Comments on Kaliope's WoW Crafting Blog: Brewfest Blues

I.....am still recovering from trying this on 30 t...

2009-10-09T20:16:19.889-07:00

I.....am still recovering from trying this on 30 toons at once. I did get about 20 of them the drunk dancing in Dalaran achievement, but it got reaaaaallly hard for me to log in to do the keg run back and forth and forth and back.

I got interested in doing the holiday achievements and dailies with the Midsummer Fire Festival, where you'd get a bubble of XP for each daily you

I really hope they put in some sort of Costume Clo...

2009-10-03T13:49:43.890-07:00

I really hope they put in some sort of Costume Closet for those of us who like to keep the outfits. Every holiday seems to have some sort of costume. And the various "fishing hat" or "cooking hat" or whatever that you can get for all of these is taking up a ridiculous amount of space on my main's bank. Holiday's with requirements to get a costume to get the title only

Not to be picky, but the only reason you have extr...

2009-10-02T14:48:43.825-07:00

Not to be picky, but the only reason you have extra tickets is because you returned the Brewfest outfit and got 350 of them back. If Blizzard had closed that loophole and disabled merchant buyback on those items, you would still be collecting tickets. As I mentioned, successful completion of a seasonal event shouldn't hinge on scamming the vendor. That's fine that it doesn't bother

I finished it on my main char, in fact I leveled e...

2009-10-02T11:39:09.777-07:00

I finished it on my main char, in fact I leveled especially for Brewfest, started playing a couple months ago so this is my first one and I really wanted the Brewmaster title, thought I had it in the bag at 72, then 1st day I went to do Direbrew and found you needed 75, had to level fast!
Regardless, I did the starting quests and the dailies and bought then returned the brewfest outfit,

I noticed the time extension too :) It seems to i...

2009-10-01T10:02:43.698-07:00

I noticed the time extension too :) It seems to indicate that I'm not the only person who found the time window a bit grueling. Luckily I got both of my toons their achievements already - I did the dailies every day. It's still nice to see Blizz acknowledge that perhaps the schedule was a bit tight.

Kring, your math is wrong: You start with 4 minute...

2009-09-30T22:10:10.338-07:00

Kring, your math is wrong: You start with 4 minutes, which is 240 seconds. The best time I have seen for the ram racing is 40 seconds per run, nailing every barrel just right and every turn bang-on. You get 30 seconds back per run, so each run takes 10 seconds off the original 240 seconds. 24 runs is the theoretical maximum. Assuming you could do it faster, say 38 seconds, that would still only

I agree, it would be great to see some of these ch...

2009-09-29T10:19:16.688-07:00

I agree, it would be great to see some of these changed to allow a more intense "grind" for people with only a few days to play. I was out last week and am struggling to get the tokens I need to get Brewmaster (and my drake!). Since they only come up once a year and have a pretty hefty reward attached with the achievement system it would be nice to have more flexability. For example,

Rien/Stacy: I've heard about the "buyback...

2009-09-29T09:41:05.080-07:00

Rien/Stacy: I've heard about the "buyback" plan and I fully intend to do that to save time. However, I doubt Blizzard planned for that to be a viable option. They designed the event to require 552 tickets and next year they may well plug this hole. That's why I included it in the conversation. People wouldn't be resorting to this if the achievement requirements were

I agree with the way it is setup currently. A holi...

2009-09-29T07:48:59.577-07:00

I agree with the way it is setup currently. A holiday event like this shouldn't just be a handout fest of items. You should realistically have to make choices on what items you want to buy. If you simply must have everything in the catalog, then yes you had better be willing to put in the time.

80 tokens is 40 runs. 40 * 30 + 4 * 60 = 1440s Th...

2009-09-29T05:02:01.010-07:00

80 tokens is 40 runs.
40 * 30 + 4 * 60 = 1440s

That's 36s per turn.

As Alliance, you take the barrel on the other side of the bridge, then the one farther away, then get your beer and cut to the one at the bridge again. This doesn't take 40 seconds if executed perfectly (and the server doesn't muss a refresh because of lag). 36 sounds very possible.

80 tickets from ram racing is flat out impossible....

2009-09-29T04:53:01.714-07:00

80 tickets from ram racing is flat out impossible. If you hit everything absolutely perfectly, the quickest you can do a keg run is 40 seconds. You get 30 seconds added per run, so each run takes 10 seconds off the clock. With 4 minutes at the start, that means the most runs you can do is 24, giving 48 tokens if you nail every single turn and barrel just right. A little bit of leeway each run

Removed wring math... 80 tickets might be possible...

2009-09-29T03:20:13.641-07:00

Removed wring math... 80 tickets might be possible. Wow...

If you're in the US, you can get another 40 once for the pink elkk. (according to wowwiki)

The drake is nice, the events are nice, but the holiday achievements are the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen in a game.

2009-09-29T01:09:16.769-07:00

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You should be able to get 30 tickets in a single k...

2009-09-28T20:35:50.860-07:00

You should be able to get 30 tickets in a single keg run. The most you can possibly get is not much more than 40 tickets - it takes 42 seconds a run if you get everything spot on. You can do the keg runs every 18 hours, (though on my main I have been lucky and had it reset after only 12 hours a couple times) which means you can do it 4 times every 3 days.

If you are really dedicated,

The ticket haul you get on the first day is quite ...

2009-09-28T19:46:40.091-07:00

The ticket haul you get on the first day is quite nice. However past that, it really becomes dependent on your keg run. I lucked up with getting the body pc of the brewfest grab last year and only had to pull 150 tickets to finish that up. I managed to get my meta done only a few hours after brewfest started somehow. Still, I haven't been pushing to get all the events done so it wasn't

I believe the costume is 350, not 250. 200 for th...

2009-09-28T19:25:21.259-07:00

I believe the costume is 350, not 250. 200 for the dress, 100 for the hat (or shoes) and 50 for the shoes (or hat). And yes, you can sell it back. Of course, one of my toons already had brew of the month from last year, so thats no help to her, but maybe my 3rd 80 can also get the title this year, even with a lot of slacking on my part.

My main likes to keep costumes. She's

Kaliope i learned this too late to help me, but yo...

2009-09-28T17:35:03.385-07:00

Kaliope i learned this too late to help me, but you can get enough tickets for items you may not want to keep but need for the achivements (the costume for 250) use it to get the achieve, then return it and get you 250 tokens back. Unless you really want to have a costume for each toon, this saves you alot of time and token grinding.