The OverAchiever: Guide to Pilgrim's Bounty 2010, Part 2
by Allison Robert 
Nov 20th 2010 at 5:00PM
Pilgrim's Progress (Alliance) and Pilgrim's Progress (Horde)
The holiday's five daily quests are all offered by Pilgrim's Bounty NPCs located in major cities (Stormwind, Ironforge, and Darnassus for Alliance: Thunder Bluff, Orgrimmar, and Undercity for Horde). All five can be completed in one day, so if you don't have a lot of time over the week that Pilgrim's Bounty is running, just budget about half an hour on a good day, and you're all set.
For Alliance, the quest links are as follows:
- Can't Get Enough Turkey Bring 20 Slow-Roasted Turkeys to Caitrin Ironkettle outside Ironforge.
- Don't Forget the Stuffing! Bring 20 Spice Bread Stuffing to Caitrin Ironkettle outside Ironforge.
- Easy As Pie Bring 20 pieces of Pumpkin Pie to Mary Allerton outside the gates of Darnassus.
- She Says Potato Bring 20 Candied Sweet Potatoes to Jasper Moore outside Stormwind.
- We're Out of Cranberry Chutney Again? Bring 20 servings of Cranberry Chutney to Ellen Moore outside Stormwind.
For Horde, the quest links are as follows:
- Can't Get Enough Turkey Bring 20 Slow-Roasted Turkeys to Ondani Greatmill outside Orgrimmar.
- Don't Forget the Stuffing! Bring 20 Spice Bread Stuffing to Ondani Greatmill outside Orgrimmar.
- Easy As Pie Bring 20 pieces of Pumpkin Pie to Mahara Goldwheat outside Thunder Bluff.
- She Says Potato Bring 20 Candied Sweet Potatoes to William Mullins in Undercity's courtyard.
- We're Out of Cranberry Chutney Again? Bring 20 servings of Cranberry Chutney to Roberta Carter in Undercity's courtyard.
Pilgrim's Paunch (Alliance) and Pilgrim's Paunch (Horde)
The Spirit of Sharing buff is gained when you eat all five dishes available at a Bountiful Table: turkey, cranberries, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and pie. For this achievement, you'll have to run to each of your faction's cities, park yourself at each of the five chairs around a Bountiful Table (or ask other people at the chairs to pass you dishes so you can eat them), and gorge your way to the Spirit of Sharing buff. Once you've done this in all four major cities, you'll get the achievement.
The Spirit of Sharing buff is a 10% bonus to all reputation gains for an hour. If you're working on something like 40 Exalted Reputations, the Burning Crusade tabard grind (as we've previously discussed), or desperately accruing Zandalar or Shen'dralar rep before patch 4.0.3a hits, it's nothing to sneeze at.
Pilgrim's Peril (Alliance) and Pilgrim's Peril (Horde)
Blizzard has a peculiar mania for sending players to their deaths in foreign cities. Anyway, Pilgrim's Peril requires you to sit at hostile Bountiful Tables while wearing at least one piece of Pilgrim attire. As all those of us who have done achievements like King of the Fire Festival are painfully aware, this rarely ends well, but sitting is at least quick. On PvE servers you won't get flagged in all of the enemy cities due to feast area placement.
The locations of each capital's feast area are as follows:
The Spirit of Sharing buff is gained when you eat all five dishes available at a Bountiful Table: turkey, cranberries, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and pie. For this achievement, you'll have to run to each of your faction's cities, park yourself at each of the five chairs around a Bountiful Table (or ask other people at the chairs to pass you dishes so you can eat them), and gorge your way to the Spirit of Sharing buff. Once you've done this in all four major cities, you'll get the achievement.
The Spirit of Sharing buff is a 10% bonus to all reputation gains for an hour. If you're working on something like 40 Exalted Reputations, the Burning Crusade tabard grind (as we've previously discussed), or desperately accruing Zandalar or Shen'dralar rep before patch 4.0.3a hits, it's nothing to sneeze at.
Pilgrim's Peril (Alliance) and Pilgrim's Peril (Horde)
Blizzard has a peculiar mania for sending players to their deaths in foreign cities. Anyway, Pilgrim's Peril requires you to sit at hostile Bountiful Tables while wearing at least one piece of Pilgrim attire. As all those of us who have done achievements like King of the Fire Festival are painfully aware, this rarely ends well, but sitting is at least quick. On PvE servers you won't get flagged in all of the enemy cities due to feast area placement.
The locations of each capital's feast area are as follows:
- Stormwind Southeast of the main gates (east of the path into the city). Horde players will not get flagged here on PvE servers.
- Ironforge Directly outside the main gates. Horde players will not get flagged here on PvE servers.
- Darnassus Directly east of the main city (in the courtyard between the main gates and the Warrior's Terrace). All players will have to run the length of the city in order to reach the feast area, and Horde players will almost certainly be harassed by guards every step of the way. This is by far the most inconvenient (and for Horde, dangerous) of all eight feast areas to reach. Don't go at server high time.
- The Exodar Directly outside the main city entrance (i.e. eastern side of the main building).
- Orgrimmar Southeast of the main gates (just south of the path to the Undercity/Grom'Gol zeppelin tower). Alliance players will not flagged here on PvE servers.
- Undercity In the Ruins of Lordaeron courtyard immediately inside the main entrance to the city. Despite not being located far into the complex, this is the nastiest area for Alliance to reach, as there's steady Horde traffic from both the zeppelins and Silvermoon teleport, and the entrance to the Ruins is an unfortunate choke point. Don't go at server high time.
- Thunder Bluff Directly below the western elevators. Despite appearing to be outside of the city, the feast area is still within it and will get Alliance players flagged.
- Silvermoon City South of the city's main gates. Alliance players will not get flagged here on PvE servers.
Pilgrim attire is a reward from any of the cooking dailies given by NPCs in the feast areas, and it's extremely easy to get. You should have no difficulty collecting as many pieces as you want. Put on a dress, robe, or attire, and hie thee to your enemies' feast areas.
As with all achievements requiring you to enter an enemy city:
As with all achievements requiring you to enter an enemy city:
- Try to go during your server's off-hours if possible.
- Try not to go alone.
- Plan your route in advance and know which cities you'll hit in which order.
- Budget time in the quite-likely event that some jackass camping the tables decides to make your life miserable.
Terokkar Turkey Time (Alliance) and Terokkar Turkey Time (Horde)
Talon King Ikiss is the last boss of Sethekk Halls, a Burning Crusade dungeon located in the Auchindoun complex of Terokkar Forest. Fortunately, the achievement doesn't care if you defeat Ikiss on normal or heroic, so if you don't have the requisite Honored reputation with Lower CIty to purchase the Auchenai Key to unlock the heroic version, that doesn't matter. Pick up some Pilgrim attire from the daily quests, head to Sethekk Halls, and you're in business.
As long as you're there, you might as well have a crack at Anzu if you're doing the heroic version and want a shot at the Reins of the Raven Lord. Yes, you can fight him now even if you're not a druid!
Turkey Lurkey (Alliance) and Turkey Lurkey (Horde)
This and The Turkinator were the two big irritants last year. We've already discussed why The Turkinator can make life difficult, but unless your server is home to an unusually high number of orc, dwarf, gnome, and troll rogues, then this achievement can give you some grief too.
Turkey Shooters, like Pilgrim clothing, are potential rewards from the holiday's daily quests. Getting a Shooter is very easy, but finding one rogue of each race might keep you occupied for a bit. Once you've finished off your own faction, your best bet is to sit outside the other faction's district in Dalaran praying for a few rogues to show up. However, if last year is any indication, enterprising players will roll rogues from the less-played races, beg a summon from a friendly warlock in Dalaran, and park themselves in a high-traffic area to grant achievements to a grateful public. On my server, several level one rogues with names like Shootmepls and Turkeytime were lined up on Dalaran bank steps.
Talon King Ikiss is the last boss of Sethekk Halls, a Burning Crusade dungeon located in the Auchindoun complex of Terokkar Forest. Fortunately, the achievement doesn't care if you defeat Ikiss on normal or heroic, so if you don't have the requisite Honored reputation with Lower CIty to purchase the Auchenai Key to unlock the heroic version, that doesn't matter. Pick up some Pilgrim attire from the daily quests, head to Sethekk Halls, and you're in business.
As long as you're there, you might as well have a crack at Anzu if you're doing the heroic version and want a shot at the Reins of the Raven Lord. Yes, you can fight him now even if you're not a druid!
Turkey Lurkey (Alliance) and Turkey Lurkey (Horde)
This and The Turkinator were the two big irritants last year. We've already discussed why The Turkinator can make life difficult, but unless your server is home to an unusually high number of orc, dwarf, gnome, and troll rogues, then this achievement can give you some grief too.
Turkey Shooters, like Pilgrim clothing, are potential rewards from the holiday's daily quests. Getting a Shooter is very easy, but finding one rogue of each race might keep you occupied for a bit. Once you've finished off your own faction, your best bet is to sit outside the other faction's district in Dalaran praying for a few rogues to show up. However, if last year is any indication, enterprising players will roll rogues from the less-played races, beg a summon from a friendly warlock in Dalaran, and park themselves in a high-traffic area to grant achievements to a grateful public. On my server, several level one rogues with names like Shootmepls and Turkeytime were lined up on Dalaran bank steps.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Michael Nov 20th 2010 5:08PM
For those getting this holiday achievement for the first time: summon your new turkey pet, build a fire, and then watch the hilarity ensue.
Kurtis Nov 21st 2010 12:49PM
This is my first year, and one of my guild-mates demonstrated it for me a few days ago while we were waiting for an elemental rift to pop for Tripping the Rifts. Definitely not to be missed... and not going to say any more - if you don't already know, you have to see it to believe it.
Solemn153 Nov 21st 2010 4:15PM
So everyone knows, the hat doesnt work for the opposing faction city tables
Cassie Nov 20th 2010 5:10PM
You are a sad, strange little man.
Utakata Nov 20th 2010 5:13PM
This all looks nice but...
...we're in the middle of an invasion and we have time to stop for a holiday? :(
MusedMoose Nov 20th 2010 5:26PM
I kind of agree. I mean, if it was Brewfest, I'd understand it. Even the elementals would stop for Brewfest. Hell, Ahune would freeze a few kegs solid and toss 'em to Deathwing, so the Elementium-Chinned One himself could enjoy a few brews.
Sad, now that I think about it. If Deathwing had only struck a few months earlier, we could have just gotten him drunk.
RetPallyJil Nov 20th 2010 5:41PM
Even heroes and heroines gotta eat.
Cheeselandman Nov 20th 2010 5:43PM
Think of it like this: our leaders actually ENCOURAGE us to feast outside the city, for two reasons:
1) encourages people to get out of the deathtraps the cities have become
2) Takes a few minds off the constant earthquakes and elementals invading.
So there ya go. The reason why we celebrate even though we're in the midst of a crisis.
Bronwyn Nov 21st 2010 11:07PM
The holiday also stops for invasions, though. The pilgrim area in TB goes byebye when the city is being attacked.
Thundercreamer Nov 20th 2010 5:34PM
What I like about Pilgrim's Bounty is that it's a relatively new holiday. This is the second(?) time it's been out so it's nice to revisit it without it seeming too bland.
My only beef with it is Blizzard stuck all the Azerothian holidays together in the same 4 month time span. Yes I know it's based off real-life holidays but I think Azeroth needs a festival that takes place between Midsummer fire festival and brewfest, its a pretty long time span
Martinel Nov 20th 2010 8:12PM
I like having a few snowballs saved up to get me through the dry spell :)
Orrdeath Nov 20th 2010 5:50PM
I have an idea either your unemployment will run out, or your mom will kick you out of her basement before you get to do first's on every single topic to come out.
lol u mad bro ?
Falcom Nov 21st 2010 3:35AM
Sounds like you're the expert on this subject.
Chetti Nov 20th 2010 5:59PM
I'm going to ask this although I'm fairly certain the answer will be yes. But. Do you think this holiday boss will be accessed through the dungeon finder the way that the previous ones have been?
DjLionheart Nov 20th 2010 6:30PM
What Holiday boss do you see?
Dendaris Nov 20th 2010 6:47PM
I doubt it. It's not a special boss so much as a specific condition in which you're required to kill a pre-existing boss. Sethekk is a really quick run for 80s, especially on regular mode. It's also really easy to access from Shattrath (it's the eastern dungeon in Auchindoun.)
uncaringbear Nov 20th 2010 6:04PM
I wish they would introduce a holiday like this for fishing. Imagine being able to level up fishing to 350 as easily as cooking!
Rob Nov 20th 2010 6:48PM
Yes, dear god. Although my wife likes fishing, she can do it while talking on the phone. But it takes forever to level. And you cant do anything in game while you fish. God i hate fishing. But oddly like RL fishing. Which means maybe they are doing it wrong.
Dendaris Nov 20th 2010 6:55PM
I'm sure there are many people who praise the convenience this provides for levelling cooking, but there are also plenty of people who complained last year.
As someone who took time to collect recipes from vendors as I was levelling my main (and subsequently level up my cooking), I do think this is a bit of a cop-out. As someone who is now working on alts, I think this is really nice. I've intentionally been waiting to level my highest alt's cooking skills because I knew this holiday was coming up.
Although levelling fishing is a long, slow grind, I think I would have more of a problem with it being made easier. Cooking, with few trivial exceptions, only benefits yourself. Although you are generally left alone while fishing, there are certain notable exceptions where fishing is somewhat competitive, primarily the 2 weekly fishing competitions. It doesn't seem right that someone who levelled their fishing effortlessly through a holiday would be able to compete for the same fishing resources.
That said, the fishing daily in Cataclysm is going to make it considerably easier and more profitable to raise your fishing level, so at least you have that to look forward to.
QQinsider Nov 20th 2010 8:33PM
Guess the 3.3 patch notes passed you by? You can now catch any fish in any zone at fishing level 1 if you fish from pools, including the fish required for the competitions.
The only difference skill makes now is when fishing in open water.