Blizzard's MMO World of Warcraft released in 2004, and in many ways has remained a cultural touchstone ever since. The game is still seeing new content, as many players currently prepare for World of Warcraft's Shadowlands expansion, but that hasn't stopped some of them from revisiting older content with a fresh spin.
On October 29, a World of Warcraft player who goes by Pzl on YouTube took on a raid battle using nothing more than a digital piano augmented to output different key commands. In a five-minute video uploaded on October 30, they show which piano keys and pedals were mapped to each button, and then take on Prophet Skitra from Battle for Azeroth's Ny'alotha raid using a holy priest named Domrot.
Contrary to what one may believe going in, the action inherent to raiding in World of Warcraft does not produce a crazy symphony in Pzl's video. If anything it simply adds a little musical stinger to every position adjustment and spell cast. However, that doesn't downplay Domrot's contributions, as the player posted a log from their raid in the video's description that shows the holy priest was responsible for at least 36 percent of all healing during the battle - more than double what the next runner-up contributed.
The same statistics also show that Domrot did the lowest overall damage to Prophet Skitra, clocking in with just 0.26 percent of damage done. To be fair, it would be remiss to assume a dedicated healer would contribute much more in that regard, however, and Domrot's total is not demonstrably lower than two of the other healers in this raid group. Holy priest is considered the best healer in the Shadowlands pre-patch, and every character has a role to play.
Looking through Pzl's account on Warcraft Logs, where they shared their statistics, shows the player has taken on a number of similar challenges with strange controllers: Playing as a holy priest using drums, a light switch, and a cellphone among others. Gamers have a fairly extensive history of taking on ridiculous control schemes to beat different titles, such as one streamer who beat Dark Souls 3 using a bunch of bananas.
It's hard to recommend every fan go out and buy a digital piano before the release of Shadowlands as some kind of new 'meta' strategy, but Pzl's video does offer a fun diversion while waiting for the expansion to release on November 23. However, World of Warcraft fans can go out and buy a new line of Blizzard face masks if they are interested, alongside ones for other properties such as Overwatch and Diablo.
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Source: Warcraft Logs