Holiday complaints - what about...Follow

Though with the Thanksgiving dailies, they were a very fast way to level cooking from 1 to 300 something cheap.

Only the cooking ones ever require a skill to complete, as far as I can remember, and that's only if you do them yourself. And most of the recipes for event-specific achievements (like eggnog) are fairly low level, so you can easily make them with just a small amount of work even if you've never leveled cooking before that. And that's only if you don't want to buy them--nothing about these achievements forces you to do something you hate for a long period of time (and some players DO hate PvP). And honestly, some of those achieves would actually be difficult for someone who doesn't know the BG. Capturing/Returning the flag in particular can be a ***** to do. Especially when the other team has some knockbacks so you always go flying off the EotS ledge. *grumble*

Furthermore, with just a little planning ahead you can get all your items for these events for dirt cheap. It's your own fault if you wait until the first or second day of the event to knock them out.

And some of these events are downright indulgent with the crafting. You mentioned thanksgiving? It was SO EASY to take toons up to 300 cooking using the event. Like, you could get 5 toons there in an hour, easy, and complete most achievements in the process. It didn't require any innate skill to do the event.

There is only one achievement that requires you to use a craft for a world event in a way that isn't accommodate for by easy leveling--Hot Apple Cider for Winter's Veil, which requires 325 cooking. Though, if you consider Thanksgiving (just one month before it) to be a warm up for WV, this still isn't a huge issue. Getting 25 skill levels in cooking at that level is easy. But I'll be willing to say that this is the one achievement for events that is a little harsh, profession wise.

And I'd still prefer profession achievements to ones that have me running to every goddamn town in Azeroth.

They sure were. Every character I have has a minimum of 300 Cooking Skill, and it cost so little it wasn't even noticeable.

you have to level cooking?

LOL

I had a toon stationned in Dalaran who was barely high enough to start the cooking dailies who had 450 cooking, 450 fishing and 450 Inscription... talk about **** retentive about maxing crafts.

Worst part is, he's now nearly Exalted with Kirin Tor... from cooking dailies. And still not level 70.

sad, I know :(

...slight hijack.

Small eggs drop from those dragonhawks in the BE zone- the level 10-ish ones drop one or two eggs per kill most of the time. I spent a lot of time during the holiday events that needed them (cakes, eggnog, etc.) farming them there on my Alliance characters. In an hour I could easily get over ten stacks of them.

Shhh, you'll give them ideas. >_<



Yup - I've got five toons that can do the fishing dailies and two of them still don't have it.

As noted later though, the eggs are (pun intended) cake to get - the BE newby zone out front of Silvermoon is the place to go - I filled a backpack with the eggs the night before it started in about an hour with my mage so I had all the eggs I needed for self, alts, friends and plenty left over for the AH.

People are so stupid and lazy during these things. I sold MILK during one of the holidays that had a recipe that required milk (think it was eggnog). I made a fortune on the ah selling milk for 20 x what people could have bought it for from the inn located 20 yards away from the ah.

I think it's more ignorance than laziness in those particular cases. I know there's several cooking recipes that you can buy from vendors for a few silver, that people regularly put up for several gold or more on the AH (myself included). I haven't always known about these particular vendors, and it made me pretty mad at first when I found out about it, until I realized that I could profit just as much as other people were.

I just don't see people knowingly paying more for an item that's just a few steps away at a vendor. Halfway across the continent, sure. But not just a few steps away.

There are people like myself who do a few dailies a few times a week and have enough gold for everything they do. So, any extra cash can be used for whatever you want: leveling alts, buying old recipes, etc. If spending 10 gold means I don't have to go to Wowhead to look up whatever drops/sells a recipe, I will probably do it. Sure, if I know the recipe is sold nearby, I'll go there but many people would rather spend the time making the gold than looking up its location.