk around 380 dps item level at heroic, incredibly easy except the dismount fight, which took me 25-30 mins; last boss I wiped on purpose a few times, till I managed to solo the achievement, bloodworms kept failing.

Soloed now as a fury warrior, 392 dps item level, always at heroic, the dismount fight is very annoying, but as fury you have 40 sec cd for heroic leap, plus you can wear a shield, so if they knock you down you can take a bit less damage; also stay in defensive stance for even less damage. I also used a pvp trinket, but was useless. The champions were very easy as fury dual wield, like 66% hp left and didn't even use enraged regeneraton; eadric the pure was also easy, just nuke, 90% hp left, didn't use enraged regeneration.

The black knight was much harder; first phase I lost some hp, second phase I lost 80k, had 4k at last phase and he one-shotted me.

You can bandage in between phases, but didn't want to use them as these are easy fights compared to even just 70 raids.

So retried, this time I went in defensive stance, using a souldrinker raid finder, a 378 shield, lost more hp than before on p1, a bit less on p2, after enraged regeneration I still had 100k or so, and in the last phase he has no adds, all melee damage, so it was very easy to kill this time.

Comment by 716987

How to Solo the Champions Mounted Phase
I've been soloing this on Heroic for a week or so now, and I think I have all the quirks of the champions mounted combat phase figured out. It usually takes me about 10 minutes.

A key technique here is to know that you can quickly press 2 then 3 in rapid succession to both throw a lance and charge on one global cooldown. I just quickly roll my fingers - 2,3. I'll cal it 2+3 but you don't actually press them together, just very quickly - 2 then 3.

Be prepared to bust out any and all tricks to stay alive if you get knocked off. As a lock, I use Soulburn+Healthstone if I get low and set up a portal ahead of time near a two-wolf station to escape quickly.

At first, you will have all 3 rirders on you. Stay near the mounts because they can knock you off fast. As soon as you get down about to 50%, switch mounts to be safe. The riders will leash to the corner and reset. Use this time to get some distance, then as soon as they make a sound or move, press 2+3 to double-hit one. You'll want to focus on one rider at a time. It helps to focus target them so that when you lose target as you change mounts you can quickly get it back. You should have time to at least 2+3 then 2 or 1 if you are in close range before having to switch mounts again, and more time for actions as you pick them off.

Once the first rider is down, it is important that you DO NOT fall off your mount during this time. They will frequently bug and just sit there unable to be hit if you are knocked off now. You should be safe to switch mounts while one is down, but I try not to just in case. Just ride away and spam 4. Once the first rider gets up, walks back, re-mounts, and comes after you, switch mounts to make him leash. He will now be stuck in that corner the rest of the fight, no need to keep them trampled.

Move to a new corner with the remaining riders. Repeat this process until you have knocked off all three riders and have them each tied to their own corner.

Now get a fresh mount and approach the first rider. They will probably be at full health again. Stand back and you should be able to charge them without actually moving now. They will run at you but leash back quickly. Use a 2+3,2,2 rotation to lower their health, but DO NOT get them below 5000 HP or they will fall off and you'll have to start over. Get them as close as possible to 5000, keeping in mind that throws do 2000 and charges do 20,000 against zero shields.

Try to lower their health as quickly as possible, because each time they evade they all regain some health. Get a fresh mount sparingly, as close as you can shave it. Move from rider to rider, getting each down to 5000-8000 HP. You might have to do a couple twice. Once you have them all lowered, run from one corner to the next, doing a 2+3 to each to make them fall off. Move quickly. If all goes well, you should get them all down at once and dismount automatically yourself. Congratulations! On to the rest of boss fights which are relatively straightfoward.

Comment by 989407

Been going here a few times within the last week together with a Warlock (I am Priest), the whole instance is easily duoable. Except, it has a lot of bugs that can make you have to restart everything over again. For example:

When killing the 3 x 3 weak riders, it seems that if duoing, both can't switch mount towards the end of the phase without the instance being reset. This happened 3 times. Everything would just vanish, making you have to talk to the guy in the middle to start over.

The 3 stronger riders, sometimes one of them bugs and simply lays on the floor with full health, not moving or doing anything. No matter how many times we tried to down the other two, nothing happened.

In these cases we just ran out of the dungeon and restarted. Some small tactics we use:
First phase with 3 x 3 riders: Just run around and charge them, getting them down one by one. Try not to switch mounts as you might have to restart cause of bug.

Second phase with 3 riders: We mark them with Skull, X and Star, killing them in that order. The person who has aggro runs around in a circle near the edges, ready to switch mount when low on health. Throws in a shield breaker if there is a chance. Other person keeps charging and throwing shield breaks on the current target.
When they get unmounted, they start heading towards another horse. Get all 3 of them down and they'll be on horses and at low health. Kill them off roughly at the same time and you'll move on to the next fight.

The fights that follow are very simple. Just kill them with whatever means you have. As I am a healer the rest of the fight is super easy.

Hope this helps someone, have fun in the instance! :)

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