It's up to them."įor now, though, Naowh can revel in having the first level 80 character on the Wrath Classic servers at a time when countless other players are still patiently waiting in queues to log in. If Blizzard feels like it's too much, I'll take it. "If they want to set an example and roll me back because I did something sneaky, I'm not gonna be mad about it. and shit, and they're allowing that," Naowh said. "People are doing all crazy type of mob-tagging.
Perhaps recognizing this history a bit, Naowh acknowledged the possibility that Blizzard might revoke his own record and reset his character for using other exploits to power-level. That led to widespread community discussion of whether Athene's ban was justified and whether mob-tagging abuse really counted as exploit abuse.īlizzard, for its part, seems to have recently implemented a "stopgap fix" to prevent Athene-style mob-tagging in Wrath Classic. Advertisementįurther Reading Wow… first level 80 in World of WarCraft in 27 hoursHours after Athene's ban, a player named Nymh became the first fully confirmed player to hit level 80, an achievement we wrote about on Ars Technica at the time. Back then, a popular player named Athene was banned from the game after hitting level 79 during a 13-hour post-launch marathon play session. Naowh's exploit-driven push to level 80 brings to mind similar methods used when Wrath of the Lich King came out in 2008.
Together, these exploits let Naowh gain experience points at an astounding rate of 1.8 million XP per hour, letting him make the usually grueling run from level 71 to 80 in just under nine hours. Since these low-level players can't receive experience from the high-level mob, all the group experience from the fight goes to Naowh. Naowh combined this exploit with another that makes use of four dead level-one characters in his group. "It's still the same to this day in retail," Naowh said. Naowh said he practiced this method in the live retail version of World of Warcraft before the launch of Wrath Classic servers Monday.
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A player can "tag" those zombies with a single attack, then get full experience for defeating all the zombies when the next mob spawns in. As Naowh explains in an accompanying video, the rapid leveling takes advantage of a bugged Icecrown boss that continually spawns mobs of undead zombies. Streamer Naowh and his compatriots at Echo Guild announced their level 80 speedrun achievement on Twitter early Tuesday morning. At least one player has taken that concept to an extreme this week, using years-old exploits to reach the level 80 cap on Blizzard's Wrath of the Lich King Classic (aka Wrath Classic) servers mere hours after they launched.
Further Reading Blizzard finally relents to years of fan pressure with World of Warcraft ClassicWhen it comes to World of Warcraft's long-demanded "Classic" servers, players understandably want an experience that's identical to the MMO experience they remember from years ago.
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