007 - Silverpine Shenanigans

Note: Sorry about the sound quality about this episode. Polly is still setting up her recording space and she needs to dampen the environmental sounds, but it will get better. Also those teensy noises you here are her real life battle pet Vector.

Intro

Episode 7: Silverpine Shenanigans

Episode Question:

Last episode we asked: We would like to know how many achievements our listeners have. What’s your current achievement count so far?

https://twitter.com/RetPallyJil/status/1373322779848753152?s=20 https://twitter.com/JaredKuester/status/1373331543016443906?s=20 https://twitter.com/WhtePolrBearMnt/status/1373328017989246979?s=20 https://twitter.com/SpazzWesson/status/1373780219908087808?s=20 https://twitter.com/SpazzWesson/status/1373780219908087808?s=20

Polly - 16,885 (geez, I feel like a noob, but somehow I am the highest in my guild)

Mud - 25,570

Next Episode Question: Obviously, this is an Achievements podcast, and we know you are interested in achievements, but we would like to know why you are an Achievement Chaser. What about getting those achievements gets you motivated? Is it numbers? Lore? Something else?

https://twitter.com/lichqueenx/status/1373728270399774721?s=20

Main Zone: Silverpine Forest

Coming from Tirisfal Glades, you're greeted by Sylvanas and Warchief Garrosh.

From a current lore perspective, Silverpine Forest is like going back in a time machine, so you have to just roll with it. It tells the story of the Forsaken and the Worgen when it happened in the timeline. It may seem dated from our current perspective, but it is full of lore.

Achievements

Silverpine Forest Quests- Complete the following quests (10) - Horde Only

Forsaken High Command

Forsaken Rear Guard

The Sepulcher

The Ruins of Gilneas

Ambermill

On the Battlefront

Explore Silverpine Forest - Explore the following areas in Silverpine Forest (10)

/way 45.41 82.23 The Battlefront
/way 45.05 67.95 Shadowfang Keep
/way 51.14 67.42 The Forsaken Front
/way 60.03 61.90 Ambermill
/way 56.38 46.15 Deep Elem Mine
/way 46.92 53.94 Olsen's Farthing
/way 44.97 41.66 The Sepulcher
/way 38.90 33.19 North Tide's Run
/way 38.56 29.20 North Tide's Beachhead
/way 35.78 14.19 The Skittering Dark
/way 44.66 21.64 Forsaken Rear Guard
/way 52.56 26.59 Valgan's Field
/way 56.88 33.53 The Decrepit Fields
/way 65.76 26.21 Fenris Isle
/way 57.75 90.98 Forsaken High Command Extras Pets Catchable Pets:

Bat

Blighted Squirrel

Infected Fawn

Infected Squirrel

Squirrel

Toad

Notable Rare Drops

If you kill the Marsh crocolisks at the battle front you can get the quest ‘I never forget a face’ where you look for body parts in the Crocolisks Dalaran Wizard’s Robe will drop from the Ambermill mobs, sadly it’s not transmogable. /way 59 70 Andrea Boynton /way #21 44.6 39.2 Andrea Boynton

Solstice robes (cloth)

Lore: The quest Cities in the Dust (which is most likely a reference to a Siouxie and the Banshees song) is chock full of lore. The battle between Gilneas and the Forsaken is over. Lord Crowely and his Worgen have lost. Crowley insists it isn’t over yet, but Sylvanas shifts the conversation when she asks about Crowley’s daughter, Lorna. Crowley demands to know what Sylvanas has done with his daughter. Sylvanas states that she will trade Lorna for an unconditional surrender. Crowley agrees, despite the grumbling of his forces. The three former Gilnean l3ords, now Forsaken, bring Lorna to Crowley. After Lorna is safely in her father’s arms, Lord Godfrey shoots Sylvanas in the back, killing her. Sylvana’s three Val’kyr agree that it is their duty to bring her back to life; in doing so, they lose their own lives.

Dungeon: Shadowfang Keep

https://dungeonfables.libsyn.com/episode-5-shadowfang-keep

Achievements

Pardon Denied - Defeat Baron Ashbury without letting him heal with Stay of Execution in Shadowfang Keep on Heroic Difficulty.

At max level this is just nukeable. At level Make sure you interrupt Baron Ashbury when he performs ‘Stay of Execution’

To The Ground - Defeat Commander Springvale without allowing him to receive Unholy Empowerment in Shadowfang Keep on Heroic Difficulty.

This achievement is named after a Ghostcrawler line who said that Ret Pallys were going to be nerfed ‘to the ground, baby!” The basic idea is to keep Commander Springvale from being buffed. Once he gets 3 stacks of Unholy power he will get Unholy Empowerment. To prevent this you either need to nuke the boss or burn the adds down in less than 10 seconds. This can be challenging at level but at max level it’s cake.

Bullet Time - Defeat 12 Bloodthirsty Ghouls with Pistol Barrage and then defeat Lord Godfrey in Shadowfang Keep.

Keep the boss on the bottom level and keep the adds between you and the boss. At max level pull him but don’t damage him. Once 12 Bloodthirst Ghouls are dead, kill the boss and get the achievement.

Shadowfang Keep - Defeat Lord Godfrey.

Heroic: Shadowfang Keep - Defeat Lord Godfrey on Heroic Difficulty.

Extras Notable Rare Drops

Commander’s Crest: Drops off of Commander Springvale. It has a reversed color alliance shield regardless of what faction you are on.

Deathsworn Captain: Drops a sword ‘Haunting Blade’ - large and silver with a red fillagrie

Eerie Stable Lantern: Drops off Lord Walden and Fel Steeds

Zone: Ruins of Gilneas

A quick look at the horde and specifically Forsaken view over the Worgen starting zone.

Human submarines

Notable Rare Drops:

You can kill Korok the Colossus which drops his head

Zone: Hillsbrad Foothills Achievements

Hillsbrad Foothill Quests (10) - Finish the following questlines:

The Sludge Fields,

Stormpike

Eastpoint Tower

Azurelode Mine

Explore HIllsbrad Foothills (10) - Explore Hillsbrad Foothills revealing the covered areas of the world map:

/way 34 72 Azurelode Mine
/way 33 47 Brazie Farmstead
/way 48 48 Corrahn's Dagger
/way 50 24 Crushridge Hold
/way 67 25 Chillwind Point
/way 30 36 Dalaran Crater
/way 43 12 Dandred's Fold
/way 48 54 Darrow Hill
/way 63 79 Dun Garok
/way 68 60 Durnholde Keep
/way 50 32 Gallow's Corner
/way 39 48 Gavin's Naze
/way 43 38 Growless Cave
/way 35 26 Misty Shore
/way 57 75 Nethander Stead
/way 26 86 Purgation Isle
/way 46 28 Ruins of Alterac
/way 49 72 Ruins of Southshore
/way 49 19 Slaughter Hollow
/way 55 38 Sofera's Naze
/way 29 64 Southpoint Gate
/way 58 24 Strahnbrad
/way 57 46 Tarren Mill
/way 42 51 The Headland
/way 36 58 The Sludge Fields
/way 40 18 The Uplands Extras Pets Catchable Pets:

Huge Toad

Infected Squirrel

Infested Bear Cub

Lofty Librams

Maggots

Rat

Red-Tailed Chipmunk

Snowshoe Hare

Spider

Toad

Drop Pets:

Black Tabby very low drop rate from mobs in HIllsbrad Foothills

Disgusting Oozling - can drop from Blight Slimes in Ruins of South Shore

Quest Pets:

Singing Sunflower - Plants vs Zombie style game called Peacebloom VS Ghouls in WoW where you use flowers to battle undead at /way 33 49

Toys

Frostwolf Insignia - purchasable from Voggah Deathgrip: at /way 58 34

Notable Rare Drops

Skhowl - /way 43.6 38.7 - dagger Howling Blade, and also a leather head called Feathered Headdress

Lo’Grosh - The Pacifier Mace, leather shoulders (Boulder Pads), and mail boots (Black Ogre Kickers)

Peeling the Onion - an in game book about the Stormpike from the frost wolf perspective; it drops from humanoid mobs in Hillsbrad Foothills

Other areas of interest include:

Dalaran Crater - Of course, when Dalaran was moved to its first new location in Northrend, it left a crater where it used to be. You will go there during the Ambermill quest chain.

Ruins of Southshore - Angry Scrubbing Bubbles quest - Drops from angry blight slime

In game memorial for Anthony Ray Stark 1961-2005 a friend of the WoW developers in the South East part of Hillsbrad Foothills

Ravenholdt (Assassins League) - has their headquarters, Ravenholdt Manor, in Alterac Mountains but to get to it on foot you need to travel through the north east corner of Hillsbrad Foothills.We will be covering this area when we get to Alterac in the future.

Rogues that pickpocket Reislek’s Ghost /way #25 70.6 50.8 with the Glyph of Disguise then walk to the manor and go down to the basement and cast detection this will reveal a ghost Orsur under the stairs when you talk to him you’ll get ‘Survivor’s Bag of Coins’. You can pickpocket mobs and get a coin buff. By using this item you can throw a coin to the ground and you propel yourself up and in the opposite direction.

Calendar Pet Battle Bonus Event

2021/03/30 - 2021/04/06

If you complete 5 PvP pet battles you’ll earn an Ultimate Battle-Training Stone which will level any pet to 25.

For this event I want you to try for these achievements:

No Time to Heal achievement - which you need to win 5 consecutive Pvp pet battles without letting a pet die.

The achievement Mechanical Brawler - Win 10 PvP pet battles through Find Battles with a full team of level 25 Mechanical Pets

During the event all pet battles will award 200% XP so make sure that you’re taking advantage of the pet battles in WoD to level your pets as quickly as possible. Mud included a few pet battle teams for Rematch that work pretty well in episode 3 so work on getting those pets leveled up this week.

PvP Brawl: Classic Ashran

2021/03/30 - 2021/04/06

A great time to work on your Wrynn’s Vanguard reputation for Alliance or Vol’Jin’s Spear rep

Darkmoon Faire

2021/04/04 - 2021/04/10

I’m going to hold off on adding any achievements this episode. The majority we have left are race achievements. But since this event overlaps with the Battle Pet Bonus event for a few days use the following teams for Jeremy Feasel and Christoph VonFeasel.

Jeremy Feasel - You’ll need to have a level 25 Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling and Molten Corgi. The Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling can be obtained from an engineer with that recipe or from the Auction House, and the Molten Corgi was an anniversary reward. If you don’t have it there are some other strategies available on www.wow-petguide.com and if you sign in it’ll tailor the teams if makes to your collection

Jeremy Feasel:21PA:1220QC:22101DB:ZL:N:Strategy added by Dark#1211\nStrategy from Incandio via Wowhead. I now prefer this strategy over the MPD+Tonk strategy that I used for years. There is one possible stun RNG when swapping to Molten Corgi, but it doesn't make you lose the fight. It's even possible to defeat Fezwick before MPD even dies.\n\nTurn 1: Decoy\nTurn 2: Thunderbolt\nTurn 3: Breath until Judgment dies.\nHonky-Tonk comes in\nTurn 4: Swap to your Molten Corgi\nTurn 5-7: Puppies of the Flame\nTurn 8: Flamethrower\nTurn 9+: Cauterize if you take a hit from the laser, else Flamethrower until Honky-Tonk dies.\nFezwick comes in\nTurn 10: Swap to your Level Pet\nTurn 11: Swap to your Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling\nTurn 12: Decoy\nTurn 13: Thunderbolt\nTurn 14: Breath until Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling dies.\nTurn 15: Swap to your Molten Corgi\nPrio 1: Puppies of the Flame\nPrio 2: Flamethrower\n

Christoph VonFeasel - You’ll need to have level 25 Enchanted Broom and Iron Starlet. You can get the enchanted broom from the Argent Tournament in Northrend if you’re horde from the Silvermoon Quartermaster. You can get the Iron Starlette as a quest reward from the WoD invasion which can still be done now.

Christoph VonFeasel:2JGF:22206L:ZL:12101BB:N:Strategy added by psofia\nUPDATE: This strategy by [url=https://www.wowhead.com/npc=85519/christoph-vonfeasel#comments:id=2476643]Rikade on Wowhead[/url] still works as of the Shadowlands pre-patch. As stated in the comments below if you have a P/S, P/P, P/B Starlette AND you get critted by Otto, you will die and have to start over. It doesn't happen very often from my experience with a P/B Starlette.\n\nTurn 1: Sweep\nOtto comes in\nTurn 2: Wind-Up [Just once, you will need it later]\nSwap to your Iron Starlette\nTurn 1: Wind-Up\nTurn 2: Supercharge\nTurn 3: Wind-Up - Otto dies\nSyd comes in\nTurn 1-3: Toxic Smoke x3 to remove Syd's bubble - Iron Starlette dies \nSwap to your Level Pet\nSwap to your Enchanted Broom\nTurn 1: Sweep\nMr. Pointy comes in\nTurn 1: Wind-Up\nTurn 2: Wind-Up\nTurn 3: Wind-Up - Mr. Pointy dies\nSyd comes in\nTurn 1-2: Batter x2 - Syd dies\n

If you don’t have the ability to get these pets there are alternative strategies on wow-petguide.com - https://www.wow-petguide.com/Section/7/The_Darkmoon_Faire

March of the Tadpoles

2021/04/05 - 2021/04/06

A micro holiday that celebrates murloc tadpoles. If you go to /way 43, 13 in Borean Tundra you can see a bunch of baby murlocs running around. They’re so adorable.

Noblegarden

2021/04/05 - 2021/04/12

Blizzard’s take on Easter. Players collect Brightly Colored Eggs which will contain:

between 1-6 Noblegarden chocolate

Blossoming Branch which can be used to give someone a rabbit costume

Black Tuxedo Pants

White Tuxedo Shirt

Elegant Dress

Spring Flowers (which will place bunny ears on yourself or another player)

Spring Circlet is a cosmetic head item item that give you permanent bunny ears and is transmogable during Noblegarden

Spring Rabbit’s foot - which is a Spring Rabbit Battle pet

Achievements:

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

Chocolate Lover - eat 25 Noblegarden Chocolates discovered inside Brightly Colored Eggs

Chocoholic - Eat 100 Noblegarden Chocolates discovered inside Brightly Colored Eggs

Desert Rose - use Spring Robes to plant a flower in Badlands, Desolace, Silithus, Tanaris, and Thousand Needles. Simply wear the Spring Robes and activate the ‘use’ ability

Hard Boiled - Lay an egg in Un’Goro Crater hot springs /way 33, 49. To get this travel with another player that has the Blossoming Branch to turn you into a rabbit and eventually you will lay an egg.

I found One! - Find and loot a Brightly Colored Egg found in the main starting zones in Azeroth

Noble Garden - Hide a Noblegarden Egg anywhere in Silvermoon City for the horde, or Stormwind City if you’re Alliance. You can purchase these eggs for 5 noble garden chocolates.

Shake Your Bunny Maker - Target a player that is level 20 and above of the following races: Blood Elf, Draenei, Dwarf, Gnome, Goblin, Human, Night Elf, Orc, Tauren, Troll, Undead, and Worgen. - This used to be for level 18 and female only but they changed the requirement in 2019

Spring Fling - Find your pet Spring Rabbit and another to love in each of these towns:

Alliance - Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, and Kharanos

Horde - Bloodhoof Village, Brill, Falconwing Square, and Razor Hill

Noble Gardener - If you finish all of the achievements above you’ll earn this achievement and be one step closer to What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been.

Sunday’s Finest - discover the White Tuxedo Shirt and Black Tuxedo Pants by opening Brightly Colored eggs during Noblegarden

Dressed for the Occasion - discover an Elegant Dress by opening Brightly Colored eggs during Noblegarden

Mounts:

Swift Springstrider - Can be bought for 500 Noblegarden Chocolates. This mount is not soulbound so you can sell it to or buy it from other players and the auction house

Pets:

Spring Rabbit - Can be bought for 100 Noblegarden Chocolates or found in a Brightly Colored Egg.

Noblegarden Bunny - Can be bought for 200 Noblegarden Chocolates

Mystical Spring Bouquet - Can be bought for 100 Noblegarden Chocolates. It is a non-combat pet so you can summon it but it cannot battle.

Toys:

Noble Gardener’s Hearthstone can be bought for 250 Noblegarden Chocolates

Appearances: Can only be transmogged to during Noblegarden

Black, Pink, Yellow, Brown, Blue, and normal Spring Circlet

Elegant Dress

White Tuxedo Shirt

Black Tuxedo Pants

Spring Flowers

Egg Baskets

Torghast: Beasts of Prodigum

2021/04/06 - 2021/04/13

This will be the second round of Beasts of Prodigum. Only available in regular wings. No special rewards. You can choose an anima power at the start that gives you a beast to complete the wing with.

Outland Timewalking Dungeon Event

2021/04/06 - 2021/04/13

Mounts:

Reins of the Eclipse Dragonhawk - Sold by Cupri in Shattrath - Outlands for 5000 Timewarped Badges

Toys:

Mark of the Ashtongue - Sold for 1250 Timewarped Badges

Fractured Necrolyte Skull - Sold for 750 Timewarped Badges

Ever-Shifting Mirror - Sold for 500 Timewarped Badges

Verdant Throwing Sphere - Sold for 500 Timewarped Badges

Other: Cupri also sells various gear and reputation items for varying amounts. You can also purchase heirloom upgrades

The Black Temple timewalking raid is also up during this event which like timewalking dungeons scales you and your gear to the level of the instance.

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