World of Warcraft Tips
Posted on October 20th, 2006 by Gavin under Efficiency Tips, General Tips, Low Level
Today, I’m going to share with you some overall tips and tricks. I don’t know what your exact situation is (whether you’re looking for ways to level faster or whether you’re trying to build up a huge stash of cash.)
First of all, let me put it to rest once and for all: questing will level you much faster than just grinding, as long as you quest the right way (and let’s face it, questing is SO much more enjoyable than grinding anyways!)
Don’t just do one quest and then go turn it in for the quest reward or money. Your goal is to go out and do 3,4, 5 or more quests all in one shot (I’ll be giving you some exact questing routes in later emails.)
Inventory management is key! DON’T go back to town when your bags are full - you’ll waste precious time traveling back and forth. Simply get rid of low value vendor trash to make room for more valuable (and stackable!) items.
Always favor stackable vendor trash over non-stackable trash if you’re going to be working on the same mobs for awhile. For example, at level 6-10 (when you don’t have a lot of bag space) [item]dry scorpid eye[/item]s in Durotar sell for 95 copper each, and you can fit 5 in one stack. All of the grey armor pieces you pick up in Durotar can’t be stacked, and only sell for 10-30 copper each. Why take up a valuable bag slot with a 20 copper [item]Worn Leather Pants[/item]?
Loot everything until your bags are full, and then systematically destroy items which are less valuable when you need more space.
If you’re just starting a new character, and don’t know what class to choose, go with a Hunter. Of all the classes, they have the absolute least amount of down time (time spent in-between killing and questing) and pack quite a punch.
If I’m starting on a brand new server, I’ll make a hunter first, level him up very quickly to 20 (which can be done in about 12 hours of play time), and take Tailoring. I can then feed my “real” character on that server with bags and cash, allowing me to level up my “real” character as fast as possible.
Well, that’s it for today - I’ll be back tomorrow with a lot more tips for you. As I said, if you start using my techniques, you’ll see for yourself how much faster you level, and how much more gold you start having.
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Gavin,
I’ve been enjoying your e-mail tips for a while now…glad that you’ve finally got your own site so I can look up any that I’ve missed in the past!
Thanks,
Kenn
idk, huntards are ok, but make a dreanie warrior for less down time. no mana to worry about and they come with their own heal! best warrior class, especaially fury with the +1% to hit
Dude,
your info rawks.
not that great if you got loads of health and one small over time heal.
Yeah i have been stacking greys like that for a while, usually they will sell for quite a bit more than the grey armor which cannot stack. (Except when your a higher lvl, some grey armor will sell for 1.5g +) Thanks for the tips Gavin, keep it up =]
For those that want to level fast but prefer playing with someone try what i did. My wife and I started to new characters. She is a Belf hunter and im Tauren druid so we have nice dps between us, some healing and tanking. We played in our starting areas until level 10 or so, then i met her in Ghostlands and we started questing together. We dideveryquest together until we got to 70. This was slightly slower than going solo but it was much easier (die a lot less) it was a lot of fun as we were always together and talking to eachother, it was easy to find groups if we needed because i could heal or tank and only accepted if my wife could come to. We got ganked less as 1 person doesn’t usually attack 2 people who are together and we could do the slightly harder quests before being the suggested level. Try it out its pretty cool, i would do it again just because it seemed less ‘painful’
Another thing i forgot to mention, if you do decide to try what i mentioned above, make sure you choose 2 different classes and try get classes that compliment eachother such as tank and healer, tank and dps, healer and dps or 2 dps. Try avoid 2 tanks or 2 healers and by all means avoid classes that use the same armour and weapons if possible, theres nothing like fighting with your friend or wife in my case for that leather item with + agi.