The now legendary Pandaren Doubleagent has done it again. He has reached level 60 in WoW in the most peaceful way.
It’s one of those announcements that sooner or later comes up with every expansion of World of Warcraft . The Pandaren player Doubleagent has reached level 60, achieving the maximum level in modern WoW. What is basically not a great achievement becomes special because Doubleagent is drastically different from most players – he is still in the starting area.
What makes Doubleagent so special? Normally, Pandaren leave their starting island at level 10 and join either the Horde or the Alliance. However, Doubleagent didn’t think much of deciding on one side of the conflict and remained neutral. This also meant that he could never leave the starting island since that only happens after joining the Horde or Alliance.
Since then, he has been living on Turtle Island.
How did he level up? Doubleagent has been relying on the few methods available to earn experience points in the Pandaren starting area for years. This involves gathering herbs, ores, and completing a few pet battles.
In contrast to current herbs, which yield over 1,000 XP when harvested and thus actually mean noticeable progress, Doubleagent receives significantly less experience from the starting herbs. Each herb gives just under 50 XP, which, with required experience points of over 300,000 XP per level, is a gigantic task.
After nearly 17 days, he has reached level 60 – so he needed about two days per level-up.
Doubleagent has his own NPC: Even Blizzard was convinced of the perseverance of the Pandaren years ago and even gave him his own NPC. Anyone wandering around the Monk Order Hall (Legion) might occasionally see an “Honorary Shaman” running from one ore to the next or gathering a few herbs in the background. A clear reference to Doubleagent, who has done nothing else for weeks and months.
Usually, Doubleagent just watches a series or chats while playing. Because he often streams his leveling progress – especially the last levels. Otherwise, this task would probably be a bit too monotonous.
Could you imagine leveling up so persistently through such a monotonous method? What do you think of the Pandaren’s achievement?
