Underachiever: Every WoW Achievement

I have been slowly working my way through all of the "Champion of..." achievements, picking up one every 5 days. I got Undercity this morning and I'm due to get Silvermoon, my last and final one, by the 5th of January. I'll get my pony then as well, and I'll be sure to duel someone to finish up the entire event set of achievements. I got lucky this morning and finally got the Delicious Chocolate Cake recipe. This is roughly a 1% drop from each of the two cooking dailies and is required for an achievement in its own right as well as for several meta achievements. I've heard stories of people not getting this recipe over the course of an entire year of dailies, so I was glad to get it after only a couple of weeks. I started collecting other recipes to help with the Chef achievement and once again I'd like to stress how good the Ackis Recipe List mod is - it shows every recipe you are missing along with exactly where to find it. I'm almost at 100 now. ...

The biggest problem with Loremaster is not completing the quests, it's FINDING them. Especially in the old world, many quests span several zones and don't show up until you have completed other quests. Since I'm looking to complete 300+ quests, this was going to be a major problem. Enter EveryQuest a mod that shows every single quest giver in the game, or (most useful) only the ones you still need to visit. Normally this wouldn't be possible, but as of 3.3 (the latest patch), it's possible for a UI mod to query the server and get a list of every quest that has already been completed, meaning only the ones you still need to do will show up on the map. My plan now is to go to Kalimdor and start with all the new player areas and work my way through the whole game doing all the quests that I missed the first time around.

Looking at the sheer scale of the task in front of me has made me realise that I need to accelerate my progress if I'm going to get done in time. The PVP achievements look like they will be some of the hardest, especially the arena ones. The new season is starting in a couple of weeks and I'd like to get started right away. Another concern is being able to find a group for all of the older achievements and instances - who really wants to do undying when new content is available and we all have enough triumph badges? Because of this, I'm becoming aware that I'll need to get runs going of Naxx and ulduar as quickly as possible to cash in on people that still need a few more badges. As a result, I'm looking to finish Loremaster before the new arena season comes out, or by around the 20th of January, whichever is earlier so I can devote more time to PVP. I should be finished with Northrend in the next couple of days. I think that I'll go right back to the old conten...

Volunteer Work Not One But two Jormungars Three Sixty Pain Spike Critter Gitter Vehicular Gnomeslaughter Bread Winner Master Fisherman Chef De Partie Tis the Season I've toured the Fjord Merrymaker He knows if you've been Naughty Our Daily Bread Split Personality Other stuff: Exalted with Taunka and with the northrend undread people Picked up the Tasty Cupcakes recipe I've Toured the Fjord was fairly simple, although it's important to remember to do the quest chains starting with the guy at the ancient lift.

My current Daily quest routine: Dalaran daily cooking quest (1) Shattrath Cooking and Fishing quests (2) Argent Tournament Dailies (8 or so) Oracles Daily quests (3) PVP daily (1) I try to get all of the above done every day, and plan on continuing to do so until I reach my goals. In terms of cooking, I need the Delicious Chocolate Cake recipe and enough tokens to buy all of the trainer recipes. For Oracles, I need to do all 8 dailies and reach exalted. In terms of the Argent Tournament, at the very least I need to become a faction champion for all 5 cities and get aenough tokens to buy a pony. (I need 150. I have 100 or so.) After the dailies, I generally try to do a random heroic for the frost badges and then work on my current focus if I have any extra time. Right now, I'm working on the Northrend quests for Loremaster - I'd like to do a zone per day but realistically I can see it taking a couple of days for some zones. I also raid at specific times and do random PVP/ heroi...

Explore Sholozar Call of the Crusade (10 man) Enter the Basin! I'll (again) post something more detailed soon but essentially, I'm working on Loremaster and it's going well - I hope to finish the whole of Northrend in about a week.

going to edit this later. but for right now, I got a lot done: Medium Rare 2x Violet Hold ones Watch Him Die Halls of Reflection (Heroic) Onyxia 10-man no deep breaths The Sunreavers (exalted) Explore Borean tundra DEHTA'S Little PITA Call of the Crusade (25 Player TOC) Nothing boring About Borean (harder than it looks) Achievements: 333/1054 (3470) Days to go: 357

I picked up Tastes Like Chicken yesterday and then chased a Dranei priest all over Dalaran to complete Let It Snow . I ground out Champion of the Sen'Ji at the argent tournament and I'm now working on Thunder Bluff. At this rate (5 days per faction) I have another 15 days of dailies to go before I'm done with all 5 factions. I'll still need to grind tokens however for my pont, pets and mounts. Speaking of pets. I didn the Shattrath cooking and fishing dailies and got pretty lucky, nabbing Chuck's Bucket on my first Crocolisk's in the City completion. I also picked up the Stormchops and Kiblers Bits recipes from bags, so I'm pretty happy with my RNG luck today.

http://dominateyourserver.com/2009/06/16/turtle-mount-and-fishing-achievement/ Both of these achievements look pretty time consuming. Apparently the best place to fish is in the pools in the lake near the maiden, since this gives you a shot at two achievements instead of just one.

I've been reading more about the Battlemaster achievement and I realized that in order to get it, I need to be exalted with Arathi Basin (or, technically, The Defilers). On my old character, this wasn't an issue - just turn in tokens for reputation and I was most of the way there. (I was trying for High Warlord at one point, so lots of BG's were called for). Unfortunately, this is no longer possible. You now get 100 reputation per GAME of AB, assuming you win. Since I'm not yet friendly, that means I need roughly 500 games of AB to get exalted . Damn. And there really isn't any other way to do it - the only quest available is a one-time quest that gives 800 rep at friendly. This means I'm looking at doing a couple of AB's every single day for a year. My "45 day" plan is going to have to be changed to "everything but rep in 45 days". 500 games at 20 minutes a game = 167 hours of playing. That's assuming I win. :/ My only real hope f...

I busted out another 10 achievements yesterday. I leveled cooking to 325 to get the Gingerbread Cookie recipe for Treats For Greatfather Winter . I did all the Argent Tournament dailies and in the process, fished from my first node for The Old Gnome and the Sea . I ran a quick heroic at the behest of some guildies and picked up Don't Look Up . I also picked up Haunted Herring recipe which is part of a couple of achievments. I also picked up a solid MH fist for my enhance set. My stuff finally arrived in the mail, so I did A Frosty Shake in Dalaran. I did the fishing and cooking dailies in Shattrath, getting my fishing up to 245. My reward was Fish Don't Leave Footprints from a Weatherbeaten Journal. Tracking fish is eessential to many other fishing achievements so I'm glad I got this one. I dinged exalted with Warsong Offensive while doing dailies. I did a wintergrasp. We were on offense so after completing the weekly quests, I focused on trying to get kills in the less p...

Here are my current major achievement milestones. While I plan on working on other things (top priority is world events, then dailies, then weekly stuff then this) I'd like to be done by the following dates: Loremaster - Goal: get this within 60 days. i.e. by 15th Feburary Battlemaster - Goal: get this within 45 days. i.e. by 1 April Arena Achievements - Goal: Get 3v3 to 2200 achievement this coming season, finish by the next season. Endgame 25-man Raid achievements - I expect this to be the hardest since it involves a lot of other players and tough encounters. Things I'll work on casually: Dailies Fishing (I need about 10,000 casts to get everything by some estimations...) Cooking 5-man content Most 10-man content Old Raids Old Dungeons Reputations (26 weeks of Molten Core!) Pets Mounts Keys Tabards And, of course, the world events.

http://www.saate.net/desperadas-achievements/ "What achievement did you have to work the hardest for? Battlemaster definitely – it’s a massive timesink and it doesnt really help when the other team mates, when you’re pugging it, are complete idiots! " and: "Were there any achievements you looked at initially and thought ‘nah, not for me’? Frostbitten and Bloody Rare definitely! For both of them I pretty much got everything except for 4 rares in the first week. Then it took me another 6 weeks to finish the rest of them off." I personally think that Battlemaster is proving to be a huge amount of fun. Perhaps when I get to the final few achievements I'll think differently, but for now, I love working on them and having a solid goal each game that's different from simply winning the BG.

Below is a list of all the reputations that I plan to get for the "40 Exalted Reputations" achievement. These reputations are all required to be at exalted for other achievements: Ogrimmar Darkspear trolls Silvermoon City Thunderbluff The Undercity Timbermaw Hold Sporegar The Mag'har The Argent Dawn The Argent Crusade Cenarion Circle Cenarion Expedition Zandalar Tribe Hydraxian Waterlords Brood of Nozdormu Thrallmar Lower City The Sha'tar Keepers of Time Sha'tari Skyguard Ogri'la Shattered Sun Offensive Netherwing The Consortium The Scryers Ashrongue Deathsworn The Scale of the Sands The Violet Eye The Wormrest Accord The Horde Expedition Knights of the Ebon Blade The Kulu'ak The Frenzyheart Tribe The Oracles The Kirin Tor The Ashen Verdict The Sunreavers (Argent Tournament) Frostwolf Clan (PVP) The Forsaken Defilers (PVP) Warsong Outriders (PVP) That's 41 *required* reputations for other achievements. What concerns me the most is that some of the fact...

I picked up Lance-a-lot by accident yesterday while working on completing all of the argent tournament dailies. I still hate dueling. Simply Abominable was easy - the mob respawn rate is much higher than when this quest first came out and I got in in a minute. I was extremely happy with Less Rabi coming out of a pug that someone put together for the express purpose of getting the achievement. All they needed was a dps shaman so I put my PVP set on and Wind Shear'ed our way to victory. I did Bro's Before HoHoHo's this morning and stumbled upon a second rarespawn needed for Frostbitten. The mod again proves its worth! I have a screenshot below to show what happens when NPCScan detects a rare mob. Interestingly, I was flying over to get to warsong hold for the Winter Veil achievement, so now I have confirmation that it works even if you fly over the area with the mob using a flightpath. EDIT: I forgot to mention that I spent quite a bit of time levelling cooking up to 300 ...

Using this guide: http://www.wow-professions.com/wowguides/wow-cooking-guide.html Technically, I could level fishing and cooking at the same time, but that seems more time consuming and I need to get started on the Veil stuff as soon as possible. Getting high enough to start the daily quests for cooking will help a lot with other achievements anyway. I'm raiding again tonight, finishing at 10pm so I probably only have an hour or an hour and a half to spend on achievements. I'm going to do some Veil stuff, some cooking stuff and try to get all the argent tournament dailies done.

I got home pretty late from my final yesterday and headed right into the new 25 man content (ICC). We broke up at 10pm, leaving little time for achievements yesterday but I managed to coomplete On Metzen , With a Little helper From My Friends , Scrooge and Fa-la-la-la-Ogrila . I also did the STV arena again with a paladin friend. Having the second person helped a lot since three others showed up to claim it for themselves. My new PVP spec (okay, and Minari's awesomeness) destroyed them. I love wolves! I also completed the PVP daily and generally had a lot of fun playing enhance. It's an excellent spec and very versatile - I feel like I have a shot against anyone. I failed to do any other dailies yesterday: it was after midnight when I was finishing up the PVP quests for Winter Veil and I had to be up at 5.30. Hopefully tonight I can squeeze some in - I really want that damn pony! Achievements: 304/1054 (3180) Days to go: 361

And I can't play until 9pm due to a linear programming and simulation final. :/ Here is an *excellent* guide to all the quests: http://www.wow.com/2009/12/14/the-overachiever-guide-to-winter-veil/ Irritatingly, I found the following: "UPDATE: One our readers wrote in to note that the initial Ogri'la quest chain, while still available in the game, is no longer required to unlock the Ogri'la dailies. I just confirmed this with an alt who hadn't started the Ogri'la quest chain. If you have a character without any previous Ogri'la rep, all you'll need to to do is run them to Ogri'la (28,57) in Blade's Edge and get started." Yeah, I didn't need to do all that running around after all. Hmm. :/ I also found that I need 325 cooking to make Apple Cider for one of the achievements. Since I only have around 200, I'll need to get this up today as well. Plan for today: 1. Do as much winter veil as possible. 2. Do daily Argent Tournament quests. ...

In preparation for my goal of 2200 in 3's next season, I spent an hour and a half respeccing enhancement and collecting a stack of PVP enhance gear. I had a lot of stuff lying around in my bank and a large collection of tokens and honor and a few arena points helped round everything out. I'm wearing 2xT8.5 and 3x the PVP set plus a bunch of other PVP items. I lack good weapons (I have an ilevel 200 and 213 fist and mace respectively) but my dps and burst seems reasonable. I did an AV, several EotS (the daily) and an Isle of Conquest to get used to the spec. It's a lot of fun. The only achievement I picked up was Flurry although I got several wins for other achievements. We also won the same Eye of the Storm 1600 to ... 2. If it was 0, that would have been another achievement. Finally, in the same BG, the game bugged out while I was the flag carrier with all 4 bases held and refused to cap my flag for a third achievement. My take on EotS achievement is that they look pretty...

http://www.wow.com/2009/02/26/the-overachiever-lil-game-hunter/ In particular : "72. Father Winter's Helper (Winter's Veil) 73. Tiny Snowman (Winter's Veil) 74. Winter Reindeer (Winter's Veil) 75. Winter's Little Helper (Winter's Veil)" Looks like I have some pet-fetching to do for the Lil' Game Hunter achievement that I plan to work on later. http://www.warcraftpets.com/ is truly excellent for finding all the the missing ones incidentally.

http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=955 http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=956 Yuck. Hydraxian in particular is going to be ridiculous since this is a reroll and I have yet to run MC. The only way to get rep past revered is to kill bosses in MC for 100 rep a time (so 800 or so rep a run). This means I'm looking at a minimum of 22 MC runs. Brood of Nozdormu is, in some ways, worse, but at least there are tokens that are purchaseable - I'm going to start stocking up on these as soon as possible. Zul'Gurub is the third "classic" dungeon that I need rep with, but at least there I can collect biju's and solo farm parts of it. For MC I'll need a group of 4+ level 80's willing to run MC 20-odd times. On the PVP front, the more I read, the more I like Beast Cleave (Enhance Shaman, Beast Mastery Hunter, Holy Paladin) for 3's. It's virtually immune to CC and has a lot of burst. Arena season ends in a few weeks so I doubt I'll hit 2200 with zero expe...

I finished off the night by doing the giant Ogrila quest chain, starting with Speak with the Ogre . I needed help with this as, despite the fast it's a level 70 quest, you have to kill 4 5-man elites. I couldn't do it as elemental (they reset if you kite them) and as resto it was taking forever so a rogue friend helped out. I'm now in a position to do all these dailies as well as the other skyguard ones and I can do "Bomb them Again" for Fa-la-la-la-la-Orgrila which is available tomorrow. A quick Wintergrasp followed where I focused on killing mounted players with cannons. I got a few, but it's harder than it looks to kill people before they dismount. Finally, I boned up on PVP specs. I'm pretty certain I'm going to switch to enhance, despite not having any enhance gear presently. All the top shamans in 3v3 on ArenaJunkies are enhance and given the resent Fire Nova Totem elemental nerf (no longer stuns) I think it's time to embrace the axes. Achi...

I'm thinking about how I should start working on all the BG achievements and trying to decide what I should be focusing on in arena (2's, 3's, 5's) for the coming season. I think that for a shaman with little arena experience, 3's is going to be the easiest of the three to get 2200 in. 2's is currently not a shamans game and 5's, while fun with elemental, is too difficult without a solid amount of experience. There are just too many things going on. The best 3's spec right now is enhance. The best 2's spec could potentially be enhance also, but looks like it's resto, at least from the top 100 list on www.arenajunkies.com and the best 5's spec is elemental. Elemental and Resto can share gear. Enhance gear is fairly useless for the other two specs. As a result, I think the plan should be to get to 2200 in 3's and use the points to buy good ele/resto gear then work on getting the 5's achievements next, saving 2 for the last one. Why in t...

The Feast starts on the 15th. I decided to take a look at the current achievements for this set of quests in order to get a head start (I plan on being online at 6am to complete some right away, especially the ones that are heavily camped). Here is a list of all feast achievements: http://db.mmo-champion.com/achievements/156/ They all look do-able (and many seem like a lot of fun, such as the pelting of opposing faction leaders) except one: fa-la-la-la-ogri-la To do this, I need to do the Bombing Run daily. The only trouble is, I don't have it yet. This means I need to do the Ogrila quest chain (which needs 5 people) before I can start bombing. I hope it doesn't need a specific rep to start, or I'm in trouble. I'll get to this tonight, as well as getting to the other Skyguard dailies. The sooner I do them, the faster I'll get Exalted with these two factions. I foresee needing the help of four guildies to get started since the quest explicitly needs 5 people. The go...

I finally got my 25 Valiant badges and officially became a Champion of Orgrimmar . This also gave me the Exalted Champion of Orgrimmar and access to the champion quests and daily quests. I finished off the Black Knight questline next for It's Just a Flesh Wound I've been cranking out the rest of the dailies here. Opening up champion more than doubled the number of available dailies that I can do, which is good since I need to get "Champion of..." four more times (5 days each = 20 days) plus get enough tokens (150) for the pony mount for my argent squire. ( Pony Up! ) I'd like to be done with the whole tournament in a month or so since I still have a huge number of other dailies that I need to work on. Speaking of dailies, I picked up 200 Daily Quests Complete last night, as well as the Gurubashi Arena Master with the help of a couple of friends. The arena grand master is going to be interesting - I need to do the STV arena 13 times. Given that it's always co...

I picked up Might of Dragonblight (all quests in Dragonblight) quickly after I realized I only had a couple left to do in this zone. Doing these quests gave me the "1500 quests complete" achievement and boosted my rep with the Argent Crusade. I also fished for 10 minutes (One Aquadynamic fish attractor) in the dalaran fountain with the net result of a half dozen coins and the "500 Fish" achievement. And up to 225 Fishing skill. :/

While doing the Argent Tournament dailies this morning in Howling Fjord, I decided to get the exploration credit at the same time. While working on this, my UI went nuts with a flashing red screen and a loud noise to indicate that I had found my first rare mob (King Ping) for Northern Exposure. One down, 24 more hard to find mobs to go. I also picked up all 100 quests in Storm Peaks today, the goal that I had set myself and I got Mine Sweeper (http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1428) as a nice little extra from questing. My final is due soon so I plan on just doing a spot of fishing (I'd like to start the Shattrath daily fishing quests soon) in the dalaran fountain. Tomorrow, I think I'll try to do all of the Borean Tundra quests, with the goal of achieving Loremaster in the 2 months deadline.

As you can see, some people seem to doubt the possibility of this task :) Gyilkos was actually very supportive in the end and offered to help if he could. I fully intend to take him up on his offer. I picked up a few more achievements yesterday, including My Sack is Gigantigue (a 1200g bag!) and a couple of the new Halls of Reflection ones. From my discussions with others yesterday, this looks like an enormous task. I feel like I need to get a lot of the solo content finished as quickly as possible so I can focus on BG's and raids. As a result, I'm going to aim for getting Loremaster completed in the next 2 months. Clearly, that's a lot of quests, but I think it's viable. My goal today is to complete every one of the Storm Peaks quests and get the achievement for doing so, as well as working on the dailies for the argent tournament and the Skyguard. I have a finance final due today as well as needing to work tomorrow so hopefully I'll have enough time for everythin...

So I was doing some digging around on a few sites and found out that in order to do the Chef achievements, you'll eventually need to get Kungaloosh, which is obtainable from a long-ish quest chain. (Loremaster again). "Ackis Recipe List" is a truly excellent mod that tracks all of the cooking (and other) recipes that you are missing and helps you get them for the achievements by indicating where you can buy them, or which mob they are from, including co-ordinates.

I spent some time digging around wowhead and I now have my priorities in order: 0. If a Holiday/ time-specific achievement is available, do it. 1. Do reputation dailies. 2. Do some fishing in the Dalaran fountain until I get bored. (goal is to start fishing dailies asap) 3. Do some cooking until I get bored. (ditto cooking dailies and all the recipie quests.) 4. If guildies are online and up for it, work on group quests and dungeon achievements. 5. If not, work on completing Loremaster, starting with the northrend quests. Why loremaster? a) Loremaster is needed for a crazy number of other achievements, including "Complete 3000 quests". b) It also gives a huge amount of rep for the "40 Exalted reputations" meta achievement. c) Exploration credits are easier to get if I'm doing something else at the same time. d) Mounts become available from the rep for the "100 mounts" achievement. e) Many quests give pets as a reward. f) The gold from all the quests wi...

I completed the Onyxia 25 man achievement last night, along with the new "Looking For More" achievement by having 10 random players join me for some dungeon looting. The new random player mechanic is pretty good - so far I've never had a bad group. I spent 30 minutes before work doing my dailies for the Argent Tournament. I noticed a whole stack of Tournament achievements that look very doable in the near future. I started the long grind to 450 fishing by fishing in the Dalaran fountain for 10 minutes with an Aquadynamic Fish Attractor and 220 skill. I got a few coins for the Coin Master (http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2096) meta achievement and a few points of skill but it's clear it's goign to take a long time to hit 450. I also started doing the Skyguard dailies in Skettis. I hadn't done any of these, so starting them at level 80 was kind of fun - much easier than at 70. Since I need 40 exalted reputations, I need to get started on as many as possible.

I spent my first day trying to come up with a solid plan for improvement. As I browsed the achievements, I realized that the task is much bigger than I thought. I was going to start by knocking out all the fishing achievements, until I saw quite how many of them there are. For someone who has always hated fishing, it's a scary sight. I need to get 450 fishing, obviously but more than that, I have to win at least one fishing competition and fish up a ridiculous number of items from various fountains and lakes in the game world. I'd estimate that, purely from fishing alone, I have 40 hours of work ahead of me. The drop rate on items like the magical crawdad are minuscule. Clearly I need to try to combine fishing with other achievements like cooking and exploration if I am to make best use of my time. Still, the day was pretty good. I knocked out 5 achievements: Shave and a Haircut, Black War Mammoth, Explore Westfall (I was trying to do Deadmines, both for the achievement, and fo...

I turned on "Low Level Quest Tracking" in my minimap options - this seems very good for finding all the quests I missed before. My plan is to simply accept and complete as many quests as I can when I am not working on other things. Eventually I'll go back and be systematic about it but for now it's good to simply be aware of the fact that I need to complete these quests. I also downloaded Lightheaded and Tomtom (www.curse.com) which are excellent mods that show you the location of every quest item. I'm starting my daily quests by working on the Argent Tournament dailies since I know I need to gather tokens for many days to hit exalted. After this, I'm going to look at doing the longest dailies of the other factions (probably skyguard and ogres) to get started on the long road to exalted with all of these factions.

One Thousand and Fifty-Four achievements doesn't sound like a lot when you look at the numbers. After all, it's just a video game. It should be fairly straightforward, right? right? I have four main concerns about this undertaking: 1. Some achievements are time-specific, such as all of the Holiday achievements. If I miss even a single one, I miss my goal and can't complete it for another year. 2. I need to be excellent at PVP and PVE, and have a group that is likewise. Since I barely PVP at all (I haven't ever broken 1500 rating in arenas) and my current raiding guild hasn't killed Yogg yet, this could be something of a challenge. Still, how hard can it be, right? :) 3. There is just so MUCH content, it's crazy. All the "exalted" reputations, for example, will take weeks to grind on their own. Plus all of the low level quests I ignored on my rush to 80. Remember, this is a "new" character - I haven't done any of the old dungeons or raids....

I've played World of Warcraft on and off since beta, although not always with the same account. I came back to the game yesterday due to two things: the 3.3 patch with new content and reading the following news story: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/12/world-of-warcraft-achievement/ In a quest to find out how difficult it actually is to achieve what this guy achieved, I've decided to complete every single achievement in the game (including all the new 3.3 achievements) in a year. Why a year? Mostly it's because I've never done a single Holiday quest and so it will take a full year to complete everything. My goal is to find out just how difficult it is to beat the entire game. I am a level 80 Orc Resto shaman. This character is relatively fresh, with less than 40 days /played in total and I have never seriously attempted to get any achievements. The Only ones that I currently have are some random ones that were picked up along the way. http://www.wowarmory.com/charact...