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    ATK Member Isphera's Avatar
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    Grinding vs. Questing

    I just got this e-mail from a friend of mine, and I thought it was interesting enough to share with you.

    Anyway, there has always been this question of "Should I grind or should I quest to get to level 70?"

    Well, there is a real easy answer to that question, but it's solved by mathematics.

    The XP required from 1-70 is currently at: 10,847,000 or, an average of 154,000 per level.

    My leveling time of 5 days 8 hours, put me at an average of 84,742xp per hour.

    The average xp you will gain from a mob over the 70 levels works out at 252.36xp per mob you kill (starting at 50 at level 1 and
    finishing at 585 at level 70)

    Keep in mind that this has all been averaged out, leveling xp per hour in the early levels is far lower in the end (I think I was getting 6k/hr in level one and 70 I finished around 260k/hr)

    Now, if we take this 252.36 figure, that means you would have to kill 336 mobs an hour, that's 5.6 a minute. It might be possible to do this for the first few levels, but try doing this as a Rogue
    or Hunter or Warrior or anything at level 30. It won't happen consistently.

    The only classes that this is even remotely possible on is maybe mages (downtime has to be taken into consideration too) and that's a big maybe
    There you have it. So if you want a 70 Marc, stop grinding.
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    Re: Grinding vs. Questing

    It's pretty obvious that the fastest way is to integrate questing with grinding so that you grind to complete quests, and you need to find the best way to do these quests so that you have as little travel time as possible.

    I leveled an orc hunter once using Joana's guide, got to level 35 in just over a day play time. It really does work, but then I got bored xD.

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    Re: Grinding vs. Questing

    I think we can agree that 99% of us agree that the best way to level quick is questing. Marc seems to be allergic to the quick part. Nonetheless, I was feeling a bit bored and statistical, and felt like posting the exact figures

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    Re: Grinding vs. Questing

    Ya I also reached 30/35 on a orc hunter questing guide and quest helper in around 17 hours game time then I got bored.

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    Re: Grinding vs. Questing

    Better yet; get a girlfriend.

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    Re: Grinding vs. Questing

    Bah grinding your mother isn’t as fun as believed.

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    Re: Grinding vs. Questing

    Quote Originally Posted by VoX View Post
    Better yet; get a girlfriend.
    For possibly the first time ever, I actually lol'd
    Take that ya one-eyed, bomb-lobbin', cactus eatin', pot bellied, thug fat jigglin-chicken whoopin' big, back-stabbin lob-armed creepy spastic bloody, blind-eyed pashy little twitchy pickle-headed rocke- hoppin, potato-poppin' phony two-faced stealthy mutant bastard!


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    Re: Grinding vs. Questing

    You have never laughed before, I have never gone through a day without laughing.



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    Quote Originally Posted by VoX View Post
    Better yet; get a girlfriend.
    Says the man with the
    1) 100% activity award
    2) Posting Award
    3) actually decided to comment with that!

    -rant over-

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    Re: Grinding vs. Questing

    Marshy has a point, you are a pathetic hopeless loser, but i spose you got used to it so you forgot, so i will let you off this once.



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    Re: Grinding vs. Questing

    No comment.

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    Re: Grinding vs. Questing

    Stop Expressing Feelings in 1 - 3 word posts!



    17:42 - Colonel Mitch |ATK|: DE IS NOT A NOOB

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    No comment isn't a feeling.

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    Re: Grinding vs. Questing

    In Vox's case


    No comment = A statment that underlines his infinite depression of the above post.



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    Re: Grinding vs. Questing

    Speaking of depression, don't make me do another WoW trial!

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