Is the Love Fest Worth Doing?Follow

I briefly mentioned this in another post but decided to pose it as a topic question. After having just finished the Lunar Festival I'm a bit OD'd on holiday quests. From what I can tell, the big prize is getting enough tokens for the pink flamingo mount which doesn't interest me. Maybe it's living in FL and having seen one too many pink flamingo yard ornaments...lol.

I did the initial quest, one of the dailies, and made one bracelet to present to one of the city leaders but it looks like these quests are the same thing over and over to acquire more tokens.

For people who want the flamingo I can understand the interest, but am I missing anything else that would make participating in this quest more fun than doing the same daily quests that don't change...or do they change as one progresses? Basically trying to decide if I should participate in this for the next 4 days or just return to where I was questing prior to the Lunar Festival.

Getting the achievement for completing the love is in the air quests is one step in a long process to get the achievement "What a long strange trip it's been", which when completed, gives you a violet proto-drake mount as well as the 310% speed flying (without having to pay the gold).

Thanks for the responses, everyone.

I saw mention of "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been" while doing the Elders quest. Sounds like something I'd be interested in checking out...down the road.

30k for the flamingo mount????? Excellent!! I've seen them being offered in the trade channel for 5k on my server. Didn't think of the monetary angle. Errr, what does BOE stand for, please?

There is also a 'pet' you can purchase with tokens as well. It is the Silver Shafted Arrow which when learned, gives you the 'Peddlefeet' pet. This is a small pet that looks basically the same as the winged Goblin that gives the daily to give a bracelet to a leader. It also can be resold but since it only costs 40 tokens, I think the supply will outweigh the demand for quite a long time although once the new expansion hits, I would imagine that some collectors might want their new Pandas to have all the possible pets right away. Heh

I live in Florida, and the only pink Flamingos I see are at the zoo or theme park. And I live around a lot of "old" people lol.

Anywho, yeah the only other reason to do the event is for the Long, Strange trip. It does take a year to do, but I'm glad I did it on at least one toon.

Thank you for all for the additional responses. I decided to collect the charms while doing quests to level what was my first WoW character and has now become my alt. I already have enough charms for two of the goblin pets. Hmmmmm...let's see, 4 more days...might actually get the flamingo mount after all. I mean, since it's the unofficial state bird of FL, it's only "patriotic."

Hmm I've lived in central florida my whole life and dont ever remember seeing one lol

Geez...you guys get out much? *grins*

I actually don't see them (yard flamingos) as much as I did years ago...(still see maybe one a week/month in certain areas)...that could be the disconnect here. I'm thinking I may be a bit *coughs* older and there was a time when they were really popular in certain areas. I'd usually see them in the same yards next to those whirly things that spin in the wind and a host of other doo-dads.

Garden gnomes I've only seen on TV. "The Psychology Behind Yard Ornaments" would be an interesting research topic.

Pinwheels! Thank you...couldn't recall what they're called...lol.

If the announcement of Blizzard comes true and collected pets get shared account-wide this won't have much of an impact.

If I recall correctly they want to make all (or maybe most?) pets on our characters account-wide. So you can use every pet you collected on every character for the pet-battles.
But at this stage it is mostlys speculation since MoP is still far ahead of us and many things are subject to change. ;)