You don’t really have to go out of your way to grind mobs, but if you were to play rogue and stealth past every mob you can, you will run out of quests somewhat often.
The general advice is kill mobs on your way to quest and don’t skip quests just because they are green.
Long Prereqs are rare. You will be completely fine.
You can do dungeons but you probably won’t level a lot, they gave terrible experience. They were worth it to do if you had quests for it, or if you needed some drop from it. I ran them for fun even though they slowed me down, but if you are going for speed or efficiency, dungeons are not the way to go.
I wouldn’t necessarily say you are screwed. If you level a couple levels past a quest hub, that should just make it easier to do them faster. Or you could move on to the next area. Or grind some more.
Did you watch any of the Beta streams? Dungeon grinding might be the new meta.
Was it the speed they were doing them or are they giving more xp than people remember?
Absolutely. Granted you do a few dungeons along with their quests and kill mobs on your way to objectives.
But from one classic player to another, you’re gonna want to grind a bit - especially if you’re a hunter or mage. It’s really the only way to guarantee a mount at 40 without sinking your gold in professions.
Kill everything in your way when you travel between places.
I used to use Joanna’s guide and this is what it said so its what I always did.
57-60 sucked.
I spent most of my time in my 50s grinding rep. Two birds, one stone.
I don’t understand the people saying they didn’t have enough quests to level to 60, especially with patch 1.12. I leveled two characters to 60 back then and never had an issue finding enough quests to level. I never grinded mobs to level. I did do some dungeons here and there, but only when I had quests that took me there. I never “grinded” dungeons to level.
There will be more than enough quests with 1.12 to level to 60. At least there sure was for me. You might need to go to the other continent or something, but the quests are there. I went around to different zones.
This is not correct, either. The elites in Classic dungeons are easier all around than on private servers. They hit for alot less and have alot less HP. This was reported as a bug by many in beta, but Blizz confirmed it’s working as it did in 1.12 live. Private servers increasing the difficulty of dungeon elites and bosses is what gave them the reputation of not being worth it. They are actually great sources of XP.
Dungeon grinding with a cleave/AOE group is the new meta for leveling, but you need a full time group to do it.
I’m afraid you are remembering incorrectly, which is fine, it was a looong time ago. Beta testers/streamers have confirmed XP rewards are lower on Classic than private servers and there are not enough quests to level by quests alone and they didn’t even get to level all the way to 60. Alot of the XP you need will come from killing mobs, whether those mobs are in dungeons that you will have to run more than once, on the way back and forth from quest objectives that you could otherwise ignore, or simply wandering an area killing everything in sight. Grinding is unavoidable in phase one.
The guides are talking about efficiency. But that wasn’t the question. The fact is you can level 1-60 doing nothing but quests. I know. I did it. So people can say you have to grind, but that’s simply untrue. At least in 1.12.
No, I’m not remembering wrong. And I’m not talking about private servers, but Vanilla when it was live. I would definitely remember if I had to grind mobs for so many levels because there wasn’t quests, because that’s something I really dislike doing. I never had to grind. I found plenty of quests. As I said though, I did go to the opposite continent and different zones just for the fun of it where I always found more quests.
I honestly never had this issue, definitely not at the end of Vanilla.
Omg all those long quest chains in eastern plaugelands
The end of Vanilla is not Classic Phase One, which has alot fewer quests than 1.12 live did, and the experiences of actual people testing Classic is far more informative than your 15 year old recollections. This sounds like a Mandela Effect situation here, but the testers and streamers have the evidence. When Phase Six hits, your recollections might possibly be more on par with Classic live, but I am sorry, in Phase One, you will have to kill alot of mobs to level. It is unavoidable.
at 1.12 yes, it was prior to 1.12 where quest had ran out in certain zones
Yes, there are enough quests to get you to lvl 60 if you willing travel between continents.
The FACT is the beta testers weren’t even able to level 1-40 on quests alone, so, I don’t know what else to tell you. Classic Phase One is quite a bit different than 1.12 live was.