Your right but its still frustrating when it happens
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Check the area. Are there mountains? River? Sea? Forest? What could be a possible escape route?
If you see many dead mobs, expect respawns.
Always have mana.
Do not stretch your hp to it’s limits. Always try having enough hp, in case something spawns next to you.
It’s good that I play mage and can conjure food and water to top up my health and mana.
For other classes I am not sure what to recommend - level up cooking or buy food and drinks on the AH.
How is this a tip?
Buff other players and in return they often will buff you, stamina buff helps me a lot.
Here are mines … (maybe already posted by someone else):
General
- Never play under 100% concentration status, meaning tired, sleepy, ill or under other circumstance that do not allows you to focus on survive.
- Go again.
Do not get frustrated or dissapointed for loosing your character in the levelling process. Take notes of your mistakes, learn from them, and start again.
If you were streaming or recording the session, rewatch your gameplay in order to improve it. - Don’t run.
Be the first on something requires a lot of time, preparation and skill.
Hardcore is more about survivance than speeding. Do not try to run at all cost, because the cost in here is DEATH. - Try to rest your characters as max as possible.
Optimize the200%experience benefit from being rested.
Questing
- The worth of doing a quest 3-4 levels up from your level is exactly the same as if you complete it 2-3 levels bellow your level. So if you don’t feel completely prepared to do that risky quest, don’t do it. Or try to team-up with other people.
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DO NOT USE quests for finish your levels.
If you’re about to level up, grind mobs.
Then use the quests to reduce the remaining experience pool of the next fresh level.
Grinding
- Classic requires a lot of grinding stages when you are forced to kill mobs for a quest item or just for levelling.
If you are in the second scenario, grinding for levelling, kill mobs that can reward you with resources for your professions.
Groups
- When possible, team-up always with a player which class can at somepoint heal (priest, paladins, shamans & druids).
Inventory
- Levelling in classic is a matter of how many quest you’re able to do and return in a row. So try to have as much as free bags slots in order to avoid going back to sell junks in the middle of a levelling journey.
- Always have enough bandages of the top level you can create.
- In general, priorize stamina over any other stat.
- Review all NPC vendors, they may have potions or improved gear.
Money
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SKILLS is what you should be concerned around money.
You need to level up your skills in order to properly survive and kill mobs.
Do not worry about AH, mounts or other money-related-stuff. - If for any reason you need to make money:
Farm items that can stuck, for example skins, tooths, etc.
Weapons and gear do not stuck. - Make a bank character and level it up to five (5).
Learn Enchanting on this bank character and disenchant any uncommon item you obtain levelling with other characters. It will more profitable than selling the item in the AH.
1-10 Levels
- This range is were most people die, because of overconfidence.
Don’t think you can’t die at this range, 'cause you will eventually die.
Also, because there’s too many people at this stage you must care a lot about layering and respawns. - Do not invest time in profession at this levels, is a waist of time and money.
- As you don’t have enough skills yet, and also don’t have enough life/energy source pool, don’t risk yourself. Go a mob a time, maybe two (2).
- If you are required in this levels to go into a cave, keep clean of mobs your way out of the cave.
11-59 levels
- Preparation is the key.
Before going into a levelling session, make enough bandages, potions, food, etc. - Use your potions or other utilities when you’re in trouble.
Do not save something for later, as you don’t know if there will be a “later”.
Dungeons
- The only dungeons I will recommend to care about are Scarlet Monastery ones, all the rest are a risk and I will suggest to go into them only with people you trust, specially the tank one.
Professions
- You priority should be to top-up First Aid and Cooking, as they provide the bandages and the food for the well-fed benefit.
- Engineering and Alchemy do provide goods to improve you levelling.
- Spend time gathering your main profession resources, is it worth to spent 2-3 hours farming rather than going into the adventure without utilities.
- Blacksmithing is worth at low levels (10-20) for the weapons buff, if you’re a melee class.
DONT YOU LOOK AT YOUTUBE ON YOUR SECOND MONITOR WHILE PLAYING!!!
send mats and gold to bank.
Don’t pull to many mobs.
Don’t pull when under X hon.
Be careful of respawns.
Level mining/herb/skinning on character you play and the main proff on bank char.
Don’t tab out where mobs might respawn. You might get distracted and forget to tab back in.
Eat/drink every time your health and mana is not full. Cooking will provide food. Drinks you can buy.
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My advice is: Be bold! be reckless!
Flag yourself for PvP
Sign up for a Gnomeregan PuG at the earliest opportunity
Scream YOLO! and race headlong into mob packs
Group up with that Hunter called Thebesthuntr as he ignores all other Gnolls besides Hogger and attempts to down him at L10 while surrounded by adds.
Heal the absolute heck out of anyone you see at critically low health and in combat, by spamming your strongest healing spells.
Lifetap yourself into single figures and pull scores of Quillboars.
Forget about mana! Real men melee with a stave!
Take a shortcut from the top of Teldrassil.
Rush through the other faction’s towns and camps.
Pick up every possible quest involving Murlocs.
Grab those Relics of Awakening ASAP.
Robot Chickens deserve to be saved.
Laugh at the very notion of ‘group quests’ - you got this!
Defias Pillagers? Pah! What are they compared to one such as you?
Restoration is a totally viable levelling spec.
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That guy has perfected the guide with the title “how to die”
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Ehm… so just get the deathlog addon instead?
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Feels good to be a warlock where nobody expects any buffs from you
Still expect helarhstones and summons from us
My only advice is that always be aware of your surroundings, especially in caves and especially when other people are around.
I’ve recently had a nasty case where an overconfident player died to 4 mobs right in front of me - and then those mobs were rushing after me like Usain. The only reason I lived is because I found a lake in that particular cave and I eventually lost threat on all of them and they reset.
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Never stand on the edge of the undercity elevator.
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Take full control of your camera. Always.
Change “Camera Following Style” to “Never” and disable nonsense like “Smart Pivot”.
Always look around you, especially during combat. When I see those death clips with fixed camera angle, where people are running more or less into their doom, because they don’t know what’s ahead or behind… well. As I said, control camera yourself.
Wouldn’t zooming out just do the same?
100% this!
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Light of Elune shares cooldown with Health potions.
Can´t be said often enough.
And if you attempt a cave… make sure your HS is off cooldown.