The Achievement Hunter – Two Birds in a Bush

The Achievement Hunter is a column highlighting fun or interesting achievements in WoW and tips for completing them.

So you’ve topped out your 4000 JP in preparation for the expansion, finished leveling your professions and decided to ease up on doing dungeons and raids.  What’s a good altoholic to do for the next week until Cataclysm comes out?  If you’re like me, you are rounding out the easy achievements you have been slacking on.  Here’s a couple of easy achievements you can knock out in the same area in short order.  Critter Glitter and Friend or Fowl.  A quick guide to the achievements:

Critter Glitter – Make 10 Critter Bites in advance and head to (69,64) in Howling Fjord which has plenty of turkey critters.  This achievement is also part of the Hail to the Chef meta achievement which rewards the Chef title.

Friend or Fowl – This can be easily done in the same spot as the first achievement, just kill 15 turkeys.  There is plenty of time so don’t panic.

The Achievement Hunter – Pilgrim’s Bounty

The Achievement Hunter is a column highlighting fun or interesting achievements in WoW and tips for completing them.

One day you are stuffing yourself with turkey, cranberries and pie and the next day the world ends and your city is in ruins.  Holidays wait for no patches and even as the world burns, many of you are still working on the Pilgrim’s Bounty Achievements.  If you are just starting here are links to good guides:

http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/20/the-overachiever-guide-to-pilgrims-bounty-2010-saturday/

http://www.wowwiki.com/Pilgrim%27s_Bounty

The big change to be aware of is planning travel with the removal of Dalaran’s portals to capital cities.  Even with the travel difficulties, this is still the best chance this coming expansion for you to finish this achievement.  Once everyone leaves Dalaran for Stormwind and Orgimmar, good luck trying to finish Turkey Lurkey.

If you are starting out a new race/class combo character don’t miss the opportunity to do some easy cooking leveling.  Using the recipes from the event you can easily level cooking from 1-350.

The Achievement Hunter – Children’s Week Wrap Up

The Achievement Hunter is a column highlighting fun or interesting achievements in WoW and tips for completing them.

Children’s Week is over, thank god!  Its taken me a few days to get to writing this wrap up but I had a few things I wanted to try before I published the article, as I’ll explain below.  So how did Children’s Week go for me?  It was a mixed bag, I did achieve more than I expected but less than I hoped.  More, after the break.

Achievement Hunter – Shortcuts for Orphan Quest Line

The Achievement Hunter is a column highlighting fun or interesting achievements in WoW and tips for completing them.

So its about half way thorugh the week and you haven’t started on the Children’s Week achievements?  Don’t panic there is still hope.  When running 10 characters through the same quests, you learn the short cuts to making it quicker.  Here’s my cheat sheet guide to the fastest way to run the alliance Stormwind and Shattrah orphan quest lines.  Guide after the break.

The Achievement Hunter – Children’s Week

The Achievement Hunter is a column highlighting fun or interesting achievements in WoW and tips for completing them.

After i wrote my post on Alyx going after the Chef’s Hat achievement, it got me thinking that it might be nice to do a column on achievements I am pursuing, so The Achievement Hunter was born.  I am by no means a hardcore achievement hound like my friend Samandiriel who has both the Winterspring Frostsaber, Loremaster, and the Insane title.  But when there are fun rewards or titles to go for I like trying for them.  Children’s Week is upon us and I am trying to get the meta on all my alts.  No mean feat as I hate PVP and The School of Hard Knocks achievement is going to kick my ass.  More after the break .