First reported by GamesRadar (opens in new tab), an Outdated College RuneScape participant with the deal with NC State (presumably not an official consultant of the Raleigh-based college) lastly sought his reward for grinding an notorious minigame, the Brimhaven impediment course, for eight years. As outlined by a good friend, person h0dgep0dge (opens in new tab) on Reddit, NC State lastly introduced his journey house, delivering all of his banked rewards directly and gaining 178 million XP in RuneScape’s suboptimal Agility ability in lower than a minute. This was such a fast inflow that the sport’s built-in expertise per hour tracker could not sustain: it tapped out at 2.147 billion regardless that NC State was progressing at a fee of 10.8 billion per hour.
Agility in RuneScape shouldn’t be precisely the long-running MMO’s sexiest ability: It is related to cool rogue stuff just like the Sleek Outfit (opens in new tab) in-game, however mechanically it simply provides you extra stamina and allows you to entry assorted shortcuts all through the map. One of many main methods you may stage it up is the Brimhaven Agility Enviornment, a sort of ability vendor minigame.
My expertise with RuneScape was restricted to attempting to make a center faculty bully like me in 2004, failing, and going again to taking part in Paper Mario as a substitute, so I by no means received right here myself. However from what I can inform from assorted YouTube guides like this one (opens in new tab), it includes clicking round a grid-based enviornment to highlighted pillars and watching cute little ability verify cutscenes of your character strolling a tightrope or avoiding bladed traps. It looks like an okay factor to do exactly as soon as. NC State has put in 1000’s of hours doing it since 2015. This challenge has spanned three American presidencies.
To listen to NC State describe it, it really does not sound as dangerous as all that. “I do need to add that Brimhaven is a leisurely place or no less than it may be in the event you do not do obstacles when you wait,” he defined (opens in new tab) in response to person ElMico, who had estimated that this challenge required a ballpark 4,800 hours. “Many occasions you are watching YouTube, studying information, searching the net, and so forth. I virtually by no means was on my pc for the only real function of doing agility however I virtually at all times had Runescape up every time I used to be on.”
So much less a query of uncooked will and endurance, extra persistence and dedication. Like tending a backyard. In spite of everything these years of labor, What advantages can NC State anticipate from a godly 200 million agility XP, then? Stamina that by no means drains? Forbidden über-secret shortcuts? Nicely, for all sensible functions RuneScape’s abilities cap out at stage 99 or solely 13 million XP, so this was all for the bit. Truthful sufficient NC State, although I do gotta marvel what he is gonna have on within the background whereas watching YouTube now.