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On Thu, 22 May 2014 15:40:27 +0000 (UTC), Chesucat
<ches...@freeshell.org> wrote:

>Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Wasn't aware that there ever was one, the ironman challenge is just a
>> player-created thing :-)
>
>I never knew ironman was achievement, it's not listed in the achievements
>window, but I started playing during Cata and someone told me that was an
>old vanilla achievement and I believed it at the time.  There were lot a
>things that happen during vanilla that most newbies didn't know existed
>and did not existed, without researching wowhead, wowwiki, and other
>sources of unverified information on the Internet.;-)
>
><chesucat twitches>

As Lewis says, there were no achievements in vanilla, and ironman was
only invented during Cataclysm anyway (yeah, people tried similar
stuff before, I know, but this was the first time it took off on an
organised scale, I believe). 

Only achievement beyond personal satisfaction is being on the list at
http://wowironman.com - of course some people find ways to get on it
without being true ironmen (of the lvl 90s on there, two were lvl 90
boosts and one pet battled their way up, impressive level of
dedication, to be fair, but not really in the ironman spirit...), but
those of us who do it properly have formed enough of a community to
know and respect the real ones. It's a pretty fun alternative way to
play, long gaps before expansions are ideal for doing something
different :-)