Achievement point

An achievement point is a unit that accumulates based on different types of achievements. There are currently no plans to allow spending them on anything. It is helpful to think of the points like the score at the end of a game - no one asks what the players will spend their points on after the game, it's just a measure used to determine who won. Feats of Strength and Legacy achievements don't have achievement points. The total number of achievement points can be found at the top of the achievement user interface.

Guild achievements award its own separate achievement points.

Type of shields

Each achievement has a shield attached to it and can be used to determine if it contains points or not.

Shield	Guild Shield	Description
		Will have points, with the number displayed on the shield.
		No points, usually a Feats of Strength or Legacy acheivement.

Trivia

• With the introduction of achievements in Wrath of the Lich King, achievements only ever provided 10 points each with meta-achievements typically rewarding 25 and the  [Universal Explorer] rewarding 50. Legion introduced achievements that reward 5 points.
• Some achievements (such as  [Educated Guesser]) that were moved to legacy still had achievement points up until it was corrected in patch 10.2.7.