Battle Before The Citadel

Something I noticed with my hunter that other hunters (and possibly other classes, such as warriors) should take note of. After doing some testing to confirm it, if you jump on your Argent Horse and you have Aspect of the Viper active, your Shield Break ability will only do 60% damage. For example, Shield Break was only doing 6000 damage vs. the scouts, instead of the 10000 damage it should normally do. I presume any other class that has a passive ability that reduces their damage such as a warrior's Defensive Stance, that the damage would also be lowered the proper amount. Just a small thing that can make a difference, especially against the commanders. Any other aspect (or no aspect for that matter) does regular damage. I did not notice any change in damage with the charge ability, so it appears to only affect Shield Break. I invite other people to corroborate my findings, and I would be interested to hear if it does indeed affect other classes.

For the record, this is the Alliance version of the quest, with the exception of death knights. Unlike other characters, who receive their Champion dailies from the [faction=1106], death knights work for the [faction=1098]. The other versions of the quest, which all share the same name, are:

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• for Alliance Death Knights
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• for Horde Death Knights
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• for other Horde
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Aside from faction and specific quest NPCs, the different versions are identical. The division makes sense in game, but it means strategies and comments end up spread across the Wowhead database. If the advice for this particular version doesn't work for you, you may want to take a look at the others.

For still more information, there's also the related daily "At The Enemy's Gates", which is the equivalent for Valiants. It too is divided into different quests, one for each city:

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• Darnassus
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• Exodar
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• Gnomeregan
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• Ironforge
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• Orgrimmar
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• Sen'jin
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• Silvermoon
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• Stormwind
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• Thunder Bluff
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• Undercity
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Keep in mind that as of 3.2, there is no overlap in mobs between the Champion and Valiant quests. Champions kill the [npc=34127], while Valiants kill the [npc=33438], [npc=33550], and [npc=33429]. They're just in the same general area.

Note for warriors: Use Battle stance because the stance modifiers apply to the mount . Battle Stance, Berserker Stance, Defensive Stance.

I found this out by killing the Boneguard Scout, in Defensive stance it takes me 3 shots to kill them where as in Battle stance it only takes 2. I don't recommend Berserker Stance because you don't want to take more damage while killing the Commander.