Ruffious's Bid

So, I haven't seen a well written guide about this achievement and about [item=223158], so I decided to write up one, catered specially to people like me, who generally hate PVP. While the achievement seems daunting at first, I can assure you that you can obtain it without actually killing a single player. Crazy, since it's a pvp achievement, right? Well, let's dive into it!

One thing I would like to mention right away is that having alts, and maybe even having both factions on the same realm, will significantly speed up the process of obtaining this achievement.

Now, let's do this 1 by 1. Keep in mind, that you need to have War Mode enabled at all times while working on these achievments. Without it, you won't get credit for anything.

Sparking Battle is by far the most time consuming if you don't have many alts, but if you do, I strongly suggest using them to your advantage. I have 10 characters, and I completed this in two weeks. Achievement requires you to complete the quest Sparks of War: 'Random 1 of 4 zones' 20 times, and the quest is weekly. To complete this quest, you need 100 x [item=219934] from the retrospective zone, but don't worry! You don't need to pvp to get them. Completing a world quest within the assigned zone awards you 10 [item=219934], killing a rare drops 7-9 [item=219934], and most importantly and the most efficient way, is just to loot [object=241838]. You will find many of them scattered around, and each Disturbed Earth will net you 5 [item=219934]. Each completion took me roughly 10 - 15 minutes , which is not so bad.

While working on A Champion's Tour: The War Within, you will also automatically get [achievement=40087], meaning working on this kills two birds with one stone. Now, the achievement requires you to do each of the 8 PVP World Quests in Khaz Algar 5 times. There are 2 PVP World Quests in each zone, however they spawn in a random order, and are daily. The only confirmed thing, is that two will be active per daily reset. If you have 5 alts, I strongly suggest you to knock each quest on the same day, because certain quests like Along for the Ride and Bells of the Light are quite rare compared to others. If you do these quests in quiet hours, such as early morning etc. you won't encounter any players, meaning you can just kill the NPCs to get enough progress to complete each WQ.

The last set of achievements, is Tour of Duty achievments, which require you to earn 1.000 honor points in each of the four zones in Khaz Algar. What's the best way to do these? Loot the PVP boxes that drop approximately every 20 minutes. Each box will net you 150 honor, which means you need to loot 7 boxes in each zone. If you have good organization and abit of luck, you can knock these four achievments in 3 - 4 hours. Start in Isle of Dorn, and wait until the box spawns. Loot it and note in Excel or Notebook or wherever you prefer, where did it spawn. Move to Ringing Deeps. If you will wait for more than 17 minutes for it, just fly back to Isle of Dorn to loot next one there, since we know they respawn every 20 minutes. After you loot the Isle of Dorn one, move to Hallowfall. Do exactly the same. If you loot it, note it in the timeframe, if not, fly back to Isle of Dorn. Repeat the same with Azj Kahet. Once you figure out the timers, you can just fly around the zones, and looting the box. Oh, and in my example, I had to switch to my alliance toon on the same realm, because I could never loot a box as horde. On my alliance toon however, I have a lvl 70 druid, so I just waited if any pvp would happen and then loot the box, and if not, I would just open the box myself.

Best of luck, enjoy your mount and your title!

I love the in-game achievement showing 5 for sparking battle, then jumping to 20 after you get 5, and here I thought it was a change from beta to live.

Feeling for you single character players, going to be doing this for 5 months worth of spark weeklies.

Looting the chest from the [object=290129] gives credit towards the Tour achievements for each zone, so killing other players is not required if you arrive at the chest and loot it after your faction has won it.