Direbrewfest 2010

[Brandish]

... we must play a different game lol

You say there's a game version of this? Link?

[Brandish]

Note that as of today's maintenance, while you can still invite in lower levels to fill your team, they no longer get the daily loot keg.

[Kalyse]

People were getting banned for that, since it was a glitch and not intended. Some people were doing it in RAF for insane XP. Since you can farm him you could 44-60 in an hour. (Or something equivalanet).

I read about it the day someone posted on a forum about it and decided I'm staying well clear since Blizzard clearly know the tricks and it would be easy to discover which toons were getting loot they shouldn't.

A few days later someone posted he got all his RAF toons banned.

[Duane]

Yes, but there are two mounts, actually : a ram and a kodo. Just heard of someone who got the two in the same bag

I got both is the same bag on Tuesday. So it is possible.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I got both is the same bag on Tuesday. So it is possible.

/sniffle

I've seen one ram the entire time and I've been taking two teams through every day.

[Brandish]

OK, day of reckoning.

One team has earned 850+ tokens to buy every item, starting from scratch. (Proof of concept.)

Brewmasters from last year will also get the rest of the items.

All alts are in the Brew of the Month club and will have the pink elekk pet and the keg.


Coren and the random number generator: One char got both mounts in one bag. Several chars got duplicate mounts.
Some chars have no mounts at all. Normal stuff.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I'm glad that all of you are having it so easy with Coren. This is my first time 4-boxing a lvl 80 boss and he's killing me. After the first wipe, I read up on him. Next time round, I tried to focus on his elite adds so my tank wouldn't get kegged and they seemed to keep re-spawning. I think I killed each one 2-3 times before we all wiped again. Anyone else seen this? I have tried to just burn Coren down, but I can't seem to do so without my tank getting kegged and then wiping. Any suggestions? And no, I can't run 5. 4 is max possible with the hardware I'm using. As for gear, I've got the best crafted stuff avail for each toon.

What classes are you trying to 4-box him with? How much DPS are your DPS guys putting out?

I just ran it with my druid tank/3x sham/hunter off group, the highest of which is about 3200 gearscore (all blues or i200 crafted epics). They only keg one of my guys about once every 3rd or 4th run. Curious if you're still having problems.

[Brandish]

OK. Buying tons of Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderms and Brewfest Ponykegs across my characters. I just finished explaining to my buddy about how the pet was not unique and can't be sold back and that the keg was unique... so the proper buying order for safety is keg first then pet.

Then I promptly went to buy a pet and mis-clicked on it, buying two of them. Waiting on a GM to see if I can be saved from my mistake.

The pet is not unique... You can drain all of your tokens with a couple mis-right clicks.

[Brandish]

So, in trying to fix my blunder myself by trying to squeeze in some extra ram races, I'm reminded of how utterly screwed the Horde are when it comes to their ram race.

On the alliance side, the best time is around 38 or 39 seconds for a round trip. A perfect run can net 40 tokens, or perhaps a couple more. If you miss a checkpoint because of lag or whatever, even miss two of them... you can still come away with 30 tokens.

The horde ram race is straighter, but is also longer. My round trip time seems to be 44 to 45 seconds. That extra 5 seconds adds up in to way fewer trips and way fewer tokens yielded. Numbers like 15 to 20, with lag and unresponsive keg handlers (described next).

Additionally, the alliance side has prominent landmarks that allow you to gauge your turns. Turn around just inside the outer banner pole, and you are guaranteed to hand the keg off. Turn around at the guard before the keg thrower and you will receive a keg.

On the horde side, there are very subtle marks, nothing close to a pole or a person to turn around at. Also, I've run directly over the keg receiver and not tossed my keg. In fact one time I ran tight circles around the receiver and made it around him 3 times before the keg left.

For my problem at hand, I'm trying to get another 100 tokens. I'm at 25 after this last race (gained 16), and I have 2 sets of dailies remaining, which will get me to 75. Looks like I have one more race available, so if I can get 25 tokens, I'm safe even if the GM can't replace the item.... but so far I've gotten no wehre close to 25 toeksn on the horde ram race this week.

[Brandish]

GM came to the rescue, btw.