Winter Veil Event Guide

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Deck the halls with boughs of Preserved Holly, and have a Merry Winter's Veil! It's that time of year again, when kids run playfully through the streets tossing Snowballs at one another, old friends will gather to exchange A Winter Veil Gift or two, and the fine gentlemen of Smokywood Pastures come once again to bless us with their delightful yearly gift packages. Cheers!

The Feast of Winter Veil runs from December 15 - January 2 and can be celebrated by Alliance in Ironforge and by Horde in Orgrimmar. Seasonal decorations such as holiday trees, wreaths and lights can be found in all major cities and at most zone inns.

Notable Rewards

Festivities

All of Azeroth and beyond have gotten into the spirit of Winter Veil! Winter Revelers can be found inside inns throughout the world located under a sprig of mistletoe. Simply /kiss a Reveler (it doesn't matter which gender) and you will be rewarded with a token of their gratitude! You can only /kiss a Reveler once every hour, as you will receive a debuff along with whatever gift they've granted you, which can include:

These items are used in various Winter Veil achievements (as detailed below).

Become a Little Helper!
In addition to the Smokywood Pastures vendors located inside the cities, the goblins have set up strange PX-238 Winter Wondervolt machines which can be used to change your character into a festive Little Helper! The buff lasts for 30 minutes but is removed by shapeshifting or death (another sad holiday to be a druid). You can refresh the duration of the buff at any time by stepping into the Wintervolt machine. You can also do this to change gnomes costumes until you get one that you like. This disguise is required to complete the achievement With a Little Helper from My Friends.

Snowball Fights
Everyone's favorite annoyance (now knockdown-free, remember) the Snowball can now not only be purchased from vendors but can also be looted from piles of Holiday Snow found on the ground in the Alterac Mountains, near where you fight The Abominable Greench.

Crafting Recipes
Players with Leatherworking, Tailoring or Cooking may find that they've received mail from Greatfather Winter written on festive stationary. Oddly enough, the Alliance Greatfather sends the gifts to both factions - a free recipe! Tailors will receive either Pattern: Green Winter Clothes (Horde) or Pattern: Red Winter Clothes (Alliance), Leatherworkers will receive Pattern: Winter Boots and Cooks will recieve Recipe: Hot Apple Cider. There are certain skill level requirements for each recipe to be mailed, but if for any reason you did not receive a recipe, don't worry - the recipes can be purchased at vendors in the major cities, as listed below.

Gift-Giving

The most exciting part of Winter Veil comes near the end - when we get our presents! The presents under Greatfather Winter's tree can be opened from December 25 - January 2. In previous years, they have included items such as the Jingling Bell, Snowman Kit and Mechanical Greench! There are a total of six presents that can be "opened" by completing the quest given by the gift - A Carefully Wrapped Present, A Festive Gift, A Gaily Wrapped Present, A Gently Shaken Gift, A Ticking Present and A Winter Veil Gift. Please note that the Clockwork Rocket Bot obtained from the Winter Veil Gift will not be available this year. Instead of the Clockwork Rocket Bot, this year's special event item is the Crashin' Thrashin' Racer Controller - your very own in-game Wowhead toy!

Seasonal Fare

There are a number of items that are only available during the Feast of Winter Veil. Smokeywood Pastures vendors can be found in all major cities selling a variety of holiday goodies, including a plethora of food and drink items, wrapping paper, and even some seasonal recipes! Please note that the three of the recipes are Bind on Pickup, and as such (of course) cannot be sold or traded. This means that it is not EASILY possible for Horde players to obtain Pattern: Red Winter Clothes or for Alliance players to obtain Pattern: Green Winter Clothes. However, since the vendors are Smokeywood Pastures "faction" they are all friendly to both Horde and Alliance, regardless of goblin or dwarf. This means that the most intrepid reveler can manage to sneak into the opposing faction's city and will be able to purchase the recipe from the vendor provided they can get the window open fast enough before suffering a painful, inevitable death. If you aren't a crafter or you're not very keen on the idea of deathflopping around the other faction's city, the holiday clothes are not Bind on Pickup (or even Bind when Equipped) and therefore can be bought, sold and traded via the Auction House, so you could obtain the other faction's winter clothes via the Neutral Auction House (for a price!).

Smokeywood Pastures food and drink vendors can be found located near a faction's Auction House in every major city. Copperpinch vendors can be found in Horde cities, and the Jinglepocket vendors can be found in Alliance cities. An additional Copperpinch vendor can be found in Shattrath City, Olnayvi Copperpinch.

Vendors found in Alliance cities include Macey Jinglepocket, Guchie Jinglepocket, Bessbi Jinglepocket.
Vendors found in Horde cities include Kaymard Copperpinch, Jaycrue Copperpinch, Morshelz Copperpinch, and Whulwert Copperpinch.

They sell the following items:

Smokeywood Pastures "general goods"-style vendors can be found right next to the food/drink vendors. Copperpinch vendors can be found in Horde cities, and the Jinglepocket vendors can be found in Alliance cities (except Darnassus). An additional Jinglepocket vendor can be found in Shattrath City, Eebee Jinglepocket.

Vendors found in Alliance cities include Wulmort Jinglepocket, Khole Jinglepocket, Wolgren Jinglepocket.
Vendors found in Horde cities include Penney Copperpinch, Hotoppik Copperpinch, Seersa Copperpinch, Nardstrum Copperpinch.

In addition to the seasonal goods listed above, the vendors located in the two major cities (Orgrimmar and Ironforge) will also sell a tailoring pattern to create festive winter clothes and a leatherworking pattern to create matching boots!

Penney Copperpinch in Orgrimmar or Wulmort Jinglepocket in Ironforge sell:

Quests

The 2008 Winter Veil does not introduce any new quests, daily or otherwise, from 2007's holiday. Even if you've done the quests in the previous year, be prepared to do them all over again in order to obtain any quest-related achievements (which are detailed below) or to obtain a different reward from the Smokywood Pastures Special Gift.

All Winter Veil quests can be obtained in your faction's major city (Orgrimmar or Ironforge). Other than start/end NPCs, the quests are essentially exactly the same for both factions.

Great-father Winter is Here! or Greatfather Winter is Here!
Start: Kaymard Copperpinch or Macey Jinglepocket
End: Great-father Winter or Greatfather Winter
This quest's objective is pretty self-explanitory - simply obtain the quest from the Smokeywoods Pasture vendor in any major Horde or Alliance city (except Darnassus) and head to your faction's major city to complete it. Horde players turn the quest in to the orc Great-father Winter in Orgrimmar, and Alliance players to the dwarf Greatfather Winter in Ironforge. A new quest will become available:
- Treats for Great-father Winter or Treats for Greatfather Winter
  Start & End: Great-father Winter or Greatfather Winter
  Another pretty simple quest provided you're trained Cooking and don't mind grabbing the materials for the Gingerbread Cookie - just bring him 5 cookies and a glass of Ice Cold Milk (which can be bought from vendors). As a reward, you will be given a Smokywood Pastures Gift Pack which contains some low level tradeskill materials, so it's up to you whether its worth your time to give the man his cookies and milk!
Stolen Winter Veil Treats or Stolen Winter Veil Treats
Start: Kaymard Copperpinch or Macey Jinglepocket
End: Strange Snowman
This quest asks you to travel out to the Alterac Mountains to find a missing Smokywood Pastures investigator who was sent out to search for a missing shipment of treats. Why you'd ship something by traveling through Alterac Mountains is beyond me, but whatever. Anyway, just head out to Alterac Mountains and search for the Strange Snowman [35,72]. Upon discovering his location, he will give you another quest:
- You're a Mean One... or You're a Mean One...
  Start: Strange Snowman
  End: Kaymard Copperpinch or Wulmort Jinglepocket
  Turns out that the Abominable Greench has stolen the treats! Slay him and retrieve the Stolen Treats so that the Smokywood Pastures guys can get on with their moneygrub.. er, holiday festivities! The Greench has about a 5 minute spawn, and will probably be heavily camped for the first couple days of the festival, so it's best to group up with nearby players so you can get him killed and get out of there quickly. Once you have turned in the Stolen Treats, you will receive another quest:
  - A Smokywood Pastures' Thank You! or A Smokywood Pastures' Thank You!
    Start: Kaymard Copperpinch or Wulmort Jinglepocket
    End: Great-father Winter or Greatfather Winter
    Simply speak to the Great(-)father and claim your reward! You will receive a Smokywood Pastures Special Gift which contains a seasonal tradeskill recipe! This is the only way you can get these recipes, and the recipe you receive is random so you may be able to trade with other players or guildmates for one you might need. If you don't get the recipe you want, you can always check the Auction House or wait until next year.
    Open the special gift to get one of the following recipes at random:
    
    Recipe: Elixir of Frost Power (Alchemy)
    
    Plans: Edge of Winter (Blacksmithing)
    
    Formula: Enchant Weapon - Winter's Might (Enchanting)
    
    Schematic: Snowmaster 9000 (Engineering)
    
    Pattern: Gloves of the Greatfather (Leatherworking)
    
    Pattern: Green Holiday Shirt (Tailoring)
The Reason for the Season or The Reason for the Season
Start: Furmund or Goli Krumn
End: Sagorne Creststrider or Historian Karnik
This short quest chain intends to explain the lore behind the Feast of Winter Veil. The questgiver is located near the bank in your faction's major city, and he will send you to another NPC located within that city. Once there, you will receive a new quest:
- The Feast of Winter Veil or The Feast of Winter Veil
  Start: Sagorne Creststrider or Historian Karnik
  End: Cairne Bloodhoof or King Magni Bronzebeard
  The questgiver will give you a book entitled The Feast of Winter Veil to read, which contains some insight into the different races' celebrations of the holiday. Once you have read the book (although, reading it isn't actually an objective) you are asked to bring it to either Cairne Bloodhoof in Thunder Bluff or King Magni Bronzebeard in Ironforge, who will reward you with 500 reputation with their respective city and 125 with each other faction city - a considerable amount of reputation!
Metzen the Reindeer or Metzen the Reindeer
Start & End: Kaymard Copperpinch or Macey Jinglepocket
This quest sends you on a mission to rescue Metzen the Reindeer who has been stolen and held for ransom! Apparently these Smokywood guys have made a lot of enemies in their day. Metzen can be found in two different locations; as specified in the Metzen's Letters and Notes he can be found at Lost Rigger Cove in Tanaris and near the Stonewrought Gate of Searing Gorge. You can complete this quest at either location, so just travel to wherever is most convenient. Once you've discovered Metzen's location you only have to speak with the Reindeer to complete, you don't physically use the Pouch of Reindeer Dust. Upon returning to the city, you will be rewarded a nice bit of goblin faction reputation and 5 Preserved Holly, which you can use year-round to turn your mount into a reindeer!

Upon completing Metzen the Reindeer a new quest will become available, The Hero of the Day or The Hero of the Day which asks you to bring 5 and one Deeprock Salt to a Holly Preserver machine found in any city. As a "reward" you will receive 5 Preserved Holly which do not have a duration and can be used at any time throughout the year. You can complete this quest only once, for a total of 10 Preserved Holly available from quests. These items can be used to change your ground or flying mount into a reindeer (yes, a flying reindeer)!

Achievements

All of these achievements are part of the meta-achievement Merrymaker which is a part of the meta-achievement What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been.

	Merrymaker or Merrymaker This achievement can be found in the main World Events achievement category and is awarded upon completion of every one of the Winter Veil achievements. This achievement awards the player title 'Merrymaker' and is a requirement towards completion of What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been (Alliance version) which rewards the beautiful Violet Proto-Drake.	10
	'Tis the Season For this achievement you must obtain, and wear 3 pieces of winter clothing and eat Graccu's Mince Meat Fruitcake. This achievement must be done during Winter Veil. You can wear any three pieces of the Winter Garb (a chest, boots and hat). The Green Winter Clothes and Red Winter Clothes can be crafted by Tailors, the Winter Boots can be crafted by Leatherworkers and the Red Winter Hat and Green Winter Hat are instance drops from humanoid-type bosses in instances. I'm not sure whether or not the hats will still drop in the lower level instances, as they dropped only from Outland instances last year and confirm to drop in Northrend this year. Since there is a related achievement, though, Blizzard may have changed their minds. The Graccu's Mince Meat Fruitcake is contained within a gift package received within 24 hours of completing either Treats for Great-father Winter (Alliance version) or Metzen the Reindeer (Alliance version)!	10
	A Frosty Shake For this achievment, you must obtain and use a Winter Veil Disguise Kit to become a snowman and /dance with another snowman in Dalaran. This achievement must be done during Winter Veil. The Winter Veil Disguise Kit is obtained in the mail within 24 hours of completing the quest chain starting with Stolen Winter Veil Treats (Alliance version).	10
	Bros. Before Ho Ho Ho's or Bros. Before Ho Ho Ho's To complete this achievement, Horde players must use Mistletoe on the following NPCs: Brother Malach (Undercity), Durkot Wolfbrother (Borean Tundra), Brother Keltan (Icecrown). Alliance players must use Mistletoe on the following NPCs: Brother Kristoff, Brother Crowley, Brother Benjamin, Brother Joshua, Brother Cassius (all in Stormwind City), Brother Nimetz (Stranglethorn Vale), Brother Wilhelm (Goldshire, Elwynn Forest), Brother Anton (Nijel's Point, Desolace) and Brother Karman (Theramore, Dustwallow Marsh). Mistletoe can be obtained randomly from /kiss'ing Winter Revelers.	10
	Crashin' & Thrashin' This achievement requires you to have obtained the Crashin' Thrashin' Racer Controller from the Winter Veil presents, available on and after December 25th. To complete this achievement you must "crash" 25 other racers. The controller functions similar to a Crashin' Thrashin' Robot, only with a single ability: Racer Rocket Slam! Out-slam another player's Racer to earn a kill towards the achievement. You can battle against the same Racer multiple times to count towards this achievement, the car is (of course) not destroyed or damaged in any way and simply must be re-summoned. Update Patch 3.3 Crashin' & Thrashin' is not required for Merrymaker	10
	Fa-la-la-la-Ogri'la For this achievement, you must be able to do the Sha'tari Skyguard quest Bomb Them Again!. Complete this quest while mounted on a flying reindeer during the Feast of Winter Veil. You can change your flying mount into a reindeer by using either Fresh Holly or Preserved Holly, obtained from kiss'ing Winter Revelers or from quests detailed above, respectively.	10
	He Knows If You've Been Naughty This achievement was awarded retroactively to players who had items or achievements related to last year's gifts (such as the Clockwork Rocket Bot feat). To obtain this achievement, simply log in at any point from December 25th to January 2nd and obtain a gift from under the Winter Veil tree in either Orgrimmar or Ironforge.	10
	Let It Snow During the Feast of Winter Veil, use a Handful of Snowflakes on the following race/class combinations: Orc Death Knight, Tauren Shaman, Undead Rogue, Gnome Mage, Blood Elf Warlock, Human Warrior, Night Elf Druid, Troll Hunter, Dwarf Paladin, and Draenei Priest. Simply look around in any major faction city, Dalaran (especially!) or a battleground and you'll probably end up with all of the combinations needed. Handful of Snowflakes can be obtained randomly from /kiss'ing Winter Revelers.	10
	On Metzen! This achievement is awarded upon completion of the quest Metzen the Reindeer (Alliance version). See the 'Quests' section above for more information.	10
	Scrooge or Scrooge Both tauren and dwarf take Winter Veil very seriously, so what better way to show your complete lack of holiday cheer than by smashing either Cairne Bloodhoof or King Magni Bronzebeard in the face with a Snowball during the Feast of Winter Veil.	10
	Simply Abominable This achievement is awarded upon completion of the quest chain starting with Stolen Winter Veil Treats (Alliance version). See the 'Quests' section above for more information.	10
	The Winter Veil Gourmet For this achievement, you have to cook Gingerbread Cookie, Egg Nog and Hot Apple Cider, the latter of which requires 325 Cooking skill. Recipe: Gingerbread Cookie and Recipe: Egg Nog can be purchased from Smokywood Pastures vendors, and Recipe: Hot Apple Cider can either be purchased or received as a gift from Greatfather Winter, provided you have high enough Cooking skill. Be prepared to grind your Cooking skill up if you haven't already in order to get this achievement. For information on leveling Cooking, I recommend the Cooking/Fishing guides found at El's Extreme Anglin'.	10
	With a Little Helper from My Friends For this achievement you must earn 50 honorable kills while transformed into a Little Helper from the Winter Wondervolt machine. Remember that the disguise is lost upon death or shapeshift, so this achievement might take a few tries to accomplish, but thankfully the killing blows are cumulative - just be ready to visit the Wondervolt between battles. Or simply be awesome. I recommend Alterac Valley or Wintergrasp, depending on the PVP situation on your server.	10

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