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A solid mix of achievements

I've been working on a lot of small stuff lately, as and when I am near it. A lot of the exploration quests in particular, since flying has made these infinitely simpler to do as well as some battlegrounds ones - there are a LOT of PVP achievements that I'm missing, the biggest of which is the 500 honor level which realistically looks like it could take years to complete. I've also continued working on getting all the brewfest toys to help with the achievement Toybox Tycoon (400 toys). Finally, a strong shout out to Simple Armory - this has made finding achievements to work on FAR simpler than it has been in the past. My achievemnt progress can be found here:  https://simplearmory.com/#/us/area-52/deathspiral

The Celestial Tournament - a tough 11-week grind

I'll finally have the last of the Celestial Tournament pets on Tuesday. It's been quite a grind. The Celestial Tournament is the original pet instance. You need to defeat three random pet battlers, followed by a "final four", all without healing a single pet. This requires extensive planning and careful preparation - you need to have the exact counters to each of the battles and many of the strategies require specific breed IDs of pets to win. I have been using two guides: https://www.wowhead.com/guides/defeating-the-celestial-tournament-pet-battles#chen-stormstout-original-strategy and https://wow-petguide.com/index.php?m=CelestialTournament  The guides were written quite some time ago and don't take into account new behavior. For example, pet battles now have a lot more randomness to them in terms of the moves used, so it's difficult to follow the guides exactly. I found this happened the most with Taran Zhu and Chen Stormsnout - the strategies I co