World of Warcraft’s achievements system will launch with more than 500 individual achievements covering every aspect of game-play, and our man on the inside at Blizzard has given us a few of the more common achievement titles and their respective achievements to be found when Wrath of the Lich King launches:
- Glider: Have epic shoulders that are more than twice your characters height in width.
- Opportunist: Steal at least five guild banks within a month.
- Man Eater: Obtain a flying mount by cybering with male guild members.
- True Man Eater: Obtain a flying mount by cybering with male guild members. (Female players only)
- Mercenary: Join at least ten raiding guilds within a week with the same character.
- Triumph of Hope over Experience: Join at least fifty PUGs.
- Outraged: Use the phrase “slap in the face” in at least one hundred forum posts.
- Overcompensator: Have an epic weapon that’s more than twice your character’s height in length.
- Irony Champion: Shout three hundred times in the general channel for spammers to stop flooding the general channel.
- Abasement: Maintain a seven-days-a-week raid schedule for at least four months.
- Ridickeweluss: Attempt to use the word ‘ridiculous’ in a forum post and fail miserably.
- Cavernous Cakehole: Type two thousand words in ALL CAPS.
- Milliner: Possess at least 15 hats.
- Drama Tank: Quit and rejoin the same guild at least five times.
- All Dressed Up and Nowhere To Go: Join at least ten PUGs that stand outside of an instance for half an hour waiting for a tank or healer, then disband.
- Nemesis of Originality: Create four characters with names that are rubbish variations on Legolas.
- Validated: Link fifty items in guild chat in one play session.
- Dust Collector: Spend two hundred hours posing outside the auction house or bank.
- Lust Collector: Spend two hundred hours as a naked dancing female night elf outside the auction house or bank.
- Wganker the G is Silent: Gank one hundred players that are at least half your character’s level.
- The Cycle Continues: Get ganked fifty times in Stranglethorn Value by a level 70, then return at level 70 and gank at least fifty players.
- Sun Tzu of the Battlegrounds: Shout eighty helpful commands in battlegrounds like “HEAL!” and “OMG U NOOBS!!!”
- You Don’t Want To Do That: Instruct at least three classes that you have never played how to perform their role, and what their spec should be.
- Horse’s Ass: Sit with your big, fat, show-off mount in such a way as to prevent other players from accessing an NPC for thirty hours.
- Bedhopper: Co-habit with three different guild members in real life.
- Guildhopper: Co-habit with three members of different guilds in real life.
- Mormon: Co-habit with three different guild members simultaneously in real life.
- The Greatest Person in the World Ever: Win at least one arbitrary race against a level one character whilst on your epic mount, or one duel against a level one character whilst wearing your complete set of Tier 7.
- Practising for Real Life: Spend three days begging for gold in a capital city.
- Always Doing Doughnuts: Never remain stationary for more than one second before jumping/running around in circles again.
- Moustache: Loot twenty quest objectives/gathering nodes from under the nose of a person who’s just pulled a mob away from them.
- Full House of Originality: Have characters named after an individual from Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Dragonlance, The Belgariad and the Chronicles of Narnia.
- Blizzard’s Bitch: Achieve more than one hundred achievements the day Wrath of the Lich King is launched on all five of your level seventy characters.
- Sarcastic Blogger: Make up at least twenty five vaguely insulting achievements.