What? How? Why? The fricking thing only went on sale yesterday, and already one player’s managed to ding level 80. I’ve been playing most of today, having arduously just hit level 71 a moment ago, and even that’s enough to make my eyes scream and my brain weep. 80?
There’s no word from the player her/himself as yet, but Wowinsider theorise they had a pet Priest with them to make the journey that much easier. That I can believe, but it’s the actual time involved that confuses me. If they bought the copy at midnight on Tuesday and played solidly, that would have given them 30 hours all-told. Is that possible, WoW mathematicians? It doesn’t seem to be shenanigans, as we can all see the dedicated warlock’s armory profile. I’m sure she’s looking forward to a lonely week of having no-one to team up with up. But gratz’n'all.
My own second day in Northrend’s been a fairly WoW-standard one, though it does keep on throwing agreeably inventive quests at me. I turned into a hawk for a while, I wore a golem suit and I took a ride on a giant harpoon. Then I ran WoTLK’s first two dungeons, neither of which especially impressed me. There’s some nice graphical show-offery in the Nexus, but it all felt terribly familiar. As did the struggles to form a group for it. I know you’ve got to be precise for the later raids, but I’d hoped the early 5-man instances would be ameanable to a fairly mongrel group. Not so. It’s not just a matter of getting the right classes, but the right spec of the right classes, and of course players that pretty on the ball. There wasn’t too much wiping involved at least, but it was a right pig to sort out. Yeah, it’s a bit more sociable than WAR’s anonymous pile-ons, but they’re so much easier to orchestrate.
What I have noticed, though, is that Lich King is very much WoW reverting to type. The otherworldly, sci-fi elements of The Burning Crusade have been dialled back in favour of a straighter fantasy landscape, and while that sounds duller on paper, it really suits the game. Forests and ice floes feel a lot better suited to exploration than the more contrived, setpiecey alien environments of TBC.
But God, level 80? In a day?
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When I read this one of the reasons I quit the game came back vividly. And I smiled.
It’s a good game, though. Just not for me anymore.
Bah Warlocks! and double bah Alliance!
Wooopie he did it with starting epic gear. I want to see him do it in 24hrs in all greens/blues like 95% of the population of WOW is on then see how long it takes :p
I’d Imagine that this is no different then going on a binger for a day or two during the great college years, except, you’re playing WoW and drinking Rockstar or your favorite energy drink…maybe even Dew..
Man, talk about blowing through levels like Kleenex!
I would like to mock this guy for playing 30 hours straight, really i would. But I remember back in college when I was playing everquest, I blew off my way-too-cute-for-me girlfriend to camp the “Ancient Cyclops” for two days straight with the help of a friend. You pretty much can’t get any nerdier than that!
Although the quests are very much wow style (kill x of x) they seem pretty easy so far. In just a couple hours of play I was over half way through 70 and im full resto shaman.
Did someone use the word “skill”?
Leveling a Wow toon to 80 in 30 hours straight: put that on your CV folks!