Achievements
Hallow’s End Is Over, How Did You Do?
Monday, November 2nd, 2009 - 25 Comments
Now that everyone is busy shaking their maracas and eating skull pastries, why don’t we take a quick look back at the other celebration that just passed? Easy things like bobbing for apples and eating G.N.E.R.Ds will only get you so far during Hallow’s End. ... More
Dungeon and Raid System Q & A
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 - 9 Comments
If you’ve been keeping up with the latest on Patch 3.3, and you’ve read the updated notes in the latest build, then you probably know a whole lot about the new Dungeon and Raid system being implemented in the near future. But there are still ... More
3.3: More Icecrown Achievements Reveal New Vault Boss
Friday, October 16th, 2009 - 17 Comments
I noticed that a lot of you were just as amused as I was with the names of some of the new Icecrown Citadel achievements, but I’m afraid you won’t find any pop-culture references in round 2. Don’t fret, though! We can still glean some ... More
3.3: Icecrown Citadel Boss List, (Some) Achievements Revealed
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 - 22 Comments
Some of the first unofficial information coming out of the new build of Patch 3.3 includes a preliminary list of achievements associated with the Icecrown Citadel raid and 5-man dungeons. The breakdown and running analysis follows: Icecrown Citadel 10-man Stand-Alone Achievements These are the achievements associated with ... More
Wishful Thinking: Quest Collector
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 - 15 Comments
Wishful Thinking is a column for the theorycrafting behind World of Warcraft. No, not the number crunching madness perfected by the folks at ElitistJerks, but the features, abilities, and design ideas that the Project Lore writers conjure from their squishy pink stuff. Well, readers. I don’t ... More
Earth, Wind, And Fire: Mediocrity Shows Us How
Friday, September 18th, 2009 - 9 Comments
Earth, Wind, And Fire is arguably one of the toughest achievements in the game, requiring that you kill all three Vault of Archavon bosses within 60 seconds of each other, but the 10-player version has was completed by both Premonition (first) and Mediocrity (second) this ... More
Pre-Cataclysm: Exploring the Old World
Friday, September 11th, 2009 - 17 Comments
I’ve had a ton to keep my busy in WoW since dinging level 80 a couple of weeks ago. There’s rep to grind, daily heroics to run and farming of the ToC to be had (building up my purple collection FTW). But on the side ... More
Faction Change Service Goes Live
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 - 29 Comments
We knew they were coming soon, but not this soon! Looks like Blizzard has given the Paid Faction Change service the go-ahead and it’s now available for use (WoW or Battle.net ID necessary to log-in). Of course, according to the website, there are a few ... More
Level 80! … Now What to Do First?
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 - 35 Comments
It was a completely magical, fulfilling moment. It was months in the making (actually, considerably longer than I had anticipated, and I did end up losing that bet I posted about a while back, but refuse to pull out my hair!), which made it all ... More
Onyxia Revamp Gets Achievements
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 - 15 Comments
Ahh, yes. With a new (old) encounter comes new achievements to earn, or fail spectacularly trying to do so. The 5th anniversary version of Onyxia is no exception, and the latest build of 3.2.2 on the test realms brings with it news on just what ... More