The time has come: The first character to reach level 60 in WoW Classic has been deleted. Jokerd was finally able to execute his plan. However, it only lasted a few seconds before he quickly backtracked.
Why is he deleting his character? When Jokerd reached level 60 in WoW Classic after just a few days on Friday, August 30 his first plan was to delete his character immediately, but he was unable to do so at that time.
Players kept sending him letters. However, a character cannot be deleted with unread letters in the mailbox, so Jokerd had to hold on to his gnome mage. People just celebrated and congratulated him too much.
According to some rumors from players, a GM eventually helped him delete all the letters. In a recent stream, he finally went through with what he intended to do.
Someone must have prompted him, because he then says: “Delete the character?” and was already in the selection screen and deleted his gnome.
What happened next? The moment was likely a shock for the thousands of viewers. Since his success his channel on Twitch has risen to the top. At that time, about 10,000 people were watching him (via dotesports).
After disappearing from the PC, Jokerd returned quite soon, with a mischievous grin, and restored his gnome using the in-game recovery function in WoW. So it was just a bluff.
Community reacts mostly relaxed
This is what players say: Although there was a lot of excitement in his chat at the time about the deletion, the WoW Classic community seems to be rather relaxed about the deletion. In a reddit post fans comment that it’s mostly about the memes.
It has become a kind of meme because his original plan was to delete the character immediately upon reaching level 60 (when he had 350,000 viewers).
jeppeake on reddit
Real God-tier memer.
Firestorm7i on reddit
In the top comment, people even joked that he would level his second character to level 60 before Asmongold. That would be the “ultimate meme”. Asmongold himself is currently in a tough position in the community:
