Well, it's been a pretty long road, but yesterday I finally broke 10k achievement points. For a little backstory: I held the #2 spot for achieve points in guild for a long time without really giving much thought to it, the #1 spot was over 2000 points ahead of me and I was of the midset "whatever, never gonna catch him so..." I was fine with my plight, until recently another guildie was complaining on vent about looking for more achieves to do, and I happened to look at the rankings and he had stolen my #2 spot! You know I couldn't have that noise, right? So the journey began.
I started by aiming for easy-to-get achievements (you might be surprised how many you can easily get just by being aware that they are there, try flipping through your achievements menu and picking a delicious one to taste today!), mostly in the general tab, critters/pets/mounts, things like that. Then I looked to professions, and lo, another feast of fabulous easy points.
Got a little rougher after this, I decided to aim for all the dungeonmaster achieves. Classic wasn't too bad, harder to get to the places than to solo them, in most cases (wtf is up with Wailing Caverns? like srsly...). Outland was simple, at least on regular, however the a good chunk of the Heroics in Outland require a key bought with reputation from Burning Crusade factions, I had some of these, had to work on some others. I of course already had all the Wrath of the Lich King dungeons and heroics achivements, and at this point Cataclysm too.
After grinding a little rep in Outland to finish up the necessary dungeons, I set my sights on Outland reputation achievements. They are many, and they have a great range from absolutely simple (Honor Hold) to absolutely rediculous (Sha'tari Skyguard). This is the first place I didn't aim for the whole pie, content with just eating the easier slices. Farmed plenty of dungon clears for a net of about half the available Outland rep factions, and said 'enough.'
At this point, I had well solidified my #2 spot back, and even got very very close to the #1 spot, so I figured "what the hell, right?" and embarked on my Loremaster journey. Super painful grind, though surely easier than it was pre-cata. It was interesting to say the least, seeing the places where I quested on my earlier toons fully redesigned. They really did change alot, the flow of the questing is so much better, which not only helps the leveling questers, but did a number on the Loremastering as well. The most helpful and notable change here was the individual zone loremaster achieves, it was a really awesome way to rack up the points. At 10 points per zone and a crazy number of zones to complete, just one continent was enough to put me in a solid lead above the #1 guy. I saved the second continent and went to Northrend (which I seem to have dungeoned through, since all the zones only had a handfull of quests done in them...), then headed to Outland (which is by far, the hardest loremaster achieve to get, imo, even in 85 tank gear oneshotting mostly everything and never dying). I finished up the second continent last, was nice and easy after the rough Outland grind.
So at this point I was about 2k achieve points above the #1 spot, and fast approaching 10k, but running out of achievements to actually get. I wound up picking up a few more here-and-there type of achieves where I could, but didn't think I was gonna break the 10k, until last night! I found a Ulduar 25man achievement run. While these are not numerous as far as achievement points go (me having dont a bunch of them in current content and in late-wrath achieve groups), there were still a few I needed to clean up. Wound up netting me another nice handful of points and putting me over the 10k mark, right on the 4th of July! (which by the way was the original goal of the guildie who put me on this achieve rampage, and he's still sitting down there in the 8k range to date).
Moving forward, screw achievement points, I'll get whatever I happen to get, until someone comes along to threaten my lead again. I may work on all the same things over again on the Hunter (who thankfully already has Outland loremaster complete) and shoot for my former "2 in the top 5" status, as he's fallen off to around #14 by now, having not played him nearly at all since... current content Ulduar.
Finally, I would like to extend a Thank You to the previously mentioned, unnamed guildies currently in the #2 and #3 spots, without the spirit of competition I might just have never got here.
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