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At the bottom of the Achievements window are the Achievements and Stats tabs. The Statistics tab shows a [[Statistics panel]] with additional statistics based achievements. |
At the bottom of the Achievements window are the Achievements and Stats tabs. The Statistics tab shows a [[Statistics panel]] with additional statistics based achievements. |
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| ā | When achievements were first introduced with the ''[[Wrath of the Lich King]]'' expansion they had to be earned individually by each character, which due to the difficulty and/or investment required to gain certain rewards gave players little incentive to attain achievements using different characters, or even to play as anyone other than the character with which they had made the most progress. |
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| ā | In ''[[Mists of Pandaria]]'', most achievements switched to an account-wide system that shares achievements among all characters created by a player. Players still receive notifications upon meeting the criteria for an achievement previously gained using another character, but do not gain additional achievement points or any further acknowledgement. |
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| ā | Most achievement criteria is specific to individual characters and cannot be shared. This means if a character gains level 20 and another gains level 60 the player will not then receive the "level 80" achievement. |
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| ā | Some achievements are meta-achievements which are gained through the completion of other achievements. Meta-achievements are account-wide meaning a player can achieve them by completing the necessary achievements across multiple characters or a single character. |
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| ā | Some achievements are specific to the player's account and exist in two categories: the first are achievements that cannot be gained through the use of a single character and the other is achievements that require large investment (such as the acquisition of 250k honorable kills) which players are unlikely to achieve using a single character. In these cases criteria is shared among characters.<ref>http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/5367158/Bringing_Achievements_to_the_Account_Level-5_8_2012 - Ghostcrawler, July 2012</ref> |
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==Categories== |
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== Comparing achievements == |
== Comparing achievements == |
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Itās great to be able to see your own achievements ā but itās even better to let the world know what youāve accomplished. By right-clicking other players and selecting the appropriate option, you can compare your achievements to theirs. Every time you earn a new achievement, your accomplishment is announced to your guild and everyone in your immediate vicinity ā and the custom achievement animation and sound effect are unmistakable. Also, your achievements are viewable on the Armory, allowing you to track and show off your accomplishments via the web. |
Itās great to be able to see your own achievements ā but itās even better to let the world know what youāve accomplished. By right-clicking other players and selecting the appropriate option, you can compare your achievements to theirs. Every time you earn a new achievement, your accomplishment is announced to your guild and everyone in your immediate vicinity ā and the custom achievement animation and sound effect are unmistakable. Also, your achievements are viewable on the Armory, allowing you to track and show off your accomplishments via the web. |
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| ā | == Rewards == |
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| ā | Although completing achievements does not give characters any benefits for combat or skills, certain achievements do grant the character [[Reeking Pet Carrier|vanity pets]], [[Titanium Seal of Dalaran|vanity items]], [[Mount#Achievement system mounts|very fast mounts]], new [[:Category:Achievement tabards|tabards]] or new [[Title#Achievement_Titles|titles]]. |
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| ā | The real reward, of course, is the properly conditioned player hearing this sound: |
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| ā | /script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Spells\\AchievmentSound1.wav") |
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| ā | which instantly produces an immense feeling of satisfaction and well-being in the test subject. |
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== Availability == |
== Availability == |
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/script AchievementFrame_LoadUI(); |
/script AchievementFrame_LoadUI(); |
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/script AchievementFrame_ToggleAchievementFrame(stats); |
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| ā | == Confusion before release == |
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| ā | There was confusion among many players regarding the purpose of achievement points and whether or not it was possible to trade them in exchange for items. It was later revealed, however, that the points are in fact simply accumulated as part of a ranking system and cannot be traded. The issue was vocal in its time, but has largely been forgotten. |
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== Gallery == |
== Gallery == |
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Revision as of 15:56, 19 September 2014
Explore Outland Achievement
Achievements are self-contained game goals that offer challenges, satisfy goal-oriented players, and allow others to see your accomplishments in World of Warcraft. They were added with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.
World of Warcraft's achievements system features achievements covering every aspect of gameplay, including world exploration, PvE, PvP, professions, and character development; from the purely whimsical to the truly epic, there is something for everyone. Some achievements come with in-game rewards such as mounts, tabards, companions, and titles. All of these rewards are purely cosmetic.
Some achievements also involve completing pre-Burning Crusade instances and raids such as in order to allow newer players to experience older content that had previously been rendered obsolete.
The achievement list is expandable so additional achievements are continually added with each new World of Warcraft content update.
The achievements window
Beginning with patch 3.0.2, a new button was added(
) in the micro menu at the center of the main action bar. Clicking the button (or using the default keyboard shortcut "Y") opens up the achievements window.
The top of the window displays the total number of points received for completing achievements. Below, each achievement appears with its name, description, point value, the completion date, and a progress bar (if applicable). Some achievements expand to display a list of individual components, highlighted to show which parts the player has finished. Players can also select achievements to track as they play, similar to the quest tracker.
At the bottom of the Achievements window are the Achievements and Stats tabs. The Statistics tab shows a Statistics panel with additional statistics based achievements.
Categories
World of Warcraft's achievements come in several varieties. Some simply require specific actions to unlock, such as getting a haircut or defeating a member of each race in your opposing faction in PvP. Others involve a progress bar and require you to do something several times ā such as give out 10 hugs. Some achievements are progressive; for example, once you complete an achievement to collect 10 vanity pets, you might next be asked to collect 25. Finally, meta achievements unlock when you complete other achievements ā unlocking all World Exploration achievements (see below) unlocks a World Explorer meta achievement. Some achievements, including those that involve quests, honorable kills, items currently in your possession, skills (including professions), exploration, and reputations, are applied to your character retroactively.
To help keep track of all the different achievements you can unlock, players find the following categories in the achievements window:
- General: These achievements tend toward the whimsical, including getting a shave and haircut, eating various cuisines, gathering tons of gold, and more.
- Quests: Quest-based achievements include completing a certain number of quests and completing specific quest lines. This category contains zone-specific subcategories.
- Exploration: Youāll earn achievements by exploring each zone in the game ā and get meta-achievements when you fully explore a continent. This category also includes related achievements such as defeating rare mobs and discovering treasures and lore objects.
- Player vs. Player: This includes arena, battleground, and world Player vs. Player objectives.
- Dungeons & Raids: Every end boss of every raid and dungeon in the game grants its own achievement. This category also contains achievements for killing instance bosses within certain time limits, without the full amount of players present, or succeeding in certain other special conditions.
- Professions: Advancing to each tier of mastery in a profession earns you an achievement, and there are specific achievements for secondary skills.
- Reputation: This set of achievements includes attaining exalted reputation with each faction in the game.
- Scenarios: Introduced in
Mists of Pandaria, these are rewarded by killing bosses or completing tasks within Scenarios. - World Events: Seasonal events such as the Midsummer Festival, the Lunar Festival, and Hallows' End have specific achievements of their own. Brawler's Guild and Argent Tournament achievements are also found here.
- Pet Battles: Introduced in Mists of Pandaria, these involve collecting, fighting with, and leveling companions, through the Pet Battle System.
- Collections: Introduced in Warlords of Draenor, these include Mounts, Tabards and items added to the Toy Box.
- Garrisons: Introduced in Warlords of Draenor, these involve the building, followers, missions and monuments, through the Garrison.
- Legacy: Introduced in Warlords of Draenor, this category contains all of the deprecated achievements.[1] They are no longer obtainable and award no achievement points.
- Feats of Strength: Accomplishments that players may find difficult if not impossible to complete, including many that are no longer achievable in game, such as those granted only during certain special events. These are not worth any points and are not shown on the summary section.
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- Guild: Introduced in Cataclysm, these are credited to the guild as a whole rather than to the individual.
- Contains many of the same subcategories as seen above.
- Statistics: This contains your character's statistics of your overall game time.
Feats of Strength
Feats of Strength represent the past glories of Azeroth, and as such, players will find them very difficult ā if not impossible ā to earn. Theyāre worth no points, and unlike normal achievements, unearned Feats are not displayed in the achievements interface. Feats include old-world player vs. player ranks, obtaining rare mounts, special titles, and more.
- List of Feats of Strength achievements
Comparing achievements
Itās great to be able to see your own achievements ā but itās even better to let the world know what youāve accomplished. By right-clicking other players and selecting the appropriate option, you can compare your achievements to theirs. Every time you earn a new achievement, your accomplishment is announced to your guild and everyone in your immediate vicinity ā and the custom achievement animation and sound effect are unmistakable. Also, your achievements are viewable on the Armory, allowing you to track and show off your accomplishments via the web.
Availability
Achievement disabled
New characters are not normally able to see or use the achievement system until they are level 10.
However, plenty of achievements are obtainable prior to level 10 (such as opening an account bound companion like 
[Core Hound Pup]), and earning one will unlock the achievement interface no matter what level.
It is also possible to open the Achievement window without any achievements by using the following macro:
/script AchievementFrame_LoadUI(); /script AchievementFrame_ToggleAchievementFrame(stats);
Gallery
Quests
World Exploration
General
Patch changes
- Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Undocumented changes.
- There are three new achievement categories, Collections, Legacy and Garrisons.
Realm First! achievements will not be implemented in Warlords of Draenor.[2]
- There are three new achievement categories, Collections, Legacy and Garrisons.
- Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Introduced the Scenario and Pet Battles categories. Most achievements are now account-wide.
- Most achievements are now working with the account-wide system that will share achievements among all characters that are on the same realm.
- Most achievements are now working with the account-wide system that will share achievements among all characters that are on the same realm.
- Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Introduced the Guild achievements tab.
- Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
References
External links
Mad Achiever Find the most common achievements you miss Wow-Achievements.com A competitive achievement site! Achievement link generator (powered by Wowhead) Generate achievement links for yourself, even if you haven't officially earned them!
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