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Who cares about achievements right? I mean its like we all play the game adn get achievements for talking to someone or walking into an area… So what?? Well finally a real achievement…. This guy completed every achievement in World of Warcraft – a meta-achievement. Everything,! that’s ALL:
- Quests
- PVP
- Reputation
- Instances… Raids
- World Events
- Professions
- Exploration
All 986 achievements were completed and every area in the game was visited by this level 80 Tauren named 小灰 (”little ash”), as reported by MMO Champion. This total of achievements includes everything prior to the launch of Wrath of the Lich King… so Fets of Strength are not included and rightly so as they are impossible ! A slow adjustment by Blizzard on their Achievement Table I might add …
So here we are again, on the verge of the final major patch of this expansion. It feels like only yesterday when we were all raging at M’uru wipes. Here’s a brief overview and reaction to the upcoming patch.
There are a LOT of changes coming to the new player experience system. Believe it or not there are still people out there that don’t play this game. I know it’s hard to believe! Between not getting dazed any more in the first five levels and rogues starting out actually dual-wielding, I’d say this is a welcome improvement for new and old players alike. Updated tooltips will help better explain what your abilities actually do to a newbie. These changes are awesome and will vastly improve new player experience.
We all get the Blizzard emails announcing great new stuff and contests, and the occasional patch updates and server tech emails (although less common now). This offer is pretty good to go along with the 5 Year Campaign, which is turning into quite a marketing effort to get some gamers back online …
Here is the text version:
“World of Warcraft is celebrating its fifth anniversary, and we’re inviting you back to Azeroth to take part in the festivities. Your account has been selected to receive 7 days of FREE game time – simply click below to claim your time and rejoin the adventure.
While you’re back in Azeroth, you’ll be able to enjoy the following new additions to World of Warcraft:
- Grab your own 5-year anniversary pet, the Onyxia Brood Whelpling, just for logging into World of Warcraft during the celebration.*
- Find the Night Elf Mohawk to get your Mohawk Grenades… and help make Azeroth look “goooood”.
- Battle the newly updated level-80 version of the fearsome dragon Onxyia in Dustwallow Marsh.
- Answer the Call of Crusade in Icecrown, and take on all-new dungeon and raid content.
And more to come… including the epic final confrontation with the Lich King himself.
We hope you join us for the World of Warcraft fifth-anniversary fun! – The World of Warcraft Team
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5 Reasons to Celebrate World of Warcraft’s 5 Year Anniversary
So what’s the big deal about the 5 Year anniversarry of World of Warcraft? in one word: ALOTLOL!
1. Get A Cool Pet! – Any character that logs into the game between now and Sunday, December 6 at 11:59 p.m. will receive an Onyxian Whelpling pet. This non-combat pet will be available for a limited time only.
2. Onyxia Raid Upgrade - Onyxia, the Brood Mother is getting a new model, a heroic mode, and a 310% speed flying mount drop. The update to Onyxia will convert the dungeon into a 10-player mode with a 25-player Heroic mode for the daft and celebrated. Here’s what Blizzard says on this “Loot will include Tier 2 helms, with stats updated to match the current level of content. There will be a special new item too: a normal drake-sized 310% speed flying mount modeled after Onyxia herself called an Onyxia Broodling. We will also be updating the encounter mechanics to be more fitting for modern raiding, but we can guarantee players will get to experience the frightening horror of deep breaths once again.”
3. World of Warcraft 5 Year Sweepstakes – Blizzard is running a 5 year Anniversarry World of Warcraft Swepstakes and will be giving out weekly prizes to players as a way to say “thanks” for being a part of the World of Warcraft community these past five years. >>>check it out
4. Dev Team Reveal - Developpers reveal their Epic stories about how the game came to be and what aspects of World of Warcraft are remarkable to them … err to their charater …. i mean to them>>> ROFL jsut check out the more than 40 interviews with the extended team here
5. The World of Warcraft Battlecry Campaign – This, also, is not bad… players take a photo of themselves with the Horde or Alliance logo in hand and submit it online. The ‘image collective’ is then organized into a mosaic and you can monitor the progress visually on the Battlecry campaign site. The greater the number of photos submitted, the more artwork Blizzard unlocks on the website. Once the total number of submissions reaches the threshold, an exclusive piece of art is revealed in a master mosaic.
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In the Land of Azeroth there are tonnes of secret NPC, Items, Weapons, and general name drops that make refrence to other movies, games or media. Here is a list of a bunch we have found while scouring the net.
Video Games
Diablo I & II � The weapon “Wirt’s Third Leg” is a reference to the character of Wirt the peg-legged boy from Diablo, and his wooden leg which you could actually pick up and wield as a weapon after Wirt’s death in Diablo II. “The Cow King’s Hide” is a piece of chest armor which can be looted from Onyxia and other random world Mobs, and it refers to The Cow King from Diablo II, located on the real Cow Level. The enemy Razorclaw the Butcher and the item Butcher’s Cleaver are references to the overlord unique monster in Diablo 1 and the item he dropped. The item Shadowfang is a reference to the sword of the same name in Diablo II. One of the tips displayed as the player logs in to the game is ‘There is no cow level’, a reference to the fact that there was no cow level in Diablo I. The phrase ‘There is no cow level’ is also the instant victory cheat code in the Blizzard RTS Starcraft. WoW players who purchase the collectors edition receive a gift coupon in-game which can be redeemed for a mini-Diablo pet.
Donkey Kong � In Un’ Goro Crater, the gorillas sometimes drop an item named “Empty Barrel”, a reference to Donkey Kong throwing barrels at Mario in the Nintendo arcade game and the continued importance of barrels in the Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong 64 series.
Cameron Diaz
Where you may know her from: There’s Something About Mary, Charlie’s Angels
What We Know: Appearantly she plays a character called Hippopotamus on Detheroc
Steel Series has announced this week that new features will be available to those who use their World of Warcraft Mouse. With the release of patch 3.2.2 you will now be able to bind your keyset from within the game using a newly added UI. The process is simple and is easily explained on Steel Series site in 10 steps. You can program the mouse with over 130 pre-set commands or create your own custom macro. Originally you would have to exit the game and use an external program the buttons individually and it would import it in, but this new feature is sure to speed up response time now that it is going straight through the game it’s self as well as give some extra points in favor of picking up this awesome piece of Warcraft Merch.