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Comment by 915380

first comment!

Also don't buy this. It's just a troll.
The item contained with in is worth 900g to the vendors.
You have to buy this item for 1k.

Comment by SoCalWoWGal

Painted Eggs are New to 2015:

In 2015, you can help organize your own egg hunt with eggs from Noblegarden Vendors:

Poorly-Painted Egg costs 10 silver. When looted, contains Poorly-Painted Egg which vendors for 9 silver.
Intricately-Painted Egg costs 10 gold. When looted, contains Intricately-Painted Eggwhich vendors for 9 gold.
Magnificently-Painted Egg costs 1,000. When looted, contains Magnificently-Painted Eggwhich vendors for 900 gold.

All of these eggs, when placed on the ground, look like the same Painted Egg. You cannot tell which egg contains the pricey 900 gold.

A fun idea for an in-game event is for one player to hide all the eggs, invite friends to find them, and whoever finds the egg containing 900 gold first wins the egg hunt.

If you are making your own egg hunt, you can carry up to 20 Poorly-Painted Egg , 5 Intricately-Painted Egg, and 1 Magnificently-Painted Egg in your bags at once.

Source

Vendors:
See Noblegarden Merchant for H
See Noblegarden Vendor for A

Comment by falrinth

Presumably a way to create a pretty awesome egg hunt.

Comment by 1392893

Can the Magnificently-Painted-Egg be picked up by toons on other servers? If so, this could be a great way to transfer funds to another server.

Comment by Elithe

I checked it with lesser amount.

You CAN lay an egg as Alliance character and then pick up as a Hordie.

However, this zone has to be absolutely phasing-proof. So Blasted Lands no-no.

Comment by 1371100

My guild had a ton of fun with these. I organized an egg hunt using these, Intricately-Painted Egg & Poorly-Painted Egg. I hid them all around my garrison, formed a raid group with about 15 or so of my guildies, and let them go crazy. You can put them pretty much anywhere, even inside all your buildings, caves, mines, etc. I had a hunter helping me hide them, and he disengaged and hid them on the top of buildings and in trees as well. There are TONS of good hiding places inside your garrison.

I found out that they will despawn if you leave Draenor. I'm not sure if this is intended or a bug. I hid them, went back to the vendor in Goldshire for more, and when I got back, they were gone, including one of the eggs I spent 1000G on. So I tested with the cheap eggs, and they stayed spawned when I went outside of my garrison but despawned when I left the continent. I'm not sure if this is intended or a bug, but watch out so that you don't waste over 1,000G like I did.

Comment by nmb3000

For those of you wondering about using these to transfer gold: the eggs CAN be looted by a character on another server, as long as they're able to see them -- for example, via cross-realm zones or by inviting them to a group.

I invited a friend of mine on a different server to a group while in Bloodhoof Village and he phased to my server. I laid down the egg and he looted it and then sold it to a vendor with no problem.

However, there's some things to consider before jumping at moving gold this way:

You lose 10% of the 1000g, only getting 900g when you sell the Magnificently-Painted Egg. This isn't so bad, as the Auction House takes a 5% cut, and the old neutral Auction House took a 15% cut.
Each Magnificently-Painted Egg you buy is a single-use item, with each placed egg yielding a single Magnificently-Painted Egg when looted. It then disappears.
Anyone can loot the eggs. You might be able to do this by running two clients, but it's a lot safer having a friend buy and place them for you.
Neither Magnificently-Painted Egg nor Magnificently-Painted Egg requires Noblegarden (they will not disappear when the event ends). However, while you don't have to worry about that:
Both Magnificently-Painted Egg and Magnificently-Painted Egg are unique, so you can only hold one at a time, and bind-on-pickup, so no mailing them to alts. This means no stocking up and selling them off to different toons throughout the year.
Also, be careful: Because Magnificently-Painted Egg is unique, if you loot an egg while you have one in your bags, you will lose the second one when the loot window closes. This happened to my friend and it was not recovered by the Postmaster.
There is not a limit on how many total eggs can be purchased, placed, looted, or sold.
You'll need to stay close to the Noblegarden vendor so that your friend can buy the eggs and you can sell them, one at a time.
The cheaper eggs, Poorly-Painted Egg and Intricately-Painted Egg, can also be used, but the gold value is so low it's just not worth the effort.

All that said, it's still a unique and interesting way to move a little gold to another server. Even one egg can make the leveling experience a lot nicer -- allowing you to buy some bags and the first few levels of Riding and Flying.

Comment by Neony

If you put down an egg, will anyone be able to pick it up regardless of being in your party or not?

Comment by AKdenton

All the painted eggs and the Noblegarden egg lasts for an hour.

Comment by Neodragon77

Now the real question is, will these last after noblegarden is over? How long will they stay on the ground after you put one down?

Comment by twosheds76

Ok, now for my experience with these.

Curious of what these were all about after seeing them being sold by the vendor, I looked on here and read comments and then thought a Garrison egg hunt would be an awesome idea.

As the GM of a guild, I wanted to do this for my guildies and have some fun with it. However I wanted to hide a mass amount of eggs and didn't know the best way to do this for one person.

You can only have in your possession: 1 Magnificently-Painted Egg, 5 Intricately-Painted Egg, 20 Poorly-Painted Egg

That doesn't exactly translate to a "mass amount" of eggs.

The way I was able to get around this was to purchase the maximum amount of eggs and vendor them and purchase more and vendor those and continue this process until I maxed out the 12 vendor buyback slots.

If you do this you will have 4 stacks of the 3 eggs.
If you purchase one more set to hold in your bags it will give you a total of: 5 Magnificently-Painted Egg, 25 Intricately-Painted Egg, and 100 Poorly-Painted Egg at your disposal if you have a vendor nearby to buy them back from. It will cost you a grand total of 5,260 gold to do this and it will give you 130 eggs to hide.

It took me close to an hour to hide all of the eggs I purchased. You have to keep running back to the vendor to buyback eggs after your bags run out.

It would have worked out pretty well for me if I didn't make the mistake of hiding the Magnificently-Painted Egg first. I learned the hard way that all the eggs will despawn after 1 hour even if you never leave your garrison. Only 3 out of the 5 I hid were found, the other 2 despawned meaning I basically spent 2k on nothing.

So do not make this mistake, hide the cheap ones first, save the best for last and it can be a lot of fun.

Comment by sushibar

I just hid one of these in the Valley or Trials (Orc starting zone) and announced in chat that it was hidden and worth 900 gold. Came back on another character, checked, and it's still there.

Comment by Aaahead

Noblegarden is a week-long holiday event that occurs around the time of the real-world Easter, which can be anywhere from late March to late April depending on the year. The exact dates are shown on the WoW calendar, accessed from a button near your minimap. There are a number of quests and rewards, and each faction has four Noblegarden merchants/vendors near old starter zones that sell Magnificently-Painted Egg, among other items. You can buy this egg for 1000 gold, place it on the ground, and using cross-realm zones, a character from another realm can pick it up to receive a Magnificently-Painted Egg, and sell it to a vendor for 900 gold. This allows you to transfer gold between realms with a 10% loss, using two accounts at the same time or with help from a friend, in a party together so they see each other on the same cross-realm zone. Both the item you place and the item you pick up are "unique", so you can only hold one at a time; remember to sell the 900 gold egg before you pick up another, or the new one will simply disappear without warning when you try to pick it up. Note that anyone can pick up the egg, so you want to place it in an out-of-the-way location, or else have the character picking it up spam-click on the location where you tell them you'll place it. The character on the less crowded realm should invite the other character, so you'll both appear in the less crowded cross-realm zone.

Vendor Locations

Horde Noblegarden Merchants:

in Eversong Woods (Burning Crusade) zone in the Ruins of Silvermoon
in Durotar zone near Razor Hill
in Thunder Bluff zone in Bloodhoof Village
in Tirisfal Glades zone in Brill

Alliance Noblegarden Vendors:

in Elwynn Forest in Goldshire
in Azuremyst Isle in Azure Watch
in Dun Morogh in Kharanos
in Teldrassil in Dolanaar

If you only want to transfer a few thousand gold, that's really all you need to know; you can manually purchase and sell the eggs.

Transferring Large Amounts of Gold

If you want to transfer a lot of gold, there are a couple macros and tips that can make the process more efficient. With the macros, using two accounts running in different windows on the same computer, it's possible to buy, place, switch windows, pick up, sell, and switch windows every 4.5 seconds, transferring 1000g (or 900g for the recipient) every 4.5 seconds, which works out to 100,000 gold every 7.5 minutes, or 1 million gold every 75 minutes.

To transfer that fast means both buyer and seller have to be stationary, close enough to both keep the Noblegarden vendor window open, which increases the risk of an unintended recipient stealing one of your eggs. The Horde vendor in the Ruins of Silvermoon is near a doorway that provides a little privacy to reduce this likelihood. Other vendors may offer similar advantages. You may want to pick a time like 5am when fewer people are around, to reduce the likelihood of theft. If theft seems too risky, you'll have to place and pick up the eggs some distance away, near an out-of-the-way vendor, which means additional time for movement.

Below are a macro for auto-buying Magnificently-Painted Egg and a macro for auto-selling Magnificently-Painted Egg, to optimize speed. You only need to run these once per gaming session, and they'll keep running in the background until you log out or reload. You can copy them from here, and just paste them into the chat window to run them, or paste them to an actual macro slot in the game to save it for later use by placing it on an action bar.

Auto-Buying Macro: For buying, every time you open a merchant window or your bag inventory changes (e.g. if you place an egg), it tries to buy a Magnificently-Painted Egg from a Noblegarden Merchant if their merchandise window is open. (If not, or if you already have an egg, it won't do anything).
/run local f=CreateFrame("frame");f:SetScript("OnEvent",function()for i=1,GetMerchantNumItems()do if GetMerchantItemInfo(i)=="Magnificently-Painted Egg" then BuyMerchantItem(i);end;end;end);f:RegisterEvent("BAG_UPDATE");f:RegisterEvent("MERCHANT_SHOW")

Auto-Selling Macro: For selling, everytime you open a merchant window or your bag inventory changes (e.g. when you pick up an egg), if it finds item 116371 in your inventory (the 900g Magnificently-Painted Egg is item 116371), it will attempt to "use" the egg, which sells it if any vendor window is open, and does nothing otherwise.
/run local f=CreateFrame("frame");f:SetScript("OnEvent",function()for b=0,4,1 do for s=1,36,1 do local i=GetContainerItemID(b,s)if i and i==116371 then UseContainerItem(b,s)end;end;end;end);f:RegisterEvent("BAG_UPDATE");f:RegisterEvent("MERCHANT_SHOW")

These are useful no matter how you want to do the actual egg exchange. You can stay within range of the vendor, where both buyer and seller have the Noblegarden Merchant window open all the time while placing and picking up eggs. Or if there are people around and you want to move out of the way, have the seller keep a vendor window open somewhere nearby (e.g. in Ruins of Silvermoon, use the bartender in the inn next to the Noblegarden Merchant), while your buyer can keep running back to the merchant, and as soon as they open the merchant window it will buy another egg, so you can run back to the seller, place the egg, and if they have their vendor's window open, it will autosell it as soon as they pick it up.

The buyer should put the Magnificently-Painted Egg on their action bar and keybind it, to speed up placing the egg.

For maximum speed, if you're running two accounts on one computer, once you see the the cast bar going to place or pick up an egg, switch windows to either place the next egg, or start spam-clicking to pick up the next egg. If you're getting help from a friend, wait until you see that you're friend has picked up the last egg before placing another. The person picking up eggs can spam click where the egg will be placed, so as soon as it appears they'll click it, reducing the likelihood of a passerby swiping it.

WARNING: Magnificently-Painted Egg is UNIQUE. If you already have a one in your bag, and click to pick up another one, it simply vanishes and you still only have one in your bag. There is no warning or error message, it just disappears. This won't happen if you've run the seller macro and have a vendor window open, but if you carelessly forget to run the macro first, or forget to open a vendor window, you can quickly waste a lot of eggs without realizing it. Keep your backpack open just to visually confirm that the last egg was sold before clicking on another.

Comment by sushibar

The eggs despawn after one hour. If you drop a 900g one and no one finds it within the hour, it's gone, and the gold was wasted. I suppose it would be a problem if they lasted forever, since the servers would have to keep track of ever-increasing numbers of undiscovered ones
At least, they should be mailed back to you instead of just disappearing.

Comment by Pablocko

So, how many time can they be looted? And for what i have read u can place them everywhere in the world?

Comment by Kwahu

There seems to be a bug with this thing that makes it impossible for you to place, it just says "Can't use that here", despite being in the right zones to do so.

Comment by Janaq

To place the Egg, just move out of the "Noblegarden" zone your in.

So if you're in Goldshire, move a bit until it says Elwwyn Forest and you can place your eggs.

For mine - the BEST spot to do Noblegarden is still Falconwing Square - the Blood Elf zone - and then head out the gate to Eversong Woods to place eggs.

Comment by bennymoo18

So they actually vendor for 90% of the purchase price. once its dropped it turns into an egg shell that will vendor for 900g

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Magnificently-Painted Egg

Item Level 1
Binds when picked up
Unique

Use: Place a Painted Egg that can be sold for a large amount of gold. Lasts 1 hour.
"At a glance, this egg is indistinguishable from any other Painted Egg."

Sell Price: 250

Vendor Locations

This item can be purchased in Eversong Woods (Burning Crusade) (4), Elwynn Forest (3), Durotar (2), Azuremyst Isle , Dun Morogh , Mulgore , Teldrassil , and Tirisfal Glades .

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