When 2.3 went live, my Warrior was level 28. He just dinged 58 this morning and will be moving on to Outlands this weekend. Time to break the rested xp habit of ages past, John. It's dead technology. Join the world of power levelling. Rested xp saves you nothing in this new world and will only cost you gold as you shop the AH for replacement gear at level 32 while you wait for your rested to build up.

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/agreed

plus if you are enjoying yourself, why stop you pay the fee for fun not rest xp. just my $0.02.

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Hah, while others in my guild were waiting for their rested to jump back up i gained around 10 levels. I look at it as a bonus, not a requirement for leveling.

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This faster leveling has only convinced me to roll a third alt. I'll probably get my first two alts to 70 at the same rate as before 2.3 now!

But it is pretty great, i ran something like 7 quests last night in an hour and a half and got my druid from 45 to 46. 4 more levels to get 375 max jewelcrafting!

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1-62 on my druid so far since the patch.

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I've been leveling my BE Prot pally pretty much since the patch hit and it's been amazing...I feel like I should be working on my main to get him raid ready but it's hard when leveling is so easy. I went from 22-39 in less than a week and I don't play nearly as much as I used to.

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I used to only play characters that had rested experience. However, since 2.3 was launched, the amount of experience you gain on quest turn-ins has really been buffed. Since experience gained from quests have no bearing on your rested exp, I'm starting to play more without rest.

I would say that if you prefer to grind or do instances over questing then you should try and accumulate some rested experience where you can. You can't beat the quest experience though.

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Coming from a person who's highest level is .. 33 now ;) I found the patch really helpfull .. from a guy who's main before the patch was 28.

Great patch .. has kept me playing :)

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I'm 2boxing a rogue and a mage (the mage being the level 70).

Taking it casually so far but the rogue is level 30 and he hasn't touched a mob, and has 0 dagger and 0 sword skill.

I imagine i may be one of the first level 60 (or maybe 70) rogues without any weapon skills :P

I really doubt i'll run out of quests doing it this way as well...in fact i think i've got more quests available to me than the last time i rolled an alt. I dont seem to be scraping to find the next level. I'm doing yellow+orange quests only (no reds) and the pace works out fine.

I'd reccomend it to anybody that has a mage spare and a little bit of alt+tab + /follow skills :P

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I used to try to stick to rested leveling but not any more.

I took my priest from 33 to 44 and my mage from 37 to 42 in seven days. Rested just isn't needed for fast leveling anymore. Especially in the mid 30 range with the new Dustwallow Marsh quests. Even STV is not so bad with the Rebel Camp FP. Now you can get to it without the long walk.

btw... if you're going to power level then mining will help with the gold problem.

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My Shaman is 41 now, he was 32 when the patch was released, I'm loving the xp boost. Considering I only play about an hour every other night it's pretty damn good.

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Im sitting on 5 70s at the moment 4 of which were pre xp bonus and let me tell you that grind 1-60 blew and i played the spinning wheel of rested xp just to get there in a semi quick manner. But since there shoot 1-60 in 4 days game play. non the less i used the rule of no less than 5 lvs a day, more if you can stay awake that long, but it seemed that 5-7lvs a day was a avg for me.

What i learned, throw half your old lving guides out, green quest still equal mad xp and rep...(feel like i lved a eckhuman with racial of diplomacy) and i skipped all the instances past 30. I love the new system Now granted what do you do with 5 70s? pick your flavor of the day and go with it....have 3 set on dailies not for the rep, for the gold to support my crafting, and the other two i play for fun or whatever needs to be done that day.

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My shaman was 47 before patch 2.3 and he is now nearing 61 and barley has any rested left. The new xp boost from the patch is amazing. Rested XP is a thing of the past I will finally be able to have a 2nd farmer and that means for dailies :)

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I used to be just like you. I'd always save up 50% rest at least, grind some quests, then quit as soon as I'd eaten all the rest up. After 2.3, no more. My hunter was 21 when 2.3 hit, and I'm not just a few thousand shy of 44. And I only play late nights for a couple hours. I used up my rest xp by 22.5 and haven't had more than 14% or so since. There is no reason to save up rest xp anymore with the increase to quest XP and reduction in xp per level. That 150% still takes as long to accumulate, but gets eaten up a lot faster. If you take a week off from an alt its a nice bonus when you come back to it, but its not necessary in the slightest anymore. Just go for it! Unless you've got 5 alts your rotating through don't bother with rest xp :)

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Hehe, the last comment by 14 is funnily close to home for me... I rerolled a BE pally when BC came out (previously human pally), and did so on an Aussie server as I used to be on a US server. A few months ago I decided I'd try and get alts up of every class on the server, so that I could experience every class at cap, and also to assist my main (mainly via professions). Since then, I have done the full rested XP method - that is, I won't play an alt unless it has full rested XP. As I'm raiding and working, this is rarely a problem.

Prior to 2.3, this method was fantastic - my playtimes were absolutely fantastic compared to like level players. Post 2.3, the advantage isn't as dramatic, but it's still there. Most play sessions I get a character up 3 or 4 levels before my rested is consumed (thanks to questing) - this was the case prior to 2.3, and is also post 2.3. It's only that now, my sessions are a lot quicker. =)

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I'm an altoholic and ran low on rested xp on my 65 lock so I decided to take my 39 hunter for a spin in Dustwallow to check out the new quests. He had 150% rested to start and I hit lvl 44 before he ran out of rested in about 5 hours of play in Dustwallow. I then ran Tanaris to get my LWing up from scorpid scales and got halfway to 45 before I started questing in Tanaris. Only problem I saw was that my pet seemed to be at least 1 level behind me from the accelerated leveling (I know they are working on this for the next patch I think). At this rate I should have my 29 mage to 40 in no time.

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I'm really enjoying the change too. I got my paladin from 42 to 48 in just a couple days. And I too ran out my Rested bar, but fortunately I still have my other alts. I've mostly been playing my 32 mage, but a part of me really wants to just powerlevel my pally up to 70 so I can actually get into dungeons.

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Im leveling too fast to get most of these quest improvements, so I just gain rest exp when I'm raiding or sleeping/at school, and actually try NOT to unless I really hate the level range Im in :(

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When the patch launched my rogue was 33 and now he is 46. For me that is VERY fast leveling considering I had no rest bonus at all and play only a few days a week.

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I would rotate through 3 toons: druid, priest, and hunter.

I worked it out so I could play one and use up the rest XP, then switch over the next day to another and use up their rest XP.

It worked well, but it did get hard to stay focused on one toons abilities and quests.

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