Getting sick and tired of constantly running back to your corpse? Or maybe you're playing it safe, but still find it is taking you three or four hours to gain a single level, because you just can't kill a mob without having to take a rest and regenerate health and mana? This article will give you some general pointers on how to reduce your leveling time!
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.
Now, I'm a big fan of using leveling guides, but there is a problem a lot of them share not only with each other, but with inexperienced levelers, so this is the first thing we'll talk about. The problem is, not all classes are created equally as far as leveling goes. Hunters, the class of choice for most guide writers, are able to destroy with ease mobs that would kill anyone else. So what you need to do when the content is too hard, is grind or instance a few levels, and get to the point where you are only fighting mobs lower level than you.
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!
Don't let you character's gear get too far behind, either. Quests and random drops aren't going to be enough to keep you up to par, and some classes suffer greatly from being under-geared. Supplement your stuff with Auction House purchases and Instance loot. (Use the Dungeon Finder system to do instances. They are great experience per hour AND provide amazing gear.)
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.
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.
Now, I'm a big fan of using leveling guides, but there is a problem a lot of them share not only with each other, but with inexperienced levelers, so this is the first thing we'll talk about. The problem is, not all classes are created equally as far as leveling goes. Hunters, the class of choice for most guide writers, are able to destroy with ease mobs that would kill anyone else. So what you need to do when the content is too hard, is grind or instance a few levels, and get to the point where you are only fighting mobs lower level than you.
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!
Don't let you character's gear get too far behind, either. Quests and random drops aren't going to be enough to keep you up to par, and some classes suffer greatly from being under-geared. Supplement your stuff with Auction House purchases and Instance loot. (Use the Dungeon Finder system to do instances. They are great experience per hour AND provide amazing gear.)
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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