World of Warcraft Levelling

World of Warcraft is a massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) with over 7 million subscribers. It‘s now the world’s most popular subscription-based MMORPG. Characters are created at level 1 and progress through level 60 by gaining experience. Progress is fast in the early levels but becomes agonizingly slow at later levels. And experience can be gained in only two ways.

The first is by simply killing monsters (mobs) within the game. Each kill will give you a certain amount of experience based on the level of the mob and on your level. Mobs above your level will give you the most experience but these higher-level mobs are also likely to kill you. Luckily, within the game, death isn’t permanent and will only result in a journey to recover your corpse and some downtime. The repeated killing of mobs is known within the game as grinding. Killing mobs 1 or 2 levels below you will give the fastest experience. These mobs give slightly less experience than mobs your level, or higher, but the downtime and deaths are less.

The seconds way of gaining experience is by completing quests given to you by Non-Playing Characters (NPCs) within the game. These are often trivial at low levels and may simply involve delivering a message or reporting to another NPC. At higher levels, for more experience, they can be complex and take several hours, if not days to complete. Completing quests is more interesting, although it too can involve some grinding looking for rarely dropped items.

Whether you gain experience, and hence your levels, by questing, grinding or a combination of the two really comes down to your personal choice. Grinding can be boring but questing can be frustrating for the harder quests.

Power levelling is a process of gaining experience faster than normal. This is actually quite easy to achieve for your second and subsequent characters since you will have access to gold, the in-game currency. The easiest way to power level is to use “twinking” which is to use items or item enchants that would not normally be available to a new character. For example, you can add extra armour or health to a low level character to make them harder to kill. Twinking can enable a level 15 character, for example, to take on mobs of levels 20 or higher with impunity and thus gain more experience with each kill. More mobs at a higher level equates to faster levelling.