{"id":51,"date":"2010-10-21T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15minutesofwow.wordpress.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2010-10-21T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:36:08","slug":"daily-thoughts-hallows-end-and-bad-queues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternateimage.net\/gaming\/2010\/10\/21\/daily-thoughts-hallows-end-and-bad-queues\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Thoughts: Hallow&#8217;s End and Bad Queues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of my WoW time last night working on achievements for the Hallow&#8217;s End holiday and hopefully the &#8220;the Hallowed&#8221; title this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wow.joystiq.com\/2010\/10\/17\/wow-insiders-guide-to-hallows-end-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">See WoW Insiders Guide to Hallow&#8217;s End 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got my GNERD\u00a0Rage (50 honor kills with the candy buff active)\u00a0achievement almost entirely in one wintergrasp. Horde is pretty over populated on my server, so we farm the alliance back to their flight path most times. Poor ally. Most of my time though, was spent getting the Tricks and Treats of Azeroth. That requires you to run around to most of your factions Inns in Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms and Outlands and loot their pumpkin. It&#8217;s a lot of running\/flying. Each pumpkin does give 6 or so gold, so my friend and I were up 200 gold after the night.<\/p>\n<p>The quests that require horde players to run into south shore\u00a0and cause shenanigans were pretty fun because there was a bunch of alliance there trying to kill us. My 1100 resilience paladin and my friends 1k resilience warrior said, &#8220;No ally, you can&#8217;t kill us&#8221;. I didn&#8217;t claim our battle taunts were creative. Not much better than some open world PVP\u00a0while getting achievements. Today I&#8217;m going to have to do the achievements that rely on drops, including the Sinister Squashling pet and the pumpkin helm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;And the bad queue part<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the course of this adventure to gain my holiday achievement, my questing parter and I were constantly queued for random battle grounds. Over the course of 3 hours or so of questing\/running around, we got only 3 battle ground queues. Do the math, it&#8217;s taking forever. I&#8217;d love someone to comment if they happen to know why for certain. I had heard before the patch that battle groups\u00a0were supposed to expand or function\u00a0as if they had, though after seeing the limited server selection inside the battle grounds we were in, other possibilities such as smaller battle groups make more sense. 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