[SOD] Level 1-60 in under 5 hours /played (4:43h)
<DISCLAIMER: As there is a huge number of new and returning players currently, I'd like to avoid a misconception first: No, you won't be able to level from 1 to 60 between breakfast and lunch in SoD. Leveling IS fast, but this run was done almost exclusively with boosting and the characters that did the boosts spent much more than 5 hours to get this toon to max level. Think of this as an any% speedrun. However, SoD is fun, come back anyways ;) >
Sooo, there was a trending thread in this subreddit last week, of a returning player who was surprised how fast leveling in SoD is after they dinged 60 in 1 day & 8 hours /played, mostly just playing solo. This made me wonder how fast it would be if you instance boosted all the way.
I boost with my prot pala a lot, so I strategized a route, thought of some methods to avoid any unnecessary playtime and gave it a go. The character was summoned literally anywhere and was never logged in during any wait times but only when there were mobs killed and XP to be gained. I think the longest distance he walked himself was between SM Cath and SM Armory...
The result was 4h 43min as you can see in the screenshot. There were some learings during the run and some sub-optimal plays, so a much faster time is definitely possible. One thing that was not excessively used is rested XP outside of student fodder from the sleeping bag questline. Waiting for rested XP would have dragged on this project for month but of course has the potential to almost half the playtime.
What else? Of course no hacks or exploits were used (looking at you, flyhacking hunters selling BRD boosts) and the run was done on SoD Live Servers - Wild Growth-EU.
