Workaround: “Azeroth at War” achievements unobtainable because BfA gold missions no longer spawn

[Nymph-ashkandi]

As the subject above indicates, some achievement hunters who spent more time on Classic than BfA were a bit frustrated that Expansion Features → War Effort (Mission Table) achievements seemed unobtainable.

"Azeroth at War" achievements unobtainable because BFA gold missions no longer spawn

With the removal of gold missions from the BFA mission table in the Shadowlands prepatch, this prevents the completion of some of the “Azeroth at War” achievements under Expansion Features -> War Effort. Needs to be fixed to spawn again with a different reward or removed from the achievement. My experience is with the Horde version of the achievements. I’m sure this affects the alliance version of as well, but am not able to test that. All the missions listed below are gold missions, I’ve seen…

Because I was interested in manually leveling a Vulpera in a way that would grant its Heritage Armor I tried to see if a workaround could be possible - and it (almost certainly) is.

Without ever obtaining the Heart of Azeroth BfA artifact weapon (neck), I leveled the Vulpera from 10 onward in the Battle for Azeroth zones, opened footholds (which spawns followers), and am now seeing Gold Missions on my table aboard Wind’s Redemption in Zuldazar.

Time played till the table and gold missions were available? 1 day two hours (I level slowly and enjoy the process). Of course, all missions that check boxes for those achievements must be completed before they are awarded so this may take some time. Until it is done I’m not certain it is possible but I believe it very likely.

Note I’m at level 47 now on the Vulpera and hesitant to ding 50 for fear the needed missions may vanish so I’ve forwarded Resources from my level 60’s to the fresh toon and will just camp out at the mission table till I’ve cycled through all required missions and the deed is done.

Hope this helps other “completionists”.

[Nymph-ashkandi]

UPDATE: So far I have seen only 1 from the AaW: Barrens and 6 from Lorderon. None have (as yet) been among those that have been reported as missing: Azeroth at War: The Barrens (Horde) -Defending Durotar -Salvaging the Battlescar -At a Crossroads -Steamwheedle Alliance & Azeroth at War: After Lordaeron (Horde) -Dalaran Ritual. But I’ll continue and report affirmatively if and when I do. Additionally, I have a Mag’har working the same table - also with no listed missions. Perhaps all I am seeing is what I knew (as a latecomer) to be Azerite missions in their original (or “glitched” in the absence of a Heart) form as Gold missions. Disappointing if true - but I will plod on to test the theory.

[Nymph-ashkandi]

Probably final update: I have been “playing the tables” with two fresh characters now (level 50 with no Heart of Az) for a week and while I see many gold missions (because in absence of the HoA azerite missions are converted to gold) I have yet to see one of the original gold missions that were removed at the end of this expansion. It is a small investment of time for me to continue this experiment with two alts but I am no longer optimistic that there is a workaround to this old achievement and would discourage anyone from trying what I did. Fortunately, my primary interest in leveling these two was access to the Vulpera and Mag’har Heritage Armor - so at least I have that. Disappointing that it appears that denying completion of these achieves after the close of BfA was intentional - and even more so that there was never even an official response to Bug Reports on this issue. But the state of the game is what it is. Note I’d have just deleted this thread rather than appending this update but deletion is no longer possible.