WoW: TBC Lvl 60 to 70 in 28 Hours...

[mad0maxx]

http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/17-01-2007-4522.html

http://www.worldofraids.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3441

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otSAw_8lPlQ

French WoW player reaches level 70 in 28 hours
By Wesley Yin-Poole - 17/01/2007 - 11:35am GMT
A die-hard World of Warcraft player has reached level 70 within 28 hours of The Burning Crusade's release.

Gullerbone, a 24-year-old French WoW player, reached level 70 at 4:04 am (CET) on January 17, 2007. He is believed to be the world's first.

The Burning Crusade, the expansion to World of Warcraft, the most popular MMO on earth with eight million subscribers, went on sale in the UK at midnight (GMT) on Monday 15 January.

One of the game's new features was to raise the level cap from 60 to 70. Most experienced players had suggested it would take a number of months at least to achieve the goal.

In an interview with World of Raids.com, Gullerbone, who reached level 70 with a mage class character called Gawell, told how he had help from 40 in-game friends working with him around the clock.

He said: "Cau (the 1st European lvl 60) and I planned the exp(erience) route step by step, trying everything to make sure it was the most appropriate, the groups organization with the guild Millenium and their members. Each member rotated using a definite order to help me to grind on mobs, mostly with AE, surrounded with several guildmate healers, tanks, pullers etc..."

Gullerbone used a tactic of 'tagging' computer controlled enemies, which allowed him to achieve experience points even though his guildmates killed them.

When asked how many players he had help from, he said: "Well at first we had only five (during the first 10 hours or so) so that 10 of the members could get to lvl 62. Then in the morning we were 15 in order to kill the mobs at a faster rate. Finally in the evening, everyone was involved and we could gather a 35 man raid to help me in Netherstorm with our new lvl 62 doing most of the job."

The fact that a player has managed to reach level 70 so fast will not please developers Blizzard, who had hoped to see the Burning Crusade occupy fans for at least a year.

However, given the fanaticism of the World of Warcraft fan base, it was perhaps inevitable that a number of players would have devoted so much time and effort in to reaching level 70 as soon as possible.

When asked if he alone played the character non stop for 28 hours, Gullerbone said: "I sure did. I slept from two to 10pm on Monday (woke up two hours before TBC launch), so the physical preparation was a part of the plan."

For more World of Warcraft info, head over to our Burning Crusade developer interview.

 

[JohnAn2112]

I guess that's cool and all, but he missed a lot of the new content by just grinding through just to level.

BTW: "je ding" is now the new "ding".

 

[Aikouka]

Eh, I've always felt that this method is a bit cheating the system. Essentially, he's bypassing the natural EXP loss from being in a party/raid and still achieving all of the kills by pre-tagging the mobs. It's as bad as the one guy on my server who's 69, yet has other people play for him.

Oh and leveling really isn't that hard. I could see 60->70 taking a month or two if you're a casual player. Right now I'm 63 and I've only been playing for a bit after work each day. Although, I think a couple advantages that I have are my gear isn't that bad and I've always been efficient at questing. Although, the sheer number of people in an area going for the same quests is really hurting the efficiency, but it works overall.

 

[skace]

I don't really care that he did it, but I would care if blizzard modified content because he did it.

 

[BZeto]

Originally posted by: mad0maxx

French WoW player reaches level 70 in 28 hours
The fact that a player has managed to reach level 70 so fast will not please developers Blizzard, who had hoped to see the Burning Crusade occupy fans for at least a year.

Lol, yeah right... Does the author of this article even know how mmorpg's work?

 

[Schadenfroh]

I believe we are dealing with someone who has....... absolutely no life.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: skace
I don't really care that he did it, but I would care if blizzard modified content because he did it.

I could see them try to remove the tag-n-kill ability from the game (i.e. provide less exp for it occurring).

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: skace
I don't really care that he did it, but I would care if blizzard modified content because he did it.

I could see them try to remove the tag-n-kill ability from the game (i.e. provide less exp for it occurring).

Yea, but I'd rather they not. I mean I honestly don't care if someone uses that stupid method of getting to 70 because they are just skipping all the unique interesting quest content.

But here is the thing, you may not use the tag-n-kill method your first time to 70, but once you've got 2 chars at 70 you might feel you've seen it all, and want to use that shortcut to get some other chars to 70. And I say more power to you.

I personally hate when SOE set out to absolutely KILL the ability to AE large groups of mobs in EQ. It destroys alternative gaming methods and limits creativity.

 

[Farmer]

That is truly pathetic.

"Working around the clock" on a game? Have some fun why don't ya?

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

I'm so glad I never touched this game. It seems to turn people into mindless zombies.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: skace
Yea, but I'd rather they not. I mean I honestly don't care if someone uses that stupid method of getting to 70 because they are just skipping all the unique interesting quest content.

But here is the thing, you may not use the tag-n-kill method your first time to 70, but once you've got 2 chars at 70 you might feel you've seen it all, and want to use that shortcut to get some other chars to 70. And I say more power to you.

I personally hate when SOE set out to absolutely KILL the ability to AE large groups of mobs in EQ. It destroys alternative gaming methods and limits creativity.

Don't some games also have the ability to kill steal (including EQ?) that ruins this tactic? Where whoever does the most damage gets the kill instead of whoever causes damage to the mob first.

Personally, every leveling situation is different for a different class (and sometimes even for the same class). This coming from my leveling 4 characters to 60.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
I'm so glad I never touched this game. It seems to turn people into mindless zombies.

Select people who are addicted can become mindless about it. That's all you ever hear about - and for obvious reasons.

Then there are those who are "addicted casuals" who play when they have a moment free (different than rushing home to play for endless hours and deprive themselves of sleep). As a casual, it's been keeping me very entertained for a year now and I've renewed for 6 more months at least. I'm treating it like a game.

 

[imported_Imp]

Psh... who cares? Couple hundred other 'people' have probably claimed 0-60 in a day or so too. Will he/she be writing that on their resume?

When asked if he alone played the character non stop for 28 hours, Gullerbone said: "I sure did. I slept from two to 10pm on Monday (woke up two hours before TBC launch), so the physical preparation was a part of the plan."

Excellent committment for a game.

 

[wheresmybacon]

A guy on our server got 70 yesterday morning. I don't know the details or if he used the tagging method as well, but I did a /who 70 when I logged on and sure enough, there he was.

I'm 61 and don't have any desire to power through to 70. In fact, I made a Draenei shaman on another server and am noobing it up having a great time.

 

[Zoinks]

"How do you kill one that has no life"

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
I'm so glad I never touched this game. It seems to turn people into mindless zombies.

You could insert a million things into the bolded part... Does that mean you shouldn't experience any of it? Like rh71, I play it whenever I get the free time, but of course I have my priorities.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: Wingznut

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
I'm so glad I never touched this game. It seems to turn people into mindless zombies.

You could insert a million things into the bolded part... Does that mean you shouldn't experience any of it? Like rh71, I play it whenever I get the free time, but of course I have my priorities.

You *could* insert a million things into that part, but that's not the point.

If you can play the game casually, more power to you. There just seems to be a large group of people who let it take over their lives in a disturbing way. 28 hours non-stop just to be the first level 70, and by the sounds of it, not in a particularly rewarding or meaningful way. E-pen0r ++ and everything but it seems a worthless achievement whether you play the game or not.

 

[zodder]

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112
I guess that's cool and all, but he missed a lot of the new content by just grinding through just to level.

BTW: "je ding" is now the new "ding".

I totally agree. I plan on scoping out everything and trying to do all the quests. Remember how monotonous it was at 60 when all there was left was 5 hour BWL/Naxx raids? Why would anyone want to get back to that boredom so quickly?

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: zodder
I totally agree. I plan on scoping out everything and trying to do all the quests. Remember how monotonous it was at 60 when all there was left was 5 hour BWL/Naxx raids? Why would anyone want to get back to that boredom so quickly?

Doing all of the quests can get you up in levels pretty quickly, especially if you do get them all. Most quests are worth 9-13k exp from what I've seen so far. I think just yesterday I went from about 40% into 65 to 10-20% into 66.

I mean, I can see how grinding can be completely insane when it comes to leveling. I was in a party with a couple friends yesterday and the mage was AoE grinding the mobs for the kill quest. Killing 5-8 Talbuk at a time were no problem. Now, we only got about 150 exp for each, but if you remove the group factor, you get about 550 for each. 8 Talbuk at 550 exp a pop puts you at 4400 exp for about 1 minute's worth of work :Q. It seemed even easier once he had Ice Lance and Molten Armor, as the mobs will keep aggro on you as long as they hit your armor and Ice Lance is instant cast.

 

[CKent]

I'm enjoying the journy, not the destination... ok I admit it, I want 70 and phat lewtz! But I do want to stop and smell the roses, so to speak. I'm not even 61 yet lol, I just picked it up yesterday.

 

[rh71]

Well I'm at 65 and not playing for more than 4 hours a day. The quests really do get you through extremely quickly. The only thing I'm missing out on right now are the instances and I can always run them later when more guildies want to do them. As for nicer gear from instances... leveling like this will get me nice gear too... it's all part of the same goal.. to level easier, but at this rate and with all these quests, who needs that ?

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: rh71
Well I'm at 65 and not playing for more than 4 hours a day. The quests really do get you through extremely quickly. The only thing I'm missing out on right now are the instances and I can always run them later when more guildies want to do them. As for nicer gear from instances... leveling like this will get me nice gear too... it's all part of the same goal.. to level easier, but at this rate and with all these quests, who needs that ?

Instances are kind of weird, because unlike standard WoW, they're shorter, broken up and don't have many quests for them. They're also fairly easy. It also seems that either my luck has been bad or that most the time, only crap no one needs ever drops from bosses (i.e. leather damage gear with no druid or at least shammy in the group).

Originally posted by: CKent
I'm enjoying the journy, not the destination... ok I admit it, I want 70 and phat lewtz! But I do want to stop and smell the roses, so to speak. I'm not even 61 yet lol, I just picked it up yesterday.

I want 70 so I can play around on a flying mount . Like I mentioned in the other thread, I'm soooo contemplated making a <Top Gun> guild for pure kicks (although I've never even seen the movie ).

 

[crystal]

My hunter hitted 62 last Sunday afternoon just doing quests in the starting zone. The only quests I got left in that zone (that I know off) are the chained quest for Overlord? i.e. the one where you follow the dog to dig up a key and the stupid feathers quest. I didn't set foot into any instance yet so I didn't get any quests in there done. I rarely had long playing sessions so finding group for that being kinda tough. Hopefully my hunter will hit 64 by early next week.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: crystal
My hunter hitted 62 last Sunday afternoon just doing quests in the starting zone. The only quests I got left in that zone (that I know off) are the chained quest for Overlord? i.e. the one where you follow the dog to dig up a key and the stupid feathers quest. I didn't set foot into any instance yet so I didn't get any quests in there done. I rarely had long playing sessions so finding group for that being kinda tough. Hopefully my hunter will hit 64 by early next week.

Ugh, I hated that Fei-Fei quest... sat there following that dumb dog around (after buying all the stuff). Worst of all, some priest tried to ninja it from me! I was about to go medieval on that guy. Do you mean the quest called "Drill the Drillmaster"?

I think 64 by next week is a pretty easy goal with some decent play time. Zangarmarsh is pretty easy as there are only 4 elites in the entire zone and you only have to kill 2 of them (leader of the Bloodscale Naga and leader of the Dark-something Naga). I don't know if there's a quest to kill the elite ogre guy, but I never found one, so I presume he may be for horde or maybe drop an item that starts a quest? The last elite you talk to in a form so you don't have to fight him.

In my opinion, the only problem with going slow is you get caught up in other players. People, in my experiences, aren't very nice, will not group up even for a kill quest. They tend to take items that lie on the ground as you're killing a mob right by that item. They purposely steal your kills. But by being "ahead of the game" you can somewhat avoid these players and play in less densely populated zones (right now Nagrand is decent for me... but I wish I was done with Nagrand and in Blade's Edge Mountains already. Horde seem to be really pissy in Nagrand for some reason).

 

[VIAN]

The expansion sold 2.4 million copies in only 24 hours.

http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/012307_wowbc.x