Yaaaaaar maties, it be me again, Cap'n Phineas Blackbeard (ye may remember
my old guide to the most piratical o' quests), and I be back again,
today, September the 19th, because today, ye scurvy dogs,
be Pirates' Day! My old flame Dread Captain DeMeza will be hanging out in Booty Bay and causin' all kinds of trouble under the nose of old Baron Revilgaz, so ye can head down to the southern shores, listen to some shantys with those old swashbucklers, and maybe even win some loot. If ye like, ye can even go and visit DeMeza with
the scallywags from this here WoW.com site (though between you and me, some of them smell like the inside of a whale's belly, especially that landlubber Schramm). And of course, all of ye yellow-bellied scallywags should spend the whole day talking like a pirate as best ye can, and maybe even wear an eyepatch. Y'know,
for the nightvision.
And just in case ye don't get enough grog today -- HA! Get it? "Enough grog"? A good pirate knows ye can never have enough grog! -- don't forget that Brewfest starts tomorrow. Stay tuned to this here vessel for more information about how ye can get all of the achievements and titles and dragons and treasure chests ye desire. Have a great Pirates' Day, and then get back to swabbing the poop deck, ye peg-legged, pox-faced mutinous cur! Dead men tell no tales! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
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Sep 19th 2009 at 8:00AM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
The 500th Person Sep 19th 2009 8:06AM
Savvy?
JR Sep 19th 2009 8:06AM
I did DeMeza's achievement and got the costume, but it was gone in about half an hour instead of the 12 hours. Other people were reporting the same problem in my server.
JR Sep 19th 2009 8:34AM
EDIT: After reading the comments on wowhead, it seems that there is a bug that removes the costume buff when you switch to certain zones. I lost mine when I flew out of Dalaran. http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=50517
Declopy Sep 19th 2009 1:15PM
Also you lose the buff if you do the Explorer's League or Frosthold dailies. Be careful hopping on a quest required mount!
Arednel Sep 19th 2009 8:18AM
when I ported to Outland mine disappeared :(
jdryner Sep 19th 2009 8:49AM
I experienced the same thing, unless it was the "half-hour" duration that JR was mentioning. I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't a quest line. You know, a short one for a short holiday, it would have been nice to actually board a ship and capture/loot another ship, we're supposed to be pirates, so let's be pirates! :D
-Rathwyn (Drenden)
Flyte Sep 19th 2009 8:48AM
I was wearing a tabard on my dwarf female hunter and the pirate costume caused a fleshy tabard type thing to appear with the costume. It looked HORRIBLE. Removing the tabard didn't remove it so I removed the disguise.
Moral: take off you tabard before you get the buff. Just in case.
FUSONLOVE Sep 19th 2009 8:57AM
Had the same bug with the pirate costume you get from Salvory Deviate Lights too. epecialy if i harth or teleport.
Becky Sep 19th 2009 4:38PM
Taking the tabard off, then logging out and back in fixed the "flesh tabard" error for me.
Rodrigo Sep 19th 2009 8:53AM
So, this was it, this was the great spectacular Pirate Day?
Back to my maties, the Bloodsail Buccaneers...
theRaptor Sep 19th 2009 8:59AM
Aarrrr mateys. I spent Talk Like a Pirate Day MCing the wedding reception of one of my close friends. Of course in honor of tha day I did it in true pirate fashion yaHAARRRRR.
Valt Sep 19th 2009 8:59AM
My name is Guybrush Threepwood and I wanna be a pirate!
crapper Sep 19th 2009 9:04AM
i had a tabard with a belly button on my gnome.
straight out of a hell raiser movie.
i expected more of the day tho, some more achievs or something dunno, special pet that sits on ur shoulder and as a idle motion flies of and back again.
but he, tonight brewfast, 310% an hour later, hurray.
RogueJedi86 Sep 19th 2009 9:27AM
My name is Luffy, and I'm gonna get the One Piece so I CAN BE KING OF THE PIRATES!
MusedMoose Sep 19th 2009 12:19PM
What I thought was hilarious was that when I got to the pirates' place in Booty Bay, there were a bunch of people hanging around, not doing anything. I walked up to the captain and got the achievement.
Within the next minute, about ten people ran over to her and got the achievement. There was this vague sense of "Wait, there's an achievement with this?!"
*grin*
Erogroth Sep 19th 2009 12:29PM
YARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Sou Sep 19th 2009 1:55PM
It is a nice little PVP fest on a nonPVP server.....
RX2000 Sep 19th 2009 2:18PM
If you lose your pirate costume you could just talk to any of the pirates standing around all the capital cities and click on "I want to dress up like a pirate" and it gives you the disguise right back.......
Dragundam Sep 19th 2009 3:17PM
It took me a minute to realize that putting on the costume as a Tauren changed my look completely. I went from a curved horn, green-eyed holstein to a longhorn brown cow with yellow eyes. I'm sortof tempted to just take the costume off. :/
RetPallyJil Sep 19th 2009 3:23PM
I put out a Brewfest Pony Keg on the Maiden's Fancy as we left Ratchet (I was riding back and forth Yo Ho Hoing it up), and as the ship pulled out, my keg stood still.
Last I saw it, it was floating in midair over Ratchet harbor.