Thursday, October 1, 2015

Harvest Festival '15

Here's another holiday that I've never actually written about in the many years that I've (barely) been running this blog. The Harvest Festival! This holiday was originally the anniversary of the US stress test in 2004. It was not implemented for 2005, but it returned in 2006 as the in-game representation of Canada's Thanksgiving, the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, or the Korean Chuseok. The 2015 Harvest Festival falls between September 21st through the 28th.

Unique to the Harvest Festival is the exclusion of any achievements. There is no other in-game holiday event that has no achievements. Even the holidays that are a day, or two days, long have achievements associated with them.

The Harvest Festival only has a single quest to do, for either faction.
  1. Honoring A Hero: Speak to Wagner Hammerstrike outside of the gates of Ironforge. The point of this quest is to head north to the Western Plaguelands and place Uther's Tribute (different for each race) at Uther's Tomb, west of Chillwind Camp. The immediate quest reward is For the Light!. This item is not soulbound, so it can be traded among your alts, to the Horde side, or even traded on the Auction House.
  1. Honoring A Hero: Speak to Javnir Nashak outside of the gates of Orgrimmar. The point of this quest is to head north into Ashenvale and place Grom's Tribute (different for each race) at the Monument to Grom Hellscream, inside Demonfall Canyon. The immediate quest reward is The Horde's Hellscream. This item is not soulbound, so it can be traded among your alts, to the Alliance side, or even traded on the Auction House.
      • Bounty of the Harvest: This reward will come in the mail a few days following your completion of the quest. This item conjures up 4 Harvest Bread on a 12 hour cooldown. I have yet to find an exact time frame for its delivery, but I will continue to look and update with that information.
      • Alongside the book, you also have a choice of 3x of one of the following items. These are purely cosmetic and are NOT Toys. So use them wisely.
      • -NEW- Anxious Spiritshard: Gives your character a ghostly, neon green appearance.
      • -NEW- Forlorn Spiritshard: Gives your character a ghostly, neon purple appearance.
      • -NEW- Peaceful Spiritshard: Gives your character a ghostly, neon blue appearance.
      • -NEW- Vengeful Spiritshard: Gives your character a ghostly, neon red appearance.
    With that simple quest out of the way, the only other things to keep your interest in this holiday comes from the multiple banquet tables laid out in front of both Ironforge and Orgrimmar. These tables have four different items on them that the player has the opportunity to react with to gain consumables; Harvest Boar, Harvest Fish, Harvest Fruit, and Harvest Nectar.
    1. The boar yields Harvest Boar.
    2. The fish-platter yields Harvest Fish.
    3. The fruit bowl yields Harvest Fruit.
    4. The mug yields Harvest Nectar.
    Once you've collected your mass amounts of good and paid your tributes to your faction's hero, there's only one thing left to do. Buy fireworks! Wagner and Javnir are your vendors, and their prices are susceptible to faction discounts.
    Since there are no bosses, mounts, pets, or achievements to be had from the Harvest Festival, that's the end of this guide. Hope you have fun and enjoy your time stuffing your face on all of the bounties of the harvest. Also, there will be no follow-up to this holiday like there normally is, as I have nothing to follow-up on. Do you REALLY want to know whether I went out and collected a book a bunch of times and got a cornucopia on a bunch of toons? Come on now, be serious.

    I apologize for how poorly done this particular guide ended up. I wrote it back in 2013, but never posted it and didn't do any real revisions to it this year. Plus, it being published late, doesn't help the situation. Next year, I promise (and hold me to this), I will type up a completely new version of this guide to go with the holiday. Even if nothing changes. Again.
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