It’s a very fine distinction, as I understand it. The abilities that prevent you from earning the achievement are those like Slow Fall which remove the possibility of taking any falling damage at all. On the other hand, things like Divine Shield and Feline Grace still count, because you’re falling at a normal rate and you still “take” falling damage, but the abilities simply mitigate the damage taken. I got the achievement by throwing my Pally off the top of the Aldor elevator and hitting DS on the way down, and on my Druid by jumping off the top of the main Thunder Bluff elevator.
That is what I was answering, I thought. WoWwiki backs me up:
I volunteer to test this tonight. I’ll wait until the timer runs out after I do the banners but before I turn in the quest.
I have done this two nights in a row, and dismounted both times turning in the quest well after the timer has elapsed. It does not matter. All you have to do is hit the four spots within the four minutes - relatively simple even if you fatigue the ram.
Huh, interesting. If that’s the case the quest is pretty easy - not that I’m complaining! Two more days of Brewfest dailies and I should be be able to finish the holiday meta-achievement for my drake!
Are you sure about that? I wondered the same thing, but somebody pointed out the tooltips on the brews themselves say, “Requires Brewfest”. So while I was able to get the Noble Garden achievement by putting bunny ears on a female orc in July, it looks like you can only drink these beers (and therefore get the achievement) during Brewfest.
But upon rereading, it looks like I simply restated/rephrased what you said.
I didn’t make it back before the time expired, but still succeeded on the quest. So it looks like you just have to hit the four locations before time is up. Once you’ve hit all four there’s no hurry to get back to the questgiver.
Played my draenei fire mage some last night. Since last time I took the advice of several of you and did away with the overly-complex spell rotation I’d devised. With a few gear changes to add spell power, I quested all night using Pyroblast -> Fireball -> another Fireball if necessary -> finish with Fire Blast/Scorch/wand/another Fireball depending on how many HP the mob has left. As long as I kept Mana Shield up I stayed alive, and had relatively few mana problems. Only one death all night, when I trotted up the rudder of the second sunken ship on the coast of the Wetlands and ran smack into the undead Captain Wossname, who was 4 levels higher than me and hits like a truck.
That quest to kill 13 Cursed Sailors, 5 Cursed Marines, and obtain Snellig’s Snuff Box is a bitch as a cloth-armored caster. Mainly because you have to kill so many more Sailors than Marines, but the Marines seem to be the only ones who want to spawn outside of the ships in any significant numbers. And I discovered it was next to impossible to get onto/into the ships and attack one of the Sailors there without bringing a whole crowd of them down on myself. I managed a few that way, but I eventually had to put the quest on hold and work on other quests for a while to allow the few Sailors outside the ships time to respawn.
This was the first time I’d played my mage since patch 3.2.1, and it would appear that they fixed that stupid-long wand cooldown that was introduced in 3.2.0. I may have been imagining it, though. But it still seemed like I was once again able to switch straight to my wand after casting a spell.
While I was killing gnolls for the Tramping Paws quest I bumped into another draenei mage who was doing the same quest. She was a few levels lower than me and invited me to group with her, but I had my AutoDecline addon enabled and didn’t feel like logging out to turn it off. So I just went and grinded other mobs for XP and stayed out of her way to let her finish the quest, then I finished it myself after she was done.
Then I got a whisper that I thought was from her: “Are you busy now?” So I answered, “Not at the moment”, assuming she was going to ask me for help with something. The reply was a long time coming, so I shift-clicked on the name and saw it was actually a lvl 1 gnome rogue somewhere in Dun Morogh. Finally the reply came back: “We have 33000 gold stockpiled on this server. Would you like to buy some gold?” :mad: Me: “No thank you.” <Report Spam>
That’s where I did it, though I was jumping from the other side of the bridge (directly across from the marked spot, not the otherh end of the bridge).
Thanks! One of my alts is a LW, but too low-level to make me a hat. I just wonder what’s up with leather hats on my server being so overpriced on the AH. I can find cloth, mail, and plate helms for reasonable prices, but leather helm pricing is just outrageous. Almost everything showing a % like 273%, 528%… I’m starting to wonder if it’s just price gouging (and even then, why only the leather and not the other types? It’s not like it’s even just one person doing it - there are multiple sellers.) or if there’s an Enchanter out there who just prefers to DE leather hats (the same way I tend to buy mostly cloaks for my main to DE), or what the deal is. Anyway, my shaman hit lvl 31 and is about halfway to 32, when she’ll be able to wear the leather hat I had in the guild bank.
In case other folks are looking for good falling spots the easiest one for me is at Dun Niffelem in Storm Peaks. When you land at the flight master just walk (don’t jump) off the ledge towards the center of the crater. Boom, instant achievement.
Although SFG already answered this, another place to fall off of to get the original 65 yard achievement AND the Drunken Stupor achievement is off the top of Frostsaber Rock in Winterspring. I too was getting frustrated with dying or not taking enough damage from falling, so I went to the place where I got the original achievement…worked flawlessly. Out of 17,000+ hp, ended up with about 370 left. So (my theory) the damage scales, leaving you with about 2% health left.
I thought Divine Shield negated the possibility for the achievements, so my pally went old school instead to get them.
If you jump off my favorite jumping spot in Shattrath (on the bridge across from Aldor Tier), you end up with about 25% health left. At least I did, anyway.
Hmm, to get that achievement I ran off the elvator to Scryer’s Tier in Shatt. That didn’t work (not high enough), so I got on my flying mount and flew straight up until I was just above the platform level, and dismissed my mount. Worked perfectly.
My guild has been doing it regularly with four or five players. Someone in the guild, a death knight I believe, nearly soloed him but died anyway. I haven’t heard of anyone else in my guild trying it. I suppose you could try to solo him, but I wouldn’t do it myself. We like to go in groups because often you get more chances at the same piece of loot that way. Sometimes things drop twice.
I would say not soloable. He has 300k hp and brings lots of adds.
The first day I tried to three-man it: a priest, a mage, and a warrior in heroic-or-better gear; we failed to take him down even once.
On the other hand, yesterday I was in a great group with a DK tank and three hunters with me healing, and we burned him down very quickly each time. But three hunters with their pets: thats a lot of dps and aggro distribution for the adds!
I like playing “photographer” in-game, taking screenshots of cool views that I think would make good desktop wallpaper, or posing my toons for “portraits”. So the other night I took shot of my belf paladin, Keliraeda, walking into the Orgrimmar inn (across from the bank). Her pose, the way she’s framed in the doorway, and the coloring of the scene (especially after I applied the Dark Strokes filter in Photoshop) really gave it an “Old West/South of the border” feel. That, combined with her new “teh sexy” leg armor prompted me to add a dialogue bubble.
More likely you have a high number of Rogue/Shaman/Hunter twinks in the population. They tend to dry up the available AH pool and have gobs of gold to spend which drives up prices. especially since you are right at the beginning level for Green headgear and LWs don’t make hats so you are more dependent on drops unlike other leather wear.
