I have never paid much attention to the Lunar Festival before but this year I decided to explore it (mostly for the purpose of giving you this free guide to the lunar festival).

I quickly realized it’s all about collecting coins and turning them in for rewards. Little did I know there are 50 elders to visit to get the coins from, scattered all around Azeroth. And some of them are hiding deep within instances, too. Luckily I visited them on my lvl 70 hunter (feign death ftw) so I got through most of it in one piece.

Things got hot when I decided to pay a visit to the major horde cities though.

I guess the horde took offense to my honoring their elders. I snuck in the back way to Orgrimmar but decided to piss them off on the way out and rode past the AH and the bank. Let me tell you they were not happy about it! But I would have escaped unless a guard had dismounted me… Once on the ground I popped beastial wrath and a swiftness potion and ran out of the gates with a train of horde behind me that eventually zerged me down. But it was worth it!

Apart from that the other elders were EZ mode to visit at level 70. I think the horde have it tougher, though. The elder in Stormwind is pretty deep inside the city and to get into Ironforge you’d have to go through the front gate past the dueling allies. Darnassus might be even harder. Remember to take your gear off if you plan on corpse running!

After a hard day’s work I finally got my rewards: Festive Green Dress, Festive Pink Dress, Festive Purple Dress, Festive Blue Pant Suit, 2 x Pattern: Festival Dress, 2 x Pattern: Festival Suit, 2 x Schematic Cluster Launcher.

The light in the pictures is from Elune Stone.

I hope to make around 300-600 gold from the patterns and schematics. And I’m also almost exalted with 3 alliance cities now after gaining 3750 rep with each from visiting the elders. So I think it was worth it.

But I doubt I will do it again next year.

Except maybe provoking the horde in Orgrimmar again!