How to Get Leveled Faster in the World of Warcraft
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The World of Warcraft (WoW) is a huge virtual world, bigger than most all of the other Massive Multiplayer Online games (MMO.) This is a great thing for you, the player, in that just one character will never see it all, even if you do go from level one to the level cap (which will be 85 with the Cataclysm expansion.) With that size comes lots 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, possibly 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 quickest 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.
First off, realize what the time killers are. PvP is great fun (for many of us,) but it doesn’t help you get leveled. Shopping is also fun, especially if you have a full wallet, but it doesn’t get you to 80 any faster. Hanging out on the inn’s doorstep, lying about your exploits 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 how much time you spend doing that.
There are a couple of ways to gain experience faster than the normal way. The first is “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 World of Warcraft’s Refer 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 faster 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. The catch, of course, is that you have to have a compatible partner, which is easier for some to find than for others.
For now just skip all of the crafting professions, since they’ll slow you down. If you have enough gold then go ahead and skip the gathering professions. The idea is to control anything that will slow you down. Selling your loot is one such example. Make a “banker” character, which will live at the Auction House (AH.) Then, instead of heading the big city to sell your better loot, just mail it to your banker. Log into the banker when you’re done and post your stuff on the AH. Make sure you always have the biggest bags that you can get your greedy little paws into. If you’re making it a point to loot things then the big bags will allow you to collect a lot more loot before having to return to the 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. Lots of people buy new gear every time they can, but you don’t need to do this. 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.
Do quests instead of just grinding and group your quests. When you hit a new area grab all the quests you want and then group them by area. Several of the quests will take you “over there” so do all of those 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 even without one you’ll still have fun and be faster than most people. And isn’t that the point?
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