Project Lore

[caption id="attachment_9295" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Tribute to insanity, AMIRITE?"][/caption] When I was in high school I remember my brother absolutely losing it.  He snapped, falling into a fit of uncontrollable rage and despair.  It's possible he's never been the same since.  It had nothing to do with his heart being broken, or being cut from the basketball team (he wasn't).  No high school-style earth-shattering moment at all.  He simply died in Diablo II, on a hardcore character, at level 82, because he was playing on a 56k modem. He selected this masochistic task because he had already beaten Diablo II countless times.  It challenged his mouse-clicking skills, and gave a true meaning to dieing in a video game for the first time (followed later by Steel Battalion).  Imagine if he took it further.  Not collecting loot, not grouping with other players, and not questing, then he'd be just insane right?  Neverdied, a now level 80 mage on Chimera is insane, and insanely dedicated. According to MMO-Champion, Neverdied hit level 80 with no deaths, quests, instances, BGs or Arenas, mounts, flight paths, professions or looting, and only 80 Achievement points (hitting level x).  The character was leveled Rogue style, good old fashioned grinding. Neverdied did buy equipment from the AH, something I am left scratching my head over.  If the toon had no professions and didn't pick up any loot, where did the money come from?  Was coin looting allowed, or was there a support toon involved?  Either way, it is an incredible achievement, something I will never attempt. Neverdied wasn't the first character that the player attempted to be hardcore on.  All of the careful planning and execution was made possible by the previous failed attempts (he had a warrior toon crater).  The community will never cease to amaze me at the different ways they can achieve random things in World of Warcraft. A collective 31900+ mobs were harmed in the making of Neverdied.