His life is not really going well right now. That’s why this WoW player is doing a Level 60 “speedrun” in which he will only kill pigs.
When a patch is released on the WoW servers that brings new content or features to the game, it is always exciting for the community. A large portion of players will rush to the new content. For example, with patch 7.3.5, the final wing of Antorus, the Burning Throne is available.
However, a player is doing something that outsiders would call “crazy”. He is doing a speedrun to reach Level 60. In doing so, he will only kill pigs.
A lost bet and the step back into life
On Monday, Ian “ianexplosion” made a fateful bet on Reddit. He posted in the WoW subreddit that he would do a speedrun from Level 1 to Level 60 by only killing pigs if Blizzard releases patch 7.3.5 on January 16.
Shortly thereafter, the developers at Blizzard announced that the update would be released on the specified day. Ian says he had some feeling that the patch would actually come out on January 16, “but with Blizzard, you never know”. Now he is taking his bet and has already been grinding his lengthy way to Level 60 for several hours.
Because effectively this method of leveling is not efficient. It will take him several hours or even days to reach his goal. And wild boars are really not the most exciting encounters in World of Warcraft.
Killing the pigs is a reminder of the South Park episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft,” where Cartman and his friends are repeatedly killed in WoW by a higher-level player, forcing them to grind wild boars to achieve a high level and fight back.
With the new WoW patch 7.3.5, the zones in World of Warcraft scale with the player’s level. This makes the planned grinding easier. Players from the community have already sent Ian routes where he can continuously find pigs to kill for his big goal.
Special circumstances motivated him
In a video, Ian explains how this special livestream event came about. He lost his job and his girlfriend and was then at rock bottom. He watched livestreams and kept reading jokes on Reddit about the “Make Love, Not Warcraft” episode of South Park.
When his bet received so much support on Reddit, he became motivated again for the first time. Many players from the gaming community are supporting Ian and wishing him the best, donating in his livestream, and watching his adventure to Level 60.
When asked if he would stream nonstop or take breaks, he replied, “I’m not immortal! Of course, I take breaks.” We have embedded the stream for you above.
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