Designing the Immortal Pacifist in WoW

[BlueCross]

(breaking a previous thread to get this more exposure)

Let's say we want a character in WoW to have the following traits (if any of these are 'broken', you get to start over):

Pacifist - can never kill man nor beast
Immortal - can never die
PvP Server
True Solo - no other same faction alts on server


Optional Traits
Fear of Flying - can't take Flight Paths


My favorite race for this is Night Elf because of the Shadowmeld Trait.
My favorite class is Subtlety Rogue because of all the Stealth Goodies.

A case could be made for a Frost Mage because of Blink, Teleportation, and Frost stuns.

Any other suggestions and/or challenges?

[BlueCross]

Some helpful thoughts...

For primary professions, pick Mining and Herbalism (at level 5). [edit]  You gain experience for each node mined or 'herbed', plus they can be pretty good money makers.  As of 1/3/2011, you no longer gain XP for mining/herbing until you reach level 10.  *shakes fist at Blizzard* [/edit]

For secondary professions, pick Fishing and Cooking (at level 10).  You get good experience for the Dailies.

Of course, getting to level 5 is quite a challenge.  Visit all the starting zones for Exploration experience as well as the occasional low-level non-combat Quest.

Mining and hunting herbs can be a challenge at level 5 as well as most mobs will be above your level.

Once you reach level 10, you can get about 4 bubbles per day just for doing the two Dailies.  That's pretty much a risk-free level every 5 days.


I'm currently looking at Black Dragonflight (4400 Alliance/10600 Horde population) for Ally alt and Tichondrius (16800 Alliance/3900 Horde population) for Horde alt.

 If anyone is interested, we could form a guild on these servers (name suggestions?).  We wouldn't necessarily quest together but it at least would form a social chat basis for help.  Then, once someone fails (kills, is killed, whatever), that person would be promoted to a 'higher' rank and become inactive, and the player could start again.

[Swash]

Interesting idea.  A lot easier now with the secondary profession dailies.
There was apparently somebody who started a pacifist in vanilla wow on an RP server.  They still weren't level 60 when WotLK was released.

[BlueCross]

Just found out last night that you do NOT get any experience for mining/herbing until you reach level 10.  That really sucks. 

It really was a short-lived phenomenon; I have no idea why they would first start giving XP, and then suddenly raise the level you need to be gain XP for it.

(edited first post for correction)

[BlueCross]

Another 'custom' alt I made (and who is fairly active) is 'Batbref', a level 30 Troll Hunter on 'Emerald Dream'.  He gains XP by ONLY killing mobs; no quests, no dungeons, no grouping, no nuthin' except grinding.

I'm thinking about having him start a guild named <The Grinder>.  Anyone want to 'join up' (basically just for the guild title), let me know.  I usually only play him every four or five days so that is always killing stuff while in the 'blue bubble' experience bar (doubles XP gain).

The Guild would pretty much be just a 'social' guild; no Raids, PvP, grouping, etc. so if that's not to your liking, it's best avoided

[Hatchetman]

I'll check with Arek to about the gathering xp from the start. Really recent alts I've done have got xp from mining early on.

Druids are also a really good class for a pacifist, though probably not as conceptually great for fear of flying.

Check with the raiding stats of servers, they often contradict, and are more accurate, than warcraft realm's census data. I started an alt on Tich recently and the actual active level 85 population is pretty balanced; something around 11,000:9,000. Illidan and Mal'ganis are hopelessly unbalanced. Mal'ganis has less than 500 Alliance.

His pacifist was made on 1/1/12, and the toon I made on Tich was made on 1/2/12 and both of us got experience from both mining and herbalism before level 10.