A Guide To Brewfest 2009 & All Its Goodies
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iTZKooPA on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 19 Comments Tags: brewfest, brewfest 2009, brewfest guide, brewfest tokens, companion pet, coren direbrew, guides, non-combat pet, pink elekk, seasonal event, vanity pet, violet proto drake, wolpertinger
iTZKooPA on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 19 Comments Tags: brewfest, brewfest 2009, brewfest guide, brewfest tokens, companion pet, coren direbrew, guides, non-combat pet, pink elekk, seasonal event, vanity pet, violet proto drake, wolpertinger 
It's 5 O'clock Somewhere!The closing of International Talk Like a Pirate Day ushered in another of WoW's seasonal events, the much loved Brewfest. Ahh Brewfest. Who could dislike two-week long celebration based upon the ancient Dwarven tradition of drinking? No one, that's who. Not even the Elementals, Old Gods or Titans could turn away a good brew, tall mug of ale or flagon of mead. Each and every being in the Warcraft universe has their vice, thus we all love to celebrate the joy it brings. Oh, except Coren Direbrew. He probably hates the event since everyone tries to kill him for his purpalz. Unfortunately for that Dark Iron dwarf, this year will be no different.
The double-fisting dwarf has been updated to a level 80+ boss for 2009's Brewfest, and is complete with a new loot table. Included in his table are the staples of old, the Ram and Kodo and the summoning remote, alongside some sexy new ilvl 200 trinkets (Dodge/Spell Power/Attack Power/Healing Haste) and the second successor to the dagger that almost forced me to quit the game, Direbew's Shanker 2.0. Yes, Azerothians apparently label their daggers like we Earthlings label our software.
Other than the new loot and raise in level, Direbrew's encounter is essentially the same. To the tickets!
Quests:
- Brewfest! - This is the simple starting quest to the event (Alliance/Horde).
- Now This is Ram Racing...Almost - You need to do this quest if you want to unlock the other ram racing dailies and/or grab your souvenir stein for Brewfest 2009 (Alliance/Horde).
- Say, There Wouldn't Happen to be a Souvenir This Year, Would There? - You'll be able to grab your free stein once you complete Now This is Ram Racing...Almost (see above), so be sure to do that quest first. A very simple quest (Alliance/Horde)!
- There and Back Again (10 Tokens) - This is the most challenging, but not the most time consuming, quest. You have to run back and forth on a temporary ram delivering kegs, while keeping your fatigue in check. And you only have four minutes to do three runs. If you do this quest then you can help the quest giver one more time (Alliance/Horde).
- Do you still need some help moving kegs from the crash site... (2+ Tokens) - That bit about helping the quest giver one more time refers to this. You'll be tasked with doing the same thing as above, but you'll get 2 tokens for each trip made. However, once your four minute timer is up you are done for the next 18 hours. It's like a daily quest, only not a quest, or on a daily timer. I guess it's the tuned up "Do you have additional work" from last year.
- Catch the Wild Wolpertinger! - One of the quests where you need to be completely smashed on booze or wearing the Synthebrew Goggles, available from the quest giver, to complete. If you can't see any Wolpertinger's at the Brewfest camp grounds it is because you aren't inebriated enough (Alliance/Horde).
- Pinks Elekks On Parade (40 Tokens) - Another 'be smashed (or goggles) to complete' quest. Only this also happens to be our token traveling quest for the event as well. Alliance have to hoof it to Azuremyst Isle, Elwynn Forest and Teldrassil, while Horde will have to head to Eversong Woods, Mulgore and Tirisfal Glades to slay the figments of drunken imagination. Please, no drinking while driving (Alliance/Horde)!
Daily Quests:
- Bark for a brewery! (15 Tokens) - You have to chose which brewery you bark for per day. You can swap between the two available beer makers for your faction though. You'll mount another ram, and then run amok in your capital city screaming about how awesome the chosen brewery's bubbly is. Pretty simple way to score some tokens (Horde - Drohn's Distillery/T'chali's Voodoo Brewery; Alliance - Barleybrews/Thunderbrews).
- This One Time, When I Was Drunk... (10 Tokens) - The beginning to all good stories...You can only start this quest after a Dark Iron invasion. They happen every 30 minutes, so you should be able to find a keg to strike a Dark Iron baddie pretty easily. Once they've aborted the mission pick up the Dark Iron Mole Machine Wreckage on the ground to start the quest.
In addition to the quests and the loot we also have Brewfest's achievements. Most of them remain the same, so I won't bother running through them all. The important one is the new Brewmaster (Alliance/Horde), which forces you to complete all the Achievements except Brew of the Year. For many people, the completion of Brewmaster means they will have completed the monster meta-Achievement of What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been, earning themselves a Violet Proto-Drake. Congrats to those who do.
I'll be wondering around "completely smashed" later today to finish off my token collecting for my very own pink elephant elekk. Already snagged my wolpertinger. Once that's complete, it's off to BRD for farming of the non-shattered dagger from Direbrew.
Reader Comments (19)
I won't be getting "What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been" until February thanks to Blizzard screwing a lot of people over (myself included, obviously) with the "Be Mine" achievement. D:<
i cant do all this cool stuff because i have been hacked :(
any help welcome
In case you didn't know, if you want to save some tokens, you can actually buy the brewfest clothes you need for the achievements, get your achievement, and sell back the clothes within an hour and get your tokens back. Saves you from having to get an extra 200 for the brew of the month achievement.
Well, at the time of writing, neither the wolpentinger or pink elekk quests are working on european realms, which means a lot of pwople wont be getting the 'what a long strange trip its been' meta achievement this year, and hence, no violet drake.. a LOT of people are angry about this, as it seems the US servers are absolutley fine
@ Mike1972
This year you can buy the wolpentinger, and the elekk quest is removed this year too.
There appear to be major issues with quests where you throw empty mugs. The mugs rarely (if ever) seem to hit what you're aiming at. Lots of people are crying foul on the WoW forums.
I have to admit that I found them to be difficult-to-impossible as well, even with a macro. I still can't seem to hit any of those stupid Dark Iron invaders with a mug. (I'm not THAT drunk, am I?)
@Crabbs
Incorrect. The pink elekk quest has NOT been removed.
@PatrickD
Can't say one way or the other about that myself, but what I've seen happen myself does raise questions...
@Mike1972
I've heard stories about players on my realm (US-Malfurion) having an issue with the token vendor where they would have to stand behind the guy in order to talk to him. I don't have that issue myself, but ya never know... >>
First @ PatrickD.
You don't aim the mugs, you just toss them and they auto-target the closest dwarf.
Second about NPCs who won't talk to you.
Some of them you do have to stand behind to get them to perform certain actions. I personally was having trouble with the troll beer vendor, he'd only sell me the right side of his inventory unless I was in the tent behind him.
Third.
I am sympathetic to all on the EU realms who are getting screwed, but I must say: Got my drake, wooo! I'm sure they'll get a fix in quickly, so spend this time thinking up counters to all the insults our magenta mount will get.
You don't get tokens for hitting the dwarves anymore, so throwing the mugs is pointless this year.
@Blahblah
True, but only if you already have the achievement.
@ Patrick
If you grab a mug, stand right on top of STOUT, and drink it, you will hit him with it every time.
just need 'Brew of the Month' and 'Disturbing the Peace' and its new tittle time, im definatly prefering Brewmaster to Jenkins or Champion of the frozen wastes
and plus @Blahblah
Its just a bit of fun wich is kinda what the holidays are about (its not just for achievments, although the Violet Proto-drake is nice)
BTW If you are on a EU-realm, there is no Wolpertinger or Pink Elephant hunt for you there....
The Quest are not there and Blizz says it is "deliberate"...
:-(
On EU servers you can buy the Wolpertinger Tankard for 50s from the Token Redeemer.
And the Pink Elekk pet is 100 tokens.
Too bad they aren't quests anymore, but getting the Wolpertinger achievement is super easy now, and the Elekk doesn't have an achievement as far as i know. in any case non thats needed for the Meta- (meta) achievement.
Many thanks to Cloudbearer for that tip! Terrific idea. Very clever.
I nabbed the Brewfest Ram from Direbrew today. In addition to the "Have Keg... Will Travel" achievement, I got a Feat of Strength for actually getting the mount and not using the Hops to transforms your mount. Dont know the exact name, but "Brew-FAST" was in the title. Kinda cool, didn't see it mentioned here yet.
can all of the three pieces of clothing be sold back? I know during the fire festivle 1 or the 3 was not able to be sold back at all.
@Ring
GZ for mount and achievement. And you can sell all three clothes back, did same with 3 chars.
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