Trial of the Crusader? Yes please!

Alright so no doubt by now most of us have read up on the new 5 man raid, Trial of the Crusader. (If you haven’t you can check it out here, at wow.com. but be aware it does contain spoilers). The thing is, what are everyone’s first impressions?

I’ll tell you mine:

I think it’s awesome.

For anyone that has a new level 80 (which I am on my way to attaining), this instance offers the perfect bridge from quest greens to raid viable gear, without having to grind naxx for multiple weeks. The normal version drops Heroic / Naxx 10 level loot, and the Heroic I can only assume drops gear of a greater ilvl than that (Confirmed, it drops ilvl 213 gear, the same as Naxx 25 bosses not including Saph and KT). This means that after just a few days of running both versions of this instance, one could easily hop into a naxx 25 raid to finish out gearing up your character. However, if said raid is requiring achievments for entrance….well….good luck with that…

Anyway, some actual mage related stuff. You may be wondering what sort of loot drops from this instance that will be beneficial to us fireballin, arcane blastin, ice lancin folks. Well, all I could dig up so far in terms of loot was the gallery available at wow.com, but there’s still some good information. Check out some of this nice entry level raid gear available from a simple non-heroic run. An awesome belt, A great neckpiece, and some sweet gloves. All of this is yours for the taking, my fellow mages. Just go out and get it.