Getting ready for Winter Veil

After Valentines, This is my favorite in-game holiday. However, I got caught out last year doing this on my mage, trying to open up the Ogri'la faction, along with a few other hundred people, at the same time. Think The Turkinator from the Pilgrim's Bounty festival. Luckily this year I was a bit more organized and dragged a friend around to do some "Winter Veil" preparations.

So whats to prepare for?

For the people on the quest to What a long, Strange Trip It's Been, one of the achievements you need for the Winter Veil meta is this.

Fa-la-la-la-Ogri-a

Now this quest is found in Blades Edge Mountains, Outland, but before you can do it you must unlock a annoyingly long quest chain. So for those who never did it while leveling, this is a quick rundown of what you need to do, to be ready when the festive season starts.

The chain will start at Mog'dorg the Wizened, Location 55, 44, Blades Edge Mountains. he is up the top of a tower and if he does not speak to you, chat to his assistant at the foot of the tower first, before heading back up.

He will give you 3 quests to complete

Even Gronn Have Standards, Location 20, 17, Terokkar Forest, just behind Shatt.
Grulloc Has Two Skulls, Location 60,47, Blades Edge Mountains
Maggoc's Treasure Chest, Found patrolling the outside of Deaths Door in Blades Edge Mountains, Approx. 68, 64 & 58,64

Hand those into him and he will send off to these

Grim(oire) Business, Location 77,30, Blades Edge Mountains. (Note: Pre-3.1 you used to need 5 people to summon him. this is no longer the case, he will just show up for you)
Into the Soulgrinder, Location 59, 24 Blades Edge Mountains

Grats! you are now King/Queen of the ogres!

he will now send you to Ogri'La so grab this quest

Ogre Heaven, Chu'a'lor can be found at 28, 57, Who will give you the next few quests
The Crystals, Dropped by Apexis Flayers and Shard-Hide boars
An Apexis Relic. I suggest notepaper. the device is found at 32, 65 and requires a shard to operate. Ever played Simon Says?
Our Boy Wants To Be A Skyguard Ranger, machine is found at 29, 81. To avoid being taken out by fel cannons, use your land mount.
The Skyguard Outpost, Keller found at 27, 52 Blades Edge Mountains.
Bombing Run, Hotkey the smiley (happy?) bombs and never stop moving, as those cannons will take you out. the ammo is marked with hunter-mark like arrows.

After you hand in this quest the daily will open up

Bomb Them Again! Sound familiar?

Remember where this quest is, cause you're going to be coming back here when Winter Veil starts. And now you get to laugh at all the people farming Blades Edge Mountains during the silly season, trying to unlock the chain when you've been smart enough to do it early!

Anything else to prepare for?

If you get bored, Head to Westfall to kill Fleshrippers, Teldrassil to kill Strigid Owls or Eversong Woods to kill Crazed Dragonhawk. Why? They all drop Small Egg, and you will need 5 of these for this quest, Treats for Greatfather Winter, and the AH prices are guaranteed to skyrocket as we creep closer to the holiday.

Happy Questing!

Spex <3

Happy Thanksgiv.... er, Pilgrim's Bounty!

Every year WoWer's can enjoy Thanksgiving online from November 22nd till November 28th. This is more exciting for me as I do not celebrate Thanksgiving. Do you guys really eat candied sweet potato's?

Anyways, As this event is very achievement based - lets check out what you gotta do.


Food Fight - Bountiful tables can be found at all your factions capital cities. Choose a seat at a table and check out your action bar. your No. 1 key gives you the ability to pass a dish to another person sitting at the table, since the table is rather large and you are probably sitting closer to the dish then them, so you can share it around! Use this skill to pass it to someone, and if you throw too much at them, it will indeed knock them on the head.


Sharing Is Caring - Another "Pass the Dish" Achievement. You need to be able to pass every single type of dish around the table. So musical chairs time! each chair has 1 assigned dish, so sit at each one to pass it around. There are 5 types of food you need.

Pilgrim's Paunch - To get the "spirit is sharing" buff you need to eat 5 servings of every food on the table. if there are no people to pass the different dishes to you, just bounce into each individual chair, eat whats available, then repeat for all 5 dishes.

Now We're Cookin' - At the major faction's cities there will be a vendor that sells Bountiful Cookbook, this opens up all the recipes that you need to complete this achievement. you simply need to cook the 5 different kinds of foods.

Cranberry Chutney
Pumpkin Pie
Candied Sweet Potato
Slow-Roasted Turkey
Spice Bread Stuffing

*Note the turkey needs cooking level 280, the rest require lower levels.

Pilgrim's Peril - The Robe, Dress and Attire are rewards from the cooking dailies this holidays give. You only need to wear 1 item, and be sure to put it on before you go rampaging into any territory that may get you flagged and in combat. Best done at night or with a bunch of friends.

• Orgrimmar - At main gates (Won't flag you)
• Thunderbluff - At the main lifts (You will get flagged)
• Undercity - Inside the main gates, to the left (You will get flagged)
• Silvermoon - In front of the city gates, close to Stillwhisper pond (Won't flag you)

• Stormwind - A bit down the road from the city's entrance (Won't flag you)
• Ironforge - To the right of the city gates (Won't flag you)
• Darnassus - At the back of the Warrior's Terrace, inside the city (You will get flagged)
• Exodar - At the second city entrace coming from the dock, Just inside the outer city wall (You will get flagged)

Terokkar Turkey Time - I did this as Resto with a Fury Warrior friend, and the instance was Extremely simple to do. Probably solo-able at 80 but considering everyone needs to go there, grab a friend or two to make things easier. Remember you need to wear the hat as well as a chestpiece.


Turkey Lurkey - Alliance are always easy to get on my server. Just sit in the Dalaran bank or at the Flight Path, and/or ask in general for the whereabouts of any Rogues. The horde on my server, however, are pretty much extinct and they like to hang out JUST out of range in Sunreavers Sanctuary, to tease us. To counter this I mainly sat on top of the horde building in Dalaran, to Ninja-Shoot them. Surprise!


The Turkinator - My American friends did not do this without getting cranky at least once during their attempts. Best to do it first thing in the morning, or extremely late at night. The turkeys can be found wandering aimlessly abut Elwynn Forest and Tirisfal Glades. You need to kill 40 turkeys in total, each turkey must be killed within 30 seconds of the previous one. You get a stacking debuff to let you know how many you have killed and how much time until the debuff runs out. Goodluck!

Reward? "Pilgrim" Title and this cute little Plump Turkey Pet!



Spex <3

Happy Halloween!

I live in Australia, where we do not get to enjoy the thrill of dressing up in white curtains, knocking on stranger’s door and eating things like “Candy Corn” and “Candied Apple”

So naturally this holiday is always a lot of fun for me, since I cannot celebrate IRL ::sadface::

Here is what is in store for us:

Visiting Inns around Azeroth, Outland and Northrend will yield you candy and gold! You can visit each candy bucket once, and will receive, from each one, approx. 6 gold and a “handful of candy”, A container which holds some yummy treats.

Trick Or Treat! – This is what It is all about. Visiting a innkeeper once an hour will give you the chance of receiving a Treat bag full of goodies, or get turned into..Something.. Like Worms and Ghosts.

- Sinister Squashling Another pet for your collection! Rare drop from the Headless Horseman, a Daily in the SM Graveyard, Alternatively from the Treat bag from Innkeepers

- Soothing Spearmint Candy, Pyroblast Cinnamon Ball, G.N.E.R.D.S. Wicked buff food, each can be found in Treat Bags or Handful Of Candy. All these foods stack with each other, and also with your flasks and normal food buff food/feasts, Making this a perfect addition to your raid consumables. The buff they give also stacks to 4, so make sure you max it out.

- Rickety Magic Broom, Flying Broom Fun Brooms to whizz around in! 2 types, both scale with your skill, so if you have Flying trained yours will indeed lift off the ground in Outland and Northrend. Unfortunately these do disappear after the holiday.

Happy Holidays!

Spex <3

Happy Midsummer Fire!

So us nerdy overachiever's have found something to occupy ourselves with. But this festival has some pretty neat bonuses too!

• Over 800 gold to be made by honoring your factions fires around Azeroth, Outland and Northend, And desecrating your enemy faction's ones.
• [Captured Flame], A cute little wispy vanity pet that can be bought with the Midsummer currency.
• [Fire-toasted Bun], [Elderberry Pie], [Toasted Smorc], [Midsummer Sausage], Wicked buff food, each can be bought with the Midsummer currency. All these foods stack with each other, and also with your flasks and normal food buff food/feasts, Making this a perfect addition to your raid consumables.
• New Threads!

I advise the poor to make the most of the money to be made, Northend and Outland being the easiest, fastest ways of making the cash. Also be sure to fill your bags full of those delicious snacks to go. The extra 30 haste and 44 spellpower is to good to shrug away!

Spex <3

Edit: The Midsummer Sausage in wowwiki says it adds 23 spell dmg. this is not true. The sausage adds 30 haste for 1 hour. Silly wiki >.<