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“The heart of tournament competition is mounted melee combat. Take this lance and mount the stabled Quel’dorei steed just outside the pavilion. Once you’re mounted, seek out Jeran Lockwood. He’s on the northern edge of the tournament grounds at the training area east of the Aspirants’ Ring.
Jeran will instruct you on how to use your defenses to keep you safe while attacking a melee target at close range.”
-Arcanist Taelis
Equip your lance, then mount the Stabled Quel’dorei Steed outside the pavilion. Speak to Jeran Lockwood and use Thrust 5 times on a Melee Target, then return to Arcanist Taelis at the Argent Tournament Grounds.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
You will also receive:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
Quest Giver: Arcanist Taelis (Alliance) or Magister Edien Sunhollow (Horde) – Faction tent, Argent Tournament Grounds, Icecrown
Objective: Equip a lance, mount a faction steed, speak to Jeran Lockwood, and use Thrust 5 times on a Melee Target.
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Vikstone's War Journal“The heart of tournament competition is mounted melee combat. Take this lance and mount the stabled Quel’dorei steed just outside the pavilion. Once you’re mounted, seek out Jeran Lockwood. He’s on the northern edge of the tournament grounds at the training area east of the Aspirants’ Ring. Jeran will instruct you on how to use your defenses to keep you safe while attacking a melee target at close range.”
A borrowed horse and a borrowed lance. I have not brought my own equipment to a single piece of work on this continent and I was not going to begin at a tournament.
The lance sits strange in the hand after a season of the Destroyer. All of its weight is out at the far end where a man can do nothing about it, and it does not want to be swung at all. It wants to be pointed, and then it wants the horse to see to the rest.
Jeran Lockwood was at the training ground with the whole lesson ready.
“Well met, warrior. I train Aspirants in the art of mounted close combat. Put up Defend and then use Thrust on a Melee Target.”
The target spins when you strike it, hard enough to injure the rider or the horse, which is why the defense goes up before the lance does and gets stacked and refreshed all the way through. Otherwise you come off it.
“Balance attack and defense. Thrusting at every opportunity and maintaining your layers of Defend as best you can.”
I put the defense up and thrust at the thing until he was satisfied. That is the only object in Icecrown that has ever come at me without wanting me dead.
Taelis had nothing to add. “Keep the words of the master in mind as you practice with the training dummies.”
The words of the master. He meant Jeran, who spends his days in a cold field teaching grown men not to fall off a horse.
A post that stands still teaches nothing about a rider closing at speed, and the dwarf running the far end of the training ground has been waiting to demonstrate Mastery Of The Charge.
