It is official: Reaching World of Warcraft’s stage cap of 70 with out leaving its tutorial zone is now old-hat. As a substitute, actual devoted zen masters hit most power with out even arriving there, making use of WoW’s pet battle mechanic to slowly stage up with out ever leaving the confines of the boat that takes you to the sport’s beginning space. That is what a participant referred to as Cheatcho did, who documented his remarkably stationery journey to stage 70 in a latest Reddit thread (opens in new tab) (through GamesRadar (opens in new tab)).
How did he handle it? Nicely, WoW accommodates a number of pet battle quests that may be completed by any character in your account, fairly than solely the character who received the hunt. By selecting up the quests on one character and concluding them on one other, you are able to do issues like, nicely, stage up a personality that hasn’t even arrived on the beginning space but. All Cheatcho needed to do was grind 5 of those quests for over 200 days to achieve the dizzying heights of stage 70 on his boat-bound Pandaren Shaman (why is it at all times Pandarens?).
Cheatcho says they did it “As a result of it is the final word solo participant solution to stage a personality,” on condition that “You by no means go away the ship. You by no means defeat one other participant, dungeon boss and even group with anybody else”. Plus, in fact, they “take into account doing it enjoyable”. It virtually sounds just like the tenets of some type of inward-looking, anchoritic (opens in new tab) philosophy: the type of factor a wizened determine on a mountaintop would impart to you after a treacherous climb. I’ll completely, 100%, by no means even try to do it myself, however by god I am glad another person has.
When you’re fabricated from sterner stuff than I and fancy attempting it your self, Cheatcho has some recommendation. As long as you retain separate characters parked at every of the pet battle trainers (who grant the related quests), you possibly can stage from 60 to 70 over the course of about 60 days, at a price to you of a mere “5 minutes per day”. In addition they advocate doing it “for those who hate leveling a selected class/spec however you need it at max stage,” which, once more, I am unable to assist however really feel feels like extra hassle than it is value. However then once more I am not the legendary hero who achieved most energy whereas ensconced on a ship, so what do I do know?
The entire thing, in fact, places me in thoughts of Doubleagent, the Pandaren pacifist legend (opens in new tab) who reached WoW: Dragonflight’s max stage within the recreation’s tutorial zone by means of a mixture of herb-picking and mining. Not like Cheatcho, Doubleagent’s methodology did not require them to utilize separate characters on their account, nevertheless it did want them to truly, , get off that boat. Clearly, we have to settle this with a no-holds-barred, one-on-one zen-off. First Pandaren to go to sleep loses.
