Hey, I’m looking for any blue poster to answer this one.
Prior to WotLK, there was no kill-tracking in game, so most achievements (like dungeon/raid achievements) were awarded only after certain conditions were met (like your character would get Deadmines achievement only if he has completed quests related to killing VanCleef, or having any items he dropped in bag/bank). This wasn’t perfect, for example, achievement dates didn’t reflect on the date somebody actually completed certain dungeon (given he did that before WotLK pre-patch), it reflected date when achievement was added to the character.
So here’s my question, do we have some kill/achievement tracking in classic/bcc? It would be great to have an answer, so, for example, all our rare mob kills from Outland would be counted towards the meta achievement and I would know if I should farm them now, or wait for pre-patch.
They should have added that tracking in Classic since the first day given that they are already using the retail server code prepared for achievements. They only need to let the server track BGs completed and number dungeons and bosses killed. Those are almost all retroactive achievements.
Even so, I could understand not doing that for Classic, given that they didn’t knew if it would be a success or failure, but upon reaching TBC it was obvious WOTLK comes next, no one could expect TBC would be the end, so at least TBC should have full tracking for those achievements. Not having those achievements granted to everyone who deserve it is incompetence from the devs.
Being able to be queried by the players and the server tracking it are two different things. The server could have been tracking dungeons kills without exposing nothing about it to the UI, because it is not needed, it was not available to the players that information during TBC.