World Event Guide: Noblegarden

Noblegarden a pretty awful World Event if I’m honest – but it DOES carry a very nice title and for that reason alone it’s worth doing (as well as the overall achievement for completing all World Events, of course).

Inoperante the Noble

The title in question is “[character name] the Noble” – isn’t that great?

What is nice about this event is that you can do it in a few hours. I did it in around three of hours of actual game time, spread out over Sunday. I’ll go through each achievement and what’s required but also pass on a very handy and possibly surprising tip on how to gather the eggs you need for this.

Ok, so you start by speaking to a Commoner in your preferred capital city. He sends you off to the nearest starter town. For the Horde this is Razor Hill, Brill, Falconwing Square or Bloodhoof Village. You Alliance people will know your capital cities and starter towns better than I.

Now you’re sent hunting for Brightly Colored Eggs. These are hidden around the starter towns, behind bushes, boxes, rocks and buildings. The first quest is The Great Egg Hunt. You will need to gather 20 brightly colored shell fragments, which you’ll get when you open the eggs, along with a Noblegarden Chocolate, so you’ll polish this one off as you gather these chocolates.

Your first achievement will also be done at this point: I Found One!

Your second quest, to be completed at the same time as the shell fragment one, is A Tisket, a Tasket, a Noblegarden Basket - find 10 chocolates. And you’re off and running. Now here’s the gear you will need to complete the achievements.

• Blossoming Branch
• Spring Flowers
• Spring Robes
• White Tuxedo Shirt
• Black Tuxedo Pants
• Elegant Dress
• Spring Rabbit’s Foot

You can get these required items two ways. Firstly, you can buy them for a varying number of eggs. DON’T! All these items drop from the eggs you have to collect to get the chocolates. As you have to collect a minimum of 105 eggs to complete three of the achievements, hold off on purchasing until you HAVE to.

TOP TIP: You may well think that the best time to collect eggs is when the server is quiet, as you’ll have less competition. You’d be wrong. What you want to do is be on when it’s busiest. Every time an egg is collected another one spawns. This allows for fast collection if you find the right spot. Here’s how I did it.

In Razor Hill there is a patch of cactii to the right of the barracks as you face it. If you stand in the middle of this, positioned just right, you’ll never have to move. There are three egg spawn points here. Point your camera directly down and you’ll see the eggs spawn in a triangle around you. One in front, one just behind on the left and the other just next to you on the right.

If the server is busy enough and there are a large number of people running around collecting eggs in Razor Hill, these eggs will spawn just about fast enough for you to collect them before anyone else gets there and you never have to move! I collected all the eggs I needed in about an hour.

There will be similar locations in all the Alliance and Horde villages if you can find them.

With that in mind, these are the Achievements to complete and how to do it:

• Chocolate Lover
  Very simply, eat 25 of the chocolates you get from the Brightly Colored Eggs.
• Chocoholic
  Slightly less simply, eat 100 chocolates. Fortunately, the 25 from the previous Achievement count!
• Noble Garden
  Buy a Noblegarden Egg from the Noblegarden vendor in any village (costs 5 Noblegarden Chocolates) and head to Silvermoon City (Horde) or Stormwind City (Alliance) and ‘hide’ it. This basically means putting it on the floor inside the city. You can then loot it for a chocolate and maybe that elusive pet / clothing / flower!
• Dressed For The Occasion
  Find the Elegant Dress in one of the Brightly Colored Eggs. The Achievement text is very specific on this – find it in an egg. Which I did, but can you get the achievement by buying the item? I haven’t tested this but this is Blizzard – I doubt it!
• Sunday’s Finest
  Obtain the White Tuxedo Shirt and Black Tuxedo Pants from a Brightly Colored Egg. Like Dressing For The Occasion, random drop and I don’t know if it counts buying them. Keep farming those eggs!
• Blushing Bride
  Once you have got your full Spring Tuxedo, find any player wearing the Elegant Dress and /kiss them. Simple as that, and the best place to find them is usually by the Noblegarden vendor in any of the villages where you collect eggs.
• Desert Rose
  Get your Spring Robes and travel – in this order for the Horde – to Thousand Needles, Tanaris, Silithus, Desolace and finally hop continent to the Badlands. Once you arrive at each Flight Point, wander out into the desert (you don’t have to go far) until your location changes and ‘Use’ the equipped robes to plant a flower. Aww…
• Spring Fling
  You MUST have the Spring Rabbit’s Foot pet for this one. If it hasn’t yet dropped from a Brightly Colored Egg and you have done everything else, then by all means buy it for 100 Noblegarden Chocolates, but if you’re still egg-collecting then wait, it might drop. Mine did. Learn the summon and bring the little critter out. To get this achievement, you need to find someone else with their rabbit out in each of the Noblegarden villages for your faction. The bunnys, God bless ‘em, will meet, fall in love and, well, hump! ‘Lo and behold, a baby rabbit will be born. Do all four villages and you have your achievement.
• Shake Your Bunny-Maker
  By far the hardest achievement to get. No matter what server you are on or what faction you are there will be a distinct lack of females of one race or another. On my server it is female Dwarves. The problem is, they have to be level 18+ – so camping the starter zones is no use at all! Anyway – equip your Spring Flowers (again, an egg drop or buy if you must) and go in search of a female of every race. Use the Spring Flowers on them to plant rabbit ears on their head and you work your way to success. Dalaran is an obvious place to do this for the opposition faction, but for your own, head to your busiest capital. Many more players over level 18 there. BE CAREFUL! If the character already has the buff (look for a carrot icon or bunny ears on their head) then yours won’t count. Find one without the carrot icon buff or wait for it to be removed / wear off. 
• Hard Boiled
  And finally…do this with a Guildie or friend. Both grab your Blossoming Branch and head out to Un’Goro Crater. You’re looking for the Hot Springs. Bring up the map and it’s the big lake on the left of the map, south of Marshall’s Refuge. Stand on the shoreline and get transformed into a bunny. Now stand still until you lay an egg and…pop! Don’t forget to return the favour for the kind soul who travelled with you though!

Now…you don’t need to complete ALL those achievements to get the title. You only need complete I Found One!, Chocoholic, Hard Boiled, Spring Fling, Noble Garden, Shake Your Bunny-Maker, Desert Rose and Blushing Bride. Which is near enough all of them really! It does allow you to purchase certain items instead of getting lucky on the random drop, that’s all.

Congratulations, you have now completed the Noble Gardener achievement and can proudly wear the [name] the Noble title!