WoW... that's special.

[invisionary]

"What's the fun in that? Were they sponsored by Pampers and Carnation liquid meals, because that's about what they were doing."

- jecook, in regards to someone reaching level 85 in Europe before Cata was released in North America

http://jecook.dreamwidth.org/116499.html

Comments

[jecook]

From what my source tells me, the same guild pulled that stunt with the last expansion pack as well.

And while I'm generally not one to diss on people's habits (there'd be a serious case of pot/kettle there!), it does make me wonder why people would be that big of a rush to go through all the new content that fast, besides the whole world first prestige.

[boundbooks]

"it does make me wonder why people would be that big of a rush to go through all the new content that fast, besides the whole world first prestige."

I think it is all about the prestige, similar to why many realms keep 'Realm First' raid kill lists and why there's usually quite a bit of competition among guilds to get those realm first kills.

I wouldn't be surprised if the world first 85 player goes back and does all the quests on this character (it would be a ton of gold at cap) or has another character that he'll level more slowly for fun.

With 10 character slots, I'm betting the fellow has at least one other character at 80, if not at least in the 70's. :)

[jecook]

Entirely possible- a good number of players in my guild have a full stable of alternative charecters that they do role play, or gathering, professions, etc on.

I'm guilty in that respect myself- I spent tuesday evening whipping through the worgen starting area quest chains just to see what they were like.