No idea why the loot from the event boss isn't at least 265 or even 278. I remember always being hyped for the brewfest back in tbc/wotlk because I could get some neat trinkets for my alts.
I just figure this out.
The brewfest background music, where you can hear dwarfs having fun drinking... or that´s what we thought!
Truth is that this was a regular day´s background sounds at Blizzard´s HQ and someone decided just throw it in the game and name it "brewfest" :P
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Silly joke aside, I love this event. Might be because it was the first one I ever experienced, having started in june 2006. I have no memory of a fire festival then hm, but this one
Oh, so you didn't mean "by afking", you meant "by leeching". Yeah, in general, you can get better gear by leeching, although it's debatable if that's easier than Brewfest, because it involves either: 1) finding people naive enough to boost your for free or 2) paying for it, which involves either: 1) farming gold in-game or 2) buying gold for money you earn in real-life or 3) buying gold for money you leech from other people (like, I don't know, parents maybe?). That last option seems the easiest if it's available.