Harvest Festival ends today
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Sep 13th 2008 at 9:00AM
Just a friendly reminder for everyone: Today is the last day of the Harvest Festival, the annual event honoring the fallen heroes of the Horde and the Alliance. That means you have one more day to head to the front entrance of Ironforge and Orgrimmar to hang with some ghosts, buy some cheap fireworks (those Midsummer Ground Flowers are awesome, and I am totally stocking up), and go pay your respects to Grom or Uther.
Yeah, it's a small holiday, and a weird one at that. I mean, you either honor Uther, who was a jerk to Tirion Fordring, ineffective against the Scourge and was betrayed and killed by his protege, or Grom, who betrayed the Orcish race to the Burning Legion at least twice, and whose clan is still one of the major sources of strife and bad Horde-Alliance relations on Azeroth today.
And what about hanging out with all those ghosts? I mean, isn't anyone concerned that they could be scourge? And what about those Forsaken ancestors? Shouldn't they look like humans as ghosts, since they were humans in the first place? And wouldn't a good portion of those Orc and Troll ancestors come from the tradition of savagery and cannibalism and demon worship that the Horde is supposedly trying to break free from?
Oh well, at least it's free fireworks and free food. Enjoy it while you can! Brewfest is a scant week away too, so be sure to review the new Coren Direbrew loot and plan your trip to the Grim Guzzler now.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
PeeWee Sep 13th 2008 9:13AM
Lame festival is lame. I didn't even see it being there.
Brewfest next, I guess...
The Hammer Sep 13th 2008 9:15AM
This needs an update next year. I guess an expansion primarily about the undead would be a fitting time for it.
Balius Sep 13th 2008 9:41AM
Brewfest gets a trinket dropping boss, so I'll actually do that one. Grom Hellscream wasn't someone I'd go out of my way to honor without some incentive.
Blackhawk003 Sep 13th 2008 10:04AM
That's Kind of unfair to Uther, isn't it? I mean, looking at the humans, who are religious enough compared to the other races, I think it's fair that they'd honor a man with such faith that he manifested the Light itself. Also, he had a crazy huge lower jaw. Got to respect that.
Radiophonic Sep 13th 2008 10:16AM
The idea is great, the implementation bad.
Cakaw Sep 13th 2008 11:31AM
Definetly.
These kind of festivals are common in real human cultures and it really fits WOW but the way its done is just boring.
Even the nagrand quest with the mini Grom fighting was better.Understandable since its a new bc quest vs these old one. I would like to see it updated.
Andrew Sep 13th 2008 1:08PM
Daniel, you came to the same suspicions of the undead ancestors as I did? Excellent. They just make no damned sense. According to the undead priest quests, they don ' t even believe in ancestors or the afterlife, since they are kind of already in it.
For the Orc and Troll ancestors, it ' s been a long time since they honored/worshiped their ancestors, and when they were fel orcs, I doubt they qualified for ancestral status. My guess is that these ancestors are from pretty long ago, patiently watching over their kinfolk, waiting for them to return to the old ways.
If they were willing to wait a couple dozen generations to continue to guide the horde, they prolly deserve some honorin'.
Daniel Whitcomb Sep 13th 2008 1:23PM
Well, Andrew, If the Orc ancestors are the ancient type, there's two problems:
1)They're green, the color of Orcs who have drunk Demon Blood. If they were the old "noble" Orcs, they'd be the reddish-brown of the Maghar.
2) If they are the "good" ancestors, does that mean ghosts can travel between worlds? Most of the good ancestor Orcs would have died on Draenor. By the time Orcs came to Azeroth, they were pretty evil.
Of course, I could be nitpicking a bit too much, I suppose.
Andrew Sep 13th 2008 1:30PM
That falls in line with the ancestor spirits in Nagrand being Mag'har colored. Grasping for straws, you could argue that these are the fresh crop of ancestors, those shamanistic orcs that died not to long ago in the events of Warcraft 3.
If it only takes 15 minutes for Darth Vader to get vetted for ancestry in Return of the Jedi, then the honest to Grom Shaman units that were slaughtered by the gross would have no trouble making it back to Durotar in time to wander around a table of food.
Keyra Sep 13th 2008 2:06PM
Sorry, fireworks ain't free unless you're watching someone else shoot them off. Aaaaaaanyway, yeah, this was a weird festival. I reached Grom's monument, set down the candle and was expecting...something, at least. Maybe a sense of peace washing over me, some sudden insight, a ghostly presence, a voice...SOMETHING. All I got was a damn roaming demon respawn and a book of Orcish poetry back in Org. I mean, come on! Orcish poetry? After honoring a fallen war hero? Not even a blood-stained dagger or a guardian elixir? Sigh...weird. Oh well, it was fun anyway because I had just made 30 and got to ride my new mount :-)
Lori Sep 13th 2008 2:16PM
Oh well. I did get 5550 XP and 500 rep at level 45 for a quick trip from Orgrimmar.
svenhoek Sep 13th 2008 3:14PM
Brewfest? Next week? And im downloading the pre-patch to patch 3.0 right now? AND blizz said big changes to Brewfest this year?
3.0 this tuesday. Im calling it.
Daniel Whitcomb Sep 13th 2008 3:25PM
Actually, most of the major Brewfest changes went in with the 2.4.3 test servers. They won't need to race 3.0 out to see all the basic Brewfest changes.
I do have to admit that I wish they would though, if only so I could use my new talents while fighting Coren Direbrew.
svenhoek Sep 13th 2008 3:43PM
Damn. I didnt think they would race to put out 3.0 just for Brewfest, just might've been good timing, what with WAR coming next week too. It would fit together quite nicely.
We can still pray though.