Battle for Gilneas Assassin

To track temporary progress midfight, run this macro script:

/run for i = 1, 3 do d,_,_,q,_,_,_,_,_,_ = GetAchievementCriteriaInfo(5257, i); print(d, q); end

And finally, after all this time, i got it myself too!

According to wow-achievements, this is among the rarest completed achievements in the game.

I believe they fixed the counter bug, but its still very difficult to get because the game is often over before you can complete all the HKs. The best strat I've found is

1. Track the achieve so you know which flags still need more HKs.
2. Hold 2 flags initially, because this forces the enemy to continuously attack your flags and give you HKs. Mine and WW work well.
3. Bounce back and forth between whichever flag the enemy is attacking.
4. Never go back to a flag once you get enough HKs there; instead, give up that flag and let the enemy have it, because otherwise your team will win the game too quickly.
5. In the second half of the game, attack LH and hope some ally will let you GY camp them. GY camp kills count toward the achieve, so the LH flag is the easiest.

It will probably take multiple attempts, but with a pre-made and giving flags back to the enemy, you just need a little luck to finish the achieve.

Just for a bit of clarity:

For an honorable kill to qualify for this achievement, the opposition character being killed must die in the appropriate zone. It doesn't matter where you are, provided that you are in range to get credit for the honorable kill.

Some implications of this:

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• you can get credit towards the achievement even if you aren't actually at mines, lighthouse or waterworks
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• you won't get credit if you are at one of those zones, but your opponent dies outside the zone
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This has particular relevance to ranged and DoT classes who may have to deal with enemies running away when they are nearly dead. If you are going for this achievement you want to focus on those enemies who are close to the flag and try to keep them there. If they do try to run away and get quite far, rather let them go and return to the flag in the hopes that they will come closer.

I was able to verify this in two ways:

In one battle I was at mines getting kills, but the fighting was happening midfield. I got close enough to share in HKs without ever leaving the mines zone, but even after 17 odd HKs I still didn't have credit for that location.

In a later battle I saw myself getting credit for mines after I got an HK while running to mines, but before I actually got close enough for my map to register me as being in the zone.