Happy Harvest Festival!
by Mike Schramm 
Sep 8th 2008 at 11:00AM
Can you believe how fast this year is flying by? Yes, it's Harvest Festival time once again in Azeroth, which means it's time to celebrate the coming end of the summer (from now until Saturday) with some tasty eats and sweet drinky treats, and honor the Fallen Heroes of the Horde and Alliance. Outside Orgrimmar and Ironforge, you'll find Harvest tables loaded with food (that give you back 2% of your health or mana per second for 30 seconds each), and there's also quests in each place that will send you off to honor a hero of your faction (Uther or Grom Hellscream).
You won't get anything from the quests right away (except a book, which doesn't appear to be on the list of "Well Read" achievements, probably because it's faction-specific), but in a few days, you should get a nice, foodie surprise in the mail that I still use on my Warrior. It's Harvest Festival time again! For the Fallen!
And of course, you know what this means. Brewfest is just around the corner!
You won't get anything from the quests right away (except a book, which doesn't appear to be on the list of "Well Read" achievements, probably because it's faction-specific), but in a few days, you should get a nice, foodie surprise in the mail that I still use on my Warrior. It's Harvest Festival time again! For the Fallen!
And of course, you know what this means. Brewfest is just around the corner!
Filed under: Horde, Alliance, Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Quests, Lore, NPCs
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
crsh Sep 8th 2008 2:24PM
Nice, and bring on the Brewfest, I still have 130 tickets in my bank.. I failed at getting the ram mount last year, hopefully it's still available in this year's version.
Xino Sep 8th 2008 12:36PM
I hear they aren't using the same tickets from last year.
Juliah Sep 8th 2008 5:46PM
Xino - do you have a source for that? I'm not doubting you, I'm just wondering, given all the discussion that ensued about the mount controversy, etc. ... there was a lot of information flying at one point.
Iwanttobeasleep Sep 8th 2008 11:23AM
Yay! It's been too long since a WoW holiday.
I just hope for Brewfest they bring back the Dark Iron Dwarf attacks.
Axxam Sep 8th 2008 11:26AM
I remember doing the quest on my level 30 character way back (pre-BC I think). The xp boost was nice then. Not too hard to do, except dodging the horde in PvP as you snuck past Taren Mill
Elmo Sep 8th 2008 11:28AM
This one and Easter (noblegarden) are just fail tbh.
bring on Brewfest and Hallows End :D:D
Terrant Sep 8th 2008 11:29AM
I wonder if this holiday has been fixed for blood elves and draenei?
Kai Sep 8th 2008 7:53PM
I can't answer for belfs, but my spacesquid completed the quest with no problems yesterday.
Brian Sep 8th 2008 11:31AM
Time to dust off those Brewfest Steins!
offday Sep 8th 2008 12:05PM
"And of course, you know what this means. Brewfest is just around the corner!"
And the Hallows End! Yesss!
I love this time of year. Both in WoW and in the real world.
Chris Anthony Sep 8th 2008 3:01PM
Me too! I can't wait for October. :)
Rihlsul Sep 8th 2008 12:06PM
thottbot link? wth?
Josh Sep 8th 2008 10:05PM
Everyone seems to think this holiday is a reference to Thanksgiving, alluded to at both Wowhead and Thottbot. As if being in September wasn't enough of a clue that this isn't the case, then read the quest text. It is clearly reference to a Memorial/Labor Day type holiday. You are honoring your factions great hero Grom or Uther and honoring all fallen heroes in general. It is NOT a Thanksgiving Day reference. Think of it as a Memorial Day barbecue with beer, boar, fish & fruit.
Andrew Sep 8th 2008 2:53PM
Riddle me this: How are there honored UNDEAD ancestors? Those spirits should be human!
Chris Anthony Sep 8th 2008 3:03PM
"Meet Bob. He died five minutes ago, but he's pretty cool so we're letting him in."
Josh Sep 8th 2008 10:09PM
Everyone seems to think this holiday is a reference to Thanksgiving, alluded to at both Wowhead and Thottbot. As if being in September wasn't enough of a clue that this isn't the case, then read the quest text. It is clearly reference to a Memorial/Labor Day type holiday. You are honoring your factions great hero Grom or Uther and honoring all fallen heroes in general. It is NOT a Thanksgiving Day reference. Think of it as a Memorial Day barbecue with beer, boar, fish & fruit.