Leveling From 70-80 is SUPER FAST Now!

[@SomethingScotty]

As someone who does a lot of speed runs for things like Diablo 1, 2, RE1, 2, 3, 4, etc., etc., there's always gonna be something that gets missed or took a full half-second to hit instead of a quarter second. But every so often you get "The God Run" where everything just falls into place and you get competition-level runs and knowing the god run is out there waiting for me in my chosen game just makes learning the tricks and techniques and routes and everything all that much funner.

[@Dosukuva]

In case blizzard fixes the DF Craft speed pot you can use the weaver buff from the spider pacts, even if they don't fix it you can use it to get the extra 3% to reach the 75% cap.

[@fe1ian637]

to equip items faster and not search them all over your bags you can hold alt over slot in character screen and it show options you have for that slot. I use bunch of addons but I believe blizz have this as standart feature too

[@traciecurtis3018]

You don't even need to press alt. Just go to the gear set tab, and each slop has a pop out bar

[@Harldan1]

Good call, I forget that's an option.

[@shalakabooyaka1480]

nj, I dont really like those werebears either. I do like the skin from emerald dream, but also really like the neon jelly bears.

[@rockpickable]

if you press alt while hovering above an item slot on your character screen, you can select from the available options, without having to look through your bags for a specific gear item

[@Jack-wy4dr]

great video really enjoyed it, Is there chart of the most cost effective leveling via crafting?

[@Harldan1]

The 70-80 guide goes into a bit more detail on this. Enchanting is the only really viable option atm due to the restrictions applied by the Dreamsurge zone.

[@Blur86]

You should do a timer that pauses in load screens like hollowknight speed runs

[@Harldan1]

This is a good suggestion that is unfortunately a bit more complicated than it initially appears. On the surface you're absolutely correct that cutting out loading screens would be ideal, and if WoW speedrunning was extremely competitive I'm sure there would be some measures in place to allow this. As it stands, it's not, so it doesn't really matter since I'm only doing this runs as a personal challenge and as a demonstration of my leveling guides. However, let's put that aside for a second and discuss two major potential issues with pausing timers during load screens: 1. /played is largely used as a metric for many players to share and compare their leveling times, and this does not pause during loading screens. Cutting out loading screens would lead to weird discrepancies between these two times, which would make it harder to compare 1:1. Imagine if I had claimed that my MoP Remix speedrun was sub 30 minutes because I cut out the load screens, but my actual /played time was ~30 minutes 30 seconds. To many players this run would now be illegitimate, even if we can agree that it may be more "fair" from a competitive speedrunning standpoint. As a result I generally err on the side of caution and try not to do anything that would make my time appear lower than it would on a /played tracker. 2. I can't speak for the Hollow Knight mechanics (haven't played it), but I know of many other games that also pause the timer during load screens. To my knowledge, in all of these games there is fundamentally no important timers running in the background that would cause long loading screens to give you an advantage. This is not the case for WoW. While you sit in a load screen all other timers are still counting down, and if used in bad faith, this could make it beneficial to intentionally create very slow loading screens for yourself. For example, lets say a certain route is really fast, but it only takes ~12 minutes to complete and you would need to finish by using your Hearthstone to return to a centralized location. Hearthstones have a 15m CD, so this would be an obvious issue. However, you could theoretically circumvent this by sitting in a 3 minute loading screen, causing your Hearthstone to be back up in time without actually impacting the timer. This is a hypothetical example, but hopefully you can see the potential for abusing the system with stuff like damage cooldowns etc. Obviously in a perfect world you would have dedicated moderators to ensure nobody is bending the rules in an unfair way like this, but the inherent design of the game makes it so removing load timers and having long load times would provide a notable advantage. Again, it's a great suggestion and I know it works well in other games to minimize hardware advantages. I personally feel that implementing it in WoW runs would cause too many potential problems, so I don't plan on doing it at any point.

[@who_glhf9113]

holy shit each craft is so much xp

[@JinDestroy]

Is there a reason you go back all the way to the dragon Isles to craft Enchanting Stuff from TWW? Am I missing something?

[@kite8556]

Are these all the xp buffs that stack now ? Anniversary - permanent buff (10%), anniversary - quest (10%), warband buff (25%), warmode (10%), darkmoon item (10%). Did I miss anything?

[@Harldan1]

That's correct.

[@kite8556]

@@Harldan1 Thanks.

[@Cyfaeras]

@@Rack979 he addressed this in the vid - it doesn't stack with dmf at all, so no point

[@Rack979]

@@Cyfaeras I don't think he said he tested both sides, if he just tested Grim Visage, you might conclude that both don't stack at all, but there are parts that clearly do (Alliance rep part).

[@Rack979]

@@Cyfaeras I just tested it on my Alliance level 70. Unburdened and DMF, 1102 XP. Just DMR, 1036 XP. No buffs, 972 XP. Looks like it stacks to me! And for completeness, tested on my Horde level 70. 518 XP, 518 XP, 486 XP. To compare directly, double the numbers since the Horde alt had no rested XP and the Alliance alt did. 1036, 1036, 972. Well look at that, I guess more due diligence was needed. :p

[@jimmydance4840]

Any specific reason that you selected tier 2 delves instead of tier 1?

[@Harldan1]

Yes, the mobs give 10% additional XP. I discuss this a bit more in the guide.

[@DFlow-xn3vq]

how is Dornogal zone not laggy for you? the whlole first zone feels unplayable to me.

[@Harldan1]

This particular run was recorded on the PTR, so I won't have any issues with lag. That being said, lag for me on live servers has been hit or miss. During high pop hours it does lag a lot, but it's usually fine later at night, which is when I tend to record most of my speedruns anyways.

[@lolminator90]

Didn't they remove exp from crafting Glamour?

[@Harldan1]

No idea where you heard that, but as you can see in the run it still rewards full XP.

[@lolminator90]

@@Harldan1 I tried myself and i got xp ... but somehow i got 10k with all buffs but you got 40k exp ... or im doing something wrong?

[@guntherschmidt6501]

What are these NPCs from the start of the video that stays in orgrimmar? never saw them

[@Harldan1]

Those are only present on the PTR, Blizzard puts them there to help with raid testing.

[@steve2563]

No active Dreamsurge showing up for me on live, not even for my lvl 38 pally...

[@Harldan1]

The map indicator is broken, but if you fly around the zones you'll eventually encounter it.

[@ericsadlier6372]

TIL Hallows End buff does not stack 🙃

[@atomicoption]

It doesn't? That's criminal

[@Harldan1]

Yup, most news sites and content creators have just been lying to you about it. AFAIK the misinformation started with an Icy Veins article, and tons of other people just blindly regurgitated the information without doing any fact checking of their own.

[@Rack979]

There are two Hallow's End buffs. Horde's Grim Visage and Alliance's Unburdened. For rep, Unburdened does stack, I get 70 rep from WQs fully buffed (20th base, 20th repeatable quest, DMF, Unburdened). Horde side, same first 3 buffs and Grim Visage, only 65 rep per WQ. I don't actually like leveling so I haven't tested the XP side, but did look up that the Hallow's End XP buffs are mob kills only if you want to test.

[@Harldan1]

@@Rack979 It may stack for rep, I didn't test that since it's not a concern for me. I did specifically test the XP side of things, both quests and mob kills, and I can confirm it doesn't stack. There are also multiple posts on wowhead going back many years which affirm the same thing.

[@Rack979]

@@Harldan1 I just tested both on live for XP like an hour ago. Alliance side does stack, Horde doesn't. I don't know what you used to test with, I just killed mobs out in Dragonflight on two level 70 warriors, one Alliance, one Horde. Did you test both sides? I'll even put down my data. Rested Alliance warrior, level 70 1102, 1036, 972 XP with Unburdened and DMF, just DMF, and neither respectively. Unrested Horde warrior, level 70, 518 XP, 518 XP, 486 XP with Grim Visage and DMF, just DMF, and neither. Double those to compare to rested, 1036, 1036, 972. The data supports my position.

[@dariominiello9934]

Why go to dragonflight to craft?

[@atomicoption]

There is an xp buff from the active dreamsurge that can be applied

[@Harldan1]

This is explained in detail in the 70-80 guide.

[@dariominiello9934]

thx ​@@Harldan1!

[@tomsetberg4746]

I grind that takes forever and gives you no benefit... yeah welcome to WoW.

[@nonye0]

wheres that kute facecam

[@Harldan1]

Facecam will only be used every now and then, hard to justify it when I'm recording at 5 am and look tired af.

[@AlCap0le]

Why die you play without the dmf exp buff ?

[@Harldan1]

I had the Darkmoon Buff.