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!

I have no strategy really as I don't want to skip content. 1-60 was a great experience and I wouldn't have liked to level through wsg insignias for example, especially the first time.

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?

Do you really think they're going to leave the AQ40 insignias at 6600 experience apiece? Too many people know about it, and too many people have enough of them to make significant progress into 61.

Also, rest experience for level 60s mysteriously vanished a couple patches ago. Kinda sad, but to be perfectly honest I'm not going to be in any rush to hit 70 anyway.

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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.

That quote is scary, I too have been saving insignias but it sounds like that is something they don't want to happen. I would be very disapoining if they opted to not alow repeatable quest to give exp post 60.

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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...

Blizzard and many other would be disappointed if an hour after TBC launches, all of the hardcore raiding guilds had players at level 62 because they had been hording AQ40 tokens for 6 months.

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.

Blizzard should be over shell-shock by now and they've had a few levelling contests to try and get a feel for just how fast the hardcore players will make 70. As usual though, I don't doubt for a moment that come classes/builds/group-compositions will far outstrip even those expectations. I haven't really tested it out too much obviously but specced for levelling and even in current gear (and buffed with some light to heavy consumables) the amount of exp/hour I could pull down grinding is pretty insane assuming I can find any spawn areas that support it.

Like many though, I intend to level to 70 asap and then work on either the paladin twink or the army of alts. I do very much look forward to the 60-70 content but I'm quite willing to hit it up on alts at a later time as the 70 raiding content is simply a bigger draw for me overall. Doing that content while it is still relatively unknown is far more entertaining I find.

Not like it would matter for 95% of the people tho. I mean, it's not like 2levels worth of xp or whatever people have saved up would make more than a day of difference for hardcore players. Only thing I see is it might make lower lvl zones less full of tier3 geared people on PvP servers, which might not be that bad.

However I still think they will remove the turns in xp come the expansion, just so people HAVE TO enjoy their new content they took so long to create. I guess some people will still probably grind their way to 70 without doing quests, but whatever. It could be considered an "unfair" advantage for new players and casuals compared to big PvE guilds who already benefit from having better gear to level with too, which I personally don't care about(hell I'm rerolling a blood elf that's how much I care about my gear ^^), but reading general board, is a big subject of discussion. I mean, on the same subject, they're removing rested xp from 60 to 70-and subsequently the rested xp every current 60 have), so why would they allow various turn ins?

I haven't even bothered looting insignias since hitting Exalted because I felt they would be crazy to let them be worth XP.

Plus, who wants to kill Skeram when BC is released? "Ok guys, instead of going to hellfire peninsula we're heading to AQ40".

As of 1.12 if you gather quest items and abandon a quest you lose the quest items. Added for the sole purpose of TBC.

Well, currently lvl 61 is something like 450k xp, with 3300 xp per insignas thats 137 insignas to level 61, thats quite a lot. Getting to 61 with insignas will be possible, but not to 62.

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i think you're drastically underestimating the number of insignias that people who have been running aq40 since january can have :-P

just as a point of reference, people might've noticed the turn in quests for the old BG tokens were removed a few patches ago. those were another case of infinitely stacking XP generators that were cleaned up, likely due to the impending expansion.

I'm almost exalted with CH from insignias only :D These things do tend to really pile up on you.

Why do people even bother discussing this? It's like worrying about where the best place to log out will be on the day a new raid zone comes out.

Does anyone really care (or remember) who hit 60 first 2 years ago? Did those first 60s have any real advantage in any way? No. What people should be worrying about is which raid instances to go after first when you do hit 70. There's going to be too much content and not a lot of clear ways to prioritize.

Hey I camped in Velketor's Labyrinth the day Shadows of Luclin came out and upon logging in killed one crystalline spider and bam, dinged 61. :P

It's just how it is. Some people will try to powerlvl to 70 in order to get their raid fully functioning again, while some will sit back without it being so pressing.