This is so late...
Absolutely nothing changed from last year into this year's event, so I decided to just take the guide from last year and spruce it up to fit the new format and make sure all things are included. I'm being a little lazy with this one, you might say, but the Isle of Thunder is awesome and the new raids are intense.
INTENSE. Even if I'm just on the LFR.
The basic idea behind this Easter-esque holiday is to go around the first town of the starting area of your choice and collect brightly colored eggs "carefully" hidden around the towns.
Most of the towns have a spot where you can camp about 4-5 eggs at a single time. In the past, I used to do this, but during the holiday last year, I spent most of my time on the run. I used Dolanaar for the 2012 season and realized that, even with other people around, I could hit just about every single spot in a single trip around the town. If you do not have good targeting skills while on the move, you should probably stick to the camping method. Even if it means sharing spots with someone else, you'll still walk away with a good share of eggs. Well.. Unless you're really slow or inattentive.
Let's start off with the easy part of the holiday: Quests. Seeing as how there is only two quests and a single daily, you shouldn't have too much work cut out for you in -that- department. Like I said, this holiday is ALL egg collecting. Talk to a commoner in a town of your choice, head to an 'egg'-town, talk to the gatherers.
They'll tell you to go collect Brightly Colored Eggs and bring back 10x Noblegarden Chocolate. The "tag along" daily quest you can pick up at the same time is one to collect 20x Brightly Colored Shell Fragments. You get a Borrowed Egg Basket for this quest, and the reward is an Egg Basket you get to keep. They both have the same effect, but you get to keep the non-borrowed one, obviously.
Since there really isn't a whole lot to do this holiday, I'm going to throw down right to the yolk of the holiday.. Vendor goods.
- Noblegarden Egg - 5 Noblegarden Chocolates
- 5x Blossoming Branch - 10 Noblegarden Chocolates
- White Tuxedo Shirt - 25 Noblegarden Chocolates
- Black Tuxedo Pants - 25 Noblegarden Chocolates
- Spring Flowers - 50 Noblegarden Chocolates
- Spring Robes - 50 Noblegarden Chocolates
- Elegant Dress - 50 Noblegarden Chocolates
- Spring Circlet - 50 Noblegarden Chocolates
- Black Spring Circlet - 50 Noblegarden Chocolates
- Pink Spring Circlet - 50 Noblegarden Chocolates
- Spring Rabbit's Foot - 100 Noblegarden Chocolates
- Tome of Polymorph: Rabbit - 100 Noblegarden Chocolates (and a level 60+ Mage)
- Swift Springstrider - 500 Noblegarden Chocolates
Unlike with the Swift Lovestrider from Love is in the Air, the Swift Springstrider is NOT BoE. It is a bind-on-purchase/pick-up mount. You no longer need to worry about which character you farm your eggs on to make this purchase due to the account-wide mounts.
With that in mind, just like in the years past, just about everything that can be purchased CAN be found inside of the eggs. Don't hold your breath on getting the mount out of the eggs. I know a ton of people on my server alone proclaiming that they were getting the mount out of the egg, out of the 6 toons I did this holiday on.. One got it out of the egg. That's well over 3500 eggs.
With that in mind, just like in the years past, just about everything that can be purchased CAN be found inside of the eggs. Don't hold your breath on getting the mount out of the eggs. I know a ton of people on my server alone proclaiming that they were getting the mount out of the egg, out of the 6 toons I did this holiday on.. One got it out of the egg. That's well over 3500 eggs.
If you have some serious bad luck, which also counts against your achievement acquirement, it'll take a total of 1075x Noblegarden Chocolates to purchase every item available from the vendors and complete the daily. If you're a lucky bastard (while rubbing your rabbit's foot, with your four-leaf clover tucked behind one ear, a charm bracelet dangling on your wrist, a tortoiseshell cat in your lap, with a wishbone on your desk, and a horseshoe dangling off a hook behind your monitor), you'll get all the items from eggs and then you'll only need 105x Noblegarden Chocolates from the eggs; the black and pink circlets, and the egg to drop for the achievement.
- I Found One!: You win everything! (You picked up an egg.)
- Chocolate Lover: Seeing as how you're going to be spending a lot of time collecting eggs and collecting all that delicious chocolate.. You're getting hungry aren't you? Hey, your total required chocolate doesn't go down, if you've got an item or two, if you start chowing down on some delicious chocolate treats. Cadbury has nothing on this. You only need 25 for this one, but why stop there..
- Chocoholic: And now you've gone and gorged yourself on chocolate. All the way to 100 eaten chocolate eggs. Let's hope you got more than 1 or 2 items out of the eggs before starting this, as you're going to be retracing your steps to get back to where you were before you lost yourself to the sweetness.
- Sunday's Finest: Crack open tons of eggs and find, separately... a pair of pants and a tuxedo shirt?
- Dressed for the Occasion: Crack open one of those beautiful eggs and discover.. A dress?
- Hard Boiled: This one requires a friend or a random person you just happened to meet who was also at the Un'Goro Crater at the same time as you were, who just so happened to have a Blossoming Branch on hand at the time of your meeting.. Get turned into a rabbit by someone with a Blossoming Branch, stand in the water of the Golakka Hot Springs, wait to lay an egg. Achieved!
- Spring Fling/Spring Fling: After getting your loyal companion pet, the Spring Rabbit, you need to head to the four beginning towns and find a mate for your new pet. Alliance members have to go to Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, and Kharanos. Horde members have to go to Bloodhoof Village, Brill, Falconwing Square, and Razor Hill.
- Noble Garden/Noble Garden: You have to purchase a Noblegarden Egg from the holiday vendors and head to your respective "pretty cities"; Stormwind City (Shut up space goats, The Exodar is not pretty.) and Silvermoon City, and place it on the ground. Don't forget to pick it back up.
- Shake Your Bunny-Maker: Proof that Blizzard relates your level to your age. That makes all of your level capped characters old hoagies. Anyways. Find female characters, of at least the 18th level, of each race. Use your Spring Flowers to make a pair of bunny ears sprout. Note: If they already have the buff, you can't rive them the buff again. This makes the achievement a little more painstakingly irritating, added in the 5 minute cooldown the item has.
- Desert Rose: While wearing the Spring Robes, head around to the multiple deserts around the two continents and plant a flower there. It's a very simple achievement, but why I never understood.. Is why is there a cooldown at all? It used to be longer and the travel time alone between some of these deserts was less time than that, so you'd be standing around waiting for your robes to be usable again.
- Blushing Bride: Don your Sunday Best and find yourself a partner Dressed for the Occasion and pucker up. The person wearing the dress does not get the achievement. But if you're worried about that, just swap items through trade to also share achievements.
The follow-up will follow shortly since this is super late.
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