Critters and Books
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This guide is designed to be able to be completed solo, though you may need help in Scholomance, depending on your class. (requires Skeleton Key)
This guide Covers the following Achievements, and assumes you can fly in Northrend.
The guide is divided by continent.
I highly recommend the Overachiever mod, check it out.
Tourguide version available here.
Friend or Fowl?
Pest Control
To All The Squirrels I've Loved Before
To All The Squirrels Who Shared My Life
Well Read
Optional
Northrend Angler
Outland Angler
The Scavenger
Also would be a good idea to keep an eye on the following:
Northern Exposure - macro
Medium Rare - macro
Table of Contents
1. Map Legend and Macros
2. Northrend takes about 1 hour including fishing nodes.
3. Outland takes about 30 minutes including fishing nodes.
4. Kalimdor takes about 45 minutes including fishing nodes.
5. Eastern Kingdoms takes about 1.5 hours including fishing nodes. (& Scarlet Monastery & Scholomance)
6. Scarlet Monastery Library
7. Scholomance
Map Legend and Macros - Back to Table of Contents
Map Legend
Critters in Red
Books in Blue
Fish in Purple
Northrend Macro
/tar Arctic H
/tar Faw
/tar Roac
/tar Snake
/tar Spid
/tar Chic
/tar Crab
/tar Sheep
/tar Fjord R
/tar Skunk
/tar Huge
/tar Zul
/tar Sholazar T
/tar Steam F
/tar Borean F
/tar Borean M
/stopmacro [noexists]
/tell YOURNAMEHERE Found %t!
/stopmacro [dead]
Outland, Kalimdor, and Eastern Kingdoms Macro
/tar Scorpion
/tar Frog
/tar Toad
/tar Prairie Dog
/tar Adder
/tar Parrot
/tar Hare
/tar Swine
/tar Gazelle
/tar Moccasin
/tar Cat
/tar Cow
/tar Lava Crab
/tar Fire Beetle
/tar Ram
/tar Maggot
/tar Larva
/stopmacro [noexists]
/tell YOURNAMEHERE Found %t!
/stopmacro [dead]
Northrend - Back to Table of Contents
Northrend takes about 1 hour including fishing nodes.
/love Rabbit and Squirrel (not in macro, should be easy enough to find)
kill Rat Outside of Violet Hold
kill Underbelly Rat in the sewers
Horde read The Guardians of Tirisfal on the top floor of the horde inn
Fishing Fly down from Dalaran to the river below.
Glassfin Minnow School
/love Arctic Hare
Fishing
Dragonfin Angelfish School Lake Indu'le
Imperial Manta Ray School along the shores
/love Fawn
/love Deer, Grizzly Squirrel, and Mountain Skunk (not in macro)
kill Mouse (not in macro)
Fishing
Glacial Salmon School in the rivers
(1) kill Roach, Snake, and Spider
(2) /love Chicken
(3) /love Fjord Penguin (not in macro)
(4) /love Crab and Sheep
(4) /love Scalawag Frog (not in macro, at pirate camp)
(5) kill Fjord Rat
(5) kill Devouring Maggot in Utgarde Keep Catacombs, (56,49) (not in macro)
Go down the ramp, down the stairs on your right, 2 flights down.
(6) /love Skunk and Fjord Turkey
(6) Slay 15 Fjord Turkey in 3 minutes.
Fishing
Fangtooth Herring School in the rivers
Deep Sea Monsterbelly School
/love Huge Toad
kill Zul'Drak Rat
kill Gold Beetle (not in macro)
/love Glacier Penguin (not in macro)
/love Sholazar Tickbird
Fishing
Nettlefish School
(1) /love Tundra Penguin (not in macro)
(2) The Nexus (inside instance, go straight towards Keristrasza)
kill Crystal Spider (not in macro)
(3) /love Steam Frog, Borean Frog, and Borean Marmot
Fishing
Musselback Sculpin School
Moonglow Cuttlefish School
Return to Dalaran and take portal to Shattrath City
Outland - Back to Table of Contents
Outland takes about 30 minutes including fishing nodes.
/love Ewe
Fishing
School of Darter in the rivers
Highland Mixed School in the highlands like Skettis
kill Scorpion
/love Frog
Fishing
Brackish Mixed School
Sporefish School
Steam Pump Flotsam
/love Toad, and Prairie Dog
kill Adder
Fishing
Mudfish School
Bluefish School
Return to Shattrath City and take portal:
To Caverns of Time (if you are revered with Keepers of Time) or to Kalimdor
Kalimdor - Back to Table of Contents
Kalimdor takes about 45 minutes including fishing nodes.
If you ported to Darnassus read The Betrayer Ascendant
read The Kaldorei and the Well of Eternity in Caverns of Time
read Old Hatreds - The Colonization of Kalimdor in Gadgetzan
Fishing
Floating Wreckage
/love Parrot
read The Battle of Grim Batol
/love Hare and Swine
/love Gazelle
read Charge of the Dragonflights in Ratchet by Gazlowe
read Exile of the High Elves in Jazzik's General Goods
read Sargeras and the Betrayal in the Ratchet Inn
read Mount Hyjal and Illidan's Gift in the Ratchet Inn
and fly back to Ratchet
Take the Boat to Booty Bay
Eastern Kingdoms - Back to Table of Contents
Eastern Kingdoms takes about 1.5 hours including fishing nodes. (& Scarlet Monastery & Scholomance)
Booty Bay
read Sunwell - The Fall of Quel'Thalas Second floor of The Salt Sailor Tavern
In the basement of "Sea Wolf" MacKinley's building read Empires' Fall, The Twin Empires, Wrath of Soulflayer
read The Sentinels and the Long Vigil outside and up to the top floor of "Sea Wolf" MacKinley's building
Fishing
Bloodsail Wreckage
Schooner Wreckage
Waterlogged Wreckage
kill Moccasin
read Rise of the Horde
read The New Horde
read The Dark Portal and the Fall of Stormwind
read Kil'jaeden and the Shadow Pact
read The Birth of the Lich King
read The Founding of Quel'Thalas
/love Cat, and Cow
read Lethargy of the Orcs
read Rise of the Blood Elves
read The Alliance of Lordaeron
read The Battle of Grim Batol
read The Guardians of Tirisfal
/love Lava Crab
kill Fire Beetle
/love Ram
read Ironforge - the Awakening of the Dwarves
read The Last Guardian
read Aegwynn and the Dragon Hunt (22.6,20.1)
read War of the Three Hammers (22.6,13.0)
read Aftermath of the Second War (30.9,9.7)
read War of the Spider (33.5,17.4)
read Arathor and the Troll Wars (40.9,10.6)
read The World Tree and the Emerald Dream (40.9,16.6)
read Archimonde's Return and the Flight to Kalimdor (43.0,15,5)
read The War of the Ancients (44.8,13.0)
read Beyond the Dark Portal (42.6,19.4)
read The Scourge of Lordaeron (42.6,25.2)
read Icecrown and the Frozen Throne (45.9,40.9)
read Kel'Thuzad and the Forming of the Scourge (46.7,44.0)
read Civil War in the Plaguelands (41.4,43.7)
read The Lich King Triumphant (35.4,41.5)
read The Seven Kingdoms (32.3,23.7)
read The Old Gods and the Ordering of Azeroth (17,17)
read The Invasion of Draenor (30.4,28.3)
kill Larva, and Maggot
read The Alliance of Lordaeron
read The Betrayer Ascendant
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Moderator
Just sayin.
I don't know if I ever said so, so I will now. I used this guide and my guildies were shocked and amazed at how fast I got these achievements (they shouldn't be, they know I'm an achievement whore, but anyways....). So thanks a ton for writing this, I've recommended it to all of my guildies
Trusted Member
You should probably put in
You should probably put in the skill requirements for fishin the floating wrekage, thining i could level my fishing while doing so I found out later after hitting 150 that floating wreckage requires 305 fishing, not sure about the other spawns though.
Choppas amazing guide has
Choppas amazing guide has gotten downgraded on Wowhead go there sign up and save them
Love this guide!
Well Done Choppas!
This guide is right up there with the best!
I followed it to a T, but had trouble finding the Schooner Wreckage
in STV. Found it in other places but could not find it there. It may be worth mentioning that it can be found elsewhere (Ashenvale, Hillsbrad Foothills, Stonetalon Mountains, Wetlands) Hillsbrad being an obvious choice for the particular part of the guide.
I hope you will keep going and do more guides.
Thanks very much.
Tourguide help
Not sure where to put the .lua file...it doesn't seem to work in the spots I have tried, help anyone?
Moderator
Ah, sorry I didn't see this
Ah, sorry I didn't see this right away.
Upload it to another free file site, such as google sites, and let Jame know where it is. He can upload it here, but we normal users can't upload that filetype.
Thanks for making it!
Revered Member
I think I'll follow this to
I think I'll follow this to celebrate getting loremaster, when I get it.
I appreciate the amount of graft and effort that must have gone into a useful guide of this magnitude
refining it a bit
Currently working on refining it just a bit and polishing my tourguide version that I am testing.
and... Thanks!
Moderator
Sounds great! I really want
Sounds great! I really want to see this guide as a tourguide version
Finished testing
Finished testing this guide and the tourguide version. Added approximate times for each section. Submitted the tourguide version to Jame!
Added link to tourguide version
Try it out, let me know what you think!
Trusted Member
This looks absolutely great.
This looks absolutely great. These achievements tend to get somewhat confusing, espiecially Well Read.
Reformatted
Added table of contents, thanks Jiyambi.
And made links and map links better.
Plus cleaned up some sloppy code
Moderator
Looks awesome!
Looks awesome!
Edit: My only concern is that some of the maps are rather small, and the colors don't show up too well with the smaller size. But they are probably good enough to follow
I could make the maps
I could make the maps bigger... or you could click on the map to open it in a new window.
Moderator
Hah, thats exactly what I
Hah, thats exactly what I thought you did originally, but it took me to some kind of download screen. Perhaps I'm just doing it wrong?
Edit: Once I clicked "yes" to the "download", it loaded the bigger map. This is really counter-intuitive, though I think it has to do with where your pics are hosted (google?) and not really something you can change. It's too bad though, I really like the idea of small maps that are clickable.
ack
Well I went ahead and changed it to larger maps, plus the maps are now clickable without the annoying "download" screen...
Edit:
I could put it back to the smaller maps with the option of the clickable maps still without the annoying "download" screen...
Edit again,
I didn't like them as big as I made them... they're now a more modest size.
Moderator
Much better, me likey! This
Much better, me likey! This is a very nice guide
Honored Member
Mod
If you're a mod nut like me, you can get OverAchiever (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/overachiever.aspx). It adds info to the tooltip when you mouse over an animal you need to /love or a book you need to read or a school you still need to fish. It also puts an icon in your cookbook to let you know you still need to cook that item for your cooking achievement.
I just found this yesterday and installed it last night after work. It's pretty cool.
James
agreed
I put that as one of the first things in my guide!
Honored Member
Crap!!!
James
More updates
Adding more in the next few days...
Updated
Updated to add optional fishing achievements.
Will be working on updating all of the maps for fishing and adding specific maps for Scarlet Monastery and Scolomance
Fixed maps
fixed maps and moved several of the books out of Scholomance to make the areas you need to clear MUCH smaller
Trusted Member
Oh sweet, I know what I'm
Oh sweet, I know what I'm gonna do when I get home from school tonight. Mmm, achievements.
Also, this part made me laugh:
(6) /love Fjord Turkey
(6) Slay 15 Fjord Turkey in 3 minutes.
Poor turkeys, getting such mixed signals.
Trusted Member
All right, just finished
All right, just finished going through this guide (well, almost, I missed a book in Stormwind cause I'm clumsy), but wow, it was amazingly useful. Three cheers!
NICE
Would you believe that I haven't finished these myself... I have more time available to work on a guide than I have to play WOW. I made the tourguide version of this guide and will be testing that one out ingame soon.
It's just mean...
That's why I had saved them for last... the turkeys get really MAD. }:)
So you should just get right out of the zone!
Moderator
Wow, this is really
Wow, this is really nice!
I'm still working on holiday achievements in game right now, but I'll definitely work on this one after the holidays have passed!
Moderator
*Whistle* that looks like
*Whistle* that looks like one awesome guide!
I never even thought about completing achievements like that, but maybe I'll try it now
Administrator
Wow
At first glance it looks freaking amazing! And a TourGuide version will of course be icing on the cake
All we need now is people to try it!
New Guide
Let me know how it works out for everyone.
Also I'll likely make it for tour-guide .
Member
Thank you oh so much for
Thank you oh so much for this guide. I've been dreading doing the well-read ones, now, I don't have to. I'll definitely check it out tomorrow when I get home.
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