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K9
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Click on eggs before anyone else clicks on eggs to win!
Definitely the dullest holiday event so far.
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Lakov_Sanite
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It always was.
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Merusk
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Don't the eggs other people hide as a rabbit for the achievement give out the achievement stuff as well? If not, then lame.
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Rendakor
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Uh, there's an event live? Where is it? I've heard and seen nothing so far.
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K9
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Uh, there's an event live? Where is it? I've heard and seen nothing so far.
Go to one of the starter towns (Goldshire, Kharanos, Dolanaar, Razor Hill etc) and run around trying to click the eggs before someone else gets them. After a few hours of clicking you can go lay an egg in Un'goro while dressed as a rabbit. That's pretty much the whole of Noblegarden.
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Merusk
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Yeah it really, really sucks. The eggs you lay as a rabbit don't count, nor do the ones you hide in your capitol. So 3-4 hours of camping 1-3 egg spawns depending on how crowded the area you're at is, hoping to get the random bits you need so you don't have to spend 100 chocolates for the pet. Woo.  The wife camped for about 120 chocolates, I stopped after I got 20 eggshells for my 13g. Oh, and you HAVE to find the wand for bunny-ears in an egg. It doesn't get sold on the chocolate vendor.
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Evil Elvis
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Oh, and you HAVE to find the wand for bunny-ears in an egg. It doesn't get sold on the chocolate vendor.
You can buy the bouquet of flowers that does this (at least in Brill you can). The 2 worst parts are getting clothes from the eggs, and having to hop your ass to Plame Fume in Un'Goro with out being griefed. I probably opened around 220+ eggs: 1 bunny ears, 1 robe, 1 dress, 3 pets, 3 tuxedo pants, no tuxedo shirt =/ I think I give up. Edit: the clothes quests aren't part of the Noble Gardener achievement at least.
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« Last Edit: April 26, 2009, 09:12:13 AM by Evil Elvis »
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Merusk
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Yeah I didn't see it in Kharanos this morning, but I did in Goldshire later. I may have just missed it the first time.
The wife didn't get her tux shirt until she looted her own hidden egg in Stormwind. That one had a shirt in it. Go fig.
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Simond
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The 2 worst parts are getting clothes from the eggs, and having to hop your ass to Plame Fume in Un'Goro with out being griefed. I probably opened around 220+ eggs: 1 bunny ears, 1 robe, 1 dress, 3 pets, 3 tuxedo pants, no tuxedo shirt =/ I think I give up. The disguise from the rabbit wand/branch thingy works for the 'Hard Boiled' achievement, by the way. Team up, get a wand each, fly to Un'Goro, wand each other, et voila!. The real worse part is finding a dwarf female and an orc female to put bunny ears on. 
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Sjofn
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Because I am a nice person, I wandered around Dalaran on my dwarf warrior, politely clicking off the buff as soon as I got it so people could get that part done. :P
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Mazakiel
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I thought about giving this a shot earlier, and stepped into the starter town in Eversong to see people camping every single spawn point there was for the eggs. Same in every other town apparently. Whee.
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Samprimary
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Retarded, hair-pullingly frustrating event necessary for a proto-drake, check.
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Evil Elvis
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The 2 worst parts are getting clothes from the eggs, and having to hop your ass to Plame Fume in Un'Goro with out being griefed. I probably opened around 220+ eggs: 1 bunny ears, 1 robe, 1 dress, 3 pets, 3 tuxedo pants, no tuxedo shirt =/ I think I give up. The disguise from the rabbit wand/branch thingy works for the 'Hard Boiled' achievement, by the way. Team up, get a wand each, fly to Un'Goro, wand each other, et voila!. The real worse part is finding a dwarf female and an orc female to put bunny ears on.  Thanks, that should help a bit.
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Paelos
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This is still not as bad as doing the Love Fool stuff. 
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Simond
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The 2 worst parts are getting clothes from the eggs, and having to hop your ass to Plame Fume in Un'Goro with out being griefed. I probably opened around 220+ eggs: 1 bunny ears, 1 robe, 1 dress, 3 pets, 3 tuxedo pants, no tuxedo shirt =/ I think I give up. The disguise from the rabbit wand/branch thingy works for the 'Hard Boiled' achievement, by the way. Team up, get a wand each, fly to Un'Goro, wand each other, et voila!. The real worse part is finding a dwarf female and an orc female to put bunny ears on.  Thanks, that should help a bit. Also, the clothes aren't actually needed for the overall Noblegarden achievement.
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K9
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This is still not as bad as doing the Love Fool stuff.  Agreed, although these events are a lot less fun and interesting than Ahune/Brewfest dude.
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Paelos
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Yes, but Brewfest is the pinnacle of world events.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Yes, but Brewfest is the pinnacle of world events.
as well irl.
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Ingmar
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Frustrating? I farmed it in a single night on a crowded server.
Now, getting a flag return with my stupid orphan out, that is going to be frustrating.
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Ingmar
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The 2 worst parts are getting clothes from the eggs, and having to hop your ass to Plame Fume in Un'Goro with out being griefed. I probably opened around 220+ eggs: 1 bunny ears, 1 robe, 1 dress, 3 pets, 3 tuxedo pants, no tuxedo shirt =/ I think I give up. The disguise from the rabbit wand/branch thingy works for the 'Hard Boiled' achievement, by the way. Team up, get a wand each, fly to Un'Goro, wand each other, et voila!. The real worse part is finding a dwarf female and an orc female to put bunny ears on.  Thanks, that should help a bit. Also, the clothes aren't actually needed for the overall Noblegarden achievement. You do need the tuxedo for Blushing Bride which is part of the meta, I believe.
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Kail
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You do need the tuxedo for Blushing Bride which is part of the meta, I believe.
Yeah, but you don't need to find it, so you can either buy it (with more @$#^ing chocolate) or just barter it off a buddy, since it doesn't bind.
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Lantyssa
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Frustrating? I farmed it in a single night on a crowded server.
If you refuse to camp, it's very frustrating. I don't mind running about in a small area even if the locations are set. But just sitting there? No thanks.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Paelos
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Just play peggle-mod while you wait 
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kildorn
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I got about 30 of them camping out at a wall in Karnos or whatever that had four spawn points within easy reach.
Still, a horrible holiday.
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Soulflame
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Got this done, but it was a pretty miserable experience. Easily my least favorite holiday, but I'm pretty sure I say that about all of them. I had to obtain 255 chocolates, because the pet and the spring flowers never did pop from an egg for me. RNG + camping = fun?  I can't even imagine the horror of trying to do this on a highly populated server.
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Merusk
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Got this done, but it was a pretty miserable experience. Easily my least favorite holiday, but I'm pretty sure I say that about all of them. I had to obtain 255 chocolates, because the pet and the spring flowers never did pop from an egg for me. RNG + camping = fun?  I can't even imagine the horror of trying to do this on a highly populated server. It sucks. Like you the RNG hates me and I had to collect 200+ chocolates. (I did get the spring robes on my 200th egg, and the rabbit at about 150.) I was at the same wall in Kharanos that Kildorn's talking about and it took me 2 1/2 hours this morning. Glad I'm keeping my 'get up like you've got a job' schedule because by 8:00 there were already 30 level 80s in the zone. Last night when I did a quick run-through of the other noob zones there were easily 2-3 people per egg spawn.
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Malakili
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I've been totally ignoring this event based on what my guildmates are saying about it. For some reason they are bitching incessantly about having to sit there are click on eggs for hours, but continue to do it. I guess they want the achievements or something. Me? I've been leveling my mage alt and having a good time while everyone else is cursing out egg ninjas.
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Merusk
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I don't want the achievements.. I want the goddamned protodrake mount at the end of the year. (Which for DKs will be Halloween, how appropriate.)
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Lakov_Sanite
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Stupid event BUT....
Running around to all the egg spawns is still faster that camping, even when the area is busy. Also not all starter towns are created equal, as a horde I went to camp bloodhoof and there were even at peak times half the amount of people that were anywhere else. Completed the whole achievement in 3 hours
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Xanthippe
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So between jousting and Noblegarten - worst major patch ever?
My urge to log in has left me. Maybe I just need a little break.
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Sutro
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I was playing this with my girlfriend the other night - admittedly, she's quite the feminist - and she got pretty worked up over the whole "put bunny ears on women" achievement. After thinking about it a bit, I thought she had a point. What's the perceived benefit in making that achievement gender-exclusive to women? Is it, "Hey, I don't think our female characters get enough grief, especially ones that pick non-traditional races!" I seriously don't know. Anyway, I posted about it at length on a feminist blog she and I follow - http://community.feministing.com/2009/04/wow-thats-boring-lets-add-sexi.html#moreDon't necessarily believe this is the crowd that'll agree with me here, but I just don't see where there's a benefit to Blizzard in making it women-only. Especially since I and she *aren't* the only ones to take a little umbrage to it.
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Frax
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Your concerns are as overblown as the SWINE FLU PANDEMIC! RUNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
edit seriously tho, it's a game. My male tauren was kissed while wearing a pink dress by a femaie undead wearing a tux so the other player could get the achievement. It wasn't a traumatic commentary on society and I didn't feel my gender or role in life were threatened in any manner.
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« Last Edit: April 29, 2009, 08:44:32 AM by Frax »
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Khaldun
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I have a skeptical take on a lot of identity-politics-within-virtual-worlds but I actually do agree that there's something vaguely liine-crossingly stupid about the bunny ears achievement.
Noblegarden itself, not one of my favorites. The Children's Week stuff is more fun (and challenging). I also agree about the Tournament: I'm an achievement hound but I can really barely be bothered with it, too annoying. And my guild has been very slow to want to move into Ulduar: we have some complex backcurrent tensions unfolding between the highly-geared A-team (about 15 people) and the less-geared and in some cases way less proficient B-team that is making it hard to get a commitment to further progression. When we've had that lag before, it's been pretty easy for the progression-minded to go off and work with an allied guild, but they're focused right now on their own 10-man Ulduar and don't feel ready to do 25-man with us.
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Rendakor
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Sutro, you comments would be relevant except for one small fact you're forgetting:
There are no girls on the internet.
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