Achievement Watch: Before and After Patch 3.3
Patch 3.3’s release date is speculated to be this Tuesday all over the various WoW-related blogs and websites, and with it come some changes to certain achievements. Some achievements are being removed, and some meta-achievements’ requirements are being changed slightly. In order to make sure you have an opportunity to get those achievements before they go away, we’ll be talking about them today for a moment.
First off, the daily dungeon and daily heroic dungeon quests are being removed, and will be replaced by a weekly raid quest instead. Because of this, the achievements for completing all of the quests offered by these two NPCs will become Feats of Strength. These two quests are Timear Foresees and Proof of Demise, so here’s to hoping you see those last quests pop up for the daily sometime soon!
Next, the achievement The Party’s Over is being completely removed from the achievements list, and as a result, is being removed from the Glory of the Hero meta-achievement, as you can see from the hover-over tooltip from Wowhead’s PTR site.
For those of you who love to do battlegrounds, the achievements to become exalted with the faction-specific Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin, and Alterac Valley factions are being removed from the meta-achievements for their battlegrounds. Instead of being requirements, they will now grant titles for those players who get to exalted.
And for our last changes today, patch 3.3 introduces a new fishing contest, in the form of the Kalu’ak Fishing Derby. This is an event that will take place Wednesday evenings Saturdays at 2PM, and is being added as another option to completing the Booty Bay Fishing Contest for completing the Master Angler of Stranglethorn, making the achievement to be Master Angler of Azeroth come 3.3. So for those of you who have gotten 38 or so tastyfish only to see that a winner has been announced, perhaps this will make getting your Salty title a bit easier.
Best of luck on getting those achievements before time runs out!
Update: Patch 3.3 is now out, therefore these changes have already gone into effect.