Noblegarden: Nobility in a day

Who'd thought that becoming of noble blood didn't take years of arduous labour under some king or the other trying to prove your worth for all eternity or even a quick marriage into a royal bloodline.

No, Instead it turns out that with a few hours of picking up brightly colored eggs even the lowliest of jenkins can become of noble birth.

For those of you unfamiliar with the noblegarden event I can summarize it really quick by saying it's the wow-variant of easter involving mostly exclusively picking up (not so) brightly colored eggs from your respective starter zones.

Yes, starter zones, you remember those places you haven't been to in the last month or 12? Areas like brill, razor hill and falconwing squary are now brimming with life.

But enough with the inane babble and lets go on the fast-track to becoming a noble in a day. What we're after is the title 'the noble' which is available through the new noblegarden achievements of which you have to complete the following (if it's not listed here you don't need it for the title):


Blushing Bride
Kiss someone wearing an Elegant Dress while wearing a White Tuxedo Shirt and Black Tuxedo Pants.

Chocoholic
Eat 100 Noblegarden Chocolates during the Noblegarden celebration.

Desert Rose
Use Spring Robes to plant a flower in each of the deserts listed (check the achievement for locations).

Hard Boiled
Lay an egg in Un'Goro Crater's Golakka Hot Springs as a rabbit during the Noblegarden celebration. (just go there as a rabbit or bring a friend that has a rabbit transformation branch and stand around there for a few minutes as a rabbit)

I Found One!
Find a Brightly Colored Egg.

Noble Garden
Hide a Brightly Colored Egg in Silvermoon (or stormwind if you joined the other side) City.

Shake Your Bunny-Maker
Use Spring Flowers to place rabbit ears upon females of at least 18th level. (note the level requirement and the 5 minute cooldown on the quest item)

Spring Fling
Find your pet Spring Rabbit another one to love in each of the towns listed.
(basically just go to all the starter towns with your pet out and run into someone else's pet bunny)

The achievements themselves are fairly self explanatory but I added a few comments here and there. All the items you need for the achievement are purchasable from the easter candy vendor.... but...

The first thing we have to realize is that any of the needed items can also randomly be found when opening brightly colored eggs.

The second thing we need to realize is that the drop rate for whatever we want at the time (pray for the pet) is abysmal so we'll need anywhere in the neighbourhood of 200-300 brightly colored eggs. That's a lot of eggs my friends and so pick a starter area that's fairly quiet for your egg hunt. Falconwing square in my case was pretty quiet.

Pick up the 2 quests available for the easter event and then look around. Eggs spawn all over the place but respawn in the same spot quite often. Eggs like stuff to spawn in, spawn next to walls and generally any crevace or crack they can find. Observe the spawning pattern for a while and then stand at a spot where you can see 3 or more spots where eggs appear and then just stand there until they spawn.

You can run around like a headless chicken looking for eggs but that will actually result in you finding 'less' eggs than you would by just standing there and acting cool waiting for a spawn.

Yes, it's spawn camping, no it isn't exactly on the morally up and up but you need 200+ of the damn things and the sooner you're done the better for everyone.

Incidentally you also got a egg basket which next to a spiffy fashion accessory can also give you a 60% run speed buff in the egg-finding zones which is just what the doctor ordered for staying ahead, or at least at the same speed as the competition.

Crack open all the eggs you find. Eggs don't stack but the chocolate inside them will... every item from here on in is a great find but what you're hoping for is some spring flowers, a bunny pet and a robe that allows you to plant flowers. The tuxedo pants and shirt are needed for an achievement (the kiss) but are only 25 candy from the vendor so I myself opted to buy them at the time.

The trick is not to buy anything from the vendor until you're pretty sure you don't need to collect any additional 'brightly colored eggs' which is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 200 - 300 depending on your luck (I've heard of someone finding everything they needed in the first 50 eggs... normal people will need more eggs... luck-challenged people like myself should just go for the 300 mark).

That's all there is to it except a quick trip around the world for the various achievements... but primarily it's all about collecting eggs.

A perfect title for anyone who has a few hours to burn or just can't seem to get a hold of a title at all.