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Recipe: achievement planner

Browsable achievement catalog with per-character completion status, filters by category and point value, and a "what's left" view.

What you get

  • Views-friendly achievement and category entities.
  • Per-character progress entities that can be filtered, grouped, counted.
  • A category taxonomy tree you can expose as a facet.

Minimum modules

wow
wow_realm
wow_playable_class
wow_playable_race
wow_playable_specialization
wow_power_type
wow_character
wow_achievement

Optional enrichment

Add the collection modules whose achievements you want to surface (mounts for mount-collection achievements, pets for pet-battle achievements, etc.):

wow_mount
wow_pet
wow_title
wow_toy
wow_reputation

Each enables its own CharacterDataProvider, and the matching per-character rows start landing on the next character refresh.

Setup

  1. Install, configure, sync reference data (see character tracking).
  2. Sync the achievement catalog: 
    drush wow:sync-achi-categories --force
drush wow:sync-achievements
  3. Import the characters a player cares about: 
    drush wow:character-lookup stormrage khadgar
  4. The per-character progress data lands automatically on character sync.

Building the planner UI

The suite provides the entities and relationships; you build the views.

"All achievements by category" view

  • Source: wow_achievement entities
  • Exposed filter: category taxonomy reference
  • Exposed sort: points descending, display_order
  • Contextual filter (optional): pass a character ID → inner-join wow_achievement_progress on achievement = this.id AND character = :cid, expose completed_timestamp as a column.

"Not yet completed" view

  • Source: wow_achievement
  • Relationship: wow_achievement_progress → filter character = :cid AND completed_timestamp IS NULL
  • Sort: points descending (the "high-value unfinished" list)

"Recent completions" block

  • Source: wow_achievement_progress
  • Filter: character = :cid AND completed_timestamp IS NOT NULL
  • Sort: completed_timestamp descending
  • Range: 10

What's not provided

  • No scoring heuristic (what's "easy" vs "hard"). The criteria structure is in criteria_data, ready for your own classifier.
  • No soloable / group-required split. Not in the Blizzard data.
  • No ETA estimates.

Add those as your own module that reads the data.

Per-expansion filtering

Achievement categories form a tree — expansion-level categories have children. Build a facet that walks the category taxonomy's parent chain. A View with a taxonomy-reference filter configured for the wow_char_achi_category vocabulary works.