01-13-2005, 12:53 AM
There is a nice thread here with a grind hotspot listing for levels up to 56. It is biased towards cloth wearing targets which go down easy to physical damage dealers (melee/ranged).
I have reached a point on a PvP server where I would rather grind in a quiet, far away spot or do an instance run with the Basin than work on my low yellow quests (or for that matter the green quests in gank-heavy areas during primetime). Maybe I just don't know how to stack quests at level 32 so I'm getting the 32k XP/hour that is pruported to result from efficiently grinding the Kurzen camp in N. Stranglethorn Vale.
I will do quests that are part of a chain, that promise an interesting story/location, or that have rewards I will actually use. Otherwise, starting in the late 30s, the XP rewards from green quests isn't always justifying the travel time. I would rather grind a bit in a remote cave (leaving respawn at the entrance as an alarm mechanism) and do a little mining when nodes pop up. The equation is also different depending on whether I have rest experience or not (if rested I definitely find grinding gets me to the next ding faster than looping around to do unfamiliar quests).
Popular quest spots 30+ on a PvP server often mean an encounter with the opposing faction, and depending on the overall level of detante going on, can add a bunch of time in corpse recovery / revenge that make those spots less than optimal for the goal of leveling.
I know when I'm grinding that I'm missing out on some of the "journey", but I want to see the top end instances sooner rather than later. I plan to be a little more leisurely after 20 with my alts. The starting stuff I'm all for doing as efficiently as possible.
I have reached a point on a PvP server where I would rather grind in a quiet, far away spot or do an instance run with the Basin than work on my low yellow quests (or for that matter the green quests in gank-heavy areas during primetime). Maybe I just don't know how to stack quests at level 32 so I'm getting the 32k XP/hour that is pruported to result from efficiently grinding the Kurzen camp in N. Stranglethorn Vale.
I will do quests that are part of a chain, that promise an interesting story/location, or that have rewards I will actually use. Otherwise, starting in the late 30s, the XP rewards from green quests isn't always justifying the travel time. I would rather grind a bit in a remote cave (leaving respawn at the entrance as an alarm mechanism) and do a little mining when nodes pop up. The equation is also different depending on whether I have rest experience or not (if rested I definitely find grinding gets me to the next ding faster than looping around to do unfamiliar quests).
Popular quest spots 30+ on a PvP server often mean an encounter with the opposing faction, and depending on the overall level of detante going on, can add a bunch of time in corpse recovery / revenge that make those spots less than optimal for the goal of leveling.
I know when I'm grinding that I'm missing out on some of the "journey", but I want to see the top end instances sooner rather than later. I plan to be a little more leisurely after 20 with my alts. The starting stuff I'm all for doing as efficiently as possible.