So its easter time again…no wait, that already happened. Ok, so its delayed Noble garden time! We can’t be mad about the delay since it brought with it this wonderful new (occasionally buggy) patch. Of course like all holidays, blizzard has blessed us with yet another title to wear proudly over our heads, “The Noble”, and this time they have given us seven days to do it instead of one!  I got it an hour ago so join me after the break for a breakdown of what you need to do.

Quests:

There are only three quests available for this holiday and they are both pretty easy. Head on over to your favorite level five starting zone and pick up A Tisket, a Tasket, a Noblegarden Basket (A/H) and The Great Egg Hunt (A/H) – from the Noblegarden npcs in the area.

The Great Egg Hunt:

This quest is easy provided you can find the eggs before someone else grabs them. You need to turn in 20x Brightly Colored Shell Fragment, which is a 100% drop rate from Brightly Colored Eggs. Simple enough if you can manage to get to the eggs.

The eggs also have a pretty constant droprate of Noblegarden Chocolates
which are used for

• Buying Noblegarden items (see table at bottom)
• 25% of your level stamina/spirit buff.
• Chocolate Lover and Chocoholic achievements (see achievements section)

The eggs also have a chance to drop any of the items that you can buy from the Noblegarden vendor (including the Spring Rabbit’s Foot pet).

So just go out and start collecting those eggs to complete both quests and possibly get the items you need for other achievements.

Note: Eggs are being heavily camped the first few days, so you may not have much luck getting to them. Keep trying and don’t get discouraged when you get spit on and slapped by campers. There is no such thing as “their spot” and “their eggs”, so don’t let them stop you from trying to get eggs.

The Achievements:

The following are required for the Noble Gardener meta-achievement (which is now required for What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been.

I Found One!

Very, very easy. Just loot an egg from the ground.

Noble Garden

Buy a Noblegarden Egg from the Noblegarden vendor and place it anywhere in stormwind – another easy achievement thats only going to set you back five pieces of chocolate.

Chocolate Lover

Eat 25 pieces of chocolate. Piece of cake. (I think 1 piece of cake is equal to 25 chocolates?)

Chocoholic

Eat 100 pieces of chocolate. This just became a child’s fantasy. Easy enough, provided you can find enough eggs to get 100 pieces of chocolate to eat.

Blushing Bride

Hopefully you have been lucky in your egg looting and have yourself a White Tuxedo Shirt and Black Tuxedo Pants, maybe even a Elegant Dress. (if you haven’t you can always buy the tuxedo pieces at 25 chocolates each and the dress at 50 (or pay the insane auction house fees if your really unlucky)).

But anyway, put on your tuxedo, kiss someone wearing a dress and there you go! None of these cloth pieces are Bind-on-pickup so you may want to trade them around with your friends to easily get the achievement.

Desert Rose

Again, maybe you have been lucky and got the Spring Robes from an egg. Or maybe you did what I did and bought them for 50 chocolates. Either way – Put your

Spring Robes on and head out to anywhere in the following locations and use them to plant a flower in:

• Badlands
• Desolace
• Silithus
• Tanaris
• Thousand Needles

Easy, but slightly time consuming flying around.

Hard Boiled

If you completed The Great Egg Hunt you should have a Blossoming Branch in your bags. The best way to do this is with a partner, once you both have your Blossoming Branch. Head out to UnGoro Crater (You can take the portal to Caverns of Time from Dalaran or Shattrath if you are a high enough level.)

and ride down to the hot springs. Once there – transform each other into a rabbit and sit in the water (not swimming) for a minute until you lay an egg.

Note: If you dont have a friend to do this with, you can simply portal to CoT and run over. Mounting and flying will break the shapeshift but portals and hearths will not.

Shake Your Bunny-Maker

Now this one is tough. You have to obtain some Spring Flowers and use them on a female of every race.  Keep in mind how often you see dwarf, tauren or orc females, as opposed to night elves, blood elves and humans. This probably took the longest time – partly because of the 5 minute cooldown on the flowers, and partly because of the rarity of orc, tauren and dwarf females on my server. What I did, being alliance, was mount up and ride over to Razorthorn Hill, where there were tons of horde looting eggs. Make sure if you do this you are careful not to flag as pvp and to appear as non-threatening as possible, I put on the tuxedo pants and shirt, removed all other armor, and equipped only my flowers, just to let them know I had no intentions of harming anyone. Well after about an hour of waiting and flowering and running, I had all the horde I needed. Ironforge is a good place to find dwarf women, stand by the mailbox and soon enough, one should come by. Oh and prepare to get spit upon and threatened while you stand outside razorthorn. A lot of getting spit on this holiday.

Spring Fling

At the steep price of 100 chocolates you had better hope you get lucky and find a Spring Rabbit’s Foot in one of those eggs. This will give you the Spring Rabbit pet which, when you summon, will proceed to get busy with the nearest Spring Rabbit it can find. Your goal is to let it do this in each of the areas that contain eggs (Kharanos, Dolanaar, Azure Watch & Elywnn Forest). Hooray for rabbit STDs.

Do all of these and you will have your new title!

The following are not required for the meta-achievement but are still nice to have:

(Note: Buying these items will not give you the achievement, you have to loot them from an egg.)

Dressed For The Occasion

Loot an Elegant Dress. You will get it if luck is on your side.

Sunday’s Finest

Loot White Tuxedo Shirt and Black Tuxedo Pants from an egg. Same as above – its all luck.

What you can buy from the vendor

• Noblegarden Egg – 5 chocolates and used for the Noble Garden achievement. (This you can place, then loot.)
• Blossoming Branch – 10 chocolates – Turns your party members into rabbits. (You get one for free by completing the daily quest The Great Egg Hunt.
• Spring Flowers – 50 chocolates – Used to give players bunny ears. Used for Shake Your Bunny-Maker.
• Spring Robes – 50 chocolates – Used to plant a rose for Desert Rose.
• White Tuxedo Shirt and Black Tuxedo Pants – 25 chocolates each – A nice tuxedo set to be used while getting the Blushing Bride achievement. Also great for RP.
• Elegant Dress – 50 chocolates – A very bright pink dress. Also used in the Blushing Bride achievement, and great for RP.
• Spring Circlet – 50 chocolates – Get your very own bunny ears! No use in the holiday, these are just for fun.
• Spring Rabbit’s Foot – 100 chocolates – Used in the Spring Fling achievement, it summons the Spring Rabbit pet.
• Tome of Polymorph: Rabbit – 100 chocolates – This is for mages only, so be nice to that mage near you desperately trying to get eggs, they have even more to save their chocolates for.

Well thats it! Enjoy your Noblegarden celebrations and check back later this week for an article on Children’s Week (which starts Sunday).