Brewfest 2015
Brewfest is back again, with item level 670 trinkets, a few new rewards, and heirloom weapon upgrades! This year the event runs from September 20 to October 6. You will need 500 x Brewfest Prize Token to purchase the new rewards.
If you are still leveling alts, don't forget to grab the Brewfest Enthusiast buff at 6:15 AM and 6:15 PM server time outside of Ironforge and Orgrimmar at the Tapping of the Keg ceremony.
New Rewards
Level Type Name Cost
1Junk
Steamworks Sausage Grill200 × 
1Companion Pets
Stout Alemental200 × 1Other
Brewfest Banner100 × 90Consumable
Ancient Heirloom Scabbard300 × 100Consumable
Timeworn Heirloom Scabbard500 × Updated Trinkets
Level Type Name
670Trinket
Brawler's Statue670Trinket
Mithril Wristwatch670Trinket
Coren's Cold Chromium Coaster670Trinket
Bitterest Balebrew Charm670Trinket
Bubbliest Brightbrew Charm670Trinket
Thousand-Year Pickled EggOld Rewards
Level Type Slot Name Cost Model Viewer
1Companion Pets
Wolpertinger's Tankard200 × 1Companion Pets
Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm100 × 20Holiday
Preserved Brewfest Hops20 × 1Quest
"Brew of the Month" Club Membership Form200 × 1HeadHead
Brown Brewfest Hat50 × Modelviewer
1HeadHead
Green Brewfest Hat50 × Modelviewer
1HeadHead
Blue Brewfest Hat50 × Modelviewer
1HeadHead
Purple Brewfest Hat50 × Modelviewer
10HeadHead
Blix's Eyesight Enhancing Romance Goggles100 × Modelviewer
1ChestChest
Brewfest Regalia200 × Modelviewer
1ChestChest
Brewfest Dress200 × Modelviewer
1FeetFeet
Brewfest Boots100 × Modelviewer
1FeetFeet
Brewfest Slippers100 × Modelviewer
1Consumable
Angry Brewfest Letter50 × 1Consumable
Brewfest Pony Keg100 × 20Consumable
Fresh Brewfest Hops2 × 20Consumable
Fresh Dwarven Brewfest Hops5 × 1Consumable
Brewfest Keg Pony200 × 1Consumable
Brewhelm2 × 1Consumable
Pandaren Brewpack100 × Armory Stats - Brewfest Mounts
Today we are looking at collection rates of the three mounts you can earn from Brewfest. This data is from 2.1 million players active since August 1, 2015 and 3.7 million players active enough to still be on armory.
The Great Brewfest Kodo and Swift Brewfest Ram have a ~3% chance to drop from Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest and the Brewfest Ram is no longer obtainable.
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Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Classes
Class design involves such exciting variety. One day, I may be brainstorming high-level concepts for abilities used by a pirate... (Celestalon)
...and the next, we're calculating the edge angle of an n-gon simulating a circle with variable radius that intersects two known points. (Celestalon)
Raids
Trivia question. What made you decide that the TOC/ICC model with normal/hc was better than the Ulduar model with hardmodes?
Tough to cover in 140 characters, but mainly clarity and consistency. (WarcraftDevs)
PvP
I have full conquest gear, why do I get blue medallion as human when I use Mercenary?
We didn’t feel it was appropriate to give someone a free conquest item. (WarcraftDevs)
lost my title with the new mercenary mode, specifically with my HotA title.... pvp title cant be expose in pvp
We didn’t feel it was appropriate to use faction titles with Mercenary mode. (WarcraftDevs)
Reasonable thread about recent tournament.(not mine) http://t.co/kW1RG5dB19
The whole "will never be an esport" is nonsense. But I'm fine with critiques of clarity of the broadcast. (holinka)
Our goal is to provide an exciting event for the WoW community & celebrate our players. We aren't looking to dethrone anyone. (holinka)
Not trying to be 'big-headed' or suggest you'd be completely in the wrong. I think there's a compromise for the overall better
Certainly we think we can do things to make it easier to follow and watch and we'll continue to try and improve. (holinka)
Assuming I accept what you often suggest,3v3 better gameplay.Does it make up for the -huge- watchability loss?I don't think it does
We don't plan on making the game less fun to play so it can be more fun to watch. (holinka)
Ghostcrawler Tweets
Ghostcrawler still occasionally talks about WoW. Remember that he no longer works for or speaks for Blizzard.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
IDK if you can asnwer this but: You did play WoD before Leaving Blizzard?
Not really. Frostfire was barely playable at the time and it sounds like it evolved a lot anyway. (OccupyGStreet)
The Game Director for Guild Wars 2 recently replied to some PvP concerns, letting players know that PvP is growing and larger than ever before.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
The current system is making the player base smaller by the minute.
While I’ll let the PvP team respond to the other points here, I do want to take a moment and address this:
PvP has steadily grown in population and play hours going on nearly a year now. It’s sky-rocketed since the game went free, and the two weeks before this have been our best weeks literally since the week the game launched. We anticipate this week will be the best week login/play wise PvP has ever had in the history of Gw2.
I don’t want to trivialize your points – and our competitive team has some great reasons why things operate the way they do they’ll lay out and explain in relation to leagues soon: I do want to call out you’re using false population data to support your point.
From an ArenaNet perspective, PvP is the fastest growing part of Gw2 and had more success for us as a business in the last year than it’s had by far in the history of the Guild Wars franchise. Next year is going to be even bigger because of that success.
I’m really proud of the work the team has done and the work our amazing player community who has helped grow competitive PvP just as much as our dev team has and would hate to see that lost in this discussion.
Dark Legacy Comics #505 - In the Bag
DLC #505 has been released!
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