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More on the Upcoming Pilgrim's Bounty Event

turkeyAs Juggynaut informed us all last week, with Patch 3.2 up on the PTR we're learning a lot more about what kind of new achievements and other goodies will be coming our way soon. A couple of the ones that caught my eye, since I love holidays, are Pirates' Day, Day of the Dead and Pilgrim's Bounty.

It looks like those first two will be pretty small in scale, with the Pirate Day's achievement coming from drinking with the Dread Captain DeMeza (not Roberts!?) and joining her crew, and the Day of the Dead achievement from dancing with Catrina to become a skeleton. It's the Pilgrim's Bounty event that probably will draw in the most people because it seems to have the makings of a full-on world event that I guess would scan at least a week, like most others of this scope.

From what MMO-Champion has uncovered, it looks like the Pilgrim's Bounty event will have something for everyone.

Of course you have the random, just-for-fun achievements for the event: "Food Fight!" in which you bounce cranberries, stuffing, turkey, pie and sweet potatoes off a fellow feaster's head at a Bountiful Table; The Turkinator, which will have you heating up turkeys; Sharing is Caring, for which you'll pass candied yam, slow-roasted turkey, cranberry chutney, pumpkin pie and  spice bread stuffing at the table; Cook up each of these same dishes, and you'll earn Now We're Cooking (better get up that cooking skill!); And if you sit down to feast in each major city, you'll get Pilgrim's Paunch.

On the PvP side, you'll have to wear your pilgrim attire and sit down to a bountiful table in each enemy capital city to earn the Pilgrim's Peril achievement.

thanksgivingfeastAnyone who enjoys daily quests will get a kick out of the Pilgrim's Progress achievement, for which you'll need to complete five Pilgrim's Bounty daily quests.

You raiders out there will hopefully enjoy a draw back into Burning Crusade content to defeat the feathered and, might I say, turkey look-alike Talon King Ikiss in Sethekk Halls while wearing Pilgrim attire. This earns you the Terokkar Turkey Time achievement.


And perhaps the oddest of all these (but sure to create some in-game fun) is the Turkey Lurkey achievement, for which you have to "blast those dirty, sneaking Rogues (of all 8 playable races) with your Turkey Shooter." I know I'll certainly be lurking around with my rogue just for the fun of that one.

Now once all of this is completed, you'll get the Pilgrim title. Keep in mind that as we all know, information gleaned on the PTR is never official until it goes live on all servers. So things could change until then. But it looks like Blizzard has a pretty good idea of how they want this event to play out. Should make for a good time!

Do you guys agree - is this an event you can get behind? Or are you dreading this as a possible addition needed to earn your Violet Proto Drake? What aspects of it are you most looking forward to? As for myself, all this talk of Thanksgiving feasts is making me hungry!

Reader Comments (9)

Frist!

June 29, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterPekko

I'm really looking forward to this event. Especially the turkey pet (I'm a sucker for them) and, after recently enjoying stealing enemy capital flames, the Pilgrim's Peril achievement looks fun to try.
First proper comment! =D

June 29, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterPhanttas

Haha, "Frist!"
Fail Pekko!

June 29, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterPhanttas

Knowing Blizzard, they'll make Pilgrim's Peril a requirement for the meta-achievement. >_<

June 29, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAlayea

polymorph:turkey is a reward

June 29, 2009 | Unregistered Commenteramidaman

I'm not Liking the rogue shooting thing, you don't see many rogues anymore, I really dislike these types of Achs on the premise that Blizz seems to pick a list of the hardest types to find

June 29, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDitz

What about Tauren Rogues?!?

http://www.wowwiki.com/Tauren_Rogue

Do we have to kill them too :D ?

June 29, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCarlos

question does the turkey shooter kill rogues gnome rogeus are rare these days as dwarf rogues and orcs its going to be the noblegarden all over are we going to have to farm the turkey shooter like we did the bucade of flowers

June 30, 2009 | Unregistered Commentercocopuff

don't like the fact you have to get a rogue from all 8 races. Though, it does extremely limit the amount of people that can earn the 310% drake this year. so meh

July 2, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLaeltis

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