World of Warcraft: Strategies to 70
Level 60 and level 70 have been the level cap at various stages in World of Warcraft and level 80 will soon be the new level cap. If there is one thing that most players have in common, it is that they want to get to the level cap as fast as possible. Over time various strategies have emerged to reach this goal and this post aims to take a look at those strategies.
One of the most famous figures has been Joana the female troll hunter. Joana was made famous by being one of the first players to create a detailed leveling guide. This guide had step-by-step directions for players to follow to maximize their experience gain. Joana made this guide famous by reaching level 60 on a new server and without a group in four days and 20 hours.
This was not the overall record time for reaching level 60, but it was the most publicized. Reaching 60 quickly has been possible through power leveling techniques long before Joana came on to the scene, but they aren’t as popular as they require willing participants to help the person trying to level. Running players through instances repeatedly was one way to power level. Another way was to get a low level player into Tyr’s Hand in Eastern Plaguelands and have them “tag” mobs for a group of 60’s to kill for them. Level 60 could be gained in half of Joana’s time through these methods.
More recently, Blizzard has introduced a new method to reach the level cap far quicker. They have done so through their Recruit-A-Friend program. The Recruit-A-Friend program introduced several different techniques, the quickest of which allows players to reach level 61 in a matter of minutes. This program offers players the opportunity to link accounts with new players and gain increased experience together until level 60. The multiplier, to be exact, is triple the normal rate. Two normal players could level together, follow Joana’s guide and reach level 60 in less than two days with this program.
There is a faster way to utilize the Recruit-A-Friend program and that is to take two linked accounts and join up with an additional account that contains a level 70 character. The level 70 can then power the two linked characters through instances and the two linked characters will level at a very fast rate. Players can reach level 60 in less than 1 day doing this technique. Some players have reported getting to level 60 as quickly as 5 hours through this technique.
To get to 60 in a matter of minutes requires further knowledge of the Recruit-A-Friend program. Every two levels that a character on the newly created linked account in the Recruit-A-Friend program gains they can grant one level to their partnered account character. Therefore a person that gets two level 60’s would have a total of 60 levels to grant. Granting these levels would only take a few minutes and is guaranteed to be the fastest way to 60. Unfortunately these 60’s would have to resort to normal methods to get from 60 to 70.
October 01 2008 03:22 pm | Uncategorized
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