Posted by Juggynaut on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 - 28 Comments
Tags: achievement, Achievements, crusaders colloseum, day of the dead, feat of strength, isle of conquest, jade tiger, mmo champion, noblegarden, patch 3.2, pilgrim's bounty, pirate day, ptr, thanksgiving, vault of archavon, violet proto drake, what a long strange trip its been, world event, world events
Patch 3.2 is finally available on the PTR, which means that players will be able to find out all sorts of fun information about what changes lay ahead for us. Most of the changes are covered in the patch notes, but MMO-Champion found a bunch of new achievements to go along with the new patch. I, as an achievement whore, am very excited about these new (pointless) goals.
Browsing through the list of achievements, they come out in a few different categories, covering the 10- and 25-player versions of the Crusader’s Colloseum along with their heroic modes, Isle of Conquest (the brand new battleground), Koralon (the new Vault boss), and Pilgrim’s Bounty and Pirate Day/Day of the dead.
Wait, Pilgrim’s Bounty? Pirate Day? Day of the Dead? New world events! Since Pirate Day and Day of the Dead only have one achievement listed for each of them, I’d assume they’ll occur for only one day and have minimal impact on the world for their duration. But Pilgrim’s Bounty raises my excitement level! There are a number of fun looking achievements to go along with the new holiday that I’ll assume will take place over Thanksgiving week. For those of you unaware, Thanksgiving takes place on the fourth Thursday of every November in the United States. Of course, Blizzard could always adopt the Canadian version, which takes place on the second Monday of October each year.
The only question I have is whether or not we’ll have to participate in this new world event to get our Violet Proto Drakes from the Long Strange Trip achievement. If it’s anything like the new and improved Noblegarden, then we will. I’m OK with that, but I’m sure some of the other players hoping to get that 310% mount might get upset.
In addition to those new holiday achievements, there are a few new Feats of Strength, which hint at some more free pets for logging in. A Jade Tiger sounds like fun! What are your thoughts on these new achievements? Anything in particular draw your interest? What about the new world event? Can’t wait or sick of holidays?
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By Jagganatha on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Can’t wait for ‘Pirate Day’ myself.
Yarr!
By lucret on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
yay more holidays cant wait for pirate day and day of the dead
By Shamtastik on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Boo Pirates! Ninja all the way! Osu!
By Stanleyovicz on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Wasn’t there a pirate day in WoW already? I’m pretty sure it was during the “International Talk Like A Pirate Day” in september.
By Rogue4Life on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Aye!
By amidaman on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 2:59 pm
btw, pilgrims day will have a polymorph turkey book as a reward
By Alayea on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I actually look forward to Pilgrim’s Bounty, since it always bothered me that Blizzard didn’t have an in-game counterpart to Thanksgiving Day (which is among my favorites because it’s not commercialized as badly as Halloween and Christmas).
By atlas on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 4:03 pm
hoping day of the dead will be a repeat of the scourge infestation
By Montes on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Cant wait for the new holidays
i love them all 
and i hope day of the dead is like the scourge infestation it was fun being invisncble for 1 day lol no one could kill me 
the first day you could be invisnible by takeing off and on one pieace of gear and youl get all health back which was awesome
By cocopuff on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 6:11 pm
wow awsome buti renember ththat blizz allready had a pirate day looking forward to more pvp action but one achievement that really catches my eye is http://ptr.wowhead.com/?achievement=3800 killing 12,000 scarabs thats gointo be wild
By cocopuff on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 6:12 pm
damn ment to link the traitor king achievement
By cocopuff on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 6:20 pm
i wonder if their gointo be a water watcher
By cocopuff on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 6:21 pm
then the ywould have all the elements earth fire wind and water
By Shnoo on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 7:30 pm
we’d be short one element?
By Pegraath on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 7:53 pm
There are half a dozen or so new recipes to go with Thanksgiving (making the Cooking achievement ridiculously easy). Chutneys and stuffing and that. From the number of achievements it looks like its another fortnight (or maybe one week) festival. I hope it doesn’t get rolled up into the meta, as I’m on course for October’s Violet Protodrake with my main (not Pegraath that I post on here as).
Isn’t Day Of The Dead a Mexican festival? Anyone know when this is approximately?
Good to see another boss in Archavon’s Vault. Hopefully he’ll be as challenging at launch as Emalon was (and n00bs will have learnt their lesson to not join up with blues which is thankfully rare now). With a bit of luck I may be tanking Archavon himself with my Warlock by then! lol
By Xian on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 8:26 pm
My first thoughts: “Oh great…more lame World Events.”
Day of the Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead)
There you go Pegraath, all the info you could ever want/need concerning El Día de los Muertos (All Soul’s Day).
By urbanranger on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 1:42 am
they allready mad a pirate day its in booty bay they turn u into a pirate thats it
By Rasun on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 8:32 am
I am going to be interested in the lore surrounding pilgrims bounty…
By higy on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 10:28 am
i find this all quite cool
By Redauroa on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 11:46 am
I really like the world events.
Here are some of the dates:
Harvest festival 8 Sep-13 Sep
Pirate Day 19 Sep
Brew Fest 20 Sep-4 Oct
Hollow’s End 18 Oct-1 Nov
Day of the Dead 2 Nov
I think all the dates are right. This is a busy time of the year
By Kagitaar on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I really hope the Thanksgiving one does not get included in the meta, an extension of my wait at this point would be cruel.
By Pauldy on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Uhm I will track down a blue just to kick them in the testiclular membrain should they include any more in the long strange trip. I grumbled through the grind they added with the latest patch but now I’m down to Brewfest half of which is already complete stick another in there blizz I dare ya.
By Dragoro on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 6:59 am
If you Americans can have thanksgiving and the Mexicans get day of the dead then we English should at least get St Georges day.
By cocopuff on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 7:08 am
it would be said if they added another world event what a strange trip its been
By Ombrenoire on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Pets… mounts… gear… brain… melting…
By Kordetta on Friday, June 26th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Yarrrrrrr!
By blinketyblink on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
hey does any1 have a link to the jade tiger?
By lalo on Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Im glad blizz is allowing us to celebrate one of the best and fun holiday in mexico, day of the dead, and ull get to meet catrina, wich is an old leyend in my country, the lady of the dead