What the achievement asks
Show some affection to eighteen critters in The Ringing Deeps. Five points, account-wide.
Target each one and use the love emote. Nothing fights back and nothing is on a timer.
Use a targeting macro, not your eyes
These are critters. They are small, they wander, and several of them are the colour of the floor they stand on. Hunting them by sight in a zone this size is the mistake.
Put this in a macro and press it as you move:
/tar Spring/tar Lightda/tar Dustcrawler/tar Grottoscale/tar Lava Sl/tar Cavern Sk/tar Cavern M/tar Darkgrotto H/tar PebbleAnd a second one for the rest:
/tar Snake/tar Tiny S/tar Mass of/tar Crackc/tar Earthenwork St/tar Moss Sl/tar Stumbleg/tar Ooze/tar Rock SThe short forms are deliberate: they fit inside a macro and they do not pick up unrelated critters. If the macro finds something, it is in range and your character turns to face it.
Where they were found
Two caveats about the table below. These critters have many spawn points and the coordinates are places one was found rather than places one waits. And patch 11.1 stretched The Ringing Deeps map sideways, so the numbers here have had the resulting four-point correction applied.
Treat them as neighbourhoods to sweep with the macro running, not as pins to fly to.
| Critter | Roughly |
|---|---|
| Dustcrawler Beetle | 38.01 16.38 |
| Cavern Mote | 38.01 16.38 |
| Rock Snail | 38.42 14.37 |
| Earthenwork Stoneskitterer | 41.78 13.52 |
| Lava Slug | 44.50 12.57 |
| Snake | 47.28 15.43 |
| Tiny Sporbit | 48.85 54.73 |
| Darkgrotto Hopper | 50.41 34.73 |
| Crackcreeper | 50.67 29.92 |
| Moss Sludglet | 53.30 65.74 |
| Spring Mole | 53.48 67.64 |
| Grottoscale Hatchling | 54.79 68.61 |
| Pebble Scarab | 55.40 45.92 |
| Mass of Worms | 56.31 92.21 |
| Stumblegrub | 57.96 30.27 |
| Lightdarter | 60.53 32.38 |
| Oozeling | 63.01 38.78 |
| Cavern Skiplet | 68.85 39.65 |
The Oozeling is the one you will not find
The Oozeling is not out in the zone. It lives in a cave called the Fetid Grotto, underneath Chittering Den. The entrance is at 61.06 41.44 and the critter is inside at 60.83 39.25.
Everything else can be picked up while flying the zone for other things. This one needs a deliberate trip.
Where it fits
One of the pieces of You Xal Not Pass, which rewards the Shadow of Doubt mount and is part of Worldsoul-Searching, the War Within meta. Run the macro while you collect the plaques of Rocked to Sleep and the consoles of Not So Quick Fix and most of the eighteen arrive on their own.