Assuming you cannot play WoW while while working. Finish working. Spend a couple hours doing house stuff and taking care of the kids. Probably have about 2 hours per night to play. I think this is pretty average. How long does it take to hit 60?
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I’d say 120 to 150 hours is a good average, but can take more if you like taking your time or are not very efficient or less if you use rested xp and go fast. But with that, 150/2 = 75, so around 2 to 3 months?
No way you’re doing it in less than 150 hours unless you’re an experienced chad and like to speed level. If you play vanilla wow (ret paladin, wipe in deadmines, level professions, get corpse camped, etc), you’ll ding around ~240-300 hours.
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Once you get to a certain level you’ll be running off of Rested XP forever.
6 months maybe?
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Will you mix in crafting during the level…or make it a 60 thing.
That can be the time killer. Personal choice as to worth it or not.
I personally will take a good long while to level as I will do the crafting as I level.
Which I am fine with. The first 60 is merely the herald (and breadwinner) for the tbc race I will main to come.
Lets be honest, about 75% of people that make characters next week will never hit level 60. Right off the bat. That’s just the reality.
So we’re talking about the 25% that do?
- 10% (2.5% of overall) of them will hit 60 in about 120 hours - two weeks
- 30% (7.5% of overall) of them will probably hit 60 in about 160 -190 hours - four to five weeks
- 50% (12.5% of overall) of them will probably hit 60 in about 200-240 hours - six to eight weeks
- 10% (2.5% of overall) of them will hit 60 in over 300 hours - several months
But again, that’s only 25% of the overall. And, remember, we’re on an accelerated schedule. We only have a year.
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I know blizz won’t buy it would be great if they would triple the amount of rested exp you get to help keep up with the people that play so much they never have rested.
I made it to 56 for SoM by the time the year was up. Just can’t play as much as I used to… about 6 hours total a week. Certainly not 2 hours every night for 3 months, I wish.
A realstic time is 3 months, if you play a few times each week.
But a lot comes down to how you play. If you level your professions, if you may have alts that give you bags or reagents, if you trade, if you group … all that slows you down.
If you run from quest to quest, leave red quests or those that take a long time, then you may be able to do it in 2-3 months even as a casual.
The majority of the casuals may not even be 60 before Naxx comes out. By the looks of it, the classic fresh thing is not attractive for family gamers at all. I personally do not understand why they do it that way.
They should have seen it with SOM and SOD that rushing content patches is bad for the health of the game. You start with full realms and when BWL comes out, you are down to a few thousand players, as everyone else gave up trying to match the pace of content cycles.
Then at the same time you had people complaining that the content cycles were too slow.
10 hours / week
200 hours to 60 (much of this is rested xp so the actual in-game time is less than you’d expect)
That’s 20 weeks or 5 months.
It’s basically impossible to participate in level 60 content with only 2 hour sessions though, so I doubt people like this actually make it to 60.
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Ya, I hope to find a guild that raids on saturday or sunday where I have much more time.
I want to level fast enough to keep up with the pack, but hunter is the only one I could reliably do that. It isn’t the class I want to play end game or in TBC though. I guess I could speed level a hunter then use that to farm gold so I could fast level a paladin for TBC.
Yap, I know…
Our community has conflicting ideas about how a game like WOW should be played and the Devs are unable to handle that.
A weekend = 24 to 48 hours played time.
Not sure what you are imagining when thinking about a ‘dad gamer’ but if the kids are grown or in middle school and above, time is not a problem.
If it’s a dad with babies or elementary school kids and below then time may be an issue, but should be about 4 to 5 days played time.
I have levelled to 60 anywhere from 7 to 12 days /played over a number of characters.
I don’t boost, and generally just quest and PVP while questing.
The one that took 12 days was with no guides, and I only asked people using /say for help when needed. This was done on my first Classic character and it was really fun way to play.
prob not that long. Most people playing classic are paying for rested exp or leveling guides. Dungeon grinding will be a thing as well. Theres no reason to race anyways. Raids arent open.
Maybe a dad who doesn’t mind a divorce?
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and the kid bit was funny too.
My teen’s schedule makes we wish for the easier days when he was younger. I went from couch potatoe to busy jock son. a healthier way there…so all good.
15 years olds as much they’d like…can’t drive themselves lol. So guess who drives. the wife is good making her social plans first too so that should narrow it down.