BTW, going off of my footage length, it takes roughly 45 minutes to hike from the dwarf/gnome starting zone to the EPL using the fastest route I could find. Still slow, but not actually as bad as I thought it would be.
I would not recommend this for hardcore at all, but it is *theoretically* possible. You will be insta-killed by anything that spots you through stealth, and must pass very close by some mobs to reach the tower, especially passing through the Bulwark from the UD starting zone to the EPL. Those bears and spiders will absolutely detect and kill you. I have not tried stealthing and reaching the spot deathless, TBH, but a lot of the mobs you pass by are in the 50s and will have good detection, because detection is actually a hidden skill that gets higher and higher with overall level. I would 1000% recommend testing the run out a few times on a non-hardcore server before attempting it for real. If it works, please let me know, I am now curious too.
@ thanks for that insight! Great idea, I’ll give it a couple shots on non hardcore. The goal will be to get the lowest level stealther out there without dying. You’re right though, the animals (especially the spider) will likely find you.
@nunya1337 higher level stealth detection is probably B R U T A L lmfao but yeah, I am also very curious what it would take! ... at that point you are probably better off just playing the game normally, huh.
@ nah, it’s things like this that make WoW fun! I used to stealth run mechinar chests in original TBC and got my epic mount that way, I love a stealth challenge!
Just tested on a classic era server,.. no chest. I even corpse ran to every tower, no chest in any of them.. There was on SoD but not regular classic era.
That's too bad. Is it possible someone got there before you, and it was respawning? The first video was filmed before SoD even launched, I know for a fact this worked in era as of this time last year.
Possibly! There's only ever going to be one chest, on an unsure respawn timer. On PvE servers, if people are unflagged it will be a true first-come-first-served situation. On PvP servers, it may well turn into a bloodbath. Hard to tell, but it may be kind of fun.
This video again... Sounded good on paper. In reality it's a waste of time. Why? Because A) Will be MANY there and B) If it is there on Classic fresh it will be taken out just like it was last time. Did this trick the first time for days, logging in on many different times, never saw a single chest. Then heard it was taken out.
BTW, going off of my footage length, it takes roughly 45 minutes to hike from the dwarf/gnome starting zone to the EPL using the fastest route I could find. Still slow, but not actually as bad as I thought it would be.
i might give it a go
Can you expand on this for hardcore? I wonder if a undead rogue could get there without dying thanks to stealth
I would not recommend this for hardcore at all, but it is *theoretically* possible. You will be insta-killed by anything that spots you through stealth, and must pass very close by some mobs to reach the tower, especially passing through the Bulwark from the UD starting zone to the EPL. Those bears and spiders will absolutely detect and kill you. I have not tried stealthing and reaching the spot deathless, TBH, but a lot of the mobs you pass by are in the 50s and will have good detection, because detection is actually a hidden skill that gets higher and higher with overall level.
I would 1000% recommend testing the run out a few times on a non-hardcore server before attempting it for real. If it works, please let me know, I am now curious too.
@ thanks for that insight! Great idea, I’ll give it a couple shots on non hardcore.
The goal will be to get the lowest level stealther out there without dying. You’re right though, the animals (especially the spider) will likely find you.
@nunya1337 higher level stealth detection is probably B R U T A L lmfao but yeah, I am also very curious what it would take! ... at that point you are probably better off just playing the game normally, huh.
@ nah, it’s things like this that make WoW fun! I used to stealth run mechinar chests in original TBC and got my epic mount that way, I love a stealth challenge!
No way in hell lol..
Just tested on a classic era server,.. no chest. I even corpse ran to every tower, no chest in any of them.. There was on SoD but not regular classic era.
That's too bad. Is it possible someone got there before you, and it was respawning? The first video was filmed before SoD even launched, I know for a fact this worked in era as of this time last year.
Will a bunch of people doing this make it impossible to do?
Possibly! There's only ever going to be one chest, on an unsure respawn timer. On PvE servers, if people are unflagged it will be a true first-come-first-served situation. On PvP servers, it may well turn into a bloodbath. Hard to tell, but it may be kind of fun.
This video again...
Sounded good on paper. In reality it's a waste of time. Why?
Because A) Will be MANY there and B) If it is there on Classic fresh it will be taken out just like it was last time.
Did this trick the first time for days, logging in on many different times, never saw a single chest. Then heard it was taken out.