Well, my attempt at leveling a 0-kill, 0-quest pacifist monk “Voxgeekus” has come to an end after a valiant effort.
I rolled a Human Monk with the personal goal of leveling and maintaining a pacifist character without questing or inflicting any damage in-game.
From the beginning I removed all offensive skills/spells from my toolbar, keeping only the “Roll” and Sky Golem on Toolbar #1. I walked around Elwynn Forest and Westfall until level 5, then took up Herbalism/Mining to gather my way to level 10. Since then I’ve been herbing and riding/flying for exploration as the only means of gaining XP.
As for proof of completing 0 quests, it was clear from the start this would not be provable, as my statistics indicated from the beginning that I had completed 113 quests although I’ve never manually accepted any; those that were automatically accepted (intro quests to new expansions) were quickly abandoned.
Throughout my playtime, I’ve obsessively been checking my statistics tab for “Kills” to see that it remained at 0, usually every few minutes.
My environmental path of progression began in Northshire Valley and I covered every bit of terrain (that allows flying) in each expansion successively, in order of release.
I had just dinged 54 last night in eastern Stormsong Valley, and my stats still showed 0 kills. However, moments later I flew over Fate’s End and got the status warning when flying over the island where Shrine of the Storm is located, and upon earning discovery XP for the island, I quickly flew away before the threatening status took hold.
Safely hovering over the surrounding waters, I checked my statistics tab and was sad to see I now have 1 kill — a “beast” apparently.
I was never visually engaged in any encounter on the island, and I never landed anywhere on the island. I have no idea how a kill was attributed, but nevertheless, my stats are now tainted, which is a bummer.
It would be nice to know what caused it, but it is what it is, and it was a fun attempt. If only WoW still offered a “total damage caused” stat, I might be able to prove I’ve personally never auto-attacked or cast any offensive spells, but that’s not to be.
My total play time as of last night is 1 day, 7 hours.
