Let’s talk tankey… er, turkey

Preparing to do a parachute drop into Night Elf lands.

Home again, home again, jiggedy jig.

I’m finally back from my work trip to the Czech Republic (beautiful country, btw) and ready to get back into the blogging swing of things.

When I logged on this morning at 6:30 am, riddled with jet lag, I discovered it was Thanksgiving in game. Completely slipped my mind that I’d be coming back during a new holiday. Anyhoo, I ran through most of the achievements this morning, and I have some Pally-themed advice for those of you burning through the achievs as well.

The Turkinator is a bit rough, and more easily done on a low pop server or early in the morning/late at night when no one is on (like 6:30 in the morning perhaps). For us Paladins, the easiest way to do this is first make the following macro:

/target Wild Turkey
/cast Hand of Reckoning

Then do a circuit of Tirisfal Glades (or Elwynn Forest, if you’re into that sort of thing) and just mash whatever hot key you bound that macro to until 40 birds bite the dust.

For Tirisfal I recommend this path:

You should run into more than enough birds to complete the achievement just following the pink line. Moreover, I hear the area south of Scarlet Monastery has tons of birds, if you want to frontload your count a little.

I have no idea where the best turkey spots are in Elwynn (being a Hordie). If anyone could suggest for our Alliance friends an optimal path, I’d appreciate it.

Now, I need to start checking out what I’ve missed on mmo-champ. I’m sure lots has happened in my absence.

6 Comments to “Let’s talk tankey… er, turkey”

  1. Parallacs 23 November 2009 at 11:00 am #

    I did laps around the eastvale logging area (where those big trees are). I got close to failing a few times but it wad much easier than out by goldshire

  2. Sapria 23 November 2009 at 3:16 pm #

    I did loops in the little area below SM, wasnt anyone there and they were pretty closely packed. I also used Tracker Snacks to aid me.

  3. Antigen
    @hazmacewillraid
     23 November 2009 at 3:41 pm #

    Tracker Snacks make this achievement extremely simple. The turkeys show up as yellow filled in dots, like any other critters, and say “Wild Turkey.” I’m Alliance but I didn’t pay attention to what route I was traveling, I just ate some Tracker Snacks and went from dot to dot. Happy Hunting!

  4. Vorian87 24 November 2009 at 5:39 am #

    welcome back :D

  5. HP
    @iamapaladin
     24 November 2009 at 1:46 pm #

    Even as a holy pally with 40 yd range judgments, this trick was still useful. Thanks!

  6. Moogle Stiltzkin 24 November 2009 at 8:27 pm #

    As an Alliance, i flew all the way to Western Plague Lands and went by horsey to Tirisfal Glades. Thats the best spot.

    Elwynn it is possible to do it there, but Tirisfal is better because more turkeys and closer to each other.