1-50 Leveling in Pre-Patch/Shadowlands

[kate]

For random dungeons, how many levels per run are we talking about? (Or, worst case, runs per level?)

[MiRai]

I want a watch of video, including webcam, of you doing the stupid quest where you have to poke them with the daggers to tell you the truth. That quest seldomly takes me less than 30 minutes for a 4-5DK team.

You were (mostly) granted this on the ISBoxer Discord (no camera), but for everyone else, here you go (with terrible audio quality).

The tuning on some of them has been pretty bad recently. Namely: Slave Pens last boss. Arcatraz has its moments, particularly with the tuning. Auchindoun has a couple trash pulls that aren't fun. You're right though, they're doable, and it's not as hit or miss as Cata/MOP on the overtuning, but I wouldn't want to do these from 1-50.

For me, everything up to the final boss of Arcatraz was quite terrible, so nothing's changed there, and Auchindoun has the very difficult beholder boss that can be a show-stopper (unless it's been nerfed, I don't know). On the other hand, Cata dungeons can go [redacted] right in their [redacted] for the [redacted] [redacted] that they are. Finally, I don't think I've multiboxed all of the MoP dungeons, but I've probably done most, while leveling. Right now, they can definitely pose some challenge to those who aren't familiar with them, so we'll have to see how the end up after the squish in SL.

No intro quest, you're exactly correct. That's the behavior on PTR now. Shocked it is the way it is. There is an intro quest, but it's not required for queueing.

I can dig it, and I hope it stays.

There is a mechanism in place where the game will prompt you if you wait too long in queue. I haven't seen it firsthand, but it asks you if you want to expand to other adventure timelines. You simply hit yes and you're presumably available to do dungeons from other timelines. I believe that is their response to this, because, yes, otherwise you could queue and no one else wants to do Cata. I suspect people will still have their favorite timeline and other timelines will get ignored quickly.

Okay - I figured that something had to be put in place for the less desirable/populated timelines, where the available dungeons are likely going to be somewhat dormant/avoided.

[Teknetron]

Regarding the DK starting zone, are you guys not using the daggers to poke the truth from officers?
I did a run a few months ago and either I was extremely lucky or officers are the way to do the quest, as each officer gave me the information first try. Would make sense to me because officers would have more information!

[Andreauk]

Gathering xp is nerfed by 60% in Shadowlands:

https://www.wowhead.com/news=317753/...illing%20mobs.

[Brandish]

Love DK starting area, including the daggers. Not sure I need more DKs though.

I'm skeptical of the level collapse. Does it seem like it's going to work out, in general? I mean, certain items got overlooked in the item level crushes. Or at least one item, the Lucky Rockets(?) from Lunar Festival haven't been worthwhile in years. Just thinking there have to be some unforeseen effects of a player level crush.

Hmm. Can you still get the armor set for leveling an Allied Race without a boost token?

[Purpleflavor]

Regarding the DK starting zone, are you guys not using the daggers to poke the truth from officers?
I did a run a few months ago and either I was extremely lucky or officers are the way to do the quest, as each officer gave me the information first try. Would make sense to me because officers would have more information!

maybe it's buffed now, a month ago i did a group of DK's and it took 45minutes to get all 5 done. I was fuming.

Hmm. Can you still get the armor set for leveling an Allied Race without a boost token?

heritage armor will work the same, except the levels required are squished from something like level 8-60 instead of 20-120.

[schmonz]

Gathering xp is nerfed by 60% in Shadowlands:

preach reported in this video about a massive change to questing in shadowlands and to leveling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENyKW9nsnLs

It seems you cannot get to level 60 just by questing anymore. But have to run other content, as like dungeons or anything else that gives XP.

This is what he found:

1.) It is a linear leveling expansion. Order is Bastion, Maldraxxus, Aredenweald and Revendreth in this order. Without any option.
2.) Bastion brings you up to level 54, being the most lucrative region. Just playing the campaign will bring you to level 54, at which point you can go to maldraxxus.
3.) Maldraxxus does only offer enough content for 2 levels, from 54 to 55. The final quest in maldraxxus, tho, starts at level 56, and you cannot progress anywhere before you hit it. Preach suggests this should be done by grinding.
4.) Ardenweald will allow you to quest up to level 56. It is a very linear experience with some few more opportunitues to do some side quests, which are on the linear story questchain path. Once you reached level 56, you can go to revendreth.
5.) Revendreath has a first quest hub you have to play, while it is easy forgotten if you focus on the story quest only. You should do that first quest hub, otherwise you wont have a lot of side quests in the whole leveling experience in revendreth. The final quest will be at level 60, while the questing content brings you up to level 58. Means, you need to grind dungeons or mobs to get to endgame and to the final quest. Endgame will not be unlocked until you did this final quest, no matter what level you are. You need to quest through the zones to get there.

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[Lyonheart]

Even with warmode on.. i also got to maldraxis at 54. I hate grinding mobs to level. Im wondering how fast it is to level via WQs on your alts if you choose to skip the story! I have a feeling, skipping the story is not a good idea.

[Andreauk]

Wouldn't party sync work at all?

[Tiny_d]

So interesting not sure if you can avoid this, 3 characters hit level 50 (out questing in Time Walking new feature) just now and you get 60 seconds before a forced port out of Time Walking....
Then my 4th a few minutes later and the catch up character was left alone.

Any way around this?