In World of Warcraft, a player has now claimed the title of “the craziest power-leveler” of all time. He has leveled 100 characters to the maximum level of 100.
World-First-Level-10,000. A player has now achieved leveling 100 characters to the maximum level of 100. It sounds completely logical as he explains it. At one point he realized he already had 20 level 90s and then thought: Well, 80 others won’t make much of a difference. This was sometime at the end of Mists of Pandaria, the last expansion.
At that time, there wasn’t much pressure for these “additional 80 level 90s”, so he chose a mix of dungeons and some farming methods through cross-realm leveling.
When Warlords of Draenor came, things got serious. The player hadn’t played the beta and therefore didn’t have a “perfect match plan.” He actually intended to reach a “certain gold goal” in World of Warcraft (but doesn’t say what exactly that was). He abandoned that gold goal when he realized that someone else might beat him to it. And then there were only three things for him: level, level, level.
This is how much time was spent in the standard plan for each WoD zone
The plan then took shape during the leveling phase, which he meticulously scheduled. In the end, the following time (including travel time) was allocated to each zone in the “perfect leveling plan”:
- Frostfire Ridge – 1 hour, 6 minutes
- Shadowmoon Valley – 44 minutes
- Gorgrond – 42 minutes
- Talador – 40 minutes
- Spires of Arak – 39 minutes
- Nagrand – 30 minutes
A variety of methods used
However, pure questing was not the only method he used to level in World of Warcraft; he also took advantage of the Garrison and the follower missions, where there are certain, rare missions, seven in total, that also grant the hero EXP. To enjoy this special experience, he logged in with his 100 chars more often to see in which garrison these special missions were available. The simple process of logging in took about two hours.
However, he is not sure how the experience through the followers worked: He says much more research is needed to determine when the missions return and what exactly triggers them. However, he believes that it is possible to get a character from 90 to 100 with only 30 minutes /played – it would just take months.
… and actually he doesn’t like leveling at all
However, he is very satisfied with the quest design in Warlords of Draenor. This allowed him to save himself the hassle of questing through all the zones and focus more on his favorite activities: Especially bonus missions that give a lot of EXP, or treasure hunting.
Of course, he didn’t level every char to 100 in one go (such craziness he would never do), but he took breaks with each char, especially when something new happened in the garrison, also to regenerate the rested bonus.
At the end of his post in the official forum, he explained: “Actually, I don’t really like leveling, but I love big projects.”
This is competition for the previous holder of the “Okay, this is not fun anymore, this is really crazy, but in a way impressive” title.
