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by Adam Holisky 
Apr 18th 2009 at 12:00PM
The folks over at GuildOx, a guild progress and achievement ranking site, were kind enough to email us some interesting new statistics about Ulduar's achievements. As it stands a large portion of the raids are, of course, not getting encounter specific achievements the first time they go into the zone. However there are some that are getting them nonetheless.People may wonder if guilds are getting the achievements this quickly because Ulduar is too easy. My opinion on the matter is that Ulduar itself sans hard modes won't be abnormally challenging, however when you put in the hard modes and various twists to the encounter in order to earn the achievements, Ulduar is going to become quite challenging.
The achievements that have made the list so far, like A Quick Shave where you have to kill Razorscale with her only flying into the air once, just requires a lot of DPS. That's not too hard for most geared out groups to muster.
Take a look after the break for GuildOx's list of the top five Ulduar 10 and 25 man achievements, and head over there to take a look at things overall.
Top 25-Man Achievements
Heroic: Shutout – 1.89% achievement rate
Heroic: A Quick Shave – 1.27% achievement rate
Heroic: Nerf Gravity Bombs – 0.88% achievement rate
Heroic: I choose You, Stormcaller Brundir – 0.48% achievement rate
Heroic: Nerf Engineering – 0.27% achievement rate
Top 10-Man Achievements
Shutout – 2.81% achievement rate
A Quick Shave – 1.31% achievement rate
Nerf Gravity Bombs – 0.63% achievement rate
Nerf Engineering – 0.51% achievement rate
Orbital Bombardment – 0.39% achievement rate
Patch 3.1 is live and it takes us into Ulduar, delivers us dual specs, and brings significant changes to all the classes! We've got you covered from top to bottom with our Guide to Patch 3.1 and the official patch notes!Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Raiding, Achievements
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
-Drexel- Apr 19th 2009 9:34AM
SDS is so right. If the game, raid, encounter or achievement is "too easy" in your eyes you can very easily make it extra hard for yourself (for an idea of what I mean just Google the "Immersion Project" by Beau Turkey)
If you are actually the type of person that enjoys the challenge for the sake of overcoming it, then this will solve your issue. What is usually the hidden meaning behind what these people are saying is "Make it so hard that only I can do it and very few other people can do it so I can be a unique and beautiful snowflake". The bottom line with these people is that it's NOT about the challenge level but about "you" not having/achieving it.
They do it on the current "easy mode" just like the rest of us so they can get the loot, encounter or raid accomplished and show it off. They NEVER do things to actually make the challenge harder on their own because "the rest of us" don't see that, we just see weather or not the task got completed...This point worked out better in my head but maybe you get the idea.
It's simple to make these things more challenging if you want to, just by imposing rules and conditions on yourself. That being said, the people complaining about it being too easy don't do it.....
AyaJulia Apr 19th 2009 1:31PM
Ahahaha. I'd love to see a group pretending that Loatheb's Necrotic Aura was reaching all of Northrend and trying to kill all of the Ulduar bosses by healing only 3 seconds of every 20.
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