World of Warcraft Leveling

World of Warcraft (or WoW) is one of the most popular MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) in the world. At anytime during the day, hundreds of thousands of people will occupy the World of Warcraft servers. These people are completing quests, selling items, and trying to get their characters to level 60 in the least amount of time. For some, it might take them a few weeks to get to level 60, for others a few months. WoW leveling speed is dependent on how much time one can play the game. Only devoting an hour or two a day to the game will make level 60 seem like an impossible goal. The two main ways a player can gain experience to level up are grinding and performing quests.

Grinding in MMORPG terms is more or less wandering the map looking for enemies to defeat. WoW players have their characters attack groups of enemies that either yield high experience or have a lot of enemies that can be defeated quickly. While this can lead to a good deal of experience in a short amount of time, it can get rather boring as the player wanders the World of Warcraft map looking for groups that fit the above criteria. Also, Players cannot stay only on one map and hope to reach level 60 either. As the player gains levels and experience, the groups that were previously giving them lots of experience start to give less and less. These diminishing returns prevent players at level 20 from reaping rewards by taking out enemies many levels below them. The travel time between maps also slows down the leveling speed of the character.

Questing involves going through predetermined tasks or quests given by non-player characters in the game. Some of the quests can be as simple as "Kill X number of a certain enemy" while other quests are complex and involve traveling between multiple maps and performing multiple tasks to complete the quest. Quests are what World of Warcraft is built around for its storyline. Quests also add depth to the game by adding interaction between the player and the non-player characters in World of Warcraft.