Sideshow & Syrana

It’s Noblegarden time!  A fairly easy set of holiday achievements that is relatively fun to complete.  If you are looking for a guide to completing the achievements and getting your very own Noble title, be sure to check out my guide from last year: Death By Chocolate: The Noblegarden Experience.

Even an undead rogue can become a noble.

Where has the year flown by? Almost hard to believe it is that time of year again… for the Feast of Winter Veil! This is the longest in game holiday and it starts on December 15th.

So if you are looking for some guild event ideas in order to kick back and relax, socialize, or otherwise take a break from whatever your current grind may be, take a gander at the list below.  I’m purposely leaving them vague in order to let your imaginations and creativity expand upon them.  Sometimes all we need is a little idea nudge.  Without further adieu:

Super Winter Veil Elf to the rescue!

Feast of Winter Veil

-Go egg hunting

-Bake off! (You’ll want some gingerbread cookies for Greatfather Winter after all)

-Work as a group on the various achievements for the holiday

-Have a guildie dress up as Santa and everyone else as elves for partying and photos

-Do a guild secret santa exchange

-Create Azerothian versions of popular Christmas carols and go a-wassailing throughout Azeroth

-Get together to open up the gifts Greatfather Winter brings and play with your new toys

-Get together and play with your old toys: robots and race cars are always a good time!

-Snowball fights!

-Transform into gnomes (well, if you aren’t one usually) and storm enemy cities/towns

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Turkey Cupcake from rkbcupcakes @ Flickr

This year marks a new in game holiday, Pilgrim’s Bounty, which lasts for a week.  There are outfits, achievements, a pet, and of course food!

So if you are looking for some guild event ideas in order to kick back and relax, socialize, or otherwise take a break from whatever your current grind may be, take a gander at the list below.  I’m purposely leaving them vague in order to let your imaginations and creativity expand upon them.  Sometimes all we need is a little idea nudge.  Without further adieu:

Pilgrim’s Bounty

-Gather your guildies to the feasting tables to share in a meal together.  Bonus if everyone is dressed like a pilgrim. (This will also help complete several achievements for the holiday)

-Turkefy your guild’s rogues

-Guild member appreciation:

-Showing thanks for your guildmates

-Guild meeting to have speeches of thanks

-Sharing strengths you see in your guildies

-Cook out! Gather together with various cooking materials to help each other level cooking, sharing in food, and achievements.

-Recipe contest for WoW themed goodies (which could then be submitted to Nourish!)

*Almost* the perfect candy.

As some of you may (or may not) know, at one time I was our guild’s social event extraordinaire.  Well, that’s not to say I’m completely out of that job… just… I’m not as active in WoW as I once was now that Aion has caught my eye.  But! I still know how to throw a par-tay.

So if you are looking for some guild event ideas in order to kick back and relax, socialize, or otherwise take a break from whatever your current grind may be, take a gander at the list below.  I’m purposely leaving them vague in order to let your imaginations and creativity expand upon them.  Sometimes all we need is a little idea nudge.  Without further adieu: (continue reading…)

Quit starin' at my booty!

I like money.

Especially easy money.

As I discussed last week, there’s gold to be found in those candy buckets!

And we’re talking more than a simple penny pouch.  Sheesh, can you believe some of these innkeepers?  The gall to hand out penny pouches.  I think that’s worse than the old lady nickels some kids acquire during IRL trick or treating.

Now, I realize there is only about a week left to the Hallow’s End event and several people have found their way here in search of a list of the Northrend candy buckets.  Hopefully this will still help some of you out.

Last week, Shadowspawnd was kind enough to post the Alliance listing in the comments, so I will repost that here for all of you.  I went flying around scouring Northrend in search of the Horde buckets.  I hope this list is complete.  If by chance either of us missed any, please feel free to say so in the comments! (And no, I didn’t separate out the neutral locations – just left them in the running lists.)

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Yarr, the gold be cursed fer yer own safety.

Today marks the beginning of Hallow’s End.  There’s fun to be had with wands, masks, candy, flying brooms, and Headless Horsemen.

But the best part? Gold Coins.  Mmmm.

Besides being part of the meta-achievement for What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been, Hallow’s End has lots of fun achievements.  Prior to Blizzard’s introduction of achievements, Hallow’s End was my favorite in-game holiday.  (Then again, I kinda like the RL version as well.)

You might also remember how much I enjoy the Midsummer Fire Festival.  Now, besides the fun and casual activities that Hallow’s End and the Midsummer Fire Festival provide… they also provide good opportunities for your toons to profit.

That’s right!  Level 80′s not only get candy when they stick their hands into candy buckets, they also get gold!

Not level 80 yet? (or have an army of alts?) Great! They can get experience from chasing their sugar high.

Not sold on making money from trick or treating yet?  Let’s do some math… *rubs forehead* Ow, this is gonna hurt!

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It’s time to get more warlocky around here, don’tcha think? With all the excitement surrounding the announcement of Cataclysm, many people have decided to roll a new character to experience Old Azeroth one last time.  Perhaps you’ve heard the call of the dark side and are thinking of rolling a warlock.  If so, let’s start with the basics.

I don’t know about you, but when I created my first warlock, I didn’t think a whole lot about the racial traits.  Most of us roll a warlock to get in touch with our inner demon, right?  I know I was more interested in melting faces than magical resistances, reduced stun effects, or profession bonuses.  Or, if we want to determine evilness based on looks, I’d say the Forsaken win hands down.  But, does that mean they are the best choice?

Let’s take a look at what the available races have to offer before we try to answer that question. (continue reading…)

I don’t know about you, but when I think of spring, I think of bunnies laying chocolate eggs.  This week has been interesting, to say the least, during the in-game holiday event of Noblegarden.  Some people dislike it, some people love it, and some just don’t really care.

This post has a few features included today:

- Why to Love Noblegarden

-Why to Hate Noblegarden

-The Path to Nobledom (a guide)

-Egg Collecting: Camp vs. Hunt

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A few weeks ago, I had posted up a silly little real life quest and thought I was clever with the name.  Turns out, the name was in my subconscious because it really is a quest name in World of Warcraft.  (And I’ve rolled so many Blood Elves…)  So, a good handful of people that were looking for quest help were unwittingly brought to my silly little quest post when they googled for help.

Yes, this quest seems to be troubling a good chunk of people that have found their way here.  Well, I have heard your cry for help.  I shall present to you the Guide of All Guides.  (Although, I must apologize for the ones looking for a video guide of this particular quest, as I will not be able to provide such footage.)  Let us journey forth to complete the quest Thirst Unending!

Step 1 – Roll a Blood Elf

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I can’t stress the importance of this enough.  If you are not a Blood Elf, you cannot complete this quest.  With The Burning Crusade expansion, we were introduced to two new races: Blood Elf and Draenei.  These are the only two races that have a starting quest on how to use a racial ability.  Thirst Unending is about using the Blood Elf racial spell, Arcane Torrent, to feed their need for mana. (continue reading…)