For the missing buckets, there are a lot more for Alliance than just the ones required by the achievement. Wowhead.com is a good resource for that information; just pick an achievement (Tricks and Treats of Kalimdor - Alliance version, etc.) here and check out the comments. (I usually filter to comments made during 4.0 and later using the drop-down "filter by patch" menu at the top.) There are links to maps for each continent in the comments, and though they don't have town names on the map, you can usually eyeball the dot's position in each zone and figure out which flight point it relates to.
While I recommend you go to Wowhead yourself and poke around and get used to using it as a resource, because it's incredibly helpful, here's a list of the buckets not included in the achievements, for the sake of convenience (and maybe getting you cool toys this year):
Eastern Kingdoms Chillwind Camp, Western Plaguelands Stormfeather Outpost, The Hinterlands Swiftgear Station, Wetlands Greenwarden's Grove, Wetlands The Fastrider Lodge, Loch Modan Fuselight, Badlands Dragon's Mouth, Badlands Iron Summit, Searing Gorge Bogpaddle, Swamp of Sorrows The Harborage, Samp of Sorrows Nethergarde Keep, Blasted Lands Surwich, Blasted Lands Fort Livingston, Northern Stranglethorn
There aren't any unlisted ones in the Cata zones, Northrend, or Outland.
As for the forums, well...I stay away, mostly. My guild leader reads the guild raid and leadership forum and occasionally links me to something she thinks I'll find interesting, and I have an RSS feed for the MMO-Champion.org Blue Tracker, so I can see if there's anything official that interests me, but otherwise I don't bother with the forums unless I have a question I need to get an answer to. In that case, I do a search first, and then—as an absolute last resort—post my question. For a while I hung out on the Customer Service forums and tried to help people where I could, but it was kind of exhausting to deal with all the asshats with entitlement issues, so I stopped.
ETA: If you were Horde, I'd say roll a new character and join my guild; we're great at being helpful and supportive, even if we are a bunch of dirty blood elves and trolls. ;-) Seriously, though, if you ever want to take a walk on the Horde side, PM me here and I'll get back to you with realm and guild info. We're a small-ish guild (~250 characters and ~20 regular players), and we don't bite. Unless you ask nicely. *koff*
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While I recommend you go to Wowhead yourself and poke around and get used to using it as a resource, because it's incredibly helpful, here's a list of the buckets not included in the achievements, for the sake of convenience (and maybe getting you cool toys this year):
Eastern Kingdoms
Chillwind Camp, Western Plaguelands
Stormfeather Outpost, The Hinterlands
Swiftgear Station, Wetlands
Greenwarden's Grove, Wetlands
The Fastrider Lodge, Loch Modan
Fuselight, Badlands
Dragon's Mouth, Badlands
Iron Summit, Searing Gorge
Bogpaddle, Swamp of Sorrows
The Harborage, Samp of Sorrows
Nethergarde Keep, Blasted Lands
Surwich, Blasted Lands
Fort Livingston, Northern Stranglethorn
Kalimdor
Talonbranch Glade, Felwood
Whisperwind Grove, Felwood
Farwatcher's Glen, Stonetalon Mountains
Windshear Hold, Stonetalon Mountains
Northwatch Expedition Base Camp, Stonetalon Mountains
Stonetalon Peak, Stonetalon Mountains
Northwatch Point, Southern Barrens
Honor's Stand, Southern Barrens
Fort Triumph, Southern Barrens
Cenarion Wildlands, Desolace
Dreamer's Rest, Feralas
Bootlegger Outpost, Tanaris
Marshal's Stand, Un'Goro Crater
There aren't any unlisted ones in the Cata zones, Northrend, or Outland.
As for the forums, well...I stay away, mostly. My guild leader reads the guild raid and leadership forum and occasionally links me to something she thinks I'll find interesting, and I have an RSS feed for the MMO-Champion.org Blue Tracker, so I can see if there's anything official that interests me, but otherwise I don't bother with the forums unless I have a question I need to get an answer to. In that case, I do a search first, and then—as an absolute last resort—post my question. For a while I hung out on the Customer Service forums and tried to help people where I could, but it was kind of exhausting to deal with all the asshats with entitlement issues, so I stopped.
ETA: If you were Horde, I'd say roll a new character and join my guild; we're great at being helpful and supportive, even if we are a bunch of dirty blood elves and trolls. ;-) Seriously, though, if you ever want to take a walk on the Horde side, PM me here and I'll get back to you with realm and guild info. We're a small-ish guild (~250 characters and ~20 regular players), and we don't bite. Unless you ask nicely. *koff*