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Editor's Note: Just wanted to welcome our newest blogger, Dainerys.I was hanging around in Stormwind a few weeks back when I heard something interesting on the trade channel:
My friend and I just got to level 40 in 2 days!
I thought he was kidding, but I decided to humor him and send him a tell asking how he did it. He told me about the refer-a-friend program going on at the official world of warcraft website.
I wanted to try it for myself, so I went and bought and new account.
Now if you have a friend who wants to do this it will be easier, but if you are playing solo the first thing you have to do is make a separate free email with yahoo or whatever. Next log into the world of warcraft official website and go to the recruit a friend option on your main account information page. It will ask you to send an email to a friend inviting them to play warcraft with you. Use the new email you just made.
Go to the new email and follow the link and register.
+Important Sidetrack Information+
When asked for a name for the second account, I personally put a different first and last name of a family member. The reason I did this is because; if my main account ever gets banned for some stupid reason, this account will be exempt from the chain ban. (Blizz tends to ban all accounts with the same first and last) However, you will not be able to transfer the char you level up to your main account which some people will not like very much.
Anyway, register for the 10 day free trial and you are good to go. Both accounts are "linked" now. Use your new account key you bought and add a 2 month game card to it. You will get a ton of bonuses now.
1 Free zebra mount for you main account
1 Free month of wow for you main account
1 EXP/REP buff for 3 months (Most important)
And the ability to summon your friends to you every hour.
If your computer can handle running 2 wows this is the part I am getting at with the fast leveling.
The exp buff from refer-a-friend is CRAZY! You can double box both chars up to 60 within a weeks time.
Here is my leveling speed from my refer-a-friend bonus.
Day 1
Playtime 1 hour
Level hit: 10
Day 2
Playtime 5 hours
Level hit: 25
Day 3
Playtime 9 hours
Level hit: 42
Day 4
Playtime 4 hours
Level hit: 48
Day 5
Playtime 4 hours
Level hit: 51
So now I have 2 level 51 characters who should be 60 by tomorrow. I can do this with as many characters double boxing as I want until the 3 months pass. If you wish to level up a bunch of alts at record time, this is the method for you.
You will want to send over about 200 gold from your mains to one of the characters to pay for all the mounts and training. If you want to level even faster, do NOT loot unless you need a quest item. Looting mobs adds up in time. Also, don't start doing instances until SM, and make sure someone can run you through it because groups will slow you down. However a high level chain pulling everything will get you about a level per instance run usually.
I also suggest using a healer/dps combo. Here are my combos I am planning to level:
Demon-Lock/Holy-Priest
Beast-Hunter/Prot-Paladin
Enhance-Shaman/Balance-Druid
The demon-lock needs a pure holy spec priest so he can continually life-tap and hit the light well so there is virtually no downtime. The other combos wont need as much downtime prevention so they do not need pure healing spec buddies.
Make a /follow macro on both characters for the option to follow eachother. Usually the healing buddy char will the one on follow most of the time.
Put the loot on free for all so that you can continually loot from the main dps char.
Another tip is to skip quests that require you to gather a lot of quest items. Unless the quest has tradable quest items like the westfall quests, it takes more time than its worth to keep grabbing on both characters. You will have the luxury of skipping quests because you level so fast after the 30s.
Leveling Zones
Alliance
Always bring your chars to the human starting zone. You can use the summon function, so make a level 1 char there and just summon whatever classes you need there.
Westfall
Redridge
Duskwood
Once you hit 30, stay in STV till youre 40-42, mixing in a LOT of SM runs.
Tanaris + ZFruns
If you can find a friend to start doing BRD runs at 46 for you, it will level you about 2 levels per FULL run.
52-55 Ungoro
55-60 WPL, EPL
Horde
Pretty much the same method, except I suggest bringing all the chars to Durotar and heading to the Barrens, then to STV at 30. After that just follow the same leveling process.
My last piece of advice is to not worry about updating gear so much. Unless you are a melee class your gear only needs to be updated if it is urgent. You will be leveling so fast that the gear you buy today will be obsolete by tomorrow.
My friend and I just got to level 40 in 2 days!
I thought he was kidding, but I decided to humor him and send him a tell asking how he did it. He told me about the refer-a-friend program going on at the official world of warcraft website.
I wanted to try it for myself, so I went and bought and new account.
Now if you have a friend who wants to do this it will be easier, but if you are playing solo the first thing you have to do is make a separate free email with yahoo or whatever. Next log into the world of warcraft official website and go to the recruit a friend option on your main account information page. It will ask you to send an email to a friend inviting them to play warcraft with you. Use the new email you just made.
Go to the new email and follow the link and register.
+Important Sidetrack Information+
When asked for a name for the second account, I personally put a different first and last name of a family member. The reason I did this is because; if my main account ever gets banned for some stupid reason, this account will be exempt from the chain ban. (Blizz tends to ban all accounts with the same first and last) However, you will not be able to transfer the char you level up to your main account which some people will not like very much.
Anyway, register for the 10 day free trial and you are good to go. Both accounts are "linked" now. Use your new account key you bought and add a 2 month game card to it. You will get a ton of bonuses now.
1 Free zebra mount for you main account
1 Free month of wow for you main account
1 EXP/REP buff for 3 months (Most important)
And the ability to summon your friends to you every hour.
If your computer can handle running 2 wows this is the part I am getting at with the fast leveling.
The exp buff from refer-a-friend is CRAZY! You can double box both chars up to 60 within a weeks time.
Here is my leveling speed from my refer-a-friend bonus.
Day 1
Playtime 1 hour
Level hit: 10
Day 2
Playtime 5 hours
Level hit: 25
Day 3
Playtime 9 hours
Level hit: 42
Day 4
Playtime 4 hours
Level hit: 48
Day 5
Playtime 4 hours
Level hit: 51
So now I have 2 level 51 characters who should be 60 by tomorrow. I can do this with as many characters double boxing as I want until the 3 months pass. If you wish to level up a bunch of alts at record time, this is the method for you.
You will want to send over about 200 gold from your mains to one of the characters to pay for all the mounts and training. If you want to level even faster, do NOT loot unless you need a quest item. Looting mobs adds up in time. Also, don't start doing instances until SM, and make sure someone can run you through it because groups will slow you down. However a high level chain pulling everything will get you about a level per instance run usually.
I also suggest using a healer/dps combo. Here are my combos I am planning to level:
Demon-Lock/Holy-Priest
Beast-Hunter/Prot-Paladin
Enhance-Shaman/Balance-Druid
The demon-lock needs a pure holy spec priest so he can continually life-tap and hit the light well so there is virtually no downtime. The other combos wont need as much downtime prevention so they do not need pure healing spec buddies.
Make a /follow macro on both characters for the option to follow eachother. Usually the healing buddy char will the one on follow most of the time.
Put the loot on free for all so that you can continually loot from the main dps char.
Another tip is to skip quests that require you to gather a lot of quest items. Unless the quest has tradable quest items like the westfall quests, it takes more time than its worth to keep grabbing on both characters. You will have the luxury of skipping quests because you level so fast after the 30s.
Leveling Zones
Alliance
Always bring your chars to the human starting zone. You can use the summon function, so make a level 1 char there and just summon whatever classes you need there.
Westfall
Redridge
Duskwood
Once you hit 30, stay in STV till youre 40-42, mixing in a LOT of SM runs.
Tanaris + ZFruns
If you can find a friend to start doing BRD runs at 46 for you, it will level you about 2 levels per FULL run.
52-55 Ungoro
55-60 WPL, EPL
Horde
Pretty much the same method, except I suggest bringing all the chars to Durotar and heading to the Barrens, then to STV at 30. After that just follow the same leveling process.
My last piece of advice is to not worry about updating gear so much. Unless you are a melee class your gear only needs to be updated if it is urgent. You will be leveling so fast that the gear you buy today will be obsolete by tomorrow.
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