Phase 2 of Wrath of the Lich King Classic brought us the opening of the Argent Tournament up in Ice Crown. And, as I noted previously, I was all in on that, and somewhat surprisingly so since it was something I ran to its extremes back in the day. I keep running those dailies.
Don’t forget to put on the lip balm first!
Or, rather, I kept running those dailies.
I went out there almost every day and did the whole load of dailies
The list of all the solo ones
The thing is, there is an end goal for some of the dailies. Once you do your tournament initiation, then you go fight for each of the races of your faction to become a champion of each. It takes five days to become the champion, and there are five factions, so at the end of 25 days of dailies you get to the end of the last city and get a new achievement.
Champion of the Alliance
And then, that is it for the faction dailies, which are four of the eight daily quests you can get in the phase 2 version of the Argent Tournament.
That leaves me with four daily quests, three of which are solo and which I run through pretty quickly. There is a fourth quest, which involves slaying Chillmaw, and elite dragon that floats around in a corner of Icecrown.
Watching Chillmaw circle
I have some vague memories of being able to solo Chillmaw and his three helper NPCs back in the day. But I must have been much better geared or more talented back then, because right now he eats me up pretty quick if I try to challenge him.
So when I am doing the dailies I grab that quest and hang around where he spawns to see if I can find a group to work with. That can be pretty hit or miss. Sometimes I find somebody eager to help, sometimes I am hanging around alone.
I did try using the group finder interface that Blizz put into Wrath Classic. A good idea in concept I suppose, but not very effective in practice. I have yet to have anybody take me up on a group I have formed, and the ONE time I found somebody else who had setup a group, I couldn’t join because they were full.
I suppose that the group filled up proves that there is somebody out there willing to join… and who knows about the group finder. But it has yet to work out for me. I think our server might be a bit low on the population scale.
Now, if we were in phase 3 of Wrath Classic, with the rest of the Argent Tournament available, I would have an additional series of dailies to work on, the set that unlocks once you are champion of your faction. But phase 3 is somewhere in the distance. People are still doing Ulduar regularly if the LFG channel is any indication.
Also, I did find it odd that you cannot post in the LFG channel unless you have created an advert in the group finder. I guess that is a feature, but it does complicate what was once a fairly straightforward operation. Hey, come help kill a thing, it will be quick.
So I continue to pile up the currency from the dailies. I have bought a couple of the gear upgrades, but it is the Argent Hippogryph I am saving up for.
The Ancient Gaming Noob 
If you don’t turn in the quest for 25 marks on the faction champion dailies to become champion of that faction, you can continue to do the dailies for them. I’m doing that to pick up some extra rep.
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I remember thinking the Argent Tournament was a silly idea, but once I tried it, I was hooked.
There is a lot of old-school Blizzard detail there, like a Druid who goes around encouraging the saplings they planted to grow.
And the quests, while repetitive, are interesting enough to not feel tedious.
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Huh, I’d forgotten all about Chillmaw, but now that you mentioned his name, I remembered that one of the first posts on my blog was about how I thought Chillmaw was a great piece of group content at the time.
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