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ApylonTV leveled a Warlock to 60 entirely in 1st person and conducted an AMA on Reddit afterward.

Players are really good at finding unique ways of leveling up their characters. Recently, we covered a Goblin who reached Level 50 without ever leaving Kezan. Today, we are looking at a player who didn't level up in the 3rd person (the standard way) but went with the 1st person.

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ApylonTV also streamed the leveling process on Twitch. The whole idea came to be 13 days ago. We're including VODs below.

The player also did an AMA on Reddit later, and we included some of the interesting questions / answers here. You can find the rest on Reddit.

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Any moments you enjoyed more in first person?

Well, we leveled in MoP and a lot of the scenery was really beautiful, but In all honestly I’m sure you could take it all in the same in 3rd person so really no their weren’t any moments I enjoyed more. I can tell you the quests in Ardenweald when you have to carry a seed around are the absolute worst. Because the seed takes up more than half your screen.

Playing a gnome in 1st Person is not good, especially in tall grass of...

Trying to do a quest in nagrand and you just get lost in a bush lol

Why?

I hit a sub goal on my stream and this was the incentive. The community also voted on which class/spec I play, and which expansion I level in. It was torture.

I think this gave me secondhand nausea, lol. I hope your viewers appreciated it!

They really did seem to enjoy it! I’m just glad I can move on to other things now.

Just curious, what are the top 3 things that are worse in first person?

Zoomed in particle effects nuke your FPS into the ground, You don’t get to see your spell animations You rarely get to see box models because you’re looking at their crotch.

How were you able to avoid aoe?

Second question: how many breaks did you have to take because of eye strain or motion sickness (since I noticed you were playing DH)?

Aoe was easy to avoid in most cases. Their was a rare in valley of 4 winds that one shot me a few times. I would take a 5 minute break ever 1-1/2 hours but I do that when I stream regardless.

Idk if y’all know, but if you go in first person and mine an ore vein, you see the pickaxe in motion as you gather

Yes you do. Along with a lot of quest objects.

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I tried doing this several times back in the day. There are definitely areas in the game where this is not worth doing and it becomes a cluster-you-know-what. 😂

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