This year, we see a new holiday sashaying onto the social calendar - Pilgrim’s Bounty! This holiday is an in-game version of  Thanksgiving Day – the latest one to fall prey to Blizzard’s increasing lust for content external to raiding and the general ’srs bsns’ of end-game day to day drudgery.

Achievements

Pilgrim is the meta achievement, for which you get the Pilgrim title and a cute [Plump Turkey] – emergency rations for Northrend! *grin*

• “FOOD FIGHT!”
• Pilgrim’s Paunch
• Pilgrim’s Progress
• Terokkar Turkey Time
• Turkey Lurkey
• Now We’re Cookin’
• Pilgrim’s Peril
• Sharing is Caring
• The Turkinator

The Quests

Each capital city gives a daily and a smattering of quests – each requiring, of course, items that the other capital cities supply.  Don’t make the mistake I made and go tearing off from the first one to get the ingredients asked for – buy pumpkins, sweet potatoes, and cranberries and buy plenty (I picked up 40 of each) as otherwise you’ll need to run back to get more when you (inevitably) get the follow-up quests

Spice Bread is a recipe you get from the cooking trainer. If you’ve already levelled cooking, chances are you have it!  It requires flour and spices, which the pilgrim vendors have.

Take extra, but don’t cook it! A lot of follow-on quests from the ‘craft 20 of x’ require you to create and take 5 of said item on to another city or bring extra. If you craft extra before you get that follow-up, you’ll have extra food floating about.  But fear not, there’s a use for that extra food!  For one of each created food item, and a vendor bought basket, you can create:

[Bountiful Feast]

For seven days, a very cheap, easy to make version of a fish feast!  Except, from the tooltips, it gives one more spellpower.  Hmm.

Pilgrim Clothing & Turkey Shooter

Pilgrim clothing and turkey shooters are available as rewards from the daily quests.  It’ll take at least two days to get all of the items you need to complete the holiday achievement (though a very fast two days if you managed to do them all before the first quest reset). Turkey shooters only have one charge so don’t waste them unnecessarily until you’ve got you achievement – then have fun creating random turkeys! Preferably not used on your main tank just as they pull.

You only need two pieces of pilgrim clothing for the achievement – the hat and any of the chest pieces.  the shoes are entirely optional.  Nice for completing an RP outfit, if your character actually shows shoes on their feet…

The Spirit of Sharing

10% extra rep bonus! This is a nice buff if you’ve not topped off rep gains – perhaps more one for alts, rerollers and late starters.  It seemed to work for me in Sethekk, too, so if you’re looking to get TBC reps topped off for achievements, you might wish to check that out.

Turkinator

Pain in the rear end of a quest if it’s busy.  for those with a spammable attack  you want a macro like:

/tar Wild /cast MOONFARESPAMLOLZ

and run around like a loony, hoping you can find enough turkeys.  This is possibly amongst the most annoying quests I’ve ever done – it’d be fine if it were 20 or even 30 turkeys, but getting 40 in a row when there are a bazillion others around?  Painful.  Hordeside, I found Venomweb Vale (recommended by a guildy then tested myself) to be the best place – loads of them, relatively closely spaced and less competition than other areas.  I wore my resto gear so that I could spam more moonfire – I ran oom too quickly in feral spec/gear.

Table Locations

• Thunder Bluff – At the bottom of the front elevators
• Orgrimmar – Right Outside the Gates
• Undercity – Within the courtyard, just inside the front gate
• Silvermoon – Out the front of the city, on the road towards the scar

• Exodar – In front of the city, within the ‘wall’
• Darnassus – Past the warriors terrace, inside the city
• Stormwind – Outside the gates, a little way down the road
• Ironforge – Outside the front door, to the left

Shiny New Holidays

I like the way they’ve done this Holiday – I was assuming that getting the Pilgrim’s clothing would be another grind of holiday tokens.  Giving them with the dailies was a nice touch – I’m guessing they decided to do this because the holiday is only one week long, so not giving the chance for people with less time to grind tokens of any sort.  The whole event takes around two days to complete, if you can find the rogues, so it’s not onerous but it does have a depth uncommon to some of the shorter holidays – a pile of silly crafting and ‘games’ such as food fights.

The Pilgrim’s Paunch achievement was the only quest I found a bit tedious - five of each food? Surely one piece of each would suffice.  I was a very fat moo, wibbling between one chair and the next! Let me tell you, riding a zeppelin on a full stomach is not fun!

Now they just need to find a holiday for august and we’ll have at least 1 event going on in each month of the year.

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I’ve continued my busy streak this week, tidying up loose ends:

Netherwing Exalted

I mentioned that I was using far sight to scout the Netherwing mines out for eggs – one time I managed to far sight outside of existance! I think I centred my far sight a little too high and ended up seeing the  mines from outside of the 3d-space.  Somewhat cool – I could see the crust burster mobs loller-skating underneath the ground.  As you can also see from this screenshot (randomly at the same time), Softi got her mount! Big gratz, Softimoo!

After spending about 4 days grinding eggs, and nearly giving up when it got to stupid-o’clock on the last day, a lucky streak of finds and drops brought me to the eggs I needed to grab exalted Netherwing.  I was so tired I knew I wouldn’t enjoy getting my ‘little ding’ there and then, so I played the delayed-gratification game and left the last egg until I logged in the next morning.

I’m pretty sure we killed this guy, but apparently he’s still hanging out in Black Temple, and now expecting the Dragonmaw Commander to bring him my carcass.  Oh well, sucks to be him.  *ahem* In all honesty, I really do miss Black Temple. Nostalgia is really setting in for ‘the good old TBC days’.  Loving my tbc-style netherdrake, too:

Hordeside Inclinations

Look, Ma, I’m a tauren! I sent a little note to a player who had a mulgore hatchling listed on the auction house – the second I’d tried – and asked if she’d be willing to trade her hatchling for any of the Alliance pets, as I have some seals spare, now.  I got a message back saying she was and only a few hours later was the proud owner of a [Mulgore Hatchling]! On Bloodhoof the horde-side pets are rarely going for anything under 5k gold on the Alliance auction house (and the neutral one!) so I was rather happy to be able to trade – I’ve set myself an amount for spending on pets and that was far and away more than my limit.

I have always been a Tauren at heart, and I miss my horde characters, so having both my kodo and hatchling is soothing to that side of me.  Tauren in spirit, if not in form.

Whelp!

After 15 levels of grinding whelps, a total of 3884 whelpling kills, I finally got one.  I honestly thought the bugger was never going to drop and had resigned myself to moving on if I reached level 50 without getting one.  Cue a great deal of squeeing and joy in guild chat (and real life…heh).  I don’t know if I will have the stamina to go back and try for the other two for a while, but the joy of grinding them far outweighs that of just buying them, so I will, no doubt, eventually subject myself to that particular grind again.

It’ll be odd to actually quest on my priest again – I’ve barely done any so far, just under 200 at level 47.  Outlands in 11 levels.  I think I can manage that…

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Children’s week follows hotly on the heels of Noblegarden this year – a double-whammy of eventful goodness.  Children’s week has fewer achievements than most holidays, but it has trickier ones and a whole pile of quests to do and some nice rewards for pet collectors.

Achievements

For The Children

• Home Alone
• Daily Chores
• School of Hard Knocks
• Bad Example
• Aw, Isn’t It Cute?
• Hail to the King, Baby

Not needed for the meta, but an available achievement:

• Veteran Nanny

As of last night, Home Alone was bugged and resetting all the time – I would expect that we’ll see a patch or fix for this soon if it’s not already been done since I went to sleep!

Bad Example requires several cooking-only items alongside a pile of vendor-bought treats so I whipped up a quick list of where each comes from.

Stormwind / Orgrimmar

Usually this ice cream is buyable from Shimmering Flats, but for the duration of the holiday there are vendors in Stormwind and Orgrimmar where you can purchase some ice cream!  You’ll also need this ice cream for giving to your old-world orphan so don’t throw any spare away! (it sells in stacks of five, like most of this food does)

• [Tigule and Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream]

Dalaran Vendor

Aimee, the high elf vendor near the northern bank in Dalaran sells these treats – the lovely cake slice comes from the Lovely Cake she sells – you get 5 pieces per cake you buy so you could share with a friend of take them all and send them to alts.

• [Lovely Cake Slice]
• [Red Velvelt Cupcake]
• [Dalaran Donut]
• [Dalaran Brownie]

Crafted

You’ll either need to craft these, get a guildie to make them, or buy them off of the auction house.  Personally I recommend not going to the auction house as, unless you’re lucky, delicious chocolate cakes will cost a fortune.  Happily for me, someone was selling the cupcakes for 1g / cake.  Extortionate, really, except for the fact others were selling northern eggs – which are required to make them -  for about 15g / 1.  A great place to farm small eggs for the chocolate cake recipe is just outside of Auberdine – i’m not sure if there’s a closer place for the horde (see below) but the moonkins here have a 90+% drop rate and are packed relatively close.

• [Delicious Chocolate Cake]
• [Tasty Cupcake]

Indigo:  Second, a little hint about the small egg farming: belf starter zone is full of dragonhawks with a 100% droprate, and about 50% chance that they actually drop 2.

Quests

Remember: All of the achievements require you to have an orphan out, do not complete the ‘Back to the Orphanage’ or ‘Warden of the <Faction>’ quests until you’re done with achievements as you will then not be able to take out your orphan any more!

Sephrenia:  You can give your orphans back to get your pet rewards. If you talk to one of the matrons again she will give you a new orphan to care for during the rest of the week. I tested it in SW, so is not just a rumour :D

Stormwind / Orgrimmar Quests

Stormwind Orphan // Orgrimmar Orphan

• A Warden of the Alliance // A Warden of the Horde
• Spooky Lighthouse // Gateway to the Frontier
• The Stonewrought Dam // Down at the Docks
• The Bough of the Eternals // Lordaeron Throne Room

Each of these is a visit to somewhere reasonably close to each faction’s main cities – having extra hearth cooldowns here is handy and the new 30-min cooldown will probably help a lot but if you don’t have this luxury then I reccomend:

Alliance: Start in Ironforge – > Fly to Thelsamar – Ride to Stonewrought Dam -> Fly to Westfall – Ride out to the Lighthouse -> Fly to Stormwind – Boat to Thelsamar -> Fly to Darnassus.  Don’t forget to pick up some ice cream for your orphan whilst you’re in Stormwind!

Horde: Start in Orgrimmar -> Fly to Ratchet- Ride down to the Docks -> Fly to Crossroads or Orgrimmar – Ride to the Mor’shan Rampart -> Ride back to Orgrimmar – take the Zeppelin to Undercity – Ride into the throne room. Don’t forget to pick up some ice cream for your orphan whilst you’re in Orgrimmar!

I suggest you save your hearthstone for once these are done, as you’ll get more quests which require zipping about the world:

• You Scream, I Scream… // You Scream, I Scream…
• Jaina’s Autograph // Cairne’s Hoofprint
• A Warden of the Alliance // A Warden of the Horde

If you got your ice cream on the way past Orgrimmar and Stormwind, the first should be easy.  For Jaina’s Autograph you can portal to Ironforge -> fly to Menethil and take the boat or, if you want to be lazy, portal to Gadgetzan (Caverns of Time) and fly there.  The final part requires you to return your orphan back to the capital city you got them in.

Shattrath Quests

Alliance Orphan // Horde Orphan

• A Trip to the Dark Portal // A Trip to the Dark Portal
• Auchindon and the Ring of Observation // Visit the Throne of the Elements
• Time to Visit the Caverns // Time to Visit the Caverns
• Jheel is at Aeris Landing! // Hch’uu and the Mushroom People
• Time to Visit the Caverns // Time to Visit the Caverns

These are all in Outlands – if you have an epic flyer, use that, if not, flightpaths are your friends.  It’ll take a little while as Outlands is pretty big but all of them are relatively easy.  For the Alliance, visiting the Ring of Observation, you need to take your orphan right up to the meeting stone to get credit.

• The Seat of the Naaru // Now, When I grow Up…
• Call on the Farseer

I’m not sure what they’ve done with the horde side quest since they took Mu’ru away – I know it used to have a follow up to the ‘visiting Silvermoon’ section, too, but I can’t find any information on that and I haven’t been on my horde character for a while now.  Any info from someone whose done it would be appreciated!  Once this is all done…

• Back to the Orphanage // Back to the Orphanage

Most of these are easy enough to fly around and, hopefully, by the time you get to ‘Time to Visit the Caverns’ your hearth will be off cooldown.  Remember you can portal directly to the Caverns of Time from Dalaran or you can go from Shattrath if you’ve got revered reputation with the Keepers of Time.

PvP

Child Soldiers…

Once again there’s some pvp in the event’s achievements.  I didn’t mind the other ones too much but the ones for children’s week are particularly obnoxious. I can only offer what I was trying for those who cannot get premades:

• AB: Either be lucky and get to the farm / stables first or wait until a flag is capped and you see all the horde run off.  If you’re lucky you might get a hordie / alli to ‘trade’ captures with you.
• WSG: This was the most painful for me – I was eventually ’saved’ from my plight of fighting 6 people for the return by a friendly tauren (Achuk?) who ran into our flag room, took the flag and dutifully waited to be killed.  I tried to return the favour but some people seemed intent on winning or something silly like that…  If you want to help the other faction you can run into their room, spam a /wait macro, grab the flag and then click the buff to remove it and drop the flag.  If they aren’t silly you can do this a few times for everyone to get their achievements.
• EOTS: Stand in the middle and ignore the pained cries from your teammates who’re not doing the achievements.  Thunderstorm is lovely here by the way.  Spell reflect is not! Hehe.
• AV: Either run down the bottom and hope you’re fast enough and get to a tower before someone else or stay up the top end and re-cap horde towers once they take them.  Otherwise, hope you get a friendly hordie who is kind enough to take the flag not one, but four or five times to let you all have a shot at taking the flag.  Roben, I salute you!

I think that Blizzard picked the wrong kind of things  for this achievement – they encourage bad play and I get the feeling that it will only frustrate pvpers to have a bunch of pve nubs come in and ruin their games just to get achievements done.  I know there are some pvpers who pve and vice versa but I would guess by what I seen last night that the pve-ers who care about achievements outnumber those who care about winning games…

On the up-side, as you may be able to see from my blog’s sidebar I  earned a few pvp-based achievements last night from these:

• Not In My House
• Storm Capper

Rewards

Title

For all of the achievements complete you get the title Matron or Patron.  It’s not a title I’ll be using but I guess it’s kind of cute and will probably be nice for some people on RP servers or for those who are guild Mums.

Reputation

Doing all of the holiday quests nets a tidy little packet of reputation for your faction’s cities.  If you’re not already exalted or can’t be bothered doing the argent dailies for rep, then make sure to do these quests and boost your rep!

Pets

The yearly pet reward for Children’s Week will be a welcome boost to many people’s collections – especially those like me who’re sitting so very close to 75 pets (i’ve had no luck with baby dragons and crocs nor do I have the MgT pet on Ava – chainging mains sucks sometimes, hehe).

From the Stormwind // Orgrimmar orphans:

• [Piglet's Collar]
• [Turtle Box]
• [Rat Cage]

From the Shattrath orphans:

• [Egbert's Egg]
  
• [Elekk Training Collar]
• [Sleepy Willy]

You could always take the [Curmudgeon's Payoff], of course, but 5 gold really is hardly worth it these days unless you’re really anti-pets.

As a small aside, if you have a warcraftpets account, remember to update it! (though the poor site is a little sickly at the moment).

Orphans

I still can’t get past hoping that they’ll add orphans for each faction.  It’d be nice for my druid to take a night elf child around and teach them about Darnassus and its alliance with the other nations, or a Tauren child for my horde druid, to show them why we must ally with questionable types!  I guess I just feel it’s a little odd than only four factions seem to have any children running about.

Replayability

This is something I like to look at with all events – is it worthwhile to do again, has it been updated?  Children’s week was updated last year and I had hoped they would add another set of quests this year for Dalaran (or the Oracles / Frenzyhearts).  With Noblegarden so close, though, and such a big content patch, too, I can’t blame them but I do rather hope they add something new next year.

Children’s week is rather odd in the fact that year-to-year the same rewards are available but you’re limited to two of six – or more realistically, you’re limited to two sets of one out of three.  This means that to get the full compliment of ‘items’ you have to re-do it each year.  I do like this to some extent – though, as a character who has changed mains twice now, it can be a little frustrating.  It does keep the interest in the holiday alive, though, and Children’s Week was one of the few events I always seen people participating in pre-achievements and pre-epic rewards.

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Noblegarden, the most underrated of holidays and the only one I’ve never managed to participate in! I am looking forward to experiencing the newly extended event but the fact I’ve not done it myself (and that few people have via the ptr as its testing phase was short there) will mean that some information may not be as entirely accurate as I’d like it to be.

Achievements

Meta:

• Noble Gardener (A) // Noble Gardener (H)

Sub-achievements:

• I Found One!
• Chocoholic
• Hard Boiled
• Spring Fling (A) // Spring Fling (H)
• Noblegarden (A) // Noblegarden (H)
• Shake your Bunny-Maker
• Desert Rose
• Blushing Bride

Two other achievements directly associated with the event, but not required to get the meta achievement for Noblegarden are:

• Dressed for the Occasion
• Sunday’s Finest

The achievement Chocolate Lover is also associated with this holiday but it is the prequel to Chocoholic and so will be gotten on the way to that achievement should you decide to do it.

Quests

Like most events, there aren’t a whole lot of quests which come with Noblegarden

Spring Collectors (A) // Spring Gatherers (H)

which lead to

The Great Egg Hunt (A) // The Great Egg Hunt (H)

Nothing much, but a small introduction and gives you an idea of how the event is run – like most holiday questlets.

Egg Hunting

Whilst eggs will be in similar areas to previous years (iIn the secondary starting areas such as Goldshire, Razor Hill and the like) they will apparently be more common and, no matter how many are trying to find them,  there will be available eggs (the first comment on this item references a blue post). Of course, even if eggs are constantly spawning as others are used there will still be a mad scrabble for them – I think I will probably make my way to Dolanaar because it’s inconvenient enough to get to compared to the other starting zones that it will hopefully be quieter.

Almost the whole event is based around egg collecting – they are the currency you need to buy items and, if you’re lucky, the items themselves so that you don’t need to buy them in the first place.   The currency itself is also used to do quests and is eaten up by some achievements – 100 chocolates alone for Chocoholic, so expect to be collecting quite a few.

Of course, with 3.1 items are now able to be sold back to the vendor for their purchase price in non-gold ‘currency’ within two hours of buying them.  This means that if you’re not bothered about keeping the items, but need to use them for achievements, you can buy the items, do the achievement and sell them back – so don’t do Chocoholic until after you’ve done all of your other achievements! *ahem*.

RNG

Unlike the other events so far, the RNG is mitigated by a system whereby you can buy the items if you do not find them in eggs – this means that people are not subject to not getting this section of  their “What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been” achievement due to bad luck.

Of course,  it wouldn’t be a blizzard holiday event without some form of RNG based luck so two achievements – Sunday’s Finest and Dressed for the Occasion – require you to find the items in eggs, not buy them.   Luckily, as mentioned, these are not needed for the holiday meta achievement but I would guess that this will still frustrate some avid achievement hunters.

Shinies

• [Tome of Polymorph: Rabbit]
• [Elegant Dress]
• [White Tuxedo Shirt]
• [Black Tuxedo Pants]
• [Spring Circlet]
• [Spring Robes]
• [Spring Flowers]
• [Egg Basket]
• [Blossoming Branch]

The first six come from eggs or from the vendor for chocolates, the last three come from the quests – though the blossoming branches can also be bought for eggs.  Blossoming branches can be used to help in completing achievements so make sure you don’t use them all up randomly until you’re done with ‘Hard Boiled’.

Shiny of the Event

I’m giving one item a spotlight here as I feel that it’s one of those little things which Blizzard has added to  the game which is just a nice touch – one of the things you can imagine started as a ‘wouldn’t it be kinda cool if…’.

[Spring Rabbit's Foot]

Wrath brought a plethora of new things for non-combat pets – it was the expansion which has really seen ncp’s go from being something not many people (except the dedicated few) wasted bag slots on to something which many people are interested in – even if only because of achievements!

Not only do pets have grooming kits, leashes, balls and the like, they can also act out little skits with other ncps – such as that between the Black Tabby and Stinker.  The pet from the Noblegarden event, whilst unassuming in its looks, is another step in that direction:

Noblegarden Rabbit Video

For those unable to view video’s or who just don’t want to – the rabbits, when brought next to others of their own kind, create little lovehearts, and erm.. the best word for it is ‘eject’ eggs into the surrounding area… which hatch into cute baby bunnies.   If that wasn’t enough, if one rabbit is then put away the remaining one’s heart will break – identical to the way the loved and heartbroken buffs looked during ‘Love is in the Air’.

The achievement ’spring fling’ is based around doing this, but I hadn’t quite expected much more than just bringing them near each other and pop, achievement, move onto the next… This is just absolutely awesome in my opinion – it’s a small thing but a nice detail which makes it more than just a fire and forget achievement and pet.

Reccomended Reading

Kaliope has a great Noblegarden guide which gives you tips on how to find eggs and get your achievements more easily!

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This week, when I have been bothered to play, (which isn’t much) I have been playing on my baby priest – Ahnara.  She’s spent six levels grinding red dragon whelps, with very little questing (around 3 quests which happen to be on my way to-and-from the whelp spot).  I have found my tolerance for grinding levels has grown and, even though I very quickly run out of rest xp, the extra 10% of rep from killing critters from my spiffy heirloom shoulders makes for rather reasonable xp per mob.  No luck with getting a whelpling yet, but the mobs are still green for another level so here’s hoping…

On hitting 30 I, of course, went to pick up my new mount – it’s so nice to be able to run the length of Wetlands that little bit faster – going between Menethil and the whelp grinding spot was the only tedious part of grinding there!  A lovely black stallion to go with with my Haliscan set (which I’ve thankfully not gotten sick of looking at yet).

I am enjoying the priest ‘experiment’ – as I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve never really been a cloth-caster player but playing my shaman as elemental has been a nice bridge to that – I’ve learned how to play ranged caster without being stomped into the ground all of the time.  Also, priests are hardier than I could have hoped – with shield, renew, piles of dots and the odd holy nova I have taken down about 5 same-level mobs.  I do have the advantage of extra hp through my twinky enchants, though (around 26 extra stamina overall at the moment) but I still feel more comfortable playing my priest than I had imagined I would.

Still, I’ve not hit the dreaded mid-30’s Stranglethorne borefest yet, so we’ll see how long I last! hehe.

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I started out writing this post as an observation on how players were interacting after 2.4, how the level of co-operation was going up a little and, hopefully, would continue to do so. Whilst I was thinking on it, though, I realised it had more than just the effects I had originally fixated on – thus I have decided to document at least a few of the changes I think 2.4 has had whether they are possibly fleeting or long lasting.

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The end of Big Bear Butt’s post from a few days back kind of struck a chord with me.

In the end, my biggest advice to you is; if you want to meet someone, you are not going to do it by solo questing. You are going to have to get out there and actually meet and greet, do what it is you are interested in, and chat with the other people who are doing the same.

It can be scary, I know.

In the past, I have been in the position of wanting to have enough friends to run the 5 man instances, wanting to be in a guild that raided the 10 mans, and wishing I knew where to go to find one.

But my mistake was that I did not enter the instances on my own. I didn’t take the initiative to go PUGing. I waited to be invited into a guild, expecting to then start doing a lot more group activity.

And the truth is, the core problem I had was that I was intimidated by doing the instance. The time I expected it to take, knowing that I was going to be committing myself to be in a single run lasting an hour and a half, with other people depending on me not to screw up, was a big looming scary wall.

His post was in regards to getting yourself a nice girl guild but was relevant for me as, although I’m in a nice, cushy, wonderful guild – their level of progression is way beyond my alts and not many of them are willing to run normal instances on a regular basis. Not five guildies at the same time anyway.

So, I got out there and did it. (Headings included for those who hate reading about instance runs – y’can just skip on past them.)

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Or, the cute and cuddly side of Horde-Alliance relations.

In mah time I’ve seen it all – Trolls tryin’ tae eat gnomes, Dwarfs kneecapping Tauren, all sorts of bad blood between the Horde an’ the Alliance but sometimes ye find yersel’ knee deep in Furbolgs wi’ an Orc at yer back and ye make do. Puts a different light on things, that sorta business.

Now, I’ve been on a pvp and a pve server and I’ve seen some pretty downright arse-hole-ish behavior between factions and, I admit, I’ve taken delight in killing off a gnome or two under my otherwise usually cuddly-care-bear Tauren guise. There is a divide in Warcraft – you pick sides and, as much as you may bemoan your own faction sometimes, they’re still a part of who your character is. Even the most ardent ‘I hate Alliance, we suck in pvp’ whiner will often be all ‘Kill the Horde’ the second they hit a battleground.

I’ve had so many bad experiences, with both my own and other factions, of people simply being gits – stealing nodes, taking quest mobs etc. That, however, is all blasted away when the nice things occur. I’m talking about a member or group of Horde or Alliance players actively helping out the ‘other side’.

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Well, them Skyguard have been tellin’ me for a while that mah riding ability is gettin’ pretty good so ah decided tae try one of the flat, ugly buggers they ride. Since we’re aw pals they even gave me a discount!

 

Epic flying mount! Finally! The biggest ’setback’ I felt when I changed back to my rogue wasn’t the ten levels and gearing up I had to do but the lack of an epic flying mount. I know a lot of people see it as a waste of time to get an epic flyer, not to mention a waste of gold, but I feel it’s well worth it.At the most basic level it opens up some new soloable daily quests – until now I had about 7 or 8 I could reliably do daily by myself – Two at the Skyguard Outpost in Terrokkar, two in the Blade’s Edge Mountain base, two at Ogri’la, the cooking daily and, sometimes, the pvp daily. Read more

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So, as thon lassie pointed oot – the Lunar Festival ain’t all aboot dancin’ and getting yersel’ drunk. It’s aboot makin’ sure yer ancestors ken ye still remember them!

Or, in other words, rep grind!

The minute I knew there was a big cat mount in WoW I wanted it. Call me a boring sheep, whatever, I like big cats and I was for having one. I looked up how to get Darnassus rep at the time and decided the PvP route wasn’t likely (this was before the honour system changes) since I didnt pvp very much and sucked at it besides. I set out to do all of the quests I could that gave Darnassus rep but I’d gotten past the level where diminishing returns meant no rep for low level quests (again, this has since changed). I left WoW for a bit without, sadly, having ever reached that particular goal.

When I came back I had gained a bit more of an interest in PvP and quickly got myself one of the kitties-for-honour (welfare kitty?) – however I don’t like those nearly as much as the Darnassus ones (and, hey, it’s a matter of principle for me to finish now that I’ve started!). With the new diminishing returns meaning I could still get honour for the really low level quests I went back and did all of the starting ones; I put all of the runecloth I got from levelling through Hellfire / Zangarmarsh into Darnassus rep too and any morrowgrain I could make.

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