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As of the time of this posting, my main character - an Undead Discipline Priest - has 4695 achievement points.

I've completed 451 of 986 Achievements that are currently available in-game, and as you might be able to see from the screenshot of my Achievements Summary page, they're pretty spread out amongst the sub-categories.

Personally, I think it's a pretty decent number of achievement points, but I know if I reviewed the folks in my raid team I'd find that I've only got an average number of points.

Who's got the most in our guild? I think it's the Pally Tank with 7780 achievement points as of today's posting, but I didn't go through every guildmate to be sure.

Shrimproll's Current Achievement Goals

These days I'm working on the Classic Dungeonmaster achievement, with a side of Lil' Game Hunter.

Classic Dungeonmaster has me going through all of the Azeroth 5-man dungeons and defeating the final bosses, whereas the Lil' Game Hunter achievement has me collecting 75 non-combat companion pets.

To note, both my other 80s have already gotten the Classic Dungeonmaster achievements - being DPS it was easy for me to solo all of the bosses and instances required for the task. But until recently, I hadn't done much as a DPS spec on my Priest, and therefore had avoided many of the dungeon achievements I hadn't gotten through normal play.

But recently I decided to drop my Holy off-spec (Disc being my main spec) and pick up Shadow. And what better place to practice the absolute basics of Shadow Priesty spells and abilities than low level dungeons where nothing could hurt me?!

Classic Dungeonmaster Progress

Partway through September 2009, I decided to nail down all the Classic Dungeonmaster achievements because it seems to me that those dungeons are going to change come the Cataclysm expansion, and it's probably a good idea to get the achievements done now.

Plus, this toon has a decent number of Raid achievements but isn't terribly well-rounded when it comes to the rest of the Achievements available to do out there. (I blame it on the alt-o-holism)

So I looked at my list, and started from the easiest that was undone - Wailing Caverns - and worked up from there.

Progressing through the majority of the dungeons, I passed by most of the mobs without aggro'ing them, and only stopped to Mind Sear a group to death when I had gathered up a large following. I looted everything I killed, of course, but left much of the instance untouched.

I still made hundreds of gold with very little effort, and even got a few Bind on Equip blue/rare drops that earned 50-100g just by themselves!!

Wailing Caverns, Shadowfang Keep, Deadmines, Blackfathom Deeps, Scarlet Monestary, Blackrock Depths, Gnomeregon, and the Stormwind Stockades I did by myself over the period of three different days when time allowed.

Then, I started to turn to my friends to see who else needed these achievements. This resulted in me running one of my friends' alts through Zul'Farrak to get us both the achievement, and then later that same friend joined me on his level 80 to make quick work of nailing down the three wings of Dire Maul.

Now, the only ones left to do are Lower Blackrock Spire, Scholomance and Stratholme.

I finished up the Scholomance key (Skeleton Key) quest chain after we finished up Dire Maul, and as a bonus got The Keymaster achievement, too!

Lil' Game Hunter Progress

I love pets. Pets are a lot of fun. Pets entertain me when I am bored. In game, and out.

Shrimproll currently has 65 unique companion pets, plus an Unhatched Jubling Egg which I got from the Darkmoon Faire carnie and is due to hatch in just over 6 days into another pet to add to my collection.

At 75 pets, the Lil' Game Hunter achievement is accomplished and players receive a pet as a reward - a cute little fawn deer via the [Little Fawn's Salt Lick].

If you're still approaching the 50 pet marker, you'll be looking forward to a [Reeking Pet Carrier] which of course encases Stinky the skunk pet who has a special relationship with black and bombay cats.

It looks like it'll be quite a bit of luck in farming, money to pay others who have had luck in farming, and time in order to get to the 75 pet marker. All of the pets I can buy from vendors are purchased, and I'm not a big fan of the Tournament dailies... so that leaves watching the Auction House and trying to farm for occasional pets on my own.

That is, once I get the Worg and Spider pets from Lower Blackrock Spire.

When's Children's Week again?? :) :)

What Achievements Are You Working On?

I'd love to hear from you, especially if you're a fellow WoW blogger - I'm looking for new links to populate my Links page!

What achievements are you working on, and how many points do you have on your highest-achieved toon?

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