Around Azeroth: Burning frustration
WoW.com — ... It may not seem like much, but this picture is representative of about ten similar shots I've gotten in the past two days. All of them feature multiple Headless Horseman corpses, large groups of frustrated people, and comments along the lines of "AIIEEEEE why won't the STUPID PET drop to get the STUPID ACHIEVEMENT for the STUPID DRAKE." After summoning in his whole guild and still failing to get the drop, Caegal of Genjuros-EU expresses his frustration in the only way available to in-game avatars. Do you have any unusual World of Warcraft ...

Brains?
Random Ravings of Warcraft — ... Aside zombies, it's halloween. With the violet proto-drake (310% speed) looming large in everyone's mind we've gone around and gathered some people together, brought a warlock and about 10-12 alts and did some repeated headless horseman pounding. The end result was quite funny. Sadly a number of corpses did despawn, but everyone got their heads and pets in the end. Not a single mount sadly... ...

Cold Weather Flying Incomming
Galadria's Corner — ... I’m thinking about a series about Achievements (the easy ones, hard ones, tips for getting them, etc.)  I really like the Acheivement system and I plan on getting as many as I can.  What I really want is the Acheivement for doing all of the Holiday Acheivements, the reward is a Violet Proto-Drake… it’s got to be the most badass mount I’ve ever seen.  I don’t know this for a fact, but I was told it’s also one of three 310% riding speed mounts outside of PvP rewards.  It will be next Haloween at the earliest that I’ll be ...

The Achievements of Winter Veil
WoW.com — ... The Feast of Winter Veil is almost upon us. The festivities kick off on December 15th, and will run until January 2nd. There are plenty of achievements to be had, as well as the title "Merrymaker" for completing them all. If you can complete every achievement from all of the holidays in a year, you will also be eligible for the achievement, What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been, which rewards you with a Violet Proto-Drake. You can refer to this guide for information about completing each achievement for this holiday, including links to maps and our ...

Winter Veil Achievement's!
World of Warcraft Pro - Brings Game Experience to You! — ... rewards you with a Violet Proto-Drake . The achievement's for this event is not nearly as bad as stuff like Hallows end, which require many, many rare drops and lots of luck. So here we go! ...

Winter Veil ending tomorrow morning
WoW.com — ... achievements (which are all mandatory if you want to get the Violet Proto-Drake one day), remember that you don't have much time left. Today is the last full day of the holiday. It ends tomorrow (the 2nd) at 6 AM according to the in-game calendar. You have less than 24 hours to get your fill of fruitcake and stock up on ...

Hunter Loot list
Chuck and his Belf — ... will be great in PVP but doesn’t do much good in general. It’ll be nice for when we venture to the battlegrounds for World Event stuff. She really want’s that Violet Proto Drayke. You’d think one scorpid would be enough scaly-hottness for any woman but i guess the Belf wants a dragon. /sigh   Anyway- She’s been working on her KotEB rep, so that Darkheart is close- but 4.53 more DPS isn’t really worth the grind from Revered to Exalted so…. we’ll pass. The one she wants is the ...

Avast Ye, Admiral!
World of Warcraft Pro - Brings Game Experience to You! — ... cannot interact with, and you cannot use the Neutral Auction House . Later on in the guide I will explain the various best methods of improving your rep. Be very careful to think about what this entails. I had a friend who was unable to do the Master cooking quest in Gadgetzan because he did this with me, and he could not be bothered to get his reputation back, resulting in him not being able to complete the Winter Veil achievements (he was going for the Violet Proto-Drake ). Hilarity ensued. This would also make the Stranglethorn Fishing ...

The OverAchiever: Completing the Lunar Festival Achievements
WoW.com — ... and guides on completing your latest Achievement obsession. Saturday marks the beginning of this year's Lunar Festival, an in-game event celebrating the real life celebration of the Lunar New Year. With plenty of quests, party favors and, of course, shiny clothes, you'll have many chances to complete the meta-Achievement To Honor One's Elders. Not only will this result in the title "Elder", but you'll be another step closer to a Violet Proto-Drake, Having experienced this event twice, the big question is what's new this ...

WRUP: Lunar Festival edition
WoW.com — ... will be starting tomorrow and though the WoW Insider team is doing all of their usual leveling and raiding and PvPing and whatever else they do... but with the achievement system and its associated swanky titles (and the long-term promise of a Violet Proto-Drake), everyone's going to be interested in ...

Breakfast Topic: Are you going for Elder?
WoW.com — ... " achievement. Even if they don't plan to wear the shiny new title, they'll probably want it if only for a shot at the Violet Proto-Drake. I myself am certainly no exception, and am currently running through Azeroth, paying my respects to the elders and getting those coins. ...

Lunar Festival
Chuck and his Belf — ... Vix is a World-event Junkie. She loves them! The first one to peak her interest was Brewfest a few years ago and now she is addicted. What’s more- there’s a really neat prize from getting all the World-event titiles - The Violet Proto-drake. As soon as this was announced it was our goal. Given some of the requirements it may take more than a year, but it will happen. ...

Breakfast Topic: Remember your elders
WoW.com — ... Festival is technically the first world event of the year, although I'm pretty sure some of you already have your Hallowed and Merrymaker titles. Some of us got a head start on this latest event, like myself. I found out I'd completed the continents when I did them last year, when I hoarded Festival Dumplings. This made it considerably easier for me to complete this Achievement. Don't forget that the event is about to end, so if you plan on going after that nice mount, you're going to have to complete this Achievement because at 6am server ...

The OverAchiever: Completing Fool for Love
WoW.com — ... and guides on completing your latest Achievement obsession. This week we offer a second installment out of unconditional love. This year's short-lived Valentine's event, Love is in the Air, comes with its own meta-achievement, A Fool For Love (A/H). Though this event may not be your idea of a good time since it's mostly RP related, it's still necessary if you are trying to complete What A Long Strange Trip It's Been (A/H) for a Violet proto-drake. You only have five days to complete the meta-achievement starting tomorrow, ...

Breakfast Topic: Did you accomplish what you wanted during the Love festival?
WoW.com — ... looting, many players managed to procure the title "Love Fool." Others are busily scribbling hate mail to Blizzard about how they are never going to get their Violet proto-drake because of this. (Pro tip: We're not Blizzard so please don't send it to us. Really. No, really.) ...

You may be a Love Fool after all
WoW.com — ... Whether you wanted to celebrate this month or not, anyone seeking to complete their long and strange trip and acquire the coveted Violet Proto-Drake, had to be a ...

WRUP: What a long, strange trip edition
WoW.com — ... . Ulduar's been out for weeks now, but Noblegarden is going to be brand new this year. And while not everyone may admit to running around hunting colored eggs, the proto-drake that awaits us at the end of this ...

Revamped Noblegarden revealed
WoW.com — ... (you know you want that Violet Proto-Drake) and if you get sick of eating chocolate you can also use them as currency to buy awesome Noblegarden swag. ...

The OverAchiever: Guide to Noblegarden achievements
WoW.com — ... Events, Features, Guides, Achievements, The OverachieverIn honor of Noblegarden, we're running a special-edition OverAchiever today, dedicated to what you'll need for the meta-achievement Noble Gardener. Should you finish, not only do you get a spiffy new title, but you also get to check off another set of achievements toward What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been, the yearlong achievement-palooza rewarding a 310% speed Violet Proto-Drake. Because Noblegarden has been extensively reworked, most of what you'll be ...

Noblegarden 2009 Details
Worldofraids News — ... ) which rewards the Violet Proto-Drake mount . Achievement Details Rewards ...

Breakfast Topic: Which part of Noblegarden are you most excited about?
WoW.com — ... Personally, I'm just ambling along and doing what achievements I can, there's no hope of me getting the Violet Proto-Drake this year. But, I want to know which part of Noblegarden are you folks are most looking forward to? ...

Blood Pact: What's up with everybody?
WoW.com — ... again, my reprehensible cabal of spell casters I call a readership! How's it hangin? Not a great deal has actually changed for me since last week. I was forced to disband my raiding group due to unfortunate scheduling problems, so I still haven't set foot in Ulduar. And since heroics stopped offering an interesting challenge months ago, I haven't had much of a reason to log in as of late. With Nobelgarden upon us though, I suppose I'd better get to it--a proto-drake in my class color doesn't come along every day, yo! Lacking any escapades of my own ...

The OverAchiever: Guide to Children's Week achievements
WoW.com — ... (and thus the 310% speed Violet Proto-Drake) on our hands here. I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that most of the achievements for Children's Week are fairly straightforward, and should be easy (and even fun) to complete. Appropriately enough for a mini-holiday, most of the achievements are simple, amusing, and not too time-consuming. The bad news is that one of the achievements may be a huge headache to get done, and unlike Noblegarden, your character has to be at least 75 in order to get all of the achievements needed for the year-long meta. ...

Breakfast Topic: For the children!
WoW.com — ... once again, and just like all the yearly events this one has a bunch of Achievements you'll need to plow through in order to get the meta, and consequently the Violet Proto-Drake? Did it catch you by surprise? We hope not. The in-game calendar tells you exactly when these things start, anyway, and barring that you've got your friends over here at WoW Insider to remind you. ...

Children’s Week Tips
steady shot — ... , which gives the Violet Proto-drake . 2.  You can hand in your quests in sw and Shatt to get your new pets even if you haven’t completed the rest of the children’s week achievements.  Either Matron will give you another whistle anytime during the week.  So don’t worry about completing the quests.  Same goes if you delete the whistle for some reason, just go ask the Matron for another. 3.  At the moment the quest ...

A closer look at the School of Hard Knocks
WoW.com — ... If you want to get your Violet Proto-Drake and fly around at 310% speed, you're going to need to do this achievement. Reports are mixed on how easy or hard this achievement is. Some folks are saying it's done quickly and easily with a good group, others are banging their heads against the desk and spewing curse words at ...

Breakfast Topic: Are achievements putting too much pressure on players?
WoW.com — ... But it makes me wonder if I'm the only one? Right now I'm a casual player, but do you think the point of these holidays has been lost by the desire to get a Violet Proto-Drake? ...

Half-Assed Update Post - Partially Off-Topic
Melted Faces — ... . I'm also pretty sure, however, that there's no way in hell all of the above work will pay me enough to be able to afford the quanity of Xanax I'd have to take to get the WSG part. It's just not cost-effiective. And it's not like I had the Violet Protagonist (oh yeah, he totally is) up to this point, anyway, so what's one more missed title? ...

Brewfest Achievement Guide
The Good, The Bad and the Downright Evil — ... Congratultions, you are now Brewmaster and with a little luck you should now have your meta achievement and the Violet Proto Drake!! YAY!! ...

Brewfest Achievements – 2009
/hug — ... – my break means I missed the Fire Festival so no shiny for me, but I expect to see a whole lot of people on bright, new pink proto-drakes! ...

What a long strange trip, conslusion
Random Ravings of Warcraft — ... While most of those 310% mounts require either some effort, or a crazy amount of luck to obtain, the violet proto drake is just the result of dutifully doing all the World events and festivals. Which, a lot of people did. ...

Brewfest 2009
Worldofraids News — ... which rewards Violet Proto-Drake, a 310% speed flying mount. To those of you who will be completing it, congratulations in advance! It really has been a long process to get the mount. ...

Brewmaster Tinvuiel: Insulting Coren Direbrew and disturbing the peace
steady shot — ... .  So after killing Coren Direbrew there was a very nice reward sitting in my mail…. a violet proto-drake :)  I’m one happy Brewmaster today – cheers!

Long, strange, and only slightly RNG-dependent
Pookies Is Not A Bear — ... the keg at least once. It was at the beginning of yet another attempt to get the achievement and I was about to give up and try again later in the day when I heard my guildmate screaming, “It works!” We had enough people who seemed to know what they were doing defend a single keg until the end of the attack, and …     … I got What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been on the first day of Brewfest. Pookies got his Violet Proto-Drake.     My guildmates (and ...

WRUP: Brewfest is back edition
WoW.com — ... ? What are the WoW.com readers playing this weekend? Even before looking at our highly scientific poll data, I think it's safe to say that quite a few of have our eyes on the prize (which is to say one Violet Proto-Drake) and are working on ...

What a Short, Familiar Journey It Was
Life in Azeroth — I completed Long, Strange Trip over the weekend. I already had a 310% mount, but I do like how the violet one looks better. :) Another ballast released. What's kept me playing WoW are these virtual goals I've set. I felt like getting Loremaster would expose me to just about everything Blizzard created for us. I set a "skill" goal of getting one of the dungeon drakes. And I felt any self-respecting longtime WoW player would complete long, strange trip, amirite? Loremaster would have been much easier if I hadn't changed mains along the way. Had I ...

Tips on Brewfest Efficiency
WoWenomics — ... from other in-game holiday events in that the currency for the items required to complete the related achievement is not ‘grindable’ in a single extended play session. Rather, amassing the Brewfest Prize Tokens requires a much smaller time investment, but stretched out over several days. To those players that can only log on a few times a week or very limited amounts of time per day we offer the following tips for attaining all the necessary tokens and, hopefully, getting your sweet violet drake. ...

Tuesday Morning Post: The long and short of it edition
WoW.com — ... will have a few more hours to curse at Innkeepers for turning you into a ninja instead of giving you a dang sliver of wood so you can get a big purple dragon, so that's always a plus. ...