Ravenheart
Thanks! There will be some differences of course. Hard to speculate on how much because we know so little about how close to Vanilla Classic will be. I liked what I heard from Blizzcon in regards to their intended direction but the demo that was linked to the virtual ticket was extremely rough. Much work to be done but in beta we trust I suppose.
Authiel
Glad you got some use out of it. I was considering leveling a Hunter 1-60 next, so if I do I’ll be sure to share my thoughts on the leveling process! In regards to Gnome vs Human, I’ll say that Gnome probably has the best racials in the game for Mage because of how impactful 5% Intellect is for your mana pool but it certainly won’t break your Mage if you’re Human. If you plan to farm a lot of rep it’s a great choice.
10/10 guide fren :)
Markone thanks! Still adding more!
So I did a thing..
A few notes on my time 1-60:
/played at ding: ~7 days, 20 hours
Gold for mount @ 40, gold for epic mount @ 60
300 Herbalism, Skinning, First Aid before 60
first ever classic 60 for me
I think sub 5 1/2 days is possible for a very efficient Mage as I spent a lot of time investigating farming spots (as you can see..) and some time/gold was definitely wasted.
I have a good ~15 spots to sort through and potentially add now that I'm done leveling and I intend to add videos for each spot.
Keep an eye out!
So I did a thing..
A few notes on my time 1-60:
/played at ding: ~7 days, 20 hours
Gold for mount @ 40, gold for epic mount @ 60
first ever classic 60 for me
I think sub 5 days is perfectly reasonable for Mage as I spent a lot of time investigating farming spots (as you can see..) and some time/gold was definitely wasted.
I have a good ~15 spots to sort through and potentially add now that I'm done leveling and I intend to add videos for each spot.
Keep an eye out!
Awesome, you’re working hard on this!
I am so going to roll a Mage now that this solid guide exists. Good to have reliable info from someone who plays on pserver.
Finesse Thanks, but you almost seem sarcastic..
I wanted to add a disclaimer at the top about the information and videos being private server but if Blizzard stays in line with their stated plans 99% of this should carry over to classic. All we can really do is speculate until beta, though.
I’ve heard something about Starving & Rabid Bonepaw in Desolace not giving XP in Vanilla, but couldn’t confirm. It would be a shame, though, as that is a very viable spot with good Beast density in between the hyenas that all classes can farm for 30-40.
Hah I didn’t mean to come across as sarcastic!
No hate for pservers here man what would you trust more - the ramblings of some guy who last played vanilla over a decade ago or someone who is playing it right now?
Sure classic may have some minor changes here and there but that doesn’t stop, as u say, 99% of it being relevant. Especially on a macro level like this guide u have written!
More updates!
-Tidied up formatting (fixed some spacing issues, finished linking classic wowhead abilities, moved some notes to different sections to better centralize information)
-“Finshed” adding mobs (10+ new mobs posted that made the cut, still need test 2)
To Do:
-Add 1-40 Wand Progression (planning to do Horde for sure, perhaps I’ll have time to add Alliance too...)
-Add Contention Notes for each spot (how likely you are to run into someone else farming a particular spot)
-Add Videos to showcase each spot’s mob density, redo dungeon videos
- Add Items of interest for each mob grinding location (perhaps I’ll have time to add AoE farming mobs’ drops of interest too..)
Levels: 53-54
Dire Maul: East
Whip Lasher
Ideal Professions: Herbalism (nodes)
Prerequisites: None
This will be the place to be as a Mage pre ZG and you can start here as early as 52 with little issue. As with Maraudon pulls, at lower levels you should try to avoid doing more than 2 packs at a time. There is a potential bonus Dusty Tome near the Southwest corner of the bottom level where the mobs are. You can see me check for it with my cursor at 2:37 in the video below. A big portion of every DME guides are wrong because the scripting of this instance of private servers is far from accurate, here is a video I made a video about this issue:
https://youtu.be/XZBfm8C29Ss
As a bonus, this video proves that the server I'm playing on features the Blizzlike version of the instance:
https://youtu.be/M3zA1qH02VA
Long story short:
So anyway, the section about DME is not correct :P
Infra thanks again for that info. I’m actually the guy that was discussing this with you on reddit! (Ynglmao)
I’m also in the process of editing this guide to be more in line with strategies for Classic launch whereas a lot of this was written based on my experiences from Northdale when the server had already been up for months (completely different environment than a fresh server, particularly classic as the population will be ridiculous at launch for I’d imagine every server).
I’d like to point out again that’s it’s difficult to speculate on how exactly DM:E will be managed for Classic but I’d assume they’d stay as close to possible to the original scripting.
E: now that we can actually say server names without fear of punishment, what server was used for your video? Maybe I can find time to level another Mage and test DM: E routes with the correct scripting myself. Your talent choices for that farm in particular are a bit odd, especially Frostbite.
E2: just seeing your post on reddit saying you had your own server. Care to elaborate on what’s required to set this up (I’m just simply looking to test things on a server with scripting as close to actual vanilla as possible and that would be really nice for speed running testing also!) or if you know of any public servers with the proper DM: E scripts?
OwnedCore has a subforum for repacks of servers like LH and Nost etc you might want to look there for a specific server with the scripting you desire?
E: https://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-emulator-servers/
teebling thanks! I did a small bit of research for break (double shift today) and I had no idea how easy it was to get this up.. this is a much more effective/less time consuming way to test things with the admin commands, holy hell.
Well, I’ve got a lot planned now lmao!
Woops sorry I just realized you guys reacted to my post :P
I'm glad to help you sorting things out, have fun testing anything you want to do on your server, this is a true gift :P
I'd like to adress this though:it’s difficult to speculate on how exactly DM:E will be managed for Classic but I’d assume they’d stay as close to possible to the original scripting.
Well we do know how this instance will be scripted, it will be 100% Blizzard as Blizzard will use the backed up code of 1.12 from 2006 :P
Woops sorry I just realized you guys reacted to my post :P
I'm glad to help you sorting things out, have fun testing anything you want to do on your server, this is a true gift :P
I'd like to adress this though:it’s difficult to speculate on how exactly DM:E will be managed for Classic but I’d assume they’d stay as close to possible to the original scripting.
Well we do know how this instance will be scripted, it will be 100% Blizzard as Blizzard will use the backed up code of 1.12 from 2006 :P
No, that’s the logical assumption for sure but nothing is 100% (not even their release date).
I think particularly with DM: E and the fact that it’s supposed to be available at launch (this point isn’t 100% either), there is definitely the possibility to have various aspects of the dungeon changed because of the potential for gold acquisition more so than exp. This is a heavily discussed topic as a lot of people feel the instance is over the top and I’ve seen multiple private servers make changes to the dungeon to attempt to somewhat limit the farm.
To clarify, I don’t think they would change things about the dungeon to attempt to “balance” but to say we know 100% anything besides they’re working on a classic server is just wrong, we’re all speculating based on what they’ve said so far (which is extremely limited).
E; I’d prefer not to dive too far into discussion of what they will/won’t do in this thread but honestly, thanks a bunch again for pointing out the bad scripting for Northdale DM: E.