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Pilgrim's Bounty
The Pilgrim’s Bounty is coming up from November 20 to November 27 and with it comes a time to reflect upon one’s good fortune and share feasts with everyone around you!

New in 2017
With the introduction of the Appearance tab in 7.2, the non-transmoggable Pilgrim set can be saved and transmogged during the duration of the holiday.

The Spirit of Sharing
The main area where the festivities take place is right outside the capital cities for the Horde and Alliance and in a couple of smaller towns.

• Players can interact with the many foods options set on these tables and will gain a buff by eating or passing each of the servings.
• There are 5 buffs in total that you can gain that when combined together will reward the The Spirit of Sharing buff that grants 10% increase in reputation gains for one hour. This is great if you are working on Legion reputations and completing World Quests or working on other reputations for a little boost.

Cooking
Pilgrim’s Bounty is centered around cooking and there are 5 recipes to add to your cooking collection. All you need to do is buy the Bountiful Cookbook from Bountiful Barrel located at each capital city table to learn them. The recipes are used for several quests, dailies, and the Now We’re Cookin’ achievement related to the holiday.

• Spice Bread Stuffing
• Pumpkin Pie
• Cranberry Chutney
• Candied Sweet Potato
• Slow-Roasted Turkey

Cosmetic Items
5 daily quests can be found around the bountiful tables at capital cities that award a piece of a non-transmoggable Pilgrim’s set or a Pilgrim's Bounty cache.

• The cache can contain the Fine Pilgrim's Hat, the Frightened Bush Chicken battle pet and the Silver-Plated Turkey Shooter toy, along with several consumable foods and turkey shooters.
• The quests are centered around cooking so having at least a 280 skill level will help but if you do not have the skill level, you can buy the items needed from Bountiful Barrel at each capital city table.

Non-Transmoggable Set

• Pilgrim's Hat
• Pilgrim's Attire
• Pilgrim's Dress
• Pilgrim's Robe
• Pilgrim's Boots

Pilgrim’s Bounty Cache

• Fine Pilgrim's Hat - Transmoggable year-round.
• Frightened Bush Chicken - Teaches Bush Chicken.
• Silver-Plated Turkey Shooter - Covers target with turkey feathers.

Achievements
There are 9 achievements for the Pilgrim’s Bounty holiday, 7 required for the meta achievement Pilgrim that will award you with the title the Pilgrim along with the Plump Turkey battle pet and 2 that are separate.

Do note that Pilgrim is not required to complete the What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been meta achievement for the Violet Proto-Drake.

Pilgrim Achievements

• “FOOD FIGHT”- Bounce food off a player at a Bountiful Table.
• Now We’re Cookin’ - Cook up one of every Pilgrim’s Bounty dish.
• Pilgrim’s Paunch - Acquire the Spirit of Sharing from a complete Bountiful Table feast at every capital of your faction.
• Sharing is Caring - Pass one of every dish at a Bountiful Table.
• Terokkar Turkey Time - Defeat Talon King Ikiss while wearing a Pilgrim’s hat and either a Pilgrim’s Dress, Robe or Attire.
• The Turkinator - Kill 40 Wild Turkeys within 30 seconds of each other and gain Turkey Triumph. Using a macro is helpful here.
• Turkey Lurkey - Use a Turkey Shooter on each racial combo rogue.

Off-Meta Achievements

• Pilgrim’s Progress - Complete each of the Pilgrim’s Bounty dailies.
• Pilgrim’s Peril - While wearing either a Pilgrm’s Dress, Robe, or Attire, take a seat at each enemy capital’s Bountiful Table.

Blizzard Gear Sale
The Blizzard Gear store will have some flash sales during the upcoming week!

Blue Tweets

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

So, remind me how "viable" non Warrior tanks were in Vanilla? ie: Bear Druids & Prot Paladins.
Speaking as someone who did it: Less viable than Warriors. More viable than people thought. (Celestalon)
By today's forum standards, obviously 100% nonviable and useless, so it does sort of depend on what you're asking.
I remember a video of a bear (Hugehoss) tanking Garr + all of his adds. Was quite the inspiration! (Celestalon)
partially gear dependent - some of which you couldn't acquire until BWL either
Bears in Vanilla were hiiiighly gear-dependent, and in odd ways. Scaled extreeeemely well with Bonus Armor, which was super rare. (Celestalon)
So the best gearset commonly included a lvl 43 world drop epic, shoulders from Sunken Temple, rings from a Tanaris quest and MC drop, etc. (Celestalon)

with the new raid opening on Nov.28th should we expect the difficulty of mythic + to increase or remain the same?
Consistent with NH/ToS opening, you'll see the reward ceiling go up to M15 when Mythic Antorus opens. Dungeon difficulty won't change.(WatcherDev)

Build of the Month - November 2017
Each month or so we will post a couple of hardware setups for those of you who are thinking of upgrading their computer!

All of the parts on this page are Amazon affiliate links. When you purchase your parts through them it helps support the site!


This month
New CPUs from Intel have been released but are proving challenging to actually find in stock. They will require a new motherboard as well. We will update our build list with the 8600K and other Coffee Lake CPUs when stock improves. If you can find an 8600K in stock, be sure to use a Z370 motherboard, as older motherboards are not compatible even though they have the same pin count.

The current SSD prices are fairly flat right now, with most SSDs under $0.50 per gigabyte when on sale.

Depending on how much you want to overclock, you may need to spend a bit more for a better CPU cooler like the NH-D15.

Unless you are doing a lot of video rendering or streaming, you do not need the 7700K and would get more performance from spending that money elsewhere.

Make sure to keep your AMD and Nvidia drivers up to date.

Don't forget to visit the Computer Forum for any extra questions!

Peripherals

Puppy

Monitor	ASUS VS228T-P 22-Inch Monitor	$99
Keyboard	Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600	$13
Mouse	Logitech G Pro	$49
Speakers	Creative A250 2.1	$30

Dolphin

Monitor	ASUS VS248H-P 24-Inch Monitor	$130
Keyboard	Logitech G105	$42
Mouse	Razer DeathAdder Elite	$50
Speakers	Logitech Z313	$25

Narwhal

Monitor	Dell U2414H Monitor	$225
Keyboard	Logitech G710+	$90
Mouse	Logitech G502	$45
Speakers	Logitech Z323 2.1	$50

Unicorn

Monitor	Dell U2717D Monitor	$410
Keyboard	Corsair K70	$115
Mouse	Razer Naga Chroma	$50
Speakers	Logitech Z523	$74

Puppy and Dolphin
All of these parts can be mixed and matched to create a build between Puppy and Dolphin.

Puppy

Updated November 19, 2017

$575

Case	Carbide Series 200R	$60
Power Supply	EVGA 600B	$54
CPU	Intel G4500	$77
Heatsink	Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO	$30
Motherboard	MSI Pro Z270	$84
Memory	8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4	$110
Graphics Card	Gigabyte GTX 1050	$120
Hard Drive	Western Digital Blue 1TB	$50
DVD	Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW	$21

Dolphin

Updated November 19, 2017

$942

Case	Carbide Series 200R	$60
Power Supply	EVGA 600B	$54
CPU	Intel 7600K	$200
Heatsink	Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO	$30
Motherboard	ASUS Z270-K	$100
Memory	8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4	$110
Graphics Card	GTX 1060 3GB	$213
Hard Drive	Western Digital Black 2TB	$120
DVD	Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW	$21

Narwhal and Unicorn
All of these parts can be mixed and matched to create a build between Narwhal and Unicorn.

Narwhal

Updated November 19, 2017

$1244

Case	Cooler Master HAF 912	$55
Power Supply	EVGA GQ 650W	$76
CPU	Intel 7600K	$200
Heatsink	Noctua NH-U12S	$58
Motherboard	ASUS Z270-A	$145
Memory	16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4	$189
Graphics Card	GTX 1060 OR GTX 1070	$270 $440
Hard Drive	Western Digital Black 2TB	$120
SSD	Crucial MX300 275GB OR Samsung Evo 850 250GB	$80 $90
DVD	Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW	$21

Unicorn

Updated November 19, 2017

$1501

Case	Corsair Air 540	$100
Power Supply	EVGA GQ 650W	$76
CPU	Intel 7600K	$200
Heatsink	Noctua 6 NH-D15	$90
Motherboard	ASUS Z270-A	$145
Memory	16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4	$195
Graphics Card	GTX 1070	$419
Hard Drive	Western Digital Black 2TB	$120
SSD	SAMSUNG 850 Pro 256GB	$110
DVD	Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW	$21

HeroStorm - Ep32: Ma Fury On Malfurion
Another episode of HeroStorm has been released!

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