TheWoWDBJust because you CAN do a quest alone, doesn't mean you HAVE to. Grouping up helps with killing the Commanders, but it also helps with just completing the quest. If there are 5 separate people, they have to wait for a total of 25 lieutenants to spawn, and try to beat the other guys out on tagging them first. If they all form one group, you just need to kill 5 lieutenants, don't have to try to get in a "fast first shot" and can go around and pick off the scouts that are pestering everybody else.
Pro tip: grouping does not give you cooties.
Quest
Battle Before The Citadel
Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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For the record, this version of the quest is specifically for Alliance 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:
- for Horde Death Knights
- for other Alliance
- for other Horde
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:
- Darnassus
- Exodar
- Gnomeregan
- Ironforge
- Orgrimmar
- Sen'jin
- Silvermoon
- Stormwind
- Thunder Bluff
- Undercity
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.
Teamwork works here, even across-faction. I saw an Alliance having trouble with a Commander and helped by standing back and throwing Shield Breakers at it. After he died, the Alliance helped me against a Commander.
If you can keep his shields down like that he's cake.
At a glance
Battle Before The Citadel is an Alliance-only quest for level 25-30. It rewards 2 reward items, 2 reputation rewards, 4,100 experience and money.
Quest facts
LevelLevel 25-30
CategoryTournament
Quest ID13864
The client quest POI data records no map location for this quest, so no map is shown.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13864))
Requirements
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
Description
As some crusaders prepare for the tournament, they have sent others to make an assault on the enemy's stronghold of Icecrown Citadel. In the Court of Bones in southwestern Icecrown, a few brave crusaders have set up a forward camp on the southern side of Corp'rethar. Equip your lance and mount the stabled campaign charger at the camp, then destroy the Lich King's commanders. Do not fear the masses of boneguard footmen, {name}, for they can easily be trampled under your horse's hooves.
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Choose one of these rewards:
Money10 gold50 silver
Experience4,100 XP
ReputationKnights of the Ebon Blade +250, The Silver Covenant +250
Reward details
Pick one of these
TypeMiscellaneous
Item level1
BindingBinds when picked up
“Used to purchase Commendation Badges from Tournament Quartermasters.”
TypeMiscellaneous
Item level1
BindingBinds when picked up
“A small sum of money awarded to champions for training or service to the tournament.”
Reputation: Knights of the Ebon Blade +250
Freed from the grasp of the Lich King, his former Death Knights have regrouped against him under the banner of Highlord Darion Mograine.
Reputation group: Wrath of the Lich King.
Reputation: The Silver Covenant +250
A militant core of high elves that rejects the admission of blood elves into the Kirin Tor. They've united under the banner of Vereesa Windrunner and joined the Alliance forces in Northrend.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Currency: Champion's Seal
Awarded for valiant acts in the Crusader's Coliseum.
Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.
Where this quest fits
Other quests with this name
This one: Alliance only · Death Knight · Level 25-30.
Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.