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1. Blizzard has said that these Achievements will reward points to purchase items but as far as I know the exact amounts nor items to buy have been released...I could be wrong but I haven't seen anything.

2. There was a post here on WoW Insider (late last week, maybe in the Ask a Beta Tester column) about how nothing has been released as to what Achievements will be retroactive.

Hope this helps slightly.

currently there are not that many retroactive achievements except for maybe world exploration, leveling, and faction reputation.
While this is still in beta they apparently are resetting some of the achievements every so often. "Shave & a Haircut" was done a few weeks ago but when I looked at it this past weekend it showed as undone.

Go to http://wotlk.wowhead.com/ and check out the achivements section.

If I recall correctly, achievement points are not spent. You have a certain number that are used to unlock various wonderful magical things as you obtain more.

Blizzard has said that the points will NOT be used to purchase anything, but that there MAY be rewards for reaching set amounts of total points. As of yet nothing has been implimented.

As for achievements you can pick up now, you will be retroactively awarded an achievement for boss kills if you've completed a quest that requires them to be killed. For instance, if you cleared the deadmines, and turned in the quest to get rewarded with that one staff that every level 18-28 alliance clothie wears then you will get the VC kill achievement when 3.0.2 drops. In addition to quests if you have a piece of BoP loot that a boss drops that will also count for the achievement. Basically if you have the loot, the quest, or the rep, then you get the achievement. If the achievement doesn't require one of those three things, you'll have to wait until after 3.0.2 to get it.

Thanks for the elaboration on my questions. ^_^ Helped alot.

As far as what info Blizz has to apply retroactivly, I have no idea. But some, (like getting the skunk pet, if you have 50 pets) probably just require having the items in your inventory. (Hopefully the system will know the items are in your inventory. :P)

Thats the sort of stuff I'd like to work on ahead of time, I just wish there was a list. Oh well, guess I'll have to stop being lazy and go look myself. :P

Ever seen some of the forum posts where a GM "owns" a scammer?

Yes, they really do have much data about your toon.

Scary? Yes.

Have you been to Timbermaw Hold? Just getting Honored with those guys is like riding a ****.

I dont think these are the kind of books you can pick up...I believe they are the books you see laying around on tables and the like. They are lore books that tell a little bit about a story in that zone/instances.

To the best of my knowledge these books cannot be removed or picked up.

these are the books that you can read in the various major cities and in instances.

i was thinking of things like "The Frostwolf Artichoke" or "A Steamy Romance Novel" or "An Exotic Cookbook".

I had no idea there were that many books ingame.

@kabshiel

There are at least 50 books in Scarlet Monastery alone


On a side note, I wonder when they are gonna fix this broken-down skunk-ass of a comment system

Agreed - that title is freaking awesome, as are some of others not featured. I guess it's been long enough since funny new content emerged to be reminded of Blizzard's excellent humor - Quel'Danas is thoroughly un-funny content - these achievements give me hope once again.