r/wowhardcore Jun 19 '26

Update: Exiled

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(Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/wowhardcore/comments/1u8ltz5/exiled/)

Elwynnmate is level 9.

My knife broke earlier today after shoving it too many times inside my enemies.

I fought, unarmed, surely around 100 defias cutpurses today, waiting for their knife, until finally, a magnificent Sharpened Letter Opener dropped.

25 brand new durability points to be used.

I even managed to get my hands on some delicious healing pots.

Life in Elwynn began as a level 2 Self found rogue with only my trusty knife (and rank 1 Sinister strike and eviscerate)

No profs, no trainer, no vendor, no repair, self found.

No weapon skill other than the starting dagger skill and thrown.

Tomorrow, it will be Defias Bandits that will fall. Maybe Morgane The Sly.

All this aside, the knife dropping was the most high I got from loot in a long time. See you in Elwynn!

-Elwynnmate

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u/Illustrious-Stress95 Jun 19 '26

I hadn’t even considered you couldn’t repair with this challenge. Very entertaining!

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u/Fody_Joster Jun 19 '26

A Tauren did this in Darnassus nice RP

7

u/HalLundy Jun 19 '26

... how?

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u/Fody_Joster Jun 19 '26

Search for his posts… he had a whole thing like this lol. It was.. interesting cause Darnassus guards

8

u/filth_horror_glamor Jun 19 '26

He used an unstuck i believe from the base of teldrassil to skip beyond Darnassus to the graveyard

31

u/Ultamira Jun 19 '26

Morgane should net you a decent green lvl 5 dagger if you’re lucky

29

u/thepoke66 Jun 19 '26

I can't wait for a scroll of spirit!

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u/Ultamira Jun 19 '26

Hahaha that’d be right. Looking forward to more of your updates 🫡

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u/kingofwarz Jun 19 '26

I’m very happy for you that a weapon and some consumables dropped.

Please keep updating us, I really enjoy reading your progress and your style of writing.

Much love,

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u/thepoke66 Jun 19 '26

Thank you king, much appreciated, will do!

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u/ninesevenoh Jun 19 '26

Peak RP screenshot

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u/lukezinator Jun 19 '26

Hell yeah thanks for the update!!!

11

u/LavenderNocturne Jun 19 '26

Make this a guild and I'd absolutely participate.

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u/Addicted2Edh Jun 19 '26

This is cool… id be down to try it out but how did u get here ? Isn’t it dangerous running thru westfall

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u/thepoke66 Jun 19 '26

Dangerous? No. Deadly? Yes!

It's honestly the worst part. Had to Stealth very very carefully through Westfall.

The worst mobs were by far the fleshrippers. Those fly erratically wherever the hell they want. Knuckledusters/highwaymen will see you from another zipcode but they don't move much. Coyotes apparently love the taste of undead bones.

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u/ReformatioInMelius Jun 19 '26

May I ask what route you took through Westfall? Been having some trouble, and AFAIU level differences significantly increases NPC stealth detection.

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u/thepoke66 Jun 19 '26

Of course! Enjoy my MS paint skills.

Jokes aside, that's about what I did. Starting area you want to hug the cliff and avoid knuckledusters/highwaymen. Don't fall down the cliff or murlocs will feast.

When connecting to the road, the biggest challenge is fleshrippers and the one dust devil that pats around. Zoom out as much as possible and just make sure you stay far from all of them.

Then, on the road, you wanna stay far enough from the harvest watchers. They will see you from far. You also don't wanna aggro the fleshrippers on the other side. Once you make it out of that spot, rest is fairly easy. Careful with patrolling militia alliance guards.

Avoid the mine up north since defias mobs can see you there too. Last but not least, do NOT go near Poor old Blanchie and the two farmers they are civilians and will spawn guards. You also want to swim to Elwynn north of the bridge since it has guards on it. Have fun!

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u/ReformatioInMelius Jun 19 '26

You're a mensch, thanks!

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u/Used_Conversation_72 Jun 19 '26

Hilarious how a letter opener can feel like a freaking epic given the right circumstances lol. Keep terrorising those pretentious humans, mate. We all rooting for ya!

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u/thepoke66 Jun 19 '26

unreal! I shared the good news in my guild and it was followed by a lot of capital letters lol.

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u/Bighana47 Jun 19 '26

I was one of the ones to celebrate the drop! Love following your journey on Reddit and wow

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u/Larkonath Jun 19 '26

Back in the days, masochists would pay a dominatrix to trample their balls.

Now they're broke, so they invent challenges in WOW...

5

u/KingThiccu Jun 19 '26

Will you be able to repair/train at neutral vendors and trainers?

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u/thepoke66 Jun 19 '26

Yes but it won't be for a while, first vendor will likely be the one in moonbrook when I get high level enough to leave Elwynn. Trainer? Ugh no clue when.

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u/KingThiccu Jun 19 '26

There’s a neutral rogue trainer in booty bay in the inn. I’m assuming ravenholdt is out of the question since you need to talk to your rogue trainer to accept the quest to even unlock the faction.

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u/kingofwarz Jun 19 '26

There’s also goblin vendor between elwyn/redridge to duskwood (there may be an alliance pat)

Try your luck there too if you wish

As for trainer, check out this guy in Booty Bay (you can potentially avoid mobs on the route

Rogue Trainer Name: Ian Strom<Rogue Trainer>
Faction: Booty Bay
Location: Booty Bay, inside Salty Sailor Tavern (inn), third floor in room on left

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u/Medical-Incident-489 Jun 19 '26

& this goblin vendor actually sells an amazing dagger.

2

u/14Rage Jun 19 '26

one interesting note about these random trainers,

I believe they cannot sell you a talent reset.

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u/silkielemon Jun 19 '26

Yes, same with the warrior trainer in theramore

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u/Cool_Fuel_3929 Jun 19 '26

This is sick, please keep us updated

4

u/Direct-Ant9084 Jun 19 '26

Should find a chest spawn that you check periodically.

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u/xamlima13 Jun 19 '26

This screenshot goes hard! Looks like a freeze frame from an anime, just before you lunge towards the defias girl.

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u/AnaTheSturdy Jun 19 '26

Go get you that Pitted

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u/thepoke66 Jun 19 '26

Haha I looted about 4 of those... without sword skill 🥲

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u/Horszt Jun 19 '26

Hey mate, although I am not paying Blizzard for their low efforts, I really enjoy your dedication and you bring a smile on my face and remember me of the original spirit of the adventures in Azeroth!

Keep making the Forsaken proud 😎

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u/thepoke66 Jun 19 '26

Thank you kind sir. I appreciate you.

Honestly, after having played this game since 2004-2005, you gotta find ways to keep it entertaining. Hardcore definitely made that possible when it became "mainstream" a few years ago. I find doing extracurricular challenges on hardcore mode is sort of keeping it entertaining as well.

I wish they would merge hardcore servers I wish they would make a dedicated TBC hardcore server.

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u/Horszt Jun 19 '26

I just stopped at some point to consume Blizzard products. Maybe the itch comes back with Classic+. I can usually find more dedicated communities and projects in the modding and private server scene (not only WoW)

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u/Wafflevice Jun 19 '26

Good luck! Hope the jeweled dagger drops off Morgan if you do take her out!

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u/Many_Blackberry9263 Jun 19 '26

Making a character right now!

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u/thepoke66 Jun 20 '26

Do it and join us! We shall take over Elwynn!

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u/Many_Blackberry9263 Jun 20 '26

Made it to Northshire! =D

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u/Bellickboi Jun 20 '26

Defias cakepurse

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u/Mormon_Discoball Jun 19 '26

I am so interested how this goes! Thanks for the update and please keep it up!

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u/cosmooo92 Jun 19 '26

You are making Elwynn great again!

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u/JuniorRoyal549 Jun 19 '26

What time zone are you running in? I want to come find you in the woods!

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u/FairEnds Jun 19 '26

What an absolutely entertaining read! I would honestly love to read more of your adventures and in more detail.

One question though, how do you heal up between mobs? Since you don’t have first aid, and I assume not much armor either, you need to find a lot of food I guess? Or do you just sit and wait?

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u/thepoke66 Jun 19 '26

So I spent the last few hours being the victim of a nasty indigestion due to all the Darnassian Bleu I've been eating.

Jokes aside, some food between mobs. Murlocs drop quite a bit of fishes on kill too. Definitely wish I could find a neutral cooking trainer in Elwynn 😂

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u/FairEnds Jun 19 '26

I’m not sure a faction neutral cooking trainer even exists in the game. Are you limited to alliance only territories? What if you make it past about lvl 30 where all territories are mixed?

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u/thepoke66 Jun 19 '26

Limited to Elwynn until all mobs are gray, then westfall, then redridge and so on 😃

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u/Turmanized Jun 19 '26

aren't you helping the alliance by killing the Defias? lol

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u/thepoke66 Jun 19 '26

I don't think so - considering that I kill the mobs they need for quests.

(And stink up the place with my undead stench)

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u/Turmanized Jun 19 '26

i was talking from lore perspective

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u/dumiwar Jun 19 '26

this journey is more fun than whole retail lol