Proudmoore gets badge vendor to 100%, chaos ensues

by Mike Schramm Apr 7th 2008 at 12:40PM

Chaos! That was the scene on Proudmoore as they became the first server to unlock Sunwell Isle's badge vendor. Smith Hauthaa, completely. As you might expect, every Thrall, Jaina and Larry who'd been saving up Heroic Badges descended on the vendor to cash out, and from what we're told by reader Sync, it was madness.

Madness? This is the Sunwell! Surely this is just temporary -- as people get those badges turned in, Hauthaa's popularity will drop back down to much more managable levels. But as you can see from the gallery below, everyone and their alt showed up to buy from the vendor, and there was lots of world PvP, low framerates, and even a server shutdown (we hear) to show for it. Whenever your server opens up, whether you're looking for Warlock, Hunter, Druid, or any other Badge Loot gear, you may just want to wait an hour or two until people settle down and realize that they'll have a long time to buy new Professor Plums with badges.

Gallery: Badge vendor open for business on Proudmoore

Tags: badge-loot, badge-vendor, daily-quests, patch-24, pvp, server-crash, sunwell, sunwell-dailies

Filed under: Patches, Items, Events, Fan stuff, PvP, Galleries

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Dakira Apr 7th 2008 12:51PM

Everyones busy getting the badge loot, so I get to be the first comment!

Ya for being at work!

Milktub Apr 7th 2008 12:52PM

Awesome.

Alexstrasza should have it open by the time I get home from work. It was 93% when I logged out last night.

I'm gonna get some welfare epics!

Milktub Apr 7th 2008 5:13PM

My bad. I mis-understood the whole phases thing. We've entered the phase that now lets us unlock the vendor ... but she's just standing there making us do quests or something.

Spoony Apr 7th 2008 1:12PM

Kalecgos is barely 50% through phase 2, we've still probably got a month till it opens :(

BillDoor Apr 7th 2008 2:02PM

Same on Jaedenar. I've got lots of time to farm my badges!

Bootsanator Apr 8th 2008 3:56AM

Jaedenar FTW!
(but Jaedenar badge vendor delay ftl)

Imogynn Apr 7th 2008 1:14PM

"until people settle down and realize that they'll have a long time to buy new Professor Plums with badges."

True... but how many hours do we have to PvP with new weapons that are very close to S3?

Gogo Proudmoore!

bonelip Apr 7th 2008 1:25PM

To the inhabitants of the proudmoore server:

Good lord! don't you people have jobs?
Get a good job hippies!

Del Apr 7th 2008 2:10PM

Well, that's one advantage of being in an over-crowded server...

Gratz guys!!

Netherscourge Apr 7th 2008 2:15PM

Badge loot is Welthfare Epix for Raiders - just like Honor loot is Wealthfare Epix for Casuals.

Sucks - I'm stuck in between. I have some S1 gear, a couple Kara epics and 43 Badges of Justice, which doesn't buy anything from the new vendor.

yay...

:(

Hollywood Ron Apr 7th 2008 2:20PM

What's with all the corpses?

Jezzerr Apr 7th 2008 7:16PM

Im guessing griefers putting PVP on and standing over the badge vendor.. seems to have become quite a popular past-time :S

kenney Apr 7th 2008 2:23PM

Heh, it was crowded like that BEFORE the badge vendor opened up.

What you are seeing there is just verification of John Gabriel's GIF Theory (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/)

People were just amused at how irritating they could make it for people trying to get the anvil open, and then trying to do turn-ins. General chat at the time was full of angst, mostly over whether or not the new badge turn-ins were fair, over how irritatating the people blocking the turn-ins were, and how satisfying it was to block other people doing turn-ins.

Wolftech Apr 7th 2008 4:04PM

mmmm new Epix...

.... If I can ever get to the vendor.

*faceplant*

Proudmoore FTW!

Wolftech Apr 7th 2008 4:11PM

On a side note, let me add in the key of Homer Simpson

We are the champions - my friends
And we'll keep on fighting - till the end -
We are the champions -
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions - of the world

Risa Apr 7th 2008 5:45PM

For those wondering, we did not have a server shutdown.

Sync Apr 7th 2008 9:34PM

Yeah there was no shutdown, but it looked like the server was going to do itself in. All those on Proudmoore know what I'm talking about when it comes to the general stability of our home.

But damn the amount of people there. My quadcore with a 8800gt was struggling to get 6 frames. Funny stuff tho. Was an enchanters utopia last night.

Wolftech Apr 8th 2008 9:32AM

And those of us on Proudmoore know that unstability is normal. Its getting so bad, we are learning how to use lag to our favor :)

Not that we would dream of going anywhere else.

Pax Proudmoore, Laurus Proudmoore, Obscurum per obscurius