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So I'm level eight right now. All I'm doing is walking around Elwynn Forest doing random quests that give more than 200 exp. Is there anyway to make this faster? Also, how soon can I leave the starting area (and by leave I mean not get anally ravaged by higher level monsters) and do stuff in other locations?
levelling is very slow for someone who doesnt have heirloom armor; you can make it a bit faster by learning gathering professions (mining/herbalism for example) and doing those in whatever zone you quest in currently. youll be able to queue for dungeons at level 15 and those help boost your xp a lot. also, pvp grants experience, though im not sure if its time efficient at lower levels (and youll definitely be at a disadvantage to twinks/people with heirlooms in low level pvp).

if you press m and bring up your map, you can hover over the various zones on the continent and theyll have level ranges. once you hit level 11 youll be able to get level-appropriate quests from something called a "hero's call board;" i believe there's one in the middle of the trade district in stormwind.
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Does it ever get very stagnant leveling after a certain point? Purchasing WoD gave me a free lvl 90 boost.

levelling is very slow for someone who doesnt have heirloom armor; you can make it a bit faster by learning gathering professions (mining/herbalism for example) and doing those in whatever zone you quest in currently. youll be able to queue for dungeons at level 15 and those help boost your xp a lot. also, pvp grants experience, though im not sure if its time efficient at lower levels (and youll definitely be at a disadvantage to twinks/people with heirlooms in low level pvp).

if you press m and bring up your map, you can hover over the various zones on the continent and theyll have level ranges. once you hit level 11 youll be able to get level-appropriate quests from something called a "hero's call board;" i believe there's one in the middle of the trade district in stormwind.


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Does it ever get very stagnant leveling after a certain point? Purchasing WoD gave me a free lvl 90 boost.

levelling is very slow for someone who doesnt have heirloom armor; you can make it a bit faster by learning gathering professions (mining/herbalism for example) and doing those in whatever zone you quest in currently. youll be able to queue for dungeons at level 15 and those help boost your xp a lot. also, pvp grants experience, though im not sure if its time efficient at lower levels (and youll definitely be at a disadvantage to twinks/people with heirlooms in low level pvp).

if you press m and bring up your map, you can hover over the various zones on the continent and theyll have level ranges. once you hit level 11 youll be able to get level-appropriate quests from something called a "hero's call board;" i believe there's one in the middle of the trade district in stormwind.
yeah i really dislike the 40-70 levelling range. if you go ahead and 90 a character, level it through draenor and it will be able to farm gold for you so that you can buy heirlooms to make the levelling experience less ass on your other characters. id recommend trying to find a decent friendly guild that might be able to offer help.


 
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With all the expansions and shit, I don't think it's worth starting at this point.
Have you tried Guild Wars 2? The base game is completely free, and doesn't require a subscription. Free accounts have a few restrictions to avoid spam accounts and what not but if you buy HoT you upgrade to a non f2p account. If you haven't tried it out, I would. Gw2 is very anti bullshit towards stuff like microtransactions as well.


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With all the expansions and shit, I don't think it's worth starting at this point.
and why would you think that?


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With all the expansions and shit, I don't think it's worth starting at this point.
and why would you think that?
Because on top of the subscription fees, you have to buy several expansion packs (I know they've made some of the older ones free), to play content that isn't relevant.


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With all the expansions and shit, I don't think it's worth starting at this point.
and why would you think that?
Because on top of the subscription fees, you have to buy several expansion packs (I know they've made some of the older ones free), to play content that isn't relevant.
you have to buy exactly one expansion pack to play current content; all other xpacs are included in the base game. also, shrewd players do not have to pay their subscription fees anymore. blizzard essentially legalized the gold economy and offers 30 day subscription tokens on the store for $20 a pop; gold farmers buy these tokens, sell them on the auction house (they go for around 30-40k gold per 30 day sub on my server,) then turn around and flip a profit on the gold they make by flipping the tokens. once you get to max level and really get going it isnt very difficult for you to farm enough gold to keep yourself afloat without having to pay your sub fee.

also, just because content from vanilla, BC, wrath, cataclysm, and pandaland isnt current doesnt mean it isnt relevant. you can still experience the storylines, get gear from their content to transmogrify your gear to (say your current draenor gear is ugly: you can farm gear from wrath of the lich king and pay a very small amount of gold to make your draenor gear look like that wrath gear), earn titles/achievements/mounts/pets for their content, et cetera.

i understand that the older content may seem irrelevant to someone who doesnt actually play the game, but im telling you right now that it absolutely isnt irrelevant unless literally all you care about is current tier raiding and pvp.


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With all the expansions and shit, I don't think it's worth starting at this point.
and why would you think that?
Because on top of the subscription fees, you have to buy several expansion packs (I know they've made some of the older ones free), to play content that isn't relevant.
you have to buy exactly one expansion pack to play current content; all other xpacs are included in the base game. also, shrewd players do not have to pay their subscription fees anymore. blizzard essentially legalized the gold economy and offers 30 day subscription tokens on the store for $20 a pop; gold farmers buy these tokens, sell them on the auction house (they go for around 30-40k gold per 30 day sub on my server,) then turn around and flip a profit on the gold they make by flipping the tokens. once you get to max level and really get going it isnt very difficult for you to farm enough gold to keep yourself afloat without having to pay your sub fee.

also, just because content from vanilla, BC, wrath, cataclysm, and pandaland isnt current doesnt mean it isnt relevant. you can still experience the storylines, get gear from their content to transmogrify your gear to (say your current draenor gear is ugly: you can farm gear from wrath of the lich king and pay a very small amount of gold to make your draenor gear look like that wrath gear), earn titles/achievements/mounts/pets for their content, et cetera.

i understand that the older content may seem irrelevant to someone who doesnt actually play the game, but im telling you right now that it absolutely isnt irrelevant unless literally all you care about is current tier raiding and pvp.
I stand corrected I guess. Didn't realize they made all the previous expansions free, which is great.

Still, I think gw2 is a worth a try simply because there's no entry fee.