Jokerd Hits Level 60 First on WoW Forever, Again

On race.aotc.gg, a “First to 60” banner sits above the WoW Forever ranking: Team Jokerd, five characters, all level 60. Right below, the second entry shows level 56. In the snapshot taken this Saturday, November 7, at 9:17 a.m. Paris time, four levels separated the two.

Maltese streamer Jokerd had already scored the first level 60 in WoW Classic in 2019. Seven years later, the same name leads WoW Forever, as a group, about 52 hours after the servers opened.

Five level 60 characters on the community tracker

The team is made up of Jokerd Prime, Burning Speed and Vitochie Gofast, three Undead mages, Cloud Bells, an Undead paladin, and Lmgd Mmr, a Troll shaman. These races belong to the Horde: we infer the faction, because the tracker does not display it. All five play in Europe on the Normal ruleset. The realm is not published.

The ranking comes from race.aotc.gg, a community-run tracker that certifies no official record. A second community tracker, worldfirst60.com, also says it is not a certifier. Its replay from the morning of November 7 gives the same picture: all five players at 60, Ksuper Worldfirst at 56.5.

No source publishes the exact time of the jump to level 60, or the time played (the /played command, which shows how long a character has been played). Our calculation starts from the game’s launch, Thursday, November 5 at 12:00 a.m. Paris time: it places the jump around 4:00 a.m. on Saturday, about 52 hours later. For the race itself, our article on the Race to 60 explains how it works.

The top of the ranking, as read at 9:17 a.m.

Here are the first ten lines of race.aotc.gg on Saturday, November 7, 2026 at 9:17 a.m. Paris time. The ranking moves with every level gained: Ksuper Worldfirst, for example, was gaining 64.3k experience points per hour according to the page.

Of these ten lines, five are teams of five players and five are solo players, two of them based in the United States. The tracker lists 100 entrants in total, and 1,618 people were watching the page at the time of the snapshot.

Rank	Player or team	Level	Tracker details (November 7, 9:17 a.m. Paris time)
1	Team Jokerd	60	Five players, all level 60
2	Ksuper Worldfirst	56	Night Elf hunter, Europe, Normal ruleset, live at the time of the snapshot
3	Team Ahmpy	55	Five players, all at 55
4	Team Stensture	53	Five players, all at 53
5	Samxd Magexd	51	Europe, PvP, does not use the tracker’s companion addon
6	Team Smoshie	50	Five players, all at 50
7	Team Gingi	49	Five players, all at 49
8	Pdp Zx	49	United States, Normal, does not use the tracker’s companion addon
9	Frekzz Elf	48	Europe, role-playing, live at the time of the snapshot
10	Bicarb Lolxd	48	United States, PvP, does not use the tracker’s companion addon

To our knowledge, no French player appears at the top of the ranking. Several teams do not publish their players’ identities, which limits verification.

What the press reports about the method

The method details come from an IGN article dated November 7, which Gamebastion reproduces in full (we could not open the original IGN page, which returns a 403 error). The author says they watched the racers’ streams: the players gathered whole groups of monsters and killed them with area spells. According to the article, the Undead mattered, because Blizzard changed Cannibalize to restore mana, hence almost no downtime between pulls.

A clip from the streamer’s Twitch channel, “World First Level 60s” (the world’s first level 60s), keeps a record of the race. IGN’s article specifies neither the role of each class nor the level from which the team farmed in the zone: we do not fill in those gaps. When IGN was writing, the best player outside a team, Ksuper Worldfirst, was at level 53. At 9:17 a.m., Ksuper Worldfirst stands at 56. To level at a normal pace, our survival guide for the rush to 60 covers the rest.

A race disputed in comments

Player comments dispute this race on two points: layer hopping and playing as a five. Layer hopping means switching layers, that is, copies of the world (see our article on layering), to reset monster respawns. According to these comments, the practice could have sped up some teams, and a group of five cannot be compared to a solo player.

None of this appears in the press we read, and we found no reaction from Blizzard. Nobody is accused of cheating: these are player opinions, which we report as claims, not facts.

Jokerd in 2019: 3 days and 7 hours for Classic’s first 60

Playing a Gnome mage on the Mograine realm in Europe, the streamer reached level 60 in WoW Classic on August 30, 2019. Guinness World Records places the feat 3 days and 7 hours after the game’s launch. Other sources give other durations: we use the Guinness one.

Setting 52 hours against 79 hours (3 days and 7 hours) does not tell us who beat whom. The first figure is our own calculation from the servers’ opening, the second comes from Guinness. The game changes (Classic in 2019, Forever in 2026), so does the group (one player, then five), and no official record exists yet for Forever.