Monday, January 18th, 2010
Over at Killed in a Smiling Accident, Melmoth muses on the proclivity of players to skim quest text. I think it's fair to say that most players try to get only the gist of the quest, normally the number and type of mob to kill given conveniently at the ...
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Along with Gnomesblight getting the Wintergrasp Veteran achievement my warrior, Sapphire, has managed to keep busy. Sapphire is still trying to attain exalted status with the Argent Crusade to complete the Argent Tournament achievement list, although my casual gaming times playing World of Warcraft will make that goal last ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Gnomesblight, my death knight, has finally reached one hundred victories in the battle for Lake Wintergrasp, granting her the achievement of 'Wintergrasp Veteran'. The last few victories took a while to get under my belt, what with the Horde being so powerful at defending of late and my continued ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
I've been rather scathing of World of Warcraft's Northrend content recently, although it was partly owing to trudging through the quagmire of achievement-orientated and otherwise-pointless holiday events. Just as Winter Veil ends the Lunar Festival turns up, swiftly followed by Valentine's weekend. With so many holidays I need ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Everyone knows about Leeroy Jenkins. He is notorious enough that there is now an achievement in World of Warcraft based on his fifteen minutes of total party killing fame. Being the optimistic types, rather than having the achievement require pulling the whole room of whelps in Upper Blackrock ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
I recently wrote about the dubious value of the Going Down? 'achievement' in World of Warcraft, where Melmoth left a comment about the fuss of there being an achievement in place for being first in the realm to get to 80th level on release of the new expansion, Wrath of ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
The new World of Warcraft achievement of Going Down, awarded when a character falls 65 yards without dying, is a rather dubious honour. It seems to exist for two basic reasons. One is to cause a huge pile of skeletons to appear at the bottom of the Aldor Rise, ...
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