Quote Originally Posted by 'Stabface',index.php?page=Thread&postID=98922#post 98922
Curious, what technique did you use to level 1-10? I did straight XP grind with the alts to L4 then mob tagged using Earth Shock / Moonfire and an ungrouped L70 Shaman doing the killing w/ Earthbind & Magma Totem (gives full XP since it counts as a pet).
I quested same as you would with a solo character. I did all quests, including collections. In hindsight, I would leave the "starter newbie zone" at level 5 like you are supposed to, because 5-7 slowed down considerably once the mobs you were killing turned green. I would also skip any collection quest that doesn't require you to kill mobs.

Quest XP is phenomenal. Try to do as many as you can, prioritizing kill quests, loot-one-item quests, and then kill-to-collect quests. Skip collect-multiple-item quests that do not require you to kill yellow/orange mobs. Take "delivery" quests only if you're headed there already.

I hit level 10 by doing TWO quests in the level 5-10 zone. So there was really no need for me to be a completist about the 1-5 zone and finish everything there. Leave 1-5 zone at level 5, it's not worth your time.


Another thing that may have slowed us down is that we didn't have $$$ to buy all of our skills. I trained at levels 2, 6, and 8 but I was dumb and ran out of $$$ before I could buy the important dps skills. I didn't reach a mailbox to get my bags/money until level 7. Buy your primary dps skills only, skip skills like rend, thunderclap, thorns, etc. On my warrior, all I should've trained was heroic strike and charge.



BTW, I fully expect that this is going to get nerfed in the future, although comparing to 3x experience questing it's still somewhat unbelievable the amount of benefit Blizz is allowing new refer-a-friend accounts to get, boosting or not. If someone were to tell me about this without showing proof on the Blizz website I would've told them they're nuts, so...

In any case, Blizz has confirmed that boosting this way is the expected behavior. I will be shocked if they don't nerf it, but hey... I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than disappointed.