Underachiever: Every WoW Achievement

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

Not much to say here. I already have all the achievements, but Brewfest is a fantastic place to load up on toys for the meta-achievement.

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...

Not much to say here. I've been away for quite some time and missed a lot of the initial 8.2 rush. I finally got flying yesterday after grinding rep for much too long. There wasn't much to it - just log in, do as many of the quests in both zones as possible, then log out. It definitely felt like a grind, especially seeing other people flying right next to me. Most hated quest was the "Get six chests in Mechagon" one - this seems easy with flying but without it, it's possible to never see all six of them even after spending hours searching.  Next up: I'm not sure actually. I'll need to get exalted with the two new factions eventually but I want to make sure I do it efficiently. Right now I'm leveling up my cooking and fishing - I want to get the new Compressed Ocean toy from Secret Fish and Where to Find Them so I'll mostly likely do that plus some more work on pets this week.

Finally. Also, it's fitting that the Magic-type pets were the last ones I picked up - that was by far the worst PVP Pet achievement to get. Not really a lot to say here - I used the same teams every time, the same ones as I used for the PVP pet achievements. Being able to switch teams quickly was a big help. It was a slowish grind but I'm glad it's over. Now for the (much worse) grind to get the Legion version of this achievement...

I'm still working on the BFA meta-achievement Family Battler which involves beating 15 (of 19) different BFA pet trainers with a family of all undead, all mechanical etc. In total I need to win 150 different battles. I started doing this in a completely incorrect way, focusing first on getting "Hobbyist Aquarist" then on "Beast Mode" and so on. Don't do that. Instead, just fly to a trainer and do all ten pet families on that trainer, then fly to the next one. You don't need the world quest to be up either. I recommend skipping any fights that are especially difficult with a particular family and revisiting them at the very end if you absolutely need one more win from a trainer. Originally, I read wowhead for every boss and tried to find the correct comp listed in the suggestions. I no longer do that - the ten PVP teams I built for Family Brawler earlier in the month work fine for almost all of the NPC trainers as well so there is little need to creat...

Well, that was easy. This was actually from a few days ago. In the end I got FIVE concessions in a row and so got the No Time To Heal achievement at the same time. Easiest family of pets to win ten of, by far, was Undead - I used the composition suggested on Wowhead and it worked very well - 10 wins in 11 matches. The comp was: Blightbreath: Breath - Gas - Rain Scourged Whelpling: Sweep - Darkness - Breath Widget the Departed: Pounce - Spectral - Darkness Just AOE down the whole team the use the very fast Widget to kill off each one before they get a turn. Astute readers will also not the presence of the Murkalot Feat of Strength that grants a pet. Yeah, I bought that one for (quite a lot of) real money. Please don't judge me. It's the only pet with the Righteous Inspiration ability and the combination of that with a Bombling works fantastically well. I have to win 1000 PVP battles with a team of 25 and that seems a lot simpler with a good team. It's definitely not ...