I think the original idea was to do a true pacifist run, but then I quickly realized I was not going to get anywhere like that, and the video wouldn't be very interesting. So it kinda morphed into mostly being about the 0 mob XP. But ''Pacifist Challenge'' just sounded better as a title and theme. Partly regretting it now cus half my comments are people explaining to me the various ways I failed as a pacifist.
@@yekwow Lmao, I am glad you did the video! The title brings in views and gets people talking about it. I just laughed out loud when you poisoned the dude for exp!
2:00 The exact rule, if anyone is curious, is this: starting at 6 levels below you, quests give 10% less XP per level they are below you, down to a minimum of 10%. So if you are lvl 40, you get 100% of the quest's XP from quests that are 35+, 90% from 34, 80% from 33, and so forth until you reach the minimum 10% from lvl 26 quests and below. This means that a quest isn't necessarily "safe" just because it's still green/not gray yet.
Insane praise for using other people to kill things so he could do a challenge? Nahhhhhhh Not grouping should also be not having anyone help you either.
@@liamparkos7830 They are definitelly not a waste of time. That is like saying reading is waste of time. You learn something by playing game. It is just these challenges that are waste of time.
Great job Yeko! I was extremely interested in doing something like that myself but I figured there's no way to not run out of all the xp and be locked out of quests extremely early, glad to be able to live this adventure through your eyes! Fantastic video
Awww, I was hoping you had made the run to Darnassus. One of the most nostalgic things from vanilla for me is running from Stormwind to Ironforge to Darnassus. I had no idea the deeprun tram existed so I just started running. I have no idea how many times I died, but I remember there was a bit of I think it was Burning Steppes where the only progress I made was the distance ahead I could revive from my corpse. And the damn orcs in the mountains when running from Dun Morogh to Wetlands. Getting on that ship was such a good feeling after having spent hours just trying to get there. I really miss those times with a huge world to explore together with everyone and people didn't google the easiest way to do something before even trying.
Same here! This time around in Classic though - I discovered you can skip the Westfall run in a few different, interesting ways; Starting at Menethil - you can swim south to the steppes of Dun Morogh, until you're technically in the zone in a little lagoon, where you drown yourself and revive at Kharanos. Starting in Dun Morogh - There's a spot between Gnomeregan and Ironforge where you can climb up the mountains, and eventually throw yourself off of said mountains into Wetlands. You -can- land in the water, but it's difficult, either way; you'll die to Murlocs and revive just outside Menethil.
I did find the tram, though it didn't arrive when I was there, so I wanted to explore what this weird hallway led to.... I was a bit confused why there was something coming through every few minutes, and why this was so incredibly long.... Yeah, I walked the whole way. What you do as a kid, eh?
The amount of time effort and planning to do this is crazy, Well done! reminds me of the guy in MOP who picked flowers until max level. Never left the panda start zone.
Your description of what you would do to people saying you were killing fish had me laughing so hard. You were very enjoyable to listen to. Thank you for your efforts.
Coming back to this video after 3 months, I wonder if Season of Mastery quest xp buff (currently 40% on the beta) will be enough to push a character like this to 60
"These only 3 rules for this challange" "Rule #1 I can not injure any mobs whatsoever" "Rule #2 I can not be in a group with someone who's not following the first Rule" "3rd rule is no repeat quest" Awesome video the whole time I was like these no way but you kept at it and I was like hell yes his going to do it! then we got to the @24:00 mark I was disappoint when I heard you say "I figured out a really simple work around" yes a workaround by you not killing the mobs for xp, but you actually broke Rule #2 by grouping with someone who's not following the Rule #1 Then we @25:45 mark and your in an even bigger group with more people who not following Rule #1 so I think yeah level 26 will be as high as you can go so well done mate still an awesome effort and and awesome challange
thank you for this video! It is so important to point out innate cruelty of games we never reflected upon really. I also try to do vegan challenge as a rogue. Really fun to look for useful cloth options and think about the build
Couldn't tell this guy was Swedish until he pronounced "cheating" as "sheating". That's their signature move! "shain" instead of "chain" etc. I think they are physically unable to make a T-sound. If you ever meet a Swede, ask them to pronounce "tjena tjejer" and you'll be in for a laugh. Love from Denmark
bro that's some insane dedication!!! i wouldn't have had the patience to wait around for 1 year for all the events to pop up just to get 1-2 more level xD gg wp
@@BastabyYT pacifist would also mean not having others clear areas for you. i mean look at the darkshore clips, he basically standing in a pile of bodies xD not very pacifist if u ask me
This feat was accomplished over a decade ago. The very first person to do it was recognized by blizzard and they created Pacifist title for him. He leveled 1-60 without killing a single mob. Just crafting and gathering.
Always thought about doing this, but seeing the sheer amount of work you had to put in... A strategy I considered was doing kill quests where the mobs are grey, so you get no actual XP from the mob but get at least a bit of XP from the quest turn-in. Not sure how much farther you could get with this method and I guess you would have to adjust Rule 1. Another consideration is the fact that you do not gain mob XP while dead, but you do get quest credits if an alt kills them. Again this would be another violation of Rule 1 and 2, but a possible amendment in order to get further.
A slight change to this that might be cool. A Paladin run, you can only slay undead / evil. Or say for a warlock or shaman you must only kill good guys. Etc. I think that would be interesting. That aside what a feat epic video very entertaining.
A very interesting challenge... Though I wonder, why I dont see you doing any mining or flower-picking. There is that Pandaren player, who did a similar challenge: reaching max lvl by never picking a faction and never leaving his starting zone. So yeah, doing these quests certainly gives you a certain amount of XP but I still wonder, why no gathering? 12:50 --- Okay, nvm :D
I have never ever donated to UA-cam channels but you truly deserve it. How can I do it ? I don't see it here on UA-cam. Do you have patreon or something else ?
That's very nice of you, but I don't have anything like that atm. I am working on some more challenge videos, if people like them and my channel sees some growth then I might make something like a patreon. I usually don't read comments, because the negative ones ruins my mood, but I'm glad I came across yours, I feel more motivated now, thank you :)
I'm pretty sure that in later expansions, there was one dude who leveled all the way to max level by herbing. It took an amazing amount of time, and I think Blizzard even recognized him with an in game NPC or something.
Great video, well worth your effort! I would think that priest or rogue would have been faster as you could heal/shield yourself or stealth past things.
Hello yeko u have inspired me i am going to pick up your challenge and finish it in wotlk using the exp bonus and heirlooms i think this is now more possible than ever
Late to this video, but I am surprised you chose to do this quest as a paladin instead of a priest. You can get psychic scream to fear away mobs and give you another tool over paladin to be passive.
Good video. The only thing that troubles is that killing with a borrowed knife defeats the pacefist aspect. But guess it would be impossible without it. Big thumps up for the dedication 🫡
Cool concept and video, but might need clearer guidelines. One of your quests involved poisoning a dude which doesn't feel very pacifist to me :D
I think the original idea was to do a true pacifist run, but then I quickly realized I was not going to get anywhere like that, and the video wouldn't be very interesting. So it kinda morphed into mostly being about the 0 mob XP. But ''Pacifist Challenge'' just sounded better as a title and theme.
Partly regretting it now cus half my comments are people explaining to me the various ways I failed as a pacifist.
@@yekwow Lmao, I am glad you did the video! The title brings in views and gets people talking about it. I just laughed out loud when you poisoned the dude for exp!
@@yekwow by this logic you can do green quests that require to kill mobs but kill grey mobs that drop items, which will turn into 0 exp.
It's alright, he's been killed by poison.
@@Miraihi warlocks be like "it's alright he's been killed by corruption and agony".
This man just spent a whole year, thousands of gold and days played time, for my ~20 minutes of entertainment. What a champ!
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@@monkeysmad maybe he wasn't entertained for 7 min of it
@@scottfrye 😆
U spelled fool wrong
2:00 The exact rule, if anyone is curious, is this: starting at 6 levels below you, quests give 10% less XP per level they are below you, down to a minimum of 10%. So if you are lvl 40, you get 100% of the quest's XP from quests that are 35+, 90% from 34, 80% from 33, and so forth until you reach the minimum 10% from lvl 26 quests and below. This means that a quest isn't necessarily "safe" just because it's still green/not gray yet.
YT algorithm popping off with this. Hopefully he comes back with more content. This was so much work for 1 video!
This is top tier content. Unreal. You deserve insane praise for the effort put into this.
Insane praise for using other people to kill things so he could do a challenge? Nahhhhhhh Not grouping should also be not having anyone help you either.
@@StillProtesting The challenge was not getting any mob xp, not getting your approval boomer.
I would say nice waste of time.
@@hellfire5108 playing videos are a waste of time in general problem?
@@liamparkos7830 They are definitelly not a waste of time. That is like saying reading is waste of time. You learn something by playing game. It is just these challenges that are waste of time.
The effort you put in this video is insane, huge props
Dude has traveled more distance getting to lvl 20 than some people getting to max lvl
Great job Yeko! I was extremely interested in doing something like that myself but I figured there's no way to not run out of all the xp and be locked out of quests extremely early, glad to be able to live this adventure through your eyes! Fantastic video
One of the more interesting classic wow vids I've seen in a long time, thanks!
"World of Warcraft" without the "War" part😂😂
Admiration and respect for this effort!❤
Bro this is insane how it only has 9k views the amount of time, sweat, (and gold) that went into this is insane. Great work!
Crazy but 3 days later it's 21k views now. It must be one of those late blooming videos.
Idk man, its a good video i liked it. but it isnt exactly anything new. its been done before a few many times in different ways, great video tho
@@SubliminalKings 54k now business is booming
66k views now
@@SubliminalKings lol nice
YT giving me this to watch in 2024. I love it, hope he's gonna post some more content like this
Awww, I was hoping you had made the run to Darnassus.
One of the most nostalgic things from vanilla for me is running from Stormwind to Ironforge to Darnassus.
I had no idea the deeprun tram existed so I just started running. I have no idea how many times I died, but I remember there was a bit of I think it was Burning Steppes where the only progress I made was the distance ahead I could revive from my corpse.
And the damn orcs in the mountains when running from Dun Morogh to Wetlands.
Getting on that ship was such a good feeling after having spent hours just trying to get there.
I really miss those times with a huge world to explore together with everyone and people didn't google the easiest way to do something before even trying.
Same here! This time around in Classic though - I discovered you can skip the Westfall run in a few different, interesting ways;
Starting at Menethil - you can swim south to the steppes of Dun Morogh, until you're technically in the zone in a little lagoon, where you drown yourself and revive at Kharanos.
Starting in Dun Morogh - There's a spot between Gnomeregan and Ironforge where you can climb up the mountains, and eventually throw yourself off of said mountains into Wetlands. You -can- land in the water, but it's difficult, either way; you'll die to Murlocs and revive just outside Menethil.
I did find the tram, though it didn't arrive when I was there, so I wanted to explore what this weird hallway led to.... I was a bit confused why there was something coming through every few minutes, and why this was so incredibly long.... Yeah, I walked the whole way. What you do as a kid, eh?
This was an immense test of patience and will, I applaud you.
hats off for the amount of work put into it. this was lovely to watch
You're a god among men. 27 is the highest possible, but I can't believe you did it. You put in so much work
I found this video exceptionally entertaining.
I hope you continue to make more videos cause you're really good!
Wife: Was it worth it?
YekWoW: *sighs and closes his eyes, letting the nostalgia and memories of grinding fill him up*
The algorithm works in mysterious ways 🔮 Really enjoyed the video, though it made me want to play Classic again! Would love to see more challenges!
The amount of time effort and planning to do this is crazy, Well done! reminds me of the guy in MOP who picked flowers until max level. Never left the panda start zone.
That guy is apparently still there.
He just finished doing it in tww I believe
Your description of what you would do to people saying you were killing fish had me laughing so hard. You were very enjoyable to listen to. Thank you for your efforts.
The 30 minute unedited fishing bit had me rolling, underrated video 10/10
Insane and unique idea. Thanks for putting so much effort into it!
Amazing video and enormous effort my man. I congratulate you for even attempting this crazy challenge.
Wouldn't buying quest items on the AH still support the syndicaliste murder machine?
Coming back to this video after 3 months, I wonder if Season of Mastery quest xp buff (currently 40% on the beta) will be enough to push a character like this to 60
I hope that mage who made you the portal was following the 1st rule...
Lmao challenge FAILED
This was very fascinating. Good job being so dedicated to it! Great video.
Why did I watch 30 minutes about a game I know very little about and dont care about? Good video!
"These only 3 rules for this challange"
"Rule #1 I can not injure any mobs whatsoever"
"Rule #2 I can not be in a group with someone who's not following the first Rule"
"3rd rule is no repeat quest"
Awesome video the whole time I was like these no way but you kept at it and I was like hell yes his going to do it! then we got to the @24:00 mark I was disappoint when I heard you say "I figured out a really simple work around" yes a workaround by you not killing the mobs for xp, but you actually broke Rule #2 by grouping with someone who's not following the Rule #1
Then we @25:45 mark and your in an even bigger group with more people who not following Rule #1 so I think yeah level 26 will be as high as you can go so well done mate still an awesome effort and and awesome challange
You, sir, are a hidden gem. Love the humor!! You've earned yourself a sub. I look forward to watching this channel grow.
agreed!
honestly Fishing in wow for me has just been a bit of a peaceful moment i turn the ambience music in game up, and fish up some cooking mats
Enjoyed this - I almost never comment on videos, but wanted to say I enjoyed this.
thank you for this video! It is so important to point out innate cruelty of games we never reflected upon really. I also try to do vegan challenge as a rogue. Really fun to look for useful cloth options and think about the build
This was crazy!! What a cool video, this has to be one of the hardest (and most time consuming) classic runs ever
The most interesting experience in classic ive seen in years, amazing video!
I can't believe this is actually possible
Couldn't tell this guy was Swedish until he pronounced "cheating" as "sheating". That's their signature move! "shain" instead of "chain" etc. I think they are physically unable to make a T-sound. If you ever meet a Swede, ask them to pronounce "tjena tjejer" and you'll be in for a laugh.
Love from Denmark
lmao!
I thought about that when i heard him say jamping instead of jumping=P
this was an incredible journey, ty
bro that's some insane dedication!!! i wouldn't have had the patience to wait around for 1 year for all the events to pop up just to get 1-2 more level xD gg wp
Good job! The effort is huge. Thanks for the content. I also got know many new things from this video also
How did you get captain sanders map from a murloc without killing it?
Sadly this challenge is fake with a lot of rule not respected captain sanders quest is the first, this item drop only by killing murloc :(
I love this! And the sheer dedication is very impressive.
technically since you said it's a 0 mob exp challenge you can do green kill quests where the mobs are grey :-)
Yeah but its a pacifist challenge, which still means no killing
EVIL
@@BastabyYT he was fine with poisoning that NPC noble for the warlock quest.
@@Xazamas He got better.
@@BastabyYT pacifist would also mean not having others clear areas for you. i mean look at the darkshore clips, he basically standing in a pile of bodies xD not very pacifist if u ask me
Eager for more content man! This was a great video and you did such a nice job
wow mate... i havent seen anything like this before... really nice job.. what a patiance. I took a looooooot of time! I approchiate that.
I really enjoyed watching this, thanks for the effort!
Good stuff! I never would have even made it to 20, solid effort man.
This is insanly insane :D Such a good challenge and I never believed you will get this far! Respect.
This feat was accomplished over a decade ago. The very first person to do it was recognized by blizzard and they created Pacifist title for him. He leveled 1-60 without killing a single mob. Just crafting and gathering.
19:18 Holy shit, I NEVER knew there were some quests attached to some of the DMF fortunes. That's rad, gonna try that out next time I'm on.
How did you get a map that drops from murlocs if you can’t kill murlocs?
7:10 can someone please tell me what's the music on the background ? Sounds really familiar :3
Night elf music?
@@scottfrye Yeah, I've found it. Song of Elune 🥰
thats a lot of walking! nice job m8
Incredible! That must`ve taken ages. Respect!!
Always thought about doing this, but seeing the sheer amount of work you had to put in...
A strategy I considered was doing kill quests where the mobs are grey, so you get no actual XP from the mob but get at least a bit of XP from the quest turn-in. Not sure how much farther you could get with this method and I guess you would have to adjust Rule 1.
Another consideration is the fact that you do not gain mob XP while dead, but you do get quest credits if an alt kills them. Again this would be another violation of Rule 1 and 2, but a possible amendment in order to get further.
great work! i hope this video explode with how hc challenges are popular right now :)
A slight change to this that might be cool. A Paladin run, you can only slay undead / evil.
Or say for a warlock or shaman you must only kill good guys. Etc. I think that would be interesting.
That aside what a feat epic video very entertaining.
Someone did theorycraft the only kill boars challenge like in south park and someone else has been doing it
3:06 you just won my like for this vide😂😂😂
0:12 my reaction when the game named "Warcraft" is about killing things: O_O
Crazy effort, big props.
Nice man I love seeing people struggling with the game and I enjoy this content lol I'm waiting for the next one haha
Like Xe'ra said to Illidan in that cinematic from Legion "My child, you've given so much...for so little"
hats off ! , i can't imagine the time you spend in this challenge.
the clockwork orange clip was my favorite part! lets watch fishing for 30 minutes straight XD
A very interesting challenge... Though I wonder, why I dont see you doing any mining or flower-picking. There is that Pandaren player, who did a similar challenge: reaching max lvl by never picking a faction and never leaving his starting zone. So yeah, doing these quests certainly gives you a certain amount of XP but I still wonder, why no gathering?
12:50 --- Okay, nvm :D
Gathering wasn't giving any XP back in vanilla, so it's pointless except for profession-related quests.
@@ostatnifazownikjelcynogrod8834 It didnt? ... Wow, my memory is f***ed XD
@@markup6394 Yeah, they've added this in Cata - "You now earn experience when both gathering from mining and herbalism nodes."
@@ostatnifazownikjelcynogrod8834 Hmmm... pretty sure this already worked back in Wrath at least... ah well :)
I was hoping for the samoplange part you would throw the clip of thundercats in there. 10/10 leveling run, would never try xD
That's some dedication you show us !
have to agree with that this is top tier content. you did such as nice job with the video.
I have never ever donated to UA-cam channels but you truly deserve it. How can I do it ? I don't see it here on UA-cam. Do you have patreon or something else ?
That's very nice of you, but I don't have anything like that atm. I am working on some more challenge videos, if people like them and my channel sees some growth then I might make something like a patreon.
I usually don't read comments, because the negative ones ruins my mood, but I'm glad I came across yours, I feel more motivated now, thank you :)
There are commands you can run that list if a location is explored or not
I'm pretty sure that in later expansions, there was one dude who leveled all the way to max level by herbing. It took an amazing amount of time, and I think Blizzard even recognized him with an in game NPC or something.
Another classic Andy. Oh wait this actually is enjoyable and unique, cheers man!
I was litterally doing the Gaffer Jacks fishing quests as you mention it...
Great video, well worth your effort! I would think that priest or rogue would have been faster as you could heal/shield yourself or stealth past things.
Hello yeko u have inspired me i am going to pick up your challenge and finish it in wotlk using the exp bonus and heirlooms i think this is now more possible than ever
Best of luck to you
@@yekwow do you think you can defeat me i will become the pokemaster
Really impressive effort overall!
"You wont even have to wait for me to finish the sent-"
witty :D
I really liked the video, will you make more?
very good video and challenge, gratz on trying so hard !
wow good job, this was a rlly well made video!
the escort quest "loophole" is indeed sheeting
Lol great video and cool idea.
You broke your second rule by grouping in a battleground.
What if you drop alchemy, pick another prof and complete new prof quests?
What an idea, stuff like this makes the game feel alive.
*Play the game in the most boring way possible, man this makes the game feel alive!!*
Can you try this with horde and see if you get further?
Really impressive!
Kudos for this crazy challenge!
Late to this video, but I am surprised you chose to do this quest as a paladin instead of a priest. You can get psychic scream to fear away mobs and give you another tool over paladin to be passive.
omg...i was scared he will make it up to 60. God bless u. lvl 27 without killing is just insaaane
You made it way further than I thought would be possible
This is peak WoW content :D
That's awesome man, nice work!
Couldn't you have done more exploring though? Or had you explored everything? It didn't seem that you had
Good video. The only thing that troubles is that killing with a borrowed knife defeats the pacefist aspect. But guess it would be impossible without it. Big thumps up for the dedication 🫡
How can you use this portal without be in a group with this mage? Is this not against the rule ( no group with killer)
"Can't be in a group with anyone not following rule #1"
Takes Mage portal right away lol
"Not following" not "who has not followed"
This was great. Well done.
19:17 nice Beasts Deck lol why does it come back at 25:23 hmmm
you’ve ascended, my dude
Ber heppi with vidz, much fluff big times
This is beyond crazy