Pilgrim's Bounty

Well, earlier this week, a brand new holiday was introduced into WoW: Pilgrim's Bounty. As you can see in the above screenshot, I have finished all the achievements, and got myself the title and the Plump Turkey pet. Bellow will be all the achievements for this holiday, and my thoughts on the processes on how to complete them, and how I felt about them.


This one wasn't that hard; just took a little figuring out to know that whichever chair you are sitting in ((each chair at the tables correspond to a specific food)) was the one you would pass if you had someone selected. Basically, just needed to pass the specific food more then once, so that when they already had some, it bounced off their head; resulting in a food fight.

Easy enough to get, so no complaints there; just no real challenge.


Now that I figured out how to 'pass' the food, I was able to finish this up. Not much to say about it other then having to rotate around the table wasn't too much fun; especially on the first day it started when everyone ele was trying to do it as well. XD had to rush to the chairs so that no one else would get them.


Now, while sitting at the tables, if you eat 5 stacks of each of the foods, you would get a Spirit of Sharing buff on you. This buff would increase your reputation gained by 10% for 1 hour; useful for when you are working on rep like I am with the Kurenai. But having to go to each of the faction's major cities in order to do this achievement was a little bit of a time waster. I did it since it was easy, but there is no real reason to go to each city. They offer the same buff regardless of where you were at.


Speaking of eating, this one was fun. I had just gotten my chefs hat right before doing this, so I was able to cook all these things real quickly; and since they are required cooking for the dailies of this holiday, this achievement came naturally.

Just like any other cooking achievement, not that hard to do other then gathering up the ingredients. That's about the hardest of it.


As yes, the 'daily' achievement. Can't for get this one. Just do the dailies, do them all, do them once or twice; doesn't matter, and you will have this one in no time at all.


Now we get into some of the fun achievements. This one was simple; just sit at each o the horde's tables. Orgrimmar and Silvermoon Cities was a joke; right outside the city gates; thus I wasn't PvP flagged for either one.

However, Thunder Bluff and Undercities was within the city limits and you did get flagged. Luckily for me, I was able to get in and out quickly enough that I didn't have any trouble with anyone.

Undercity was the only place I got close. Someone spotted me and right after I got the achievement ((since I saved it for last)) I had to rush out while they chased me. XD was great fun.

Just like the one with going to your own faction's cities, this one was kind of pointless. If it was something like stealing the food from them, it would be more interesting, but just sitting at the table had no thrill to it.


I don't know what they were thinking with this one. It was a pain to get and to do. I was able to do it after eating some Tracker Snacks and making a simple macro that would target them and shoot my wand, but was still a pain to accomplish.

Yet it was one of the funnest ones I've done in a long time. I really enjoyed it, and would love to see more like this.


I was able to solo Talon King Ikiss quite easily on normal difficulty in holy spec, so this one wasn't that hard to do. just took some time since I had to replace both my helm and my robe, I had around 12k mana ((compared to my normal 23k)), and so couldn't cast as many spells.

I mostly left Damage of Time ((DoTs)) on him while running around and avoiding his arcane blasts.

Yet another fun one to do, but not something I'd want to do each holiday.


Now this, this one was the most awful achievement I've seen. Many of them I was able to find easily, but then trying to find an Orc and a Troll rogue on my realm was like following the plot of LOST after watching season 3 before the first two.

The only reason I was able to get it was because I farmed the starting zone of the Orcs and Trolls till I saw some low level ones come and I shot them on sight. It was quite funny actually seeing them run away, but still...


And the do all the other achievements to get me achievement.

All in all, I liked this holiday. The way they handled the outfits was different, and I liked that. It wasn't about doing the dailies everyday in order to get enough 'tokens' to purchase the garb, but just do them once and pick which piece you want. I had to do it for several days to get all the pieces AND enough guns to shoot all the rogues, but it wasn't that bad.

I'll be adding this outfit with the rest of my holiday outfits; and hope that new things will be around next year.