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The latest patch 5.4 newsBreakfast Topic: Pilgrim's Bounty
by Alex Ziebart 
Nov 20th 2011 at 8:00AM
If you're not into achievements? As mentioned in a recent edition of The Queue, there isn't a whole lot to do beyond leveling your cooking skill quickly and easily across all of your alts. I think that's pretty cool, though. Leveling cooking can be tedious at the low end of things, especially if you don't bolster your cooking skill with fishing.
What are your plans for Pilgrim's Bounty? Will you dig into the achievements? Content yourself with leveling your cooking skill? Heck, is your guild organizing an event of some sort? Or will you skip this one altogether, due to the lack of sweet, sweet epics?
| Achievements! | |
|---|---|
| Just leveling cooking. | |
| I\'ll sit this one out. |
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Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)
Ez Nov 20th 2011 12:03PM
Trying for the Turkey Lurkey!
I was overseas for Thanksgiving one time when i was young and I almost got killed because i mentioned it. In England no less. So needless to say i stick around home during this holiday.
DarkWalker Nov 20th 2011 12:04PM
The photo shows how I feel about this festival.
It's meant to be done together, but last year I've sat along empty tables for the whole ting, on multiple characters.
Some times WoW actually manages to feel a lot more empty than games with less than a tenth of it's player base. Not a good thing in a MMO.
DarkWalker Nov 20th 2011 12:14PM
All the tables are out in the open. How do you defend against players dropping from above? Seems like it would take, at most, two deaths to do a city (one to get in, one to sit and get out), as long as the player mind the flying patrols.
robsmith77 Nov 20th 2011 12:43PM
I'll be sitting this one out, mainly because I completed all the achievements two years ago, but also because I don't collect achievements on any of my alts.
SR Nov 20th 2011 12:51PM
I'm Japanese, and we don't (as a culture) celebrate Oktoberfest, Chinese New Year, Day of the Dead, Halloween, OR Thanksgiving. That has never stopped me from enjoying something in-game, which they've gone out of their way to implement and made it interesting.
What you're trying to do is to make us accept your bias against American culture itself and not question your logic behind dismissing an in-game invent simply because it is American.
SR Nov 20th 2011 12:52PM
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Berna Nov 20th 2011 1:00PM
I have all the achievements on my main, so this time I'll just be leveling cooking on my alts.
Tirrimas Nov 20th 2011 1:27PM
One way you can help folks without running around like a...turkey with its head cut off is to make a little ROgue and let it sit in Org or SW. I have a blast every year with my little Orc Rogue.
Of course then, we had Dalaran and huge dance parties...
Piper Nov 20th 2011 1:40PM
I'll level cooking on a couple of alts that could use it, but other than the rep bonus I probably won't do any thing more. After doing A Long Strange Trip *plus* this one on two toons (my main and prior main) I am fairly burned out on the holiday stuff.
Ben Nov 21st 2011 12:58AM
I'm an Australian who grew up without ever celebrating Thanksgiving. I'd vaguely heard about it but was never all that interested. Likewise, I never celebrated Halloween. In my younger days I was very much on the America-bashing bandwagon complaining about how irrelevant American holiday customs were to me. And then, 3 years ago I moved to Japan and since have celebrated Thanksgiving once and Halloween three times and......
.........they are awesome! Halloween (I learnt is actually a celtic tradition) is a blast, you get to wear cool costumes and party hard and Thanksgiving? Put it this way, it took me 26 years to discover a holiday that revolved entirely around eating too much and then having an afternoon nap, now THAT is my kind of holiday!
TL:DR: I am a little sick of what Thawedtheorc referred to as the 'them and us' mentality. Open your mind, enjoy the culture of other countries and don't hate just for the sake of hating because I used to and I feel very sorry for my younger self sometimes.
psychee Nov 21st 2011 2:28AM
This is my first time with this world event - I think its a hoot and my husband and I are having fun with it. First time cooking and as in real life its a bit of a pain lol.
Sarabande Nov 21st 2011 2:29AM
I've had what I call "The Cooking Tour" posted on our calendar and MotD as well as our website and many of our members have looked forward to it. Doing the holiday activities without a mage can be a pain, so I and some of the other mages in my guild have volunteered to take people around. :)
Last night I took a full group around the cities to level up people's cooking skills, get some achievements done, holiday quests, etc. I think everyone enjoyed it and the best part is, they now have a reasonable skill level of cooking, all done in a few hours. I plan to take more people as needed during this week.
While I'd already gotten the achievements done, I was able to participate in the holiday in this way.
Shardz Nov 21st 2011 6:24AM
I see that the article is slightly out of date.
Darnassus is really easy for Horde now when you can fly in.
The bitch is Ironforge with super aggroing guards that hit like trucks (even if they aren't "elites".
At least you could ghost jump Darnassus in the old days.