One Of World Of Warcraft's Most Frustrating Achievements Has Finally Been Changed

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After years of complaints (nearly 14 years, to be exact), Blizzard has finally altered one of World of Warcraft's most frustrating Achievements in order to make obtaining an exclusive mount a little easier.

The Achievement in question is the School of Hard Knocks. Since the game's 2008 Wrath of the Lich King expansion (which is actually being re-released later this year), the Achievement has been required as part of a larger «meta» Achievement for the entire Children's Week seasonal event, For the Children. That Achievement, in turn, was required for the What a Long Strange Trip It's Been meta Achievement, which comprises various seasonal event meta Achievements. The reward for all this busy work? An exclusive mount: the Violet Proto-Drake.

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Blizzard put out a hotfix on May 4 that at long last made it so School of Hard Knocks is no longer required as part of For the Children. School of Hard Knocks will still exist as an Achievement, but is simply no longer tied to any greater Achievement or rewards. The Children's Week event is currently live in-game and will run until May 9.

So what made School of Hard Knocks so frustrating for mount collectors and Achievement hunters? It's the fact that the Achievement requires players to specifically accomplish feats in PvP over the course of the one-week-per-year Children's Week event that aren't as simple as getting kills or winning matches. Instead, it requires players to do things like