Like in any good business, efficiency is a key principle in maximizing profits and return on investment. I'd like to share some of the little things that I use to be more efficient that when applied over and over will help increase your profits in the game. Part one will focus on power leveling efficiency. In future posts I will discuss combat and profession efficiency.
Power leveling:
- Quests are often great for gaining quick experience. Pick up all the quests you can in an area at your level range. Often times you are simply required to kill some number of beasts or grab some item off of a mob (which is like a free bonus to grinding). The trick here is to get all of the quests and mark the locations as notes on your mini-map. Use the Cosmos UI for note marking and Thottbot to get quest locations. Once they are all marked, plan a path that will enable you to do a circuit of quests and come back to the town (or towns) where you got them all. The idea here is that repeatedly getting one quest and returning is slow and inefficient, it's better to run from one to another and cash them all in.
- Grinding purely for experience purposes should be done with tightly packed mobs. Humanoid mobs are great for going from one to another as they tend to be the most closely packed. Just be careful not to get overwhelmed and make sure you are always in an area that matches your level range to maximize leveling speed.
- Use the rest system to your advantage. As long as you are not playing Warcraft 24x7 you can gain 2x the normal experience after returning to the game after 8 hours. See this article for more details - the game manual also discusses this subject. The key indicator that you are gaining bonus experience is that your experience bar will be blue. My strategy here is to do all of my questing and grinding when the bar is blue and if I still have time to play, switch over to profession leveling or auction house trading when the bar goes back to purple. If I did the reverse I would not be utilizing the rest system to the maximum efficiency each day. The thing to remember is this: if planning on logging off for 8+ hours, do it at an Inn and make sure your experience bar is purple.
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