Friday, May 31, 2013

Spring Festival Goodies


When I was a younger elf, as festivals arrived, I would take a vacation from questing and adventuring and spend time soaking in everything there was to do at festival. Now, as a slightly older elf… I find that I do the same. :D My two 2012 posts that went into more detail about the events of Spring festival (including Shrews, Flowers, Maze, Bullroarer’s Run) are at Steed-of-jester and Spring-shrews-shrews-shrews!.

For certain, Spring festival has a lot of goodies to acquire! Looking at the list from the vendor, I think that everything that has ever been available during Spring festival might still be there, minus all the horses from every year. For interest, this article will be a check list of all the goodies.

New goodies for 2013 include Warsteed Cosmetics, a Horse, 4 Cosmetic pieces, 3 Cook recipes.

There are two barter places for Spring festival: the Bree flower guy and the Spring Rewards Vendors (who are in the festival dance areas). All the vendors, not the flower guy, have the same goodies. There is so much stuff available from the Spring Rewards Vendor that I will break the list into (1) Horses, (2) Cosmetics, (3) Craft Recipes, (4) Housing and Yard, (5) Misc Emotes and Consumables.


Goodies from the Bree Flower guy:
The Flower guy’s list is fairly short. He has 2 pieces of Lissuin Warsteed cosmetics, the Steed of the Jester (which was found only in the random boxes last year), and 3 gift boxes. The gift boxes have random stuff in them, including the low tier cook tart recipes and other forgettable odds-and-ends. The gift boxes also have randomly available a FULL set of Lissuin Cosmetics and the Steed of the Jester. I have no idea what the odds are because I avoid random if I can help it.

Name
What is it?
Flower Cost?
New?
Spring Lissuin Halter
Warsteed cosmetic
80 each
New
Spring Lissuin Saddle
Warsteed cosmetic
80 each
New
Steed of the Jester
Horse
100 each
Kinda
Blue Flower Box
Random loot
6 each
Green Flower Box
Random loot
6 each
Red Flower Box
Random loot
6 each



Spring Rewards Vendor (Horses):
The other two pieces of the Warsteed are bartered with Spring Leaves. The 2013 horse is the Lissuin; the 2012 horse is the Simbelmyne. You can see all of the festival steeds at All the Steeds /festival-steeds. The Lissuin Warsteed pictures were in the article last week at Spring-lissuin-warsteed.

Name
What is it?
Spring Leaf Cost?
New?
Spring Lissuin Caparison
Warsteed cosmetic
20
New
Spring Lissuin Leggings
Warsteed cosmetic
20
New
Lissuin Steed
Horse
40
New
Simbelmyne Steed
Horse
20


Spring Rewards Vendor (Cosmetics):
The Lissuin set is the 2013 fashions. You can see the various theme names from previous spring festivals as you scroll down the list. The 2013 and 2012 fashion images can be seen at Cosmeticlotro: spring-festival-cosmetics-2013 and Cosmeticlotro: spring-festival-cosmetics-2012.

Name
What is it?
Spring Leaf Cost?
New?
Lissuin Cloak
Cosmetic
15
New
Lissuin Hooded Cloak
Cosmetic
15
New
Lissuin Robe
Cosmetic
18
New
Lissuin Dress
Cosmetic
18
New
Wide-Brimmed Spring Hat
Cosmetic
13
Simbelmyne Circlet
Cosmetic
13
Simbelmyne Cloak
Cosmetic
15
Simbelmyne Tunic & Trousers
Cosmetic
15
Simbelmyne Dress
Cosmetic
15
Spring Adventurer's Dress
Cosmetic
13
White Rose Circlet
Cosmetic
13
Spring Dandy Cloak
Cosmetic
13
Spring Dandy Hooded Cloak
Cosmetic
13
Spring-Flinger Cloak
Cosmetic
13
Spring Flinger Hooded Cloak
Cosmetic
13
Spring-Flinger Hat
Cosmetic
13
Short-sleeved Spring-flinger Hauberk
Cosmetic
13
Long-sleeved Spring-flinger Hauberk
Cosmetic
13



Spring Rewards Vendor (Craft Recipes):
The three cook recipes listed here are new. They are tarts for the top three tiers. The lower tier recipes can be found as fairly common random loot in the flower gift boxes mentioned above.
The farmer potted flower recipes make housing decoration items.

Name
What is it?
Spring Leaf Cost?
New?
Strawberry-Rhubarb Tart Recipe
Cook Recipe
15
New
Bilberry Tart Recipe
Cook Recipe
15
New
Cherry Tart
Cook Recipe
15
New
Potted Lily-of-the-valley Recipe
Farmer Recipe
8
Potted Iris Recipe
Farmer Recipe
8
Potted Bluebottle Recipe
Farmer Recipe
8


Spring Rewards Vendor (Housing and Yard):
So many housing items… so little house.

Good-to-know information for these 4 maps: These four maps are part of a “map collecting deed”. You don’t have to keep the map; you only have to hold it in inventory a moment to advance the deed. The maps are not bound. The deed completion has rewards, including ~10 TP. These four maps are only available during Spring. Each festival has maps that contribute toward the deed. The maps have been around for more than a year so it is likely someone might have a map that you can borrow to help finish the deed.

Name
What is it?
Spring Leaf Cost?
New?
Map of the Old Forest
Housing (Map Deed)
8
Map of Archet
Housing (Map Deed)
8
Map of Bree-town
Housing (Map Deed)
8
Map of Annuminas
Housing (Map Deed)
8
Clover Table
Housing
13
Moria Keg
Housing
13
Clover Stool
Housing
13
Fine Potrait of a Shrew
Housing
13
Spring festival Theme
Music for House
13
Elf Hedge Sculpture
Yard
18
Dwarf Hedge Sculpture
Yard
18
Hobbit Hedge Sculpture
Yard
13
Garden Boar Sculpture
Yard
13
Garden-Dwarf Statue
Yard
13
Majestic Shrew Statue
Yard
13



Spring Rewards Vendor (Misc Emotes and Consumables):
Yeah… a few things didn’t fit neatly into the previous categories.

At Anniversary festival, there were scholar recipes to make fireworks. A material requirement is “Piles of Mysterious Powder”. It would be simpler to just buy the fireworks from a vendor for a few silver. However, to be fair, fireworks are only sold during Anniversary festival so if you absolutely had to have fireworks now and no one would give you stockpiled ones, this is one way to get them.

DRAGON and Doom-shrooms are both consumable deeds. Consume 300 of these and you can learn the emote/action as a permanent skill.

Sack of Petals throws petals at your target; this version is a permanent reusable sack in your inventory. It is also available as a deed reward during Yule festival.

Springfest Brew Mug is a force emote on those around you. This one is not a consumable deed like the previous ones.

Extra Delicious Tasty Biscuits, when used, open up a fortune, like a fortune-cookie. The item is a piece of paper in your inventory. There are 50 fortunes total and make up 5 deeds of 10 fortunes each. The fortunes are not Bound and can be traded. Once held in inventory the deed advances. Look to your friends and the AH if you are embarking on trying to get the 50 randomly selected fortunes for deed. Each deed rewards a special title.

Cold Fish grants the emote /fishslap

Slapper Fish is a weapon slotted item. It looks like a fish.

Name
What is it?
Spring Leaf Cost?
New?
Piles of Mysterious Powder x5
firework mats
2
D. R. A. G. O. N. x5
Consumable (deed)
3
Doom-shrooms x5
Consumable (deed)
3
Sack of Petals
Interactive Emote
20
Springfest Brew Mugs x5
Consumable
3
Extra Delicious Tasty Biscuits x2
Deed item
3
Cold Fish
Emote (/fishslap)
13
Slapper Fish
weapon slot
13