Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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Nobelgarden

Noblegarden starts on April 24 at 12:01 AM and ends on April 30 at 11:59 PM. Eggs have been hidden all across the places of our youth (namely, the starting areas for the Alliance and Horde races) for both young and old to discover and perhaps even be rewarded with a fabulous prize! Simply head out to one of your faction's starting areas, grab some quests, and get out there and hunt eggs! Maybe you'll even earn some achievements (and a title) along the way!

Players will be scurrying to hunt down Brightly Colored Eggs that spawn hidden in the starting areas of Azeroth:

Alliance: Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, and Kharanos
Horde: Bloodhoof Village, Brill, Falconwing Square, and Razor HillEggs can be found only in the starting areas.

The main item players will be collecting from the Brightly Colored Egg looted within is basically the "currency" of the Noblegarden event - Noblegarden Chocolate - which most every egg will contain. Expect to collect a lot of them, as they are not only a currency used to purchase items from Noblegarden vendors but there are achievements for actually consumingquantities of the chocolates as well!

Thankfully, all of the items available from the vendors can also randomly be looted from a Brightly Colored Egg so you may get lucky! Likewise, if you're not so lucky you'll have your chance to purchase the items from the vendor in exchange for chocolate - one of the first win-win holidays in Azerothian history! Take that, random loot!

Some of the Achivements

Chocolate Lover
For this achievement you must eat 25 Noblegarden Chocolate discovered inside Brightly Colored Eggs. Make sure you still save enough to buy goodies from the vendor!

Chocoholic
For this achievement you must eat 100 Noblegarden Chocolate discovered inside Brightly Colored Egg. Since this is a meta achievement, you only need an additional 75 Noblegarden Chocolate after the first 25 you consumed for Chocolate Lover. Once again, make sure you collect enough chocolates to nab this achievement and still be able to buy goodies from the vendor!

Desert Rose
For this achievement, you must first obtain the Spring Robes either from a Brightly Colored Egg or purchased from a vendor for 50 Noblegarden Chocolate. Simply equip the robes and you can activate it's 'Use' ability, which in this case plants a flower where you stand! Once you've got the robes on, simply travel to each of these five deserts - Badlands, Desolace, Silithus, Tanaris and Thousand Needles - and plant a flower.

Dressed for the Occasion
This luck-based achivement is awarded upon discovering an Elegant Dress inside a Brightly Colored Egg. This achievement is (thankfully) not a requirement for the meta-achievement Noble Gardener (Alliance version).

Children's Week

Ahh spring is in the air and its time for May WoW Holidays.

Children's week started on Sunday May 1 and ends on Saturday May 7.
What is Children's week you ask well its a week devoted to the orphans of Azaroth. In the capitol citys of Stormwind and Ogrimmar you take an orphan under your wing. With your orphan you do quest, things that he/she wants to see and do.

A few of the quest for the Alliance:
Cruisin' the Chasm
For this quest, bring your orphan to Sentinel Hill in Westfall. Your orphan wants to rent a chopper and see the destruction Cataclysm has wrought firsthand!
Malfurion Has Returned!
For this quest, bring your orphan to the Temple of the Moon in Darnassus. Your orphan wants to meet Malfurion Stormrage himself after his return from the Emerald Dream!
The Biggest Diamond Ever!
For this quest, bring your orphan to Hall of Thanes in Ironforge. This is the newly opened gate to Old Ironforge and your orphan would like to explore it to pay tribute to the deceased King Magni Bronzebeard. Old Ironforge looks amazing, so this is the perfect excuse to visit it!

For the Horde:
Ridin' the Rocketway
For this quest, bring your orphan to the Secret Lab in Azshara. He wants to ride an experimental rocket that's found at the Southern end of the Rocketway and blast off!
The Banshee Queen
For this quest, bring your orphan to the Royal Quarter of Undercity to meet Lady Sylvanas. He's always dreamed of meeting such an influential Horde figure.
The Fallen Chieftain
For this quest, bring your orphan to Red Rocks in Northeastern mountain range of Mulgore. He wants to pay tribute to the now deceased Cairne Bloodhoof by viewing his hoof print.

Upon completion of the orphan quest chain you get a pet!

And what holiday could be complete with out some achievements!


Bad Example

For this achievement, you must eat each of the delicious (and unhealthy) foods listed while your orphan is out:

Tigule and Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream - Sold by these vendors (Note that not all are currently in-game!)
Red Velvet Cupcake - Sold by Aimee, in Dalaran
Lovely Cake Slice - Sold by Aimee, in Dalaran (Purchase a Lovely Cake, or take a slice from a party member's)
Dalaran Doughnut - Sold by Aimee, in Dalaran
Tasty Cupcake - Crafted by Tasty Cupcake
Delicious Chocolate Cake - Crafted by Delicious Chocolate Cake
Dalaran Brownie - Sold by Aimee, in Dalaran

Daily Chores
For this achievement, simply complete any five daily quests while your orphan is out. You do not have to have an Orphan while actually doing the quests; you can instead opt to simply summon your ward before turning a quest in.

Hail To The King, Baby
For this achievement, head out to Utgarde Pinnacle and defeat King Ymiron with your orphan out. This achievement can be completed with either Orphan out, on both Normal and Heroic difficulty.

Home Alone
For this achievement, simply use your Hearthstone while your orphan is out.