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by Eliah Hecht 
Jul 26th 2009 at 4:00PM
Here's a cute story to brighten up your Sunday. Tenen, a Dwarf Warrior in Modan Co on Moon Guard, decided that he would start at level one and only explore. No quests, no killing mobs, no PvP. Just exploration.
Seventeen levels later, he's explored every single outdoor zone in the game, and completed the World Explorer achievement. So if you wanted to know how much XP you could get just from exploring, there's your answer. It took four days of playtime to accomplish.
Of course, he couldn't do it all on his own; aside from the ravenous mobs, some areas are simply inaccessible without a flying mount. He got some summoning help from a cooperative Warlock. The Charge skill was also apparently useful in getting to some hard-to-reach places.
Congrats to Tenen! It's always nice to see players do something a little different.
[Thanks, Frijona]
Filed under: RP, Achievements
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 4)
Badger Jul 27th 2009 1:52PM
I hope this makes it onto [1. Local]. That was brilliant.
Linainverse Jul 26th 2009 4:36PM
This took some dedication, with some help from some very nice people. So to all of them, Gratz. :)
Karisma Jul 26th 2009 4:38PM
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Draka&n=Nucherry
frank Jul 26th 2009 4:45PM
hehe this one karisma linked is from 03-24-2009
Laquidar Jul 26th 2009 4:44PM
This reminds me of an old post started by someone during vanilla WoW, it asked what level one could get to just by exploration XP. Blizzard responded saying that through data mining teleportation exploiters that the avarage level was 14. (I may be off on that, this was sometime ago.)
Anyway, congrats, that is some serious patients!
Urza Jul 26th 2009 4:48PM
I've been planning on doing this once you can turn off levelling to have a level 1 with the title. Well done to this person, and all others who've done it/attempted it before him.
zak Jul 26th 2009 4:54PM
/agree with all good comments.
Many Gratz to you tenen for your achievement and for getting on the wow.com site for it lol.
Croe Jul 26th 2009 5:05PM
That's not just patience for the dwarf, but for the Warlock and his friends for sticking with it during the more inaccessible places. All of them deserve credit for what would be a very tedious achievement.
Lebo Jul 26th 2009 5:07PM
Someone in my guild did this about two months ago.
http://gkguild.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=810&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=80
Second post down.
Where you guys been? :-p
Win Jul 26th 2009 8:02PM
Maybe if your guildie sent in the information beforehand, he would have gotten featured. Chances are, this is the first guy to send WoW Insider information on his feat, thus he was the first featured, but not the first to achieve it. :)
Belkar Jul 27th 2009 11:19AM
Doesn't wow.com fact check at all? How hard is it to query the armory for information before reposting someone's 'First!' submission?
Eliah Hecht Jul 27th 2009 11:21AM
I never claimed that Tenen was first. I just said it was cool.
Daz Jul 26th 2009 5:07PM
The Explorers League should be very proud of this little guy :-)
Rhobeta Jul 26th 2009 5:11PM
How did he do this? In Northrend there are places you have to fly to do get the discovery. Two are in Sholazar and one or 2 are in Storm Peaks. :)
Rhobeta Jul 26th 2009 5:12PM
How did he do this? In Northrend there are places you have to fly to
do get the discovery. Two are in Sholazar and one or 2 are in Storm
Peaks. :)
MazokuRanma Jul 26th 2009 5:14PM
It says in the article he had help from a warlock.
Tess Jul 27th 2009 10:35AM
Those places are tricky, but it is possible to explore them without a flying mount (got World Explorer at 71 without any summons) through a lot of careful climbing and in one case dying, rezzing a bit further up, then dying again, etc.
Rankoa Jul 26th 2009 5:22PM
Looks like he wasn't just getting xp from exploring....
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Moonrunner&n=Preston
Oznak Jul 26th 2009 6:08PM
There are areas you can explore that don't count for the Explorer title. I imagine he got experience from exploring some of these "extra" areas
JDM Jul 29th 2009 1:27AM
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=16904204508&sid=1&pageNo=2
^ In Post 30, he states he had xp from 406 kills. I'm curious how low he would have been with zero kills.