Without doubt, World of Warcraft keeps getting better and interesting as it welcomes another expansion - Wrath of the Lich King. Maybe you would like to plenty of the features that World of Warcraft brings. The achievement system is one of the most exciting features with Wrath of the Lich King. This new major feature surely suits a wide range of play styles. Achievements boosts the fun with self-contained goals giving a new meaning to challenges, satisfy goal-oriented players and shows off your accomplishments to other players in WoW.
World of Warcraft new achievements system unveils more than 500 individual achievements covering all aspects of gameplay involving world exploration, PvE, PvP, professions and character development. Some achievements come with in-game rewards such as tabards, vanity pets and titles. It makes sure that you will stand out when you proudly display these cosmetic and for fun rewards. From the purely whimsical to the truly epic, there will be something for everyone with this new feature.
In Wrath of the Lich King, you will notice a new button on your main action bar upon beginning your epic journey. Simply you have the ability to click that button to bring up the achievements window.
The top of the windows displays the total number of points you have earned after completing achievements. Each achievement appears with its name, description, point value, the completion date and a progress bar found at the bottom part. The highlighted parts are parts you've finished. Closely similar to the quest tracker are you can designate which achievements to keep track while you play. Achievement system is user-friendly thanks to its primary design goal to provide players with everything they need to know to unlock an achievement.
Surely it is rewarding to see your own list of achievements but it's twice as good to let the world know what you've successfully completed. You can easily compare your progress to other players by right clicking other players and choosing the appropriate option. Your accomplishments don't come unnoticed as they're announced to your guild and everyone in your immediate vicinity – complete with custom achievement animation and sound effect are too hard to ignore. Your achievements are also viewable on the Armory to let you track and flaunt your accomplishment through the web.
Achievements in the World of Warcraft come in various forms. Some are easy to achieve that only asks for actions to unlock such as defeating a member of each race in your opposition faction in PvP. Others show a progress bar and ask you to do something repeatedly such as give out 10 hugs. While some achievements are progressive such as collecting an additional of 25 vanity pets after you stored ten pets. Lastly, Meta achievements unlock when you fulfilled other achievements –unlocking all World Exploration achievement in turn unlocks a World Explore Meta achievement. Meta achievements include those that involve quests, honorable skills, exploration and reputation will be applied to your character retroactively. Let us take an example.
Feats of Strength represent the past glories of Azeroth will make the rewards difficult if not impossible to earn. Feats include old-world player-vs.-player ranks, obtaining rare mounts, special titles and more. It will be awarded retroactively meaning rewards will be immediately granted to your character if you qualify. Many of them will be impossible to achieve in Wrath of the Lich King. They're worth no points and are not shown in the achievements interface when unearned.