Hi all. As you know the new battle pass contains hundreds of achievements. Some of them, in the 'Gameplay' section are more important than the others as they offer actual XP that contributes towards your battle pass level progression. They also often tend to be much harder to achieve than those that merely offer 'achievement points'. I enjoy such challenges and I've spent quite some time trying to complete as many as I can based on what is in my collection.
Remember that they can only be completed while playing on ranked mode (standard or wild) or in Duels. I tried to complete most of them in the fastest way possible, which means that I often had to build a special purpose deck that is quite bad and perhaps doesn’t even have a win condition. In some cases I even had to kill my own minions to get an achievement done. So my advice would be to do that at the very start of the month or whenever you find yourself at some rank floor. If you really want to protect your hidden MMR, then trying to get them done in Duels is often a viable alternative. If you want to get them done while also winning, this might be quite challenging for some of them.
Below is my almost complete guide to these achievements. Feel free to comment:
Destroy 5 minions with Throw Glaive: The main issue is that Throw Glaive is not a good card that you want to run in a competitive deck. So in order to be done with this achievement as quick as possible, just put up a deck with a bunch of 0- and 1-drops that have 1 or 2 health, 2 copies of the spell plus some card draw and set up a play where you cast 5 times Throw Glaive using your own minions as targets as well.
Control a 10+ attack Redeemed Pariah: I built the below deck in order to get this achievement done: and I was surprised by how good this deck was. The synergies it has are great and if the opponent cannot kill either a Redeemed Pariah or a Line Hopper (played possibly on curve), the deck can snowball quite fast. Give it a try!
Summon 20/100/200 Greyboughs: I haven’t completed this as I don’t have the card, but even if I did the card is just bad and doesn’t fit in any halfway decent deck. And it’s definitely not worth playing a ton of games with a bad/mediocre deck that runs Greybough until you eventually get to summon 200 of them, so I’ll pass on this one.
Guess the weight correctly 10 times: The card is good, fits in most Druid decks and more often than not it is a 2-mana draw 2. So if you play any Druid deck (even some wild decks run it) you will get it sooner or later.
Play 6 eclipses in a single game: If you have Kiri, Chosen of Elune then you can add him to whatever Druid deck you want that already runs the eclipses (Guardian Druid, Carnival Druid, etc…) and you’ll eventually manage to cast 6 of them in a single game. I am missing some Druid epics so what I did instead is put together a deck with Kiri, the eclipses, a bunch of spells for ramp, card draw and token generation (Glowfly Swarm) and buffs. as well as the new Yogg and even went 2-2 until I managed to cast 6 eclipses. If you don’t have Kiri then you’ll need to either (a) get very lucky from both Nature Studies or (b) play Duels and hope to pick up Kiri and/or multiple copies of the eclipses from card buckets.
Hunter:
Deal 50/150/500 damage with Darkmoon Tonk: If you have Oblivitron I recommend the below deck. It performs quite well (I went 10-5 with it at legend) and Darkmoon Tonk itself is insane on its own and even more in combination with Oblivitron as well as with Nine Lives. You can sometimes discover more copies of these two via Carrion Studies to do even more broken stuff. 500 damage might sound like a lot, but it piles up fast
Control 3 identical deathrattle minions: This is not a Hunter specific achievement and can be completed by any class. It’s easy with Hunter where Carrion Studies (or perhaps Pack Tactics) can give you the 3rd copy that you want, but it is also possible in Rogue (e.g. shuffle multiple copies of a deathrattle minion with Togwaggle's Scheme, use the new legendary to draw them all, or use Shadow of Death on a deathrattle minion) and possibly in a Duels run with any class as you can pick multiple copies of the same minion over time. There are also many ways to get this achievement done in wild, for example in playing Cubelock and using cards like Carnivorous Cube and/or Faceless Manipulator or playing some N’Zoth deck (the OG one) with Khartut Defenders, etc…
Launch a minion for lethal with Maxima Blastenheimer: It took me around 15 games (of which I lost around 70%) to get this done, playing a spell-heavy Hunter deck where the only minions were Maxima, 2 tonks, a Plagued Protodrake, a Colossus of the Moon and a Scrapyard Colossus. One problem of this deck (compared to the one I have listed above) is that it has a really poor early game (due to the lack of minions). Another problem is that when you have a chance to play Maxima for lethal, the opponent is often losing so much that they are likely to concede before you get your chance (happened to me twice)
Mage
Draw 5/20/50 cards with Sayge: If you play wild and you play secret Mage then it is only a matter of time. If you only play standard Sayge is still a great card, but Secret Mage is just meh, mostly because the pool of secrets in standard is much weaker. But once again, it is only a matter of time.
Deal lethal damage with Mask of C’Thun: I don’t remember how exactly I got this done, but I think I was playing some Rogue deck and discovered it off a Wand Thief to deal lethal;) The fastest way to get this achievement done is probably in Duels where on the first round heroes start at only 20 health.
Control 4 Occult Conjurers: Once again if you play Secret Mage (wild or standard) you are running this card and you will eventually get it.
Paladin
Restore 100 health with High Exarch Yrel: I haven’t completed this as I don’t have the card, but if you have it, add it to your Pure Paladin deck (which is at worst a tier-2 deck) and you will get it eventually
Deal lethal damage with Oh My Yogg!: Also not completed. Obviously this achievement, apart from playing a deck that runs this secret, requires a huge amount of luck. Good luck;)
Give 10/30/100 dudes divine shield: The easiest/fastest way to get this done is to play Odd Paladin in wild. Even if you don’t have (or you choose not to run) Lothraxion the Redeemed, there is still Steward of Darkshire.
Priest
Steal 3 enchantments with The Nameless One: I haven’t done this as I don’t have the card. Once again a problem is that the card is not so good to begin with. However if you have the card the simplest way to get this done is to build a deck with lots of cheap buffing spells (such as Power Word: Shield, Embalming Ritual, etc…) and steal the enchantments from your own minion (or cast the enchantments on an enemy minion and then steal them).
Spend 10/30/100 health to play cards as priest: I haven’t done this as I don’t have G’huun the Blood God. Technically it might be possible to get this done without the card thanks to Duels, where one of the starting treasures is a minion that makes every 3rd spell you cast to cost health instead of mana, but it will probably take you a while (and require multiple Duels runs.
Summon a Fortune Teller with 10+ attack: Got this easily in a Duels run, where I was not playing to win, but solely to get the achievement done.
Rogue
Summon a 10+ cost minion with Shadow Clone: Yeah, good luck with that, I am not even bothering.
Deal 10/30/100 damage with Prize Plunderers: The card is decent and seems some play in a few agro and tempo Rogue decks, even in wild. If you play such a deck it is a matter of time to get this done.
Draw 5 cards with a single Grand Empress Shek’zara: If you have the card, I recommend to go have some fun in wild with some Pogos. A tier-4 deck at best, but quite fun. I was able to draw 7 Pogos in one go with the Empress to get this done and even ended up winning that game;) In standard you probably need a big Togwaggle's Scheme, but the targets for it as not as attractive and cool as Pogos.
Shaman
Buff 10/30/100 totems with Grand Totem Eys’or: If you have the card and play Totem Shaman it is only a matter of time. I don’t have it, but I am already at 64/100 thanks to Duels. I build a starting deck with some totem and some overload stuff. When overloaded, the upgraded hero power has a 25% chance to give you Eys’or. Furthermore, you might get lucky and pick up a copy of it from a card bucket later on.
Transform 14 minions at once with Revolve: I am anyway playing some (R)evolve Shaman so what I did is that I replaced 1 card from my deck with a copy of Mad Summoner. Eventually, on a game that I was anyway losing, I managed to draw and play him + Revolve to at least get the achievement done. Don’t forget to cut him from your deck right afterwards!
Deal 16 damage from hero attacks in a single turn: You don’t even need Inara Stormcrash and double Stormstrike for this. Just play Soul DH and you will get it done sooner or later!
Warlock
Play a Darkmoon Rabbit for 1-mana: If you have Deck of Chaos then you just need 1 game (with a bit of luck) with a stupid deck that runs these 2 cards, some draw and some removal.
Destroy 5/15/50 minions with Cascading Disaster: If you play any Control Warlock deck (Tickatus Warlock in standard, Renolock in Wild, etc…) you are running this card and you will get it done sooner or later.
Draw 2 minions with Free Admission where the both cost 0: If you just want to be done with this quick just build a deck with every single demon that costs 2 or less and no other minions. You’ll probably only need 1 game.
Warrior
Play a 0-cost Tent Trasher: I got this done in duels after picking up the treasure that makes dragons cost 2 less. This made it much easier as the discount required is now much smaller. Playing Athletic Studies before also helps discount the Trasher and makes it easier to get it down to 0.
Trigger 5/15/50 E.T.C., God of Metal: If you have this card, try the ETC OTK Warrior as it is a really strong deck. The combo is to play ETC, damage it (e.g. with Pen Flinger), copy it twice with Bloodsworn Mercenary and finally play Animated Broomstick (works as long as there are adequate enemy targets). Achieving the OTK combo twice is enough to get this achievement fully completed.
Destroy 5 minions with a single Minefield: This is quite difficult to achieve under ‘normal’ cirumstances. What I did is I built a deck with a bunch of cheap 1-health minions (including Animated Broomstick), some draw and the Minefields. Eventually, I faced some aggro deck that plays cheap minions (it was some Hunter) and I managed to set up a turn where I played a bunch of 0- and 1-cost minions including the Broomstick and did the ‘right’ trades so that I leave 5 minions alive on the board, all with 1 health.
Play 15/50/150/500 corrupted card: If you play any deck that runs corrupt cards (Carnival Druid and Tickatus Warlock are the most popular) it is only a matter of time. I am playing a Quest Shaman with Y’Shaarj, the Defiler, Circus Medics and Dunk Tanks.
Play a 0-cost corrupted card 1/10/30/100 times: Same as above, but your deck now needs to include Y’Shaarj, the Defiler. Will probably take a little longer than (b) to complete.
Control a board full of Carnival Clowns: All you have to do is to corrupt and play the card once, probably easiest in Druid.
Destroy 5/10/25 minions with a Darkmoon Rabbit: I haven’t completed this as it is fine to play 1 game with the Rabbit + Deck of Chaos for a single achievement (see above in Warlock), but I have no intention of playing multiple games with a deck that runs such a trash card just to get these 400 XP points.
Kill your opponent from full health with C’Thun, the Shattered: I haven’t done this as I don’t even have the card. It is not easy to achieve as it is very unlikely that you will get to play C’Thun on a fully empty board and with your opponent at exactly 30 health. Might be a bit easier with some Quest Shaman where you can deal 60 damage, but once again you will need quite a bit of luck to have the opponent at 30 (or more) health. Zeddy did this in wild with a fun combo that includes Aviana/Kun, Ysiel, a C’Thun to clear the opponent’s board, Tree of Life to heal him back to 30 and a 2nd C’Thun via Floop for the lethal. But of course this combo needs a ton of legendaries that many of us don’t have.
Resurrect 6 minions at once with N’Zoth, God of the Deep: Also haven’t done this as I don’t have the card, but it doesn’t seem too difficult if you build the right deck that runs minions from 6+ tribes. The main problem is that N’Zoth is probably the weakest of the 4 ‘new’ old gods and N’Zoth deck are just not that good.
Spin Yogg’s Wheel + win the game: If you play a deck with the new Yogg (he fits in so many decks), you will eventually get the Pyroblast fiesta and if you are lucky, it will be your opponent that dies. My first Rod of Roasting ended up with me dying from 43 health while the opponent was at 12 when I played Yogg….
Get all 6 outcomes from Yogg’s wheel: Chances are that by the time you get your first Rod of Roasting you will have already gotten the other 5 outcomes (and probably multiple times each).
Many achievements are very doable in duels even if you don't have the necessary cards. OP already provided an with the totem shaman. While a bad archetype, you will get enough legendary totems from your heropower to get the achievement. But there are more.
Play taunt heavy druids and you will get Greybough in buckets. You can also have tons of solar\lunar eclipses from buckets.
Play menagerie decks and you will get the new N'zoth.
And so on.
PS. The easiest way to get the 3 deathrattle minions with hunter is playing Toxic Reinforcements
I did the Greybough quest in wild, it was hard! I used a ramp deck (Breath of Dreams, Wild Growth) and a dragons package (Big Ol Whelp, Azure Drake, Emerald Explorer) and plenty of draw cards (Breath of Dreams, Branching Paths) with 1 Witchwood Piper and Lorekeeper Polkeit to reliably draw Greybough.
Your combo is this: Greybough + Lightning Bloom + Germination. Try to get 2 or 3 Greyboughs on the board, and then attack them into enemy minions over and over. Do NOT attack the opponent hero. Otherwise if you are winning they will concede.
If the opponent plays a board clear, use Hadronox or N'Zoth to get the greyboughs back. There is also a new 4 mana card that spawns 2 whelps, they can copy the effect.
Although it's hard, this deck is fun. If you ramp early and well, play some dragons, and draw into Greybough, you should be able to spawn around 5 greybough per game. Once in a while you will play a game that goes long - one game I spawned over 50 greybough, but you need an opponent that is good enough to cooperative with you, keep playing and not concede.
Priest "silence and destroy all minions" and the new mage card "Poof! All minions are gone" can ruin this deck but otherwise you can grind greyboughs quite consistently.
This was the hard quest Ive done so far (Ive completed all quests 4 classes) but it's doable - good luck and have fun!
Mask of CThun quest - try a Freeze mage deck. Stall out, use fireball and pyro to get your opponent low on health, then use a 3 mage mage spell and mask of cthun to win the game.
The main difficulty here is that going into your turn in the late game the opponent will usually have minions on board (which dilutes the mask of cthun damage), so be patient and try to get your opponent to 2 health without dying.
For the Demon Hunter, I find the easiest way to get the Throw Glaive achievement is to simply combo it with Coordinated Strike
As for the Redeemed Pariah just simply buff it's health with cards like Beaming SidekickCostumed Entertainer and switch it with Crazed Alchemist you can finish it off with an outcast card or two if it's still not enough. Way easier than relying on your opponent letting it stay alive on the board.
Mask of CThun quest - try a Freeze mage deck. Stall out, use fireball and pyro to get your opponent low on health, then use a 3 mage mage spell and mask of cthun to win the game.
The main difficulty here is that going into your turn in the late game the opponent will usually have minions on board (which dilutes the mask of cthun damage), so be patient and try to get your opponent to 2 health without dying.
Not easy! Took me 20 games.
I just played Wild Secret Mage and replaced one of the Fireballs with a Mask of C'thun. Like you said, wait for your opponent to be low on health and finish him off with it.
As you can see, its a modified big shaman, and it was pretty effective for its purpose. It took me 2 games to get the 25 kills. Technically 3, because my first opponent was a rope priest so I conceded on turn 2. Second opponent was Darkglare warlock, the bunnies had 12 kills and I somehow even won the match. Next opponent was control warlock, I needed to wait with the rabbits to get 3 kills per summon, but I managed to get another 15 kills with them. If you dont have Barnes, you can replace him with any defensive spell, Ancestor's Call isnt a must-have, but the Muckmorphers and Eureka!s are core cards.
There class ones 1100 per class in total (so 11'000) and another 3800 from 'neutral' ones. So that's 14'800 from gameplay achievements
There is another 11'000 to be gained from Duels if you manage a 12-win run, plus another 1'500 if you get a 12-0 run (this one is probably the hardest)
Cheers! While a 12-0 run (or even a 12 win run period) might be out of range for a lot of people, getting something like 8 or 9 wins at some point during the expansion should be achievable for the vast majority of duels players, so that should allow them to get the majority of the XP.
I dont get try harders... I did almost all those achievs without even trying, meaning i just made decks to have fun and did them without using a special deck or waiting dor some stuff to play up... just play the game dudes, have fun...meh,gl on your tries...
I dont get try harders... I did almost all those achievs without even trying, meaning i just made decks to have fun and did them without using a special deck or waiting dor some stuff to play up... just play the game dudes, have fun...meh,gl on your tries...
What am entirely pointless comment. How does this add to the good work of the original post?
For one I'm pleased someone took the time to compose these steps. It's a nice offsetting to the experience grind and might be fun. I'm glad the post is here.
I'm also glad someone created this post: thanks, OP.
That said, having spent an evening trying to do the Redeemed Pariah achievement and failing, I'm beginning to think that pursuing these is as tedious a grind as ladder. (It doesn't help that I hate DH, so couldn't really get into the games I was playing.)
He had some good ideas, like the Redeemed Pariah one with an easy 4-card combo.
For the "summon a 1-cost rabbit" achievement OP suggested Deck of Chaos, Solem's idea was using Jepetto Joybuzz, and IMO there is an even easier way to do it. Just use Prismatic Lens with a deck full of 1-cost spells and rabbits as the only minions (you can have some weapons too).
Hi all. As you know the new battle pass contains hundreds of achievements. Some of them, in the 'Gameplay' section are more important than the others as they offer actual XP that contributes towards your battle pass level progression. They also often tend to be much harder to achieve than those that merely offer 'achievement points'. I enjoy such challenges and I've spent quite some time trying to complete as many as I can based on what is in my collection.
Remember that they can only be completed while playing on ranked mode (standard or wild) or in Duels. I tried to complete most of them in the fastest way possible, which means that I often had to build a special purpose deck that is quite bad and perhaps doesn’t even have a win condition. In some cases I even had to kill my own minions to get an achievement done. So my advice would be to do that at the very start of the month or whenever you find yourself at some rank floor. If you really want to protect your hidden MMR, then trying to get them done in Duels is often a viable alternative. If you want to get them done while also winning, this might be quite challenging for some of them.
Below is my almost complete guide to these achievements. Feel free to comment:
Nice :)/ been looking for something like this
Cool guide, thanks!
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Many achievements are very doable in duels even if you don't have the necessary cards. OP already provided an with the totem shaman. While a bad archetype, you will get enough legendary totems from your heropower to get the achievement. But there are more.
Play taunt heavy druids and you will get Greybough in buckets. You can also have tons of solar\lunar eclipses from buckets.
Play menagerie decks and you will get the new N'zoth.
And so on.
PS. The easiest way to get the 3 deathrattle minions with hunter is playing Toxic Reinforcements
I did the Greybough quest in wild, it was hard! I used a ramp deck (Breath of Dreams, Wild Growth) and a dragons package (Big Ol Whelp, Azure Drake, Emerald Explorer) and plenty of draw cards (Breath of Dreams, Branching Paths) with 1 Witchwood Piper and Lorekeeper Polkeit to reliably draw Greybough.
Your combo is this: Greybough + Lightning Bloom + Germination. Try to get 2 or 3 Greyboughs on the board, and then attack them into enemy minions over and over. Do NOT attack the opponent hero. Otherwise if you are winning they will concede.
If the opponent plays a board clear, use Hadronox or N'Zoth to get the greyboughs back. There is also a new 4 mana card that spawns 2 whelps, they can copy the effect.
Although it's hard, this deck is fun. If you ramp early and well, play some dragons, and draw into Greybough, you should be able to spawn around 5 greybough per game. Once in a while you will play a game that goes long - one game I spawned over 50 greybough, but you need an opponent that is good enough to cooperative with you, keep playing and not concede.
Priest "silence and destroy all minions" and the new mage card "Poof! All minions are gone" can ruin this deck but otherwise you can grind greyboughs quite consistently.
This was the hard quest Ive done so far (Ive completed all quests 4 classes) but it's doable - good luck and have fun!
Mask of CThun quest - try a Freeze mage deck. Stall out, use fireball and pyro to get your opponent low on health, then use a 3 mage mage spell and mask of cthun to win the game.
The main difficulty here is that going into your turn in the late game the opponent will usually have minions on board (which dilutes the mask of cthun damage), so be patient and try to get your opponent to 2 health without dying.
Not easy! Took me 20 games.
For the Demon Hunter, I find the easiest way to get the Throw Glaive achievement is to simply combo it with Coordinated Strike
As for the Redeemed Pariah just simply buff it's health with cards like Beaming Sidekick Costumed Entertainer and switch it with Crazed Alchemist you can finish it off with an outcast card or two if it's still not enough. Way easier than relying on your opponent letting it stay alive on the board.
I just played Wild Secret Mage and replaced one of the Fireballs with a Mask of C'thun.
Like you said, wait for your opponent to be low on health and finish him off with it.
Only took me one try. Not to brag or anything.
Thanks for the great guide!
For the "neutral/5." rabbit achievement, I have built this deck:
As you can see, its a modified big shaman, and it was pretty effective for its purpose. It took me 2 games to get the 25 kills. Technically 3, because my first opponent was a rope priest so I conceded on turn 2. Second opponent was Darkglare warlock, the bunnies had 12 kills and I somehow even won the match. Next opponent was control warlock, I needed to wait with the rabbits to get 3 kills per summon, but I managed to get another 15 kills with them. If you dont have Barnes, you can replace him with any defensive spell, Ancestor's Call isnt a must-have, but the Muckmorphers and Eureka!s are core cards.
Quest Shaman does not work with the "Kill your opponent from full health with C'thun" just wasted time trying it :(
Great guide! How much XP do they reward in total?
The only cancer in Hearthstone is its community.
There class ones 1100 per class in total (so 11'000) and another 3800 from 'neutral' ones. So that's 14'800 from gameplay achievements
There is another 11'000 to be gained from Duels if you manage a 12-win run, plus another 1'500 if you get a 12-0 run (this one is probably the hardest)
Cheers! While a 12-0 run (or even a 12 win run period) might be out of range for a lot of people, getting something like 8 or 9 wins at some point during the expansion should be achievable for the vast majority of duels players, so that should allow them to get the majority of the XP.
The only cancer in Hearthstone is its community.
I dont get try harders... I did almost all those achievs without even trying, meaning i just made decks to have fun and did them without using a special deck or waiting dor some stuff to play up... just play the game dudes, have fun...meh,gl on your tries...
What am entirely pointless comment. How does this add to the good work of the original post?
For one I'm pleased someone took the time to compose these steps. It's a nice offsetting to the experience grind and might be fun. I'm glad the post is here.
Golden Hero Collections thus far; -
Europe: Druid, Hunter, Paladin, Mage, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, Warrior (9/9)
Americas: Druid, Mage, Paladin Shaman (4/9)
Everywhere else: Workin on it.. (0/9)
I'm also glad someone created this post: thanks, OP.
That said, having spent an evening trying to do the Redeemed Pariah achievement and failing, I'm beginning to think that pursuing these is as tedious a grind as ladder. (It doesn't help that I hate DH, so couldn't really get into the games I was playing.)
worth a sticky, thanks OP <3
If you are interested in doing achievements, you might want to watch Solem's latest video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lypBy2r-JY8
He had some good ideas, like the Redeemed Pariah one with an easy 4-card combo.
For the "summon a 1-cost rabbit" achievement OP suggested Deck of Chaos, Solem's idea was using Jepetto Joybuzz, and IMO there is an even easier way to do it. Just use Prismatic Lens with a deck full of 1-cost spells and rabbits as the only minions (you can have some weapons too).
Luna’s Pocket Galaxy is probably the easiest.
the Horrendous Growth can be done pretty easy with Shadowstep
LPG costs 7 then you have to draw the rabbit, IMO Lens is easier and faster.
For the Horrendous Growth I also used Shadowstep. You can also use Cheat Death in the same deck , it helps if you dont draw Shadowstep.