The launch of World of Warcraft Classic was a big deal and attracted a lot of players. Although the start did not go quite smoothly, people stood in queues for the servers for a long time, but among them already first user level 60. The streamer under the nickname Jokerd managed to reach the maximum bar. 347 thousand people watched his progress live.
Congratulations to Jokerd for the World First (West) level 60!
— Method (@Methodgg)
The Level 60 Leveling Marathon was hosted by the Method Guild, well-known in the WoW community. She invited popular streamers to Las Vegas, where the competition took place. In a separate studio, under the comments, there was a live broadcast with a competition of streamers. Jokerd used the tactic of killing monsters (grinding). The winner created a dwarf of the mage class, attracted a crowd of enemies, froze with an ice block and other similar spells, so that later they could fire from a distance. Jokerd also turned the layer system, a temporary technical feature of the game, to its advantage. Its essence lies in the existence of several copies of the same zone on the server in order to evenly distribute the load. Layers are only introduced at the launch of World of Warcraft Classic. Jokerd simply moved between copies of the region, and therefore he did not have to wait for the restoration of enemies.
Other participants in the competition used the group method of clearing the dungeons. As a result, the winner's closest competitor, KennyMarsh, was five levels behind at the finish line. Jokerd was watched by 347 thousand people, the broadcast was on the list of the most popular individual broadcasts on Twitch. Now the Method guild is trying to set a new record of being the first to clear the starting raids in the game, including Onyxia's Lair and Molten Core.
Source: 3dnews.ru