Patch days must be godsends for World of Warcraft blogs. When all the game servers are down for extended maintenance, what else is there to do but read about the game instead? (Yes, you could go outside, you wags. I did that already. It’s windy.)

In that vein, here’s a few more things being added to the world in today’s patch that we didn’t talk about last week, particularly the new achievements.

The standout, in my opinion, is the Insane in the Membrane achievement, which lets you add “…the Insane” to your character name. Getting this one involves earning exalted status with neglected, barely implemented factions like the Darkmoon Faire and Ravenholdt. It would take hours and hours of completely un-fun grinding. There’s no excuse for getting it other than a raging case of OCD. You’d have to be… well… insane.

I guess Blizzard knows when to cater to their player base.

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In somewhat less hardcore achivement news, the black and plagued protodrakes are removed permanantly. These used to be awarded to players who completed a laundry list of other achievements in the toughest dungeons the game had to offer. With Ulduar coming out, there’s going to be new and more powerful gear that would make those achievements easier, so Blizzard is cutting off the supply to preserve their special status. New drakes for Ulduar mastery will probably be going live today.

Speaking of Ulduar, WoW Insider has posted a list of the achievements for the new dungoen. The most intriguing is probably “Crazy Cat Lady (Defeat Auriaya while doing something cool on Normal Difficulty.)” I can’t wait to see what that “something cool” is.

Oh hey, the servers are coming back up. Time to check this thing out.

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