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01-14-2010, 12:34 PM
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As a general rule, achievements are more oriented toward raw effort than deep pockets, and that's one of the things that's nice about them for newer players. However, some achievements are all about your ability to fling giant wads of cash around, like monkeys at a zoo flinging...things that are usually not money. If you're sitting on an overly fat wallet and ever thought to yourself, "You know, I'd really like to experience being a poverty-stricken (class) begging for gold on a mailbox somewhere," say no more. Buy your way to the following achievements, and we'll have you /dancing on that mailbox in no time.
For the purpose of our discussion today, I'm classifying anything that costs 1,000 gold or up as a reasonably expensive purchase. While there are other achievements that will probably cost you a great deal of gold to get (Working Day and Night (http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=735) comes to mind if you've power-leveled professions like Jewelcrafting or Inscription), how much you spend on them is usually subject to how quickly you want to do them. By contrast, the achievements below are entirely dependent on your ability to amass a huge pile of gold and then use forklifts to distribute it to NPCs in return for achievement points.
And if you want all of them? The sum total of the 6 achievements below will probably run you somewhere in the region of 45,000 to 60,000 gold.Continue reading The OverAchiever: Straight to the poorhouse (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/14/the-overachiever-straight-to-the-poorhouse/)
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As a general rule, achievements are more oriented toward raw effort than deep pockets, and that's one of the things that's nice about them for newer players. However, some achievements are all about your ability to fling giant wads of cash around, like monkeys at a zoo flinging...things that are usually not money. If you're sitting on an overly fat wallet and ever thought to yourself, "You know, I'd really like to experience being a poverty-stricken (class) begging for gold on a mailbox somewhere," say no more. Buy your way to the following achievements, and we'll have you /dancing on that mailbox in no time.
For the purpose of our discussion today, I'm classifying anything that costs 1,000 gold or up as a reasonably expensive purchase. While there are other achievements that will probably cost you a great deal of gold to get (Working Day and Night (http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=735) comes to mind if you've power-leveled professions like Jewelcrafting or Inscription), how much you spend on them is usually subject to how quickly you want to do them. By contrast, the achievements below are entirely dependent on your ability to amass a huge pile of gold and then use forklifts to distribute it to NPCs in return for achievement points.
And if you want all of them? The sum total of the 6 achievements below will probably run you somewhere in the region of 45,000 to 60,000 gold.Continue reading The OverAchiever: Straight to the poorhouse (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/14/the-overachiever-straight-to-the-poorhouse/)
Filed under: The Overachiever (http://www.wow.com/category/the-overachiever/)
The OverAchiever: Straight to the poorhouse (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/14/the-overachiever-straight-to-the-poorhouse/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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