Micro Holiday: Trial of Style (August 17-21)

The Trial of Style started this week lasting from Thursday to Monday.  By speaking to Warpweaver Tuviss in Dalaran, or any Transmogifier in a major city, you can queue for this scenario.

On entering the scenario you are transported to Silvermoon with 5 other people.  A theme is given and you have three minutes to create your outfit.  The themes I have encountered are Freestyle, Tabard Time and Dark and Deadly. You then take it in turns to go up on stage against the other competitors whilst the others vote on who they think has the best outfit.  When not on stage you can also vote on the two on stage.  After the voting the result is announced.  And the winner is ..... ME!

A few issues I encountered were the first time I entered the competition I had no clue what was going on and it wasn't really clear what you had to do especially with regards to the voting.  I learnt that you can vote everytime a new couple go on the stage and hope people vote for you when you are up there.  On the stage you get an extra action bar and can wave, cheer or dance to encourage people to vote for you.  The second issue I has was I forgot to press apply and ran out of time to pick my outfit the first time I entered.  If this happens you end up on stage in your normal gear which if you have a good transmog may be ok.  This was obviously my own error but something to watch out for.  Another issue was that when I entered the scenario I was not wearing a tabard.  When the theme was Tabard Time I was not able to pick a tabard from my wardrobe.  There were two other people in the competition not wearing a tabard and I wonder if they had the same problem.

On completing the trial you get a prize, either a winners prize for 1st, 2nd or 3rd place or a consolation prize.  The consolation prize contains 15-17 tokens.  The winners prize contained 50 tokens.  These tokens can be used to purchase a set of armor for transmog from the transmogifier for 60 tokens.  If you win the trial you get a buff Stylish! which lasts for 5 days and allows you to purchase the Fashionable Undershirt for 1 token.

On my fourth time in the competition the theme was Tabard Time.  I managed to go in wearing a tabard and decided to go a little different so I wore the greyest armor I could find with the tabard Apron over the top and bright yellow gloves.  This outfit would have been complete if I had been carrying a frying pan and had a pet chicken.  Despite the lack of chicken this outfit was the winner.

I also won Freestyle with my yellow and gold outfit and square hat and Tabard Time again wearing my frostwolf tabard and wolf helm.

This micro holiday will not return again until 2018 but if you missed it this time it is definitely worth a look, good fun :)