Level Faster in WoW by Managing Your Quests
August 21, 2010 World of Warcraft
The World of Warcraft (WoW) is a huge place, bigger than most all of the other Massive Multiplayer Online games (MMO.) What this means for you is that you won’t see all of it if you take just one character all the way to the level cap (which will be 85 with the Cataclysm expansion.) With that size comes all kinds of things to do, plus arenas, battlegrounds, raids and dungeons, thousands of quests, and more.
If you want to level up as quickly as possible, maybe to join your higher level friends or get to the end-game content sooner, you might find the number of quests and objectives to be daunting. If you follow a few rules, though, you can greatly speed up your leveling, regardless of class or faction. The fastest way to get leveled, of course, is with a professionally created product, like the Zygor Guide, but that’s only for the people who really need to get to max level ASAP.
There are a few time wasters that you need to be aware of. PvP is great fun (for many of us,) but it doesn’t help you get leveled. Shopping is great sport, especially if you have a full wallet, but it doesn’t get you to 80 any faster. Hanging around town, swapping lies with your pals, spreading malicious rumors about the other faction, won’t get you to 80 or 85 any sooner. Not that you shouldn’t inform your buds as to what scum sucking slime the other side is, or that you shouldn’t slaughter them when you get a chance, just be aware of the time cost.
Next, WoW has a couple of things that multiply your experience gained. The first is the tried and true “rest XP.” End your game session an Inn and when you come back to the game you will get the bonus XP. The longer you stay in the Inn then the longer the XP lasts. The other is WoW’s Recruit a Friend program. What this does is link your account to your “friend’s” and then the two of you team up, kill together, and get 3x the normal experience points.
Besides the better XP from Recruit a Friend, teaming will speed your leveling because, even though the basic XP gain is smaller, you will kill things much faster and have a lot less downtime. This gives you a big advantage over going solo. Of course, to make this teaming thing work, you do have to have a compatible partner.
For now just skip all of the crafting professions, since they’ll slow you down. The gathering professions, mining etc., can be skipped as well, if you have enough gold. Control the time wasting activities and you’ll move faster. marketing your loot is one such example. Make a level 1 character to be your “banker.” This character will live at the Auction House (AH.) When your bags are full of loot you just stop by the nearest mailbox instead of making the trip to the big city. Post your stuff to the AH when you log into the banker. You’ll also want to have the biggest bags you can afford. You’ll be able to collect a lot more loot before returning to that mailbox.
Be aware of what skills are coming up next (you can go to Thottbot.com for a list) and skip that trip to town to train if there’s nothing interesting coming up. Don’t buy new stuff all the time. Every three to five levels is OK. Of course, certain classes can go alot longer without upgrades than others, Hunters, for one, but even the gear dependent (Warriors) don’t need to upgrade all the time.
Grinding much worse than questing, if you group your quests properly. When you hit a new area grab all the quests you want and then group them by area. Any quests that are in the same area will be done at the same time. If you’re going to hit a dungeon try to get as many dungeon quests as you can. If you want to go into the big city then save all your city quests for that time. The worst way to go is to do one quest that takes you all over the place, then hand it in and do another which hits the same areas.
Just by following a few easy steps and by organizing your time and how you do things you will greatly improve your leveling speed. An expert leveling guide will really speed things up, but you’ll be a lot faster than most of the competition and you’ll have fun doing it. And isn’t that the point?
