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All of the latest Mists of Pandaria newsBreakfast Topic: Holy moly, can you believe we forgot the Harvest Festival?
by Fox Van Allen 
Sep 8th 2011 at 8:00AM
And what fun is that, you may ask? Well, this year's Harvest Festival is going to be better than all past Harvest Festivals combined. It's got a plus-sized roller coaster for some of our more obese thrill-seekers, Larry Bird's 84-year-old Aunt Tilda, an all-organic corn maze, not three but four hospitality kiosks, famed little horse Li'l Sebastian, and ...
Oh wait, wrong Harvest Festival. This is the one in Azeroth with absolutely no achievements associated with it. The one, where, according to our own Daniel Whitcomb:
So, uh, yeah. How are you celebrating the Harvest Festival? Are you doing the one single quest associated with the holiday? And how will you ever be able to stand the 51-week wait until Harvest Festival 2012 once this one is over?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.
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Reader Comments (Page 3 of 4)
puffcake Sep 8th 2011 8:57AM
Oh. There's a harvest festival?
Hmm...
sezen Sep 8th 2011 8:59AM
The harvest festival is a great chance to stock up on stacks of food and water for free!
Molly Sep 8th 2011 9:08AM
Considering I'm desperately trying to slog through Northrend on my mage alt (SO. MUCH. GRAY.), I'll take any cheap and easy experience I can get...
babywhiz Sep 8th 2011 9:14AM
Oh...was busy making Darkmoon cards....monkey with Fez...yes please!
sparkinator Sep 8th 2011 9:15AM
For the harvest fest there is a fireworks vendor outside the gates of ironforge that sells some pretty cool ground flower items. They spin around on the ground moving around then shoot up and explode at the end. Less than a silver a piece and a long lasting firework. I shoot one or two off after every new boss kill.
jdryner Sep 8th 2011 9:33AM
Harvest Festival, the WoW version of Veteran's Day, would be inproved by adding an achievement wherein you travel to the locations of the death of the veterans to "get their story." The rarer the vet, the more difficult to find them, Arthas would be in ICC, right where he died, Magni would be...well is he REALLY dead; it's debateable. Does being turned into a diamond kill you or lock you up for a really long time? Anywho, you get the idea.
- Rathwyn/Finneous/Coldmeiser (Drenden, US-A)
loop_not_defined Sep 8th 2011 10:25AM
Y'know, that's a good idea. Give people the option of honoring the heroes they want to by expanding the event to more than just Uther and Grom. I'm sure a lot of Tauren players wouldn't mind visiting Cairne.
Obviously, there could be an achievement for honoring all of the heroes. Perhaps one for Alliance/Horde heroes, and one for "neutral" heroes.
This might be too similar to honoring the elders during the Chinese New Year event, but really, who would you rather be honoring? Characters with lore, or random old people who died long before WC2/3? :)
Al Sep 8th 2011 3:21PM
Great idea - it'd finally make them acknowledge Lothar in-game too.
Tiqu Sep 8th 2011 9:34AM
Never worked so hard to complete a quest as i did on this one. Oh, we're taking about the Harvest Fest. Sry, it's so easy as to be laughable!
Prelimar Sep 8th 2011 9:35AM
i really don't mind the harvest festival. you can buy great fireworks for cheap, and i kind of like the quest going to his tomb. it's simple, done in a flash.
Durenas Sep 8th 2011 9:38AM
I use it to powerlevel cooking to 325 on all my alts.
Amaxe Sep 8th 2011 10:18AM
I think you're thinking of a different holiday, though my thought when I saw the title was "oh wow, is it time to powerlevel my alts cooking?" too
Amaxe Sep 8th 2011 10:20AM
http://www.wowpedia.org/Pilgrim%27s_Bounty
TaurenCow Sep 8th 2011 10:21AM
The Harvest Festival has nothing to do with cooking. You're thinking of Pilgrim's Bounty.
chris Sep 8th 2011 10:58AM
"I do not think that holiday means what you think it means."
rip Sep 8th 2011 4:39PM
"This is not the holiday you are looking for."
Durenas Sep 9th 2011 6:43AM
Yes, yes, I made a mistake. Don't kill me!
jdryner Sep 8th 2011 9:41AM
Also, we could gather specific flowers (yellow) make wreaths to leave at the locations I mentioned earlier.
- Rathwyn/Finneous/Coldmeiser (Drenden, US-A)
Shoikler Sep 8th 2011 9:56AM
I did the quest on one alt this year and that was it. It gave a bit of exp, no gold, and an unsellable book; what used to be the best part, 500 rep with every Alliance/Horde faction, is now worthless because it doesn't work past Friendly.
chrisdick Sep 8th 2011 10:17AM
The rep does not work past friendly anymore? This is something new to me.
Then again, I have had 50+ exalts for quite some time, so do not know what the rep changes from pre-Cata have had changed in them.