The world event craze is over… for now

The Children’s Week craze is finally over and I have to say that I’m really glad that it is. We finally get a break from about two straight weeks of gunning for achievements for both Noblegarden and Children’s Week. Now we can get back to our “boring” every life doing whatever we do, not having to worry about getting a run through Utgarde Pinnacle with your orphan or doing battlegrounds like mad trying to do School For Hard Knocks.

posing with orphan

I feel pretty good about myself for getting both the Noble and the Patron titles on my main character. I wanted the Noble title because I didn’t have a title on that toon yet and when I saw that both titles were stuff I can do with just a little effort, I really went for getting both. I’m not gunning for that meta achievement that awards that cool drake mount but for those who are then I hope that you were lucky to finish in time.

For Noblegarden, though I didn’t get to see what the one day event was like in past years I think that it’s safe to say this year’s was fun. I think that they laid a nice framework to make some improvements for next year especially since it’s now a week long thing with more stuff to do. Maybe in the future we can fight an egg stealing menace and get cool items.

For Children’s Week, I mentioned before that it would have been cool if we brought our orphans to see cool sites in Northrend like the Wymrest Temple or the Emerald Dragonshrine, much like how we brought them around the old world and Outlands. My complaint about the School For Hard Knocks achievement was that it made players do things that you normally wouldn’t do in a battleground if you wanted to win. I’m talking about fighting in the flag area in EoTS early in the game just to get a chance to capture it (I got a lot of screams from people to stop fighting in the middle) or purposely going on defense in WSG just to return the flag even if offense is very much needed. These practices are quite counter productive in the big picture. Blizzard should have made goals that were a bit more going with the flow with what you would do if you wanted to win instead of this.

So anyway we’re world event free for a while now with the Midsummer Festival up next this coming June. We have a few weeks of break and then it’s the achievement craze again so enjoy this boring period while it lasts.