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A new Challenge mode where you level in reverse.

You create a character that starts at level 60. Quests, killing monsters, discovering locations - everything that would've generated EXP before now subtracts it. The mission is to unlevel your character all the way from 60 to 1.

EXP rates are, of course, reverted. Meaning: Going from 60 to 59 is as fast as going from 1 to 2. Going from 2 to 1 takes as long as 59 to 60.

To avoid abuse, there need to be some safety measures. Similar to level 1-5, you can't talk in World, trade or use the AH from level 60-55. Perhaps the challenge is also restricted to players that have already leveled a character to max. You also obviously can't lock your EXP during the challenge. And you can't join Raids, even though that would probably be a fast way to level down lol.

Aside from a title and maybe some fancy cosmetic rewards once you reach level 1, the second part of the challenge begins: You can now level all the way back up to 60. If you were smart, you kept all the good gear in your bank. However, all the quests you did to level down are already completed, so you gotta switch it up and get creative.

If you manage to get all the way back to 60 again, another fancy title/reward awaits.

I'm sure this would be hard to pull off and there's probably a number of complications I'm missing.

But what do you think?

Cool idea but sadly I see this could be abused in some ways especially without heavy restrictions. I can see a mafia that creates multiple accounts at lv 60 with that challenge to boost real lv 60 players.

Giving players easy access to high level characters could lead to terrible implications: see WotLK Classic where gold farming companies could create multiple Death Knight bots at lv 58 to grind up to lv 80 faster.