Peaceful World of Warcraft Player Hits Max Level Without Kills

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You know all of the things that mods, CLAIM, they cannot do? I wonder if this account was hacked, and said hacker went on a killing spree. Would they undo the deeds?
 

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Nothing is particuarly impressive about this feat when you know WoW and plan ahead.

First off, you need to be level 5 to get the Mining/Herbalism professions. So without questing or killing you'd need to do a lot of exploring to get to that level. Normally the amount needed would send you into vastly higher level zones and certainly get you killed. However, if you have a friend/alt account with the 2 seater flying rocket mount, you can simple fly to each location possible and get full exploration experience, which should get you to level 5.

After that, you train Herbalism and Mining and just carefully avoid enemies while running about finding Plants/Mineral Veins that require enough skill points that they'll grant you experience. Again, easily done with the aide of a handy dandy friend with a rocket.

Archeology is essentially the same thing but you can see where the nodes are easier. Again, friend with a rocket makes it easier.

It's not a feat of skill, more a feat of terrific endurance. And money making from all the Herbs and Ore.
 

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Haakong said:
A prime example that WoW is a game you play the way YOU want to. *sneaks off to stalk hordies in orgrimmar on my worgen rogue*

Read: not kill, STALK! :D
Yeah, spend seven months getting max level or seven YEARS getting max level. This feat reflects alot better on the player than it does on the game. I admire your imagination to metagame aswell. :)

MiketheBassMan said:
People talking about her "beating" WoW by getting to max level with no kills are sorely mistaken. Leveling is a tiny part of the experience, and the vast majority of the game exists in raids. It is certainly impressive, but entirely trivial because there is no way to proceed from there without killing anything.
I think you're the one who's sore. Seven years of patiently and peacefully doing their own thing. 'Entirely trivial?' Don't be an ass.
 

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So you can reach max level by doing the most boring things ever existed in mmos. Now why is that a positive thing?

You don't play WoW for the gathering as you don't play bulletstorm for the story.
 

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I think a non violent approach is great in games that don't fight you every single step of the way on it.

This is just lunacy.
 

King Kupofried

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Klitch said:
To think that this girl/guy spent seven years working towards something that will give her/him a few days of internet fame makes me feel bad.
She/He said that she had been playing WoW for seven years, not working on the character for seven years.
Professions have only awarded experience points since the release of Cataclysm. So She/He could only have been working towards this for less than a year now.
 

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Guessing this is news cause the level cap is 85 now? Cause a player did it at 80 ages ago. With all the new content in the game, I'd say the extra 5 levels aren't a big stretch from it. Still, kudos for the pacifist approach :>
 

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samsonguy920 said:
So, to do this, did s/he start from day one when WoW came out? That seems about the right timeframe for that kind of progression. S/he didn't even get rested experience cred from that, as that only occurs from kills. And only one quest?

Bat Shit Insane.
Klitch said:
felixader said:
Klitch said:
That's both extremely impressive and so very, very sad.
Why? The last thing that kept me playing WOW was exploring the world.

But after a while i realized that anyone can and will foce you to use the awfull, repetetive and boring (in my oppinion of course) battle system, and so i finally quit it.
I find all achievements to be pretty sad. It's as if people think that by accomplishing something in a game they can validate the time they put into it. To think that this girl/guy spent seven years working towards something that will give her/him a few days of internet fame makes me feel bad.

I realize that the internet fame wasn't the actual goal and we can only speculate as to why this person decided to invest an ungodly amount of time (and money) playing a game contrary to the way the developers intended (I don't think you can argue that). Regardless of how sad this makes me, it's still very impressive and I think it's cool that someone actually did this. I just don't believe that the emotional or mental payoff from reaching that milestone can possibly be worth the investment.
Just want to make a note here. It didn't take this person 7 years, this feat is impossible pre the latest expansion. The method she used professions/archeology only gave experience after Cataclysm came out. The only way you could get any where near max level before the expansion was through a friend "gifting you levels" but last I checked the only went up to level 60.

Sure it seems like a pain in the ass, I honestly don't know, I haven't played since the previous expansion, but considering it really is only 5 months in since the expansion it really doesn't seem that bad. I honestly don't know, unless professions give insanely low exp then the method might suck. But if it gives decent exp, this method could honestly tender a lot of gold for a player because many of the low level gathering regents sells for a nice chunk of money. And without being able to see his/her playtime I can't make a judgement.
 

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mooncalf said:
Haakong said:
A prime example that WoW is a game you play the way YOU want to. *sneaks off to stalk hordies in orgrimmar on my worgen rogue*

Read: not kill, STALK! :D
Yeah, spend seven months getting max level or seven YEARS getting max level. This feat reflects alot better on the player than it does on the game. I admire your imagination to metagame aswell. :)

MiketheBassMan said:
People talking about her "beating" WoW by getting to max level with no kills are sorely mistaken. Leveling is a tiny part of the experience, and the vast majority of the game exists in raids. It is certainly impressive, but entirely trivial because there is no way to proceed from there without killing anything.
I think you're the one who's sore. Seven years of patiently and peacefully doing their own thing. 'Entirely trivial?' Don't be an ass.
At the most this took 5 months, the method she/he used was available since Dec 7, 2010. And even then who knows if he/she started right off the bat.
 

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That is true dedication right there. To much for me.
Says the guy who hit 80 in what, two weeks? Oh the things you shouldn't say on Skype. Hah.

OT: Damn, it took me a month to hit 70...
 

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So, it took since December 2010 to reach maximum level?

How many hours/day were they playing for?

All I have to say is, wow... I'm tempted to get W.o.W. myself to try this out.
 

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Rednog said:
mooncalf said:
Haakong said:
A prime example that WoW is a game you play the way YOU want to. *sneaks off to stalk hordies in orgrimmar on my worgen rogue*

Read: not kill, STALK! :D
Yeah, spend seven months getting max level or seven YEARS getting max level. This feat reflects alot better on the player than it does on the game. I admire your imagination to metagame aswell. :)

MiketheBassMan said:
People talking about her "beating" WoW by getting to max level with no kills are sorely mistaken. Leveling is a tiny part of the experience, and the vast majority of the game exists in raids. It is certainly impressive, but entirely trivial because there is no way to proceed from there without killing anything.
I think you're the one who's sore. Seven years of patiently and peacefully doing their own thing. 'Entirely trivial?' Don't be an ass.
At the most this took 5 months, the method she/he used was available since Dec 7, 2010. And even then who knows if he/she started right off the bat.
That so? Well color me corrected...
 

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InnerRebellion said:
norender said:
That is true dedication right there. To much for me.
Says the guy who hit 80 in what, two weeks? Oh the things you shouldn't say on Skype. Hah.

OT: Damn, it took me a month to hit 70...
Yeah but thats with killing things. Not grinding and running around and searching for flowers and veins.
 

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Infernai said:
Ten bucks says that this Everbloom person is actually Hideo Kojima...or Vash the Stampede.
Or Icarium Lifestealer -- who is essentially Vash the Stampede in a medieval fantasy epic rather than space western(?).
 

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Does she shouts "leeroy jenkins", freeze everyone in place and then run past them?

That's interesting to hear and quiet the daunting goal but an interesting one.
 

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I made my first 26 levels in Lineage 2 till now just by interacting with other players (thats how a RP server should work, the game sucks as a game though.)