Legion Pre-Event Mini Guide - 1 to 100 in a Week or Less

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Legion Pre-Event Mini Guide - 1 to 100 in a Week or Less

With exactly a week until World of Warcraft: Legion makes its debut as a fully-released expansion to the venerated game, some may be starting to panic as the pre-event that has been running for the past two weeks is drawing to a close. The Legion pre-event is designed for altoholics and achievement hunters. With huge XP gains during the demonic invasions, this is the right time and the right place to dust off those lowbies and get crackin'! Find out how in our mini guide.

Read the full story here

munn

To get experience even faster, do stages 1, 2 and 3, then logout when stage 4 begins. Log back in immediately and you will find the invasion will be reset to stage 1 and you can begin tagging again. This was working this morning prior to reboots so I'm hoping it is still the case.

Depending on your character level, rested xp, heirloom gear etc. you will see various amounts of experience.

To give you some examples:

- Roughly 30 minutes I took one character from 68 - 71.

- Roughly 90 minutes 1 character from 1-20 [use a 2-person mount to get your friends' alts to the invasion zone(s) at level 1]

- Characters 85+ seem to get about 3 levels per hour

NOTE* If you are doing this in a party you must disband your party before logging out during stage 4. If you do not the invasion will not reset and you risk completing it.

Octagon7711

That's what I've been doing. I have about eight characters at max now when before I didn't have any at max. I have four more to level and they go really fast. An addon called LegionInvasionTimer lets you know which invasions are up and where and which you haven't done yet. Not really needed but nice to see at a glance what's available.

I have to say they did a nice job. Your level ten character get the correct percentage of xp even thouugh there's a level 100 character next to you getting their correct xp for their level. They actually out did GW2's dynamic events with this, leveling is so easy now. Then you can now focus on end game stuff and collecting.

Monk gets a 1 hour 50% bonus every ten levels when he returns to challenge and beat a master which makes leveling even faster for monks. I didn't like Monks at first but my Nightelf Monk is now one of my favorite characters with his force lightening skill and nice healing abilities as a mistweaver. Fun stuff.

Or if you've got the money just buy a level 100 boost and get a fully equipped character with a level 3 (I think) garrison.

SBFord

munn said:

To get experience even faster, do stages 1, 2 and 3, then logout when stage 4 begins. Log back in immediately and you will find the invasion will be reset to stage 1 and you can begin tagging again. This was working this morning prior to reboots so I'm hoping it is still the case.

Depending on your character level, rested xp, heirloom gear etc. you will see various amounts of experience.

To give you some examples:

- Roughly 30 minutes I took one character from 68 - 71.

- Roughly 90 minutes 1 character from 1-20 [use a 2-person mount to get your friends' alts to the invasion zone(s) at level 1]

- Characters 85+ seem to get about 3 levels per hour

NOTE* If you are doing this in a party you must disband your party before logging out during stage 4. If you do not the invasion will not reset and you risk completing it.

I'm too greedy to skip stage 4 -- I love my loots.

Nitth

System said:

Legion Pre-Event Mini Guide - 1 to 100 in a Week or Less

With exactly a week until World of Warcraft: Legion makes its debut as a fully-released expansion to the venerated game, some may be starting to panic as the pre-event that has been running for the past two weeks is drawing to a close. The Legion pre-event is designed for altoholics and achievement hunters. With huge XP gains during the demonic invasions, this is the right time and the right place to dust off those lowbies and get crackin'! Find out how in our mini guide.

Read the full story here

Is this even relevant? they give you a free 100 when you purchase legion anyway lol

Volgore

Even after the many years, i still enjoy leveling the most for the journey and adventure.
The slower the better

I'd like to see a leveling guide for max. lore experience or -even better- various guides for the various lore lines in the game.
Suzie!!

Octagon7711

Nitth said:

System said:

Legion Pre-Event Mini Guide - 1 to 100 in a Week or Less

With exactly a week until World of Warcraft: Legion makes its debut as a fully-released expansion to the venerated game, some may be starting to panic as the pre-event that has been running for the past two weeks is drawing to a close. The Legion pre-event is designed for altoholics and achievement hunters. With huge XP gains during the demonic invasions, this is the right time and the right place to dust off those lowbies and get crackin'! Find out how in our mini guide.

Read the full story here

Is this even relevant? they give you a free 100 when you purchase legion anyway lol

It's great for leveling up those alts that's been just sitting there doing nothing.  

Iselin

Gorwe said:

Why even have levelling if you are going to misuse it so?

So they can complain about how boring and repetitive the end-game is first? That's my final answer.

Siris23

One thing I'd change in the article is don't open crates at 90, do it at 91 instead. There's a pretty big ilvl jump between 90 and 91.

The same might apply to 60/61 but I can't say for certain, I haven't leveled a char in that range yet.

Forgrimm

Gorwe said:

Why even have levelling if you are going to misuse it so?

The most you can do is get to the current level cap, which is going to increase in a week. It's a good way to get alts to current max level so they'll be ready to start on Legion content right away.

Mardukk

Dont you have to do the mind numbing linear questing in order to open up areas etc?  

Cygi

I'd like to see a leveling guide for max. lore experience or -even better- various guides for the various lore lines in the game.
Suzie!!

+1

SBFord

Nitth said:

System said:

Legion Pre-Event Mini Guide - 1 to 100 in a Week or Less

With exactly a week until World of Warcraft: Legion makes its debut as a fully-released expansion to the venerated game, some may be starting to panic as the pre-event that has been running for the past two weeks is drawing to a close. The Legion pre-event is designed for altoholics and achievement hunters. With huge XP gains during the demonic invasions, this is the right time and the right place to dust off those lowbies and get crackin'! Find out how in our mini guide.

Read the full story here

Is this even relevant? they give you a free 100 when you purchase legion anyway lol

Guess ya missed the part about raising more than one character to 100 -- alt characters and for achievement hunting in Legion.

SBFord

Volgore said:

Even after the many years, i still enjoy leveling the most for the journey and adventure.
The slower the better

I'd like to see a leveling guide for max. lore experience or -even better- various guides for the various lore lines in the game.
Suzie!!

Anything for you! We'll see what we can whip up after Legion launches. I'm a story fiend myself so you can expect that that's where my heart will be, especially with so many long-told stories being touched upon!

SBFord

Siris23 said:

One thing I'd change in the article is don't open crates at 90, do it at 91 instead. There's a pretty big ilvl jump between 90 and 91.



The same might apply to 60/61 but I can't say for certain, I haven't leveled a char in that range yet.

That's why the suggestion was twofold: Open at talent tiers OR at the levels where new expansions were opened -- for instance at 81+ to get WotLK gear and so on. I stopped opening any crates at 85 and have held them all pending the 100 ding on my Warlock (she's a 93 at the moment!). Looms are a little underpowered and they've stopped giving any experience gains but with the sheer number of folks around, it's not really necessary to up the iLevel until 100.

Octagon7711

I've played the game off and on since beta.  I like GW2's philosophy, leveling should easy, then have fun at end game.  Just my Hunter I just leveled up can keep me looking spirit/exotic for mounts and pets for a very long time.  Not to mention playing with the alts.  I got burned out on regular leveling many years ago.   Now I can enjoy end game. 

R.Lima

This event made me seriously question my decision to roll on a PvP server. There are just so many a**holes ganking lowbies, it's ridiculous. I have a max level character in full conquest and I don't go around destroying people because they're an easy target... I mean, what's the point?

Myrdynn

I could go from 1-100 before this, whats the big deal?  Cause its a different way to level?

Iselin

R.Lima said:

This event made me seriously question my decision to roll on a PvP server. There are just so many a**holes ganking lowbies, it's ridiculous. I have a max level character in full conquest and I don't go around destroying people because they're an easy target... I mean, what's the point?

If they can grief, some will. I played in Emerald Dream (RP PVP server) for many years and yes, camping lowbee quest areas is very much a WOW thing.

Ziboo

Good guide for those that don't like to level and experience a game as it was intended to be played. All we need is more people with 12+ max level characters sitting bitching about nothing to do.

Personally won't take that route. WoW has great content at all levels, and telling people to tag tag tag so they can max xp - I guess actually contributing to the event is too much. Hey once they can fly they can sit above everyone else and leech XP until the final boss too. Why didn't you share that nifty tip?

just waiting for a new dungeon at endgame, that's just silly and shouldn't be encouraged imho.

Iselin

Ziboo said:

Good guide for those that don't like to level and experience a game as it was intended to be played. All we need is more people with 12+ max level characters sitting bitching about nothing to do.

Personally won't take that route. WoW has great content at all levels, and telling people to tag tag tag so they can max xp - I guess actually contributing to the event is too much. Hey once they can fly they can sit above everyone else and leech XP until the final boss too. Why didn't you share that nifty tip?

just waiting for a new dungeon at endgame, that's just silly and shouldn't be encouraged imho.

I agree. The fun for me whenever I go back (and I'm not sure I will this time) is to take a new character, often a new class if there's one to be had, take a walk down memory lane and level the old fashioned way.

As generally meh as Pandaria was thought to be, I had a blast leveling monks and tanking, healing and DPSing with them through all the early dungeons all the way to max level.

heerobya

I'm def raising my old level 31 druid to 100 before Tuesday.

I've got 100 Paladin, Warrior, Shaman, Warlock, Mage, & Demon Hunter already - way too many to ever actually play 100-110 but at the same time, I've done the leveling up experience so many times (legit) over the 12+ years of WoW... I love the free/easy boost this is offering! So depending on how quick I can get my Druid to 100, might roll a Priest up too!

SBFord

Iselin said:

Ziboo said:

Good guide for those that don't like to level and experience a game as it was intended to be played. All we need is more people with 12+ max level characters sitting bitching about nothing to do.

Personally won't take that route. WoW has great content at all levels, and telling people to tag tag tag so they can max xp - I guess actually contributing to the event is too much. Hey once they can fly they can sit above everyone else and leech XP until the final boss too. Why didn't you share that nifty tip?

just waiting for a new dungeon at endgame, that's just silly and shouldn't be encouraged imho.

I agree. The fun for me whenever I go back (and I'm not sure I will this time) is to take a new character, often a new class if there's one to be had, take a walk down memory lane and level the old fashioned way.

As generally meh as Pandaria was thought to be, I had a blast leveling monks and tanking, healing and DPSing with them through all the early dungeons all the way to max level.

Again I will state that this event leveling experience is for people who want all 100s when Legion launches. I would not necessarily advocate to level this way normally. This is an exceptional, and limited time, event that ends next Tuesday.

Kaneth

Jean-Luc_Picard said:

It's great for those 90+ characters you didn't "finish" yet.

One additional advice. If you plan to get a 90+ level char too 100 using the invasions, don't turn in all your chests. Keep at least half of them until 100, so that once you hit 100, you can open them all and be showered with ilvl 700+ gear.

I would say save all of them, since the upgrades you'll get won't be all that great, especially if you have heirlooms. I did that on my Paladin. Had full set of ilvl 700+, many of my pieces warforged.

Octagon7711

Legion invasions now spawning six at a time.

With just a week left until the launch of Legion, the invasion is ramping up. Today, all six invasion zones — Westfall, Dun Morogh, Hillsbrad, Azshara, Northern Barrens, and Tanaris — are active at once. Each invasion still lasts two hours, so if you’re leveling alts or trying to get weapon drops, you should be able to hit them all while they’re up.

http://blizzardwatch.com/2016/08/23/legion-invasions-now-spawning-six-time/

SBFord

Octagon7711 said:

Legion invasions now spawning six at a time.

With just a week left until the launch of Legion, the invasion is ramping up. Today, all six invasion zones — Westfall, Dun Morogh, Hillsbrad, Azshara, Northern Barrens, and Tanaris — are active at once. Each invasion still lasts two hours, so if you’re leveling alts or trying to get weapon drops, you should be able to hit them all while they’re up.

http://blizzardwatch.com/2016/08/23/legion-invasions-now-spawning-six-time/

Yep, that was expected, though the article was written before that happened.