Leveling up in WoW Classic can often feel like a slog, but in an effort to encourage players to start alts, the Season of Discovery makes it relatively quick. Characters have a much higher power level than they would have in vanilla WoW thanks to Runes and gear, which helps speed things up.
WoW Season of Discovery: What To Do At Max Level
Once you reach max level in WoW Season of Discovery, there’s still plenty to do, including collecting Runes, raiding BFD, and leveling Professions.
But ultimately, even with a massive XP buff during prior level brackets, some methods to level up fast in WoW are just better than others. In WoW SoD, some new options add variety to the leveling up experience, like with new level-up Raids and an item that gives a reusable XP boost. But in the end, classic WoW XP farming methods are still great (if not better) in SoD.
Complete Groups Of Quests In Close Proximity
And Avoid Quests That Aren’t Worth The Time
Arguably the simplest and most fun ways to level up in WoW, let alone just in the Season of Discovery, is to complete quests and follow the story of the world as it unfolds throughout various zones. But many quests can be very spread apart, and some can take so long to complete that their meager rewards aren’t worth the effort to get.
Generally, the best way to level up is to complete quests, but focus on completing quests that are grouped in similar locations. For example, in the Shimmering Flats, players of both factions can pick up nearly a dozen quests that all have requirements in the immediate vicinity. Players can go clockwise around the Shimmering Flats’ central raceway to complete this group of quests very efficiently.
For lower-level options, Alliance players can take advantage of the close proximity of Darkshire to its various quest locations, while Horde players can take advantage of the Crossroads’ plethora of quests.
If a quest would bring you to a faraway location, ignore it until that location becomes your next central questing hub. At the end of the Alliance Stonetalon Mountains questline, players have to go to the border of Thousand Needles and Feralas, but it’s not worth doing until you’re a high enough level to pick up a few other quests around the same area – like the aforementioned Shimmering Flats.
Complete Blackfathom Deeps At Around Lvl 25
The XP Is Worth It – But Not After Lvl 35
Though Blackfathom Deeps is no longer a max level raid in the Season of Discovery, it’s still very much content worth doing as you level up. BFD has been changed to be more suitable for groups of players leveling up, like how it now grants an enormous amount of XP for every boss downed, comparable to mid-level-30 quest XP rewards.
WoW Season of Discovery: Blackfathom Deeps Raid Guide
The new 10-man raid in WoW SoD is the familiar Blackfathom Deeps, a place now rife with retuned bosses that demand new strategies.
But because the difficulty of BFD is tuned for Level 25 players, these XP gains don’t last all the way until level 40. After around Level 35, the XP rewards from BFD start to sharply drop off. Make BFD runs a regular part of your 25 to 35 journey, but after that, it stops being as efficient as later-level dungeons and quests.
Grab A Cozy Sleeping Bag For A Reusable XP Boost
Plus Eight Items That Give Rested XP
A huge new addition to WoW in the Season of Discovery is the Cozy Sleeping Bag quest chain. This quest chain begins in either the southern Barrens for the Horde or Westfall for the Alliance, and brings players all across Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms as they follow a series of notes. In the end, the notes run out, but players get their very own Cozy Sleeping Bag to use.
This item can be used every few hours, and gives a small XP buff if you walk onto and sleep in it. Every one minute you spend in the Sleeping Bag grants a 1% XP buff, up to a maximum of 3%. The earlier you get this item, the more you will benefit from it.
The quest chain rewards a number of useful items, perhaps most notably a new SoD item called Student Fodder. Over the course of the quest chain you will get eight Student Fodder items, which give 20% Rested XP when consumed. This increases the XP gained from killing mobs by 200%, and is best used in the high-level-30s to make leveling to 40 much less tedious.
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery Level Cap
Every Season of Discovery Phase will increase the max level Cap in SoD – starting at a relatively low 25, and eventually reaching lvl 60.
Grind Level-Appropriate Dungeons
And Don’t Forget To Pick Up Associated Quests
Aside from completing quests out in the world, grinding dungeons is the fastest way to level up in WoW SoD, especially at the beginning of a new content phase. Every Phase brings new zones to explore, and as a result they tend to be extremely overcrowded – it can be hard to complete item-based quests when dozens of other players are all competing for the same enemies.
Dungeons can be a very viable alternative to world questing during the launch of a new phase. This is especially true if you completed as many quests as possible during the previous bracket for Gold, as that may reduce your options when a new Phase unlocks. In Dungeons you won’t compete for shared mob XP, and though the XP can come slow, grinding dungeons that are rated for your level or above can make leveling up in WoW SoD significantly faster.
A common dungeon grinding path for Alliance players includes the Deadmines, then Stockades, then Razorfen Kraul/Downs, then Scarlet Monastery wings until level 40. Horde players can do Ragefire Chasm, then Wailing Caverns, Razorfen Kraul/Downs, and the four Scarlet Monastery dungeons. It might get repetitive, but it’s a reliable way to get XP.
World of Warcraft
- Released
- November 23, 2004
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Blood and Gore, Crude Humor, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence (online interactions not rated)
