Ding! Achievement unlocked!
While those people who scour the web for all the latest NDA-taunting leaks from the Wrath of the Lich King Alpha are already "in-the-know", Blizzard has now officially unveiled the addition of an achievement system to World of Warcraft.
You wanted something else to do in the game? I mean, beyond the usual drive to kill the hardest raid bosses, collecting better Epic items, gathering honor or accumulating Arena ranking? Well, achievements add a whole new set of goals to aim for.
The new feature is part of the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and Blizzard is going "big" with it - at launch there will be more than 500 different achievements to collect. Gotta catch 'em all!
Read on for examples, or check out Blizzard's preview.
To help keep track of all the different achievements you can unlock, you’ll find the following categories in the achievements window:
Player-vs.-Player: This includes arena, battlegrounds, and world player-vs.-player objectives. A few examples:Hot Streak: Win 10 ranked arena matches in a row.Alterac Valley All-Star: Capture graveyards, towers, and kill the enemy leader all in one game.City Defender: Kill 50 enemy players in your faction’s capital cities.Dungeons and Raids: Every end boss of every raid and dungeon in the game grants its own achievement. Future achievements in this category may include ones for completing a run without any player deaths, with fewer than the maximum number of players, or within a certain time limit.Professions: Advancing to each tier of mastery in a profession earns you an achievement, and there are specific achievements for secondary skills (with major professions to follow).Quests: Quest-based achievements include completing a certain number of quests and completing specific quest lines. This category contains zone-specific subcategories.Events: Seasonal events such as the Midsummer Festival, the Lunar Festival, and Hallows’ End have specific achievements of their own.World Exploration: You’ll earn achievements by exploring each zone in the game -- and get meta-achievements when you fully explore a continent.Reputations: This set of achievements includes attaining exalted reputation with each faction in the game.General: These achievements tend toward the whimsical, including getting a shave and haircut (a new feature of Wrath of the Lich King), obtaining a certain number of tabards and vanity pets, falling from a great height, and more.Now all they need to add here is guild-specific achievements related to the raid bosses, and a small upgrade to Armory, and we'll even have official "Raid Progress" rankings! The little gamerscore-addict in me can't wait...
