I was wondering how people are preparing to get a jump on XP for the expansion and what, if any, information folks have on the viability of gathering quest items for mass turn ins. I did a forums search and did not find a topic on this yet, so hopefully this is an acceptable topic.

My own strategy, thus far, has been to save all of the Quiraji Insignias from our AQ40 runs, gather/hoarde PvP medals and keep several end game quests ready for turn in (AQ scepter quest line, etc.). I figure this should give me a good jump into 61, perhaps even giving a level right off if we "save" our rested xp.

I know this is not the place for rumor-mongering, but I did see a quote (supposedly from the WoW main boards (I can not confirm as that is blocked by our WebSense)) that indicated that Blizzard would be taking at least some measure to thwart "XP hoarding"

Here is the quote:

As stated, it would prevent people from gathering quests, getting the necessary items to drop, then abandoning the quest in favor of another to do the same thing. I wonder if they will go farther and remove the XP for things like insignia turn ins, or leave them alone.

Anyway, feel free to share your strategies!

Aparently most of the existing repeatable turn ins wont give xp past 60.

Stuff like:

- Scourgestones
- Qiraji Lord Insignias
- Hakkari Coins/Bijous/Tokens
- Etc.

I also agree that my first time going from 1-60 was one of the best gaming experiences I've had. If 60-70 is more of the same I certainly wont be looking for shortcuts.

I could have sworn that this was already discussed In a few threads. If I am mistaken then let me tell you what the assumption is. You will get XP the first time you turn it in, then it will just be your standard repeatable for rep quest. A month or so ago I built up 19 elite quests and saved them in my quest log all at (COMPLETE) but I got bored one day and turned them all in.

Have any guilds discussed their levelling rates among their membership? I know some people are planning on doing it leisurely but I imagine a number of people are going to level up asap.

Have any guilds set time frame expectations for their members?

There was also a post by Caydiem at one point stating that quests we can receive and do now won't yield the same amount of experience past 60, so don't hoard your quests.

I'm not hoarding at all. Turning the quests I do have for gold now and doing the TBC quests later. You're going to have one person in your group who did every higher end quest imaginable anyways so powerleveling to 70 won't really be a problem; someone will be behind.

Besides, leveling in this game is a damned joke. :p

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Personally I want to experience everything as well, and with the nerfing of quest items I think Blizzard is squashing this powerleveling bug before it gets off the ground.

I plan to immediately start running Hellfire Ramparts once I get to Outland.

Again, my apolgies if this was already discussed, but my search did not yield any results. Perhaps my query was flawed.

In any event, personally I am not so sure I'll be able to enjoy the new content at release anyway, due to the sheer number of people who will be swarming the zones from jumpstreet. I'd like to prepare a bit, gather some xp-yielding quests/turn-ins/etc. and grind decent xp from 53-60th mobs in what very well might be completely abandoned "old" zones. . .at least until things settle down a bit in Outland.

I was there for the opening of the gates on our sever. . .and while the potential for huge fun was definately there, being kicked off the server due to lag and other performance related issues (having so many people in one place) definately killed it for me.

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Websense is such a bitch.

I feel as though I'm in the minority here but I'm REALLY looking forward to leveling up. I dont want to go so fast that I miss alot of the content/storyline elements. When I leveled my first toon I did it super fast and didnt really 'stop to smell the flowers', if you will, but on my second toon I really enjoyed doing quests and dungeon crawls for xp and really got more into the storyline. As a result I started to enjoy the game on a different level.

I'm excited for this in the xpac. I want to hit all the 5 man's, and do alot of quests. I'm not in any particular hurry to level, but that will be tempered by the amount of time I will budget to play. I'll get to 70 and back to raiding soon enough.. but what good is it to be the first one there? Great, now you get to wait around for everyone else...

I swear there was a post where they hinted that they were watching how much xp people had banked up in turnins, but I can't find any reference to it now.

That being said, last rumor I heard was that you could still do turnins in alpha.

Qiraji Lord insignia's are only 3300 btw, it's the artifacts that are 6600. If they're not going to let us turn them in come expansion for xp; the least they could do is attach a decent gold reward to them, it'd balance out the crappy AQ40 gold drops.

Even if Lord insignias can be turned in, I'd strongly wager that, despite everyone claiming they'll help kill Skeram on TBC:Day 1, they're all off going to be running around outlands & playing with new talents and won't make the hike down to Silithus to kill him.

That all being said, I'm still sitting on my stash, just incase!

Blizz already had a CM confirm that once Xpack is live the Qiraji insignias won't be usable for XP for anyone at lvl 60.