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Guide: Brewfest 2014

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Stack the mugs and salt the sausages–Brewfest is here! From September 20 through October 6, the loose World of Warcraft take on Oktoberfest has enough meat to it to keep you busy for days.


Celebrated by both the Horde and the Alliance, the Brewfest is a time to enjoy the fermented fruits of the harvest: pretzels, cheese, and booze! The competing breweries Thunderbrew, Barleybrew, and the Ogres, all come together outside of all the major cities in a bid to outdo each other with their special ales, meads, and beers. Brave adventurers are invited to sit back, take a pull, and sample the finest wares these brewers have to offer!

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This year, BlizzPro put together a guide to get you on your wasted wobble through the streets of Azeroth cities. There’s toys to be had and achievements to be earned, so let’s get right to it!

Overview

Brewfest is a fully-featured holiday with a lot to do, win, and achieve. While we’ll certainly get into the specifics of these things, the holiday festivities chiefly involve:

Of course, there’s also the usual plethora of decorations, celebrating NPCs, and events, coming together for a cohesive experience for anyone over the age of 21.

The main staging areas for the festival are Orgrimmar (Horde) and Ironforge (Alliance), but smaller versions can also be found in Silvermoon City, Stormwind, Thunder Bluff, the Exodar, the Undercity, Shattrath, and Darnassus. NPCs in these locations will allow you to redeem Brewfest Prize Tokens, the seasonal currency.

Index

  1. Overview
    1. Index
  2. Things to Do while Sloshed
    1. Seasonal Currency
    2. Seasonal Dungeon
    3. Quests
    4. Other Activities and Events
  3. Goodies and Gewgaws for the Groggy
    1. Epic Gear
    2. Toys
    3. Pets and Mounts
    4. Costume Pieces
    5. Achievements
      1. Title
    6. Seasonal Foods and Drinks
  4. Special Thanks

Things to Do While Sloshed

Brewfest as a ton of more overt activities, including the seasonal dungeon and daily quests, but you can also find some other neat things hidden throughout Azeroth. A daily dungeon run and each of the quests reward Brewfest Prize Tokens, which are used to purchase many keepsakes at vendors (see the rewards section below). It takes roughly 8 to 10 days to complete the required activities (although some things, like the Brew of the Year achievement, take much longer).

Seasonal Currency

Brewfest Tokens are the seasonal currency for the holiday. They’re awarded from completing the daily dungeon run and all of the quests, but some quests have a variable reward of tokens depending on how efficiently you complete them. If you do all the once-and-done quests as well as the three daily quests and dungeon run in one shot, you can get 135 to 165 tokens on the first day. Each day after that, you can earn between 35 and 65 tokens doing the dungeon run and three daily quests.

To finish the festival, you’ll need at least 550 tokens to get the Brewmaster meta achievement and title. This depends on how good you are at the ram racing daily quest (see Quests section below).

Seasonal Dungeon

The seasonal dungeon for this event is a trek back into Blackrock Depths. Players face off against the Dark Iron Dwarf Coren Direbrew, as well as his lesser-known kin Ursula and Isla.

Once daily, finishing the dungeon yields the Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest, which has a chance to reward any of the following goodies (including mounts!):

Boss

Coren DIrebrew (Source: Wowhead, pruparna)

Coren DIrebrew (Source: Wowhead, pruparna)

Additional Enemies

Ursula Direbrew (Source: Wowhead, adashiel)

Ursula Direbrew (Source: Wowhead, adashiel)

Ilsa Direbrew (Source: Wowhead, adashiel)

Ilsa Direbrew (Source: Wowhead, adashiel)

The battle will also spawn Dark Iron Antagonists, who have no special abilities and deal negligible damage.

Battle Tips and Basic Strategy

To begin, you’ll face off against Coren and three others. Although late Mists of Pandaria gear might make some elements of strategy superfluous, the idea is to get the adds down (including Ursula and Isla) first and then focus on Coren. Large, iron drills will randomly shoot up from the ground, which have knock-back effect and release an additional Dark Iron Antagonist.

If you’re not in a melee specialization, you’ll want to keep well away from Coren to avoid his disarming ability (which temporarily removes your weapon and all its benefits) and stuns. Additionally, Ursula and Isla each have their own ranged stuns–to keep them from using them, they must be killed or otherwise incapacitated.

Some other tricks from around the web:

  • Dark Brewmaiden’s Stun only applies its stun if the mug from Chuck Mug gets into your inventory. If you started the battle with full bags, you don’t need to worry about this attack. If you do get ale in your bags, make sure you drink it promptly.
  • Ursula’s Barreled! stun attack is targeted at whoever has the most threat from her. Some say that it’s better for the tank to ignore aggrowing her to avoid being stunned and losing control of the fight.
  • Dark Iron Antagonists spawn more rapidly as Coren’s health diminishes.
  • Coren is tauntable.

Rewards

Coren has a chance to drop one of six iLevel 470 epic trinkets, and you can fight him as many times in a single reset to obtain any (or all) of these:

He also drops Direbrew’s Dire Brew (Horde) / Direbrew’s Dire Brew (Alliance), which begins a quest (see Quests section below).

Trivia

If you happen to go into battle a wee bit inebriated, you will see Corin’s level as lower than it really is. Don’t overestimate yourself! (Also, who the heck fights for their life drunk on purpose?)

Quests

Bark for Drohn’s/T’chali’s Distillery!/Bark for the Barleybrews/Thunderbrews! (Daily)

Every day, players can represent one of their faction’s two competing breweries. Horde players can choose between Drohn and T’chali, and Alliance players can choose between the Barleybrews and the Thunderbrews.

For any variation of the quest, you are given Racing Ram Reins. You must ride through your faction’s capital city, reaching each of the Brewfest banners; at each banner, your character will “bark” automatically, giving you quest credit.

Tips

  • Don’t go full out with your ram! Avoid letting it hit 100% fatigue by keeping it to a steady trot.
  • You don’t need to return to your quest giver before the timer runs out to get quest credit. Just get to each of the banner points.
  • Once you hit every point of interest, right-click on the ram buff–you don’t need to ride it back to the vendor. Just mount up and fly back.

This One Time, When I Was Drunk… (Daily)

Every half hour, the Dark Iron invade your faction’s Brewfest camp just to the west. To get the quest, you need to loot the Dark Iron Mole Machine Wreckage, which appears after players defeat the Dark Iron with beer from nearby kegs.

Tips

  • Anyone from your faction can loot the wreckage once it appears.

Now This is Ram Racing… Almost.

This is a pretty easy quest meant to show you how to ride your ram, which you’ll be doing a lot of for the rest of the holiday. You’ll get Ram Racing Reins and be placed on a ram, and then you need to use your reins to control your mount speed. For 4 minutes, you have to alternate between 3 speeds for 8 seconds each, as indicated by your player’s buffs and the visual speed of your ram.

Tips

  • Use Canter to speed up, but Trot to slow down as you get near 100 fatigue.
  • If your speed is too great, your ram will get fatigued quickly, which will make it extremely slow.
  • You can lower your fatigue by using the apple barrels near the riding paths.

There and Back Again

You’ll have 4 minutes to race and deliver Portable Brewfest Kegs, which will be thrown to you by Bok Dropcertain (H) or Flynn Firebrew (A). You must return to your quest giver with three kegs over three rounds to finish the quest.

Tips

Brew for Brewfest (Daily)

You’ll have 4 minutes to race and deliver Portable Brewfest Kegs, which will be thrown to you by Bok Dropcertain (H) or Flynn Firebrew (A). You must return to your quest giver with three kegs over three rounds to finish the quest.

You  get 2 Brewfest Prize Tokens and 30 additional participation seconds for each successful keg run. This is a great way to get more tokens if you really need them, as you can do this as many times as you can until the timer expires.

Tips

  • You can lower your fatigue by using the apple barrels near the riding paths.
  • *Some players are able to finish a round every 40 seconds, allowing for as many as 20 consecutive runs (40 Brewfest Prize Tokens).
  • Make sure you turn around to the direction you need to run before you drop off or receive a keg.
  • You need to do There and Back Again to unlock this daily.

Brew of the Month Club

This is the quest to get into the Brew of the Month club. Simply purchase the Brew of the Month Club Membership Form from your faction’s vendor for 200 Brewfest Prize Tokens. For more details about the club, refer to its section below.

Brewfest!

This is the easy holiday beginner quest that opens up the rest of the quest chains. You can get it from a variety of sources, including the holiday commoners that pop up in cities, as well as some other zones and daily hubs. Simply accept and find your faction’s Brewfest Organizer at the main Brewfest festival ground outside Orgrimmar or Ironforge.

Catch the Wild Wolpertinger! (North American Servers Only)

For this quest, you need to get completely smashed or equip the Synthebrew Goggles, which you can get from your quest giver. Once sufficiently drunk or goggled-up, you will be able to see Wild Wolpertingers around your faction’s main Brewfest festival grounds. You must use your Wolpertinger Net to capture 5 of the critters and return to your NPC.

Tips

Chug and Chuck!

Go to the tables and loot an Alcohol-Free Brewfest Sampler. Then, target the Self-Turning and Oscillating Utility Target and use your (non-alcoholic and therefore totally pointless) brew 5 times. Bam. Done.

Direbrew’s Dire Brew

After killing Coren Direbrew (see the Direbrew dungeon section above) the first time, you will loot Direbrew’s Dire Brew. This will prompt the associated quest, which can be turned in at Tapper Swindlekeg (H) or Ipfelkofer Ironkeg (A)

Pink Elekks on Parade (North American Servers Only)

As with Catch the Wolpertinger!, you must get completely drunk or equip the Synthebrew Goggles, available from your quest giver. You must then use the Elekk Dispersion Ray to defeat 3 pink Elekks at 3 specified locations. Horde players must go to Eversong Woods, Tirisfal Glades, and Mulgore, and Alliance players must go to Teldrassil, Azuremust Isle, and Elwynn Forest.

Tips

  • This quest is not available to European servers because it conflicts with their PEGGI 12 game rating restrictions.

Other Activities and Events

The Ceremonial Keg-Tapping

Each day, you can participate in the Ceremonial Keg-Tapping event at 6:15 AM and 6:15 PM server time. Vol’jin (Orgrimmar) and High Tinker Mekkatorque (Ironforge) will appear at their respective Brewfest festival grounds for a speech, and anyone hanging around to listen will receive the Brewfest Enthusiast experience buff (10%). The buff lasts for two hours.

The Brew of the Month Club

The Brew of the Month Club subscribes you to receive a new brew every month in your mail box. To join, select the “Brew of the Month” Club Membership Form (200 Brewfest Prize Tokens) from Ray’ma (Orgrimmar) or Larkin Thunderbrew (Ironforge).

If you like the effects of any month’s brew, you can purchase them in six-packs these same vendors throughout the year for 1 silver and 50 copper. The membership is also tied to the Brew of the Month and Brew of the Year achievements (read more about achievements in the Achievements section below).

  1. January: Wild Winter Pilsner (Buff: The Beast Within – makes character roar)
  2. February: Izzard’s Ever Flavor (Buff: Gassy – makes character burp green gas)
  3. March: Aromatic Honey Brew (Buff: Honey Touched – spawns bees)
  4. April: Metok’s Bubble Bock (Buff: Bloated – spawns bubbles)
  5. May: Springtime Stout (Buff: Flower Child – spawns flowers on ground)
  6. June: Blackrock Lager (Buff: Internal Combustion – makes character vomit fire)
  7. July: Stranglethorn Brew (Buff: Jungle Madness! – starts “Jungle Madness” music, makes stuff look green, and spawns an Angry Jungle Gnome)
  8. August: Draenic Pale Ale (Buff: Summon Pink Elekk Guardian – spawns a pink elekk mount and pets)
  9. September: Binary Brew (Buff: 0100100 (H) or 1000001 (A) – lets you understand a binary language)
  10. October: Autumnal Acorn Ale (Buff: Watched – spawns squirrels that throw nuts at you or follow you)
  11. November: Bartlett’s Bitter Brew (Buff: Nauseous – makes character vomit)
  12. December: Lord of Frost’s Private Label (Buff: Chilled – freezes character in an ice block)

Warning: This club subscription does last forever, so if you don’t like constantly seeing stuff in your mailbox, you might not want to do this. In Warlords of Draenor, the Angry Brewfest Letter will let players opt out of the club.

Goodies and Gewgaws for the Groggy

Epic Gear

Brewfest offers a collection of varying iLevel items. Unfortunately, with gear available from the Timeless Isle and other sources, most of it will not be practical to players that have kept up with content. Some of them may be useful to returning players that are filling in item slots.

Trinkets that drop from Coren Direbrew, which drop any number of times on any day:

Daggers sometimes contained in Keg-Shaped Treasure Chests, which drop from Coren Direbrew once daily:

Toys

Toys purchasable from Ray’ma (H), Blix Fixwidget (H),  Belbi Quikswitch (A), or Larkin Thunderbrew (A) with Brewfest Prize Tokens:

Direbrew’s Remote is sometimes contained in Keg-Shaped Treasure Chests, which drop from Coren Direbrew once daily.

Pets and Mounts

Mounts sometimes contained in Keg-Shaped Treasure Chests, which drop from Coren Direbrew once daily:

The Wolpertinger pet is taught by the Wolpertinger’s Tankard, which is acquired from finishing the quest Catch the Wolpertinger! (H) / Catch the Wolpertinger! (A).

You can also acquire the Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm, which is sold by Bizzle Quicklift (A), Blix Fixwidget (H), Larkin Thunderbrew (A), and Ray’ma (H) for 100 Brewfest Prize Tokens.

Costume Pieces

Costume pieces purchasable from Ray’ma (H), Blix Fixwidget (H),  Belbi Quikswitch (A), or Larkin Thunderbrew (A) with Brewfest Prize Tokens:

Achievements

Seasonal Foods and Drinks

Brews

Here’s a list of all of the specialty drinks you can purchase for varying amounts of silver. You will need to drink certain combinations of these brews for the achievement Strange Brew (H) / Strange Brew (A). The related vendors can be found at any of your faction’s Brewfest staging grounds.

Horde-Specific Brews

Alliance-Specific Brews

General Brews

Foods

You will need to eat one of each of the following food items for the achievement The Brewfest Diet:

Special Thanks

A big and well-deserved thank-you goes out to multiple sources we compiled for this guide, including Wowhead, Icy-Veins, Wowwiki, Wowpedia, and several other blogs. Your work has informed, entertained, and inspired players for years.


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