The Preserved Holly used to temporarily transform your mount into a Reindeer will now work on flying mounts. We had a head's up on this a while ago when the models were discovered on the PTR.
Also, /kissing any Winter Reveler NPC will grant you a new item called a Handful of Snowflakes. You can use this item to create a light snowfall around any other player.
A new present will be available under the Winter Veil tree: a mechanotoy non-combat robot. Again, we saw this one coming courtesy of MMO-Champion.
And finally, Blizzard released a list of bosses that will be putting on festive clothing to celebrate getting slaughtered by college kids home for the holidays. This year's Holiday-garbed piñatas are:
- Grand Warlock Netherkurse (Shattered Halls)
- Grandmaster Vorpil (Shadow Labyrinth)
- Exarch Maladaar (Auchenai Crypts)
- Captain Skarloc (Durnholde Keep)
- Nethermancer Sepethrea (Mechanar)
- High Botanists Freywinn (Botanica)
Don't forget that WoW Insider is in the festive mood as well. We're giving away Feast of Winter Veil TCG sets. If you want to enter to win, you better hurry. The give away ends at 3:00pm EST today.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
12-07-2007 @ 1:10PM
mike said...
Awesome. Those aren't raid bosses, though.
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12-07-2007 @ 1:16PM
Jason said...
Preserved Holly already affects flying mounts if you have any left over from last year
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12-07-2007 @ 1:17PM
Trinculo said...
What no welfare epics?!?!!?
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12-07-2007 @ 1:52PM
crsh said...
"Trinculo said...
What no welfare epics?!?!!?"
Those welfare bosses will drop welfare items I guess, perhaps a seasonal epic on heroic mode?
Yeah though, what about raid bosses? I'd love to see Illidan with a Xmas hat on.
12-07-2007 @ 1:19PM
infection said...
not one post about av towers being bugged?
we are getting all these others instead.
sigh
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12-07-2007 @ 3:35PM
Zumwalah said...
wow has a announcement up when you launch the program.. and when that happens u know they are actually doing something
12-07-2007 @ 4:51PM
Megalomaniac said...
Seriously, talk about wowinsider dropping the ball on this one. The AV bug is probably the only worthwhile thing they could have posted on in the last two weeks* and it goes totally ignored. My guess is that next week after every other community talks about it in depth, they'll copy-paste the forum /mmo-champion/livejournal posts onto a wow massively post and then link wowinsider to it a week later after it's been fixed.
*yes the av bug only recently popped up like a day or so ago
12-07-2007 @ 5:27PM
Dan O'Halloran said...
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12-07-2007 @ 6:32PM
Megalomaniac said...
Nice snappy response Dan
12-07-2007 @ 1:31PM
Goldwolf said...
T-That robot... is it... Wall-E?
Haha, maybe not, but he certainly came to mind.
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12-07-2007 @ 1:34PM
KaonNemesis said...
OMG, did they not learn anything with Brewfest?!? Why do the /kiss thing? Now we're going to be stuck with kiss spam in IF... /sigh
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12-07-2007 @ 1:59PM
Midore said...
You've always been able to /kiss the Reveler NPCs for Mistletoe or Holly. They're just adding something else into the mix. Oh...and once you do it, it's like trick-or-treating, you get a debuff after doing it...so there'd be no reason to spam it.
12-07-2007 @ 1:35PM
chillis said...
Anyone heard anything about non-combat pets? need one for an ALT and don't want to wait around till next year for Mr. Wiggles
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12-07-2007 @ 1:43PM
mattbeauvais said...
"Blizzard released a list of raid bosses"
Nope, not Raid bosses. 5-Mans aren't Raids.
12-07-2007 @ 2:39PM
ThorinII said...
If you happen to be on ravencrest I can make a mechanical squirrel for ya.
12-07-2007 @ 4:59PM
Greenman said...
In years past, anyone could open the presents under the tree, and they could contain one of four NC-pets: the tiny reindeer, the snowman, the red helper, and the green helper. The catch was, each time you used the pet, you use up a snowball. The snowballs are not commonly available outside winter veil time. Engineering has a snowball making device, but it has a 24hr cooldown.
12-07-2007 @ 1:45PM
Julpuck said...
There are also two new tailoring recipes, "Green Winter Clothes" and "Red Winter Clothes", and a pair of matching "Winter Boots" crafted with leatherworking.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34261
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34319
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34262
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12-07-2007 @ 2:01PM
JPN said...
I also thought the holly already affected flying mounts, as I thought I've seen a few flying around Shat.
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12-07-2007 @ 2:02PM
Bad Mojo said...
Any idea if this is a patch that's gonna crash the servers on Tuesday or just something that is already there and gets time activated?
I have the day off Tuesday and want to get some serious WoW time in with no patch hangovers like last time :P
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12-07-2007 @ 2:19PM
CaffeineRage said...
I think most of the stuff was added in the other patches so it will just get turned on, on the 15th.