Kidding. What I mean to say is, you may now refer to me by the name, Crusader Xanwryn.

The title which involves you becoming exalted with and having the right to represent either the Alliance or Horde in the Argent Tournament, as well as being exalted with the Argent Crusade, isn’t necessarily difficult. By that, I mean it isn’t difficult at all (like most activities in WoW), it’s just extremely tedious (another common attribute of WoW). Read on after the break!

For those who don’t know (and it’ll be no use to anyone who doesn’t play MMOs or has no idea what daily quests are), what this requires is mostly time. You start off in the Argent Tournament as an aspiring young tournament fighter, known as an “Aspirant”. You have access to 5 daily quests which will reward you with some gold and an Aspirant’s Seal (or two). For doing all five of the Aspirant dailies you will get roughly 8 of these seals, you need 15 of them to be “promoted” to a Valiant.

After becoming a Valiant you will then be given more daily quests, starting with your own faction capital and going down through all the rest of your race’s faction (Horde or Alliance). This is the tedious part. You will be given 5 daily quests again, and by doing all 5 you will get roughly 7 Valiant’s Seals, you will need 25 of these to become a Champion of the faction you did the dailies for. After getting 25 of these and doing a “simple” joust against a Champion, you’ll be given the right to represent that faction in the Argent Tournament (I say “simple” because I really hate the way jousting works in this game, as well as most vehicle-based combat).

You will have to do this 5 times, once for each faction. That is a total of 125 Valiant’s Seals needed to become a Champion with all of your faction’s capitals (remembering that you can only work towards Champion status with one faction at a time). The quests aren’t too difficult but they’re not exactly fun either. From Aspirant status to Champion status it would take roughly 20 days to complete this (if you did the daily quests every day).

This, of course, is just for earning the right to represent all of your faction’s capitals in the Tournament. To get the title which opens up a few new dailies as well as a quartermaster only available to those with the title, you will need to be exalted with ALL of your faction’s capitals as well as the Argent Crusade. The dailies do give minor rep to your faction capitals and if you’re already exalted with the Argent Crusade (this isn’t hard, buy their tabard and farm the hell out of dungeons until Exalted) you’ll get a few extra dailies that earn you gold as well as Commendation Tickets which can be turned into one of the faction quartermasters (in your factions Tournament tent) for a 250 rep bonus with that faction (you WILL need to be a Champion with the faction you wish to turn them in with, but you will get a small amount of rep for all other factions as well).

I find getting the rep the easy part. Just farm the Crusade dailies, as they’re not so tedious and aren’t as boring (except the one mounted one which I will never do. AT ALL) or even do starting quests if you haven’t. If you STILL need rep, you can then use the Commendation Tickets or farm Runecloth for 75 rep per turn-in at the faction capital city itself.

It’s taken me roughly 3 months to get this achievement because of how boring it is, that’s what makes it truly hard in my opinion. The quests themselves are easy but not that fun and you have to do the same 5 daily quests around 90-100 times. To put it bluntly, it’s fucking boring. I will NEVER do these dailies on ANY other character unless in passing, I will not go out of my way for the stupid title again (which really only fits my Paladin anyway). There are, of course, upsides to the title (which is why I did it). Here’s the upsides for me:

- I like achievements. When I got the title I got like 4 achievements in a row, so that was pretty cool. But this wasn’t my main concern, the point below was.

- There is a Quartermaster for those who have the title, only those with the title can buy items from this Quartermaster (this is no different from many of the faction Quartermasters in The Burning Crusade). Most of the items aren’t really noteworthy except for two:

– The first is the heirlooms, you can trade in 60 Champion’s Seals for one of the PVE shoulder or chest heirlooms. The weapons and trinkets cost anywhere between 75 and 95 Champion’s Seals, you can get around 9 of these Seals a day just by doing the dailies (13-14 total if you do Heroic Trial of the Champion everyday) and Champion’s Purses also have a chance of dropping them as well.
– The next one is the Argent Pony Bridle, an upgrade to the Argent Squire or Argent Gruntling. What this does is allows your little Argent Squire to be either a bank, mailbox or even a vendor once every 4 hours, for 3 minutes. It’s not useful for most occasions but as some might know, I’m trying to get an achievement that’s not exactly ez-mode to get.

For said achievement, it won’t replace an Engineer’s MOLL-E (which lasts for 10 minutes and only has a two hour cooldown) but not all of us want to respec into Engineering for the sake of one achievement (I’d probably do it for Jeeves though, lol).

Well that’s my long-ass post out, until next time!