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!
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
its actually pretty simple to go to Darnassus from the human starting zone. The good thing is you get the most important flight paths on the way. Here is how: Go to SW take subway to IF and get FP. Then heart back and run to Westfall FP. Then run southwest to the lighthouse. As level 1 you might die 1 or 2 times on the way there. Then swim to Booty Bay and get FP ( you can die at the raptors south of the horde base and resurrect at the ghost outside Booty Bay. Take ship to Ratchet and get FP. Run south to Dustwallow Marshes. You might die 1 or 2 times on the way there. As soon as you enter the zone die and respawn at the ghost in Theramore. Get FP. Take ship to Menethil and get FP. Then take other Ship to Auberdine and get FP. Take the last ship to Darnassus and get FP. Now you have all Ports and all Major cities Flightpoints and you are in the Nightelf zone. Believe me this is way more effective than the Wetlands run.
Can go through westfall and swim north straight to menethil harbour. Doesnt get you all the flight paths but it does get you to your destination a bit quicker
@@mucxlx of course, depends if you want or need them right away. I know when i played back then, i would grab IF and SW with the tram then swim up to MH and the flight path connected to IF so i could easily travel between those. The rest id pick up when i needed or was higher level
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 :)
"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
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.
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 🫡
This would be interesting to do in Cataclysm Classic :x or perhaps in further expansions for progressive Classic... or Retail. I am not trying on Modern WoW but I am intrigued to try on Cataclysm Classic before Cataclysm is over. Thanks for the idea 😃
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
Me, after reading the title: 'Oh, so he's just going to mine and herb his way there and the video will be about explaining which areas are safest to farm and have lowest mob density and stuff like that.' Me, three seconds later after remembering that gathering didn't provide exp in Vanilla: '....wait a minute...'
This is such a cool idea. I've thought it'd be fun to do stuff like roll a character who's a vegetarian/animal rights advocate (no fishing/meat/hunting/animal kill quests etc.), which I guess might be a druid wearing cloth refusing to kill a rabid murderous bear but having no problem laying waste to a human encampment.😂Or have a toon that has some type of phobia like heights and can't go up any more than 2 flights of stairs, or a fear of water and won't go near the lakes/rivers/ocean. Just random rp things to switch things up and have more unique gameplay.
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.
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
YT algorithm popping off with this. Hopefully he comes back with more content. This was so much work for 1 video!
YT giving me this to watch in 2024. I love it, hope he's gonna post some more content like this
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.
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
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.
"World of Warcraft" without the "War" part😂😂
Admiration and respect for this effort!❤
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 immense test of patience and will, I applaud you.
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
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.
One of the more interesting classic wow vids I've seen in a long time, thanks!
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
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 hope that mage who made you the portal was following the 1st rule...
Lmao challenge FAILED
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!
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
I found this video exceptionally entertaining.
I hope you continue to make more videos cause you're really good!
The 30 minute unedited fishing bit had me rolling, underrated video 10/10
Wife: Was it worth it?
YekWoW: *sighs and closes his eyes, letting the nostalgia and memories of grinding fill him up*
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
0:12 my reaction when the game named "Warcraft" is about killing things: O_O
Wouldn't buying quest items on the AH still support the syndicaliste murder machine?
hats off for the amount of work put into it. this was lovely to watch
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
its actually pretty simple to go to Darnassus from the human starting zone. The good thing is you get the most important flight paths on the way. Here is how:
Go to SW take subway to IF and get FP.
Then heart back and run to Westfall FP.
Then run southwest to the lighthouse. As level 1 you might die 1 or 2 times on the way there.
Then swim to Booty Bay and get FP ( you can die at the raptors south of the horde base and resurrect at the ghost outside Booty Bay.
Take ship to Ratchet and get FP. Run south to Dustwallow Marshes. You might die 1 or 2 times on the way there. As soon as you enter the zone die and respawn at the ghost in Theramore. Get FP.
Take ship to Menethil and get FP.
Then take other Ship to Auberdine and get FP.
Take the last ship to Darnassus and get FP.
Now you have all Ports and all Major cities Flightpoints and you are in the Nightelf zone. Believe me this is way more effective than the Wetlands run.
Can go through westfall and swim north straight to menethil harbour. Doesnt get you all the flight paths but it does get you to your destination a bit quicker
@@ExaltedwithFail yeah but u get like 10 flightpaths the other way
@@mucxlx of course, depends if you want or need them right away. I know when i played back then, i would grab IF and SW with the tram then swim up to MH and the flight path connected to IF so i could easily travel between those. The rest id pick up when i needed or was higher level
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.
This was very fascinating. Good job being so dedicated to it! Great video.
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.
Insane and unique idea. Thanks for putting so much effort into it!
Why did I watch 30 minutes about a game I know very little about and dont care about? Good video!
Amazing video and enormous effort my man. I congratulate you for even attempting this crazy challenge.
I can't believe this is actually possible
thats a lot of walking! nice job m8
The most interesting experience in classic ive seen in years, amazing video!
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.
Enjoyed this - I almost never comment on videos, but wanted to say I enjoyed this.
the clockwork orange clip was my favorite part! lets watch fishing for 30 minutes straight XD
You, sir, are a hidden gem. Love the humor!! You've earned yourself a sub. I look forward to watching this channel grow.
agreed!
Good stuff! I never would have even made it to 20, solid effort man.
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
Good job! The effort is huge. Thanks for the content. I also got know many new things from this video also
wow mate... i havent seen anything like this before... really nice job.. what a patiance. I took a looooooot of time! I approchiate that.
This is peak WoW content :D
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
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
Lol great video and cool idea.
This was crazy!! What a cool video, this has to be one of the hardest (and most time consuming) classic runs ever
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.
I was litterally doing the Gaffer Jacks fishing quests as you mention it...
this was an incredible journey, ty
"You wont even have to wait for me to finish the sent-"
witty :D
"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"
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.
Incredible! That must`ve taken ages. Respect!!
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 :)
You made it way further than I thought would be possible
21:34 "pacifist"
"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
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.
Every single quest is murder for hire.
I really enjoyed watching this, thanks for the effort!
Man this constant quest turn in footage is satisfying after having the gratification system in your brain messed with by WoW for years on end...
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 🫡
hats off ! , i can't imagine the time you spend in this challenge.
very good video and challenge, gratz on trying so hard !
This would be interesting to do in Cataclysm Classic :x or perhaps in further expansions for progressive Classic... or Retail. I am not trying on Modern WoW but I am intrigued to try on Cataclysm Classic before Cataclysm is over. Thanks for the idea 😃
Eager for more content man! This was a great video and you did such a nice job
Crazy effort, big props.
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.
omg...i was scared he will make it up to 60. God bless u. lvl 27 without killing is just insaaane
great work! i hope this video explode with how hc challenges are popular right now :)
Nice man I love seeing people struggling with the game and I enjoy this content lol I'm waiting for the next one haha
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!!*
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
This is beyond crazy
I really liked the video, will you make more?
wow good job, this was a rlly well made video!
I leveled fishing three times in classic, i feel your pain.
Me, after reading the title: 'Oh, so he's just going to mine and herb his way there and the video will be about explaining which areas are safest to farm and have lowest mob density and stuff like that.'
Me, three seconds later after remembering that gathering didn't provide exp in Vanilla: '....wait a minute...'
I love this! And the sheer dedication is very impressive.
This man calculates so well, he even reached the 27th level on the 27th minute of the video. 😅
Another classic Andy. Oh wait this actually is enjoyable and unique, cheers man!
The algorithm apparently has blessed you, I commend your efforts and raise you with one comment.
have to agree with that this is top tier content. you did such as nice job with the video.
This was great. Well done.
You broke your second rule by grouping in a battleground.
3:06 you just won my like for this vide😂😂😂
That's some dedication you show us !
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 :(
This is such a cool idea. I've thought it'd be fun to do stuff like roll a character who's a vegetarian/animal rights advocate (no fishing/meat/hunting/animal kill quests etc.), which I guess might be a druid wearing cloth refusing to kill a rabid murderous bear but having no problem laying waste to a human encampment.😂Or have a toon that has some type of phobia like heights and can't go up any more than 2 flights of stairs, or a fear of water and won't go near the lakes/rivers/ocean. Just random rp things to switch things up and have more unique gameplay.
Ber heppi with vidz, much fluff big times
I would have guessed maybe getting to level 10 or 12. really cool
Great video, deserves more views as well, lucky I found it
Really impressive!
Hey man :) haha thats amazing i never saw that before :D so yeah nice job gg
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.
Kudos for this crazy challenge!
That is insane. You are cool dude. Great job. Thanks for entertainment.