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Welcome to Wowhead's guide to Hopfest on how to purchase and spend Hopfest prize tokens, complete ram races, and get a meta achievement. Celebrated by both the Horde and Alliance, the Hop Festival is a time to enjoy the fermented fruits of...
Celebrated by both the Horde and Alliance, the Hop Festival is a time to enjoy the fermented fruits of the harvest: pretzels, cheese, and booze! Competing breweries from Thunderbar, Jachmenovar and Ogres all gather outside of all the major cities in an attempt to outdo each other with their special ales, meads and beers. Brave adventurers are invited to relax and taste the best products these brewers have to offer!
During the Hopfest, players can earn the title of Hopfest, collect fun riding animals such as the Hopfest Rushing ram, and toys for the Toy Collection! Daily activities include killing Koren Hoodowar for loot and riding animals, as well as completing a ram race to earn Hop Festival tokens.
You can also get a special positive effect on the experience: the Joyful Walker. Leaders from various breweries will give speeches at their camps at 4:15am and 4:15pm Moscow time, and then give a positive effect for 2 hours to everyone in the vicinity that persists even after death. Until 2019, it was given by Meggakrut and Saurfang.
The hop festival, based on Oktoberfest, runs from September 20 to October 6.
Brewfest updates in 2019:
Stone for the return of the Boozer of the Hop Festival sold at Blix Chinishtux and Belby Quickman for 200 Prize Token of the Hop Festival
The Sardeliria Trophy of the Hop Festival is sold from Britt's Soul Mug and Etg for 5 Sardeliria Winner's Token. These tokens can be obtained from a special minigame, which, according to feedback on the European servers, can sometimes be buggy.
Before we delve into the nuances of the Hop Festival in the actual, we want to clarify that the Hop Festival is not available in WoW Classic, as it was only added in the Burning Crusade add-on, in October 2007. Only those festivals that were active during Vanilla will be added to WoW Classic, such as Pumpkin Feast, Love Fever, Winter Cover and Garden of Wonders.
Hopfest Camp Locations
There are two Hop Festival camps, one each for Alliance and Horde. They are the base for holiday tasks such as daily quests and mini-games, and seasonal items such as toys and alcohol can be purchased there.
The Alliance Hop Festival camp is located behind the gates of Stalgorn, at the bottom of the hill. From the Stalgorn Gate, walk down the road and look to your right.
The Horde Hop Festival Camp is located on the west side of Durotar, behind the Orgrimmar Gate. From the main entrance of Orgrimmar, go right and pass the barracks.
As of 2019, the Hopfest camps have received several thematic updates. The Alliance camp is still run by the dwarf Ipfelkofer Iron Barrel, but the dwarves of the Black Iron clan are now friendly, as they are now an allied race. The Horde camp is now ruled by La'har Hops from the Mag'har Orc clan, who have brought Drenorian traditions to Azeroth.
Allied race merchants, described in the Food and Alcohol section, have also been added in 2019, as well as restrooms. Just outside of the camp you will find Pandarian noodle vendors.
For this quest, players must travel to the specified locations (Horde players will need to visit the Forests of Eternal Song, Mulgor and Tirisfal Forests, while Alliance players will need to visit Azure Haze Island, Elwyn Forest and Teldrassil) and use the provided Elekk Scatter Ray to "kill" three pink hallucinated Elekk in each location. To see the Elecchi, you must either be incredibly drunk from any alcoholic beverage, or wear the Synthmel Goggles, which can be obtained from the questmaster on request.
Due to some legal restrictions, this quest is not available on European servers.
Ram Race
Barrel Racing is a fun mini-game where players try to go as fast as possible and collect numerous Portable Beer Refrigerator before time runs out. After the initial one-off quests, players can test their ram riding skills on a daily basis - the better they are, the more Hop Festival Prize Token they can collect.
There are several speeds at which a ram can move:
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