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Preparing for Leveling in WoD

In just over a month, November 13th to be exact, Warlords of Draenor will be going live. Once again, we begin the slog to level cap. Since most of us have multiple alts, that grind will be hammered out multiple times. Oh joy.

Good times.

I’m none too thrilled about leveling, and even less that I’ll be doing it at least twice. But as far as my first run to 100 goes, I’m planning on taking steps to ensure that the start of the grind is as painless as possible.

Fill up on Daily Quests – The second Warlords of Draenor goes live, everyone will be crawling over each other to reach the starting zones for WoD. Those zones are going to be packed with people. You’ll be fighting zone lag as well as other players while you fight for the same quest mobs and items. Instead, just before WoD goes live, I’m going to grab as many MoP daily quests as I can and complete them. I just won’t hand them in. The, when WoD becomes active, I’ll hand in all of the MoP quests. That way, by the time I start on WoD content I’ll have an XP advantage on others who just started out in the zone.

Clean Up My Bags – I’m going to make sure I have plenty of space for quest items and so on. I’ll bank unnecessary gear and items, and have the largest bags I can get my hands on. There’s no telling what kind of quest items or potential transmog gear that lay ahead.

Load Up On Consumables – Every second of down time is a second wasted. Max level buff food, healing and mana pots. Even top shelf bandages will help.

Load Up On Rested XP – I still do this out of habit, but it’s never to early to start building up rested XP. I haven’t read anything where the rested xp is going to be reset. Free XP buff is nothing to sneeze at.

Grab A Leveling Guide – I know this can be controversial. People generally frown on paying for things outside the game. But I’ve used a leveling guide for the past three expansions and it really takes the sting out of the leveling process. Honestly, I’m just here for the XP. I don’t care about interesting questlines. If they’re that good, I’ll spend more time on them the second (or third, or fourth, or fifth) time through.

How are you getting ready for the push to 100?

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Best Mount for Warlords of Draenor

Oct 6

Posted by Donny Rokk

I’m not exactly what you’d call a mount collector. Oh sure, I picked up most of the easy faction mounts to grab a few achievement points back in the day. But these days, I’m not about to camp a rare mob for hours just for bragging rights. If I’m going out of my way to get a mount, it better be for more than just eye candy.

Take the Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth for example. It’s got vendors you can sell to, buy a Tome of the Clear Mind to change glyphs, and carry multiple players on (if you so choose). I still have it hotkeyed on my action bar. I don’t ride it, but if I need Tomes at least it’s handy.

Try finding a parking spot for this beast.

Not that handy when you’re trying to find a parking spot at the mall.

I’d been hearing chatter from the Warlords of Draenor beta, regarding mounts. It’s common knowledge that there is no flying in WoD. This information comes as a complete shock to no one. Blizzard never allows flying for a patch or two, before eventually making it available at level cap.

However there is a mount that has been suggested as one of the better ones until flying becomes available. Since many of the questing hubs and zones are separated by water (or so I’m told since I’m kinda beta-light), having a mount that can cross water should help to speed up the leveling process.

That means it’s time to grab the Reins of the Azure Water Strider.

Bringing sexy back.

The catch (har har) is that you need to have Exalted reputation with MoP’s favorite fishermen, The Anglers. According to my math (and by match I mean I plugged in a name for the rep calculator in Wowjutsu) it would take approximately 21 days to go from zero to Exalted. This is assuming you only do the three daily quests available.

Fun fact: You need at least a single level in fishing to get this started.

There’s a questline in Dread Waste that can also get you started. If you are a freshly boosted 90, or didn’t bother starting quests there, you’ll have to unlock it to grab a few thousand rep.

Aside from the three daily quests (1500 rep a day), there’s three other things you can do to speed up the rep gathering.

1) Daily Dungeons – Set the Anglers as your bonus rep, and run the daily Dungeon and Scenario. That’s good for about 500 rep between the two.

2) Hozen Peace Pipe – Farm or buy this bad boy for a one-time buff of 1000 rep for every MoP reputation.

3) Magic Fish – Every day, you have the chance to fish up a, well, a fish. It’s marked as a quest, sending you to Nat Pagle to hand in. You get rep with him (but who cares because screw that guy) and 300 with the Anglers.

Bonus: Commendation with the Anglers – At Revered, you can buy a Bind on Account commendation for the Anglers from Nat Pagle. It gives every character on your account a 100% buff to Angler rep. That makes the final push from Revered to Exalted a little easier. Actually, 100% easier.

My Ambassador is currently sitting at Revered, and I’ve picked up the rep buff commendation. Hopefully I can knock out Exalted and grab the bug mount before Patch 6.0 hits sometime this month. The patch brings class changes, and I’ve got enough on my plate without having to worry about what does what with my class.