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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
1	Junk	Steamworks Sausage Grill	200 ×
1	Companion Pets	Stout Alemental	200 ×
1	Other	Brewfest Banner	100 ×
90	Consumable	Ancient Heirloom Scabbard	300 ×
100	Consumable	Timeworn Heirloom Scabbard	500 ×

Updated Trinkets

Level	Type	Name
670	Trinket	Brawler's Statue
670	Trinket	Mithril Wristwatch
670	Trinket	Coren's Cold Chromium Coaster
670	Trinket	Bitterest Balebrew Charm
670	Trinket	Bubbliest Brightbrew Charm
670	Trinket	Thousand-Year Pickled Egg

Old Rewards

Level	Type	Slot	Name	Cost	Model Viewer
1	Companion Pets		Wolpertinger's Tankard	200 ×
1	Companion Pets		Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm	100 ×
20	Holiday		Preserved Brewfest Hops	20 ×
1	Quest		"Brew of the Month" Club Membership Form	200 ×
1	Head	Head	Brown Brewfest Hat	50 ×	Modelviewer
1	Head	Head	Green Brewfest Hat	50 ×	Modelviewer
1	Head	Head	Blue Brewfest Hat	50 ×	Modelviewer
1	Head	Head	Purple Brewfest Hat	50 ×	Modelviewer
10	Head	Head	Blix's Eyesight Enhancing Romance Goggles	100 ×	Modelviewer
1	Chest	Chest	Brewfest Regalia	200 ×	Modelviewer
1	Chest	Chest	Brewfest Dress	200 ×	Modelviewer
1	Feet	Feet	Brewfest Boots	100 ×	Modelviewer
1	Feet	Feet	Brewfest Slippers	100 ×	Modelviewer
1	Consumable		Angry Brewfest Letter	50 ×
1	Consumable		Brewfest Pony Keg	100 ×
20	Consumable		Fresh Brewfest Hops	2 ×
20	Consumable		Fresh Dwarven Brewfest Hops	5 ×
1	Consumable		Brewfest Keg Pony	200 ×
1	Consumable		Brewhelm	2 ×
1	Consumable		Pandaren Brewpack	100 ×

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)

Guild Wars 2 - PvP Growing
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!

41 Comments

Xe4ro - 2015-09-25

Originally Posted by guardian_titan

Working my butt off the first year of Brewfest paid off. Interesting to see the Brewfest ram is one of the rarer mounts in the game. People don't really notice it, though, since it looks so similar to the brown ram. People aren't going to look at the subtle differences between the two like the saddle cloth. The coat and horn color variation is so subtle that people can easily mistake the Brewfest ram for the brown ram.

Shame they won't do a regular Brewfest kodo and reimplement the Brewfest ram, though. Wasn't really fair to put in that mount for a single year when the event was super buggy and irritating to do only to remove the mount the following year with no warning. So many gave up on the mounts the first year assuming they'd be back the following year only to get shafted by the removal of the Brewfest ram.

Well you're not riding a brown ram as a horde player but still nobody will notice the little ram
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