Hallow's End Is Over, How Did You Do?
Amatera
Now that everyone is busy shaking their maracas and eating skull pastries, why don't we take a quick look back at the other celebration that just passed? Easy things like bobbing for apples and eating G.N.E.R.Ds will only get you so far during Hallow's End. To truly "complete" the holiday you have to contend with pesky content lock-outs (read: wait a whole hour to Trick or Treat again) or terrible, terrible drop rates on items. Earning the associated achievements can be a lot like going door to door and begging for candy. Sometimes you get Sour Patch Kids in your bucket and, well, sometimes you're left with black licorice (or even dental floss by that one lady in the neighborhood). Under that pretense, I ask: what was your haul?
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Personally, after last year, I only needed a Sinister Squashling to complete my meta-achievement, so the first thing I jumped on was getting a group together for the Headless Horseman. After four days of plunging deep into the heart of the Scarlet Monastery, it finally dropped. A fellow guild member felt slighted after I won the roll. I won't lie, finding the last piece of the puzzle was a tad more satisfying than worrying about someone else who had just started doing the achievements this year. I'd been waiting a very long time! But, lo and behold, after all those other misfires, another Squashling dropped on the next attempt, so we all left that day pretty happy with ourselves. However, the Horseman's mount continued to evade me for the duration of the event.
After that, I considered myself more or less done. I think I continued to Trick or Treat for a day or two in the hopes of earning masks for the one part of the achievements that (thankfully) doesn't apply to the meta. When I only came up with a handful, and considering the fact that I got duplicates of those instead of new ones I needed, I realized that it wasn't going to be worth my time. I don't care what Blizzard says. Even if it isn't a part of the meta anymore, it still needs to be fixed.
I observed my fellow guildmates, too, who had plenty of trouble getting Toothpicks to drop and were always asking if anybody had a certain costume wand when we got together to raid, reminding me that even the more pedestrian items can be tough to obtain. I'm sure the experience couldn't have been too much different for most of you out there, but I, for one, was happy to finally get Hallow's End finished. Next on the agenda? The Feast of Winter Veil (but let's not forget the new holiday, Pilgrim's Bounty later this month, either).
I may be getting my Violet Proto-Drake a lot later than some of you, but I'm still going to, gosh darn it!
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Personally, after last year, I only needed a Sinister Squashling to complete my meta-achievement, so the first thing I jumped on was getting a group together for the Headless Horseman. After four days of plunging deep into the heart of the Scarlet Monastery, it finally dropped. A fellow guild member felt slighted after I won the roll. I won't lie, finding the last piece of the puzzle was a tad more satisfying than worrying about someone else who had just started doing the achievements this year. I'd been waiting a very long time! But, lo and behold, after all those other misfires, another Squashling dropped on the next attempt, so we all left that day pretty happy with ourselves. However, the Horseman's mount continued to evade me for the duration of the event.
After that, I considered myself more or less done. I think I continued to Trick or Treat for a day or two in the hopes of earning masks for the one part of the achievements that (thankfully) doesn't apply to the meta. When I only came up with a handful, and considering the fact that I got duplicates of those instead of new ones I needed, I realized that it wasn't going to be worth my time. I don't care what Blizzard says. Even if it isn't a part of the meta anymore, it still needs to be fixed.
I observed my fellow guildmates, too, who had plenty of trouble getting Toothpicks to drop and were always asking if anybody had a certain costume wand when we got together to raid, reminding me that even the more pedestrian items can be tough to obtain. I'm sure the experience couldn't have been too much different for most of you out there, but I, for one, was happy to finally get Hallow's End finished. Next on the agenda? The Feast of Winter Veil (but let's not forget the new holiday, Pilgrim's Bounty later this month, either).
I may be getting my Violet Proto-Drake a lot later than some of you, but I'm still going to, gosh darn it!
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