AchievementID

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A whole-number achievementID enumerates every achievement. It is the first field in the payload of an AchievementLink.

Achievements added to the game in later expansions typically have a larger value. For example:  [Northrend Dungeonmaster],  [Cataclysm Dungeon Hero] and  [Pandaria Dungeon Hero] have ids 1288, 4844 and 6925.

As a payload

The following events provide achievementID in their payload:

• ACHIEVEMENT_EARNED → achievementID, alreadyEarned
• ACHIEVEMENT_PLAYER NAME → achievementID, "description"
• RECEIVED_ACHIEVEMENT_MEMBER LIST → achievementID
• TRACKED_ACHIEVEMENT_LIST CHANGED → achievementID, added
• TRACKED_ACHIEVEMENT_UPDATE → achievementID, criteriaID, elapsed, duration

As an argument

The following functions accept achievementID as an argument:

• GetAchievementCriteriaInfo(achievementID, index) - Returns detailed info about an achievement's criteria
• GetAchievementCriteriaInfoByID(achievementID, criteriaID) - Returns detailed info about an achievement's criteria
• GetAchievementLink(achievementID) - Returns a properly-formatted AchievementLink
• GetAchievementInfo(achievementID) - Provides detailed information about an achievement (name, completion status and date, icon, etc.)
• GetAchievementCategory(achievementID) - Returns the category to which an achievement belongs
• GetAchievementNumCriteria(achievementID) - Returns the number of criteria required to obtain this achievement
• C_AchievementInfo.GetRewardItemID - Returns information about an item rewarded for completing an achievement
• GetPreviousAchievement(achievementID) - Returns information about the previous achievement in a chain of related achievements
• GetNextAchievement(achievementID) - Returns information about the next achievement in a chain of related achievements
• C_AchievementInfo.GetSupercedingAchievements(achievementID) - Returns a table listing all achievements which supercede the given one (ie, levels 70, 80, 90 and 100 all supercede reaching level 60)
• AddTrackedAchievement(achievementID) - Adds this achievement to the quest tracker
• RemoveTrackedAchievement(achievementID) - Removes this achievement from the quest tracker

Example

local frame = CreateFrame("Frame");
frame:RegisterEvent("ACHIEVEMENT_EARNED")
frame:HookScript("OnEvent", function(event, arg1)
	if (event == "ACHIEVEMENT_EARNED") then
		print("Hurray!  You earned " .. select(2, GetAchievementInfo(arg1)));
	end
end);

Possible result: "Hurray! You earned Outland Dungeonmaster"

External links

Popular datamining websites also use the achievementID in the url to identify each achievement in the game.

For example,  [Outland Dungeonmaster] has id 1284 and may be accessed using these links:

• Wowhead
• WoWDB