Sunday, December 20, 2009

General Strategies for Questing in WoW

By Anthony Travis

Looking for tips on how to level your characters as quickly as possible, with as little fuss as possible? Getting frustrated by corpse runs and being constantly forced to stop and rest between mobs? Don't worry, this guide is here to help!

Knowing your class is probably the single biggest thing you can do to improve your leveling time, but it would be impossible to detail specs and strategies for every single class in the game here, so make sure to look up some class-specific information after you read this. My blog also has occasional posts about leveling specific classes, so you can check that out too.

One thing a lot of people do is start following a leveling guide they get online, and find themselves struggling to down the mobs. This is a problem caused by the fact that most speed-levelers use the easiest classes for leveling, such as Hunter. Even if you are just doing quests as they come, you can encounter this problem. The secret here is to get a few levels ahead of the content you are on, and always quest on green or nearly-green mobs.

Minimizing downtime is another secret to quick leveling. This means you need to use mana and health-conserving tactics. Casters, use your wands! Hybrids, use melee specs! And if you are losing health quickly, start using crowd control abilities such as stuns and snares. If you are losing more than 15% of either to a single mob, you are probably doing something wrong. And don't forget to carry and use Food and Water!

Another thing that can cause trouble while leveling is letting yourself be under-geared. Some classes can practically ignore gear, but others will struggle unless they keep their stuff up to date. Either buy stuff off the auction house, or get it from quests and instances, but keep all your gear slots relatively up-to-date! (Use the Dungeon Finder system to do instances; you get amazing loot and amazing experience for doing so!)

This can lead to the alternative problem of spending too much time in capital cities looking at the AH; the trick is to mail EVERYTHING of white quality or better to an alt exclusively for handling AH matters. Sell EVERYTHING, and you should have zero problem affording top-end gear at all times.

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