Questing for Gold or Stack quests for Phase 2?

I am very curious about what people are currently leaning more towards when it comes to questing. Questing at 25 currently gives a very decent amount of gold however some people say that you should be holding 20/20 25+ quests in your log to turn in to get a few levels off the bat. I am very divided about which path I should take but am also curious to hear what you all think!

Any comments are greatly appreciated!

I have 20 quests across two zones locked and loaded for Feb 8th.

I could take the gold, but with mounts cheapened I don’t have much pressing need for gold anyway. I’ll still likely have enough for an epic mount by the time we get to 60. I farm my own professions, so yeah, not much to buy outside of BoEs, of which the most expensive are for world first chasers, and suckers.

Screw stacking quests personally. I don’t want to spend any amount of time on Feb 8th going around turning 20 quests in across multiple zones.

I didn’t do EVERY quest in every 20-30 zone, but I did most of them. And frankly, I’m not too worried about that. Between BFD giving 75% of a level and Stocks being in our main capital city, getting to 30 is going to be a piece of cake.

Not to mention, quests in Classic have always been the inverse of Retail. In Retail WoW, 80% of your exp comes from quests and 20% comes from mob kills. But in Classic WoW (and thus also SoD), 20% of your exp comes from quests and 80% of your exp comes from mob kills.

You could literally level to 40 faster just killing mobs out in the world if you could find a spot without other players in it. But doing BFD and then doing dungeons will be the absolute best way to get from 25-30 and then 30-40 if you really don’t want to go do the 30-40 zones.

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Also, a few levels off the bat? Most of the lvl 30 quests you could stack right now give about 2000-ish experience. Leveling from 25-26 takes 36,400 experience.

So if you stacked the 20 best quests in your log to turn in, yes you could probably go to level 26, but only level 26. And you’d get to spend about 30-45 minutes traveling around the world turning them in to do so.

To those who feel it’s worth it, more power to them. But nah, ain’t worth it to me.

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I don’t think you realize even with the layers that trying to kill mobs and fighting tags are going to be hard. The 30-45 minutes to turn in quests will be less, unless your running straight into BFD or RFK, than fighting even with grouping other people for these quests.

Sure, but then I am running straight to BFD and then porting over to Stocks before going to RFK so I see no reason to stack quests

Well, the current guide I’m using gets you up to 28 with pre-stacked quests.

Huh, maybe the website I found has incorrect values for exp to level.

Does your guide also say how much experience lvl 25-26, 26-27, and 27-28 each take?

Because according to what I found via google, three levels would take about 100,000-ish experience. And getting 100k experience from 20 quests at lvl 25-30 sounds highly improbable.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nptMR3e5UMf59LqeHtJ4WZmvlGrhtedH1DzZZ3jNWtE/edit#gid=1452942447

i made my own sheet, you can see that 100k is doable

That sounds correct. It’s also an extremely tedious stack but it has a ton of quests that follow directly into others for a large chunk of experience, such as completing this quest https://www.wowhead.com/classic/quest=562/stormwind-ho (but not turning in yet) and then immediately turning it in for 1,950 experience and getting a follow up that just has you go turn it into SW for 3,200 experience. So that’s over 5k experience just from one instant turn in, and I have a full log.

I built up a stack of 20 quests to turn in Feb 8, and then just started turning them in for gold to open a slot to fill a more XP’d quest. (Murder on my Bagspace, lol)

(I have my alts just doing quests for gold.)

What people don’t really understand about classic wow, because they are retail babies, is that quests award terrible experience. If quest asks you to go kill 20 bears, and a bear offers 100 exp, then the quest will reward you with 1200 exp, whereas killing the bears got you 2000 exp.

Its faster to just kill the bears constantly and not trek across the zone for the quest turn in exp.

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Yep, that sheet spells it out pretty well for me. Doable yes, but would I want to do that instead of just jumping into BFD with my friends? God no. Still, props for figuring all that out. I see now that it involves a lot of holding on to items that start quests and then quests that lead into quests and that makes way more sense then just relying on 20 completed quests.

Makes sense. Its the extremely tedious part that makes me bounce off the idea. More power to those of you doing the prep work, but I’d just rather play with my friends and guildmates from minute one of Phase 2 I guess.

A lot of it is extremely tedious, for example, the first quest on the list required me to go into sm, get the quest then kill a level 34 elite, the 2nd one “elixir of agony” is like 6 quests deep and requires you to kill like 25 level 30-32 elites at the end of it, this is very minmaxing. I have a much easier to do log that is like 75k, prob takes like 6 hrs to complete it.

This 100k log probably took like 12+ hrs, plus whatever time i put into making it (i made it for the entire guild really). I don’t know how much gold i’m losing by not handing them in now either.

if i was 25 and geared i’d just stack quests for turn in but as stated it’s kind of pointless. majority of the time i get more exp from doing the actual quest by killing mobs or avoid dying by clearing the area vs completing the actual quest.

i should be 25 by time phase 2 comes out but not in BiS for p1 so im likely just gonna be leveling professions or getting better gear at this point. stack some quests maybe but im not in a major rush to hit 40. only reason im so behind is cause i rerolled servers at least 7 times and rerolled factions about 10 and rerolled toons well over 20 times.

I’m trying the quest log route. I also have enough iron to make over 1000 iron grenades for phase 2 pvp. If pvp is still terrible a few weeks into phase 2 I might dip.

edit: I also have around 600 snowballs stocked up.

Up to you personally.

I wish I knew mount costs were reduced before I did pretty much every quest for gold in them at 25.

I have over a thousand bars of iron saved up to sell on the AH to engineers hoping to make iron grenades.

Fingers crossed that it’s a booming market lol

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As South Park taught us, just kill boars!

Not sure about you, but I’ll be waiting at stockade entrance on the release day.

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