WoW player hits level cap without even arriving at the starting area in 200-day grinding ordeal
It's official: Reaching World of Warcraft's level cap of 70 without leaving its tutorial zone is now old-hat. Instead, real dedicated zen masters hit maximum strength without even arriving there, making use of WoW's pet battle mechanic to slowly level up without ever leaving the confines of the boat that takes you to the game's starting area. That's what a player called Cheatcho did, who documented his remarkably stationery journey to level 70 in a recent Reddit thread(opens in new tab) (via GamesRadar(opens in new tab)).
How did he manage it? Well, WoW contains a few pet battle quests that can be finished by any character on your account, rather than only the character who got the quest. By picking up the quests on one character and concluding them on another, you can do things like, well, level up a character that hasn't even arrived at the starting area yet. All Cheatcho had to do was grind five of these quests for over 200 days to reach the dizzying heights of level 70 on his boat-bound Pandaren Shaman (why is it always Pandarens?).
Cheatcho says they did it «Because it's the ultimate solo player way to level a character,» given that «You never leave the ship. You never defeat another player, dungeon boss or even group with anyone else». Plus, of course, they «consider doing it fun». It almost sounds like the tenets of some kind of inward-looking, anchoritic(opens in new tab) philosophy: the kind of thing a wizened figure on a mountaintop would impart to you after a treacherous climb. I will absolutely, 100%, never even attempt to do it myself, but by god I'm glad someone else has.
If you're made of sterner stuff than I and fancy trying it yourself, Cheatcho has some advice. So long as you keep separate characters
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