Talk:The Great Norn Alemoot

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Any one knows off requirements for this?

Didn't get it before doing Olaf's mission, did get it after. Backsword 10:37, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I did the mission together with my girlfriend. She got the quest. I didn't. And we have been playing everything of GW:EN together. So there seems to be some kind of bug. - Damadmoo 19:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Confirming same behaviour. When playing with a friend, after completing, Olaf's main quest, he got it and I didn't. We had almost synchronized our quests so it is either a bug or something completely different. - --84.133.237.154 22:34, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

You might to be a female character to get this quest, given the quests following this Celaeris 23:16, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I have done this on my warrior who is a male, so gender isn't a requirment :P --Gummy Joe 23:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Any chance of getting free drunkard minutes out of this? -Ensign 02:17, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Nope, the title doesn't budge just like the tihark orchard misson :/--Gummy Joe 09:55, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

BUG: You can go thru the teleporter to edge of maps

This quest is one of the most silly quest and hardest to do that i've never seen in Guild Wars I just can't do these three stupid pigs enter the right area in something like one minute. Boring as hell.

--- All who cant seem to get it from Olaf might try talking to Olrun Olafdottir neer Raven Point Biz 15:38, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Well this one of the dumbest quests Ive ever done. Would always mess up on the race part. But i found an easy bug to complete it after many many tries. Drink from each barrel 3 times at the beginning, then run the race, and finally herd the pigs. After i did this, it said i completed the quest, yet i never moved the kegs. Don't know if it will work for everyone, but it did for me. -Stewart

Only reason this seems stupid on the slalom is because you fail if you while running around a marker step further then the vertical boundary of next marker so you really gota do it right, those "bugs" can be intentional considering this is drinking challenge and sepose to fully blind you at high detail. Biz 11:34, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Has nobody thought to simply turn post-processing effects off yet? --Santax (talk · contribs) 11:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

If you drink form the barrels 3 times at the beginning you don't even need to run the race, just herd the pigs in. -Eric

That's what I did. It tried to do it right, but it was too frustrating. I couldn't figure out the slalom; since it was never successful I don't even know which side I was supposed to start from. The time is tight even if you know what you're doing and you brought a speed boost, but the quest doesn't give you even the slightest hint about what you're doing until the timer has started! I wanted to do the quest without reading the wiki first since it sounded like it might be fun, but found myself thrust into a situation with little instruction and a 2-minute countdown timer. Bcstingg 18:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

I drank twice, ran the kegs, drank twice, started the slalom from the bottom, drank twice and then herded the pigs and finished the quest the normal way. I noticed that the pigs herded much easier this way than trying when I tried to skip a step.

Contents 1 Quest giver 2 Post Process Effects 3 Bug 4 Order of Requirements 5 Different Professions 6 Splitting Into Male & Female Articles 7 Diffculty Level is too High

[edit] Quest giver

I suspect Female chars get this from Olaf, and male chars from Olrun. Can anyone confirm ore refute this? Backsword 20:50, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

My Male char only gotten quests from Olrun. Biz 11:29, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Post Process Effects

Ok I did this quest and embaressingly I had trouble without a running skill and failed herding pigs while uber drunk. Obviously intended, but I had an idea. On gthe Flask of Firewater page it says, "Note: Your screen will not change if your Post Process effects are off," does this apply to this quest? If it does it will probably be removed, although it probably doesn't as this isn't 'real alcohol' in the quest either. Dancing Gnome 04:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Post processing is better be off for this quest =) Biz 08:57, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bug

A guildie told me she did this quest once and without doing any of the conditions, she waited 10 seconds (she was confused) and then talked to the quest NPC again and she was rewarded for completing the quest. This didn't happen to me though so Maybe it was fixed or maybe something else triggered her victory, she said she didn't move though. Dancing Gnome 04:46, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

If you could get me a solid repro on this, that would be great. Until then, I don't think a bug should be on this page based on hearsay that "sometimes the quest just completes itself" - Linsey talk 23:57, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Bugged for me, I when to practice pig herding before I started it, completed itself when I got 1 pig inside. Dyslexicon 09:06, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Order of Requirements

Ok someone said you can drink from the barrel many times to trigger the second drinking event, does this mean you can also herd three pigs before starting the quest while sobre and then once you fulfill the other two requirements you pass? Dancing Gnome 04:49, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Pigs don't react to you before you start the counter. Biz 08:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

They don't but you can bodyblock them into the pen (be sure that the pigs' movement-routes away from the pen are blocked, keeping the routes into the pen as their only option). After this, you can just collect the quest reward (without even starting it).

[edit] Different Professions

Somehow I don't think this quest is compatible with certain professions. I can't do it on my Monk at all - I've tried Mo/W with "Charge!" and Mo/R with Storm Chaser, Tactics and Wilderness Survival at 12 respectively - and at best I get 58 seconds to attempt to round up unresponsive pigs, or the pigs respond but quest doesn't update. Ally said to take nothing but run skills, but I don't get anything beyond additional speed - and I still run out of time. I get the impression after countless tries that the quest is somehow bugged or not working as intended because no matter what I try, my Monk cannot complete it. Any suggestions, or ideas if the quest is in fact bugged? Nbajammer 04:12, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Splitting Into Male & Female Articles

Against – I don't think this is necessary, as it is not listed in the Quest Log as male or female, and just means more clicking in the wiki wasting our time. I would prefer to keep the article as is. josəph 20:14, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

A split is totally unnecessary. The quests are too similar. Just put in the differences.

Yeah. Completely unncesary. The differences are almost only in dialogs. MithTalk 02:16, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree, differences are minimal at best. Not worth the extra space; the article has it covered as is. If there were more differences I'd support this, but there just aren't.Miss Innocent 02:15, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Diffculty Level is too High

Anyone agree with me? Done25 20:22, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

What? It's just running around while drunk. The only moderately difficult task is herding the pigs. --Valshia 20:51, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Turn off the post processing and get some solid run speed boost while controlling your movement manually and its not hard enough.~But really secondary quests can be as hard as it gets with no real effect on overall game. Biz 21:31, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Everything other than the pig gathering is easy. I have about 1:15 on the clock when I get to the pigs...I can never manage to get the last pig in before the time expires though... Done25 15:49, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Struck lucky tonight, the quest spawned with a pig already in the pen, so only 2 actual pigs to herd in. I suppose if you're having trouble, you could get into the area and see if there's a pig or two in the pen before starting the whole quest sequence... If not, /resign and restart... BramStoker (talk, contribs) 19:15, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

idd this quest is to difficult.

I despise this quest. Only do it for the skill. It's buggy and I've only ever gotten it by luck. Only quest in the game that makes turn it off and walk away. c0c0c0

I guess there's a reason for the 15k xp reward? ;) — Galil 03:09, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

I think whoever gets that little far into GW:EN doesn't really give a damn to xp. :S - Lud 13:36, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

I failed on my only few attempts, but I haven't really put much effort into it. They never think I'm going far enough around the posts; I seem to cut it too close every time.Miss Innocent 02:17, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

F*** THIS QUEST. Herding 3 pigs in under a minute is ridiculously hard. And you can't drink fromt he barrels more than once each time so that's not even helpful. --Anon.

I tried it once and did it in my first ever go. What is annoying is that I then tried it on another char and found that the bit where you have to run around like your in a slalom race is bugged and that if you run past on the correct side of the thing but too close to it, you still end up failing which is somewhat annoying. However i found the pig hearding bit rather easy, just take lots of speed buffs and turn off post processing. -- Salome 16:09, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

You can't run to close to next set of poles or you will fail. Biz 08:37, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Herding the pigs is based too much on luck. I have a question? Is it even possible to finish this quest without cheating (turning off post processing)?? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.56.247.172 (talk • contribs) at 11:23, 18 July 2008 (UTC).

Well, the oldschool people who crawled all over presearing completing every quest they found allready had loads of Pig herding practice, plus nothing says that turning off postprocessing is cheating there are loads of people who can't play with out lag with it, and most other just hate the glow effect and turn it off because of that. Biz 15:45, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Nothing says that turning off drunken effects on a quest designed to be done while drunk is cheating? What? I mean , mine are almost always off anyway from questing drunk and I don't intend to attempt this with them on since it's all glitched out anyway, but...let's not try to pretend it's not cheating lol.