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World of Warcrafthas reached its 20th anniversary and is inviting players to celebrate with themfrom July 03, 2025 to May 13, 2025. During this time, a special event will be available just outside the Caverns of Time, offering players the chance to earn new and old mounts, pets, toys, and appearances through a variety of daily quests and back-to-back mini-games.
In addition to all the activities available, there are 29 exclusive achievements to work towards, one of which will give you a special mount: the Coldflame Tempest. If you’re an avid achievement hunter, this guide is for you.
There arefive secret achievementsthrough a storyline that beginsOctober 28, 2024. We will update this article when the quests are available.
How To Complete ‘A Cool Twenty Years’ Achievement
‘A Cool Twenty Years’ is a relatively simple achievement, but it results in getting theColdflame Tempest mount. You can get most of them easily by simply participating in the celebration event, but we’ve got a table below that explains each one. Once you’ve completed each one, you’ll complete the ‘A Cool Twenty Years’ achievement and the mount will appear in your inventory.
Match one mountduring theMount Maniaevent.
Peanut Gallery
Click thereactbuttons when they appear during any ofLorewalker Cho’s stories at the Story Timeevent.
Fashion Critic
Use the ribbons during theFashion Frenzyevent tovote for at least one player.
Pet Mischief
Use aPet Mirroron a summonedBattle Pet, obtained fromlooting the chest to the right of Petrain the pet area of the event.
Balloonist
Right-click to hop on any of theballoonsthatIsaandrae spawnsat theentrance to the Caverns of Timeand ride it around the area.
An Original
Defeat one of the listedworld bosses. These can be found easily by looking at theEastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor mapand finding the giant skull symbols. We recommend grouping up inPremade groupsto defeat it.
A Gatecrasher
Defeat one of the listedworld bossesinTanaris,located via a giant skull marker on the map. If not enough people in your server are doing it, you may group up inPremade groups.
Codex Editor: Ahn’Qiraj
Que up for and complete the ‘Codex of Chromie’ scenario. This can be done viaDungeon Finder, but we recommend looking for groups inPremade groups for a quicker queue.
All 20th Anniversary Dungeon Achievements
There are only two dungeon achievements during the celebration event, each requiring you to doTimewalking dungeons. The achievements and their requirements are listed below.
All 20th Anniversary Raid Achievements
There are onlytworaid achievements, both in theBlackrock Depthsraid. The raid can be easily queued for in theRaid Finder.
For the first, ‘You’re in Blackrock Depths,‘defeat every bossin the raid.
If you are usingRaid Finder, you will have to queue forthree separate parts of the raid, as each contains different bosses.
‘A Dark Iron Past’ will take a bit longer, requiring you to find all 13 Temporal Missives, but it is easily achievable when completing a full run-through of the raid. You will spot large glowing orbs as youmove through the raid, with others appearingafter killing bosses. Simplyclick on themto get credit for the achievement.
Ifanyone in your raid groupinteracts with a Temporal Missive,everyone will get credit.
All 20th Anniversary World Boss Achievements
There are four world boss achievements, two of which are covered under the ‘A Cool Twenty Years’ achievement above. The other two, ‘The Gatecrashers’ and ‘The Originals’ are listed below.
All of theworld bossescan be located on the map of both theEastern KingdomandKalimdor.Not every world boss is up every day, so it might take you a couple of days to defeat all of them.
All 20th Anniversary Miscellaneous Achievements
There are nine miscellaneous achievements during the celebration event. Most notable is ‘Token Collector,’ which will become aFeat of Strengthafter the event ends. Below is a complete table of all of these achievements and what they require.
After completing this,all future sets will be 20x tokens.
Avid Listener
Listen to each ofLorewalker’s storiesduring theStory Timeevent. These happen at thebeginning ofandxx:35of every hour.
Each story is: ‘Heroes of the Scarab Wall’, ‘The Mercy of Blaine Bloodhoof’, and ‘The Tragedy of Thassarian’.
Frequent Flyer
Rideevery color of balloonduring the event. These come from in front of themouth of the Caverns of Time.
Vote for players 20 timesduring theFashion Frenzyevent.
Mount Master
Match 20 mountsduring theMount Maniaevent. These donot all have to be in the same round.
Zoomies!
While transformed into a battle pet via thePet Mirror, find and run into smallZoomy Treatsscattered around the area.
Photo Op!
There arethree portalsbetween the pet area and the Fashion Frenzy stage, whichrotateto different locations every day.Go through the portalto ten different locations to get credit.
