Posted by Juggynaut on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 - 14 Comments
Tags: 3.0.8, Achievements, achivement, content patch, critters, Patch, pest control, to all the squirrels who shared my life
After some of the dust from patch day, extended maintenence, and rolling restarts settled, I was browsing my Achievements pane (default key is Y to bring that up). The first thing I noticed was that I had achieved a couple of things when I logged on for the first time after 3.0.8 was implemented. One was The Winds of the North, for being exalted with the Alliance Vanguard and the other was Vampire Hunter, a feat of strength for having a Vampiric Batling from Prince Tenris Mirkblood.
Intrigued, I looked around a little more to see if I could find any other new achievements. Now, I had heard about the 75 companion pet achievment with a tiny deer as a reward, but I don’t even have the 50 pet achievement yet. Apparently there is also a new 100 mount achievement with a blue dragonhawk as a reward. Those ones are so far out of my reach that I tend to ignore them. That and the mount achievement is going to be very very expensive when I go for it.
There were two achievements that I found that would be well within my reach, though. Both of them have to do with my favorite targets for undeserved violence - critters. Pest Control asks you to slay some critters while To All The Squirrels Who Shared My Life is predictably a follow up to another achievement which has you loving more creatures. To those of you interested, I managed to do a little research and I can tell you exactly where to go to find the critters you’ll need.
I found all except for one of the targets of To All The Squirrels Who Shared My Life in Northrend:
- Arctic Hare: These are all over, most easily found in Dragonblight
- Borean Marmot: Borean Tundra, all over. Mostly the orange sections of the map
- Tundra Penguin: Borean Tundra on the icebergs
- Sholazar Tickbird: When you see a Rhino, look for the bird on its horn.
- Glacier Penguins: Icecrown, in the far north, a bit east of the islands on the map.
- Huge Toad: Zul’Drak, in the Drak’Sorta Fields. Most people tell you to go to Swamp of Sorrows, but don’t listen!
- Grizzly Squirrel: Grizzly Hills, all over
- Mountain Skunk: Grizzly Hills, all over
- Fjord Penguin: Howling Fjord, on the coast/icebergs
- Scalawag Frog: Howling Fjord, Scalawag Isle in the Southwest
- Fjord Turkey: West of Expedition League Outpost in Howling Fjord
- Lava Crab: Searing Gorge, all over the place. If you know of a place in Northrend where these guys hang out, let me know. I looked in a couple of firey places that I could think of but to no avail.
For Pest Control, you’ll have to do a lot more running around:
- Underbelly Rat: Dalaran sewers
- Rat: Dalaran near Violet Hold or Naxxramas, also in many other zones.
- Maggot: Naxxramas or Ghostlands
- Larva: Naxxramas or Ghostlands
- Spider: Howling Fjord, Ghostlands, or many instances such as Naxxramas and Azjol Nerub
- Crystal Spider: The Nexus - run straight in and immediately in the final boss’s room will be a spider
- Gold Beetle: Halls of Stone/Halls of Lightning - both should have a beetle at the entrance
- Zul’Drak Rat: Zul’Drak, lots of them east of the Argent Stand
- Roach: Howling Fjord in Gjalerbron
- Fjord Rat: Howling Fjord
- Devouring Maggot: In the crypts near Utgarde Keep at the very bottom.
- Adder: Hellfire Peninsula
- Scorpion: Hellfire Peninsula
- Moccasin: Swamps of Sorrow
- Snake: Westfall
- Mouse: Westfall
- Fire Beetle: Burning Steppes/Searing Gorge
Hope that helps any of you achievement lovers out there get a few more points!
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By Carlos on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Yup, pretty sure it’s going to help. Thanks for the info.
By George on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 2:32 pm
hey, thanks juggy, real useful, ill go do them on my pala now! LOVING PL XXX
By Gerandor on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Yeah after logging on after the new patch and looking at the achievement list i wondered
i felt it was a while back i had gotten the vampiric battling from Kara, but that it was a new achievement didnt actually strike my mind..
By Deidare on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 3:21 pm
awesome two more acheviements for me thanks so much juggy!
By Carlos on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Oh snap. Today is Jerry’s birthday! If you’re somehow reading this Goggins, I hope you’ve had an awesome birthday! Good luck in your RL projects!
By Virago on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Always wondered when we would be able to get dragonhawks as mounts. I guess now there’s only the bat that needs to be become an available pet, though I wouldn’t mind not having it. I think it’s ugleh from behind ^^”" …. Wait, don’t say the gargoyle mount! While it looked funny, I don’t wanna dangle below one if I had the change! lol
Thank you for the little tidbit and tutorials of new achievements. I’m sure I’ll be able to use this info some day
By ColdReign on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 3:57 am
BTW Achievments is Achievements,
By Jeff on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 11:34 am
My latest Achievement was no longer spelling it
“Acheivement”.
I didn’t get any points, but I was able to remove the title
“Pour Speeler”.
By Richard on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Ha. 100 mounts?
Damn I remember when I finally reached 50 mounts, was terrible but still couldn’t refure reaching 50!
Good thing I stopped playing WoW for 3 months now, too time consuming.
Anyway still enjoying these posts and to read what’s happening in WoW, thanks
Greets.
By misacki on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
isnt it a red dragonhawk for 100mount achievemnt? or is it that alliances got blu one and horde red?-
By Naasuk(Andrew) on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
While I’m not entirely sure about this, the Lava Crabs might be at the Obsidian Dragonshrine in Dragonblight.
By pep on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
thanks for the tips juggy!
By Keikura on Friday, January 23rd, 2009 at 5:20 am
For some reason after 3.0.8 I’ve got Winds of the North to, yet I’m only exalted with Alliance Expedition…
and only halfway through the revered rep bar for AV.
By Phoenix599 on Friday, January 23rd, 2009 at 5:35 am
Blizz also fixed at least one achievement. Master of Arms (raise four weapon skills to 400) mistakenly didn’t include thrown weapons, now does, and I completed it with the new patch.
Thanks Blizz!