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by Alex Ziebart 
Apr 26th 2009 at 12:01AM
It's 12:01 AM Pacific, which means that Noblegarden should now be live on all North American realms. Despite the fact that it's the middle of the night, people are absolutely packed into the starting zones on my home realm, so don't expect things will be easy just because it's late!Keep an eye on WoW Insider throughout the day, because we're going to be covering the holiday as much as we can. Our own Allison Robert started that already yesterday evening with a special edition of The Overachiever, covering the achievements of Noblegarden. She also has a basic FAQ of the holiday up, should you need it.
A note to all of you bloggers out there, I plan to do a Noblegarden-themed special edition of The Daily Quest today as well. If you've written about the holiday and think our readers may be interested in what you have to say, send your link our way and we'll take a look!
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Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)
Aislingi Apr 27th 2009 3:42PM
Good lord, if there is anyone at Blizzard I hate more than the CM's it's the World Event team. They manage to fuck up just about every thing they come up with. Never before have I seen any team have such lack of foresight and such little common sense in my life.
This event is a joke. The eggs all have a regular spawn point and they're only in the stating villages. That means that there is 20-30 eggs all in the same spots shared by several thousand players all camping the same eggs all damn day.
It's not an egg hunt, it's an egg camp. there is no hunting, or even fun. No real competition, just who can right click an egg faster. Oooh that's some awesome competition!
Face it, the world event team is inept. They lack imagination, foresight and anything resembling competence.
Oh wow, you throw dress up crap on other toons of specific races? Even if it doesn't make sense? At least Hallows End makes sense. then they decided to beat that idea to death.
"Improved" my ass.
Now Noblegarden can piss you off for SEVEN days!!! YAAAAY!
Aislingi Apr 27th 2009 4:23PM
Though, to be fair, this is scores above over events. No RNG requirement. Everything is fairly easy to accomplish (like a holiday should be) and you can buy all the items you need with chocolate.
I have to swallow my pride on this one and say that the only thing bad about this event is the camping, which I've found to actually be a much, much slower method of getting eggs.
roland Apr 27th 2009 3:54AM
Well, look at the bright side. On day 2, 3 or 4 you can have all the eggs to yourself. No need to camp or running around like a psychotic bunny.
I got up early (not by choice) and started getting eggs. The drop rate was ok, only the dress took a lot of eggs but I needed them anyway for the chocoholic achievement. And I had to buy the spring dress.
As many others, I had problems finding female horde players.
All in all, I think it took me 5 hours to get the title. I like this one so much better than the Love fool event where I did not get a single bag of candles/candies and the pet eluded me as well (sad about not getting the pet, pissed that I could not complete the achievement. Now I have to wait till next year to get the drake).
BioHazard Apr 27th 2009 12:47PM
For those interested; My noblegarden experience this year:
I actually had a good bit of fun with this holiday. My sister and I hit up Bloodhoof Village right after the event started (we're usually up that late anyway). We made laps around the town hunting down eggs with everyone else. The eggs weren't hard to find, and our massive experience farming Everfrost chips made it quite easy to spot craftily-hidden eggs and make mental maps of the spawn points to create an optimum farming route.
After 20 or 30 minutes, people started camping spawn points. My sis found a lovely spot with 3 spawn points and I continued doing laps. We both ended up getting eggs at about the same rate (I got them just a little bit faster). Even though there were quite a few people camping (all the good places), everyone was a good sport about it. I even got complemented about being "a quick one" for swiping a camper's spawn. Racing other egg hunters was also a good bit of competition and again, everyone was a good sport about it.
After about 200 eggs, I ended up finding everything but the dress and the suit, but my sister found everything, so we did some strategic trades and I bought the items I didn't get and we went together to go to all the places to plant flowers, lay eggs, make babies and whatnot and called it a night.
The next morning I hung out in front of the Alliance bank in Dalaran so people could ear me (Tauren females are a minority on my server, almost as rare as orcs.), and I ended up getting the ear acheivment just standing there letting everyone come to me. :)
Took us about 2 hours of egg farming, 1 hour of flying around planting flowers and an hour waiting on the ear flowers to cool down. Not bad for a title acheivment, especially considering the last one... >.>
We also did it on our alts that day. Took about the same amount of time. (A little longer as I didn't have the Badlands flight point, but we laid waste to Thelsamar on the way so it was all good.) Nothing more or less interesting happened.
All in all, It was a fun holiday. A little short and there isn't much replay value, but considering what they had to work with, I think it worked out okay. :)