I would say anywhere from 400-500 hours to get to 60 with all skills, tradeskills, professions maxxed at 300/300. I could prolly do it faster if it were snowing in my room and/or I didn’t enjoy napping so much.
I plan on starting another account in August to see just how fast I can level a new toon to 60 300/300 and then sell the account.
I agree that BG has lines that are simply too long to make the experience enjoyable. Also, the CTF game is lame. Only one flag at a time, it always is in the same spot, needs to be taken to the same spot to score a point… I’m used to multiple flags and varying terrains (I used to play Delta Force:Landwarrior), and this CTF is boring. I can’t even get into the KOTH BG in Alterac. Wait times on Spinebreaker can be more than 2 freakin’ hours. I’d rather go play an alt.
Whoever it was that said start 2 characters and alternate so you use xp bonus all the time has it right if you want to level up fast. You will have potential faction problems with this, but you will hit level 60 in less hours played per toon for sure.
btw, Bronzebeard is the first time I have played an online game in anything other than a PvP format… it’s very easy and still weirds me out that others can’t attack me, no matter how mad they are. I also find it unsettling that I can’t attack anyone, no matter how big a jerk they are. <sigh> I miss the FFA PvP we had on Rallos Zek… but EQ is dead (to me).
Why in the world would you have faction problems? As long as you played your characters from their own respective starting areas or whatever area you wanted highest faction with, how does playing fully rested negatively impact faction?
Goldie 53 human Priest
Macros 42 human Mage
Pipsqeak 13 Gnome Warlock
I have a couple of other alts still in the under 7 category that I made when the FW server was acting wonky. I’ve almost exclusively played the priest for the past few months.
Gods know. I’ve played 2 characters to 60 and one into the mid-50’s (not counting characters I built in the alpha/beta) using the alternate method (i.e. playing one character until they lose the 200% exp bonus then switching to another, rinse and repeat) and I have high faction with all the groups I want to have faction with…including the Furbolgs in that cave system in Felwood (name escapes me) and Argent Dawn for recipe goodies. Admittedly my faction with some of the instance groups isn’t too great 'cause I hate doing 3+ hour raids…especially more than once. And my faction with Silverwing is only ‘Friendly’ so far…slow going when you don’t win many CtF games.
Faction in WoW is gained mostly from completing quests for the various factions. As you get higher in level a quest’s relative faction reward diminishes. For example, a quest you get at level 20 from an Ironforge NPC will gain you “greatly improved” faction status if completed at level 20. By the time you get to level 30, this same quest completion will only grant you “improved” status. At level 60 you would only gain “slightly improved” status.
The xp bonus is awarded only to mobs killed, not to quest completions. So as you move through levels faster with the xp bonus, you have less quests you can complete per level. Thus, less available factioning per level.
This doesn’t apply as readily to factions like Cenarion Circle and Argent Dawn since you really aren’t able to work on those factions until level 45 or so. But for Alliance and Horde factions, which you would need if you wish to use another race’s mounts, it can make things harder or even put them potentially out of reach.
Dang it… I forgot to mention that I tested this myself by doing quests with an alt at the proper level for a quest and then again with my level 60 Druid.
Ok I get it, so optimum faction is gained from playing not rested and quests at yellow? I’d already noticed that if I wait until green I would get less xp and faction gain.
I’m working on faction with the cave furbolgs near Winterspring, the Argent Dawn and the Cenarion Circle as well.
Our time through Scholomance lastnight. I made a few mistakes and embarrassed myself mightily, but learned from them, I hope. Since I was the only rogue, received my first set piece of shadowcraft set boots when they dropped from Rattlegore.
The rested bonus doesn’t directly affect faction, but since you tend to level faster when rested, that means that quests will drop to green or grey much faster. So the rested bonus does have an indirect effect.
