I finally did it! As of 10/29/18, I never have to run the Headless Horseman again! I’m happy to finally obtain one was my most desired mounts in the game :)
I finally did it! As of 10/29/18, I never have to run the Headless Horseman again! I’m happy to finally obtain one was my most desired mounts in the game :)
Sometimes, Bulleto gets stuck above Orgrimmar and ponders his existence.
Actually, this happened a while ago, but I never uploaded it. I think it was during Hallow’s End. I had missed the zeppelin, so I flew toward, got above the deck, and right-clicked off my mount buff. I dropped to the level of the deck and stopped falling, but the zeppelin continued without me. I messed with the camera for a while for fun, but luckily the next zeppelin to come saved me.
This is the card back you can earn during the October season in Hearthstone. I got the image from Blizzard’s announcement. I think it looks pretty cool. I can’t way to use it when it unlocked on November 1st, the same day I put up my Halloween decorations and bust out a costume. Oh, you usually do those things in October? Apparently Blizzard doesn’t. I feel like they didn’t think this through. Thanks for the pirate card back on October 1st also – 12 days too late for the day celebrating pirates.
Source: Hearthstone October 2014 Ranked Play Season – Hallow’s End!, Zeriyah, Hearthstone News, 10/1/14.
Brewfast has always been one of my two favorite holidays – the other being Hallow’s End. (It’s too bad they’re so close together.) The year before last, I obtained my Brewfest Ram. I still needed by kodo, so I continued to run Direbrew daily.
This year, I got my Brewfest Kodo! It shouldn’t be that big of a deal, but I do like it a lot actually. The next day, I realized it was a bittersweet victory. Now what do I do with Brewfest? I have every token reward except for on the drinking hat, and I actually had that previously and destroyed it. I have my Wolpertinger, which I do love. Now I had both mounts. Was this is for the holiday? There wasn’t even a stein this year! I think I’ll do the ram riding, calling through Orgrimmar, Dark Iron fight, and Pink Elekks on Parade quest once each just for the experience. I really wish Blizzard had continued to update the stein yearly though!
Horseman rise…
Your time is nigh…
You felt death once…
Now, know demise!It is over,
Your search is done.
Let fate choose now,
The righteous one.
The Headless Horseman is my favorite holiday event in any game. His poetry probably has a lot to do with it!
We waited until the 30th, but Mooglegem and I managed to earn Tricks and Treats of Pandaria in time! I’m not sure why we cared, honestly, but it’s fun. I really wanted (as usual) the Headless Horseman’s Mount, but it wasn’t to be for either of us this year.
Here we are in front of the Wickerman in the Ruins of Lordaeron. That’s Mooglegem in front and me off to the side. Yup, totally.
I really enjoy events such as holidays, the Argent Tournament, the Darkmoon Faire, and the Molten Front. At the same time, I have some issues with them. Blizzard wants people logging into the game daily and these events (through the use of daily quests) force players to do them daily. I like participating in world-changing events and rare holidays, but I don’t always have the time to play daily. What can be done about this?
We can breakdown events into three types: there are events that happen once, events that are always accessible, and events that re-occur monthly or yearly. I don’t have a problem with events that happen once. In fact, these are the most exciting. Admittedly, I’m sad I missed so many, but that’s what makes them so awesome. I wasn’t max level until Wrath of the Lich King, so the first in which I participated were Zalazane’s Fall, Operation: Gnomeregan, Elemental Unrest, and even, I suppose, the Battle for the Undercity. These are very exciting in and of themselves, but the fact that they’re time-sensitive makes them seem more important. These are now events the occurred in history, and I was part of them. A great part was that I simply had to experience them. I didn’t have to experience them, and experience them, and experience them, and experience them.
By contrast, holiday events and events that are always accessible have dailies that require you to perform the same tasks repeatedly. I think events like the Molten Front and the Argent Tournament work better than holidays. Some of this is due to the fact that they’re not time-sensitive. There’s no reason to force me to do either of them daily. If I do, I progress faster. That’s great! But if I don’t, that’s okay. I get to go at my own pace. I think Blizzard also did an excellent job designing both of these. I liked progressing through the tournament. It was also a way of making things feel less tedious. In actuality, I was just doing another jousting daily, but the story allowed me to feel like I was moving through the ranks of the tournament. The Molten Front took this further with the phasing world. It was excellent.
Holiday events are terrible. I feel that I must participate daily. Let’s take, for example, the Headless Horseman. I need to fight him daily because I want his mount. The same goes for many other holidays as well (such as with Coren Direbrew during Brewfest). Then there are vendor rewards that require a huge amount of some sort of token. These are the worst in my opinion because I have to do a bunch of dailies everyday. I either have to to do some math to determine just how many I can miss or, more likely in my case, I do everything I can until I hit that magic number.
I have some proposals for improvements. One option is to allow the tokens to be obtained some infinitely-repeatable but very slow way. Doing the dailies would be best, but you don’t need to feel bad about missing some, because you can always get more tokens. Of course, then you’d have people that would do it non-stop on the first day. To combat this, you could have a second token that you can only get once per day. What if the holiday mount’s price tag was three daily tokens and a bunch of the other? It would be easiest to just play daily the entire week, but if you’re going to miss a bunch of days for some reason, you could grind the rest as a long as you actually played on three days.
This still seems flawed. Another thing that would be helpful would be for each day of the event to give you another opportunity to do a daily (or holiday boss or whatever). This opportunity would not expire at the end of the day. A week long event would give you seven chances to do the boss. You could do it once per day. You could do it seven times on the last day. You couldn’t do it seven times on the first day because you hadn’t earned the opportunities. This is the method I like best.
Most importantly, can’t Blizzard just make events that are more fun and varied? What if the Darkmoon Faire had 30 games but only 5 were randomly available each day? This would give a better reason to play than grinding for pets, mounts, or gear. Or how about high scores for certain quests/minigames. Most of the Darkmoon Faire games could have high scores saved. How about There and Back Again, the Brewfest keg delivery quest, or This One Time, When I Was Drunk…, the quest to defend against the Dark Irons?
I had a lot of fun during the Hallow’s End event this year! I feel like video games make holidays feel way more festive for me. For instance, I don’t usually throw together costumes or go out trick or treating, but I celebrate in-game by doing the quests annually. Plus, the cities in WoW have more decorations (A GIANT PUMPKIN IN UNDERCITY! YAY!) than I expect to ever see in Irvine, CA.
Anyway, my mage is super happy with her new Feline Familiar! I collect a lot of pets for her, but this one is actually a familiar! I loved the kitty’s witch hat so much that I found one to match :)
Last night was a particularly fun raid night! I don’t really know what does it always. I suppose it’s just the company primarily. I feel like naming people is kind of mean because it excludes others, but playing with Darth, Nate, and Lang is just so fun. Also, there was that Moogle girl. She finally made it to the first night! That means she went from 0/7 to 6/7!
Anyways, I was in a particular good raiding mood. Drinking that beer pre-raid might have helped! I also got to up top on the Beth’tilac fight, which was really exciting. We got in some Ragnaros attempts, but we didn’t make much progress. We can’t seem to get all the adds down. I can’t really say what’s going wrong. But Alysrazor gave me a delicious trinket! I was a happy priest.
In other news, after the raid I found that the Horde was holding Tol Barad! That’s rare on our server. I found a 25-man Baradin Hold and was the only priest in the entire raid! Of course, no PVE gear dropped for me, and only one piece of PVP gear. I didn’t win. I was so excited about being the only priest.
The best news though? Well, Hallow’s End started, of course! I love the entire holiday so much, but the Headless Horseman is just the best.
Horseman rise… Your time is nigh… You felt death once… Now, know demise!
It is over, your search is done. Let fate choose now, the righteous one.