trying to get this character to 120 as quick as possible. what are the best places or ways to level quickly. anyone got any tips? I haven’t leveled a character in a long time. thanks
If you have Honorbound Service Medals on a 120, buy the Draught of Ten Lands and send it to this alt.
Quest while waiting for dungeon queues.
When you get to WoD, do the bonus Objectives in each zone.
In Legion the Invasions and Bonus Objectives are great XP.
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Quests primarily. Herbalism and mining also give you xp.
Use the previously mentioned potions if you have the currency and when you hit Warlords use the potions from the garrisons.
Make sure you have all the heirlooms that give xp bonuses and keep them up to date as you level. Nothing more annoying that hitting 65 and realizing your gear was only current to 60.
You’re a rogue, make sure War Mode is on.
Quest till 60. You can also be queued as you quest but make sure it isn’t a bigger dungeon and it has available quests, if not leave it.
Once you hit 60 continue to quest but queue dungeons as you quest. Abandon any dungeon you have already done (unless it’s a fast one like Ramparts).
80-90 only quest.
90-100 go to Gorgrond and get 10 levels in 2 hours (assuming you have flying). You will already be close to 92 by the time you’re done building a Garrison. (No seriously, something is bugged with Gorgrond, it rewards 50% more exp).
100-110 take advantage of Legion Invasions, I prefer Val’Sharah for speed.
GOOD LUCK! I only use the 10% exp buff in the 90-120 range.
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thank you all so much, if I don’t have any service tokens to buy the xp boost potion. how do I farm the tokens so I can buy a bunch in advance?
How do you know it’s bugged? is the game telling you you are getting 50% more exp? and do you get that bonus with quests and just killing stuff?
When you level in Draenor again go ahead and compare the Exp reward (quests everything else) from Gorgrond to any other zone.
It’s a flat out 50% increase. I never figured out why. You are straight up shooting yourself in the foot if you choose any other zone over Gorgrond.
I was leveling a priest alt with full heirlooms and rested XP. By the time I used all my rest XP, I went from 90 to 96 just getting treasure chests in 1-2 zones. It was crazy.
Too bad Legion treasures are terrible giving XP. And they nerfed the invasions as well.
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how do I farm those service medals to buy the xp boost potions ?
Heroic Warfronts and BFA Faction Assaults!
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110-120 can be done in about an hour if you pay a dh to boost you through freehold. I think the going rate is like 10k/level or something which is pretty reasonable I think
Why the limited range since the buff also gives you a stats buff?
I spend an average 40-50 hours on an alt when I go from 1-120.
I simply don’t have war Resources to constantly buy enough portions. I just use them for the final haul.
In addition to the advice already given, https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/azeroth-auto-pilot can help speed things up significantly as well
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Yeah, I see your point.
I have multiple 120’s and just doing the Heroic Warfront Darkshore gave me enough currency (65 Service Medals) to buy 13 potions per alt. I did it 5 times this last time and that gave me 65 potions for leveling allied races for heritage armor.
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how often can you do warfronts? I never use to do those
Here is my leveling guide:
Preparation
- Buy xp boost pots with service medals ¹
- Buy and boost heirlooms to at least 100 (I have it to 110)
- Learn Herbalism and Mining with the character ²
- Go to capital city and turn Warmode On
Leveling path
- 1~15: Questing in starting area
- 15~90: Questing while in queue for dungeons (or just dungeons if playing tank/healer, but switch to DPS spec if questing)
- 90~100: Draenor bonus objectives and treasures ³
- 100~110: Legion Invasions and questing (dungeons have bad xp/hour)
- 110~120: Island Expeditions and BFA Assaults⁴
¹ To make better use of it, you can save your potions to use it when you are in the beginning of a dungeon or when completing a lot of quests.
² Gathering herbs and ores give you some exp. Not a huge amount, but if you find a node in your way while questing it is worth spending a few seconds (and you can sell them!).
³ There is a treasure in Spires of Arak that can be used below level 100 and will give you a bonus rest exp for your next 5% exp level each (5 in total, so 25% rested exp). Use it at level 99 to maximize its effect. Here are the locations: wowhead dot com/guides/exploration/wod/rares-and-exploration-in-spires-of-arak#offering-to-the-raven-mother
Also there is a way to skip Draenor intro quests, here is a video tutorial
youtube dot com/watch?v=1vdgG-115b4
There is also a exp potion is your garrison that you can buy for 100 resources, but I don’t think it is worth it because you have to do the garrison starting quests and gather some resources, and this take some time that can be used to do bonus objectives.
⁴ If you find a good group, send them a message asking if they want to group up and level with you.
Side notes
This is a solo guide. If you have friends to help you, it will go a little faster.
Unfortunately, there is no power leveling (having someone to carry you from 1-120 in a few hours) method currently in WoW.
But if someone is willing to spend many hours killing stuff for you, it will go a little faster when questing (mostly from 100~120).
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In Spires also make sure to choose the tavern building at the outpost, as it will give a 20% boost to experience gains while in that zone (https://www.wowhead.com/spell=168499/home-away-from-home).
Also based on comments on the Alliance buff, does say it stacks with experience potions such as accelerated learning for 40% experience while in Spires (https://www.wowhead.com/spell=168487/home-away-from-home#comments)