That would be the Brazier of Dancing Flames.
Are the Brightly Colored Eggs only available on Sunday? I’ve been all over Elwynn Forest and haven’t seen a one.
They’re going to be mostly around Goldshire (and maybe Stormwind, though I’m not sure). They have a pretty quick respawn rate.
They changed the event for this year. Now, eggs are found only in the starter towns and villages. And the event runs all week now.
I figured out you have to get a quest to find them. But talk about lame - what is Blizzard thinking having them all spawn in the same small place? The inn in Goldshire is ringed by people camping the spawn points. I thought the point of an egg hunt is to, I dunno, go hunt for them? It can’t be that hard to code random spawn points. As it is, it appears they’re all spawning right up against the outer wall of the Goldshire Inn.
Yup. I don’t know about Alliance side, but on Horde side: Brill, Razor Hill, Bloodhoof Village, Falconwing Square. (Note to Allies: Don’t bother ganking lowbies until after Noblegarden. You’ll just get dogpiled by 70s and 80s 
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I got the title last night, after spending the day hunting dwarves. I even rode my troll hunter through Dun Morogh, almost all the way up to IF, and didn’t see a single blessed or unblessed female dwarf, let alone one of the appropriate level. :dubious:
Finally, several hours later, just as I was bemoaning this to a guildie in the same boat, I clicked back to main window and literally tripped over one right on top of the Ratchet FP. I ended up stalking her all the way to BB since she wasn’t clicking off the buff, but she was decent enough to wait for me to be able to hit her before hearthing.
Screenshot that sucker for posterity – dwarf AND the first title I’ve ever gotten! /cheer
Heh, I was scouring Dalaran as my troll female (priest), looking for a female dwarf. Meanwhile I was getting a fair amount of bunny ears myself in the process. Finally I saw one and hung around her for a couple minutes, waiting for my flower bouquet to recycle. She waved at me, I waved at her. People came up and bunny-eared us, we clicked them off. Finally my flowers recycled. I clicked - and so did she. Simultaneous ears; she was waiting for her flowers to recycle so she could buff me!
I dinged 40 yay! I am stuck in Dustwallow Marsh nowhere near a Paladin trainer so I can’t equip the Plate I have, boo.
Has anyone else noticed an upgrade in the sound effects?
In case anyone out there is doing the (Level 77-80) Argent Tournament jousting of NPCs and sucks like I did, here’s a slow-but-good strategy that even works for me. Your mileage may vary and you may do well throwing charges in, etc., but this is simple:
- Before starting the challenge, stack up 3 defense shields on you. The icon in your buff bar only shows the duration of the shield, and the number of shields in that icon may not be accurate. To know exactly how many you have up, pay more attention to your character and the 3 green/2 yellow/1 red icons swirling around you. If you let this expire, you need to build up all three again, so keep this in mind.
- Having just refreshed your shield buff while standing next to the squire or opponent, initiate the challenge.
- Start spamming the melee attack (#1).
- If the target moves away to get some distance for a charge, hit Shield Breaker (#2) immediately when it becomes available and then run (don’t charge) right up after them so they don’t get enough distance to charge you. (If you try to charge, you have to wait on the cooldown for Charge to refresh, and will probably find yourself charged in the meantime.)
- Spam the melee attack. (#1) Soon after engaging the target, refresh your Shield (#4); this should give it enough cooldown time before…
- Going back to Step 4, when the target tries to get distance again. Repeat Steps 4 and 5 as needed, whittling down your target until victory.
Again, this is the very slow and simple method, but I typically fail badly on stuff like this and yet it works for me.
Oh, yes, for me too.
I created a male blood elf rogue last night. Three things: I hate the facial hair choices they have, so I made him clean-shaven; for a computer game character, he is disturbingly hot; and the dance is indeed hilarious.
Sad, sad, sad story of the day. I gave up the idea of finding any eggs with my paladin in the late afternoon and headed off to Northrend (at last) around 5:00PM PDT. Around 6:00 my buddy called to see if I wanted to go out for coffee. So I logged out and went to hang out with him and another friend for a few hours.
I got home around 10:00 or so and decided to play my human DK for a while. So I spent a couple hours mining Iron in Arathi Highlands (and managed to hit six gold veins while I was at it). Eventually I headed my DK back to SW to do the smelting/blacksmithing/AH dance, and when I was done with that, somewhere between midnight and 1:00AM I thought, “May as well trot over to Goldshire to see if I can find some eggs.” I found three, only because not all of the spawn points had people standing on them this time. But I circled the Goldshire Inn and what did I find but a lvl 80 nelf hunter standing on a spawn point. Exactly the same lvl 80 nelf hunter that had been camping in exactly the same spot when I gave up with my paladin six or seven hours earlier!
I guess it must be really really really important for some players to get those eggs :smack:
Amusingly, I caught a snippet of conversation in Elwynn Forest General Chat when I was flying into SW. One person was griping about the fact the the eggs were only spawning right next to the inn. A second person said, “Probably because people were complaining about them being too hard to find last year when they spawned in a wider area.” And the first person said, “They’re probably the same people that’ll complain about their eggs getting ninja-ed this year.” 
Oh, the sense of entitlement is high lately! Even besides the egg-rage. I was on my lvl 80 DK this weekend, doing low-level quests for Loremaster and Alliance rep. I had just visited Southshore and was doing the Alterac quests you get there (specifically, killing the Syndicate people at the camps on the plateaus that jut out into Hillsbrad). There was a lvl 38-ish Night Elf Druid in kitty form doing the same quests.
So I’m going along, one-and-a-half-shotting the footpads and thieves, and I see the druid complain in General: “You know what’s annoying? When freaking high-levels grief low-level quests!”
I responded “Listen, pussycat. I’m doing actual Southshore quests, not griefing you. If you hadn’t said anything, I’d have probably not even more than noticed you were there. I’m not killing Syndicate to keep you from killing Syndicate. I’m killing Syndicate because I have quests to kill Syndicate.”
She: “I find it hard to believe you’re doing quests that are so low-level for you! You’re just griefing me!”
Me: “Who ARE you? And why do I care? I don’t think you’re quite grasping the concept of an MMORPG here…the content doesn’t belong to you. And have you ever heard of achievements? Like Loremaster? Geez…I need all of about six more of these guys and then you can have your camps all to yourself. Not that you haven’t tempted me at this point to ACTUALLY grief you…”
For some reason that reminds me of when my Tauren shaman was a lowby, hanging out in the Barrens. Some player (rogue) kept challenging me over and over. So, since I was getting bored anyway, I eventually accepted. I crushed him. It was no contest. I guess I should have told him my “big toons” include a rogue so I knew what their weaknesses are (take away their stealth and mobility and they’re toast). Last night, my 80 shadow priest was in Goldshire and a level 8 mage challenged me. I figured he was after the achievement, so I accepted and forfeited. He got the duelicious achievement, so I guessed right.
Are you frost, fire, or arcane? I’ve found that for some things, frost was THE way to go. Why? Control and kiting. You can slow them off a frostbolt proc, nova them, and keep your distance. The shatter combos are just icing on the cake.
… and he’s still there at 11:30AM today. Dude’s gotta have some sort of AFK right-click macro running.
That’s really rather pathetic. It took me less time to do all of the holiday than this guy is spending camping eggs, including sleeping and running errands. I kinda wonder what he’s getting out of it. I know there’s points in Bloodhoof where you can camp enough spawn points to average 4 eggs every 2 minutes, but just standing there waiting for something to spawn would bore me to tears… and it’s great fun to grab eggs from people camping the spawn points-- heck someone left just because I stopped where he was camping to eat my hundred chocolates :).
Yeah, I feel a little conflicted about this sort of thing. On the one hand, players at that level have more ‘claim’ than high-levels on quest objectives IMO, since they’re doing it for the XP and rewards which actually mean something to them. On the other hand, there is legitimate reason for high-levels to go over low content, and frankly they’ll go through it so much faster that it’s simpler as the lower-level player to just hang out until the high-level does what he needs to and skedaddles. Killing 10 Syndicate takes a level 80 a quarter of the time it does a level 40.
I don’t get it. Sooner or later, his bags will be full and he has to “loot” all the eggs anyway. So far, I’ve gotten the rabbit pet, the noble gardener, the “chocolate lover” for 3 alliance toons, and the bunny polymorph for the mage. I still have to get the horde toons their pets. I’m hoping as the week wears on, fewer people will be there, making it a little quicker for me.
Well, I’m figuring that he has a loot macro set up to empty the eggs, but that only delays the issue. The chocolates only stack to 20, and the other stuff doesn’t stack at all. The meta requires at most 455 chocolates, and that’s if you don’t get any drops at all. To get the non-required achivements may take longer, but I know I opened only about 300 eggs to get them all.
Honestly this has been the dullest holiday thus far, and while I’m stessing about next week, I bet it will be more fun at least than this. Maybe there’s a vocal node spawn point camping part of the community, but I’ve not encountered such.
Blizzard boards discussion on the Noble Garden topic here. Eleven pages of fairly consistent complaining about campers 