I was just wondering since the xp boost to quests in season of mastery, is there a point to AOE leveling or is questing in general faster?
I just want to do the fastest route, I’ve never got to end game when WoW first came out, and missed out on regular classic, so any tips would be greatly appreciated!
Questing is probably the fastest now.
Questing seems to be better from what I’ve seen.
When SoM was first out (40% previous buff) on day 2 one of the leading mages told me he was going 17-32% faster than those who were just efficiently questing.
So another 60% probably puts good to expert level aoe grinding in the dust. Also your not gonna get the perfect fresh zones with all the industrially-respawn timed perfect pulls that the highest level mages saw at the front of the pack.
Im feeling like it has an overwhelming advantage.
But we wont know for certain until next SoM when Jokerd is pitted against the questers at 100% rate
Questing is faster and more fun.
No aoe is still faster, just goes to show how ineffectual the changes are.
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No I think he is talking about the tactic where you get your mage AOE ability and just spam blast thru everything in the area which gets you lots of xp really quickly. You can sell dungeon carries with it as well and solo low level dungeons with it to sell the loot for good gold. He cant do the true AOE farm until level 14. AOE on mage is much faster if you know how to begin it. Glinda still level 25 on a mage that she is arguing about how to quickly level on. So many spots in Classic to spam AOE and get your loot, your levels. Yea. Can be done faster than questing if you know how. 14 is your first AOE ability, you get your second at 16, stack eagle items, you do ONLY slaughter quests as well as some gathering quests that involve slaughtering, zero gather, zero escort, zero delivery, zero time quests. Only do delivery quests when it is on your way to go from one questing hub to another and is not out of the way and also one that is not a return quest either.
So you go out and find all the slaughter quests that you can and get on your mage and at level 14 you can begin.
And also here
PROBABLY…means not sure…
SEEMS to be… also not sure.
You dont just do questing to level fast. You mix it up a little by doing exactly what I said up above and get two gathering profs on your mage to get enough gold to get your level 40 mount when it is time. That way you can level up even faster.
I liked Cauchy comment because questing is much more fun than AOE leveling. All you do for AOE leveling is spam the same exact spells back to back to back to back for hours on end with zero change in your pattern. It is fast and efficient but it is a horrible way to level and I highly recommend that OP does not give it a try.
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Im right. You are not in this instance. It has been known for ages that slaughter quests are the only quests you should do as you level. Avoid 100% of everything else unless it is a class quest that will allow you to level faster. You only get gathering proffs, nothing else. You dont do battleground PvP but you level on a PvP server as they are almost always better and more populated. Mage spamming aoe is MUCH faster than quest leveling. How many Classic 60s you got Glinda? Or Classic 70s? I have quite a few. I know how to level very quickly.
For a mage and mage only, AOE spam is the fastest way to level while doing very few quests. And when I used to multibox toons I would slaughter half the zone with my toons and they would level up much faster that way then doing quests. Some of my multiboxers did not touch a single quest for their entire existence. You do ONLY slaughter quests and do AOE slaughtering if you want to level up as fast as possible. When you do any gather quests you have people follow you around, you tag a bunch of mobs, they will all attack those mobs and give you all the loot.
AOE is faster if you know how to do it. You do not. OP is asking about it, so he does not either. All the worlds fastest levelers, the servers fastest, they all always do minimal quests and mostly dungeons and mass spamming aoe for kills.
Mage best to do it with in Classic.
Warlock for TBC
Ret pally WoTLK
Boomkin druid Cata.
Hunter Legion
Those are all the classes that I leveled up super fast and did as fast as possible for each expac. Those are the Classes I used for it. AoE Mage leveling is best to a certain point in Classic. That is a well known fact by the mages who wish to power level their toons. If you knew that then maybe you could get past level 25 on that toon. You can AoE level 14 to 60 on any mage. 14 first AoE mage ability, 16 will be your second. You then can spam those two back to back, get mad xp from doing so and yea thats that.
Hey look its the guy that guaranteed us that transfers werent coming to SOM ever. Figured he wouldn’t show his face around here anymore.
How many aoe mages have you leveled after the quest exp bonus was ramped to 100%?
You’ve not provided facts to disprove questing>aoe AFTER the increase to 100% on the Adventure Awaits buff.
It depends and there are too many variables.
Are you on a pvp or pve server?
Are you on a dead or mega server?
Is this your first time playing this faction?
How good of an aoe mage are you? Were you selling boosts in classic?
Do you remember every quest or mob pack to farm from 1-60?
An efficient quester can hit 60 in 3 days /played without any boost to questing xp. There are speedruns of warriors and even rogues with this time thanks to the OP troll regeneration racial which gives them zero downtime.
It is known that questing is faster for mages until they can solo instances around level 42 in high pop servers. If there are other people farming your zone, then aoe leveling hits a wall quickly. Also with double xp from quests, it is now worth picking up almost every quest as long as they don’t have you go out of your way.
I have leveled quite a few toons with the AOE tactic. I liked Cauchy’s post because questing is much more fun than doing it that way. You do it the AOE way if you want to try things out differently. You will find yourself spamming the same exact 2 to 3 spells nonstop all day everday until you level cap. It is a horrible unfun way to level up. I do stupid things like that when I have already done 100% of everything there is to do and I have nothing left to do arpart from finding new ways to pass the time.
I do the AOE leveling trick. I do the level from 1 to level cap without stopping in every expac. I do the level with only auto attacks on a rogue, I do leveling with only auto attacks on a warrior. I do the leveling challange where I delete 100% of all my gear and only play to level 60 by getting questing gear and will auto attack with fists until I get my weapons. I play the 1 copper to gold cap challenge where I will have only 1 copper on a toon, bid on an AH item, flip it, and keep doing that trick until I get to level cap… it only takes me about 2 straight months of nonstop playing the AH to do that. I do the grey gear to level cap with no deaths challenge, I do the white gear no deaths challenge. I do the level with ONLY PvP challenge. I do the level on a PvP server from 1 to 60, no deaths, no PvP kills challenge. I do the level from professions challenge. If there is a really stupid idea that someone has come up with that wastes a lot of time and doesn’t really benefit you in any way shape or form… I have probably done it. And yes the AOE to level cap is a challenge that has existed for many years in WoW. It is ONLY faster if you have mastered it and know where to go to farm your kills. I would highly recommend to anyone who wants to level up as quickly as possible that they do not do the AoE to level cap challenge. By the time you get to level 30 you will really want to call it quits.
All Glinda has to do is AoE level to 60 and do nothing else. She will be done in less than 50 hours.
That is correct. They never will be. You can move your toon to regular Classic servers when SOM is over. You cannot move your toons from one SOM server to another.
SOM will be forever over in a few months anyways. Blizzard announced that it was only going to last 1 year.
This guy did a mage AoE level ZERO deaths.
Classic WoW: AoE Mage Leveling Alliance guide - 1-60 - YouTube
And this guy was WORLD FIRST level 60…by AoE mage leveling.
WoW Classic: Mage AoE leveling - World First 60 by JokerdTV - YouTube
So if the WORLD FIRST level 60 did what he did with AoE leveling and the people who quested did not get WF… which way is the best way to chose? I just posted two videos for proof that not only is it effective, it is also the absolute best way to level up by a long shot. The amount of gold you will get by doing it is insane as well as you will have next to no deaths, you gets lots of loot. You get two gathering proffs and you are GTG.
But I guess you want to argue with the WORLD FIRST level 60 who leveled by doing AoE leveling and also argue with the dozens of YouTube guides saying that mage AoE leveling is by far the best way to do it.
Just go ahead. Post on both videos. Tell them both that they are wrong. Tell the world first level 60 that he is slow at leveling because he did not do it by questing. I have AoE leveled. It is BY FAR the fastest way to do it. I liked Cauchy’s comment because questing is much funner. Do questing. Dont do AoE leveling.
Uh… SoM transfers are live right now, my guy. And before you hastily edit your post, yeah you said they’d never happen.
I NEVER edit out stuff. I only edit in stuff. Look at my history of edits. Every edit my post became larger and larger. And yea they are in. Cool I just checked. I have been playing mainly Halo and retail WoW. And this edit was to fix a typo.
Just quote me if you really think I am one of those posters who tries to hide behind edits… I never do. I admit when I am wrong. So yea. Guess I was about the transfers. But I am not wrong about the AoE leveling. WORLD FIRST level 60 did itby AoE leveling.
Also, if you look at ALL of this toons posts, I did at one point say that Blizz was likely to add in server SOM transfers if we asked for it enough on the forums as I did submit a ticket asking for it and that is when they told me no, never said I should talk about it on the forums. Just them going back on their word again. No surprised. I even posted the ticket #, he exact content of the ticket asking about SoM server transfers where the answer was no. K? So they obviously changed their toon as they saw that no transfers were causing SOM players to unsub.
But I am absolutely right about the AoE mage leveling. ALL the power leveling guides say to do it, the WORLD FIRST level 60 did it. So yea… don’t for one second tell me that it is NOT the best way to do it. Glinda has been stuck at level 25 on her mage for months now and has come at me on multiple threads arguing about leveling.
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I specifically said since the 100% to quest xp went live. So since Tuesday the 8th of February.
Reading is fundamental.
Still does not matter. AoE leveling is still faster. A mage said he did it 2.7 times fasters than questing. The 100% buff only gets you 100 from questing ONLY which takes time to get from quest to quest. All the servers best and world best do AoE farming and that’s that.