Are you ready to achieve?

Wrath of the Lich King, World of Warcraft’s second expansion, will be including a new feature known as “Achievements”. It’s a system that awards you for accomplishing various tasks within the game by giving you points that’ll be available in your armory profile. We’ve got a full preview of this new and exciting system including what they are, how they’ll affect you, and plenty of examples along with screenshots. So be ready for achievements before the expansion goes live with our latest article.

To get an achievement score higher than others you’ll find that you’ll have to go out of your way to score some of them and this is where the score becomes important. Everyone can easily get the points for leveling up, clearing 5-man instance bosses, farming gold, reading books, and getting haircuts. Everyone can’t get the points for the 25-man raid dungeons and the others can be a near endless grind (reputation at exalted with everyone is the longest one I assume). So those who go out of their way can boost their scores higher than the average player to something brag worthy. Gaining every achievement would mean that you’ve got something powerful to show (or even a really high one).

Wrath of the Lich King Achievement Points Preview gives you a sneak loo at WotLK's achivement point system.