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It's time yet another hunt for phat loot in World of Warcraft, this time in the form of brightly colored eggs! We join together to "share the joy of life and friendship" all the while meticulously hunting carefully hidden eggs and nomming tons of chocolate! The feast of Noblegarden begins on Sunday, April 26th at 12:01 AM and ends on Saturday, May 2nd at 11:59 PM.

Eggs have been hidden all across the places of our youth (namely, the starting areas for the Alliance and Horde races) for both young and old to discover and perhaps even be rewarded with a fabulous prize! Simply head out to one of your faction's starting areas, grab some quests, and get out there and hunt eggs! Maybe you'll even earn some achievements along the way!


Table of Contents

1. Quests
2. Hunting for Eggs!
3. Noblegarden Goodies
4. Achievements

Quests

• Spring Gatherers or Spring Collectors
  Start: Commoners found in the various cities
  End: Spring Gatherer or Spring Collector
  This quest is simply a breadcrumb quest, leading players from major cities to a Noblegarden camp, which can be found in the Horde or Alliance starting areas. For Horde, these areas include Bloodhoof Village, Brill, Falconwing Square, and Razor Hill. For Alliance, these areas include Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, or Kharanos. Travel to any of them and speak to the Spring Gatherer or Spring Collector to obtain a daily quest.
  • The Great Egg Hunt or The Great Egg Hunt
    Start: Spring Gatherer or Spring Collector
    End: Spring Gatherer or Spring Collector
    This quest is a daily quest, asking players to collect 20 Brightly Colored Shell Fragment in exchange for a Blossoming Branch and 7 40. Brightly Colored Shell Fragment can be randomly found inside Brightly Colored Egg looted throughout the starting zones.
• A Tisket, a Tasket, a Noblegarden Basket or A Tisket, a Tasket, a Noblegarden Basket
  Start: Noblegarden Merchant or Noblegarden Vendor
  End: Noblegarden Merchant or Noblegarden Vendor
  This quests gives you an Egg Basket to aid you in collecting 10 Noblegarden Chocolate from Brightly Colored Eggs. Once you've got the chocolates, turn them in and you will be rewarded with a Egg Basket which you can use for a temporary speed boost in any of the starting zones that Brightly Colored Eggs can be found. This item has only a ten second cooldown, and may have a temporary, one-week duration as it is only usable during Noblegarden.

Hunting for Eggs!

This year, players will be scurrying to hunt down Brightly Colored Eggs that spawn hidden in the starting zones of Azeroth:

• Horde: Bloodhoof Village, Brill, Falconwing Square, and Razor Hill
• Alliance: Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, and Kharanos

Eggs can be found only in the starting areas. Blizzard has increased the spawn rate of the eggs, thankfully, and this year you'll have an entire week to hunt them instead of just one day. This should give most players more than enough time to collect all of the new treasures offered in this year's Noblegarden.

The main item players will be collecting from the Brightly Colored Egg looted within is basically the "currency" of the Noblegarden event - Noblegarden Chocolate - which most every egg will contain. Expect to collect a lot of them, as they are not only a currency used to purchase items from Noblegarden vendors but there are achievements for actually consuming quantities of the chocolates as well! Thankfully, all of the items available from the vendors can also randomly be looted from a Brightly Colored Egg so you may get lucky! Likewise, if you're not so lucky you'll have your chance to purchase the items from the vendor in exchange for chocolate - one of the first win-win holidays in Azerothian history! Take that, random loot!


Noblegarden Goodies

Noblegarden 2009 introduces brand new items along with the fancy digs available in the years before. These items can be purchased from a Noblegarden Vendor or Noblegarden Merchant found in one of your faction's starting towns in exchange for Noblegarden Chocolate. Or, you may get lucky and find one or more of these items while egg hunting!

Here are the items you can buy with Noblegarden Chocolates:

• Noblegarden Egg - 5
• Blossoming Branch - 10
• Spring Flowers - 50
• Spring Robes - 50
• White Tuxedo Shirt - 25
• Black Tuxedo Pants - 25
• Elegant Dress - 50
• Spring Circlet - 50
• Spring Rabbit's Foot - 100

In order to purchase all of the items available from the Noblegarden vendors you will need a total of 365 Noblegarden Chocolate. You will need an additional 100 Noblegarden Chocolate to complete the two chocolate-consuming related achievements, and 10 Noblegarden Chocolate to complete A Tisket, a Tasket, a Noblegarden Basket so estimate that you should collect at least 475 Noblegarden Chocolate. That is, of course, assuming that you don't find any of the vendor items while hunting eggs - after opening that many eggs I hope at least a few show up!

Achievements

• Noble Gardener or Noble Gardener
  This achievement can be found in the main World Events achievement category and is awarded upon completion of every one of the Noblegarden achievements except Dressed For The Occasion and Sunday's Finest. This achievement awards the player title 'the Noble' and is a requirement towards completion of What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been (Alliance version) which rewards the beautiful Violet Proto-Drake.

• Blushing Bride
  For this achievement, you must kiss another player (male or female, it doesn't matter) who is wearing an Elegant Dress while you are wearing a White Tuxedo Shirt and Black Tuxedo Pants. These clothes can be found randomly in a Brightly Colored Egg or purchased from a vendor in exchange for Noblegarden Chocolate. Note that the achievement is only awarded to the player wearing the Tuxedo set (and that this Tuxedo set is different than the tailor-crafted set), so in order to complete the achievement you will have to purchase the White Tuxedo Shirt and Black Tuxedo Pants yourself while another player can have the Elegant Dress.

• Chocolate Lover
  For this achievement you must eat 25 Noblegarden Chocolate discovered inside Brightly Colored Eggs. Make sure you still save enough to buy goodies from the vendor!

• Chocoholic
  For this achievement you must eat 100 Noblegarden Chocolate discovered inside Brightly Colored Egg. I would assume that, as this is a meta achievement, you only need an additional 75 Elegant Dress after the first 25 you consumed for Chocolate Lover. Once again, make sure you collect enough chocolates to nab this achievement and still be able to buy goodies from the vendor!

• Desert Rose
  For this achievement, you must first obtain the Spring Robes either from a Brightly Colored Egg or purchased from a vendor for 50 Noblegarden Chocolate. Simply equip the robes and you can activate it's 'Use' ability, which in this case plants a flower where you stand! Once you've got the robes on, simply travel to each of these five deserts - Badlands, Desolace, Silithus, Tanaris and Thousand Needles - and plant a flower.

• Dressed For The Occasion
  This luck-based achivement is awarded upon discovering an Elegant Dress inside a Brightly Colored Egg. This achievement is (thankfully) not a requirement for the meta-achievement Noble Gardener (Alliance version).

• Hard Boiled
  For this achievement you must lay an egg (!) in the Golakka Hot Springs of Un'goro Crater while polymorphed into a Noblegarden Bunny! There are two different ways to become a Noblegarden Bunny. The easy way is to have another player travel with you and use a Blossoming Branch to change you into a rabbit. Simply stand around long enough and eventually your rabbit will lay an egg - voila, achievement done. The more complicated way is to open Brightly Colored Eggs until you are randomly transformed into a Noblegarden Bunny. Then, good luck getting to Un'goro. The most logical way to get there (assuming a level 80 character who isn't an engineer):
  1. Set your Hearthstone to either Dalaran or Gadgetzan
  2. Travel to whichever starting area and loot eggs until you are transformed
  3. Hearth to Dalaran or Gadgetzan
  4. If you hearthed to Dalaran, take the portal to Caverns of Time located inside the Violet Citadel
  5. Run across Tanaris to Un'goro, praying not to get in combat because damage will break the diguise. Oh, and you can't mount or taxi, either.
  Guess which method I recommend.

• I Found One!
  For this achievement you must simply loot a Brightly Colored Egg from inside a Brightly Colored Egg, found in any starting zone in Azeroth.

• Noble Garden or Noble Garden
  For this achievement you must hide a Noblegarden Egg anywhere in Silvermoon City (if you're Horde) or Stormwind City (if you're Alliance). These eggs can be purchased from the Noblegarden vendors for 5 Noblegarden Chocolate, and you can then loot the egg yourself to get a Noblegarden Chocolate back (and maybe something else)!

• Shake Your Bunny-Maker
  For this achievement you must use Spring Flowers to place bunny ears on a female of each race that is level 18 or higher. Spring Flowers can be purchased from a Noblegarden vendor for 50 Noblegarden Chocolate or may be randomly looted from a Brightly Colored Egg. While finding females of every race may not be very difficult, the item has a 5 minute cooldown. So, girls, prepare to be stalked by weirdos waving flowers in your general direction while they wait for the cooldown to come up.

• Spring Fling or Spring Fling
  This achievement requires that you have first obtained the Spring Rabbit's Foot, either by looting it randomly from a Brightly Colored Egg or purchasing it from a Noblegarden vendor for 100 Noblegarden Chocolate. Once you have done that, head out to each of the four starting areas for your faction and find another player with a Spring Rabbit. After a few moments of the rabbits noticing each other, the magic will happen! No spoilers, but ha ha, "like rabbits" and all that - let's keep things PG-13 and pretend we're all mature enough to simply have a chuckle at Blizzard's little joke. Anyway, do this at all four starting areas and you're done!

• Sunday's Finest
  This luck-based achivement is awarded upon discovering both the White Tuxedo Shirt and the Black Tuxedo Pants inside a Brightly Colored Egg. This achievement is (thankfully) not a requirement for the meta-achievement Noble Gardener (Alliance version).