Peaceful World of Warcraft Player Hits Max Level Without Kills

[Pat8u]

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.

What about the AH or Acheivements there is more to end game than Raids

That's some insane dedication. *claps*
Wow. It's incredible! It shows you don't have to kill every single thing to have fun.

As I recall, the word fun doesn't come into the equation.

Dedicated and possibly insane, as you rightly say, seems to be more the case here.

In the Forum Post she said that she did have fun

 

[Pat8u]

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[Pat8u]

Is there any way I can delete my Posts?

 

[Vaccine]

I wonder how much gold they made playing the AH with all that Herb and Ore.

 

[justnotcricket]

And my hat goes off =) This is neat - he/she found his/her way to enjoy the game, and if that didn't revolve around killing things, then that's cool. I don't play WoW, but I'm assuming that this *definitely* isn't the fastest way to level up, so I admire the patience.

 

[tehweave]

As a former WoW player I say two things:

1. How dare you! Now I wanna go back and play the game to see if I can do this! I almost had my addiction cured!

2. This is rather impressive, but I looked up the stats on her character. It is NOT impossible. Gathering herbs and mining veins give experience. Not much, but about as much as killing a single monster. She also did a TON of Archeology. It gives about the same amount of experience, if not a little more. Altogether, the equivalent of doing nothing but gathering professions would take about as long to get to level 85 as it would by simply grinding mobs. Killing monsters over and over never doing quests and just fighting would (in my opinion) take as long as it took her to go from 1 - 85 just doing gathering professions.
My hat is off to you.

Now I need to spend an hour debating whether or not I should rejoin this game.

 

[Gearran]

It's because of things like this that gaming will always carry a stigma.

Wait...what...HUH?!

Are you kidding? If anything, this helps to disperse the stigma gaming carries with it! It is someone playing (and presumably enjoying) a game without resorting to violence even once (and, in my opinion, the "open your mail" quest hardly counts against that motive). This is AWESOME. This proves that video games can be played with a pacifistic bent, and don't have to revolve entirely around the slaughter of (not so) helpless NPCs and mobs.

I applaud this woman for her dedication.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Also, there's no reason why she can't be in the top raid guilds, she just needs to spec healer, someone who achieved this, is just the type who'd be obsessive enough to fit into top level raiding

I just made a DK with herbs and mining, and now I've done the DK newbie zone, it'll be interesting to see how much exp I get for levelling them both to 300 before I advance to Outland.

 

[infohippie]

That's impressive, and a little bit scary.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Just goes to show that instead of pining down the attacking Boar and Breaking their legs, you should just run away...WHAT?!

No, seriously, I tip my hat to this woman. Good Job.

 

[Kinguendo]

Sounds fun..........

Only comment that made me laugh!

Well done, good sir, well done.

 

[MGlBlaze]

Games tend to be violent. Due to the success of games like CoD, no one seems to care anymore.
However what was done here was frankly a complete waste of a lot of time.
Is it possible? Obviously it was as all you would need to do is basic math. Therefore what was the point of mindless repetition to do something that essentially doesn't need to be done? The amount of hours required would be alarming. The kind of stigma this brings to it is the sort that is seen in South Park's episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft". It's not dedication as much as it is a complete waste of time.

Games tend to be violent as it offers an easy source of conflict and obstacles for the player.

Also the "Therefore what was the point of mindless repetition to do something that essentially doesn't need to be done?" thing you said can essentially translate to the entire World of Warcraft experience, or indeed a lot of other games. Why? A lot of it is repetition, and none of it 'needs' to be done by the virtue that computer games are an optional leisure activity for the majority of people who play them.

As for actually doing it rather than just leaving it to the math; what would be the point of that? It was possible through the game mechanics, but what about when you factor in the player? Would they be able to have fun all that time, or would they get fed up of gathering and make a new character or just start Killian stuff with their current one?

I still think reaching level 85 with 0 kills is quite a feat, and is an impressive display of actual role playing.

 

[Ranorak]

That's truly a way to Roleplay a Nelf Druid.

Though exp from exploring didn't seem to be that significant to me, does gathering even grand EXP?
(haven't played in a while)

 

[Bobbity]

Damn. Someone has a lot of spare time

 

[Bobbity]

That's truly a way to Roleplay a Nelf Druid.

Though exp from exploring didn't seem to be that significant to me, does gathering even grand EXP?
(haven't played in a while)

It didn't originally, but Blizzard's determination to level everyone up as quickly as possible since Cata has lead to some massive xp bonuses for profs.

 

[ffian1]

In the Forum Post she said that she did have fun

Does it? Huh. My bad.

Still, it does strike me more like an exercise in self-efficacy. I grind for the sole purpose of grinding, just because it's a challenge to prove I could. Still an awesome feat.

 

[Odlus]

Therefore what was the point of mindless repetition to do something that essentially doesn't need to be done?

You just pretty much described gaming in a nutshell, now sit back, grab a drink, and stop worrying about such silly things.