Brewfest May Be Gone But There Is Plenty To Come
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iTZKooPA on Monday, October 6, 2008 - 17 Comments Tags: brewfest, celebration, event list, seasonal, seasonal event, warth
iTZKooPA on Monday, October 6, 2008 - 17 Comments Tags: brewfest, celebration, event list, seasonal, seasonal event, warth 
Juggynaut was one of those lucky players to see a Brewfest mount drop during the seasonal event. Sadly, Juggy was not lucky enough to win, rolling an amazing 30. On the last possible run of the event, started at 11:59PM server time, Juggynaut's squad was once again met with a trinket drop. So long to Brewfest for another year. But don't worry folks, like in the real world, the citizens of Azeroth have plenty of holidays coming in the next few months.- Hallow's End (October 18th – November 1st) – Blizzard's take on the North American holiday of Halloween. Event includes the Headless Horsemen, Bobbing for Apples, Innkeepers handing out Tricks or Treats and more.
- Feast of Winter Veil (December 15th – January 2nd) – Celebration of various religious holidays although primarily focuses on the idea of Santa Claus and gift giving. The event allows all players to receive free loot from the main cities, kissing under Mistletoe and the always annoying fun, snowballs.
- New Year (December 31st – January 1st) – This one should be fairly obvious, the celebration of the new year by the Gregorian calendar. This event doesn't have too much to do but does have fireworks at Stormwind, Thunder Bluff, and Booty Bay.
Those three events, which are subject to change before they go live, round out the end of another year for World of Warcraft. In mid-February we have Love is in the Air, commonly known in our realm as Valentine's Day. Then we hit a bit of a dry spell until Noblegarden, an event that is timed with Easter's revolving celebration.
Blizzard managed to find time to add two brand new calendar events this year. The first addition, Spirit of Competition for the Olympic Games, promoted many strict PvEers to PvP for the first time in ages. The second was to highlight the made-up holiday known as International Talk like a Pirate Day, which Azerothians know simply as Pirate's Day.
Brewfest has become my favorite holiday due to Blizzard's addition of Coren Direbew in Black Rock Depths. Mainly, I love the fact that Blizzard took the time out not only to add another boss with good loot, but to add it to old content. It wouldn't be that hard for them to continue the trend lore-wise.
Have Greatfather Winter be late to his event because he is held captive by Troggs in Gnomeregan and Ragefire Chasm and needs to be rescued. The Fireworks shipment can be stolen for the New Year celebration and kept in Uldaman. Why Uldaman you ask? Simple, because everyone hates Dark Iron Dwarves.
I don't expect Blizzard to go nuts on seasonal content, but I am sure they could give some developers a break from the norm to flesh out one seasonal event per year. How did you guys do on your mount drops and what is your favorite seasonal event?
Oh, and one more event I should mention. Wrath of the Lich King goes live Novemeber 13th.
Reader Comments (17)
I would have to say that I was disappointed with brewfest over all. (will have to see if that beer of the month club is worth it) I worked my butt off last year to get the stamp and ended up being sick the last to days of brewfest and was unable to get the mount. Now after ginding the boss more times then running guildies thru Ramps runs I don't have a ram. Sure I could spend 90 BG Badges (30WSG, 30AB, 30AV) to get one, but that doesn't seem as rewarding.
I did get a few of the trinkets and missed getting the shanker by 1 (Hunter /roll 79, Rogue /roll 78). I was able to get an entire brewfest outfit and can duel weild my 2 brewfest muggs, but I still really want that mount.
Here's hoping they bring it back next year.
I think I will be in Hallow's End too much as well for my broom mount.
Can't wait for Hallow's End.
Swift Magic Broom!
The mount managed to drop for me and i rolled a 86 and i won! lol but now i get bombared by noobs saying where did i get the mount so i dont really use it
man i realy enjoy christ mas event it was all right last year were you were supposed to rescue rudolf :P
third comment :P
i acctually got the mount after about 40 runs on that boss, i forgot what i rolled. My favorite holiday in wow is right now brewfest couse its the only seasonal boss i have tried and i like the thing about all the beard:D
Both mounts after killing Coren 5 or more times each day depending if I could get some group to allow me to "relog" after using the summon on an alt (which is actually on another account though). I have seen everything drop multiple times and was rather lucky winning the Ram on the second last day.
Halloween just around the corner. Got the plate helmet last year. So much fun to activate that maniac laugh. Brewfest was fun, Got the Ram mount last year by grinding tickets, so this years boss fight to get the kodo was lots of fun. They should do more of those happenings bringing old instance into play again.
I was one of the lucky ones that got a mount from Coren. First kill and I rolled a 98. Love that kodo, shame it's on an undead which makes it a kind of baby kodo. :P
I'm looking forward to hallow's end as well. I like Project Lore should do a series of video specials featuring each holiday event, could be a quick easy 1 shot episode they shoot on the side.
I rolled a 5 on the kodo... I was sooooo mad =\
You should def include the Headless Horseman in one of your episodes. The boss fight is rather unique.
i agree it whould be fun i am so looking forward to hollows end last year i started my hunter level 6 he ambushed kharanos i tried to put teh fires out but if i did i whould not be able to kill him this year my hunter is 70 and its payback time i started brew fast late in the last weak i was lucky anough to win the drop on my first time but i was realy going for the kodo but my ram just as good. i miised allot of event last year because i didnt have a high anough level but this year i plan to follow up all of am
Got my mount day 1 - took me a week to get my remote but I got that too
All in all I saw 12 - 15 mounts, but my groups were power farming and I was in there 2 hours a day so yea. (I think I did 200 - 250 attempts)
definetely looking forward to Hallow's end especially for my pally alt, who needs a good helm or 2 and could use a nice one handed sword >.> :)
Hoping to get a squashling and the mount on my mage though
Brewfest was pretty decent. I got to replace both my trinkets, as well as take two for each of my off-specs.
I even managed to win the remote on the very last brewfest boss run. :lol:
The only thing I'm really disappointed about is that Blizzard set the drop rate so low for the ram and kodo mounts. C'mon Blizz! It's a once-a-year event which is, for all practical purposes, only for lvl. 70s! That's makes it rare enough so as to not justify the low drop rate you gave them. :x
Killed him about 40 times.. I got everything but 1 of the brewmaiden's trinkets and the ram.
Got the Kodo the 3rd time I saw it drop, saw it again and pass on the roll. Missed the 2 ram drops I saw.
The direbrew hops really helps my resto shaman and the remote is a very fun item. I was a bit sad I got a kodo instead of a ram since I am a Tauren and I have easy access to Kodos :P
It took 172 Direbrew kills, but after the 6th kodo drop I finally got one. Cheers.
Take heart, engineers. In your future lies a "hog" to ride in Northrend.
I saw both mounts, the koda and the ram. I rolled a 1 on the koda and a 3 on the ram. :(