MIA Achievements and More

I love achievements, that’s pretty much why I play the game or at least what I spent most of my playtime working towards. I wrote in another post a long time ago, when blizz first brought out account wide achievements, that I thought they’d missed out on including some. Well it’s not just account wide achievements that are missing, there are other achievements that I think they could have added.

Blizz said in a blue post somewhere that they didn’t want to add achievements for the sake of having them, that they wanted achievements to mean something. Considering some of the achievements that are in game I’ll take that statement with a pinch of salt, or at least assume that we aren’t on the same page about what ‘means something’. Then again I love achievements, and I suppose they make the system for people that don’t care for them too.

Anyway, this is just a list of achievements that I think should be in game and that aren’t. Let me know if I’ve missed any.

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Mog My Closet: The Willbreaker

This was another attempt of mine to make a new prot set, for the start of level 90 at least. I actually like this one a lot and I’m collecting the pieces to put it together. I started with the sword and I worked the rest of the set up from that.

I hope someone out there likes it as much as I do. Oh and this is only for paladins as some of the pieces are class restricted.

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Mog My Closet: Runeblade of Baron Rivendare

Anyone who’s run Stratholme, hundreds of times for the mount, will understand the joy you feel when you’re numbly looting and see an epic item. When you realise it’s not the mount, it takes that elation away, leaving you feeling worse than seeing yet another Helm of the Executioner. However, that does the Runeblade an injustice as it’s an awesome looking sword, much too awesome looking to sit in the bank.

Be warned though that if you try for the Runeblade you will drive yourself just as insane as trying for the mount.

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Bringing transmogrification to the account level

In Mists of Pandaria mounts, pets, titles and achievements are going to the account level. What you have on one character you will have on all characters. There are some exceptions most notably a large amount of pvp associated items. However, for the most part these features are going account wide.

Transmog is a purely cosmetic feature which allows further customization of our characters. We have to choose what gear we wear because of stats and sometimes our personal tastes mean we hate the tier set. In the past we’d wear it as we had no choice, now we can wear it for the stats and transmog into something we do like the look of.

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Mog My Closet: The Achiever

I put this together in MogIt when I was searching for my Mists look, for the start of level 90 anyway, and I like it well enough but not enough to ever collect it. I don’t know if it’s the blending of the colours but it’s just not my cup of tea. However, I like it well enough to share it with the world, perhaps in the hope that it’ll suit someone else, better than it suits me.

You will need the 25 tabards achievement for this look.

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Mog My Closet: Argent Crusade

I was thinking of what my new look would be in Mists. I’ve been running the Argent Tournament everyday getting those mounts now we’re on the expansion downtime. I put the tabard on to teleport there and then I take it off again. So, when I was needing inspiration for a transmog set I thought “why not use the tabard”. I won’t be using this one myself for some time due to some pieces being from T11 heroics. Therefore I thought I’d share it.

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Mog My Closet: The Fire Core

I love this set so much. It took me several months to put it together due to the random nature of drops. I wanted a Firelands/Molten Core set that wasn’t a dress (which both T12 and Judgement were) as I do loathe dresses – particularly on my paladin. You could say this is my version of T12.

I hope someone out there likes it as much as I do. Oh and this is only for paladins as some of the pieces are class restricted.

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Mog My Closet: A Robe For All Occasions

It’s no secret I don’t like dresses. My friend who introduced me to warcraft said long before I realised my mage shouldn’t be my main, “if you hate dresses so much you shouldn’t play a mage”. Anyway, I’ve discovered some of them look alright, or at least they do when modelled by my paladin, maybe my mage makes everything look ugly. This isn’t a standard transmog set post, more a collection of robes from the hundreds that are available, or in other words when I wind up laughing at my own jokes.

I put this together some time ago and then never got round to formatting this post properly. It’s been sitting in drafts for a while so it’s time it got posted. I have lots of saved posts ready to go right now. Let’s have a fun one today.

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Mog My Closet: Scarlet Monastery (Lookalike)

When I was writing the post about transmogrification I suddenly thought that I could do a weekly feature on it. I love creating transmog sets and I don’t have the time (or the bank space) to collect half of them. Therefore it seems like a good plan to share them and if someone likes the set then they can use it themselves. I’ll post this on Tuesdays so it’ll be something to look at during the downtime Wednesday mornings. I forgot to post this on Tuesday and I haven’t written one for today yet so thought I’d post this today. From now on it’ll be Tuesdays. Starting off today with a Scarlet Monastery set for plate wearers who are locked out of the mail after the level 40 armor specialization.

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Playing dress up

When patch 4.3 dropped, we didn’t just get a new raid tier to play with, we got two new game changing features, LFR and transmogrification. Before transmog your character wore whatever gear had the best stats and if they looked like a clown, they looked like a clown. Tier sets had a cohesive look but tier doesn’t cover everything so the boots might not match. Even if everything did match it might not be to your taste, I personally loathe paladin tier sets that look like dresses. So transmog is a huge feature.

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