Taking advantage of HotS Training Mode AFK XP Farming

I used to play Heroes of the Storm pretty obsessively a handful of months ago, but I’ve recently toned down my playing.

Yes, one of my jobs (specifically, the one with Tempo Storm) involves me directing and producing content related to Heroes of the Storm. But, that can be done without playing as much as I used to, because I still keep up with game updates (and my writers are keeping me knowledgeable by submitting articles to me, for me to review and edit).

Because of this, I apparently hadn’t posted any screenshots of achievements for a pretty long time – since reaching Level 10 with Nova, to be exact. While I was going through my old screenshots and backing up and archiving them, I decided to post a few of them on my blog, like the old days.

Back in mid-October, I finally got around to playing Hero League again after the soft reset and required 20 placement matches. I don’t remember anymore what my win/loss ratio was during my placement matches, but I ended up placing decently high (I think in the single digits), and the climb back up to Rank 1 was a breeze.

Heroes of the Storm - Rank 1

Since then, I also leveled three heroes to Level 10: Kael’thas, Valla, and Nazeebo.

Heroes of the Storm - Level 10 Kael'thas

Heroes of the Storm - Level 10 Valla

Heroes of the Storm - Level 10 Nazeebo

The funny thing about the last two Level 10s are that I didn’t actually play real games to gain experience for those heroes from Level 9 to Level 10, but instead, used Training mode to turn them gold.

This was a result of the huge smurf leveling craze after the refer-a-friend system was released. Apparently, people found out that they could enter Training mode and go AFK to gain free experience and level up their accounts so they could “earn” the Vulture on their main account.

I personally don’t have an interest in gaming the referral system to rush a mount, because I’m confident that, over time, I’m going to genuinely refer at least four real new players to the game. However, I didn’t want to miss out on this finding.

I loaded into many Training mode games with Valla and Nazeebo to farm experience and get them to Level 10. Apparently, in Training mode, you don’t get kicked out of the game for being AFK, so I left the game running in the background to harvest my rewards while getting some work done.

 

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