The Argent Tournament: Spirits & Converted Heroes

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From DoloriaRedentore del Flagello
Abilities of Redentore del Flagello

ChannelledPresa del Flagello

Frost Spells*
Esplosione Gelida
Cono di Freddo
Dardo di Gelo

*Frost Mage spells

From DoloriaInvitation to the Living


The skeletal Redentore del Flagellos actively stalk and attack the distracted Spirits one at a time. The Spirit under attack seems immobilized by the Scourge Converter's frost spells and does not take defensive action. The Spirito dell'Eroe Caduto is transformed into Scourge and is renamed a
Converted Hero Newly Converted From Doloria
Converted Hero. Each Converted Hero is bound with spells that take the visual form of weightless double chains. The fact that chains are needed at all suggests that the Converted Heroes retain some fragments of free will that make them a potential flight risk.

The transformation is immediate. The Converted Hero is mind controlled and reprogrammed and immediately runs south to join one of the fighting units controlled by a Scourge Banner-Bearer. Converted to Scourge, the Converted Heroes have enhanced individual fighting abilities and group buffs. They fight as a unit, swarming any attacker.

Chains Capable of Binding the Most Powerful of Prisoners







From Mike
Arch Druid Fandral Staghelm
in the Barrow Dens

Spells that Bind Like Chains
"Fandral Staghelm is bound by powerful spells. He won't be able to escape you, even inside the Emerald Dream." Attraverso il Sogno.

Part of a Mount Hyjal quest series that begins with Alleati di Smeraldo.

Arch Druid Fandral Staghelm: Pawn of the Emerald Nighmare Lord Xaviius. Responsible for corrupting the new World Tree Teldrassil. Imprisoned by the Cenarion Circle, the Twilight's Hammer seeks to free him to harness his power.
WoWWki: Fandral Staghelm






Running South to Join the Fighting Units of Converted Heroes

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From Doloria: Newly Converted Heroes Run South to Join the Scourge Fighting Units





The Converted Heroes that run South actually despawn at (46,49) Icecrown which is very close to the nearest fighting units led by Scourge Banner-Bearers (47:48). It's strange that they shed their chains before disappearing, but this programming glitch shouldn't break the illusion.Sometimes the spawning of a Fallen Hero's Spirit or Converted Hero is marked by yellow electrical charges.

From Doloria: Spirit of Fallen Hero Spawns

Mercy: Il destino dei caduti

Crusader SilverdawnArgent CrusadeFrom Doloria
Crusader Silverdawn

Crusader Silverdawn at the Argent Tournament gives Crusaders the quest Il destino dei caduti.



The Argent Crusade is hardly the first force to challenge the Lich King. Our enemy turns spirits of the fallen against us.

Their spirits wander the Valley of Fallen Heroes, southwest of the grounds and between Aldur'thar and the Ironwall Rampart. The area is littered with discarded soul crystals, used by the Scourge to control the spirits. Gather those soul crystals and use them with this Light-blessed relic to bestow the blessing of peace upon the spirits. They have more than earned their rest.








From DoloriaSpirit of Fallen Warrior — Undead but not yet Scourge. Cristallo d'Anima Scartato to the left.


Compare the charge given by
Enohar ThunderbrewFrom phaydre: 42282
Enohar Thunderbrew to adventurers in the Blasted Lands in I nostri amici caduti:

Based on what you're telling me, it sounds like there aren't many survivors... just restless spirits. The least we can do is give them their rest.
Head back to the Shattershore and vanquish the worgen ghosts that still remain. Doing so should release their spirit from this world and allow them to pass into the next.


The Relic & Discarded Soul Crystals





Light-Blessed RelicLevel 1Quest Item
Use: Consume a Discarded Soul Crystal to release a Fallen Hero's Spirit from its captivity in the physical world. Cannot be used on Fallen Hero's Spirits under the Grip of the Scourge.*6 Charges(10 yard range)*Cannot redeem Converted Heroes
Inventory Image

Discarded Soul CrystalLevel 1Quest Item
Max Stack: 10
Inventory Image

Discarded Soul CrystalLevel 1Quest Item
Use: Click on Discarded Soul Crystal to charge Light-Blessed Relic. Each Crystal creates one charge.
Appearance on ground

Tactics





praeditus said:
Once you have collected a crystal left click on a fallen hero (so you don't initiate an attack) and when you are in range, click on the Light-Blessed Relic.

ashadiel said:
If a Fallen Hero's Spirit has already been converted by a Scourge Converter, you will not be able to free it. However, if you can stop a converter from finishing its cast of Grip of the Scourge or use your Light-Blessed Relic before the cast completes, you'll be successful.

conformity said:
I can't be the only one who rushes to kill the converters when I see them running towards a spirit right?








Like angels

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From NorrecThe Blessing
From Doloria"My nightmare, is it finally over?"


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From Doloria"I'm so tired. Just let me rest for a moment."From Doloria"At last... now I can rest."







From Doloria"I can't hear the screams anymore. Is this the end?"From Doloria






From Doloria"It was awful...I dreamt I was fighting against my friends."









As each Fallen Hero's Spirit receives the Blessing of Peace, bright wings like those of an angel appear. The Spirit speaks of exhaustion, nightmares or combatting friends, often grimacing in the telling. (There are five randomized statements.) The bright wings fade leaving the blue aura, but the Spririt is no longer agitated. Each Spirit bows to an unseen presence and then vanishes.



Thaeru said:

As an Undead, I loved this quest because it fit my character's personality / story perfectly. My character is a kind and compassionate soul, and he wants to either cure undeath or release those afflicted (Forsaken excluded, he wants to cure them). Finally, a quest where my character is doing something that isn't against his code.







Can I get the armor?

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There is a good equivalent for the female Dark Ranger's armor available from Vanilla leatherworkers, although the background color is navy instead of black. However, the armor of the male ranger and druid is NPC only. The plate armor of the Valiance Expedition is still sold as level 60 PVP gear to Alliance Warriors and Paladins in Champion's Hall, Stormwind. The Horde equivalent is very different. The catch is that this armor is not transmogrifiable and replicas are available only to Vanilla PVP players who earned the achievement Cavalier Capitano / Legionario or higher.




















Armor of the Male Ranger

From DoloriaArmor of the RangerFrom Doloria
Armor Colors
From Doloria
Undead Archmage Maenius

Understated and elegant NPC only armor. Compare the armor of High Elf Archmage Maenius in Winterspring (54,58). The difference suggests the Ranger is not a mage.



















Armor of the Female Dark Ranger

From Doloria
Spirito dell'Eroe Caduto
From Norrec
Guardaboschi Oscura Lyana in Howling Fjord
From Vedera
Player wearing
Stormshroud Transmog Set

  • Contact a Vanilla Leatherworker to craft Stormshroud Armor (chest), Gloves, and Shoulders. The pattern for Stormshroud Pants is still available.
  • See Anne Stickney's piece on Dark Ranger Transmog in WoW Insider.


















Armor of the Druid

From DoloriaSpirito dell'Eroe CadutoFrom Miyari
Arch Druid Lathorius of D.E.H.T.A. in Borean Tundra (57,42)

Rare Model: NPC only armor


















Armor of the Valiance Expedition

From DoloriaArmor of Spirito dell'Eroe CadutoFrom Bouvi
Tenente Dumont
Comparing Armor: Spirito dell'Eroe Caduto and Tenente Dumont of Amberpine Lodge, Grizzly Hills (32,60)





















Valiance Expedition Plate Sets


Alliance Only
Level 60 PVP Gear

Lieutenant Commander's Battlearmor
Warrior
Elmetto a Piastre del Tenente Comandante
Spallacci a Piastre del Tenente Comandante
Usbergo a Piastre del Cavalier Capitano
Guanti Lunghi a Piastre del Cavalier Tenente
Gambiere a Piastre del Cavalier Capitano
Schinieri a Piastre del Cavalier Tenente

Field Marshal's Battlegear
Warrior
Elmo a Piastre del Primo Maresciallo
Spallacci Foderati a Piastre del Primo Maresciallo
Piastre del Primo Maresciallo
Guanti Lunghi a Piastre del Maresciallo
Gambali Foderati a Piastre del Maresciallo
Stivali a Piastre del Maresciallo

Field Marshal's Aegis
Paladin
Elmo Foderato Lamellare del Primo Maresciallo
Paraspalle Lamellari del Primo Maresciallo
Cotta Lamellare del Primo Maresciallo
Guanti Lamellari del Maresciallo
Gambali Corazzati Lamellari del Maresciallo
Stivali Lamellari del Maresciallo
Champion's BattlearmorWarlord's BattlegearWarlord's Aegis

Doloria:

  • These level 60 Alliance only PVP sets for Warriors and Paladins are not replicas and can be purchased for Honor points from Sergente Maggiore Clate, Legacy Armor Quartermaster, in Champion's Hall in Stormwind (76:66).
  • The PVP gear is Bind on Pickup (BoP) and class specific — your level 60 Death Knight can't see or buy it. This gear CAN'T BE TRANSMOGRIFIED.
  • The color of the rare quality Warrior armor is blue-gray and the shoulder sash is blue. The epic quality armor is gold and the shoulder sash is white.
  • The replica sets are available only to those that have the Cavalier Capitano / Legionario or higher rank from Vanilla.
  • The replicas are sold by Krixel Brillabotti in Area 52, Netherstorm (33:64). The pieces cost less than each as of Patch 5.4.8.
  • These replica sets are not sold at the Darkmoon Faire.


On buying replicas Wigglemonster said:

You need Cavalier Capitano / Legionario or higher under the old PvP system....This limitation was created so only characters with the feat of strength could wear this gear in transmog form because the actual gear is available for purchase with honor points to everyone. The transmog-able gear can be bought in Area 52.

Blue post on blizzard’s forum: Rationale









Blizzard: Alliance Vanguard CrestAlliance Vanguard is the combined forces of the Alliance in Northrend, spearheaded by the Valiance Expedition.
The Horde Expedition is an umbrella organization representing the united efforts of the Horde in Northrend, led by the Warsong Offensive.
See Guide: The Exalted
Blizzard: Horde Crest






Nearby Scourge Soulbinders Raise Corpses

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From Doloria: Vincolatore d'Anime del Flagello before Corp'rethar, the Horror Gate
Just South of the Converted Heroes, between the Conflagration and Corp'rethar (Horror Gate) Vincolatore d'Anime del Flagellos raise Nomade Varguls and Ghoul Devastatos. These beings have a very short existence above ground, often only two minutes. The Ghoul Devastato looks and sounds like the ghoul of a Cavaliere della Morte. The Nomade Vargul speaks in an English accent and has delicious things to say such as: "I will feed you to the dogs" and "Your entrails will make a fine necklace".

All three humanoids count as Scourge for the quest: Addestramento sul campo / Addestramento sul campo.

The Wanderer is a Vrykul who was defeated in a combat challenge at Jotunheim in Northwest Icecrown (44,25) and reduced to the status of a Vargul Scourge. The winners go to Ymirheim to serve as the Lich King's elite warrior caste, the Ymirjar. Players can visit Jotunheim in the quest Eliminare la concorrenza. The quest requires defeating four champions. It's part of a chain that starts with Chiudere un occhio... / Chiudere un occhio... and ends with a Ring of Blood style series of challenges in the battle pit of Valhalas (31,29) in northern Jotunheim — without the goblin fight promoter, high traffic and casual pick-up groups that made See Gurgthock forRing of Blood:BrokentoeFrom zenvirus 58275
Ring of Blood in Nagrand an event.














From Doloria casts spell to raise the dead
From DoloriaA giant is summoned from the earth
From Doloria emerges
From Doloria shouts, "I'll eat your heart!"






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The Vargul Wanderer has other choice greetings such as "Die maggot", but "I'll eat your heart" is a good place to end this Guide. Back to the Tournament to hand in L'addestramento sul campo di un Valoroso / L'addestramento sul campo di un Valoroso or Il destino dei caduti and the many dailies. Time to feast, joust and listen to the conjured strains of the "Slaughtered Lamb".

Acknowledgements & More



Credits for each screenshot and quote are linked to Names, instead of dates because comments and screenshots from the Wowhead Community are timeless as long as the quest is in the game. To go to the source, click on the Name, ignoring the tooltip that appears when mousing over a link.

Arthas and Elric


  • Arthas: Rise of the Lich King by Christie Golden (World of Warcraft)
  • Elric, The Stealer of Souls: Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Meliborné, Volume I, by Michael Moorcock, illustrated by John Picacio. This edition is published by Ballantine Books (Del Ray) and includes a foreword by the author. It contains the first Elric fantasy series, The Stealer of Souls and Stormbringer, published in the 1960s. Some concepts are used in the Arthas chronicle: a ruler without a realm, a runed blade that derives it powers from the souls of its victims. There are warriors, sorcerers and priests that invoke the assistance of a deity (old gods/Light) and fate and powerful externalities shape events. Did I mention the winged dragons, elementals, and steeds that gallop over/through water and air?


YouTube: Sylvannas sings "One More Soul"








Music from Silent Hill: Homecoming (game soundtrack)
Animation by Belon, battle.net eu Human Warrior (Zweites Wachbataillon)







About BBCode

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BBCode















From DoloriaHuge Boulder in Salvate il Caposquadra Oslow in Redridge Mountains

THOUGHTS ON CODING

I, Doloria, am not a programmer, and learned how to write BBCode for this Guide from these Wowhead Guides with detailed threads:
Posts:


Troubleshooting was slow. What to do when all of the text turned bold, or my Guide completely disappeared below the point I was coding, or the text below a table merged into it. Ugh. The answers were usually the same: I was missing an opening tag or a closing tag or the closing tags weren't in the opposite order of the opening tags. Along the way I starting creating Tooltips using icons and screenshots (based on wolfr's idea above). I figured out a quick way to resize screenshots and a method for stabilizing text in tables without setting the table width to 100%.
The code used for gold was: \text\ as in Nomade Varguls.


















From DoloriaEttin dei Canyon Sottomesso lifts huge boulder and savesCaposquadra Oslow
What I never figured out:
  • The code to insert a full size Wowhead map with existing pins for npc's, herbs or minerals etc. It always looked like a black rectangle (so I had to create pins in a blank map).
  • How to have a flush left heading and a flush right anchor on the same line without indenting the heading & adding a large space below. These effects happen using a table.
What I'd like to see:

  • Code for the WoWWiki Neutral symbol, because it's brighter and more recognizable than the Wowhead Neutral symbol \
  • Tooltips should not appear when mousing over a link to a Wowhead screenshot or comment.
  • Own visits to "My Guide" (accessed through the drop-down menu under the username) should not count as "views" of a draft Guide.
  • Add an icon for "Undo" in the editing menu bar.
  • Wowhead screenshots should show the width and height in pixels for the "Original".
  • Provide a simpler way to create a tooltip using a screenshot. See my Post on mouseovers. In this Guide I also used tables to create mouseovers for icons and screenshots.
  • Provide more color choices for map pins.
  • Provide a caption function to keep the credits close to the screenshot.
  • The gray in a minibox shouldn't be darker than the background when the border=0.
Advice:
  • Only have one Edit Your Guide window open to avoid saving the wrong one and losing code.
  • Copy your code to Word a few times during a coding session — before you "Save Changes". The Save function sometimes doesn't. Then de-select the highlighted code in the edit screen and close the Word doc to stop the Spellcheck loop. Write the date and time at the top of your code so you'll know if the Save worked.
  • When you upload an image, record the WoWScrnShot_######_###### number, a description, and the upload number at the end of http://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/####.jpg. Upload numbers are assigned as members upload images, so your numbers may not be consecutive.







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