Underachiever: Every WoW Achievement

I'm now exalted with all BFA factions, meaning I can scale back on my world quest grind. I also picked up a new mount - the Venomhide Ravasaur from Ungoro Crater - it takes 20 days of flying out there to pick it up. Finally, as you can see, I finished one of the four Legion PVP objectives I've been working on twice a day. The others are close to 20 completions as well and it will be nice to finally get rid of these since it takes a lot of time travelling to different places in Legion twice a day... Oh, one last note on pet trainers - the BFA pet trainers are much easier to complete than I realized. It turns out that you don't need to do their quests to do the "Family" achievements related to them, and you can fight them as many times as you want. Therefore the best strategy is simply to fly to one and battle them once with a family of each type, then fly to the next. That's still 15 trainers times 12 family types, so 180 pet battles minimum, but the fact ...

It's slowly getting there! I mostly ignore achievement points in and of themselves because there are a whole bunch of "easy" points that are ultimately not worth getting until it's time to focus on them. As an example, I have a bunch of unused Mark of Honor that I can trade in for several season's worth of PVP transmog sets but I've yet to do so becauseit's not something I am focused on right now, as well as because I may already have purchased the majority of the items in the set (and so it would be wasteful to buy a full set). Right now, I'm slowly grinding out all the pet achievements as well as doing the Tortollan and Talanji's Expedition emissary quests when they pop up to finish off my rep. I'm also nearly finished the twenty-day grind to get the Venomhide Ravasaur mount, which involves going to Un'goro Crater every day. The other grind that I'm getting close to finishing up are the four Legion PVP achievements for Free F...

This is the status of my Pet Battle achievements from simplearmory.com As you can see, while I have pretty much all of the "collections" achievements, I've almost none of the "Battle X trainers with Y type of pet only" ones, as well as only a few PVP achievements. My goal is to hit 100% completion of this section by April 15th. It's possible that I'll still be short a few due to RNG on trainer world quests but I don't mind finishing those up later. At a minimum, I need six weeks to obtain the two celestial tournament pets I'm still missing, so this can't be done any faster than that. General strategy is simple: 1. Once per week, do the Celestial Tournament as well as the "Win 10 PVP battles" quests. (The PVP quest rewards a Chain Pet Leash that I still don't have). 2. Daily, complete all pet world quests on the Broken Isles, Argus and in BFA. I work in order, starting with all Aquatic pets, then all Beast pets, the all C...

I've been working on the various pet achievements lately and came across Leana Darkwind. Trying to do this train drove me nuts until I bit the bullet and spent 120 pet charms to upgrade two of my level 1 pets to level 25 for the Hobbyist Aquarist achievement. This is what finally worked for me (from a wowhead strat): Also, I only now discovered that all my old Shiny Pet Charms are now mostly useless as you can no longer buy training stones with them. :(

This turned out to be easier than expected. I used the addon PetTracker to view the locations of all pets that I had yet to collect. In addition, I already had a stupid amount of pets from earlier raiding and playing and from the SH. I confess that I simply bought all of the new Mists of Pandaria pets from the AH because most of them were 4000g each and it was far simpler to do that than to grind those older raids. I've also started working on the huge number of "Battle all X trainers in zone Y with a team of entirely Z type of pet." achievements. This is pretty simple, if somewhat time consuming - wowhead has a strategy for all the different trainers and types of pet so it's really just a case of flying to whichever trainer has a world quest up that day, checking which achievements I've completed with them, then moving on to the next one after winning. One difficult part is ensuring that I have enough level 25 rare pets to use as some of the strategies are ...

Progress is slow but steady. I've been slowly grinding out emissary quests to hit exalted with all factions. My main achievements I'm shooting for right now are 1000 unique pets as well as the (super tough) 400 mounts achievements. Man there are a LOT of pet achievements out there that I've missed - killing every trainer with a whole family of pets is definitely the biggest set of them. The good thing is that I'm at 957/1000 unique pets and I think hitting 1000 won't be too tough - there are a LOT of pets still to get from other achievements and from pet charms, as well as the fact that I apparently skipped all the Argus pets (that's seven right there). Having good addons helps enormous with pet finding and management. I'll post a followup to this post to go through all the addons that I use at the moment.