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Put Out Those Fires!

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Hallow’s End is doing my head in just a little bit. My Priest got herself the title 2 years ago, but I’m still after the mount and the collect all of the masks achievement. Ack.

Masks & Things

A Mask For All Occasions I’m struggling with because, whilst I started the achievement 2 years ago, last year I was doing it on my Hunter. Thankfully, I only need 6 more masks and the addition of masks to the Loot-Filled Pumpkins has helped massively, but I’m constantly getting wands in my Treat Bags which I really can’t be arsed to sell the charges of. I know I have a potential 600g sitting there (did I mention I had a lot of wands?), but I can’t be bothered to charge people 10g a wand charge, plus it feels a little mean to charge for it. I only need 6 more masks by 11pm on Saturday, so touch wood (though I know full well I’ll only need 3 more by then, sod’s law, etc.).

Flying Horsies

The Headless Horseman’s flying horsie mount is a funny one. We’ve been actively farming this since it was added to the loot table, 2 or 3 years ago ((pretty sure it was 2, can remember farming the plate helm before the mount was available as a drop)), and haven’t seen it drop once – yet everybody else seems to have it! I’ve been camping the rares in Scholazar on my Hunter since she gained a heck of a lot more stable space because I’ve always wanted to tame them, just haven’t had the space. The other day, I popped onto Fae, flew around a bit, and spotted Loque’Nahak. Nobody was around luckily and I tamed it, which I was ecstatic with. So ecstatic, in fact, that I decided I’d pop in and do a Horseman kill on her, just to get Loque (who still needs naming) a little bit of experience, and a couple of justice points – what’s the worst that can happen?

Anyway, I’d say ‘disappointment aside’, because I got this mount I’d really like on an alt I don’t even play much anymore, but I’m not disappointed at all. I finally have the mount, just in the wrong place and hey, Draenei don’t look utterly ridiculous on it which is always a bonus.

Put Out The Fires

This morning, I heard that there’s a chance you can get a Loot-Filled Pumpkin from the Wrapped Gift thingy, which you can get from the pumpkin in low level towns after completing the Put Out The Fires quest. I thought I’d pop over to Brill and try it out, admittedly, I was thinking about the extra masks, but of course, it’s another chance at the almost-elusive mount of much shininess. There was nobody there, but I thought I’d give it a go anyway. If I succeeded, great, if I failed, oh well, I could wait until later on and nudge some people into helping – I’m sure I’m not the only one interested in an extra Loot-Filled Pumpkin after all.

About halfway through my mad running back and forth between a bucket and the building, a Rogue showed up, we failed but got talking and decided to try again but with a different method: he stood there tossing the buckets at the building, while I tossed the buckets at him, which I wasn’t even aware you could do! It was quite effective, and we tried it a few times and came pretty close to completing it with 2 people, but alas, it wasn’t quite enough. I’d say this method would definitely work with 3 or 4 people. In fact, you can do it the normal way ((randomly running between the burning buildings and the bucket as opposed to being particularly tactical)) with a minimum of 4 people – 3 would be pushing it for time a bit too much.

Hopefully, by the end of the week, I’ll have myself a new mount and 20 achievement points.

Reminder

Finally, I’d like to remind you guys to please update any links or bookmarks you may have. I’m no longer using the name Lazy Sniper, nor the old URL (because I don’t have the money to pay £60 to get my URL off the crappy company who wanted to charge me £60). I decided it was time to change the name, and Jaedia’s Menagerie was the one that stood out the most for me, as I am a big pet and mount collecting fiend. I needed a new URL because lazy-sniper.com was locked, so if you would kindly begin using: http://menagerie.jaedia.net that would be lovely. Thank you!

Day Of Much Squee

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I’m going to start with my second Violet Proto Drake. For me, it really HAS been a long strange trip, as I started Fae’s achievements alongside everybody else. I rerolled to my Priest in the first January, in which time I started them all on her, and then rerolled back to Fae in, I guess it was August or September, in which time I started doing them on Fae again. I kept doing my Priest’s so that I wouldn’t have the hassle of, “oh I wish I’d kept doing them” and I’m damn glad I thought that way now I’m back on her, but Fae had to wait until this Midsummer for her Violet Proto and I finally completed my goal today. Hooray!

My next priority was to knock out some raids on my Priest. I need a short WoW break, I cancelled my account the other night after getting a bit ragey because I didn’t want to be getting ragey, so I just stopped my account to take a breather. I might play a little Aion again, try out some things I didn’t get chance to, see what the new patch is like, or maybe I’ll just watch a bunch of anime, either way I’ll try to keep blogging while I’m on a break. My account time runs out on Sunday, so I gave myself a few priorities, and today I’ve managed to meet them. Fae’s achievements, and Seithir’s 4 set. I did a VoA25, then found an “8+ bosses, HC Gunship” group, figured I need to do ICC, what’s the worst that can happen? We cleared everything but Sindragosa and Lich King. After Dreamwalker the raid leader decided to leave it at that and honestly, I couldn’t care less that was an awesome pug! Heroic Festergut, Professor Putricide, all one shot? I’m still just a little in awe, and my measly 7-8k dps made me look like such a terrible player against these people! However, not only did it get my Ashen Verdict rep upto 9,000/21,000, it netted me enough emblems to complete my Tier 10 4 set, and I also managed to grab a token!! Squee. So that was nice, got a VoA10 out of the way too.

After the ICC, I found this little guy in my mailbox:

I’d been waiting all day for him to arrive, and if I could be bothered I’d show you the picture I took of the battered box and the ‘Please handle with care, fragile’ notice on it. My God they were lucky it was a plush toy. Anyway, once I got him ingame, I decided his name is Bertie. Yes, he’s a cuddly toy, so he needs a name. I spent a while playing with him, watching him run about and fly around. Bought a pet leesh and ran around a bit, then played some fetch. MY GOD this is the cutest thing since the Polar Bear Cub with a little red ball on his nose.

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m gonna go with: SQUEE!!

Midsummer

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As always, I forgot that Midsummer started the other night. I was logging around different bank alts, doing some auctions to pass the time and noticed a bunch of Blood Elf Commoners – oh! Midsummer! Well, as I’ve decided to make a little collection of festival guides which I plan to update if anything changes when they next roll around, here is my Midsummer guide.

Achievements

  • Ice the Frost Lord – Slay Ahune in the Slave Pens. You don’t need to find a group starting from this festival (2010), you can now find a random pug the same way you can in random dungeon finder, just go to the drop down menu and select ‘The Frost Lord Ahune’ or speak to one of the Earthen Ring Scout Dungeonmasters found around cities. You can still find a group the old way, but you won’t receive your Satchel without using the Dungeon Finder.
  • Torch Juggler – You should only need 10 torches for this. You will gain 5 from one of the quests (see below), and you can buy them for 5 blossoms for a stack of 5 from the Midsummer vendors in cities. To complete the achievement, make sure you’re in Dalaran, keybind the torch, then spam click on the area your character is standing. If you throw them to a place your character isn’t standing then you will lose the torches.
  • Burning Hot Pole Dance – You need the complete Midsummer set (which this year you cannot sell back to the vendor) – shoes, chest, shoulders (see below for prices – the hat is not needed). To complete the achievement, equip the set, click on the pole, of which you can find near the NPC you bought the clothes from/handed in your quest to, and spin.
  • King of the Fire Festival – Complete the quest ‘A Thief’s Reward‘/’A Thief’s Reward‘, obtained from the Festival Tailspinner(Horde) or Festival Loremaster(Alliance). They will require you to steal your enemy’s flames from each capital city. This quest will grant you with the Crown of the Fire Festival.
  • The Fires of Azeroth/The Fires of Azeroth – Honour the flames of Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, and Outlands as listed below.
  • Desecration of the Alliance/Desecration of the Horde – Desecrate the flames of Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, and Outlands as listed below.

Quests

Dailies:

Flames

The maps on Wowhead say it better than I can, but here’s a list of all of the flames and their co-ords. Horde and Alliance. Also, remember that Northrend will not count towards the achievement but you will still receive Blossoms for those bonfires.

I don’t know how many of you use or have heard of the TourGuide addon, but I’ve been informed that there is a Midsummer Fire Festival addition to it which makes finding the flames much easier if that interests you at all. If not, here are the co-ords for each bonfire.

Horde Cities:

  • Orgrimmar – (Durotar), Valley of Wisdom – 47,38.
  • Thunder Bluff – (Mulgore), Spirit Rise – 21,26.
  • Undercity – (Tirisfal Glades), Ruins of Lordaeron – 68,9.
  • Silvermoon City –  (Eversong Woods), Court of the Sun – 70,43.

Alliance Cities:

  • Stormwind – (Elwynn Forest), The Canals – 49,72.
  • Ironforge – (Dun Morogh), Hall of Explorers – 64,25.
  • Darnassus – (Teldrassil), Rut’theran Village – 55,91.
  • The Exodar – (Azuremyst Isle), The Crystal Hall – 41,26.

Kalimdor Horde:

  • Winterspring, Everlook – 59,35.
  • Ashenvale, Splintertree Post – 70,69.
  • Durotar, Razor Hill – 52,47.
  • The Barrens, The Crossroads – 52,28.
  • Dustwallow Marsh, Brackenwell Village – 33,30.
  • Thousand Needles, Freewind Post – 41,52.
  • Tanaris, Gadgetzan – 49,27.
  • Silithus, Cenarion Hold – 46,44.
  • Feralas, Camp Mojache – 72,47.
  • Mulgore, Bloodhoof Village – 51,60.
  • Desolace, Shadowprey Village – 26,76.
  • Stonetalon Mountains, Sun Rock Retreat – 50,60.

Kalimdor Alliance:

  • Bloodmyst Isle, Blood Watch – 55,69.
  • Azuremyst Isle, Azure Watch – 44,53.
  • Teldrassil, Dolanaar – 55,60.
  • Darkshore, Auberdine – 37,46.
  • Winterspring, Everlook – 62,35.
  • Ashenvale, Astranaar – 38, 54.
  • Desolace, Nijel’s Point – 65,17.
  • Feralas, Feathermoon Stronghold – 28,44.
  • Silithus, Cenarion Hold – 57,34.
  • Tanaris, Gadgetzan – 52,29.
  • Dustwallow Marsh, Theramore Isle – 62,40.

Eastern Kingdoms Horde:

  • Eversong Woods, North Sanctum – 46,50.
  • Ghostlands, Tranquillien – 46,26.
  • Tirisfal Glades, Brill – 57,52.
  • Silverpine Forest, The Sepulcher – 49,38.
  • Hillsbrad Foothills, Tarren Mill – 58,25.
  • The Hinterlands, Revantusk Village – 76,74.
  • Arathi Highlands, Hammerfall – 74,41.
  • Badlands, Kargath – 4,49.
  • Burning Steppes, Flame Crest – 62,29.
  • Swamp of Sorrows, Stonard – 47,47.
  • Stranglethorn Vale, East of Booty Bay – 32,75.

Eastern Kingdoms Alliance:

  • Western Plaguelands, Chillwind Camp – 43,82.
  • The Hinterlands, Aerie Peak – 14,50.
  • Hillsbrad Foothills, Southshore – 50,46.
  • Arathi Highlands, Refuge Point – 50,44.
  • Wetlands, Menethil Harbor – 13,47.
  • Dun Morogh, Kharanos – 46,46.
  • Loch Modan, Thelsamar – 32,40.
  • Burning Steppes, Morgan’s Vigil – 80,62.
  • Redridge Mountains, Lakeshire – 24,59.
  • Blasted Lands, Nethergarde Keep – 58,17.
  • Duskwood, Darkshire – 74,51.
  • Westfall, Sentinel Hill – 56,54.
  • Elwynn Forest, Goldshire – 43,65.
  • Stranglethorn Vale, East of Booty Bay – 33,73.

Outland Horde:

  • Terrokar Forest, Stonebreaker Hold – 52,43.
  • Nagrand, Garadar – 51,34.
  • Zangarmarsh, Zabra’Jin – 36,52.
  • Blade’s Edge Mountains, Thunderlord Stronghold – 50,59.
  • Netherstorm, Area 52 – 32,68.
  • Hellfire Peninsula, Thrallmar – 55,40.
  • Shadowmoon Valley, Shadowmoon Village – 33,30.

Outland Alliance:

  • Terrokar Forest, Allerian Stronghold – 55,55.
  • Nagrand, Telaar – 50,70.
  • Zangarmarsh, Telredor – 69,52.
  • Blade’s Edge Mountains, Sylvanaar – 42,66.
  • Netherstorm, Area 52 – 31,63.
  • Hellfire Peninsula, Honor Hold – 62,58.
  • Shadowmoon Valley, Wildhammer Stronghold – 40,55.

Northrend Horde:

  • Borean Tundra, Bor’gorok Outpost – 51,12.
  • Scholazar Basin, River’s Heart – 47,62.
  • Dragonblight, Agmar’s Hammer – 39,48.
  • Crystalsong Forest, Sunreaver’s Command – 80,53.
  • The Storm Peaks, K3 – 40,86.
  • Zul’Drak, The Argent Stand – 43,71.
  • Grizzly Hills, Conquest Hold – 19,61.
  • Howling Fjord, Camp Winterhoof – 48,13.

Northrend Alliance:

  • Borean Tundra, Fizzcrank Airstrip – 55,20.
  • Scholazar Basin, River’s Heart – 47,66.
  • Dragonblight, Wintergarde Keep – 75,44.
  • Crystalsong Forest, Windrunner’s Outlook – 78,75.
  • The Storm Peaks, K3 – 42,87.
  • Zul’Drak, The Argent Stand – 41,61.
  • Grizzly Hills, Amberpine Lodge – 34,61.
  • Howling Fjord, Fort Wildervar – 58,16.

Ahune the Frost Lord

Ahune is one of the elemental lords in Neptulon’s service, summoned by the Twilight’s Hammer.

He resides within the Slave Pens, though you now only need to use the Dungeon Finder to find a group and get there. This will also net you a Satchel of Chilled Goods which will contain 2 Emblem of Frost, and a chance for either the Frigid Frostling or Frostscythe of Lord Ahune, which will no longer drop from the boss. When defeated there will be a chest which will contain an item to start a quest which rewards one of two tabards (Summer Skies or Summer Flames) and 20 Burning Blossom.

To activate him, a member of your party must click on the ice stone, which will melt, and then he is summoned. During the first phase you will do reduced damage on him. It is possible for ranged to dps him down a little, this will affect the Frozen Core’s health, though it won’t be much. There are spawned adds which need to be taken care of, and frost spikes which are best to avoid as they throw you into the air and you will take damage. Once this phase is over he is reduced to his weakened state, the Frozen Core, which can be dpsed down in one go, though it’s not necessary. If he isn’t killed in this phase, then it will go back to phase 1.

The items you can loot from the chest are the following:

Midsummer Vendor

The currency for the Midsummer festival is Burning Blossom. You receive these from dailies, tabard quest, other quests, honouring and desecrating flames.

I personally recommend you buy the outfit and 5 juggling torches first in order to complete your achievements.

Children’s Week

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Late last night, I noticed a few achievements pop up in guild when I logged in to fish, I’d completely forgotten it was Children’s Week! I logged out for a little bit and decided to do the achievements today, though it must be said that this has always been one of my favourite festivals because of the pets. This is my guide towards completing the various achievements and quests for Children’s Week, I hope it helps!

Achievements – Meta

List of achievements for the meta.

  • Home Alone – Simply have your orphan out (see under ‘quests’ for where to pick up your orphan, works with any orphan) and use your hearthstone.
  • Bad Example – Eat the following listed sweets while you have your orphan out:
  1. Tigule and Foror’s Strawberry Ice Cream sold by these vendors – I usually get mine from the innkeepers in Nagrand.
  2. Tasty Cupcake is made using cooking – the ingredients are 2 Simple Flour and 1 Northern Egg.
  3. Delicious Chocolate Cake is a rare drop recipe from doing Outland and Northrend cooking dailies and requires these ingredients – you should be able to buy them from the auction house though prices will be high this week.
  4. Lovely Cake Slice, Dalaran Brownie, Dalaran Doughnut, and Red Velvet Cupcake can all be bought from Aimee outside of the North bank in Dalaran.
  • Daily Chores – Complete 5 daily quests while you have your orphan out. I tend to do the Tournament dailies for this, with the orphan out while I hand them in, but any you feel like doing are fine.
  • Aw, Isn’t It Cute? – Receive one of the Children’s Week pets after completing a series of quests (also see ‘quests’).
  • School of Hard Knocks – This achievement can seem a little difficult for non-PvPers. You have to capture a flag in Eye of the Storm, assault a tower in Alterac Valley, assault a flag in Arathi Basin, and return a fallen flag in Warsong Gulch. Cynwise has compiled an excellent guide to completing this achievement, if you’re struggling I recommend you take a look, and always have your orphan by your side.
  • Hail To The King, Baby – Kill King Ymirin in Utgarde Pinnacle, normal mode or heroic mode, while you have your orphan by your side. You should get it out at the beginning of the instance to avoid forgetting at the end.

Not for the meta, this is the only other achievement.

  • Veteran Nanny – This is one of those achievements that takes time to do, 3 years to be exact. To get this one, you need to own all 3 of the pets from the Shattrath orphan quest chain: Peanut, Willy, and Egbert.

Quests

There are several quests which reward you with a choice of a pet in Children’s Week. You speak to the matron in each city (Dalaran, Shattrath, Orgrimmar/Stormwind) who will give you an orphan whistle, you must take this orphan around to where they ask to complete the quests, they give you 3 quests to begin with, followed by one or two others, then sending you back to the orphanage where you receive your pet reward.

Dalaran first – it appears to be bugged at the moment if you did the quest last year, you should be able to pick the quest up to get the second pet, however at the moment you can’t. She stands near the South bank, if you’re able to pick the quest up, you’ll first need to choose which pet you want, the Oracle or the Wolvar.

The Oracle:

  • Meeting a Great One – First go to the giant portal that takes you to Ungoro in Scholazar Basin at co-ords: 39, 81. Once you’ve gone through the portal, go right up the steps and take your orphan to the Etymidian.
  • The Dragon Queen – Dragonblight, the Wyrmrest Temple, top floor, at co-ords: 59, 55.

The Wolvar:

Shattrath next – Head to the Lower City and find Orphan Matron Mercy and pick up a whistle from her. If you are Horde, you will be given a Blood Elf orphan, if you are Alliance, you will be given a Draenei orphan. The end quest will give you a choice of the following.

The Blood Elf:

  • Now, When I Grow Up… – Silvermoon City, Walk of Elders at co-ords: 76, 81.
  • Time to Visit the Caverns – If you can’t take the portal from Shattrath or Dalaran, head to the entrance to Caverns of Time in Tanaris at co-ords: 65, 49. Take Salandria to Zaladormu at co-ords: 60, 54 in the middle. Then buy a Toy Dragon from the Quartermaster at: 63, 57 and give it to her.

The Draenei:

  • The Seat of the Naaru – Exodar, Seat of the Naaru at co-ords: 57, 41.
  • Time to Visit the Caverns – If you can’t take the portal from Shattrath or Dalaran, head to the entrance to Caverns of Time in Tanaris at co-ords: 65, 49. Take Dornaa to Zaladormu at co-ords: 60, 54 in the middle. Then buy a Toy Dragon from the Quartermaster at: 63, 57 and give it to her.

Finally, your faction’s home city. Orgrimmar at 70, 25 in the Valley of Honor for Horde, the matron will give you an Orcish orphan. Stormwind at 56, 54 in Cathedral Square for Alliance, the matron will give you a Human orphan. The end quest will give you a choice of the following.

The Orc:

  • You Scream, I Scream… – There is a link to the vendors above under the ‘Bad Example’ achievement. You simply need some Tigule and Foror’s Strawberry Ice Cream in your bags and hand in the quest.
  • Cairne’s Hoofprint – Thunder Bluff at co-ords: 60, 51.

The Human:

  • You Scream, I Scream… – There is a link to the vendors above under the ‘Bad Example’ achievement. You simply need some Tigule and Foror’s Strawberry Ice Cream in your bags and hand in the quest.
  • Jaina’s Autograph – Dustwallow Marsh, Theramore at co-ords: 66, 49. The very top floor of the large building.

Noblegarden

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Egg hunting.

That’s the key to this festival. Some eggs will turn your character into a pink bunny which somehow manages to poop tiny sparkly coloured eggs. Don’t be alarmed, this is normal. You will need roughly.. 315 eggs. You might as well do the daily as it’s a bit of gold you can pick up while you farm eggs. The other quest gives you a basket, I think you only have to pick this up to get a basket, but the quest reward is permanent and you get a little gold. The basket makes you run at 60% speed for 10 seconds so you should get one, equip it, and keybind it to 1 or whatever you prefer, while you’re running around collecting eggs. This only works during Noblegarden.

You can find eggs in all nooks and crannies of every starting zone. It’ll be the places you go around level 5-12, so, Falconwing Square, Razorthorn Hill, Brill and Bloodhoof Village for Horde. Azure Watch, Goldshire, Dolanaar and Kharanos for Alliance. You’ll want to hover your mouse over corners, bushes, under carts, on top of lamp posts, and strafe around the buildings, and be fast because other people won’t be so civil.

Achievements.

You’ll need to eat 100 chocolates, collected from the eggs you find in low level villages, for Chocoholic. The first achievement you see is Chocolate Lover, to eat 25 chocolates, after that you need to eat 75 more. You can get lucky and find everything you need to buy in the eggs, and you have to discover the clothes in eggs to get those achievements. Once you’ve hunted all of your eggs, that’s the easy part.

You’ll have to travel around each low level village to find your Spring Rabbit, which can drop in the eggs or you can buy it, love for Spring Fling, all you have to do is have your Spring Rabbit near somebody else’s Spring Rabbit in each listed village to get achievement credit.

To complete the Hard Boiled achievement in Ungoro Crater, you’ll need somebody with you to turn you into a bunny using a Blossoming Branch (which can drop in the eggs, be bought, or gained from the daily quest) near the hot springs, and then you just have to wait for one of those tiny sparkly pooped eggs to appear under your butt. You might get lucky and find there are people there already, or you may need to go with a friend. I’ve also heard that it may be possible to get bunnied in Dalaran, or in one of the lowbie villages and then hearth back, take the Caverns of Time portal, and run to Ungoro Crater. This is a longer option and you’ll be best not to afk on the way, and Aspect of the Cheetah/Pack should make you run faster too, but if you struggle it may be worth trying. As long as your bunny self can poop eggs in the Ungoro Hot Springs, you’re good to go.

To hide a Noblegarden Egg in the city listed for Noble Garden, Stormwind for Alliance, and Silvermoon for Horde, you have to buy one from a vendor and take it inside the city and hide it along the edges. Simple. The egg costs 5 chocolates and once placed, you can loot it like any other Brightly Coloured Egg.

Shake Your Bunny Maker cannot be completed by having a friend create level 1 alts of each race, because they have to be of 18th level! Yes, it’s a comment on what you think it is. No underage Bunny Making please. To complete this, you’ll need a bouquet of Spring Flowers and to find a female of each race, Horde and Alliance. You might as well complete your faction in your main cities, and it’s always fun watching the piles of people stalking the other faction’s section of Dalaran, waiting for the Female Dwarf or Orc to hearthstone in.

Desert Rose requires you to wear Spring Robes, which you can get from eggs or buy with chocolates. You have to use the robes in Silithus, Thousand Needles, the Badlands, Tanaris, and Desolace.

You will also need to kiss somebody who is wearing an Elegant Dress while you wear a Tuxedo Pants and Shirt, for Blushing Bride.

A list of everything you can buy, and their prices.

  • Noblegarden Egg – 5 Chocolates
  • Blossoming Branch – 10 Chocolates
  • Spring Flowers – 50 Chocolates
  • Spring Robes – 50 Chocolates
  • White Tuxedo Shirt – 25 Chocolates
  • Black Tuxedo Pants – 25 Chocolates
  • Elegant Dress – 50 Chocolates
  • Spring Circlet – 50 Chocolates
  • Spring Rabbit’s Foot – 100 Chocolates
  • Tome of Polymorph: Rabbit – 100 Chocolates [Mage only]

Other Guides

As usual, Wowhead and WoW.com have their festival guides for you to follow if you feel I’ve missed anything.

There is also another egg hunt going on in the blogosphere, as hosted by Angelya. There are 45 eggs placed around listed blogs, see if you can find mine.

Happy Chocolate Egg Day!

Love is in the Air

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When the festival started up last night, midnight, server time, I ran around wondering what the heck I needed to do. I couldn’t find a guide as everything has been changed, and so I thought I’d throw a basic guide out there to help you get your achievements and whatnot. I’ve listed the max level Horde quests and such, though everything is basically the same, you can check here, or here (also includes a boss strategy), for any differences in level or faction.

Everything you need this year can be bought with Love Tokens from vendors in each major city, which you can get from doing the various daily quests (Crushing the Crown, giving bracelets to all 4 leaders, and spraying 10 people with perfume) or handing in Lovely Charm Bracelets at the vendors, the same way you change one type of Emblem to another. Lovely Charm Bracelets are made with Lovely Charms, which you can get from any enemy which you could gain honour or experience from. You can no longer receive them whilst in a vehicle.

Daily Quests

These will give you 5 tokens each, that’s 30 tokens a day purely from the dailies (I have only included the Horde Gift dailies at the moment, though it is the same for Alliance, 1 bracelet daily for each faction leader).

Achievements

You’re going to need for the meta:

  • Charming – 120 Lovely Charms to make 12 bracelets.
  • Flirt With Disaster – 1 Handful of Rose Petals, a pile of alcohol to get you completely smashed, and some perfume. Alliance.
  • Sweet Tooth – These 4 candies are obtained in Box of Chocolates, which you can buy for 10 tokens. The candies are tradeable too.
  • Shafted! – 10 Arrows will be another 10 tokens. Just shoot people who don’t already have a Peddlefeet following them around.
  • The Rocket’s Pink Glare – 10 Love Rockets is another 10 tokens. The easiest way to do this is to keybind the Rockets to 1 (or anything else if you prefer), find an empty patch of floor, and spam 1 and click the floor until you get the achievement.
  • Nation Of Adoration – You complete these by simply doing the 4 daily quests to give a Charm Bracelet to the 4 faction leaders. Alliance.
  • Fistful Of Love – There are 11 class/race combinations you need to shower with Rose Petals, plus the 1 Handful you need for Flirt With Disaster, so buy 15 Handful of Rose Petals for 6 tokens and hang around in Dalaran.
  • Be Mine! – A Bag of Candies costs 2 tokens, you can get lucky and get them all in one bag, or you might not. These candies are also tradeable.
  • Dangerous Love – For this you need to complete the holiday quest chain which for Horde is from the goblin near the Orgrimmar bank, you should find him on your minimap. For Alliance, it’s in Stormwind.
  • I Pitied The Fool – Buy Love Fools for 10 tokens each, and in each place listed, get it out, target it, and /pity. These are a one time use thing (as I found out in an ICC raid.. oops) so you will need 50 tokens for all 5, and make sure you are inside each area listed.
  • Lonely? – You need a Buttermilk Delight from the Box of Chocolates, in Dalaran, sit at a Picnic Basket with somebody (10 tokens, though you can use somebody else’s) and eat the Buttermilk Delight.
  • My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose – Loot a Bouquet of Ebon or Red roses from any of the following: Maiden of Grief in Halls of Stone, Prince Keleseth in Utgarde Keep, or Prince Taldaram in The Old Kingdom. Personally, I think that Utgarde Keep normal mode will be the easiest, you won’t need a full group for it.

Extras, not for the meta, but if you like achievements:

  • Tough Love – Kill the seasonal boss in Shadowfang Keep. As usual, it is a daily quest which you can summon once a day per character. You pick it up inside Shadowfang Keep, no pre-quest necessary.
  • Lovely Luck Is On Your Side – Gain a Lovely Black Dress from a Lovely Dress Box, which are 20 tokens each.
  • Perma-Peddle – Buy for 40 tokens.

Feat of Strength:

The Boss

Everybody loves a good seasonal boss.. Maybe not, but here is a list of his drops.

Hallow’s End

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Outside of SM GY - Hallow's End

Outside of SM GY - Hallow's End

It’s Hallow’s End, again, think this is the third year I will have farmed that stupid boss. First year was for Dan’s plate helm which apparently existed for everyone but us. Obviously this and last year for the mount and pet and achievements.. Anyway, last year I did all of these achievements on my priest. Having rerolled since then I have to travel around clicking candy buckets and invading Southshore, not to mention GNERD RAGE!! It’s all I can massively bring myself to do in WoW at the moment, short of playing alts. With the huge lag and overpopulation at peak times/weekends on Aion, it at least gives me something to do, clicking candy buckets. Not to mention logging in as often as possible to attempt to get the Trick or Treat masks achievements. Will try to get my paladin the ret DPS ring, and my warlock the spell power rings for when/if I finally level her to 80. And of course, as shown above, the usual mass ganking outside of SM Graveyard.