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The Day of the Dead is upon us. Now is the time to get the Dead Man's Party achievement, which I recently obtained on my Death Knight. To get the achievement, just /dance with Catrina near any major graveyard. The cooking part seems to only be doable in Dalaran or in your race's captiol city's graveyard. I could only get it to work in Dalaran. To do it, just track down some Simple Flour and Ice Cold Milk and learn the Bread of the Dead recipe. Then, you are just an Orange Camelia away from a (temporary) non-combat Macabre Marionette pet. Do you think Blizzard should make him a permanent pet? Why don't you think they did?

As 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. Anyone 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!

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Patch 3.2 is finally available on the PTR, which means that players will be able to find out all sorts of fun information about what changes lay ahead for us. Most of the changes are covered in the patch notes, but MMO-Champion found a bunch of new achievements to go along with the new patch. I, as an achievement whore, am very excited about these new (pointless) goals. Browsing through the list of achievements, they come out in a few different categories, covering the 10- and 25-player versions of the Crusader's Colloseum along with their heroic modes, Isle of Conquest (the brand new battleground), Koralon (the new Vault boss), and Pilgrim's Bounty and Pirate Day/Day of the dead. Wait, Pilgrim's Bounty? Pirate Day? Day of the Dead? New world events! Since Pirate Day and Day of the Dead only have one achievement listed for each of them, I'd assume they'll occur for only one day and have minimal impact on the world for their duration. But Pilgrim's Bounty raises my excitement level! There are a number of fun looking achievements to go along with the new holiday that I'll assume will take place over Thanksgiving week. For those of you unaware, Thanksgiving takes place on the fourth Thursday of every November in the United States. Of course, Blizzard could always adopt the Canadian version, which takes place on the second Monday of October each year. The only question I have is whether or not we'll have to participate in this new world event to get our Violet Proto Drakes from the Long Strange Trip achievement. If it's anything like the new and improved Noblegarden, then we will. I'm OK with that, but I'm sure some of the other players hoping to get that 310% mount might get upset. In addition to those new holiday achievements, there are a few new Feats of Strength, which hint at some more free pets for logging in. A Jade Tiger sounds like fun! What are your thoughts on these new achievements? Anything in particular draw your interest? What about the new world event? Can't wait or sick of holidays?

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