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#1 Apr 26 2011 at 3:09 PM Rating: Excellent
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My wife just called to tell me she's now opened nearly 800 eggs and is yet to get this. She says she's done with this stupid game, and the stupid holiday forever; which I interpreted to be 2 days or so.

Anyway how goes the egg hunting on your end? I haven't started yet.
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#2 Apr 26 2011 at 3:17 PM Rating: Good
I haven't started yet either, but I still have the dress, the flowers, and the tuxedo pieces from two years ago when I did it on my mage. So I have a clear advantage. =x
#3 Apr 26 2011 at 4:13 PM Rating: Decent
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I really don't care about the holidays. If I happen to pick up some achievements then cool but for the most part I'm ignoring the stupid achievements.
#4 Apr 26 2011 at 4:18 PM Rating: Decent
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I am still missing that same item. Luckily it is not needed for the title achievement.

The only other thing I am missing is bunny-ear'ing a female dwarf. I swear they don't exist!
#5 Apr 26 2011 at 5:40 PM Rating: Good
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What server/faction are you on? I have quite a few female dwarves, and can make one if needed :P
#6 Apr 26 2011 at 5:48 PM Rating: Good
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I really don't care about the holidays. If I happen to pick up some achievements then cool but for the most part I'm ignoring the stupid achievements.


I'll do Brewfest but otherwise they get ignored. I wish holiday quest givers had a ! or something though.
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#7 Apr 26 2011 at 7:41 PM Rating: Decent
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I swore that after completing these holiday events on my main, I would never touch them again. Apparently I swear a lot, and am still doing that.

But I think most of the swearing comes from looking for a &%$^&*(*(()!@ female dwarf!
#8 Apr 26 2011 at 11:58 PM Rating: Good
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personally, I haven't really started. Will start today or tomorrow.

Looking for eggs together woth the whole effin' population on a high pop realm? No sir!

I'm gonna do it in the mornings on a weekday to at least ditch the working crowd. Can't ditch them schoolkiddies though <.< so It might take a year longer... not that it matters, there isn't much to gain for me in this event.
#9 Apr 27 2011 at 12:04 AM Rating: Decent
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My wife just called to tell me she's now opened nearly 800 eggs and is yet to get this.


Does she know she doesn't actually have to get it from an egg to get the meta?

Ironically enough I found the toughest part of the whole thing to be bunny earring a female NE - the most common female in the game and yet it took three days of BGs to finally find one (dorf chick I got first day).

Thankfully I only had one toon that needed this one, my new baby SP Tauren - the other six already have it, while four of them completed the meta entirely. Of the other two, one needs the achievements that were level 80 last time for the next two holidays while the other needs the better part of the next three holidays.

On a related note, I'm happy to say that one more day's worth of dailies and my main dings exalted with my guild, meaning scorpion mounts for all the alts!
#10 Apr 27 2011 at 1:32 AM Rating: Good
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I like some of the minor goodies from the holidays -- pets, clothes and such -- but have no patience for the inevitable grinds like putting bunny ears on various toons. Too bad that the minor things end up clogging bank and bag slots so badly.

#11 Apr 27 2011 at 2:08 AM Rating: Good
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Xizervexius wrote:
But I think most of the swearing comes from looking for a &%$^&*(*(()!@ female dwarf!
One of my best in game friend's main is a female dwarf, so I had no trouble at all with that part of the achievement.

That said, now that I've completed the multi-holiday meta, I'm glad I can ignore them aside from doing whatever boss comes with em.
#12 Apr 27 2011 at 2:36 AM Rating: Good
How's Salty Katerina doing? :-) I miss Epic Dolls... that podcast was awesome.
#13 Apr 27 2011 at 2:53 AM Rating: Good
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PigtailsOfDoom wrote:
How's Salty Katerina doing? :-) I miss Epic Dolls... that podcast was awesome.
I only hear from them once in a while now. She and her husband barely even post on Facebook. Smiley: frown

#14 Apr 27 2011 at 3:24 AM Rating: Good
Aww that's too bad. :-(
#15 Apr 27 2011 at 8:21 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'm really missing having everyone in Dalaran. My toon isn't really geared for PVP and I don't care for PVP in the slightest, so finding the last two enemy faction females is getting annoying fast. Not to mention the fact that I know I'm bringing down my team in BGs because I just want to get the stupid bunny ears and be done :(
#16 Apr 27 2011 at 8:39 AM Rating: Good
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It never occurred to me to go do BGs to get my lvl 18s. I just went to the town outside Org (Goldshire equivalent--you can tell which faction I play most) and hovered in the air mousing over egg gatherers. Took only about 30m even with the CDs on flowers. You can get pretty low and not aggro guards, plus flowers can be cast while mounted which is something I didn't know. Also got the Spring Fling ach while here.
#17 Apr 27 2011 at 9:40 AM Rating: Good
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FuriousJorge wrote:
I'm really missing having everyone in Dalaran. My toon isn't really geared for PVP and I don't care for PVP in the slightest, so finding the last two enemy faction females is getting annoying fast. Not to mention the fact that I know I'm bringing down my team in BGs because I just want to get the stupid bunny ears and be done :(

If you are 85, you could go to Tol Barad where the regular dailies are. My female Troll Shaman got eared the other day while I was doing the dailies. You see a pretty wide variety of race/gender/class combos there. She also got eared while in Shatt while picking up her Netherwing drake (yay for finally exalted!).


I have the title on most of my higher level Horde characters from previous years so I haven't really felt much like doing more eggs this year. I did go out late Sunday night and get plenty of eggs on my Goblin Warlock and I will probably take the Troll Druid out to do that too. I may even try doing it on Alliance alts if I have time. Heh
#18 Apr 27 2011 at 1:24 PM Rating: Good
Both the mount and the TB ideas are good, thanks guys. Spent about fourish hours in Falconwing square getting all my chocolate last night. I already had one set of the non soulbound clothes, and managed to get two more pants, and one each of the shirt and dress. Also got two extra spring robes and the flowers that put the bunny ears on people. that was of course, after I had already bought the spring robes... So I had to collect 100 more chocolates than I should have. Oh well, 100 chocolates didn't take too long. Now I just need to go about getting the last three achievements done: Spring Fling, the desert one, and the bunny ears.

then I need to do it again on my goblin.
#19 Apr 27 2011 at 2:06 PM Rating: Good
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Four hours??????

You were online for the less-than-2 I spent getting the achievements together on my DK. (Still missing hard boiled and 3 put-ears-on-girls). I hope you were studying while doing the chocolates =)

Also, you can macro the eggs into a key bind. With auto-loot on you just collect the egg and hit the macro. Combine with the basket for the speed boost and you're ultra-pro

/use Brightly Colored Egg
/use Egg Basket

edit: I'm not sure if I have the attention span to do this on my new lowbie pally what with all the troll hotness going on. But it's such a good title for pallies....

Edited, Apr 27th 2011 1:07pm by TherionSaysWhat
#20 Apr 27 2011 at 2:15 PM Rating: Good
I think I spent about an hour working on the eggs when I was online earlier last night. Around 2:30am or so I logged back on to collect some more eggs, and logged off during the server restart. So I guess it was more like three hours. I was watching a history channel special about the Dark Ages and the plague while collecting eggs, does that count? =x Nag. :-p

If you're online tonight I'll help you get the hard boiled one at least. I've got all the equipment I need now. :D

Edited, Apr 27th 2011 2:16pm by PigtailsOfDoom
#21 Apr 27 2011 at 2:35 PM Rating: Good
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Go study.
#22 Apr 27 2011 at 3:24 PM Rating: Good
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I already have the achievement, but lost the dress last summer when my account was hacked. Time to get egg cracking.

After all... I did look incredibly fetching in that dress.
#23 Apr 27 2011 at 10:22 PM Rating: Excellent
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Started and finished the holiday event on one character today, had nothing from previous years to all the achievements including the ones not needed for meta. It took some 400 eggs but it was done... Goldshire was rather crowded but Kharanos was decidedly empty and made it easy enough. Got started on it on a second character before I ran out of time, would have been hopefully done on the second and maybe a third but I rearranged the computer room to allow shorter cable runs.
#24 Apr 27 2011 at 10:34 PM Rating: Good
Best way to gather eggs for horde is to sit on the wagon in the BE area where the chick is who complains about wine and cheese - right on the driver seat, back to the wagon hitch and facing inside wagon.

You've got a ton of egg spawns - one between each wheel and the fence, one next to each of the other two wheels under the wagon, one in the wagon, one at the corner of the fence next to the hitch and one at the post next to the tree.

Additionally, you've got two eggs that spawn behind the trees in front of the wall behind you, one at the post corner and three more in the cubby hole area between the steps and the wall.

Just hang out there and you'll collect all the eggs you need in no time - being in rabbit form is optimal as it assists in working your camera angles to collect the ones under the wagon - if you position yourself just right on the corner of the seat then you'll be able to collect every egg around the wagon without moving.
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