Hi there gamers,
Wondering if anyone knows - I am a mage, frost - I planned on AOE farming the wpl fields the majority of the way to 60, is this still possible after pre patch with changes to talents? With changes to exp, is questing faster? Dungeon spamming faster?
Thanks for any help!
I’m almost sure the changes only apply to dungeons. You can test it in the PTR anyways (in case its not affected by the maintenance)
Only apply to dungeons? Do you mean the exp running dungeons increase?
He’s referring to the change where you can’t aoe in dungeons anymore. You can still aoe farm out in the world if you want to. The xp changes with prepatch.
The biggest changes were that each level just takes less xp to level. Quests as well as mobs get an XP increase as well but the biggest thing is that each level is like 30% less xp.
So yes you can aoe farm out in the world if you want to. It’s going to go pretty fast either way. If you want to quest you can quest and it will also go pretty quick
Amazing, thanks for this!
There is a cap to AOE damage added in TBC.
Once you hit 10 mobs, the spell will do it’s maximum damage. Any additional mobs added after 10 will divide the maximum damage by the number of mobs.
This applies inside and outside of dungeons.
Ground effect spells like consecrate and Flamestrike DOT will ignore these caps.
Solo AoE farming is pretty much always going to win out; there’s a reason why mages are always first to max level and you still see them out in the world doing it throughout the expansion. I think your biggest issue will be a lot more activity in pre-patch and you may struggle to find good AoE spots, but it’s definitely always going to be extremely efficient.
I think it’s actually a 15% reduction in EXP needed per level, but up to a 40% buff to quests. My google-fu landed on a WillE video from 2 days ago giving these numbers. So whatever the math is on that varies, especially due to how you play, but that should probably translate to like 20-30% faster on average.
You also need to consider that many classes are doing much more damage due to new skills and talents, which also improves leveling speed a bunch. Also, the scaling of some skills gets revamped as well, for example paladin’s consecration should now hit for 3x the amount it did in vanilla, because it’s spell power coefficient goes from 33% to 96% iirc. It’s probably 40% faster to lvl up in TBC. Iirc I read once that 1-70 takes roughly the same amount of time that 1-60 requires in vanilla, or at least that’s what blizz intended.
It’s actually shorter lol
1-70 on average should be shorter even for slow levelers than 1-60 is
Yeah, I can only hope at this point. I’ve leveled a lot in Vanilla/Classic, and through WoTLK but can’t keep it all straight for time investment. I’m trying to be 60 by launch and only 48 right now. Technically I have plenty of time, but I have a trip last week of Jan that is putting a damper on ability to invest time. I’ve lowered my expectations to trying to be as close to 58 by launch so I can at least go to outlands.
There should be some av quests which might get a level if you turn in them all (I think you need 75k honor total). Do the attunements for ony/mc/bwl along with as many dungeon quests to get to 60.