5 Easy Achievements You May Not Have Known About

Posted by pixiestixy on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 - 18 Comments

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happyhourAs I recently lamented, questing in Zul’Drak has brought out a huge need for healing my leather-wearing rogue. The other day after a particularly close call, I called up a Heavy Frostweave Bandage, and my screen lit up as that familiar, lovely sight of an achievement flashed across my bandaged figure. Ultimate Triage. Apparently, it was a closer call than I had realized, and just through that simple action of healing my character that had less than 5% health, I had earned an achievement.

It was easy. Perhaps too easy. And if I was as big of an achievement whore as some of us out there *cough* Juggynaut, I certainly would have already completed it, even if it meant intentionally waiting until the last second possible to make a killing blow on a mob while it beat me senseless. But, like many aspects of WoW, achievements are like candy. And once I got the one easy fix, I started searching for more.

I’ve come to expect certain achievements - exploring areas here, completing X number of quests there. And I’m sure you have, too. So I won’t detail those. The achievements that seem a bit more random, and still relatively simple, are what I’ll focus on for now, since those are the ones I’m going after myself.

For one, there’s It’s Happy Hour Somewhere. I had seen this one on the list before, but I didn’t look too much into it previously. Turns out not to be too tough if you’ve made it to Outland. A quick trip to the Shattrath bar yields 13 different drinks from the two different barmaids. While your there, buy coffee from a roaming vendor in the Lower City. If you have any mage friends (or are a mage yourself), each of the 9 conjured waters counts. Find any remaining drink needs from a general goods vendor. Cha-ching.

One warning: I do not recommend drinking and riding (your mount). The simulated dizzyness can make you feel sick IRL (or maybe I’m just too sensitive!)

Another achievement that I didn’t intentionally go for but was happy to get was a while back when I visisted the barber in the Undercity. Style your hair, and you get Shave and a Haircut. So simple.

Then, there’s Going Down?, which you get for falling 65 yards without dying. I got it a while back after an accidental fall, but as you can see from the WoWhead page, players have figured out plenty of high spots to jump off of for the achievement.

And regardless of whether you like tabards as a fashion accessory, buy one and you get the Represent achievement. Of course, if you collect 10 tabards, that’s another achievement. But if you’re just starting out with achievements, you may not want to jump for that one just yet. I would consider these at the bottom of the difficulty scale for achievements, but a good place to start if you want to up your achievement points.

WoW may make an achievement whore out of me yet.

So who else out there loves achievements? What other achievements would you recommend for someone starting out? Any achievements you’re stuck on? I’m still /love-ing and then killing all the critters I see in hopes of one day getting them all!

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    By Effancy on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 1:55 pm

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    By Helsing on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    I love the critter gitter achievement,It was so funny to see my rogue being followed by a legion of penguins.I’m kind of a achievement whore too,I love to have feats of str achievements so I can brag about it.

    By Carlos on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm

    Nice post thur (:

    In the EU Realms I was going for the Immortal, which of course did not work (:

    I do consider myself as an achievement whore as it is another way to “complete” the game.

    By Shamtastik on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    pixie needs to catch up to Dorkins :P and maybe watching Achievement-ology might help :D

    By Rogue4Life on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    /agreed with Shamtastik.

    A little trip to the episodes list will get you hooked on your achievements there pixie.

    By Dyra on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    @ Helsing

    I did mine with the turkeys in Howling Fjord. I then ran around and Nova’ed the litttle suckers for yet another achievement.

    I also have achieved both ‘To all the squirrels’ achievements and Pest Control. :P

    My name is Dyra and I’m an achievementholic. I have absolutely no plans of quitting and will continue to actively seek out those little boxes that I love to light up my screen ^^.

    By Alayea on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    I definitely go for achievements where possible. I’m a completionist, what can I say? :P

    But lately I’ve been working on get the Loremaster achievement, which has obviously involoved a lot of hard work, QuestHelper, consulting Thottbot, and — above all — patience. I do sometimes get rather frustrated, so I take that as an opportunity for a break.

    By Ditz on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    I confess to being an Achievement whore and I am not ashamed, my faavourite thing ids to try and get as many achievements out of doing just one thing Like when I got Exalted with Argent dawn i got 5 in on go and almost fell out of my chair with glee

    By cocopuff on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    i try to do all tje easy acheivements oen i am close to finishing or onece that are fun i did the tatste like chicken and happy our somewhear just fromstuff i got of the AH suprisinly cheap 50g for both achievements i allso have criter glitter i am close to get to 25 mound achievement i have the money jus dont have the time got from AH as well quick and easy and painless then thier one a bit harder the explorer achievement i only got eastern kingdom so far

    By Xian on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    The exploration achievements of Northrend and Outland are easy once you are able to fly.

    I, however, am going for probably one of the hardest non-instance acheivements. Mountain O’ Mounts. The 100 Mount achievement. I am currently sitting on 52/100. This includes all of the horde racial mounts (Ambassador title ftw), all of the vendor flying mounts (normal and epic) from Outland (This includes the Netherwing Drakes). Not to mention the Albino Drake from the 50 mount acheivement. I also have an Armored Brown Bear and the Black War Bear.

    By xoftsree on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 2:41 am

    wow thats must have been expensive :o

    By some nooby guy on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 5:14 am

    i must realy admit i am a BIG achivement whore
    i got 20 titles and if i should chose between 250 g or a achivement then its no doubt the achivement
    i am currently going for loremaster, bloodsail admiral, and the insane titles:O

    currently got about 5700 achivement points XD

    By cocopuff on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 7:20 am

    i am just goino wait for the next patch to come out much cheaper

    By Rasun on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 8:25 am

    U know on paper achievements don’t look that exciting. I mean, o great i get to do meaningless things to get 10 achievement points which i can then do nothing with (Outside of the select few with rewards). But then once u earn a few u really get into it and it is another major aspect of the game u look forward 2. I think its because its like a trophy case, there is a story behind each achievement and its like a biography of your WoW career. Why do u think hardcore raiders go out of their way to make boss fight harder than need be to earn achievements, its not like (with a few exceptions) that the loot will be any better so y bother risking your time and gold on another wipe simply to get an achievement… BECAUSE ITS REALLY FUN!

    By Phanttas on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 10:59 am

    I’m currently after 75 pets and 100 mount (doubt I’ll get the mounts, but it’s worth trying) and I do both if I have nothing else to do, but I usually find that happening (I mean who cares about doing hc’s when I can go grinding azure dragons in azshara). I’ve only just really started with them, so I’m going to wait till 3.2 (<3) for cheaper prices on faction mounts.
    I already have the 3 critter achievements to /love and kill, and I found an addon called ‘Over achiever’ very useful, it basically just says whether you need to /love or kill, or if you’ve already done it when you highlight a critter. It also shows some other things like schools of fish fished, and if you click a linked achievement by someone else, it shows you your own progress.
    Anyway, I am and will be an achievement whore for life!

    By Dulica on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 10:24 am

    I enjoy them just happening to me. I rarely go out and actually do them. but it’s fun to hear that noise and it light up!

    By Ombrenoire on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 10:54 am

    Easy achievements I have finished:

    Dual Talent Specialization - had 1k gold to waste
    Pest Control - kill animals..um…
    To All The Squirrels Who Shared My Life - /love
    Armored Brown Bear - have gold will buy
    Did Somebody Order A Knuckle Sandwich? - unarmed fighting to 400
    Master Of Arms - 4 fighting skills to 400
    Got My Mind On My Money - this one dinged before I knew what it was
    Friend Or Fowl? - I wanted a turkey sandwich
    To All The Squirrels I’ve Loved Before - /love
    Going Down? - this was an accident
    It’s Happy Hour Somewhere - strange how toons don’t need to take a leak after this
    Tastes Like Chicken - 50 foods eaten
    Shave And A Haircut - 2 bits
    Safe Deposit - 7 bank slots
    Critter Gitter - penguins!!
    Fish Don’t Leave Footprints - learn to fish, that’s it
    Ultimate Triage - 5%
    WoW’s 4th Anniversary - polar bear cub!!!
    Crashing Thrashing Racer - Winter Veil, heh
    Well Read - I was always curious about those books

    These are the easy ones. The others require just a tab bit more work before you get to the groups required ones.

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