Comments on: Power Levelling? Why Yes!

By: Akthor

Akthor — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:44:46 +0000

I know, blew my mind as well the first time i got my own alt boosted by a friend. That was at lvl 37 or 38 and gave me an awesome amount of xp.
Now I’ve actually been making some money on my paladin by boosting people that way; it’s definitely something I’m going to do when i lvl another alt.

By: Siha

Siha — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:26:27 +0000

…wow.
I knew prot pallies were hax for power-levelling, but this is taking it to a new level. :)

By: Akthor

Akthor — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:19:33 +0000

I have an awesome tip for players in the late 30’s to mid-40’s:

Get a 70 protection paladin with decent gear, and get him to buy 3 spare shields (and maybe some HP pots too). Go to Sunken Temple and clear the trash mobs until you get to the troll miniboss named Zolo.
The paladin buffs himself with wisdom, righteous fury and retribution aura.
He range-pulls Zolo and stands in a corner – Now this is where the magic happens.
Zolo will put down totems which will summon skeletons. When these skeletons disappear (from you killing them, or disappearing because of time) the alt will get XP, lots and lots of xp.

If alt can resurrect:
The paladin stands there until Zolo is down to about 3% hp, where he should then use Divine Intervention. This resets Zolo, and the alt should ress the paladin, avoiding the trash respawns.

If alt can not resurrect: Either kill Zolo and clear instance; kill Zolo and go out and reset or don’t kill Zolo, but die yourself (not exactly smart, though).

If the paladin has the Darkmoon Card: Vengeance, then replace retribution aura with Devotion aura. This will make Zolo survive much longer.

I boosted my friend’s alt like this 4 times in 2 days. He dinged 5 times. On the longest round I was able to keep Zolo alive for over an hour (!) – That’s over 1 hour of pure xp rolling in every second or two. On that round, i used a macro to stun Zolo (to avoid him taking dmg from aura/Vengeance card) and used my dodge trinket every time it was avaible – Again to avoid him taking dmg.

Shields will take a serious beating here, and I went through 3-4 of the SSO shields every round.

The trick is basically to not hit Zolo, but only hit the Skeletons to get HP/Mana from Seal of Light/Wisdom.

Check the wow forums and the like for other people’s experience with this method.

By: Seidhkona

Seidhkona — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:37:17 +0000

Great advice for quick leveling, although I tend to take my alts on different paths each time through. Not quite as fast, but a lot of fun!

By: Siha

Siha — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:19:49 +0000

I’m just the same, Ngita – I have a druid who’s been level 38 for a year and a half now ;-)

By: Ngita

Ngita — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:01:30 +0000

The argent dawn hand ins need friendly ie a run of strat/scholo or some plaguelands questing. Having said that if you are friendly they are a nice boost.

Outlands instance. It depends what you are leveling for, I am leveling a JC and the reps are fairly useful to me.

But i tend to meander along with my alts anyway. Start a alt, log on occasionally for some quests or if I see a 5man lfm and 12 months later I am 60 and 18 months later 70.

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:01:51 +0000

Great tips.
I leveled my current main 99% from instances pre-TBC. There were 5 of us, and we just kept hitting the instances. The main exceptions were those quests (usually quest lines) that were required for an instance.

And you, if you have the money to buy your position at 70, then use it. I can’t think of the number of times I thought I would go out and grind some drop.. would do it for an hour, give up, hit the AH and jobs done. 1 hour wasted, 5 minutes spent efficiently.