Leveling in Vanilla

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I just wanted to mention that along with all the nostalgia that comes with Classic servers is the difficulty level. Sure the first maybe 5 levels you can grind in an hour.

And maybe a full evening you can get to 15 and start running RFC (yeah RFC, FOR THE HORDE!!)

But after that, them levels start coming slower and slower. There were plenty of nights when me and my buddy would be full reseted and play for 6 hours and just get 1 level. Some might call that crazy…or maybe we were just so fail that it took that long. But it’s really what made it worth it, the time. You can’t get that time back and you have to choose wisely depending on what you wanted to do with your character.

The fact that I can get a new toon to level 20 before I have to cook dinner when I get home from work is what really forced me to stop playing so much. There wasn’t any challenge in that. And not the, ohh look at me I’m so awesome challenge, but that humbling feeling when you try to solo and rare mob 2 levels above you and end up begging a higher level to come kill it with you and pray he doesn’t ninja the green drop that is barely and upgrade, but an upgrade none the less because you didn’t wanna spend 40 hours that week grinding mats to upgrade your chest piece.

Anyway, all love, supper happy this is happening, can’t wait.

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With launch the first 15 levels will be the hardest and a real pain :smiley:

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Consider grind leveling instead of questing.

First 13 levels are faster to just quest through the intro zone, but after that it really can be quicker to grind, depending on your class and speed of movement. The quests just aren’t streamlined enough to provide efficient leveling unless you really know what you’re doing.

Grinding is efficient, and provides pretty good money. It is a bit mindlessly boring, but some people are good at mindlessness. Watch netflix while you kill pigs. :slight_smile:

You’re going to have to grind 57-60 anyway (cuz no quests :stuck_out_tongue:)

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Haha, facts. That 60 grind was the real deal. So glad my first main (that’s funny to say) was a skinner

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Skinning is such a good leveling profession. Really good gold-making. I could always buy my epic mount right away if I leveled as skinning.

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…just remembered…level 40, gawd that’s such a long time until basic mount. Gunna have to go hunter or shaman to start it out.

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Or, better yet, simply consider “leveling” as “something that happens while you’re playing the game”. Like Pathfinder is. Or Azerite Power is.

Rather than heads down grind, grind, grind, just “play the game”. Level a profession, gather some flowers, chat with complete strangers in IF, wait for groups to form.

Vanilla had the distinction where leveling WAS the game play, end game came after. But it’s different from today where end game is the only destination. It makes sense in todays game to power through and ding top level, the game is much more uninteresting below top level.

But Vanilla, many toons will spend the vast majority of their time below 60. Many folks ding 60 and move on to another.

So, just reframe the game. “Leveling happens.” rather than as being flyover country that you just have to grit your teeth and get through.

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Hmmm

(X) Doubt

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Level grinding through what will be a good 75% of the game just seems self defeating. But that’s just my opinion.

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Skinning can really make you that money quick, especially if you just vendoring and not wasting time with leather-working

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I realize it makes money, enough for your main mount? For sure! Enough for your epic mount right when you hit 60? Absolutely no chance. I have leveled with skinning on all my characters and it never even comes close to getting me epic riding.

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Oh i hear ya, yeah I’m talking slow level 40 mount. I couldn’t even get the 60 mount when I HIT 60…didn’t have the rep LOL

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Obviously I wasn’t making money solely by skinning. Sorry if that’s what people thought I meant. Just saying on the toons I had skinning on (on which I didn’t only skin things) I did get my epic mount.

Your opinion is not wrong. Grinding is terribly dull. I personally prefer questing and am pretty good at it, but that’s because I know the quests and don’t have to muddle my way through. However, if your goal, as the OP seems to indicate, is to level quickly, then it is efficient in that regard.

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I like to quest and do instances, but I tend to kill every mob I see as well which kind of slows me down - especially since I’ll be leveling with Skinning this time to support respeccing on my alt.

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I was really just trying to relate the time/effort it took in vanilla, which is what I think made it so special. I’ll prolly end up doing the same thing I always do.

  1. Make plan
  2. Start plan
  3. See something shinny
  4. …plan??
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i leveled a warrior in vanilla. lets just say I wont be doing that again.

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There’s the good and the bad when it comes to leveling in vanilla. I like how it’s such a challenge and how it’s more significant to ding a level, but leveling since legion made all the quests more appealing. The Kalimdor/EK quests after Legion have a lot more storytelling and they are fine too. In any case, I expect to take some good 4~5 months to reach level cap with my main once it comes out. But they will be very happy, joyful days. Full of joy, indeed.

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I still remember the Duskwood questline through which you found out about Mor’ladim and his doom.

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Yep. Classic was about the journey not the destination.

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And this is kind of my point.

Once I was able to easily solo Mor’ladim, even though I wasn’t 60, I put my hearth in Darkshire, and made it a point to ride down to Raven Hill, call out to folks who needed him killed, killed him, then rode back and logged out.

When I logged in, I started my day doing the same thing.

Mor’ladim tells stories about me to his children. “Oh no, not him again!”

Hopefully, I made up for some of the pain he caused me and everyone else.

And, no, I didn’t get XP from him or anything else. Just plain, effervescent joy. I just did it. Mor’ladim is near, 60 can wait.

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