09 September 2011

why i am not a raid achieve whore

for some reason known only to the likes of God and michael morhaime, there is an achievement for getting 9000 achievement points. the largest section of the achievement landscape is that occupied by dungeon/raid achieves with 539. that's more than pvp, professions, and quests put together. ergo, many players seeking this elusive 9000 achievement point achievement plant themselves inside old raids aimed at players leveled 60 or 70 or 80. at level 85, you'd think these would be easy. most of the people going in to accrue shithills of points think the very same thing. sorry, no.

don't get me wrong, i think the flying mounts that players can obtain by completing an entire portion of the dungeon/raid achieves vary from kinda cool to really hip. most of the people who ride these mounts run the entire gambit from obnoxious pricks (the vast majority) to noble game masters (the select few.) but see, i don't need these mounts, myself. and i sure don't need the multi-faceted aggravation that comes with arranging a group and performing some basic game task in some very queer way in order to get points and a special bird. those who find this pursuit imperative can go their way and i shall go mine, just don't piss and moan when i decline your offer to go kill something in a bass-ackwards fashion to get a few points.

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