Results tagged “holiday” from Bitter Roots

as there a more controversial holiday?

I don't do the holiday achievements.  I don't have a lot of playtime and I'd rather do other things than try to get the achievements.  Not to mention that I'd never decide what character to get them on.

My boyfriend, my guildmates and various other friends have been doing them, though.  I spent a while on Sunday logging onto my boyfriend's character to try and get him the last achievement.  It was ... take a guess ... Be Mine.  He did everything else, got just about everything out of the presents that was possible ... except for bags of candy.  The first one that I did while he was at work got a bag and pulling the candies out left him with two candies to get.  Five presents later and no more candy.  He got home and did the next one himself, got a bag, and managed to get the last candy pieces he needed.  This was Sunday night.

A guildy has got the achievement on three of his four characters, and that's from focusing insanely on it (and his last character needing one candy).  I know other people who didn't even get it on one.  I think I got the candy achievement on one character, just from opening candy bags for a giggle to fill up the boyfriend's mailbox.  ;)

I do think that they should consider taking the candy achievement off the meta, or perhaps making it "get 20 pieces of candy" and it not matter which ones they are.  It's not very fair to make it such a random achievement for a week-long event.

In my own mini-test, I had two pieces of candy left to get on my warlock and three bags in her inventory today so I decided to go ahead and pull them out.

Here's how many it took:

 

1. Eggs in Dun Morogh are camoflagued by the snow.

2. Eggs in Elwynn forest are camoflagued by murlocs.

3. Eggs in Teldrassil are camoflagued by ... everything. 

4. When you've been hunting eggs for hours, you may get paranoid delusions that the critters are there just to pretend to be eggs.

5. While there seem to be more eggs in Elwynn (and not many people check the islands), there are less people looking for them in Teldrassil.  Also general chat does not make me want to dig out my eyes with a rusty spoon.

6. There are no eggs in Alterac Valley.  However, killing Horde and getting 500+ honour is a great way to get out egg frustrations.

7. Harpy eggs are not brightly coloured eggs.

 

 

8. Just because you've opened a bajillion eggs, it does not mean you will get a dress.  You may, however, get a tuxedo shirt that you can already make yourself.

9. Unlike in RL, a bagful of candy does nothing but give you less bag space.

10. Nothing has changed since last year.