Hello all!

I'm Skorne, a Night Elf rogue PvP junkie who will be starting up a column discussing all things PvP. To kick things off I thought I would do a quick post outlining a bunch of easy PVP achievements that you may want to pursue. Personally I didn't plan to pursue Achievements before I heard about PvP achievements. But now once I started I can't stop! And I recently got my 50,000 Honor Kill Achievement.

How far you choose to take your achievement hunt is up to you and its pretty easy to underestimate the agony value of some of the achievements out there, but if you are keen on getting a few quick PvP achievements under your belt that require minimal effort check out the ones listed below

 An Honorable Kill - Achieve an honorable kill. Step foot into a battleground, a pvp zone or simply kill a flagged player!

 100 Honorable Kills - Get 100 honorable kills.

 Know Thy Enemy - Get an honorable, killing blow on five different races.

 Make Love, Not Warcraft - Emote /hug on a dead enemy before they release corpse.

 That Takes Class - Get an honorable, killing blow on one of each class.

 Alterac Valley Victory - Win Alterac Valley.

 Arathi Basin Victory - Win Arathi Basin.

 Eye of the Storm Victory - Win Eye of the Storm.

 Strand of the Ancients Victory - Win Strand of the Ancients.

 Warsong Gulch Victory - Win Warsong Gulch.

 Leaning Tower - Destroy a tower in Wintergrasp.

 Wintergrasp Victory - Win the ...

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"Achievement junkie," "Achievement whore," "no-life gamer." I have been called all these and more, and the simple reason is I have almost double the achievement points of any of my friends (8500 almost), and while I may be missing a lot of them, I enjoy going for the ones I can.

My name is iwishiknew. In real life I do Data work for the military, have a server in my room, and am currently planning my geek tatoos. In game I am a warrior tank that is hooked on achievements and running dungeons to get rare drop mounts (got 15000+ rep JUST from the tiger boss in ZG and have yet to see a single drop.) I am leveling a rogue to help with the insane title and trying to find a good guild that does 25 man raids and goes back to finish off Naxx/Maly/ect achievements. I am currently on Nordrassil. I am also a large lore nerd and get my hands on any WoW books I can and spend hours reading wowwiki and other lore sites.

I am currently debating on what type of article I should write, if I want to do a GTA type, a "lore behind", or something else. Feel free to pop into the forums to PM me a suggestion or post in my thread in general chat.

Is it Monday? If so, Get That Achievement's here to spur your lazy butt into motion! Our good friend Vyndrian picks an achievement, and then you go out and achieve it! What'll it be this week?

Hey gang, Vyndrian here. This week's GTA I leave in your hands. Pick your poison. Do you choose to align with the brutal Frenzyheart Tribe, or the wussy Oracles? I chose the Frenzyheart because they are amazing. Who cares about green proto-drakes anyway?

If you'll remember, this month's 30-Day GTA is Wintergrasp Veteran. How are you all progressing on that? Are you fighting it out? Losing much? Or are you getting ten honorable kills and then AFKing in the courtyard? Be honest!

That's all for me this week, gang. Next week is a major PvP GTA, so be playing that Wintergrasp to sharpen your skills! Until then!

Is it Monday? If so, Get That Achievement's here to spur your lazy butt into motion! Our good friend Vyndrian picks an achievement, and then you go out and achieve it! What'll it be this week?

Hey gang, Vyndrian here. This week's GTA is A Simple Re-Quest. This one is a piece of cake, and if you cannot accomplish it, I weep for you atop my 9,945 achievement points. Just do a single daily quest for five days in a row. That's it. Now, mind you, you must do them within 24 hours of each other. So if you do a daily at 9 am on Monday, but then you don't do a daily until 10 am on Tuesday, it resets. That's how it's tracked. So make sure you do a daily quest in that 24-hour period.

And how is everyone doing on the 30-Day GTA, Wintergrasp Veteran? I got it awhile back but I've been making a renewed effort to play Wintergrasp this month to rack up honor for gems for money for Cataclysm. What do YOU do with all your honor?

That's all for me this week, gang. Please don't forget that for us living in the USA, Daylight Savings Time begins this coming Sunday! We lose an hour of sleep! So get out there and make the most of the time you have! Until next week!

Is it Monday? If so, Get That Achievement's here to spur your lazy butt into motion! Our good friend Vyndrian picks an achievement, and then you go out and achieve it! What'll it be this week?


Hey gang, Vyndrian here. This week's GTA will be about fishing! Changes to the game a few months ago made it possible to fish anywhere with any skill level. So go sit by the Dalaran fountain, throw back a few Cherry Grog, and get yourself this week's GTA, The Coin Master! See if you can beat my record of two hours from start to finish.

And since it's the start of a new month, why not get a new 30-Day GTA as well? I figure it's about time for PvP to rear its ugly head in here again, so this month's 30-Day GTA is Wintergrasp Veteran! Soon we'll be back in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms fighting for Tol Barad, and Northrend's Wintergrasp will be all but a distant memory. So now's the time to crack down and get those wins. And don't come crying to me if your server is unbalanced! Win all by yourself! Make it happen!

All right, that's all for me this week, gang. I'm still running around trying to talk to Lunar Festival elders before time runs out. Perhaps an Arthas kill this week as well. We'll see! Until next week!

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Hey gang, Vyndrian here. The Bread Winner is this week's GTA. Get 10,000g from quest rewards. Easy enough, right? Then you can use that money to buy yourself a pretty ring, perhaps the Ring of the Kirin Tor? That's right, hardcore folks, I want you to buy the ring priced at 6,800g. Don't worry, a second hearthstone is more than worth it.

Hey gang, Vyndrian here. Another Monday, another GTA. Every week I look back upon previous GTAs and I try to make sure I keep everything well-rounded. Some Professions, some Dungeons & Raids, some Player vs. Player, etc. I've done a good job so far! But this week, I'm going to be nasty. I'm going to assign something that nobody ever wants to do.

Step Into The Arena. In the GTA game that I host on the WoW Achievement forums (almost up to 350 pages now!), I let players ask not to be assigned certain areas. For instance, "Nothing too grindy please," or "nothing from rep tab plz." Far and away the most unrequested area is arena. I get it. People who don't PvP never arena, and even those who do BGs tend to shy away from arena. If you're into arena, you're generally VERY into it.

But I say what gives? Sure, arena games are the greatest source of frustration for me in WoW. I have never sworn in my life like I do after three or four matches. The only other time I've physically thrown my keyboard across the room was during the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza.

However, as the sole inventor and creator of Get That Achievement, I can say with authority that the whole point of the game (aside from having fun), is to stretch your boundaries in the game and try to attain goals even you wouldn't have set for ...

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Hey gang, Vyndrian here. I usually try to get the GTA post up before noon, but today I had an emergency morning root canal! Fun stuff. It all worked out. Anyway! This week's assignment is actually rather fun. Higher Learning is an achievement that can be done here and there, it's not something you grind. You must find the magical books of Dalaran and read them. The tricky part is that they are all rare spawns, and share spawn locations with books that do not count for the achievement. Check your server's forums, there may be a book reading channel. Since the books may be read by anyone when they spawn, create a support group to get it done. Kirin Tor Familiars for all!

The other thing I want to do this week is unveil my new GTA idea: The 30-Day GTA! There are so many achievements that I can't assign for people to do in a weeks' time since they require a lot of time or hard work or just plain grinding. That's why I'll be doing the 30-Day GTA. At the start of every month I'll be naming an achievement that must be completed within the month. And this month's GTA is 25,000 Honorable Kills! These are easy enough to farm. Just play a few Isle of Conquests every day and get into Wintergrasp. Honorable Kills are cheap and don't even require victories to get. Even if you have zero HKs, you can get 25,000 before the month is up. You can easily make 1,000 a day from the strategy I gave you. Just stick near crowds of people and kill kill kill! If you already have this achievement, go for 50,000 or 100,000!

Hey gang, Vyndrian here. You all enjoying the new content released with 3.3? Good. I tend to ramble, so let's make this week short and sweet:

If you prefer an easy week, go for Don't Look Up in the Pit of Saron. Watch for circles on the ground. As soon as those circles disappear, an icicle will fall. Be out of its way! Might want to get a dedicated group for it, those LFG PuGs are just awful (at least mine are, every last one of 'em).

If you want a challenge this week, go for Boned! (10 player). That's right, you heard me. I threw you a raid achievement. This isn't your mother's GTA. But seriously, unless you do 500 DPS and wear cloth as a Ret paladin, or you're a hunter who never uses his pet because "it's just gonna die anyway," this achievement isn't hard. Get your friends and guildies and go do it. It counts towards the new frost wyrm mounts!

Okay, that's it. Have a safe week, enjoy your pugs (I see plenty of people with them already). Don't forget to visit my thread Get That Achievement! for more GTA goodness. And again, my e-mail is vyndrian at wow-achievements dot com. Now go out there and Get That Achievement!

Hey gang, Vyndrian here. Okay, show of hands. Who actually tried for all the PvP achievements last GTA? Anyone? If you raised your hand, I want you to know I am patting you on the back and also thinking you're silly for raising your hand to a computer screen.

This week's GTA will be pretty simple, I think, and I shall preface it with a story. Saturday morning I was experiencing some heart pain, so that evening I went to the ER and they ran some tests, did an ultra-sound, and made me stay overnight. They did some more tests to determine the fraction/detraction rate of my heart or whatever it was. Reaction/mistraction? Something like that. Turns out it was a false alarm and I'm okay. But! As I was sitting there, I went, "I wonder how many players use Heavy Frostweave Bandages these days. I wonder how many used 1,000 Frostweave Cloth just for 10 achievement points?"

Hey guys!

Fun week on this site imo. I'm really happy with how our two extra writers are turning out. The GTA this week was written very well, and I hope a lot of you got into the battlegrounds and tried to get as many achievements as you could!

Not only that, but our mention of Warcraftpets.com got some recognition over on their site by Doobjanka (which has since been replaced by her comment today, boy that girl can talk).

So, I'll be heading to Cape Cod this weekend. Figured I needed a break from WoW for a weekend, as I just hit 80 on my fifth toon last week. However, I want to know what YOU'RE going to be doing this weekend? Working on the GTA? Any achievement you're aiming for? If you need help, write a post, we have about 20 or so people who post on virtually every comment lol, and I love it :)

Have a great weekend!

(oh... and if you haven't gotten a Grunty card yet... December 13th is going to be a good day for you... dun dun dunnnnnnnnnn)

Hey gang, Vyndrian here. Well, I'm excited to say that I got Battlemaster this past week...completely accidentally. I'd been sitting on Defense of the Ancients since February. One day the PvP daily was Strand, so I queued in and got it. So this week's GTA is going to focus on BGs!

If you like Warsong Gulch, go for Save The Day. This is very easy to rig if you get a few friends or even some helpful PuGers!

If Arathi Basin is your thing, your task is Overly Defensive. So so difficult, but oh so sweet when you get it. Depending on how badly you do, To The Rescue! might be possible as well.

Like Alterac Valley? Take a stab at To the Looter Go the Spoils. 1/100 chance to get it with every player loot!

How about Eye of the Storm (my least favorite BG)? I'll give you an easy one: Bloodthirsty Berserker. If you're a pacifist or a healer, just do Storm Capper.

And finally, for Strand, I think The Dapper Sapper isn't too much to ask for. You get credit for walls that have already been destroyed, so be absolutely no help to your team and stay on the beach blasting Blue and Green when they're at Yellow. It'll take 10-12 games, depending on how efficient you are.

So there you are! Sort of a Choose Your Own Adventure GTA week, I suppose. Of course, the hardcore ...

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Hey gang, Vyndrian here. This is my first post on WoW-Achievements, so let me take a quick second to thank Mep for having me here. I'm excited to be hosting Get That Achievement every Monday, and I promise I'll pick some juicy ones for you each week.

I thought I'd mix things up a bit and give you all an option: Easy GTA or Hardcore GTA. If you want an Easy GTA week, get cooking! Your goal is Pilgrim. I expect everyone will be going for this, but if you just want an easy week, pat yourself on the back and take the week off after getting your new title and pet.

However...if you really want to be hardcore (and who doesn't?), you'll take the plunge and go for Mr. Pinchy's Magical Crawdad Box. Fish in Highland Mixed Schools in Terrokar Forest (Blackwind Lake in Skettis, Lake Jorune above Stonebreaker, and Lake Ere'Noru above Allerian Stronghold) and hold your breath. I've heard reports that they increased Mr. Pinchy's drop rate post-3.0, so get this achievement out of the way so you can focus on the new fishing contest coming out!

Well, that's all for this week. In the coming weeks, I plan on adding screenshots or short videos to further guide GTAers, and I'll see if I can't bug Mep into giving me an e-mail account on the website too, so I can have you guys ...

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Hey everyone!

So, I know I said I was going to have a new writer for GTA this week, sadly he's sick with the swine flu or something, so I'm just kinda pulling this one out of the air.

They Love Me In That Tunnel. This is an easy enough achievement that you can do it with one day's worth of grinding. Give it a shot! It's one of the easier reputations to grind out.

Mep

Hey everyone!

Sorry for the late update today. Been pretty busy.

So, I figured out why the achievement icons on the profile pages haven't been showing up properly. I'm not going to bother fixing this quite yet, but will be fixing it with the revamp of the website.

This week's GTA is Master of Arms.

It's a REALLY easy achievement, but because it takes a little bit of time to do, a lot of people forget about it.

I have some GREAT news!

For those of you who've been to the official WoW forums, you may have seen Vyndrian, Moon Guard - US doing his Get that Achievement game, which Monday posts are roughly based off of.

He has volunteered to be in charge of the GTA on Monday mornings, making him our first volunteer writer for WoW-Achievements. Which I'm excited about :)

Which... is one of the ideas I have for the new website layout. If things go well, I'll be asking for some volunteer writers to help fill this site out a bit. If you have a good idea, and are willing to write for the site, shoot me an e-mail, mep @ wow-achievements dot com. You might just get to have your articles read by several thousand people a day :) (Good experience for wanna-be journalists, as websites are a usable reference for trying to get a job.)

Anyway, gotta get back to the RL.

Hey guys,

This week's GTA should be fairly obvious.

Hallowed Be Thy Name - Alliance
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Horde

You can find guides to every part of it, here.

Check the below post of the winner of the weekend Grunty Contest :)

Hey everyone,

So this week's GTA is the hardest of all the Halloween Achievements. Sinister Calling.

To get this achievement you need to get

Sinister Squashling
Hallowed Helm

You can get it either from killing the Headless Horseman, or from getting lucky and finding it in a Treat Bag or Crudely Wrapped Gift.

Pretty easy, but totally reliant on RNG.

Good luck!

Also, there has been a bug announced related to the Candy Buckets in Northrend.


P.S. If you think of it while in game, take a couple of Halloween Screenshots! Submit them to WoW-Screenshots ...

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Hello all!

Welcome to Monday! I just woke up (it's 9:44 a.m.) gotta love days off from work amirite?

My records show about 62% of people have the achievement The Keymaster, that's not THAT many... and it's certainly something that people may put off over and over again being as how it's a bit of a pain.

So.... go out and do it :)

Here's a guide provided by our friends over at Warcraft Overachiever

As for other news, over on MMO-Champion there is a post about a new non battle pet that we'll be getting (if you have a battle.net account). Which you really should at this point... (If you don't, you won't be able to play after November 12th).

This week's GTA is Grand Master Cook.

Now, this is an achievement that I'd be willing to bet, most of you have... however, Pilgrim's Bounty, and Winterveil both have cooking quests associated with them, which will require a minimum of 350 cooking. So, technically all you'd need to do is get 350, but then you wouldn't be an achiever would you?

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On a side note, only three more days (including today) to get your entries in for the Violet Proto-drake contest. I will accept entries until 11:59 p.m. on October 7th. Good luck! Been some great entries so far.

Figured I'd go PvP this week and choose Vehicular Gnomeslaughter.

This achievement requires you to kill 100 players in Wintergrasp using a vehicle or a cannon.

Shouldn't be too hard to do over the course of a week, amirite?

As for the "new change" I told you guys about last week, it's well underway but needs some time before I can make it live.

Sorry for the short post this morning, busy day ahead of me :)

P.s. There are no achievements for the Harvest Festival, and the Harvest festival is NOT the Pilgrim's Day

Some of you may wonder why I didn't make it What A Long, Strange Trip Its Been. Well, I figured EVERYONE needs this achievement, despite if they are going to be able to get their proto-drake or not. Thus... I want you to get your Brewmaster title.

Good luck :)

Also, we've had a bit of a collaboration of best running paths for Ram Racing. If you've got a good path, go ahead and post it. Submit pictures or whatever you'd like, feel free to e-mail them to me at mail @ wow-achievements.com and I'll put them up for you :)

ALSO! Don't forget about our CONTEST to win a "Grunty the Murloc Marine!"

You can see some of the entries here