Leveling Tips For /Played

[Czchar]

I found this a while ago and saved it onto note pad because I thought I would need. Today I just opened it and decided to share it with you guys. I DID NOT MAKE THIS AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE I FOUND IT.

Tips/tricks that will help you level faster:


1. If your goal is to level really fast, then your gonna have to stop worrying about professions, they will slow you down if anything. The only profession I use is First Aid.

2. Always make sure you have the latest up to date food/drink, regenerating mana/life faster from eating/drinking is VERY important to leveling faster. So as soon as you hit 15/25/35/45/55/65, upgrade your food/water immediately.

3. I strategically use hearth stones through out the whole game, if you have to hearth and there still is a cooldown, then logging out of the game, will still make the cooldown tick. This will help you get a better /played time at the end.

4. Practice makes perfect, I can't stress this enough, the more times you go through the game to 60/70, the faster you get at it, it's as simple as that.

5. Plan ahead. While questing, always know what your going to do next.

6. Use Auto-Run a lot, you can still type and do other stuff while auto-running.

7. If your goal is to get a VERY good /played time to 70, then NEVER do BGs, NEVER go to the AH (see below), NEVER go AFK, NEVER go to the ARENA in STV.

8. You should always have a bank/AH alt on every server you have a main character on. This is VERY important. I consistently use the mail system as a "bank", Any time im out questing and find a bunch of greens or items that will sell in the AH, I DO NOT go to the AH with that character to put it in the AH, instead I send them all to an ALT through the mailbox. Then with the ALT, ill put them in the AH. Also, I strategically use the mail box as a "storage system". For example, I have a bunch of Silk Cloth in my inventory, that im going to use later, but not now, instead of it wasting space in my inventory, ill send it to my ALT, then from my ALT, i'll return it right back to my main, so it sits in my mailbox, when I need it. Only use your actual Bank for mostly soulbound items, use the mailbox to store everything else.

9. Before I go out questing, I make sure I have plenty of food/water/bullets or arrows/and repaired, so I can last hours before returning to town.

10. Don't think just because your inventory is filled you have to go back to town to empty it every time, I consistently destroy items to make room for quest items or items that are more important.

11. Use the new built in auto loot feature that has been implemented in patch 2.0! This can speed up leveling a lot, since you won't have to manually loot every corpse. To enable this, go to Interface Options, then put a check next to "Auto Loot Corpse". I am finally glad they implemented this!

12. Don't loot every mob! If your goal is to level like a madman, then don't loot mobs that would waste too much time. Although the higher the level I get the more percent chance that I will loot mobs. here's a rough estimate of whether I loot mobs or not:

lvl - % chance to loot
1-10 - 97% I loot more here cause I don't have a pet yet, so the mob drops dead right where im at each time.
10-20 - 70%
20-30 - 80%
30-40 - 87%
40-50 - 95%
50-60 - 98%


How do I determine whether or not I loot? Many factors comes in to play here, like if my inventory is full or not, or how much time it would take to go loot a mob then continue on, or if it's a beast type mob (which don't drop cloth/money).

13. Many people have asked me if instances are a waste of time. No, they are worth doing, but only if you have a good group to do them. I personally skip instances while racing myself to 70, cause I don't want to take the chance that I will have a bad group. But if your just playing casually, then I recommend doing them.

14. If your goal is to level real fast then stick with one type of weapon the whole game. I choose to stick with staves the WHOLE game, even if I find an epic whatever, I stick with staffs, cause it slows you down when you have to level up new weapons. Plus, I get staff quest rewards along the way. Although if you refuse this tip, then if you want to level up a new weapon faster, you can use your abilities (which counts as extra weapon hits), such as disengage/raptor strike/Mongoose Bite/Wing Clip for melee weapons, which will help level up your weapons faster.

15. from my experience gear is overrated, people think gear is too important for everything (even leveling faster). Well, from my experience it's not that important, your character does most of it's damage from it's actual character level and its skills/abilities and your pet's damage (if your a hunter), and from better bullets/arrows/scopes. I could use a low level green bow/gun all the way to 70, or a high level epic bow/gun all the way to 70, and I betcha my final /played time will hardly be no difference at all. So don't panic if your stuck with a lower level green for awhile. As a matter of fact, on Jubei'Thos server (the server I finished with a final time of 4 days 20 hours), I used a level 36 green bow all the way to level 57, I then found a level 50 green gun at level 57 that I used to 60. Through out all my speed runs I never buy weapons/armor in the AH to use, I save my money so I have enough to buy a mount (which I usually am able to afford at level 45), you'll find sufficient weapon/armor from mob drops and quest rewards. The only thing I do buy from the auction hall is scopes, better bags, better ammo/arrow bags, and maybe a better bow/gun, that's it. Also one other thing you should keep an eye out in the AH through out the game are these two items: Frost Oil, and a mithril casing, both those items are used for quests at levels 40 and 51 respectively. You should also keep a water breathing potion with you at level 34-36 Stranglethorn Vale section for step #23.

16. I get asked a lot why I choose troll rather than orc for a hunter. The racial bonuses between orc and troll are pretty much an even choice so it came down to looks for me. Although I do believe the troll beserking ability can be a life saver, but the orc's 5% pet damage is not really much of a life saver.

17. Avoid grinding as much as possible, if you want to get to 70 faster, easier, and with less boredom, then learn to do the quests instead. I actually spend a lot of time flying/riding around turning in quests or moving to the next area (which is still faster than grinding). And while doing all that flying, I take breaks to eat (in RL) or whatever. If your grinding, you have to be there non-stop. Not to mention, questing increases your reputations a lot, compared to grinding, which hardly doesn't at all. Questing is the way to play this game, not grinding.

18. Turn off auto camera and use your mouse to manually adjust your vision. Also crank up your mouse sensitivity high, so you can look around much faster.

[Dunnomyname]

It is copyed of joana's

[[F]ear]

Yup, it's joana's^^

[Czchar]

It is copyed of joana's

Oh, sorry, I did not know.. I was going through some stuff on my desktop and I saw that in notepad, so I decided to post it here...

I never downloaded the Joanas's guide... I think a old friend sent me that lol

[Apple]

Yeah these are the tips on Joana's

but not everybody knows this stuff so, thank you.

[jimminy]

I can't say I agree with Joana on the whole questing thing, on my Prot pally, I could take like 6-9 guys at a time, and destroy them in about 30 seconds. When your getting like 500xp/kill (or 1000 rested) in the Outlands, thats about.. 2 pulls and you've got more xp than a quest.

[Czchar]

/agree jimminy

[sommer07]

or say that you're account was scammed from you'r friend and he destried you're item to a gm and if he give back you will probally get ur /played time reseted. thats how joana looks like a noob to my friend he has a 70 mage and 20hrs in playing time