A World of Warcraft: Shadowlands player has reached the expansion’s new level cap simply by picking flowers in the game’s starting zone. Players who choose the game’s Pandaren race for their character start the game off in the Wandering Isle, the neutral starting zone of all Pandaren players, and have to choose one of World of Warcraft’s two major factions, Alliance or Horde, once they leave the area and before they can progress through the rest of the game’s content.
The new level cap the recently released Shadowlands expansion introduced is significantly different from World of Warcraft’s previous expansions. Rather than increasing it by 10 just like before (the game’s previous Battle for Azeroth expansion adjusted the game’s level cap from 110 to 120), Shadowlands introduced the game’s first level squish, which reduced the level cap of the game from 120 to 60. When Shadowlands launched, players had their character’s level roughly cut in half depending on their current level, although their stats remained the same. Those who reached the previous level cap had their level reduced to 50. The level squish as well as all the other changes and new content Shadowlands introduced helped make it become the fastest selling PC game of all time.
One player has once again defied the odds, as he was able to reach the game’s new level cap of 60 without ever leaving the Wandering Isle and only through picking flowers, keeping his pacifist pandaren monk neutral, with no allegiances to either the Alliance or the Horde. The player, named Doubleagent, has been sharing this latest pacifist attempt to reach the new level cap on Twitter. As Shadowlands was just released on November 23, it took only 18 days for Doubleagent to reach the new level cap of 60.
Doubleagent previously achieved this same goal when World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion released, which saw him reach level 110 from level 1, and once again when Battle for Azeroth launched two years ago, where he went from level 110 to 120. According to an interview with PC Gamer, it took Doubleagent 8,000 in-game hours to reach his initial goal of level 110 while it took an estimated 240 in-game hours – or roughly 77 days – to go from 110 to 120. Doubleagent’s achievements have already earned him the attention of Blizzard, with the developer introducing an NPC, called the Venerable Shaman, based on his character in the Wandering Isle.
In spite of how quickly he was able to achieve it this time around, Doubleagent’s achievement is still incredibly impressive and only shows just how different levelling is now in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands with the new level squish.
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is available now on PC.
