Underachiever: Every WoW Achievement

100 Azshara quests and the 3 extra achievements. Took around 5 hours at level 85 because I kept heading back to org. It's doable in under 4. The Archmage achievements are much easier with a flying mount :) I found a few bugs where events didn't trigger because I killed a mob in one shot but overall it was a fun round of quests - I actually bothered to read the quest text when I found it wasn't all boar spleens.

Well that took longer than expected. I thought I'd be able to bust through the cataclysm quests in a day or two, instead real life got the better of me. It turns out that newborn babies are more demanding than I thought :) I've completely stopped regular raiding and I took a break of a couple of weeks from the game entirely but now I'm back focusing on the solo content. I'm going to stick to my plan: solo content first. The reason is that with new raiding content coming out almost every major patch, I need to finish the content, including all heroics, before the next set of content comes out. This will require a concerted effort and it's only worth doing once everything else is completed, including all the PVP stuff. Remember, my goal is to reach 100% complete one time, not to stay at 100% complete forever :) As for the quest content: my biggest complaint is the triviality of many of the quests. I'm not allowed to save the world from insurmountable force...

I've limited my playing for the last several months to focus on my MBA (finished last week) and my newborn son (17.9 years to go). The challenge is back on. I'm going to focus on the solo content first, then old raids and dungeons, then the miscellaneous stuff, then PVP and finally heroic raids of the latest tier. For now, I'm going to start with all of the quests but I thought I'd share my 125 pets first, with thanks to warcraftpets.com for the locations:

Assuming you are a Completist, that is, you are after every achievement in the game, Enchanting should be one of your two primary professions. Here is why: 1. Enchanting scrolls are an excellent source of money. They cost 1s to list and players seem willing to pay a lot of money for convenience. 2. You'll have access to a disenchant in every dungeon run you do. This is especially relevant if you are doing Burning Crusade dungeons and the like. 3. Every time you get an upgrade, you can Disenchant your own gear. 4. As a Completist, you are going to be doing every quest in the game. Instead of getting a few silver from vendoring a quest reward, you can get a Large Brilliant Shard or something similar, which can sell for 50g. 5. Also as a completist, you are going to be running every instance in the game, probably many times. Again, being able to DE everything will make you a ton of money and giving you a steady supply of older enchanting materials that can be difficult to ob...

The release of Cataclysm killed my enjoyment of achievement-hunting for quite a while. I had spent an exceptionally long time completing over a thousand old-world quests and hunting down the last few for a few achievement points only to find that my achievement was completely wiped out with the cataclysm changes and I'd need to go do a whole new set of quests. This distaste lasted for several months, until recently when I felt the desire to finish this game once and for all. It may be a foolish endeavor, but it's MY foolish endeavor and I'll see it through to the end. Right now, I'm a little over 9000 achievement points which is 853 achievements out of 1288 - that's almost exactly 2/3 of the game complete. I have large swathes of achievements which would be simple enough to obtain in terms of time - lots of old raids that I never quite finished, for example. I suspect that a lot of my early wins can come from these raids. I did 25 Ulduar (hard modes) over th...

 I've decided to start my achievements project back up. No end date, just "as quickly as possible". the goal is to get every single achievement in the game, as always, except this time I'm not capping it at all achievements before a certain date. That means when 4.1 rolls around and delivers new achievements, I'll be there collecting them. I've learned a lot about the achievements game since my last attempt at this exercise and I'm more prepared now. Firstly, getting achievements takes an extremely long time and, because of this, I'm going to suggest a much greater focus on paying gold for help with achievements than before. Sure, you could farm 20,000 sunfury rings for the sunfury rep yourself, but ultimately it's much easier to buy them from the AH when they are cheap. The same goes for many other aspects of the game: it's probably faster to pay a top guild to help me bust through certain achievements than it is to train 24 other people...

All turnings for things like Thorium Brotherhood and other obscure reps (Timbermaw etc.) have been QUADRUPLED. This means you can get exalted with them for 22 lava/fiery cores and a direbrew remote to quickly port to BRD. I picked up the 10 cores I needed (I was revered) for less than 200g, making this one of the cheapest exalted's I ever got. I didn't need any of the exalted items - the revered already gave +22 int (best heirloom caster enchant) and strength to weapon.