Glory Of The Hero

Over the course of the last few weeks, I’ve been devoting almost all of my playing time towards finishing up the rather daunting, to me at least, Glory of the Hero achievement. I’m proud to say that as of last week I wrapped up the last few required achievements needed and now I’m flying around on the fancy Red Proto-Drake you see above.

I wanted to write a short post about the individual achievements we struggled with the most so that anyone else thinking about taking a run at this has a basic idea of the challenges ahead of them.

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One More Mount For The Week

I was minding my own business today, running some Argent Tournament dailies, when a tweet from Danial at Less QQ, More PewPew caught my eye. He mentioned getting the Ambassador title on his character and I immediately realized that since I recently got that title as well I now had enough Exalted reputations to finish the Leading the Cavalry achievement.

It turns out this achievement is painfully easy to complete once you have Exalted reputation with the five main cities of your faction. Before I got started I only had 21 out of the 50 mounts I needed to complete the achievement and get the Reins of the Albino Drake reward. A few quick trips to each Horde city and I was buying up 8 and 80 gold mounts left and right. I had to finish up in Nagrand, of all places, to buy a few Talbuks and I was done.

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Bestowing Some Titles

I realized on the very first day of the Argent Tournament that this would be a great opportunity for me to finally finish off the reputations I needed for the Ambassador of the Horde achievement.

Well, after faithfully doing the Argent Tournament dailies and turning in dozens and dozens of Champion’s Writs I was down to one last reputation: Silvermoon City. I burned through the last few thousand points of reputation with the extremely handy A Donation of Runecloth repeatable quest.

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Achievement Guide: The Diplomat

Over the last week or so, when I wasn’t doing dailies, I was trying to wrap up the grindtastic The Diplomat achievement for the cool title and WoW street cred it offers. This achievement requires Exalted status with three somewhat out of the way factions: the Kurenai (for Alliance), the Mag’har (for Horde) and then Sporeggar and finally Timbermaw Hold.

Kurenai / Mag’har

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Achievement Guide: Did Somebody Order a Knuckle Sandwich?

This particular Achievement Guide for Did Somebody Order a Knuckle Sandwich? is a little unorthodox for two reasons: #1, I can’t guarantee you’ll actually complete the achievement using this technique and #2 it’s only viable for people who have yet to finish the infamous Wrathgate quest line.

The Wrathgate event, for those of you that don’t know, is a long series of quests in the Dragonblight zone that culminate in an excellent quest called The Battle for the Undercity. I won’t give any plot spoilers for those of you who haven’t seen this yet but, during this particular quest, you are more or less a spectator to events happening around you. You can still fight and attack but, in reality, what you do has no particular effect on the outcome of the quest.

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Achievement Guide: For The Horde!

The For The Horde! achievement, which is really the culmination of four separate achievements I’ll detail in a second, was one of those things I never thought I would be able to do in my WoW career. On my server, with a 2-to-1 Alliance to Horde ratio, I’ve seen countless failed attempts at this achievement and the quest for the awesome Black War Bear.

But on early Friday morning, when the server population was very low someone started a PUG and I decided to join. After a long wait we finally had 40 people and we were ready to give it our best shot. Here is the order we went in and our technique in each of the Alliance cities:

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Video: Bleeding Bloodhoof

I always play on the Horde side of things but I’m posting a video of an Alliance achievement today. I was lucky enough to hop on my bank alt, Daugherty, in Thunder Bluff just as a giant swarm of dazed and confused Alliance players arrived to take their run at the Bleeding Bloodhoof achievement.

So sit back and enjoy the four and a half minute movie of Alliance players running in the wrong direction, heading too far up the giant totem pole and finally succeeding in another successful city raid on Greymane against zero Horde resistance.

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Achievement Guide: Critter Gitter

The Critter Gitter achievement is a requirement for the Chef title so I thought I’d put together a quick guide showcasing the easiest place to complete this task. Before you get started make sure you have ten Critter Bites on you. You can find the recipe for the Bites at your faction’s cooking trainer in Dalaran.

I think the easiest place to finish this achievement is in Icecrown at the coordinates 65, 21. If you fly to the Shadow Vault, in the far north of the zone, you can get to this location on your flying mount in a matter of seconds. At 65, 21 you’ll find a ice flow load of Glacier Penguins. It’s simply a matter of landing and throwing ten of them your Critter Bites. I’ve attached a, most likely unnecessary, video to this post showing you this achievement in action.

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