Post Sections ⇅
- What is a Seasonal Instance?
- What are Seasonal Instance Rewards?
- Bee’s Big Business
- Bee’s Big Business Side Quests
- Other Resources
Expect a crazy amount of goats, including the GOAT of Goats. Let’s goat get to it, then!
What is a Seasonal Instance?
If you’re newish to LOTRO, Seasonal Instances are scalable quests only available during the festival. You start them by using Instance Finder.
You can complete the Solo version, or head in with other players for the fellowship versions.
Lastly, you have the option to run it at the minimum level if you want to. If you only want the Festivity Tokens, then that’s fine. If you want to complete the Lossarnach’s Pesky Critters Deed, however, you’ll need to tweak the starting level.
What are Seasonal Instance Rewards?
Seasonal Instances grant 
Festivity Tokens, but sidequests offer additional event tokens. In the case of Spring Festival, these are 
Spring Leaves.
Festivity Tokens have their own rewards to barter for, as an encouragement to run the new instance. You can see Spring outfit cosmetics for Festivity Tokens over on my LOTRO Spring Cosmetics page.
Bee’s Big Business
This quick walk-through deals with the Solo, or 1-person, version of the Instance only.
There are three parts to this Instance featuring Grimbeorn. Though two are optional, they grant extra Spring Leaves. They are worth doing for just a wee bit longer inside the quest.
Follow and Protect the Bees
The giant bees need to do their pollinating work! You are their protector so they can do their precious honey-making job. But there are “so many goats” that threaten the bees and the flowers.
Control Points
Periodically, the Bees will stop and buzz around pollinating flowers. They will then line up near a control point. Your journey only continues once you interact with the Bees and indicate you are ready to continue.
Final Goat Show-Down
Once you reach the end, you have to defend both the bees and some giant Lossarnach flowers from encroaching goats. There are several waves of goats. Fend them off, make sure one of the flowers on the final fight survive and get the bees safely back to Grimbeorn.
Encounters
As your trek through the countryside continues, you will see a notice about Encounters. These are optional, but contribute to the Lossarnach’s Pesky Critters Deed.
Pro Tip
Don’t actually engage in encounters until your bees are safely at a control point.
Lossarnach’s Pesky Critters Deed
So long as you run the instance no more than 8 Levels below your own, clearing a “Pesky Critter” encounter will trigger this deed.
How Many Times for the Deed?
Each time you run it two Critters will spawn. Clear all 6 and you earn 6× Spring Leaves and the 
Honey-Lover title!
They are totally random, so expect to have to run it more than three times to face all fix pesky critters.
Does Rock Mean Rock?
Ha ha ha, yes indeed. Wait until you have to defeat a rock, which is that. Just an enormous boulder…critter.
Bee’s Big Business Side Quests
Grimbeorn has two additional quests for you to complete, while you’re running the instance. One you are aiming to complete by default, whereas the other one you should do only when the Bees are safe. Here they are:
Daily
Make sure all the bees return safely and well fed to Grimbeorn, for an extra reward. Beornings need, and love, honey. Protect them as though your life depended on it. Or make a Beorning mad, your choice!
Reward
- Spring Leaves × 6
Beautiful Bouquet
The aim is to collect 20×Lossarnach Flowers to decorate the Beorninghus. You can do this before you start escorting the bees, or when they stop at each checkpoint through the instance. Enjoy wandering the woods, pick the flowers, get Spring Leaves. Win, win, win in my book.
Tip: Use your keybind for “Select Nearest Item” (default: Delete) to help you find them. And show floating names (Default: N) to make them more visible.
Reward
- Spring Leaves × 6
Total Rewards
If you complete all quests, including the Daily and Beautiful Bouquet, the total rewards are:
Legendary Item XP- Spring Leaves × 12
- Festivity Tokens × 5
- Misc
and 
Plus the extra 6× as a one-off per character for completing the deed.
On the Wiki
If you would like even more information, and to read Grimbeorn’s dialogue check out the Wiki
Other Resources
You may find the below posts are also helpful. If not, I did choose them manually, so feel free to suggest alternatives!
TL;DR Add Variety to Your Spring Festival with Bee’s Big Business
This Seasonal Instance for Spring Festival is actually really fun. Sure the end encounter can be stressful – not the Goat Boss, but the sheer number of under-goats. But the on-screen prompt text makes me smile every time.
Add to this that some Spring rewards are for Festivity tokens only, I highly recommend you add Bee’s Big Business to your event rotations. And, as always, take time to Stop and Stare and enjoy Middle-Earth. See you again soon.
About the Author
I have been playing MMOs for about ten years and began writing guides to The Lord of the Rings Online in 2017. I've only been creating content about Final Fantasy XIV since 2022, but I am glad for the mix. My current games include LOTRO, FFXIV and the occasional Palia session too.
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