A Hunter's Story

Meant to put this up last week, but never got the chance… This week will be far busier than last, so here’s my AFK sign. Have no fear – I shall return!

Yes, I’m lovin Brewfest.  I know, I already got Brewmaster on my 3 – 80’s (on the first day of brewfest of course, lol).  But the keg tossing, defending the camp, and Coren are just fun to me.  It’s probably also because we make it into a guild event, and have everyone bring in any alts they have/want to bring.  But it’s also cool because he has some pretty good loot.  In fact, one of our shammies was pretty stoked to pick up the Tankard.  Another guildie picked up a remote, so that makes porting easier now that another char has it.  We also saw the Kodo and Ram drop in the same kill.  Which makes me wonder how his loot works…  Is it that each special item (mounts, remote, etc.) has a chance to drop, and we were just crazy lucky to have the 2 mounts drop at the same time?  Or did they change it now so that the ‘mounts’ have a chance to drop and you either get both, or get none?  I have no clue, but we have a guildie keeping track of every drop we get.  She did it last year and it was cool to see that we ran it something like 87 times…  It was also fun to come up with our own approximate drop rates, based on the runs and loot we received, since we ran it so many times.  Last year’s rates (by our method) was approximately:

Dark Iron Smoking Pipe - 23.2% 
Empty Mug of Direbrew - 15.1% 
Balebrew Charm - 11.6% 
Brightbrew Chamrm - 10.4% 
Coren’s Lucky Coin - 15.1% 
Direbrew Hops - 25.5% 
Direbrew’s Shanker - 3.4% 
Direbrew’s Remote - 6.9% 
Swift Brewfest Ram - 5.8% 
Great Brewfest Kodo - 3.4% 

So not perfect, but probably relatively accurate.  It’ll be interesting to see how it turns out this year.  Except, we can’t run as many times since some of us (myself included) are working 15 hr days, including weekends.  Why oh why does brewfest have to come during my busiest time of year!

Yay!  It’s nice!  For those getting it this week, gratz!  For those who have to wait a holiday or two, hang in there!

YAY!!!  ZOMG, can’t wait!  Cuz we’ll finish up this, and we get this too!  For which the tooltip should read “super-duper-extra-fast mount”.  310% speed baby!

Ok, so I’m not really sure which I’m more excited about, the holiday or the mount…  My fav holiday in the game because, well, it revolves around beer and it’s just fun.  Cool mount that goes really fast…  Except that means it’s the only flying mount I’ll use from now on, just for the extra speed.  At least druids will get their flight form speed increased.  I wish they would’ve made it an ability you learn, or something that affects all of your mounts.  Like a passive ability “traveled the world, experienced the holidays – 30% mounted speed increase”.  But oh well, can’t complain too much about it – it’s a holiday dedicated to beer!!!

Of course, it must come during my busiest 2 weeks of the year at my job, but no fixing that.  So oh well.  During your times celebrating this glorious holiday, drink one for me!