Damn It Feels Good to be An Alt!
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Heartbourne on Monday, March 2, 2009 - 15 Comments Tags: Addons, Addons, Alt, Mount, addons, fubar, heirloom, legacy, leveling, refer-a-friend
Heartbourne on Monday, March 2, 2009 - 15 Comments Tags: Addons, Addons, Alt, Mount, addons, fubar, heirloom, legacy, leveling, refer-a-friend 
Many people, including us at Project Lore, find monotony in playing at level 80. Without the overall goal of leveling up, you can feel misguided. Many people decide to create alts so they can again have that purple (or blue) experience bar on their screens.You may find that it is much easier to level than before! With a recent patch, more than 60 new graveyards now scatter Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. There have been a few new flightpaths added over the past few months (Un'goro, Ratchet, Mudsprocket), ghosts move faster as of 3.0.8, and the amount of experience required to level has been slashed repeatedly. The XP required for 10-60 is less than half of its original value, and 60-70 has been slashed by just as much since the release of Wrath.
In the case that you have high level friends on other servers, you can now make a new level 55 death knight on their server (provided you have a level 55 on your "home" realm). I've already taken advantage of this and now have death knights running around a half dozen realms.
If you have an active level 80, you may want to consider getting a few Heirloom items if you plan on leveling any alts. These items are "bind to account" and can be mailed between your characters. Their stats scale with the level of their owner, and even their armor type in limited instances. Perhaps most importantly, the shoulder pieces give you an additional 10% experience gain from killing monsters. This means you have to do about 10% less stuff for every level from 1 to 80. That's like requiring only 90% of the normal experience required level (provided all your experience comes from killing monsters). Not to mention, shoulder pieces don't really start appearing until the mid 20s, so its a good extra boost in power by putting something in that otherwise empty slot. You can pick up a pair of these shoulders in many flavors for whatever spec of whatever class you want for either 200 Stone Keeper's Shards (for pieces with resilience) or 40 badges of heroism (for pieces with more PvE stats). I'd use the Shards personally since most people will have many more of them than badges, but if you are swimming in badges and already have tier 7.5 gear, you might want to use some of those badges on heirloom gear.
There are a couple cool trinkets too. They can be bought for 50 emblems of heroism and give you 2% of your health or mana back when you kill something. Additionally, they offer some stats. The Swift Hand of Justice gives you 2% health when you kill something and haste, while the Discerning Eye of the Beast gives you 2% mana when you kill something and spell power. These can greatly reduce your downtime while leveling. I'd personally pick the Swift Hand of Justice first since anyone can use haste and gives you flexibility to change your mind with which alt you want to level.
In addition to these pieces, you can find every flavor of weapon, off-hand, and ranged weapon. The stats scale well with level, and it keeps your alts well-geared without having to worry about tracking down every last piece to keep them powerful.
If you can convince your friend to start playing WoW with you, you can use the refer-a-friend program and get 3x the normal experience when you play together (provided you are both under level 60 on the characters you are leveling and are within 5 levels of each other) along with many other nice benefits, like the fancy zhevra mount. They don't even have to pay until after either 10 days or if they want to level past 20.
Lastly, you may want some addons to help you track the rest experience status of all your characters. If you use FuBar, check out RestFu, which shows you the rest status of all your characters, time to fully rest, and more.What tricks and addons do you all use to enhance your alt experience?
Reader Comments (15)
lvling sucks :p
i dont know how i managed to lvl my pala to 80
can someone plz reply to this post and tell me where the heirloom items can be bought? thanks.
I only had 2 alts...a 64 dk(yes i was that lazy i couldn't get a dk to 80...) and a lvl 12 shaman...i find lvling the most boring thing to do in-game as you can see from what i had as alts...you can notice i said i had cuz i quit wow because of what it has become...rerolling classes that blizz makes OP on purpose and then faceroll to be succesfull aint my kind of game...and i will surely not pay for it
I have a priest that I bought all four heirloom items for and leveled from 1-67 it was very nice. Rolled an undead priest and as soon as I hit brill I grabbed the gear from the mailbox. If you plan on creating an alt just save up the badges and get some good gear you can use and reuse. The only thing I wish is that you could transfer the gear across realms and there was more of it.
I have recently rolled a shadow priest alt, and I find her MUCH more exciting than my 80 healadin, even without heirlooms.
Blizz has really made an effort to make the original game more enjoyable, and right now there really isn't a reason NOT to level an alt!
@demonicduke
You purchase emblem ones at the emblem vendor in your factions respective areas in dalaran, or from the wintergrasp vendor in wintergrasp.
Eh, for clarification ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The WG of course uses WG shards ^^
Ugh, I have around 5 70s and 1 80. Most of my alliance and horde characters have separate accounts and I really don't feel like starting at 1 again. Sometimes leveling is more of a chore then enjoyment
For all my alt uses I use altoholic. It replaced several mods I had, and does what restfu does and more (bags, mail, skills, recipes lists of all alts across your multiple accounts and realms). I have 16 toons on 2 different realms. FTW.
all my alts are and i have allot of am is to get a brake from my mains leveling could be so agrovating ill make an alt ill give him up make an alt give him up but ever since i made my dk i couldent give him up and i tried i realy was planing to put up with all the huntard crap but than i found a dk and it was amazing i planed to just to get to 60 i thought never able to put all of that crap again but thier was no crap no agrovation no nothing but OP after i hit 60 i could not leave him tryd to go back to my hunter but it was so much better leveling with a DK so i leveled him to 80 now that iam 80 i thoguht i could go back to leveling but i finaly get a relief from leveling and it was sweet today iam running my first naxx and i still cant get anough of my DK i havent touched any of alts in months so it is sweet to be an alt not for my alts leveling bites infect my higher levels are allways favored over the lower once
Alts are fun.. though I blame them as the reason I only have one 80. :P
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Just got mine to 68 along with my girl so we will be roaming borean tundra all over again and trust me i can not wait. it feels like im on the home stretch
I'll give a second to Altoholic... just about anything you could possibly want to keep current about your other characters is in there.
I just looked up Altoholic after reading these comments, and WOW, it looks awesome. Can't wait to test it out once I get some time on my account again. (Buying pre-paid cards sucks)
The two main add-ons that I have been running with for over two months now are Titan Panel (action bars) and Quest Helper.
(QH I've been with almost from the start, despite several annoyingly random breaks)