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The Feast of Winter Veil is the end of the year seasonal holiday for World of Warcraft. It’s full of presents, achievements, and other seasonal fun. It’s also part of the meta-achievement which gives achievement chasers no break during the holidays. Don’t worry though; it lasts this year from December 15, 2009 to January 2nd, 2010 or roughly 18 days.

Introduction

Often you will find the area around packed, but that's alright, the holiday lasts for a long time.

The Feast of Winter Veil is your typical winter seasonal holiday with snow, gnomes in holiday gear, presents, cookies, and other seasonal themes. Unlike other holidays there isn’t a big focus on loot or character advancement. Instead the focus is on merriment, fun, and having a good time.

The following are the activities available during the holiday:

• A rather lengthy list of easy to obtain achievements.
• Winter Revelers who can give out snowflakes, fresh holly, or mistletoe when you /kiss them.
• Fresh Holly that will transform your mount into a festive reindeer.
• Mistletoe that buffs the target by 20 Spirit.
• Alterac Valley has mounds of snowballs for you to pickup.
• The Winter Wondervolt Machine that will transform you into a festive gnome.
• A set of holiday items including a rad santa hat.
• Snowmen machines!
• Holiday decorations everywhere.
• The Wand of Holiday Cheer, found in a present and lasts 10 days, has unlimited charges and makes everyone that it hits laugh.
• Several fun questlines.

Basically you can find a lot of awesome things to do. There are a few breadcrumb quests (do NOT buy milk off the Auction House, you can get it from innkeepers for way cheaper) to do, presents to open on December 25th, and a two main questlines. Bosses will also drop the Winter Hats.

Green/Red Winter Hat

Winter Hats drop off of certain bosses depending on which expansion you own. The game counts the highest expansion, so if you have WotLK attached to your account then the hat will drop for you only in the WotLK dungeons. The bosses are as follows:

Classic

• Red Hat: Emperor Dagran Thaurissan in BRD
• Red Hat: Cannon Master Willey in Stratholme
• Red Hat: War Master Voone in LBRS
• Green Hat: Darkmaster Gandling in Scholomance
• Green Hat: Goraluk Anvilcrack in UBRS
• Green Hat: Prince Tortheldrin in Dire Maul West

The Burning Crusade

• Red Hat: Captain Skarloc in Escape from Durnholde Keep
• Red Hat: Nethermancer Sepethrea in The Mechanar
• Green Hat: Grand Warlock Nethekurse in Shattered Halls
• Green Hat: Exarch Maladaar in Auchenai Crypts
• Green Hat: Grandmaster Vorpil in Shadow Labyrinth

Wrath of the Lich King

• Red Hat: Grand Magus Telestra in The Nexus
• Red Hat: Jedoga Shadowseeker in Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom
• Green Hat: Mage-Lord Urom in the Oculus

Simply use the dungeon finder to run the instances with your hat in it over and over until you get it.

Random Humanoid mobs throughout the world also have a chance to drop it.

Great-father (or "Greatfather" for Alliance) Winter offers a quick quest chain. Be sure to do it!

Finding Metzan

There is a Horde and Alliance version of this quest, but both are the same. Simply go to (68,33) in Searing Gorge or (74,46) in Tanaris to find Metzan and talk to him to free him. The quest starts in either Orgrimmar or Ironforge. It grants 5 Preserved Holly and 20 Fruitcakes.

Saving Winter Veil

Pick up “Stolen Winter Veil Treats” and go to the Strange Snowman at (35,72) in Alterac Mountains. From there you’ll need to kill the Abominable Greench and return back to town. He spawns nearby and is often camped when the event starts. Wait a bit before you do it and this quest becomes much easier to complete. You’ll get a recipe from the pack and a disguise kit from Greatfather Winter through the mail as a reward.

Misc Quests

Greatfather or Great-father Winter will ask for 5 cookies and some milk. A level 1 cook can make the cookies and the milk is available off the innkeepers.

Winter Veil Achievement Guide

• On Metzan!: Free Metzan the Reindeer. See the quest help above.
• With a Little Helper from My Friends: Use the Wondervolt outside of Orgrimmar, Dalaran, Ironforge, etc. to turn yourself into a Little Helper and get 50 honorable kills. Go to a high density battleground like AV or Isle of Conquest .
• Scrooge: Throw a snowball at King Magni Bronzebeard if you’re Alliance or at Cairne Bloodhoof if you’re Horde.
• Fa-la-la-la-Ogri’la: Do the Bomb-Them-Again! quest while having the reindeer effect on your mount. The problem with this quest is that you have to have the Ogri’la daily quests open to do this one and it’s a lengthy quest chain that involves killing some pretty tough (even for 80s) elites. Get started on this one as quick as possible.
• ‘Tis The Season: While wearing 3 pieces of winter clothing, eat a Graccu’s Mince Meat Fruitcake. The legs and chest are crafted while the hat is a drop off of either bosses or humanoids throughout the world.
• Simply Abominable: Do the quest line to kill the Abominable Greench. See above to see how to get that quest done.
• Let it Snow: Kiss enough revelers to get 10 snowflakes. Now, here is the thing. When you kiss one you can’t kiss ‘em again for an hour. So start as soon as possible since they also give Mistletoe and Holly. Then use it on the classes listed in the achievement.
• Bros Before Ho Ho Ho’s: Simply use Mistletoe on the brothers listed. For the Alliance you’re going to want to go to Stormwind and hunt down five brothers and an additional one in Goldshire. Nimetz is in STV (37,3) and Anton is at Nijel’s Point in STV. Karman is in Theramore. It’s easier than it seems, since the ones in SW are easy to find. For the Horde you’ve got to find three. One is in the Undercity, one is in Warsong Hold, and the other is on Ogrim’s Hammer.
• The Winter Veil Gourmet: Make some Hot Apple Cider, Egg Nog, and Gingerbread Cookies. You have to have 325 cooking for this one. The recipe is sold from the smokeywood vendors in Org/Ironforge.
• He Knows If You’ve Been Naughty: Open one of each present under the tree.
• A Frosty Shake: Use your disguise kit and dance with another snowman in Dalaran. Easy huh?

Non-Meta Achievements

The following a year specific achievements:

• BB King: Pelt each of the enemy leaders with your BB Gun. The BB Gun is probably going to be one of the presents this year. (2009)
• Crashin' & Thrashin': Gain 25 crashes with your racer by crashing it into other racers. (2008)

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Presents

What’s the season without some presents? There are six presents available. Two of them require no specific level (Winter Veil Eggnog/Roast & the one with Cookies in it), two of them require level 10 (the yearly specific toy and the Wand of Holiday Cheer), one requires level 20 (the one with either the Green/Red Helper pet, the Snowman pet, or the Bell pet) and the last one requires level 40 and has a Mechanical Greench, 5 Preserved Holly, and a recipe. Some presents like the Greench and Wand expire after a certain period of time but will not expire if you don’t take them out of the box.

That’s the holiday. Have a happy and safe holiday season everyone!