When the hardcore character of Papaplatte in WoW Classic passed away, many were sure: The well-known Twitch streamer is out of the Sauercrowd project. What they didn’t expect: the incredible support of the guild.
What was the situation for Papaplatte? In January, the German Twitch streamer Kevin “Papaplatte” Teller experienced a true emotional rollercoaster. He had just reached the maximum level 60 with his first hardcore character in WoW Classic during the Sauercrowd event.
However, during a later visit to the Scholomance dungeon, a boss fight went wrong. Papaplatte’s priest was dispatched to the spirit healer with just one strike by a minion of Bloodrib. For the visibly distraught guild leader, it was clear: “Dude, I can’t do this again.” The leveling phase is incredibly time-consuming. Additionally, a planned vacation was approaching.
For a part of the community, it was clear at the time: That’s it. Papaplatte wouldn’t want or be able to invest that much time in WoW Classic again.
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What happened next? After Papaplatte had talked extensively with his guild members and had a night to think about it, he nonetheless created a new hardcore character, a mage. 7 hours later, he had already reached level 26.
How? Well, through what’s called mob tagging. High-level characters draw numerous enemies together. Papaplatte then attacks these with his mage to secure the experience points. The streamer was supported by several high-level Sauercrowd participants.
Players like Kutcherlol and julijones also took advantage of Papaplatte’s vacation to farm countless water bags in Tanaris for him over several days. With these, they can complete a repeatable quest multiple times to quickly jump from level 40 to level 50.
The plan works: The combination of mob tagging and bag quests is so efficient that Papaplatte was able to celebrate reaching level 60 last night (on February 8, 2026). Where? Of course at a well-known grind spot at the troll camp on Darkshore, where mages can easily pull, group, and bomb numerous enemies.
Papaplatte was overjoyed: “This is it. Absolutely. Absolutely. I got it. I got it. Yessss. Let’s goooo.” You can watch the moment below or on Twitch:
The efficiency of this leveling method can also be measured by the hard numbers. While Papaplatte needed around 240 hours for his first hardcore character to reach level 60, it took him less than 50 hours for the second run. Without his constant supporters, the streamer would have certainly never achieved this.
Thus, all three guild leaders and founders of Sauercrowd are now at the maximum level and can now prepare, together with the guild, for the first raid, which is scheduled to take place in mid-February. Only passing away is something nobody should do until then. More on this: The first raid of Sauercrowd has a date, Metashi makes it clear: “We are doing this together”
