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I read about Noor and Reinisch at Wowinsider (now wow.com) and further follow ups at their website http://pacifistundeadpriest.blogspot.com/. The idea intrigued me and I thought it would be a great challenge to attempt.
So I rolled a human priest on Kirin Tor, a realm with great RP history, and where I rolled my first character, Sherfandrago. I randomized the name and was pretty shocked to see such a normal sounding name as Carlah available so I jumped on it.
To preface this, I originally started a Night elf druid, I then realized that nearly every quest in that starting area required me to kill something. That druid turned into Talucian, who will become a DEHTA based druid, but that?s a story for another entry.
When I read pacifist, I wasn't excited about both Noor and Reinisch's use of force in leveling. Mariam Webster defines pacism as 1: opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes ; specifically : refusal to bear arms on moral or religious grounds. Therefore any use of violence to finish a quest or achieve a goal seemed wrong.
So I vowed to level to 80 without raising my weapon and attacking anything. Period. In this age of wowarmory and all sorts of stat tracking for this game, I figured I could state my claim pretty easily.
EDIT: I found a rouge named Lintilla, who had attempted the same sort of thing. She has long since gone dormant. Her face shows up on wowarmory, but there are no stats or gear available. I am happy to pick up where she left off. She got to level 21. Hopefully I can get farther.
I had also wanted to do this earlier before I read about Noor and Reinisch, on my preist Mariele. Dreams of starting a guild called "First Do No Harm," where all we did was heal was the goal. Then I read about the two and thought Mariele was great fit. I looked back and realized I was very wrong. Mariele had already been just a simple alt, wrack up kills and earn exp. The game is designed to level by killing things. Most quests are based on that and rested exp and heirloom design only give kill bonus exp. So I knew that Mariele was useless at this point and that Carlah would be hard work.
Carlah ran into some quick issues. Each starting zone has one quest to unlock most of the other strting quests and all of these require me killing things. The humans have a lot of go here get this, or talk to him and then bring a note to her. However, it was tough work findingteh right quests. Mad props to wowhead for sortable lists of quests though, it really was a lifesaver. Some do require a look through the comments to look for hidden pre-reqs or whether loot needed to finish quests were from killing creatures or from world objects.
Between five different starting zones I found enough quests and exploring exp to get me to level 10ish. Once or twice I needed to explore a nearby region to level up high enough to get the next quest but I've done pretty well.
Noblegarden and especially the firefestival have been a blessing. I should gain at least two more levels by finishing the Azeroth and Kalimdor quests.
The preist has worked out well and pyschic scream is completely necessary. PW: Shield, Renew, Lifeblood (from herbalism), and innerfire are all the spells you need to survive. Most of the time you will be up against red or yellow mobs and simply need to run away to reset combat.
The real question is how far can this go. I don't want to hurt anything, but can I watch other people hurt this. I know I get honorable kills from BGs and it feels wrong to be party to murder, even if I don't hurt them. Grouping too can earn me kills and again this means I profit from killing things.
Do I compromise and still stick to the fact that I have only ever dealt 3 damage my entire /played (I ended up right clicking a lasher who walked over my peacebloom as I clicked)? That I have no killing blows at all?
These are questions for another post I guess, and comments would be nice to help me figure it all out. For now I'm just going to keep on trucking, leveling without killing or hurting anything.
So I rolled a human priest on Kirin Tor, a realm with great RP history, and where I rolled my first character, Sherfandrago. I randomized the name and was pretty shocked to see such a normal sounding name as Carlah available so I jumped on it.
To preface this, I originally started a Night elf druid, I then realized that nearly every quest in that starting area required me to kill something. That druid turned into Talucian, who will become a DEHTA based druid, but that?s a story for another entry.
When I read pacifist, I wasn't excited about both Noor and Reinisch's use of force in leveling. Mariam Webster defines pacism as 1: opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes ; specifically : refusal to bear arms on moral or religious grounds. Therefore any use of violence to finish a quest or achieve a goal seemed wrong.
So I vowed to level to 80 without raising my weapon and attacking anything. Period. In this age of wowarmory and all sorts of stat tracking for this game, I figured I could state my claim pretty easily.
EDIT: I found a rouge named Lintilla, who had attempted the same sort of thing. She has long since gone dormant. Her face shows up on wowarmory, but there are no stats or gear available. I am happy to pick up where she left off. She got to level 21. Hopefully I can get farther.
I had also wanted to do this earlier before I read about Noor and Reinisch, on my preist Mariele. Dreams of starting a guild called "First Do No Harm," where all we did was heal was the goal. Then I read about the two and thought Mariele was great fit. I looked back and realized I was very wrong. Mariele had already been just a simple alt, wrack up kills and earn exp. The game is designed to level by killing things. Most quests are based on that and rested exp and heirloom design only give kill bonus exp. So I knew that Mariele was useless at this point and that Carlah would be hard work.
Carlah ran into some quick issues. Each starting zone has one quest to unlock most of the other strting quests and all of these require me killing things. The humans have a lot of go here get this, or talk to him and then bring a note to her. However, it was tough work findingteh right quests. Mad props to wowhead for sortable lists of quests though, it really was a lifesaver. Some do require a look through the comments to look for hidden pre-reqs or whether loot needed to finish quests were from killing creatures or from world objects.
Between five different starting zones I found enough quests and exploring exp to get me to level 10ish. Once or twice I needed to explore a nearby region to level up high enough to get the next quest but I've done pretty well.
Noblegarden and especially the firefestival have been a blessing. I should gain at least two more levels by finishing the Azeroth and Kalimdor quests.
The preist has worked out well and pyschic scream is completely necessary. PW: Shield, Renew, Lifeblood (from herbalism), and innerfire are all the spells you need to survive. Most of the time you will be up against red or yellow mobs and simply need to run away to reset combat.
The real question is how far can this go. I don't want to hurt anything, but can I watch other people hurt this. I know I get honorable kills from BGs and it feels wrong to be party to murder, even if I don't hurt them. Grouping too can earn me kills and again this means I profit from killing things.
Do I compromise and still stick to the fact that I have only ever dealt 3 damage my entire /played (I ended up right clicking a lasher who walked over my peacebloom as I clicked)? That I have no killing blows at all?
These are questions for another post I guess, and comments would be nice to help me figure it all out. For now I'm just going to keep on trucking, leveling without killing or hurting anything.
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