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Schnelly View All Posts by This User

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 21. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 1:48:24 AM PST
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Hunter rogue and warrior are easiest and fastest to level. Hunter being fastest after level 10.
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 22. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 1:48:43 AM PST
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Ever notice how the winners of all these levelling sprees tend to be people who play trolls?

Yet troll is the least played race according to the Census.

:D Minority FOR THE WIN :)


Currently trolls have the best racials for solo leveling. The extra health regen in combat plus haste is a good way to end a fight soon and then start a new one.
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 23. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 1:50:54 AM PST
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When WoW was first released the first level 60 was achived in just over 3 days played time. The secret? It was a group of guys that played the toon for 72 straight hours.

Yeah, some people are insane.



That is a lie.

Xenif was the first level 60 in retail, and he did it by himself.

It's funny to see what kinda facts people will make up, when given the opportunity to sound knowledgable. haha
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 24. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 1:51:15 AM PST
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GG TROLLS

keep health at 50% and zerk every 3 minutes ftw
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 25. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 1:51:42 AM PST
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its all about 5 people on that char 24/7 grinding. YEA cheat ftw


Joana is no cheat, Hes a legit player that knows how to power level. Heres a post he did after being the first one to 60 on the new oceanic releam

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-jubeithos&t=2317&p=1&tmp=1#post2317
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 26. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 1:52:24 AM PST
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That is a lie.

Xenif was the first level 60 in retail, and he did it by himself.

It's funny to see what kinda facts people will make up, when given the opportunity to sound knowledgable. haha


Because what you say is more true how?
"Hunters. 100% overpowered, 2.7% of the time."
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 27. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 1:53:30 AM PST
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Because what you say is more true how?


It is not wild speculation created by people who had no idea how they got to 60 so fast.
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Shalimar View All Posts by This User

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 28. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 1:53:33 AM PST
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But HOW haha.

I just want to know if this person is grinding purely or throwing some questing in.

I cannot level nearly that fast with any of the classes I have played.

However,

I have never played a hunter passed level 20 and furthermore I have never purely grinded for experience. I have always quested ALOT and done all the instance quests I could find groups for.

Something tells me the answer to my problem is simply in my habit. If I could make myself purely grind from level 1 onward ONLY grabbing quests and turning them in when it was convenient I could probably match this with a hunter.

I'll just have to try one of these days.

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 29. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 1:56:49 AM PST
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But HOW haha.

I just want to know if this person is grinding purely or throwing some questing in.

I cannot level nearly that fast with any of the classes I have played.

However,

I have never played a hunter passed level 20 and furthermore I have never purely grinded for experience. I have always quested ALOT and done all the instance quests I could find groups for.

Something tells me the answer to my problem is simply in my habit. If I could make myself purely grind from level 1 onward ONLY grabbing quests and turning them in when it was convenient I could probably match this with a hunter.

I'll just have to try one of these days.



Did you play non stop xping for 18 hrs a day?
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 31. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 2:00:22 AM PST
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I just read a post by Joana for his guide stating that:

He 90% quested and 10% grinded all the way to 60.

Now I'm so confused it isn't even funny.

And here I thought grinding was always faster.

Jesus Christmas Joana, god bless a person who is that smart that they can figure out how to do things so much faster than everyone else :P

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 32. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 2:00:28 AM PST
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Instances aren't very good for leveling, so that's one thing.

Doing any quests that require you to run all over the place isn't good either, although the ones that require you to grind for drops are good, since you're going to grind anyways.

And a Hunter is quite good for PvE, since you don't have much downtown between kills.

But really, it's being able to do the right quests in the right sequence that makes all the difference I think.

Still... is that guy who goes around getting to 60 insane, or just seriously bored with his/her life.......? You could go out and learn a programming language, or volunteer at the senior center, or learn to cook something new or ANYTHING else........ yet he/she chooses how fast they can get to lvl 60 :o Just insane....

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 33. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 2:05:29 AM PST
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Honestly Frost, I admire it in a way.

There were times I've played 12 hours a day because I had a part time job and ALOT of free time and even then I could not figure out how the hell to level quite this fast.

True 18 hours a day purely levelling is sick, but the fact remains the total /played time is MUCH lower than the average player who is trying really hard to NOT take too long to level.

Clearly this Joana person has discovered some crazy ass intricate method to levelling fast.

There are so many road blocks that I hit while trying to level fast. First, I've never tried this with a hunter. Second, I always find that the lack of bags at the beginning makes my inventory a pain in the butt while questing when it involves drops. Third, the amount of crap you accumulate while levelling clutters your bags and sometimes you gotta run to the bank to drop some valuable stuff off.

I guess another road block was I always took some form of gathering skills so I could afford a mount by 40 but I'm assuming Joana just ignored tradeskills altogether as they really do eat time up. Every time kill a beast it takes however many seconds to skin it, meanwhile you could have moved onto the next beast and have been done killing it in that time.

I dunno I just wanna learn! :P

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 34. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 2:08:00 AM PST
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Frost, Joana also stated that he quested 90% of the time.

And we all know that 90% of the quests don't all involve killing things. In fact I would venture to say that something like 65 to 70% of all quests involve killing things (grinding).

So again, I'm confused. I used to run out of quests on my priest all the damn time and that was INCLUDING all the NON grinding ones. So I'm just dumbfounded how Joana could have spent 90% of their time purely questing.

Simply amazes me LOL. And I've played horde, I guess I just don't know the right questing progression or something. Barrens alone is a big timesink with all the damn running around you have to do even if you know the best order to do the quests in.

BAH.

:(

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 35. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 2:14:22 AM PST
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huh? believe what you want but you are quite wrong. Only way is to cheat. There is no other way.


That's quite the accusation, but no, both Xenif and Joana did not have mutliple players on either of the accounts. It's not hard to play 18 hours a day and sleep 6. Trust me, I've done it.
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 36. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 2:17:16 AM PST
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Yeah I also was around during all this controversy. Bottom line is these people are not cheating.

They just know the game well enough to know how to level that fast.

It is quite funny that they are both horde and both trolls :P.

Makes ya wonder :)

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 37. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 2:18:47 AM PST
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Ive been doing the lvl 50 contest as well (currently 37.7 at server down just now), and the mix of the classes are like:

A crapload of hunters
A handful of mages
Some rogues
Very few druids
Very few priests
Like 5 warriors
Around 5 paladins (which I am one of - #2 right behind Ocelot)
Hardly any warlocks

Hunters have been speeding through this like it was nothing. Mages get alot of stop and go action. I myself have found that if I can, I can carry a fair amount of momentum and power through alot of the quests fairly easily. The big key for me was getting appropriate weapons to help give me boosts (Verigan's Fist@22, Thermaplugg's Left Arm@32, and Mograine's Might at 39). The rest was specing for Spiritual Focus early on for high durability and then respec some points into Ret for SoComm at 28. With all that, I was able to solo most non-instance stuff just fine.
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 38. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 2:23:49 AM PST
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Well it's clear to me my first flaw is I haven't tried levelling fast with a hunter.

I've tried almost every other class though LOL.

I really have to see what all this hunter business is about.

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 39. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 2:24:17 AM PST
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First off, Grats Joana, figured you'd win it.

For the people wondering/asking how joana did this. He has raced to 60 multiple times, constantly re-working his own system. He basically grinds quests. If you follow my meaning. He has done it so many times, paying attention each time and improving on it. He knows what order to move from one section to the next, gathering the quests and then doing them, in almost the most efficient way possible. He said on his last 60 run (4 days 20 hours played) that he noticed a few places to improve upon it.

I actually hit it almost dead to rights on the played time and real time he was gonna hit 50 in.

As for those who said stuff like "guys like that are why i didnt bother" I was checking through this afternoon on horde side, and there were 200 players from 30-48, most were still 30-35 actually. First few days of the contest, horde had slightly more players in each level range, almost consistently. (very few, like 24 vs 20 at one level, for example)
So you could have done the top 1000 without dedicating 18 hours a day, if you simply knew how to level fairly efficiently. At the rate people have been going, there may not even BE 1000 people to reach 50 on the server by the end of the contest.

I've personally done the race to 60 a handful of times myself, and was really looking forward to a tough competition on this server, however when it was obvious there wasnt going to be a huge amount of people doing it, i decided not to bother. Also didn't want to take away the beta slot from someone, since my brother works at Bliz, so i'll likely get in anyway. That, and someone mentioned that family members are not allowed to win anyway (though i never saw that myself)

Anyway, G'luck to the rest of you still at it.
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 40. Re: Troll Hunter Wins race to 50 contest! | 3/12/2006 2:26:54 AM PST
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When WoW was first released the first level 60 was achived in just over 3 days played time. The secret? It was a group of guys that played the toon for 72 straight hours.

Yeah, some people are insane.


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