Last night at 12:01 am, Blizzard launched the new and revamped “Noblegarden” celebration with shiny achievements and a title reward (the Noble). As usual, the event areas were quite crowded right after the event launched, but after spending an hour or so working on the title this morning on my Death Knight (I wanted it for Roleplay reasons) I had decided that although the expanded event was nice, there were some serious problems with it’s set up. Everything, and I mean everything, in this event relies on the Brightly Colored Eggs that can be found in the various starting areas. In theory, this isn’t a problem, except that instead of making the entire zones hunting grounds for eggs, it is only the starting town. Each egg has the chance to drop one of several special items, and most drop an Easter Chocolate. 100 Easter Chocolates are needed for an achievement, and even more are required to purchase special items like clothes, bunny ears, and pets. This means opening hundreds of eggs, which all are over-farmed and not in enough supply. Sure, this is only the first day of the celebration (it’s over on next Saturday) but just from looking at the small radius and small number of eggs available, this is going to be one title that is going to be a pain in the butt, and quite possibly require hours of camping one egg spawn spot. This is probably not as big a problem on smaller servers, but on Earthen Ring, which is fairly full any time of day except perhaps for between 3:00 am and 10:00am (even then it’s not empty) the tiny egg hunting grounds are going to be ridiculous.
So next year, please spread them throughout all the starting areas and add more of them. I know that all the world events shouldn’t be crazy easy, but making it take hours that are no fun at all and that involve sitting in one spot as a rabbit is kind of dumb.
