The Missing Achievement

A couple days ago I finally hit exalted with Sons of Hodir, which means I can buy ... uh, some enchanted thing that is marginally better than the enchanted thing I could buy the day before. It's called "Progression" and it's why I play WoW, at least until Blizzard releases a marginally better MMORPG.

There was no achievement which was a little disappointing, as similar factions tend to have achievements and I'm a big fan of the achievements. People say rude things about achievement seekers but I make no apologies. I love making checklists and doing the tasks on the checklists even in real life. Achievements in a game are magical checklists that are half game and three-quarters awesome.

Following the pattern that no mistake in WoW makes me think poorly of WoW, this made me think well of WoW. I'm closing in on 300 achievements and this was the first time I thought an obvious one was missed.

Achievements are, for some reason, really confusing to developers but Blizzard seems to get them. The best thing about the achievements are the ones that don't exist -- for all of WoW there are only about 1000 achievements. WAR could have used similar restraint.