Re: the XP nerf with 6.0 -- I wasn't able to find a solid answer for this when I was looking, I wanted to provide a data point on the time to level through Pandaria. This was on a shadow priest with only questing (no dungeon queues) -- I quested through most of the Jade Forest for 85 to dinging 88, then Kunlai for 88 to dinging 89, and then Dread Wastes for 89-90.
1) XP required to level no longer has the massive jump between levels. I don't remember the exact numbers, but if 84-85 is 450k xp, 85-86 is now 470k or so instead of the 3-4m or whatever it was pre-patch.
2) Approx 1.5 hours per level through MoP, taking my time as a miner/herbalist to stop at every gold dot. Based on the last character I leveled pre-XP nerf, I would say it's a time reduction of ~50% at 85-86 and 60-65% at 89-90. It might even be more than that because I believe the last few characters I had were ~4 hours to go 89-90, but I never played them if they weren't rested.
3) XP per kill in Pandaria zones seemed a bit lower to me than it was in Cataclysm Zones (Deepholm was where I moved to MoP zones). I didn't try this, but I'm wondering if it might be faster to level 85-90 in the high-level Cata zones instead of MoP.
4) Within 2 hours of hitting 90, was at avg ilvl of 504. This was by doing the WoD quests in the Blasted Lands, the regular heirloom staff I had from Garrosh, and clearing all the timeless isle chests I could find. Last piece needing an upgrade is gloves, of which I'm still using ilvl 437 quest reward.
Someone said queues are back on Zul'jin now ... on a Sunday night. Hopefully they're not too bad the next couple nights, I want to try and get my mining/herbalism leveled the rest of the way (300 mining / 375 herb right now).
1) XP required to level no longer has the massive jump between levels. I don't remember the exact numbers, but if 84-85 is 450k xp, 85-86 is now 470k or so instead of the 3-4m or whatever it was pre-patch.
2) Approx 1.5 hours per level through MoP, taking my time as a miner/herbalist to stop at every gold dot. Based on the last character I leveled pre-XP nerf, I would say it's a time reduction of ~50% at 85-86 and 60-65% at 89-90. It might even be more than that because I believe the last few characters I had were ~4 hours to go 89-90, but I never played them if they weren't rested.
3) XP per kill in Pandaria zones seemed a bit lower to me than it was in Cataclysm Zones (Deepholm was where I moved to MoP zones). I didn't try this, but I'm wondering if it might be faster to level 85-90 in the high-level Cata zones instead of MoP.
4) Within 2 hours of hitting 90, was at avg ilvl of 504. This was by doing the WoD quests in the Blasted Lands, the regular heirloom staff I had from Garrosh, and clearing all the timeless isle chests I could find. Last piece needing an upgrade is gloves, of which I'm still using ilvl 437 quest reward.
Someone said queues are back on Zul'jin now ... on a Sunday night. Hopefully they're not too bad the next couple nights, I want to try and get my mining/herbalism leveled the rest of the way (300 mining / 375 herb right now).
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