January 10, 2008
Can you make it to level 70 in WoW without killing anything?WoW Insider reports on a player who does just that.
Noor, a gnome rogue and Reinisch, an undead priest, both on the Maiv server, never kill anything intentionally. The unnamed player behind both avatars describes himself as a 50-year-old computer programmer and says he is also the webmaster for Firesign Theater comedy troupe (GP: one of our faves, back in the day).
He told WoW Insider:
I had thought about doing such a [pacifist] character off and on for a while... Both my priest and my rogue try not to hit anything, although there's always a chance of a misclick when trying to open a quest item with mobs fighting near it. Both of them always wield a fishing rod, so any accidental hits won't increase their weapon skills. Neither of them will do quests where they have to kill things.
I started [my undead priest] from a roleplaying point of view, based very loosely on a real German priest, Franz Reinisch, who refused to serve in Hitler's army and was executed... As a rogue is a sort of "spy" class, I Googled for a pacifist spy and found Noor Inayat Khan, a woman who was also executed by the Nazis for aiding the French resistance, so I named my rogue after her. She was the daughter of a well-known pacifist in India.
GP: For those familiar with World of Warcraft, WoW Insider has much more on the mechanics of how the pacifist characters are played.
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And I take it that's an RP server, as if it wasn't he would have been dying constantly.
It could very well be a PVE server, not necessarily a RP.
Doubly funny if the dude has the gall to name his sprite "Kira Yamato"
...Gundam in-joke there...
I know. I'm just saying on a PVP server word would travel fast about a guy who doesn't fight back.
I wonder if he allowed himself to group with other characters that were killing creatures? I would assume not.
Kudo's the the player!
No, he doesn't allow other players to get XP for him. It's in the WowInsider article.
This guy has reached a new level of "No life". If it takes that long to reach 70 by killing things it probably takes twice as long to do it without killing anything.
lol @ his armor though if that's him at level 70. I had those shoulders on my 35 shaman.
I was just saying that it must of taken a long time to do that.
That's pretty easy actually. I can't imagine trying to get past 40 without ever killing anything. I had to run SM Cath about 30 times to get from 30-35
I've been sobre for 2 months now.
I agree. Even if killing pixels is not exactly murder, it does defeat the point.
It would have been funnier (and more peaceful) if he had only done something like abusing of the ingame market to get big bucks and buying a good gear of it.
You mean like making a deal with the Goldfarmers?
Although I must admit, I've gotten a bit bored of WoW already, myself.
This is, btw, my biggest beef. RP is, for better or worse, a "make believe" world in which people can be as ... out there ... as they want to be. This player chose real world heroes' names who did what they did to protect others, even if it meant their death. Death. Not a corpse run, logging out, coming back tomorrow.
If he doesn't want to fight because it's a fun little twist to the game, that's cool. But to borrow the names of Nazi resistance members to justify and embellish it, is bad. To them it wasn't a fun little twist to a game. It was death. One doesn't respect their sacrifices by paying $15 a month and playing a game in some, by all means, unnatural and unintended way.
Congratulations, you made it to lvl70 on WoW w/o killing! YOU ARE A FAG!
I can't kill shit with the rogue - so much for high DPS. You can't really have really high DPS if things started to run around and worse of all drop a fear bomb and that's it!
:( i'm a lvl 70 rogues in nagrand.. with epic gladiator set