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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
So what I'm seeing here for us, is 10 encounters, two per week. And if we manage to defeat the Hard Modes in a few attempts we get better rewards for doing it... interesting.
Talk about staggered content though. :p. Looks like this will be a little side-thing to do alongside Ulduar.
Hopefully it will be good. The approach certainly seems interesting. Like an artificial block for those odd guilds that steamroll through content. I suppose it could be expected after Algalol. Certainly sounds like they're rewarding players for how well they play though so *shrug*.
As long as the five bosses are of suitably epic proportions then this should be good. Maybe we'll get a surprise update to one of the Dragon sanctums as well.
From a lore perspective it seems slightly strange though. The Argent Crusade throwing together a Coliseum and filling it with people to kill. Certainly suggests that they'll be another major raid dungeon before Icecrown as this does seem like a bit of a 'filler' as it's certainly not comparable to Yogg-Saron.
