Season's Greetings from Merrymaker Destinae

Hiya Folks!

I just finished up the last of my Merrymaker Meta Achievement last night. If you're wondering, the list you need to complete looks like this:

1. On Metzen! Save Metzen the reindeer!
2. Scrooge Throw a snowball at King Magni Bronzebeard during the feast of Winter Veil.
3. 'Tis The Season During the Feast of Winter Veil, wear 3 pieces of winter clothing and eat Graccu's Mince Meat Fruitcake.
4. Let It Snow During the Feast of Winter Veil, use a handful of snowflakes on each of the race/class combinations listed below:
* Orc Death Knight
* Tauren Shaman
* Undead Rogue
* Gnome Mage
* Blood Elf Warlock
* Human Warrior
* Night Elf Druid
* Troll Hunter
* Dwarf Paladin
* Draenei Priest
5. The Winter Veil Gourmet During the Feast of Winter Veil, use your culinary expertise to produce a Gingerbread Cookie, Egg Nog, and Hot Apple Cider.
6. A Frosty Shake During the Feast of Winter Veil, use your Winter Veil Disguise Kit to become a snowman and then dance with another snowman in Dalaran.
7. With A Little Helper From My Friends Earn 50 Honorable Kills as a Little Helper from the Winter Wondervolt Machine.
8. Fa-la-la-la-Ogri'la Complete the "Bomb Them Again!" quest while mounted on a flying reindeer during the Feast of Winter Veil.
9. Simply Abominable Complete the quest chain to retrieve Smokywood Pastures' stolen treats and receive a Smokywood Pastures' Thank You.
10. Bros, Before Ho Ho Ho's Use mistletoe on the Alliance "Brothers" during the Feast of Winter Veil:
* Brother Nimetz in Stranglethorn Vale
* Brother Kristoff in Stormwind
* Brother Joshua in Stormwind
* Brother Cassius in Stormwind
* Brother Anton in Nijel's Point
* Brother Wilhelm in Goldshire
* Brother Karman in Theramore
* Brother Crowley in Stormwind
* Brother Benjamin in Stormwind
11. He Knows If You've Been Naughty Open one of the presents underneath the Winter Veil Tree once they are available (12/25/2009 through 1/2/2010)

Extra Credit: BB King Pelt the enemy leaders listed below:
* Thrall
* Lor'themar Theron
* Cairne Bloodhoof
* Vol'Jin
* Lady Sylvanas Windrunner

Now that they're all posted...Last year, during the Feast of Winterveil, I wasn't even playing WoW. I had taken a much needed break. However, my husband really wanted me to log in and get a present during Winter Veil last year, just to see what I'd get. I literally logged in, grabbed the present, opened it, then logged out. At any rate, that's why I was able to get this achievement already this year. I already had "He Knows If You've Been Naughty" taken care of. This year, you won't be able to complete that achievement until 12/25/09, and gifts will be left available until 1/2/10. Good luck!

For Alliance, there is only one Winter Veil quest that can be picked up outside of Ironforge, and guess what? That quest tells you to go to Ironforge to talk to Greatfather Winter. Crazy how these things work...

Anyway, if you're getting ready to work on this or are already in the process, it's really easy and a lot of fun! My recommendation is to pull up WoWhead.com and be prepared to alt-tab a bit if you're not all that familiar with locations. I had to do that in order to find all of the Alliance Brothers.

Also, the Handful of Snowflakes are NOT soulbound! This will help you get your achievement done early. I only received a Handful of Snowflakes one time while /kissing Winter Veil Revelers in the inn. It got a little frustrating. I remembered reading on WoWhead that they weren't soulbound and could be mailed from one toon to another...That's not necessarily the case, though. Turns out they CANNOT be mailed...but...If you have a friend who's willing to allow you to trade them the snowflakes, who will then trade them to your other toon...life's good.

I got on my warlock, got a handful of snowflakes, traded them to Ziggy, logged into my druid, met up with him and he then traded them to my druid. I ran around Ironforge and got all of the Alliance race/class combos I needed and then hearthed to Dalaran to finish the job. I stood near the "Horde Bank" and just kept an eye out for the race/class combinations I needed. Got them all in about 15 minutes. I'm also going to throw this out there...Make sure that your target doesn't already have the buff from the snowflakes. I'm not sure if they've changed this, but your snowflake toss might not count if they've recently been hit.

Also, thanks to "With a Little Helper From My Friends", I'm now practically addicted to PvP on my druid. I got "Dinner Impossible" last night as well (drop a Great Feast in: Alterac Valley, Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin, Eye of the Storm and Strand of the Ancients). So much fun!

Keep in mind that you lose your "Little Helper" buff/costume when you die. It's probably going to take you a few tries to get this one done. Warsong Gulch is fairly easy and tends to be quick in our battlegroup. The horde usually wins it in less than 10 minutes. (Yeah...I know...blah blah Alliance sucks...blah blah...) I found this to be the easiest battleground to rack up the kills in. As a resto druid, I don't have to switch to tree of life form to throw heals. So what I did was: found a really good hiding spot in Silverwing Hold- told the people down by the flag to stay in LoS so I could heal them, and healed the hell out of them. The kills came in pretty quickly and I was able to move on to the next on the list.

When you're working on this achievement...be understanding. There are quite a few people who LIVE in battlegrounds. Don't let the achievement chasing ruin it for them. Obviously you won't be racing around with the flag in Warsong Gulch, and probably will have to stay in the back playing very defensively, but don't be a jerk.

If you die and lose your Little Helper Buff or get your achievement, don't just /afk out of the battleground. Stay and try to help contribute to help them win! It's only fair. I mean, you've invaded the PvPer's territory in order to do something that they don't care about. Most of the PvPers I ran into while working on this were really cool about helping us get the achievement (probably because they wanted us out of the BG as quickly as possible...but I digress). You should return the favor. Besides, the deserter debuff is 15 minutes...that's longer than some of these battles even last. Hang out, get some honor, get a few marks of honor...I mean, if you get enough of them you can even buy a hot pvp mount...Even if you don't really know what you're doing...just kill horde. Trust me. The PvPers appreciate even a weak attempt from us PvE'ers rather than having us just afk out on them. You never know...you may end up liking PvP more. I know I did =D

Anyway...I've blabbered long enough for now. This is a really easy Meta to get. Good luck to all of you on the path to becoming Merrymakers!

(OH- and yes, I intend to go for the Extra Credit. I can't WAIT to throw a snowball at Thrall!)