New Leveling Campaign Notes

Community General Discussion
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I’m curious as to what other people have experienced with this new leveling campaign, so I’m going to offer my notes as of 4/25 (because the 2 characters I levelled prior to maintenance had a bit of a different experience - i.e., it got better, somewhat).

Anywho. I’ve got 11 more characters to level from 61-63 to 70. Legacy raid farming and all, you know. Anyway, my DK army aside…

The latest character I ran took 1 hour to get from 63-70. Honestly, that’s incredibly fast, and I’ve got no complaints. No dungeon runs, no XP potion (but I do have the 25% Warband Increase, and this “Dreaming Minds” 25% increase that I’m not sure where it came from.). My rested bonus was also fully maxed out - but no heirlooms to stretch out that bonus.

I only ran Campaign quests in DF content, with maybe 1 or 2 bonus objectives that just happened to align with the quests I was already doing.

So anyway. Satchels. Prior to the latest maintenance, I got crap for satchels. Like, I had maybe 4 or 5 for the same leveling experience. This time around I had 12. Still seems low…I’ll get to that here next.

Overall, the leveling up experience is great…the satchel experience…lackluster. I expected more of the satchels. Satchels are supposed to give “level-appropriate gear”. I have 2 scenarios here:

  1. I opened satchels as I leveled. In this scenario, gear that dropped was mostly useless. It was either a weapon that didn’t make sense for my spec, or, it was a piece of gear that was maybe 5 item levels higher than what I had. Really disappointed here. I mean, I’m not looking for god-like gear…but like 5 item levels? Maybe I was already godly geared with the “Gear Update” feature?

  2. I held onto the satchels until I hit 70. They all dropped item level 350 gear. Oof! Name of the game is to open as you get them. The first satchel I got at level 70 dropped item level 415.

So that said. Level 70, 415 item level from satchels. TWW world quests, etc offer item level 408. What a massive joke. World quests in DF offer 454/457 item level rewards for next to no effort - climbing quest, cataloger quest, plant the banners quest, kill insects quest, etc.

Once you hit 70 - your best bet is to stick around DF for a minute and run some fast World Quests.

Now, I’m not sure what satchels offer at level 71…but, the 70 threshold is a joke…so I’m curious…what do the items look like at lower levels?

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I have been pleasantly surprised by how much better the leveling experience is when you throw satchels in the mix. My character wasn’t hundreds of ilvl behind when he got to 78, and dungeons were actually a viable option since I wasn’t getting 3 shot by mobs.

I really, personally, enjoy it. I’ll second that they could drop more often, but overall it significantly helps when leveling a new character.

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My whole account is in current content and in about 4 levels I have got about 4 or 5 Pristine Mysterious Satchels. That’s just the epic ones. Not sure how long the Winds of Mysterious Fortune buff lasts though.

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Anyone know if the mog items from satchels are only obtainable that way? What’s even the loot list for them? Like, should we xp-lock a char at 79 to farm them?

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I actually hate any dungeons after Wod/Legion, so this event really sucks for me. I wish I could get satchels from just any campaign. Rep gains can still be limited to DF and TWW, that part is whatever to me. I just want the satchels from non-DF/TWW content.

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79 appears to be the limit. They don’t drop at 80. Could just be RNG, but the drop rate felt lower at 78/79.