If, like me, you have a bunch of level 60-69 toons you’re working on getting to 70 for wrath, you may be wondering where to focus my attention prior to pre-patch. Here’s my top tips of what to prioritize:
- Toons with rested xp. Rested xp provides a big xp boost so it’s normally best to work on characters that have rested xp vs those that don’t. (This is an obvious one, but I include it because it might conflict with the points below and you need to hold it in balance)
- Toons in the lower half of their level xp bar. When pre-patch drops xp requirements 60-70 are reduced. Especially at lower levels (i.e. 60-65) this is quite significant. Any xp earned above the amount required when prepatch drops is lost; it does not carry over to the next level.
- Toons near the top of their xp bar. If you don’t have toons in the lower half of their xp bar, then pick one that’s ready to ding and then they will be in the lower half! (Note: The xp you earn to get to ding is wasted, however you then can earn more xp which is not. The ideal is to get all your characters to 50% of a level, or a bit higher than 50% at higher levels.).
- Higher levels. The xp-to-level reduction is lower the closer you get to 70, so you waste less xp levelling characters that are closer to 70. (This effect is potentially even more significant than rested xp if the level different is significant. That’s because more xp earned at lower levels is going to go to waste when pre-patch drops)
- Tanks and dps. Pre-patch is likely to lead to a wave of DKs. If you have healers to level, they will be in demand for dungeons in pre-patch!
Hope that helps!
P.s. the xp-to-level reduction does not affect below level 60, so if you have any pre-level 60 toons then it also makes sense to work on those, since no xp you earn below 60 will be wasted.
