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Mists of Pandaria beta: New achievements weave together exploration and lore
Joystiq To date, all exploration achievements in WoW have involved simply uncovering areas on your map. While that's fine for viewing scenery, it lacks a certain something, doesn't it? Well, the exploration achievements in Pandaria are taking a wholly … |
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WoW 5.0: Bringing Achievements to the Account Level
MMORPG News We recently added account-level changes to achievements in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, and there's still a lot of work left before we're done. The plan here is to illustrate the intent behind our design, which should in turn help you figure … Blizzard Adding Account-Level Achievements To World of Warcraft |
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Mists of Pandaria beta achievements
Joystiq It's open warfare between Alliance and Horde in Mists of Pandaria, World of Warcraft's next expansion. Jump into five new levels with new talents and class mechanics, try the new monk class, and create a pandaren character to ally with either Horde or … |
Every Thursday, The Overachiever shows you how to work toward those sweet achievement points. This week, all hell breaks loose.
Hey folks. The Littlest Pet Shop option was the most popular choice in last week’s The OverAchiever: Wrapping up Mountain O’ Mounts, but that was before all manner of patch 4.3 goodness was datamined on Tuesday night. I spent the subsequent 24 hours in a caffeine-fueled haze running three characters around the PTR investigating the new achievements for you.
I bring tidings of great, albeit currently bugged, joy to you all.
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The OverAchiever: Examining patch 4.3′s new achievements originally appeared on WoW Insider on Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Our friends over at Wowhead have uncovered the first batch of new patch 4.3 achievements, and there are some pretty awesome ones. Most of them refer to either new holiday content (primarily Winter Veil and Midsummer Fire Festival) or the new Darkmoon Faire, although there are a few achievements from the new dungeons.
Be warned that the titles and descriptions of these achievements may contain spoilers. Here are a few of my favorites:
Brace yourselves for what could be some of most exciting updates to the game recently with patch 4.3. Look at what’s ahead: new item storage options, cross-realm raiding, cosmetic armor skinning and your chance to battle the mighty Deathwing — from astride his back!
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Patch 4.3 PTR: New achievements uncovered originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Every Thursday, The Overachiever shows you how to work toward those sweet achievement points. This week, we get a little drunk, or maybe a lot.
It’s that time of year again, folks: time to get smashed with no lasting social repercussions! This year, Brewfest runs from Tuesday, Sept. 20 to Wednesday, Oct. 5 (check your in-game calendar for your server’s exact start and end times), and drunken frivolity is the name of the game. The Brewfest meta Brewmaster is required for the year-long What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been, so you’ll want to get this done if you’re working toward a Violet Proto-Drake (and thus free 310% flight).
As with the 2010 version of this guide, I’ve organized the holiday’s achievements in the rough order I feel they should be completed, as one is dependent on having some help from other folks around your server. As with most holidays, there’s high participation at the start, which dwindles as folks get their drops and complete achievements, so I prioritize getting Down With The Dark Iron done as quickly as possible. Once that’s out of the way, Brewfest achievements aren’t generally difficult, though they’ll require a little elbow grease if you’re starting from scratch.
I’ve included all of the achievements attached to the holiday, but you’ll only need six for the meta, and they’ve been marked as such. As always, I’ll be around when the holiday goes live to see if there are any unannounced changes. We don’t anticipate any major differences to Brewfest this year, but the holiday boss, Coren Direbrew, does have an updated loot table with ilevel 365 drops.
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The OverAchiever: Guide to Brewfest 2011 achievements originally appeared on WoW Insider on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Every Thursday, The Overachiever shows you how to work toward those sweet achievement points. This week, we engage in a miniature retrospective.
Two weeks ago, we published The OverAchiever: Why Icecrown was less fun than Sunwell. It’s definitely become one of the more controversial OA topics I’ve written about and attracted a lot of discussion, neither of which I had really anticipated. Some people agreed with me, some didn’t — but either way, the comment thread is a very interesting read.
While I hadn’t been intending to revisit the topic so soon, I lost internet access after Hurricane Irene strolled through my area and had an extra week to mull over the points people had raised. The conclusion (perhaps erroneous) I’ve reached is that, if anything, the issue is more complicated than we all guessed, as the normal/achievement/heroic split may also point to a deeper systemic problem with the 10-man and 25-man model, too.
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The OverAchiever: Reconsidering achievements and raids originally appeared on WoW Insider on Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Achievements being used to read your mind
Buypoe.com 14000 World of Warcraft players participated in research to find out if it's possible to predict what players will do next. Researchers from North Carolina University have come up with a new procedure which can be used to predict the actions of gamers. … Researchers are Using Achievements to Read Your Mind Researchers Are Using Achievements To Read Your Mind |
Every Thursday, The Overachiever shows you how to work toward those sweet achievement points. This week, we may actually nab that damn pet off the Midsummer boss this year.
The Midsummer Fire Festival will run from Tuesday, June 21 to Monday, July 4 this year. While there aren’t actually a lot of achievements associated with the Festival — the meta, which awards the Flame Warden title to Alliance players and Flame Keeper title to Horde players, consists of only six achievements — three of them require you to put in some serious travel time, and one also requires a set of dangerous trips to enemy capitals. If you’re starting from scratch, this is definitely one of the more work-intensive holidays you’ll have to clear for What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been.
The holiday’s unlikely to have changed significantly from its 2009 and 2010 incarnations, but we do know that Lord Ahune (the holiday boss) has an updated loot table with ilevel 353 drops. As you might have guessed, coordinates for Cataclysm-era fires to honor/desecrate have almost certainly changed as well. Consequently, I’ve expanded our previous guides to reflect the changes we know about. I’ll also be updating fire coordinates to reflect Cataclysm zone overhauls once the holiday goes live.
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The OverAchiever: Guide to Midsummer Festival 2011 achievements originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We are now a good 6 months into guild achievements. As a guild leader, I think the concept, as executed, is great. Although we’re casual and we run all content, trying to get certain achievements has provided us with incentives to level toons, level professions and to work together.
Every week, I post to the guild web site, a tally of what we’re working on and how far along we are in finishing an achievement. Doing all the Burning Crusade heroic 5-mans made people run the regulars to get enough honor to get their keys. People went into instances they didn’t know existed. Attendance at our retro raid nights spiked when we announced that we needed this run for the guild achievement. We’re small so the 25-man achievements will probably elude us, but people take a look at what still needs to be done and they help make it happen.
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Breakfast Topic: Guild achievements and you originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.