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20,000 Achievement Points!

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 For All, More For Me I usually teleport to Dalaran a couple of times a day and do whichever one is up. I should really do the pet achievements in those zones at the same time but I can never remember which ones are actually needed for each achievement.
Achievement tracking in the wow UI is enormously better than it used to be and having them up as a daily reminder to check them has helped me stay on task. One thing that I just noticed as I was looking at the "Free For All..." criteria is that there are now a bunch of BoA achievements for War Mode. This is a bit concerning as it means I'll likely need to get them done sooner rather than later to avoid the problems with zero people around to do war mode with. Time for me to get a PVP set and practice? I'd happily practice PVP but Shamans are by far better at being Resto than Elemental (my current spec) for PVP, yet the achievements seem to require me to be in a DPS spec to actually kill enough people to finish the achievement. Ho hum.

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