Tag Archives: achievements
The OverAchiever: Examining patch 4.3′s new achievements
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 [...]
Patch 4.3 PTR: New achievements uncovered
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 OverAchiever: Guide to Brewfest 2011 achievements
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 [...]
The OverAchiever: Reconsidering achievements and raids
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 [...]
Achievements being used to read your mind – Buypoe.com
Achievements being used to read your mindBuypoe.com14000 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 [...]
The OverAchiever: Guide to Midsummer Festival 2011 achievements
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 [...]
Breakfast Topic: Guild achievements and you
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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 [...]
Patch 4.2: Pet collector achievements updated on the PTR
A few new achievements were added for pet collectors in the latest PTR patch today, according to Wowhead. The small patch contains three new achievements for players who can collect 100, 125, and 150 non-combat pets.
Petting Zoo awards Nuts’ Acorn.
Menagerie awards Brilliant Kaliri.
Littlest Pet Shop awards Celestial Dragon.
Just like with previous pet collecting achievements (Shop [...]
The OverAchiever: New achievements in patch 4.2
Every Thursday, The OverAchiever shows you how to work toward those sweet achievement points. This week, pet biscuits make us happy … for a little while, at least.
We’re going to take another break from our Mountain O’ Mounts series to examine upcoming achievements in patch 4.2. We got an avalanche of news on these last [...]
Patch 4.2: New achievements include new daily areas and companion pets
Tons of new achievements have been added to the PTR for the upcoming patch 4.2, including the Molten Front and the Regrowth achievements. Blizzard has stated that a bunch of the encounters in the new daily hubs will be directly linked to “raid-type” damage dodging and healing, so it is nice to see achievements for [...]
