MeinMMO’s demon Cortyn has completed one of the most annoying achievements in World of Warcraft. And now the oven is off – at least for now.
There is a lot to do in World of Warcraft. Especially if you like to collect achievements – just like me. For some achievements I work on them in stages, others I try to complete “in one go” if they can be finished during an evening.
However, hardly any achievement has been as time-consuming as “Lay Down Your Arms” (“A Farewell to Arms”).
This is the major meta achievement for the expansion Battle for Azeroth. However, the achievement was only introduced to the game many years later, with patch 11.0.5.
The achievement arrived along with the Sirens’ Isle:
Basically, most of this achievement requires pure diligence. You can work on reputation factions, complete various collection achievements, or catch up on some story aspects that you might not have completed on Horde or Alliance side.
That was okay.
But a few aspects of the achievement were really, really annoying.
Because some partial achievements could only be completed if you finished very specific world quests in very specific ways.
What doesn’t sound too complicated in theory comes with relatively meticulous control. Because some of the world quests only appear every few weeks and – in the case of invasions – are then even active only for a few hours. So, you have to check for the quests not only daily, but preferably several times a day, to not miss the small time window in the month when you could complete the achievement.
But even when the desired world quest is active, you have to pay close attention to finish the quest exactly in the way the achievement requires.
In the invasion of the Blood Trolls, for example, you have to complete the quest in about 30 seconds. That’s not so easy, because a single wrong click can already mean that you can no longer achieve the success in this bombardment quest.
“No problem, just try again” – Yeah, right.
Because once the quest is completed, it’s gone with that character, and you either have to log over to a second character or hope that the world quest appears again soon.
Even crazier are world quests where you have to act completely unintuitively. In “Sand Fishing” for example, you have to collect 5 rare items that drop from the quest enemies – but only as long as you are actively on this quest. This, in turn, means that you must not loot the items necessary for the quest, because otherwise the quest will be completed and you cannot continue farming.
Some of these tasks have driven me to sheer frustration at times. But hey, now I’m done. And I feel a bit burnt out. Because this achievement was one of my “big goals” that I had in World of Warcraft currently. Now I have Jani as a mount, but also a certain emptiness and less desire to log in.
I don’t know if the achievement and the mount were worth the effort. But hey, there were 100 achievement points, and the bar for “completed achievements” has become a tiny bit bigger again. I guess I deserve a break. At least until Patch 11.1 Lorenhalt, which will start in almost 2 weeks …
