After months of steady progress, one WoW player has wrapped up a massive milestone and finished the final steps of all three major expansion meta-achievements all in a single day!
This includes:
A Farewell to Arms (Battle for Azeroth expansion);
Back from the Beyond (Shadowlands expansion);
A World Awoken (Dragonflight expansion);
For those who’ve tried chasing even one of these, you know how difficult this is! Completing a meta-achievement requires skill, patience, persistence, and a whole lot of RNG luck!
After months of grinding, I finished all 3 expansion meta achievements today
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What Are Meta Achievements in WoW?
Meta achievements are special achievements that usually span an entire expansion’s worth of content. They provide unique mounts and bragging rights. Blizzard likes to add them mostly when an expansion ends. As a result, you must revisit old zones, systems, and pray to the RNG gods!
Many of these are time-gated! You might need a specific World Quest or rare spawn to be up, some of which haven’t appeared in months, like the Vulpera for a Day quest that is currently available in the NA region!
RNG, Time-Gates, and the Frustration They Bring
These expansion metas don’t just require doing a checklist of activities, they demand timing, coordination, and often sheer luck, where missing a single window can set you back for days, or weeks…
The Community Side: Lending a Hand
What makes this story even better? The player who posted about their triple-meta success didn’t just flex! They offered to help others struggling with the same grind, so if you’ve got any questions, feel free to join the discussion!
Useful Meta-Achievement Trackers
Members of the addon community created useful trackers to help you navigate through the endless pools of requirements of these meta-achievements.
Here, we’ve got the Back from the Beyond tracker for the Shadowlands expansion, and Farewell to Arms for Battle for Azeroth, all courtesy of Ckay!
