Powerleveling to 80 in 13+ Hours in World of Warcraft

Posted on November 20, 2008
Filed Under Games, News, World of Warcraft

So in the very short while that the recent expansion for World of Warcraft has been released, someone has already hit level 80. While I think everyone plans on being level 80 relatively fast, I don’t think they were expecting people to get there in a mere 13 hours or so.

So about 13 hours after Wrath of the Lich King expansion gets released. This team Athene power levels a Paladin all the way up to level 79. He was on par to become the first level 80 character, post release, in the world.

And then he got banned. Yup, the team had spent 13 hours grinding without much exp benefit for themselves, and after all that time the whole team got banned. The reason for the banning was their questionable method of their exping. Soo questionable they had asked a GM about it before the release to see if it would be okay. That should have raised the first flag for them, but they proceeded anyways.

Their method of powerleveling was to go into an instance area. Have Darus leave group to ‘tag’, and damage mobs as much as he could before the team finished off the mobs for him. After the mobs were dead, get reinvited back into the group so that he doesn’t get teleported out of the instance. This was the method they asked a gm about, and was given the answer that it was a clever use of game mechanics.

Athene has a pretty long *yawn* video giving out quite a bit of details about the whole thing. If you’re interested in watching it here it is for you:

YouTube [Link]

I guess the next GM on duty did not agree with the clever game mechanics use part. Which paved the way for this fellow here by the name of Nymph to officially become the first person to level 80. With a /played time of 27 hours. This Warlock instead of depending on teammates to finish off the tagged mobs, just did it the old fashioned way of non-stop grinding to 80. With the help of one, nice, out of party healer.

The details, and what spec Nymph the Warlock used are posted in detail here, and here. As well as another YouTube video as well if you want to watch it here:

YouTube [Link]

I dunno I’ve stated before that my interest in World of Warcraft has waned, but power-leveling stories like this one, having 36 World of Warcraft accounts, or the level 1-60 in 20 minutes one still piques my interest. Now if you’ll excuse me I’ll be heading back to Warhammer Online.

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7 Responses to “Powerleveling to 80 in 13+ Hours in World of Warcraft”

Caribbean Holidays (1 comments.) on November 21st, 2008 12:38 am

I find it amazing that they can level that fast, even the first guy, in 27 hours, thats amazing. I am only level 78 after a week and they did it in 27 hours! And as for TwentyFifthNovember who levelled and completed all the raid content in 70 hours is just outstanding!
Returned on November 22nd, 2008 2:44 pm

Fame, everyone wants a bite at the cake, even it’s only 15 min.
Scrooby@Video Game Reviews (1 comments.) on November 22nd, 2008 11:13 pm

A bit of wicked gaming there, I dinged 80 a few days ago now so it took me just under a week but 13 hours, lol.
I am surprised he managed to get his whole guild to help him

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aaron@vet pet insurance (1 comments.) on November 25th, 2008 7:57 pm

I don’t think it was cool to ban Athenes team like that. Being complimented on the “clever use of game mechanics” totally should have let it slide. sounds like the next Gm was ego tripping.

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iDemise leveling guide (1 comments.) on January 27th, 2009 4:31 am

I think that if they went ahead and asked the GM, they shouldn’t be banned. Once a decision has been made you should stick to it.
That being said, I think that the first GM should have told them ahead of time that they shouldn’t do it, instead of his ‘clever use of game mechanics’ comment.
Mark@Free Horror Games on February 27th, 2009 4:08 am

Lol hell! In 13 hours to level 80? Sounds like a dream in my ears! And if they can archive it and me not then I think ok if they got banned… ^^!
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