This has certainly added more solo challenge for players as they try to “punch their achievement card” with all the possible entries. On the downside though, the more competitive players and guilds have seen it as a way to be recognised server-wide as being the first at something.This is where players are rewarded with notified achievements for completing tasks such as exploration, profession feats, and dungeon completion.

Lots of other aspects of the game have either changed or been extended. There are new badges to collect (including cooking badges that can reward you with new recipes), new fishing spots and fish, new mounts, new profession recipes, to name just a few. The more you delve into the expansion you discover how big the change has been. The huge amount of sales and the huge queues on servers indicate how successful these changes have been.Within two days of the release of the game, players were already hitting 80 and driving to complete the end game content. Its a shame as a lot of these players will have missed a lot of the entertaining and rich content in the expansion in their rush to be first.