WoW-Achievements

TGIF: 10/20/09

2009-11-20T00:13:00.002-05:00

Hey guys!

Friday... finally... and this weekend? The first Pilgrim's Bounty starts on Sunday.

And this is the second user submitted content this week!

You can read the Guide here. Submitted by Kieandra, Azuremyst - US.

I'll be doing A LOT of holiday things... still trying to get all my toons to 80... only six more to go!

Reminder: Proof of Demise, and Timear Foresees

2009-11-18T09:17:00.002-05:00

Proof of Demise and Timear Foresees are going to become Feats of Strength with the release of 3.3. So if you haven't done it yet, get crackin!

Overachiever - For the Casual Achiever

2009-11-17T02:10:00.020-05:00

Hi I'm new here, and today I came to talk to you about an addon: Overachiever. Hopefully Mep will let me do more posting about addons, macros, and other stuff that should make your achievement journey a little less bumpy. Most of my posts will be for Casual players who are just beginning their achieving journey.

But before we talk about overachiever, a bit about addons. An addon is, its a program developed by a third party (normally in gaming a player who has experience coding), that changes the interface of your game. Some of this will allow you to see information that is normally hidden, add extra bars for spells, or allow you do more, like scan the auction house for average prices and buy under priced items.

Don't let the fact that a third party created it scare you. If you use a website like Curse.com you will only be downloading safe programs. (Curse scans the code to make sure it won't hurt you or your computer) Also World of Warcraft runs the addons, not your computer, and only allows the addons to do certain things. This Prevent someone from using an addon to run them through Nax. People that do that use different programs called botting.

Overachiever

One of my favorite addons is Overachiever. It is a tool for tracking achievements.

In addition to the normal features of the Achievement tracker, this addon lists all the achievements, displays the statistics you find on the armory, allows you to search for a specific achievement and will even let you track more than 5 achievements at a time. If you've completed many achievements you can toggle between showing your completed, incomplete, or all of the achievements within the main achievement window. If you want to monitor your progress on achievements from different categories you can hold alt and click on the achievement to add to your Watched list, which shows up on the "Watch" tab.

One of the best features of Overachiever is the Suggestion tab. This will list achievements you haven't completed within your current zone. Sadly, this will not tell you if you can do part of an achievement within the zone, so you'll have to keep track of where all those critters are separately.

Secondly you can enable a feature that will add a note in the tool tip about whether you've loved, killed, petaled, snowflaked, or whatever crazy holiday thing you need to do.You can also set it up to make a noise when you cursor over something you need to act on, which makes it easier to passively work on To All the Squirrels I've Loved Before while questing. It also makes it easier to keep track of which Class/Race combination you've snowflaked for the Let It Snow Holiday achievement on each of your 10 alts.

Lastly Overachiever will display your progress in tool tips when you hover over meta-achievements or achievements on your tracking. This is really handy when you are working on an achievement like Exploration, The Outland Gourmet, or just don't want to keep opening up your achievement window.

To download this and other addons please visit Curse.com, or WoW Interface.com. To enable a feature go to your Interface menu and select Overachiever under your list of Addons.

Enjoy!
Kieandra - Azuremyst - US

GTA: They Love Me In That Tunnel

2009-11-16T10:34:00.002-05:00

Hey everyone!

So, I know I said I was going to have a new writer for GTA this week, sadly he's sick with the swine flu or something, so I'm just kinda pulling this one out of the air.

They Love Me In That Tunnel. This is an easy enough achievement that you can do it with one day's worth of grinding. Give it a shot! It's one of the easier reputations to grind out.

Mep

TGIF: 11/13/09

2009-11-13T12:48:00.002-05:00

Hey guys!

Friday... they seem to be coming faster and faster for me... which I'm certainly not complaining about :)

A couple of things real quick.

#1. Sorry about the Assassin's creed ads... I know they are annoying, I've asked my ad host to stop putting up ads that automatically expand on page load as they are very annoying... we'll see what he says.

#2. I'm still designing the new website layout... thing's getting big, but thankfully, not overly complicated.

All that aside, I'm still looking for some more ideas of things that people want on the new site. As I've been having people e-mail them to me at mep at wow-achievements dot com, most of you haven't been seeing what has been suggested. And because of that, I get a lot of the same requests. This is great, as I know people want it, but I figured I'd tell people a couple of them to maybe get you thinking in a new direction.

There will be a list of first players to get specific achievements for the World, Region, Realm, and Guild. This will also include a list of players in that division that have the achievements and when they got them.

There will be a log in feature that will allow you to track all of your characters easily... (not gonna reveal the method that I'm going to ensure it's really you... but it's a pretty good concept)

The player profile page will be completely overhauled.

Those are only a few of the ideas... but they have been suggested a lot.

So anyway, what are you guys up to for the weekend?

P.S. For any of you 80's kids out there, enjoy having that theme stuck in your head all day :)

Exclusive from Blizzard!

2009-11-13T00:15:00.002-05:00

Hey guys!

I got an exclusive video from Blizzard tonight with Jace Hall interviewing some Blizzard employees.

When I was at Blizzcon, I got to go to Blizzard HQ and see a lot of the stuff he's pointing to and talking about in the video... pretty cool.

Enjoy :)

Pilgrim's day is approaching

2009-11-11T08:51:00.005-05:00

I wanted to take a minute to talk a little bit about what you might want to focus on for the next week and a half (before Pilgrim's Bounty starts)

It seems that in order to get all of the achievements done for this Holiday, you'll need to be at least 330 cooking skill (for Now We're Cookin' (Alliance) | Now We're Cookin' (Horde), and level 55 in order to get into Sethekk Halls and kill Talon King Ikiss for Terokkar Turkey Time

So these are some goals to shoot for if you want to participate in this event.

I'm going to be making a list soon that shows everything you need to aim for in order to get the next holiday achievements, so you don't come around to something like Hail To The King Baby and not be high enough level to get it done.

Get that Achievement: Master of Arms

2009-11-09T10:30:00.002-05:00

Hey everyone!

Sorry for the late update today. Been pretty busy.

So, I figured out why the achievement icons on the profile pages haven't been showing up properly. I'm not going to bother fixing this quite yet, but will be fixing it with the revamp of the website.

This week's GTA is Master of Arms.

It's a REALLY easy achievement, but because it takes a little bit of time to do, a lot of people forget about it.

I have some GREAT news!

For those of you who've been to the official WoW forums, you may have seen Vyndrian, Moon Guard - US doing his Get that Achievement game, which Monday posts are roughly based off of.

He has volunteered to be in charge of the GTA on Monday mornings, making him our first volunteer writer for WoW-Achievements. Which I'm excited about :)

Which... is one of the ideas I have for the new website layout. If things go well, I'll be asking for some volunteer writers to help fill this site out a bit. If you have a good idea, and are willing to write for the site, shoot me an e-mail, mep @ wow-achievements dot com. You might just get to have your articles read by several thousand people a day :) (Good experience for wanna-be journalists, as websites are a usable reference for trying to get a job.)

Anyway, gotta get back to the RL.

Have a great Monday, and keep that coffee comin...

-Mep, Shattered Hand - US

A winner has been voted for

2009-11-07T11:09:00.004-05:00

The winner is Bangboy of Crushridge - EU with 84 votes

The final results are...

Winner - 84 votes

2nd place - 66 votes

3rd place - 51 votes

4th place - 41 votes

5th place - 37 votes

6th place - 10 votes

7th place - 4 votes

8th place - 2 votes

9th place - 0 votes

Congrats all :)

Don't forget, I want to hear from YOU

2009-11-06T11:21:00.002-05:00

I'm going to be finishing up the first stages of my design this weekend (on paper). So the more ideas about what you want from this site that you throw my way, the better, and the better the chance that it will end up on the site :)

So keep them coming. E-mail me at mep at wow-achievements dot com.

TGIF: 11/6/09

2009-11-06T08:51:00.002-05:00

Hey guys!

Happy Friday!!! At least it is for me :) Heading to Cloud's house tonight to watch a little Dexter, talk about the redesign, and celebrate my victory over my co-worker.

There's a lot of good stuff going on on the PTR in regards to achievements! ... the sad part is, as a Fansite, Blizz has forbidden me from talking about them... gotta love it... let's just say there's going to be a couple of new mounts dropped (which I'm sure will earn you a FoS), and also tons of new achievements for the Raids :)

I've been really happy with the amount of talk that's been going on through the comment system here, it's fun to get all these little comments sent to my phone and spying on your conversations :)

So, tell me... what are you up to this weekend?

So what's going on?

2009-11-04T21:09:00.001-05:00

Well, here's the problem...

when we had the server problems yesterday, all the data about our users got corrupt... NO PROBLEM, we have a backup... however, that backup needs to be indexed to go faster...

That's where the problem happened... the db is currently down due to this indexing...

So, that aside... I was asked where you guys can vote on the halloween costumes.

Vote on the halloween costumes, here

I'm raiding ToC at the moment, so I had to make this quick, ttyl

Redesigning WoW-Achievements in every way imaginable

2009-11-03T15:03:00.002-05:00

Hey everyone,

So... here's the deal... I'm a great coder. No no, trust me... it's true. ... ok you can stop laughing now...

But When I started this site, I wasn't nearly as good as I am now. Because of that, I didn't have the foresight to envision everything you guys would want on the site.

So I'm going to remedy that.

What do you want on this site? Don't assume anything, if you hate the search, tell me, if you hate the top 10 placement, tell me. I'm going to take any request that's well thought out, seriously.

So tell me about what you'd like to see and let's make this community a BRAZILLIAN times better!

Send me a mail at (mep at wow-achievements dot com)

-Mep

Last day to submit for the Screenshot contest!

2009-11-03T10:47:00.003-05:00

Hey! Today's the last day to submit a picture for the screenshot contest! Don't forget! You could win a Gruuuuuuuuuuuunty. He's so darn cute!

Contest Rules!

Love waking up to this crap...

2009-11-03T08:02:00.000-05:00

My server company had a "power issue" last night, and because of that, a lot of my tables got corrupt or some crap...

They are fixing it now, but that's why nothing works... sorry for the inconvenience, it will be back up as soon as they fix it... ugh

GTA: Dead Man's Party

2009-11-02T09:28:00.001-05:00

Hey guys!

So, obvious GTA is obvious. Get Dead Man's Party

Aside from that, isn't the Day of the dead banner awesome?! You know it is.

So, Day of the Dead... easy, a bit of a dissapointment to pet collectors everywhere... but despite many threads being made on the WoW forums last night here, related to Blizz making the pet permanent.

I am actually inclined to agree with the opposing reasoning... Essentially it goes like this

Guy: Mayk teh pet permnent!
Other Guy: But he's a little guy visiting from the afterlife... that's why he's only around for two days.
Guy: But I wannnnnnts it!
Other Guy: Don't worry, I'm sure Blizz will cave.

Saw about 20 threads like this yesterday and this morning. Probably right.

So how was everyone's Halloween?

We've only had a couple of entries into the WoW-Screenshot Halloween Costume Contest so your chances of winning are pretty good.

Day of the Dead

2009-11-01T00:04:00.001-04:00

Hey guys, real quick post just to let you know what to do for Day of the dead.

(Taken from Mmo-champion)

Go to any graveyard, preferably the one of your faction's capital city. (We'll get to that later)
Dance with Catrina here. (Screenshot)
That's it!

Now let's get you a Macabre Marionette.

Buy the Recipe: Bread of the Dead from Chapman next to Catrina and learn it.
Buy the Simple Flour from any cooking supplies NPC (just take the one next to the trainer if you don't know where they are) and Ice Cold Milk from most Innkeeper and Food/Drink vendors.
Go to the graveyard of your faction's capital city and go to the Ghostly Cooking Fire next to Catrina.
Create a Bread of the Dead.
Buy an Orange Marigold or a Bouquet of Orange Marigolds from Chapman (the NPC who sells the recipe) and use it. Ghosts will appear in the graveyard.
One of the ghosts will offer the following quest : The Grateful Dead.
Give the bread to the ghost to receive your Macabre Marionette!

TGIF: 10/30/09

2009-10-30T14:43:00.002-04:00

Hey guys and girls (even though "girls don't play WoW"),

So... weekend time. My weekend is going to be FILLED with trick or treating... in fact, it's going to be SO chaulk full of Trick or Treating that I'm gonna get a belly ache! ... (that joke was lame on purpose.)

So, the way I see it, when I get home (around 6:00 p.m.), let's assume I get online at 6:15, I'm going to have until 11:59 p.m. Saturday night to finish trick or treating.

That's 30 ToTs. Plus 1 daily for putting out the fires (getting the daily from the pumpkin) today and tomorrow. So 32 attempts left. Plus, if I'm good I'll get my alts into Headless Horsemans... but I won't include those being as how it's way too dynamic how many you'll be able to get into.

Looks like I won't be sleeping until Sunday Morning :) (Unless of course, I get lucky, then this is all for nothing).

Also, don't forget that the Day of the dead starts on Sunday (1 a.m. on my server, probably yours too!). As I understand it, you just need to go dance with some broad named Catrina. My best guess is that she's going to be in Dalaran (judging by Bread of the Dead.

For those of you going to Halloween parties this weekend, be sure to get a picture of yourself for Our Halloween Costume Contest (keep in mind, that we don't want screenshots, we want RL pics of you in your costume... bonus points if you're heavily intoxicated :) (bonus points shall be awarded in "internets" not actual favoritism when selecting the winner).

Well, that's about it for me until Monday... I'll be posting something on Sunday to tell you where Catrina actually is (but like I said, assume Dalaran).

Have a good weekend!

Hallow's End: Superstitions?

2009-10-29T09:15:00.003-04:00

Hey guys!

So as I've been doing the Trick or Treating, I've noticed that ToT is not without it's superstitions... As far as I go, when I trick or treat, I always jump because I believe that it reduces the rate that I get tricked... might be completely false, but /shrug.

So far I'm 7/10 characters with "the Hallowed" title.

Do you guys have any little superstitions?

Hallow's End

2009-10-28T10:00:00.003-04:00

Hey guys,

Is it just me, or does it seem like there isn't much interest in Hallow's End this year? Must be because of all the hard core achievers already having their Achievements. I'm personally finding it hard to get a group, even from within my guild.

I'd like to point out two things real quick. I got a screenshot submission this morning that wanted to be part of the Halloween contest, but was an in game shot. Just to clarify, the Contest is for Real Life Halloween Costumes.

And More importantly, I've been getting (an annoying amount of) posts related to this guy, who currently has 10730 achievement points.

I've been getting some e-mails and suggestions to localize WoW-Achievements for Taiwanese, Chinese and Korean. There are a couple of reasons that I haven't yet. The most important of which was related to poor planning on my part when I started the website, so it would be a HUGE undertaking... and I'm not just saying that.

However, I started down that path a little while ago and eventually it WILL be supported... but another big problem is the stability of the wowarmory for those three regions... they go down more than Tera Patrick. Which makes it very hard to maintain.

As my most recent idea for a new website was kinda trumped by a multi-million dollar backed website /cough Curse /cough, I've found myself with no new project to work on... so I may redesign WoW-Achievements backend... we'll see :)

If that does happen, I'll put in support for these regions.

In other news, if you want to earn an achievement, you can go get your [QQ on the forums about Pally Nerfs] achievement. lol.

-Mep

Get That Achievement: Hallowed Be Thy Name

2009-10-26T08:56:00.002-04:00

Hey guys,

This week's GTA should be fairly obvious.

Hallowed Be Thy Name - Alliance
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Horde

You can find guides to every part of it, here.

Check the below post of the winner of the weekend Grunty Contest :)

Grunty Contest: Favorite Achievement

2009-10-25T23:59:00.006-04:00

Hey guys!

Man... I hooked up my Blackberry to the e-mail I used for this contest... YOU GUYS WOULDN'T LEAVE ME ALONE ALL WEEKEND! DING! DING! DING!

GJ though, we had 520 entries in 2 1/2 days... not too bad :)

The winner was selected via a randomly selected number used from Random.org as to get rid of any of the QQing that we had with the Violet Proto-drake prize.

I'm contacting the winner now. He/She/It has until 11:59:59 p.m. Monday October 26th EST to respond to the e-mail or I'll be picking another winner.

I really liked seeing some of the stories you guys added to the contest posts comments about why you liked certain contests.

I'll be posting the winner after they contact me :)

If you didn't win, don't worry... I still have 16 more Grunty's to give away!

Also, don't forget to enter the Costume Contest going on over at WoW-Screenshots.com, you can find the official Contest post here

(p.s. Bonus points if you get the picture reference, been wanting to make that joke FOREVER)

Update: Ecterris of Uldum, US is the proud new owner of a Grunty :)

You know what? I'm feeling generous!

2009-10-23T16:18:00.003-04:00

Hey everyone! Know what? I'm feeling generous.

For the next 2 1/2 days, I want YOU to go to Our contest page and submit a lil' info, with your favorite achievement. Every entry is a chance to win a Grunty. Don't bother entering more than once cause if I catch you, you'll be disqualified.

This is to reward those of you who check the site over the weekend :)

You have until 11:59 p.m. Sunday night. And I'll send out the card to the winner on Monday :)

Good luck!

TGIF: 10/23/09

2009-10-23T09:28:00.008-04:00

Hey all!

Sorry about the lack of posts this week, not a whole lot to report on since Blizz keeps me from talking about data mined information :(

ICC is looking like it's going to rock though. Personally I'm hoping there are some more achievements other than the typical "Kill this raid boss in under 2 minutes" or the usual achievements we've all come to know and get bored of.

Has anyone out there hit the 20 mask achievement yet? I find it funny how RNG is. My main Mep, only has like 12 masks. And about 5 of my other characters are working on their last four.

Although, I've seen some cool math out there to describe how much time you should expect to spend to get all twenty masks. Based on statistics alone

(Taken from Wowhead)
If you have 10 masks, you are ~20% done.
If you have 15 masks, you are ~30% done.
If you have 16 masks, you are ~40% done.
If you have 18 masks, you are ~60% done.
If you have 19 masks, you are ~72% done.
If you have 20 masks, I hate you.

So, what are you guys up to this weekend? Any halloween parties? Don't forget to take some pictures for the WoW-Screenshots Costume Contest. Best picture wins a Grunty!

2009-10-22T12:40:00.003-04:00

Hey guys!

How's Hallow's End coming? I've gotten five out of my ten toons the title. Still a lot of work to do.

How are all of you coming? Anyone else trying for all ten characters?

Don't forget about our Halloween Costume Contest!