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“Most of the tournament’s competitions require competitors to master the command of a mount in battle. In order to familiarize you with mounted combat, we’ve put up training dummies all over the northern part of the tournament grounds. Visit the stables outside the pavilion, equip your lance, and mount up on the Quel’dorei steed.
Familiarize yourself with the tactics available to you and use them to defeat the three different kinds of training dummies.”
-Scout Shalyndria
Strike a Melee Target with Thrust 5 times, use Shield-Breaker on 2 vulnerable Ranged Targets, use Charge on 2 vulnerable Charge Targets and then return to Scout Shalyndria at the Argent Tournament Grounds. If you lose your lance, you can get another from any of the Lance Racks near the stables or the Silver Covenant Pavilion.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
You will receive:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: Galathia Brightdawn (Horde) or the equivalent Alliance NPC Scout Shalyndria – Faction tent, Argent Tournament Grounds, Icecrown
Objective: Mount a faction steed and defeat 3 Argent training targets (Melee, Ranged, and Charge) using the jousting abilities you learned in the Mastery quests.
Quick Facts
Walkthrough
This is a combined practice exercise using all three jousting techniques from the Mastery training quests. Equip a lance, mount your faction steed, and complete three objectives in any order:
All three target types are located in the Aspirants’ Ring at approximately [72, 19]. After defeating all three, return to your faction tent and turn in.
Efficiency Tips
Explore Icecrown’s hidden easter eggs, lore mysteries, and connections across Warcraft history in Vikstone’s Icecrown Chronicles, along with the complete quest storyline.
Vikstone's War Journal“In order to familiarize you with mounted combat, we’ve put up training dummies all over the northern part of the tournament grounds.” Then Scout Shalyndria added the line that told me most about the place. “If you lose your lance, you can get another from any of the Lance Racks near the stables.”
They keep spare lances in racks. Somebody planned for aspirants dropping them.
Thrust five times on the melee dummy with the guard stacked, because that one hits back. Shield-Breaker into two of the ranged targets, neither of which will hold still with its guard down for anybody. Then two charges, the steed at a full gallop before contact.
“Well done, Vikstone. Mounted combat is often hard to pick up for those accustomed to fighting on foot.”
She was being polite.
Three days of dummies that stand where you put them ends the moment Taelis makes the arrangements, and a rider who does not is waiting at the other end of The Aspirant’s Challenge.
