🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:38:22 -0800 (PST), pete...@gmail.com wrote:
>  As I've mentioned in another thread, I'm leveling an Affliction Warlock. This 
>  is the first toon I've tried leveling from start, at full tilt, in a very 
>  long time.
> 
>  He's tricked out in full heirlooms, and with the guild buff has a 55% XP boost.
>  My basic strategy is to queue for instances, and quest while waiting for them
>  to pop.

Back a few years I did the same with my Shaman (from level 15), my druid
(from level 33) and my worgen warrior (from level 15). I did it not so much
because I wanted it to be quick but because I had never healed or tanked
before and wanted to gain as much experience while levelling up so I
wouldn't need to learn at max level where people expect you to know your
stuff. The shaman healed his way from 15 to 85, the two others tanked their
way from 33 to 65 and from 15 to 42. 

>  With the quests available on the first run through an instance, at lvl 50, an
>  instance generates roughly a full level of XP. Single quests give nearly 10%
>  of a level each.

It probably wasn't quite as much XP back then, but even so, I found
levelling through instances with questing during the wait time (though the
wait times were usually very short) to be very quick. I especially enjoye
this as I had levelled 6 other characters to various levels by questing, so
I didn't mind missing some quest lines too much.

>  I'm also getting some strangeness due to not picking up every flight point - at
>  one time I flew from SW to Burning Steppes, and found my toon routed via Light's
>  Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaguelands.

Every once in a while I would travel around the zones to pick up the flight
points jus to avoid this. Not so much of a problem what with auto-porting
into instances when the group was complete, though.

Cheers
Urbin

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