There are has been near two weeks after Wrath of the Lich King Classic released, for some new players who may struggle in leveling different characters, it is important to know some leveling tips. We will start from the bottom to introduce some leveling skills you can use, hope it can help you in your adventure.
If you remember, before WOTLK released there was a Joyous Journeys buff, that had never been a better time to grind some XP and level your characters. Actually in MMOWTS.com there were lots of leveling skills posted before, but if you miss it, don’t worry there are still some tips in this guide to help you level almost as fast as if you had that 50% XP buff.
Improved Leveling Methods:
WOTLK introduced so many amazing changes that make leveling much smoother and more convenient than before. In this first section, I’m going to go over all the ways that leveling has improved in Classic Wrath of the Lich King.
New characters have been buffed to be stronger than ever before with new more powerful starting weapons, better health and mana regeneration. If you played a Caster in TBC before, it really makes you speechless when you run out of mana after killing just two mobs, but that isn’t the case anymore.
The gameplay is much more fluid and consistent with less downtime, many changes occurred to skill level requirements, many skills that brought massive leveling speed increases, like Aspect of the Cheetah, Ghost Wolf and travel form are all made available at level 16. In the previous version you had to be level 20 for the cheetah and ghost wolf, and level 30 for travel form.
There’s also lower level and cost requirements for mounts, mount cast time has also been cut in half and ground mounts can now swim, that is awesome. Not only that but you don’t need to wait to get your flying Mount anymore, you can get it as early as level 60 now, and its flying speed has been increased to 150 percent.
On top of that, hearthstones are now on a 30 minute cool down instead of one hour, which is a very welcome change, allowing players to get twice as much use out of them.
Meanwhile, potion stack size has also been increased to 20, which helps with saving your bag space. And Summoning Stones don’t have level ranges anymore, you just need to be at least level 15.
Leveling Tricks in Wrath of the Lich King:
So those are basically some of the changes that make leveling easier and faster, in this section I’m going to go through some tips and tricks to help speed up your leveling, let’s get started.
Heirloom gear is good solution if you missed the Joyous Journeys buff. This can get you up to 25% bonus experience if you get all three pieces that increase your experience gains with the chest, the shoulder and the ring. Now the chest and shoulder can be bought for Emblems of Heroism, and the ring is earned from winning the Kalu’ak Fishing Derby.
In Northrend, there are a lot of quests that actually require you to cross bodies of water, if you aren’t a death knight with Path of Frost or a shaman with Water Walking, this is going to inevitably slow you down. Luckily you can prepare for this by purchasing an elixir of Water Walking beforehand, so you can easily walk across the water to your quest objective.
Now everyone can mount up use elixir of water walking, it’s awesome, besides water walking you can also very cheaply acquire consumables, such as Well Fed Buffs from food, flasks, health and mana potions. Thus you can cut down any time of events you might experience while leveling.
Another important thing is to optimize your bag space, it’s a really good idea to have some good sized bags when leveling, so you never have to destroy items in order to pick up Quest items which just slowing you down, and even costing you WOTLK Classic Gold since lack of space.
Now a good set of Imbued Netherweave Bag only costs about 120 gold, depending on your server. Also if you have a main character in leveling needs a ton of quest items, you can purchase beforehand so you can just turn it all in without farming things. However, gold farming is really necessary in WOTLK. If you need quick gold, third party online shops like MMOWTS.com could under your consideration.
If you really want to speed up your leveling when it comes to dungeon grinding versus solo questing, actually they are almost same in leveling speed in WOTLK. So just choose whichever method appeals to you the most, and have fun with it.