Winter Veil Is Upon Us
iTZKooPA on Monday, December 15, 2008 - 6 Comments Tags: Achievements, Vanity pets, egbert, holidays, moral choices, sleepy willy, winter veil 
My second favorite holiday inside Azeroth is finally upon us. While I am not certain where the IRL version of Feast of Winter Veil ranks (“Awesome, more socks!” and the inevitable, “No Grandma, I'm still not married.”), I certainly love Blizzard's version of the holiday season. It's partially because of the fact that Winter Veil isn't tied to a religion, thus leaving no one out. In the end it comes down to presents and food. I tend to appreciate both.
First and foremost, it seems that last year's gift, the Clockwork Rocket Bot, is just that, only for last year. This Achievement pretty much confirms that, and if that is not enough evidence for you, then how about this one? I hope you are prepared to deal with tons of cars under your feet because another new Achievement is based around Crashin' Thrasin' duels. That, is in turn part of the Winter Veil's arching Achievement for the the Violet Proto-Drake.
Ugg, my hands hurt from all that linking. Hit up MMO-Champion.com for an all-new mini-guide on Winter Veil's Achievements presented by Boubouille. If he doesn't dish the details himself, then rest assured that he links elsewhere.
I will attempt to snag the race car for sure, and continue on my trend of preparing scrumptious meals for my friends. Beyond that, I doubt I will purposely go after anything. That doesn't mean I won't participate though. Players on the Magtheridon server are sure to see insanely high-priced cooking reagents from my Auction House alt, as I attempt to abuse the supply and demand curve. I wouldn't mind unloading this Preserved Holly for a tidy sum either.
I do have a bone to pick with Blizzard though. I am no Achievement nut, but I do have a tendency to try and pick up as many vanity pets as possible. Yet you guys have designed numerous ways to make my collection efforts fruitless, such as forcing me to chose between Egbert and Sleepy Willy. While Egbert obviously won, I was upset that I lost the chance for a personal C'Thun-inspired Broggok mob. It is that reason that I wish for the Achievement nuts to have to make a hard decision as well. How about a Naughty & Nice achievement, 30 Points to those player who get less than 25 HKs over the course of Winter Veil, 25 Points for those with more than 200 HKs. Mmmm, moral choices.
Reader Comments (6)
1st! cool post.... i play on privite servers (dont diss it )
im just poor. we wont get any WOTLK content till january...
^ I just dissed it in my mind...
I don't like the achievement that makes me go to Dalaran...it makes me lag...
Haha yeah, I also made alot of money with insanely priced cooking mats. (made 100 gold in 35 minutes of farming)
30 points for less than 25 HKs?
That'd be great for all my alts that I may only log into once or twice in the next few weeks. Hell, even my main doesn't get many HKs. Hardly seems like an achievement to sit on the couch and do nothing.
I love Winter Veil I did the stuff before there were achievements but now there's even more incentive to do so. And with the new main I have its like new again since he's not a year old, and was created after Winter Veil last year.
Already have half my achievements done, gotta wait for the rest.
In my mind there is nothing greater in the world than throwing a snowball at cairn bloodhoof and dancing into the small hours as a snowman. Although my only beef so far is that as a blood elf warlock, i am getting snowed on constantly as people try to do the let it snow achievement.