And the first World of Warcraft player to reach level 80 is...

by Samuel Axon Nov 14th 2008 at 2:30PM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Expansions, News items

Nymh, Human Warlock of the EU server Drek'thar (and the real-world country of France) became the first World of Warcraft player to reach level 80 by working with an out-of-group Priest to spam area-of-effect attacks against rapidly-spawning mid-70s mobs, inspired by the technique of another World of Warcraft Warlock player named Jynxx, who eloquently explained the concept in a video (Note: probably won't make much sense if you're not a WoW addict already).

Time from 70 to 80: 27 hours.

Nymh did a lot of research and trial-and-error exploration of options in the Wrath of the Lich King beta test in order to be ready for the gauntlet after the EU launch, which of course came a little bit before the North American one. We'll note that the first-to-level-70-after-launch trophy went to another French player last year. Vive la France, no?

[Via WoW Insider]

Tags: 80, blizzard, drekthar, eu, first, france, french, jynxx, level-80, nymh, priest, warlock, world-of-warcraft, wotlk, wow, wrath, wrath-of-the-lich-king

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

JP said on 2:39PM 11-14-2008

lol

Nymh - "WotLK has like, no content! What a rip off!! H@X!!"

amirite?

The Claw said on 3:39PM 11-14-2008

Please, we can do without the pointless posts about him missing out on all the content. Obviously he is going to play through WotLK on an alt at some point and enjoy it at a more leisurely pace, but someone has to hit the world first.

The Claw said on 6:40PM 11-14-2008

Actually I wasn't really replying to your post - just trying to head off the comments that I knew would be coming. This story was on wowinsider yesterday and there were about 100 comments worth of tedious drivel about how he'd "wasted" WotLK by "rushing through it".

JP said on 7:12PM 11-14-2008

oh, sorry. I read it worng then. my bad.

brainwidth said on 3:44PM 11-14-2008

Player from one of the first timezones to see the release is the first to reach 80. News at 11.

Tony said on 3:49PM 11-14-2008

I guess it would be interesting if you got something for it. But sitting around and doing arguably the most boring thing you can do in the game and then getting nothing for it? OK...

Craig said on 6:25PM 11-14-2008

Darus (Athene and CO), would have technically been the first level 80, but nonetheless congrats to Nymh.

PRyck said on 7:40PM 11-14-2008

socialism is a great thing, america is headed towards it so now more americans can lvl super fast because they will just live off of government cheese.

Terje said on 4:49AM 11-15-2008

You can always count on the americans to make the most clever posts:p
seriously though, you might wanna find out what socialism is before posting dumb comments like that.
and, also look up egoism