Amazing And Slightly Insane

So there are many things people do in WoW which the general public would find insane. There are also many things people do in WoW which others WoW players find absolutely crazy. Then there is what Doubleagent has done. What is it you ask? Well check him out on Armory. Still don't see it? Well he is a Level 90 Pandaren Shaman who is neutral. He never chose a faction. Who is this possible you ask? Well he never ended up choosing a side you level entirely using Herbalism, and Mining,.

Yes just take all of that in for a minute. He never left the island. His entire leveling experience was borderline painful, but achieved it. Why did he do such a thing? Well at first he said it was just a joke then went on to complete it because a friend of his said it couldn't be done. Now if he is anything like me then the only thing to actually do was do it.

This really is quite an amazing feat and he does intend to keep his neutral status as long as it is possible, which is good to hear as it would be disappointing if he did all the work and then gave up on it.

If you are interested in reading more about his entire experience check out his post on WoW Forums where he answers all the questions you might have.

Once again grats to him on this amazing and borderline insane achievement.

You Fail At Achievements If...

So here we are another Tuesday so comes another Fail Day. Oh yes I know you have been waiting for it. How could you not? Everyone always enjoys poking fun at the failures of others it is what we do. So this week I thought we would poke fun at those who fail at achieving something. I know weird eh? So here it goes!

You Fail At Achievements If...

• At any time you consider anything to do with Halo worthy of the word achievement.
• You run around in circles in games to get the steps achievements
• You play against an opponent who doesn't exist to get your finishing move achievements in any fighting game.
• You at any time rage for not getting an achievement
• You only play games for achievements which have no value
• You think the number of bronze trophies you have on PSN is worth bragging about
• You read the last line and the first thing you thought was well I have this many silver ones
• You read the last one and then say go ahead insult my golds
• You download PSN free games of the week to pad your trophies
• You destroyed an entire region in SimCity in order to get your nuclear meltdown achievement
• You rejoiced the day they came out with cross account achievements in WoW because you could now hide the fact you switch alts on a monthly basis
• You have a turtle mount
• You wastes hours in an instance with a bunch of useless people to get an item required for a title achievement only to have it not drop
• You at any point link an achievement with the word anal next to or around it

and finally

• You don't say OMG GRATS! when people get an achievement

There you have it, this week's edition of fail. Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did writing it. 

You Fail At Guild Achievements If...

Fail Day! Yes that is right the greatest day of the week, or at least everyone's favourite. This week I decide to do a fail post in honor of the guild Intent who recently got to 2000 achievement points as a guild, being the first guild to do so. So here goes

You Fail At Guild Achievements If..

• You are not in a guild group trying to do a guild achievement
• You are wiping while trying not to on past expansions content
• You don't loot every corpse
• You buy all your raw materials from the AH
• You do not do your fair share of questing everyday
• You have professions which are not maxed
• Everyone in your guild is a blood elf
• You think reputation grinds are worthless
• Your guild has more achievement points than your main
• The sum of your character toons levels doesn't even equal a max leveled toon
• You are the only member of your guild
• You think PvP or PvE is stupid and a waste of time
• You're a guild hopper

and finally

• You are not in a guild

There you have it this week's edition of fail. In tribute a big congrats to Intent on their 2000 guild achievement points that is quite some dedication. Good luck this reset everyone and good lucky at getting your honor back for your gear.

OMG GRATS!!!

So anyone who has every been in a guild with me knows why this is funny. You see when patch 3.0 hit and the achievement system was brought to us was when all the fun started. People were getting achievement after achievement for the stupid things we had already done hundreds maybe even thousands of times. No matter what, people would say grats like it was this thing that had to be said. Like when you level and you say ding. It is as if you are this mindless robot and just do it. So I had an idea. Someone got an achievement and I say OMG GRATS!!. This happened each and every time. Basically showing how some of the achievements are rather, how can we put this, useless? Yes because getting a shave and a hair cut is of course just as difficult as killing Illidan. At first people laughed, then some people got annoyed, and then people would notice if I was afk because well they would say "Gauss where is my grats?". Every time some new joins the guild they ask if it is a mod or a macro. It is not a mod although I am sure there is one. It is a macro because of course it has evolved from just "OMG GRATS!!" to many other forms.

OMG GRATS!!
YOU HAVE DONE THE IMPOSSIBLE!!

OMG GRATS!!
NOT SO NOOB ANYMORE ARE WE??

OMG GRATS!!
YOU'RE GAINING ON MY POINTS!!

OMG GRATS!!
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU NOT HAVE THAT!!

OMG GRATS!!
Aaaaaughibbrgubugbugrguburgle!

OMG GRATS!!
NOW IF YOU COULD ONLY LEARN TO NOT STAND IN THE GREEN SHIT!!

OMG GRATS!!
LOLOMGWTGDAIRYQUEEN, LOLOMGBBTHEQ!!

YOU BURNED ALL THE FOOD!!
THE SHADE!!
THE RUM!!
OMG GRATS!!
WHY IS THE RUM GONE??

HALLELUJAH BROTHER!!
XENU WOULD BE PROUD!!

So what crazy things go on when someone gets an achievement around you?

Points for Failures

So there is an achievement system so why not have points awarded for failures that people can be ashamed of? That would be great wouldn't it when people were applying to guilds. ?You could see how big of a dumbass said person is before you ever spoke with them. Obviously, this would never happen but if it were to here would be some of the points awarded in Icecrown Citadel.

Lord Marrowgar: Don't you love those people who don't kill bone spikes?
Lady Deathwhisper: All good fun aside, why kill a member of your raid?

Gunship: Sometimes I feel like I raid with 10 year olds

Deathbringer Saurfang: Do you really not see that blood beast beating on you? Or are you just tunnel visioned looking at the DPS meter?

Festergut: I have no idea how this is hard, but apparently it must be because people can't do it.

Rotface: Incomming giant slime. Looks interesting I should go say hello right?

Professor Putricide: So this Orange thing may me grow to twice my size and this beam is coming right at me. I swear some how it must make sense to run at this thing chasing me.

Blood Princes: Is a giant flaming ball that hard to see? Or did you have issues with Sarth's Firewall too?

Blood Queen: So all my buttons have changed to this bite command. I get this feeling I am supposed to do something I wonder what it could be.

Dreamwalker: So let me get this straight when he says "Everybody on that side has to switch to Skellies" he is talking to me too? Why was I never told.

Sindragosa: This is like the hallway in highschool all over again. I go to one side so do they. So I go to the other side, and so do they. It is like there should be this thing that once you get somewhere you should stay there...

Lich King: So wait a second that giant black stuff killing me is bad to stand in? Why was I not told this.

That is it for today. Maybe you have some fail points to hand out to people as well. I guess maybe isn't the right word. Reminder today is the last day to get in your disconnect stories for tomorrow's post. May your raid have less failure.

Must Get 10 More Points

So anyone who knows me, knows I am about getting all the achievements I can get. You may also know that there probably is Blizzard GMs laughing at me every time I go out and try to fish for the turtle. I have been trying since it was possible and you don't even want to know how many times I have fished out of pools. I just got the White Polar Bear the other day so who knows maybe my luck is about to change. But this is supposed to be about others crazy stories so let's get to it.

When achievements first came out I was running through all the old instances basically in order when I got to BRD. I had the key and was trying to kill as little as possible so I could get in and out. The sad thing was I forgot that when you pull the emperor all the adds in his room and the previous one come running. I did manage to kill him, but just before my computer lagged out from all the adds running straight for me.

I was getting all the easy achievements out of the way when I was in Stormwind catching my fish for the diplomat thing. When I decided to head to the Stockades. I was actually being chased by about 5-10 people and a bunch of guards, but was in the clear to the instance. When I tried to enter and it said "additional instances cannot be launched". I died and spent the next 45 minutes trying to get into that instance and running back from repeated deaths.

I spent about 3 hours searching for quests in the Eastern Kingdoms before someone told me instance quests count towards the total. I felt like a complete idiot.

I set alarms on my phone, clock, and watch for when the server would come back up so I could search Northrend for the rare mobs. Ya it is pretty sad, but I got the achievement. There really should be a title for it.

I spent 2 hours killing Centuars in Desolace before I realized I wasn't getting anymore rep and couldn't get passed honored. I then had to find other reputations to raise to get to my "the Exalted" title.

I leveled a horde DK to 58 so I could swap the towers in Hellfire so my Main could change them back. I couldn't find any other quest in order to get the last one I needed for Hellfire. It was the last one I needed for Outland Loremaster.

I spent 4 hours looking for a one of the stupid pests for the Pest Control achieve. I searched Wowhead, Thottbot and the cords they gave me all seem to be wrong. When all of the sudden I was leaving this place about to give up and some idiot besides me kills the damn thing and gets the achieve. I hated my life. I logged off so pissed off and didn't log back on for 2 days.

I had a guildie /gquit because during Children's Week you had to do this achievement where you had to capture the flag in EoTS. He was in with another guildie trying to do the achieve and he ended up dying just before he was about to cap. The other guildie picked it up and got the achievement. He blamed him for not healing him and letting him get it. Was going berserk in guild chat and then emo quit. Oh achievements how they bring out the best in people.

When the 100 mount achievement was quite rare because there just wasn't that many mounts really available a guild of mine did something I won't forget. He needed 1 more mount and was going crazy because none of the rarer mounts were dropping so what did he do? He actually went on ebay and bought the spectral tiger mount for $500. He got his achievement, but he became such a joke to us all.

I was helping a friend who was doing the STV fishing contest. Meaning we had dropped a stone in BB and would summon him back when he was done. He got his 40 fish very quickly and we summoned him back. Well the thing was he was hated with booty bay and when we summoned him like 40 guards swarmed him and killed him. He ran back and it happened again, and again, and again. Four times he died when he ran back the next time someone else was getting ready to turn it in and when he rezed and died again I could only laugh when the other person got it.

So let's hope you are not as crazy as some of these people. Hope you all enjoy your weekend and its Semi Final Friday to see who will play for gold in Hockey.

So Ya Achievements

So with the news of the player from Taiwan who has "Beaten WoW" I thought this would be a good day to say my deal on the subject. Its a good lead in well at least I think it is. Anyways for those of you who have no idea what I am talking about he got every achievement currently available in the game. For the full story go here Crazy Guy because I got better things to do then write it all out.

So achievements do they have a purpose? Not really. Ya they can get you rewards and titles, and you all know from previous posts how I feel about them(if not you got some reading to do). Basically achieves basically say how long or how much you put into the game, how lucky you are, or if you are actually a competent player. So I am cool with them and I probably have more than most, but hey I only play one toon and try to get the most out of it.

So of course I will do what people want. Whats that? Make up my own achievements. So here we go.

The Turtle is a Myth: Fish in pools in Northrend over 15,000 times and still not have fished up the turtle mount.

Somebody Call The Whambulance: Make someone cry after insulting them.

You Could Say That Box Was Full: Answer 1000 in game mails.

S Club Fail: Level a Ret Pally to 80.

Instant Drama: Disband a 40 man raid before it gets started.

Bagellord Has Got Nothing On Me: Successfully turn down your graphics settings without asking how.

Elevator Boss Owned my Face: Die on an elevator.

You Look Down to Dive in Water: Enter SSC without getting summoned.

Wow Just Wow "Title reward: the Retard": Jump off the boat as it is going to Stormwind.

My Mom is Proud of Me: Sit in Dalaran on your new mount and think you are awesome for at least 1 hour.

Eat my Pi: Spam Pi in trade on Pi Day

Somebody Loves Me Right?: Get ignored by at least 100 people.

So I am a Dumbass: Shard or vendor a piece of gear you currently use.

Wow That Was Amazing Lag: Die in a fire and try to explain your not an idiot.

Shotgun!: Jump on someones ridable mount within 5 seconds of it spawning.

Apparently I have Nothing Better to do: Run out of the sewers mounted in Dalaran and killed yourself.

Gauss For Life "Title Reward: of the Gauss Nation, Pet Reward: Voodoo Ret Pally Doll": Successfully complete a For The Horde run with Gauss.