Blizzard changes one of the most annoying achievements in WoW after 14 years – “I thought this would never happen!”

On May 9, 2022By Garmin Philip

At World of Warcraft, developer Blizzard changed a success last week that has been annoying players for years: This should finally make children’s week in WoW more pleasant for everyone. PvP haters have cursed an achievement that forced them into PvP for years. They really wanted it to succeed because it had a cool mount attached to it, the purple proto-drake.

What success is it?

The achievement is called “A Hard School”: It’s about taking an orphan with you to 4 classic battlefields and doing a special feat there. The orphan can only be grabbed during “Children’s Week”. In 2022 it took place between May 2nd and 9th.
The most annoying thing was that players were forced into PvP and had to perform an action relevant to victory: capture flag, surrender flag, bring flag back.
The achievement was considered super-annoying in WoW, but was necessary to get the highest consecration of the achievement collector and a cool mount. But Blizzard has now changed the success in the middle of the children’s week with a hotfix.

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Achievement hunters were forced into PvP and despaired

Why was success so annoying? On Wowhead alone there are 388 comments in English about the achievement (via wowhead).

Basically, the problem was that it forced Achievers to play PvP even if they didn’t know how to fight other players and even less liked it. In PvP, they then had to do something relatively difficult and in a competitive environment: other players prevented them from snagging the achievement.

That was a success for 14 years that really got on people’s minds – and that many were still missing.

What was particularly annoying was that success was only possible during Children’s Week, because only then can you catch an orphan.

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Suffering for the proto-dragon

Then why did people do it? The achievement has been part of the A Heart for Children meta-achievement since 2008, which in turn is part of the larger What a Long Strange Journey meta-achievement – and the achievement awards a purple proto-drake, which is a cool mount.

A “meta-achievement” is an achievement that can only be obtained by completing a series of other achievements. “A heart for children” means that the “children’s week” has been played through, so to speak. “What a long strange journey” means you’ve completed the seasonal events in WoW.

Blizzard changes achievement in the middle of the week it was possible

What is Blizzard changing? Ultimately, Blizzard doesn’t change the success, but makes it a “feat of heroism” and thus takes it out of the whole “meta” number: So the success is no longer necessary to complete the meta-achievements.

The change came on 5.5. — apparently many have since gotten their proto-dragon (via wow forums).

On the background of Blizzard’s problems:

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This is the discussion: The change is being discussed on reddit. A user asks: What has changed that Blizzard is giving in after 14 years of all things?

Another user gives him the answer: “PR disaster after PR disaster – now they are looking for “Easy Wins.”