With all of my energy going into the Raiding! series recently, I admit I haven’t really been focusing on other topics. Of course, the beta for Wrath was released last night for Europe (soon for us too.) Yesterday, I missed a bit of news released by Blizzard that was talked about before; Achievements. In essence, achievements are kind of like recognition in the game for doing any number of different things. (And I do mean any number.) Tasks like giving 20 hugs, defeating every opposing race in PvP, exploring every inch of the worlds that you can, etc. It may sound stupid, but it’s something that’s just got me tickled!

OK, so I’m a bouncer in game, always have been. (I tend to jump a lot, that is.) Eventually some of my guild found a mod called ‘Historian’ that counts, among other things, how many times you’ve jumped. (Silly, yes, but it’s turned into quite the competition with a few folks.) It would be truly great if Blizzard implemented some kind of guild-wide competition thing where we’d actually get a reward for staying on top. (And, they have mentioned announcing things to the guild, so maybe this might be a possibility?)

It’s kind of stupid, but you know what? I bet this could end up being a lot of fun. You’d have really simple/silly challenges like hugging 25 people in a day, to maybe really hard ones like finishing every instance in the game. So, across the board, there will be even more things to do, but they won’t all be so serious. I think this is a great idea, and I can’t wait to see what all we can ‘achieve’ in Wrath!

Tags: achievements, blizzard, historian, jumping, wrath, wrath of the lich king