🚀 go-pugleaf

On Saturday, February 22, 2014 10:13:05 PM UTC-5, | || ||| ||||| || | wrote:
> On 23/02/2014 11:46 AM, pete...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Friday, February 21, 2014 8:56:48 PM UTC-5, pet...@gmail.com wrote:
 
>>> Well, today my afflock dinged 70, 11 days from start. Dungeons with quests now
>>> give only around half a level. At lvl 68 I did some quests pugging with a lvl 73
>>> Ret Pally, who'd been away for a year. I pretty well matched his dps.
 
>> Another data point; at 70, each run of Utgarde Keep gave me around 200k xp,
>> without quests, but with the 45% xp bonus from guild and heirlooms. That's
>> 25% of the level; four runs and I dinged 71 in less than 2 hours.
 
> That is still a lot faster than it used to be.
> I think you also get a general xp increase as well until 85.

BTW, that's a 55% bonus, not 45. 

> I don't do instances much but just questing at 80+ I could get a level
> in 2-3 hours played time, tending towards 2 hours more than 3.
>    Thats a guestimate but fairly close I think,I was levelling profs and
> a lot of other ingame stuff.
>   *BUT* that is levelling 4 at a time so all had a good quantity of
> rested and I rotated to make sure they were using rested as much as
> possible. I didn't mind spending a lot of time on pokemon and tourism
> and exploring the lore on one char knowing the others were accumulating
> virtual xp :-).
 
I'm just pushing one character through, so each morning he has a few bubbles
of rested XP to enjoy, but the rest is not rested. As I related in 'the 
readers digest' thread, I wind up a lot; in fact, in Outland, I hit only 
BP, Zangarmarsh (briefly), Terokaar, and Nagrand, moving on to Northrend as 
soon as I dinged 68. In each of those zones I skipped more than 
half the quests, (maybe not Nagrand, which I like).

>   The main drag is doing quests that are more rep and lore and back and
> forth rather than actual reward. The first char spends time
> finding/remembering them the rest just take the highway. That would be
> much slower overall for a single char.

Yeah, a person's first char is a special case. Also, I was leveling through
BC with a ret paladin, which turns out to be godawful slow.

>   I am not saying quests are better, do whatever you enjoy, it is all
> heavily accelerated. With dungeons you will hit 90 ready geared for
> endgame, for me endgame is really end-of-game, a broken bridge, a
> highway that ends in a thousand goat tracks up a tall mountain :-).

I'm mainly trying to get a decent dps toon for my guild. Afflocks seem to do
well in raids, though its been suggested that destro is better for leveling
in crappy gear.

pt