Lunar Festival

Yesterday the Lunar Festival holiday event started in World of Warcraft. That is basically the WoW version of the chinese new year, with fireworks and chinese clothing. And that in itself is a good thing. More than half of the WoW players are Asian, so why should only Anglo-American holidays like Halloween and Christmas be celebrated in the game?

I did the main Lunar Festival quests with both Raslebol and Kyroc. With Raslebol because the quest is about killing a level 63 elite boss mob with 100k hit points. Then with Kyroc, because it turned out that in this case you just need to jump around over the mobs dead body, regardless on how much you actually contributed to killing him. The reward is a lantern that turns solid stones into Elune stones. Unfortunately it seems that the Elune stones don't do anything useful, they just produce a column of moonlight for show. Not very useful for Raslebol, but at least Kyroc got a big bunch of experience points for the quest.

Another part of the Lunar Festival is to visit the Elders, which are stationed in pretty much every village of Azeroth. Each one gives you one coin, and you can exchange 5 coins for chinese style clothing, a pant suit or a dress. I took a blue pant suit for Raslebol and a pink dress for Kyroc. :) Kyroc is running around in robes all the time anyway, he might as well wear dresses.

The last feature of the Lunar Festival are the fireworks, but unlike the other fireworks in the game they can only be used at specific points, where there are firework launchers.
- posted by Tobold @ 9:19 AM Permanent Link