For the last seventeen years, a silent contest has waged acrossWorld of Warcraft’sNight Elf population: Who can score the longest chain of consecutive front flips? Until recently, the record was 16, butWorld of Warcraftstreamer SingActDirect just beat the old record with 17 jumps in a row–a fitting gift of probability forWoW’s17th anniversary.
InWorld of Warcraft, Night Elves, Blood Elves, and Worgen have about a 20% chance to perform a special jumping animation each time players jump.Night Elves have been inWorld of Warcraftsince the beginning, however, meaning the competition over their front flips has been going on for years longer than the Blood Elves’ twirl or the Worgen backflip, added inBurning CrusadeandCataclysmrespectively.
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The clip captured by SingActDirect was takeninWorld of Warcraft Classic, in the Dagger Hills region of Westfall. Perched on a small hill, SingActDirect’s level 18 Druid, aptly-named Kittypurry, began her hopping spree, only to glance around after performing all 17 consecutive jumps as if to see if anyone noticed. Considering the 20% chance of each individual jump occurring after the first, the chances of doing this are so astronomically low that the probability would need scientific notation to express.
The previous Night Elf jump record holder was Horkheimer, member of the Crazy Frog Fan Club guild, who performed 16 jumps during the cutscene leading up to battle against theLich King in Icecrown Citadelback in 2020. Before then, Yewna held the record with 15 jumps back in 2016, also in Westfall. Others have claimed to have broken even higher jump records, with one player claiming to have reached 19 jumps, but without video proof, SingActDirect holds the high score.
World of Warcraftfans always adore absurd challengesand lucky milestones like this, so the responses were universally positive. Most people immediately beg the players in question to go and play the lottery, considering the odds of winning it are higher than performing such feats. Others warn these players they may have spent all of their luck in capturing their accomplishments, and that they should never test their luck again.
Other still have said the video of SingActDirect’s accomplishment is the best content to come fromWoWin years.World of Warcraft: Shadowlandshas seen less and less successin the year since its launch, in part due unpopular system design and narrative direction, and also due to the lawsuits and allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination levied against Activision Blizzard during the summer. With so much negative press surrounding Blizzard recently, it is refreshing to see the community be able to celebrate this fantastic, if not goofy, feat that anyone can appreciate, even if they are justifiably unhappy with Blizzard right now.
