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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Patch 3.1 - Secrets of Ulduar - Game Review (PC)


By Emanuel Avram
Published: April 29, 2009
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To take full advantage of vehicles now that the siege engines and all that are proven to work properly - see Wintergrasp - a new challenge has been introduced for solo play. And about time I might add, don't get me wrong, raiding and doing the same daily quests can be fun to a certain point, but you can't always find the right amount of people or just get bored of the latter.

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This new challenge is called the Argent Tournament, nothing more and nothing less than a Jousting tournament where you get to be a knight just like in the movies. Equipped with a long lance, you will gain some new abilities while on your competition horse. Charge being the most important of course, a shield with up to three stacks, normal attack and a range throw to weaken your enemy's defenses.

As you complete daily challenges including jousting but some other things as well such as killing scourge for the Argent Crusade or kissing frogs to find a princess (yes, I know...), you go up in rank as a Valliant and eventually a Champion for the city you represent. Each of the major cities wants YOU to defend their pride and honor, and as a reward you gain reputation with them and the ability to buy several items in exchange for the Champion badges you earn.

In any way, you should be a champion with all your major cities if you complete all the quests for a month.

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The vehicles theme persists in Ulduar as well, albeit only for the first boss fun encounter, and some minor things here and there. As you start the instance, a couple of bikes are needed to pour tar on the ground, and catapults and siege engines are used to ignite it and lay waste to thousands of dwarfs and mechanognomes.

Many players have complained Naxx was too easy for them. Truth be told, I've wiped tons of times with pick up groups, but yeah, in a more organized environment it was way easier than Sunwell, of course. And still, Blizzard's future vision involves as many players enjoying new raid content as possible. Yes, Ulduar is more difficult, the 25 man version can be especially hard combined with hardcore modes for bosses, but I totally agree this should be kept accessible for everyone; it's a pity really to lose parts of the game because you don't have enough time to spend in it or just don't work well under a mean guild that does the job done.

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Along with the mentioned changes above, there are a few technical changes asked by players for quite some time now: dual spec for a character and more user interface tweaks. For the modest sum of 1000 gold, you can purchase dual talent: the ability to spec differently and change your spec off combat in 5 seconds. Hybrid classes benefit the most because they now can easily switch between tank, healing or damage dealer roles, but pure classes are also encouraged to maximize their dps and survivability in every situation by having a different PvP and PvE build. Or who knows, just have two PvP specs that you switch as you please. Anything goes.



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