People already 74. Exploiting?

[Thulos]

Ok so on our server there are two people that are already 74. Do you guys think this is actually possible without exploiting? I've been instancing for about 10 hours and I'm just now half way. I can understand 71.5 reasonably but 74?

[Schwarz]

I posted something in the PVE forum about instance leveling. It was something like 17 instance runs per level. If they got a group together and did this they could easily achieve there level.

Or maybe they are going about it like the one guy that tagged mobs then had his guild kill them. I don't think technically that is an exploit. ~18 hours wotlk has been live. I will be interested in loggin on tonight to see what the highest level toon is on my server.

[valkry]

4.5 hours per lvl, sounds very achieveable. You could get a xp boost from having 25 quests completed before upgrading then handing them all in straight away. That's like 270k xp right there.

[elsegundo]

i dont doubt this at all. so very possible. im sure many have called in sick today... for the next few days.

[Kromtor]

blizzard should take the servers down to investigate this immediately *submarine alarm*

[robtest]

There was a post on the WoW forums about an EU guy hitting 80 in 13 hours. He had lots of helpers. He tagged the mobs, they killed them. He has print screens of the GM telling him it was okay, and then after he hit 80, they banned him and his team of carebears...

What I don't understand about the carebears is that if they were just killing what he had tagged, then they don't gain EXP, so how do they still help him at the higher levels???

[elsegundo]

i'd say.. max out on +hit gems/gear.

or have two teams do it. one team helping him while the other team tries to hit 74-76. and have that team help him when the other team start to continually miss the mobs.

but who knows. that's just my idea.

[Tdog]

There was a post on the WoW forums about an EU guy hitting 80 in 13 hours. He had lots of helpers. He tagged the mobs, they killed them. He has print screens of the GM telling him it was okay, and then after he hit 80, they banned him and his team of carebears...

What I don't understand about the carebears is that if they were just killing what he had tagged, then they don't gain EXP, so how do they still help him at the higher levels???

Same thing happed at BC release. Mage hit 70 in 28 hours. Got banned by noob GM. Couple days later ban was lifted, guessing same thing will happen here.

Secondly, you don't need to kill lvl 80 mobs to be become level 80. The mobs only have to be lvl 72 for you to go from 79-80.

[Thulos]

All the ones that are hitting 74+ are in Zul'drak. Wouldn't be suprised if there is some tagging thing going on. I doubt very seriously this is normal instancing.

[Hachoo]

Leveling seems to be just as fast or faster in wotlk than BC was when it came out, regardless of the extra XP. I played a few hours today and got half way to 71 just slowly doing quests and exploring. I don't doubt people that popped some energy pills and stayed up all night and day to level would easily be able to make 74. There are many people on my server claiming they started playing last night at midnight and only stopped to sleep for a few hours (sad as this is).