Tag Boosting

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http://www.wowwiki.com/Formulas:Mob_XP

Solo Experience Modifiers
The experience amounts given above assume that the solo character and their pets have done 100% of the damage to kill the mob. Experience will be reduced when:

Someone else (ungrouped) helps to damage the mob. The XP you receive depends on if that someone else will receive xp for killing that mob. If yes, you get full XP. If not, you get a tiny fraction. It doesn't matter how many other ungrouped help damage nor how much damage you done.
Example: You're 6th level fighting a 6th level mob. If the ungrouped helper is level 10 or lower damage the mob, you will get full XP because a character level 10 or lower can receive XP from a 6th level mob. If the ungrouped helper is level 11 or higher, you get a tiny fraction of the XP.

leveling will only get slower as the amount to level goes up faster than the XP earned by killing mobs does.

Ok lets do all the math, I didn't want to grind it out but I guess may as well.

Lets compare level 39 to level 59.

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/guides.html?guide=362

39 85700 1154500 240 357 6470
59 209800 4084700 340 617 16340

Take a mage.

Level 36 fireball: 335 damage
Level 56 fireball: 609 damage

I pick a random level 39 mob:

http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=4356

Hit points is about 1700.

You have to kill 357 mobs of 1700 HP each to level though level 39. 357 X 1700 HP is 606900. Divided by 335 is 1811.

I pick a random level 59 mob:

http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=7449

You have to kill 617 mobs of 4000 HP each to level though level 59. 617 X 4000 is 2468000. Divide by 609 is 4052



So normally it takes 1811 casts of fireball to level though 39
it takes 4052 casts of fireball to level though 59

A bit more then double but I think talents and gear mods will improve that somewhat, well say 1.7 lol.


With helpers who can do unlimited damage you can reduce to number of mobs to kill or 617/357 or about 1.7 times.


Ok thats solo vs. helpers assuming unlimited mana.

Solo you can do say 5 fireballs before you are oom. At level 39 you need 1811 fireballs to level with no helpers.
With unlimited helpers you need 357 fire balls.

At level 59 you need 4052 fireballs.
With unlimited helpers you need 617.

Humm well yur right that it will take about 1.7 X the time to level 59 as 39.

But with tag boosting assuming unlimited helpers (i.e. sufficient helpers who will kill the mob for you after you tag it with one fireball) you will level 5 X faster at level 39 (1811/357) compared to solo, and 6.5 X faster at level 59 (4052/617). That is Assuming unlimited mana. Actually I think its a safe estimate that solo would level 1/2 that rate with mana the way it is vs. having unlimited mana.

With tag boosting you level 1.3 X faster at level 59 then at level 39, even thouhg you need 1.7 X the time to level. So umm it will take 1.7/1.3 more time to level using tag boosting or 1.3 times the time to level at 39 vs. 59.

So yur kinda right but 1.3 more time isnt as much as you would have thought. And that 6.5 X tag boosting vs. solo well ... not to mention if you aoe pull then eveyrhting is like 5X.

I'm convinced, you level blazingly fast.