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Grimnix's Veteran rank Leveling Guide v1-v10
Grimnix173
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If you’ve found this guide I’d assume you recently hit Veteran rank 1, Grats man.
Welcome to Veteran rank leveling.
I’d like to start off this guide with this disclaimer:
I’m not claiming that this is the quickest way to V10 it is simply the route that I took to achieve Veteran rank 10 and I felt it was relatively painless.
There’s no getting it around it veteran leveling is a grind, but here’s some food for thought. In classic WoW a faster than average time to go from 1-60 was around 11 days played, 1-v10 took me around 9 days played total, this is with zero starting knowledge of the game. A statistic I found kind of interesting when hearing peoples thoughts about how 1-v10 is a blocker for serious pvper’s..They’ve done longer and harder grinds before and I don’t think the veteran grinding will hurt pvp. More on this at the bottom of the guide.
This is kinda the reason I’m writing this guide because I feel Veteran leveling has gotten a bad wrap.
Now to the guide!
I assume you just hit v1 and maybe you’ve quested through about half of the first zone and now it’s sinking in that you’ll have to do a *** ton of quest to level to even hit v2. You might start thinking “Wow, how are there v10′s already. How did they get through this endless pool of quest.” I found myself here as well and wanted to figure a way to get my Vet ranks faster and that’s exactly what I did.
You might notice now that if you go into your quest log there is now a clickable book that’s called Cadwell’s Almanac. These are the required quest you need to complete before you can move onto the next faction. More about this later. Just note that you most complete all the quest listed under each zone to eventually progress to the v5-v10 zones for your faction. These quest also give DOUBLE EXP.
The first thing I’d like to talk about are POI’s or Point of interest. These all the group content achievements in a zone, they include: Dolmens,Public/solo Dungeons, and world bosses. The key thing to know about POI’s is the first time you complete them you get an awesome amount of Veteran points.
How I suggest farming POI’s is by creating your own group with a message similar to this:
“LFM The Rift group content clear (Dolmens, world bosses, dungeons) Full zone clear! PST”
You’ll need a group of around 3-7 players.
Once I find 3-7 players I let everyone know I’m the group leader by telling everyone to meet in 10 minutes at my location. This seems obvious but it lets everyone know who is leading and that you have your *** together. Then I state the only rule for my groups and that is “Wait for everyone before you engage bosses because it could be you stuck on the next loading screen.”
If you do decide to form your own group I’d suggest making sure you have a circular route around the map loosely planned before you start.
V1 – V5
You can start this part as soon as you enter Veteran content.
Create or find a group for POI farming for the v1-v5 zones. Go through each zone and clear every single POI for that zone. Each zone clear should take around 1.5 hours. Should give you some quick levels and some motivation to keep going.
Once you have go through and done all the POI’s for v1-v5 zones you should be around v4 at this point.
Now take a look at your Cadwell’s almanac and start doing those quest. Most of the almanac quest have the name of the location so they should be pretty easy to cherry pick. You may have to do some trouble shooting in finding the prerequisite quest before you can get that quest to complete the almanacs objective. Most of these quest are pretty easy, solo’d everything on my DK. Another awesome thing about farming all the POI’s before doing any questing is that you’ll be a few Veteran ranks ahead of the content so you can smash through it.
Once you complete the Almanac quest for each 1v-v5 zone. You’ll get a quest to go back to Harborage this is where you’ll continue onto V5-V10 zones for your faction.
At this point you should easily be Vet rank 5.
V5 – V8
I thought this part was going to be the hardest, I felt like I was still on the uphill climb. I couldn’t of been more wrong.
Once again do POI farming for all of the v5 – v10 zones.
This should get you to veteran rank 8 pretty easily. If you’re not v8 after this point go do some quest or continue onto the next step.
V8 – V10
Now that you are v8 you can start doing Wayrest sewers farming. Note that you can start this at v6 or v7 it’s just the amount of exp you’ll get is noticeably lower then if you were v8.
Sewer’s is a pretty straight forward dungeon. Get a tank that knows the fights and you can achieve 15-20 minute runs with good DPS.
In around 15-20 hours of farming Sewer’s you’ll be a Veteran rank 10 Badass. You’ll also have some v10 gear to put on right away that you farmed from Sewers.
And that’s it for the leveling guide. I hope this helps some of you approach veteran leveling with a little less trepidation.
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Above I presented a pretty simple and straight forward plan to get v10 pretty quickly, but if you’re sill not into veteran leveling. Don’t worry, take it slow if you want. It’s not like when you hit v10 you become god in PvP or even solo world farming. You still can get rolled by a pack of 3 mobs. V10 for me was awesome because I felt now I could start working on my gear and building different sets. But really you could do this at any veteran rank. If Veteran leveling starts to become a chore go do some pvp I bet you’re v4 character can still take down some v10′s. At around v5 I rerolled an alt for about a week and had a ton of fun, it was a nice change from my main.
Anyway, play the game how you want; Veteran rank 10 won’t make you superman.
Welcome to Veteran rank leveling.
I’d like to start off this guide with this disclaimer:
I’m not claiming that this is the quickest way to V10 it is simply the route that I took to achieve Veteran rank 10 and I felt it was relatively painless.
There’s no getting it around it veteran leveling is a grind, but here’s some food for thought. In classic WoW a faster than average time to go from 1-60 was around 11 days played, 1-v10 took me around 9 days played total, this is with zero starting knowledge of the game. A statistic I found kind of interesting when hearing peoples thoughts about how 1-v10 is a blocker for serious pvper’s..They’ve done longer and harder grinds before and I don’t think the veteran grinding will hurt pvp. More on this at the bottom of the guide.
This is kinda the reason I’m writing this guide because I feel Veteran leveling has gotten a bad wrap.
Now to the guide!
I assume you just hit v1 and maybe you’ve quested through about half of the first zone and now it’s sinking in that you’ll have to do a *** ton of quest to level to even hit v2. You might start thinking “Wow, how are there v10′s already. How did they get through this endless pool of quest.” I found myself here as well and wanted to figure a way to get my Vet ranks faster and that’s exactly what I did.
You might notice now that if you go into your quest log there is now a clickable book that’s called Cadwell’s Almanac. These are the required quest you need to complete before you can move onto the next faction. More about this later. Just note that you most complete all the quest listed under each zone to eventually progress to the v5-v10 zones for your faction. These quest also give DOUBLE EXP.
The first thing I’d like to talk about are POI’s or Point of interest. These all the group content achievements in a zone, they include: Dolmens,Public/solo Dungeons, and world bosses. The key thing to know about POI’s is the first time you complete them you get an awesome amount of Veteran points.
How I suggest farming POI’s is by creating your own group with a message similar to this:
“LFM The Rift group content clear (Dolmens, world bosses, dungeons) Full zone clear! PST”
You’ll need a group of around 3-7 players.
Once I find 3-7 players I let everyone know I’m the group leader by telling everyone to meet in 10 minutes at my location. This seems obvious but it lets everyone know who is leading and that you have your *** together. Then I state the only rule for my groups and that is “Wait for everyone before you engage bosses because it could be you stuck on the next loading screen.”
If you do decide to form your own group I’d suggest making sure you have a circular route around the map loosely planned before you start.
V1 – V5
You can start this part as soon as you enter Veteran content.
Create or find a group for POI farming for the v1-v5 zones. Go through each zone and clear every single POI for that zone. Each zone clear should take around 1.5 hours. Should give you some quick levels and some motivation to keep going.
Once you have go through and done all the POI’s for v1-v5 zones you should be around v4 at this point.
Now take a look at your Cadwell’s almanac and start doing those quest. Most of the almanac quest have the name of the location so they should be pretty easy to cherry pick. You may have to do some trouble shooting in finding the prerequisite quest before you can get that quest to complete the almanacs objective. Most of these quest are pretty easy, solo’d everything on my DK. Another awesome thing about farming all the POI’s before doing any questing is that you’ll be a few Veteran ranks ahead of the content so you can smash through it.
Once you complete the Almanac quest for each 1v-v5 zone. You’ll get a quest to go back to Harborage this is where you’ll continue onto V5-V10 zones for your faction.
At this point you should easily be Vet rank 5.
V5 – V8
I thought this part was going to be the hardest, I felt like I was still on the uphill climb. I couldn’t of been more wrong.
Once again do POI farming for all of the v5 – v10 zones.
This should get you to veteran rank 8 pretty easily. If you’re not v8 after this point go do some quest or continue onto the next step.
V8 – V10
Now that you are v8 you can start doing Wayrest sewers farming. Note that you can start this at v6 or v7 it’s just the amount of exp you’ll get is noticeably lower then if you were v8.
Sewer’s is a pretty straight forward dungeon. Get a tank that knows the fights and you can achieve 15-20 minute runs with good DPS.
In around 15-20 hours of farming Sewer’s you’ll be a Veteran rank 10 Badass. You’ll also have some v10 gear to put on right away that you farmed from Sewers.
And that’s it for the leveling guide. I hope this helps some of you approach veteran leveling with a little less trepidation.
—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-
Above I presented a pretty simple and straight forward plan to get v10 pretty quickly, but if you’re sill not into veteran leveling. Don’t worry, take it slow if you want. It’s not like when you hit v10 you become god in PvP or even solo world farming. You still can get rolled by a pack of 3 mobs. V10 for me was awesome because I felt now I could start working on my gear and building different sets. But really you could do this at any veteran rank. If Veteran leveling starts to become a chore go do some pvp I bet you’re v4 character can still take down some v10′s. At around v5 I rerolled an alt for about a week and had a ton of fun, it was a nice change from my main.
Anyway, play the game how you want; Veteran rank 10 won’t make you superman.
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Gorthax✭✭✭✭✭
✭Thanks man!! I had a blast doing this with you for the short time I could! Thanks for sharing your method in the forums! I hope this does not get buried and remains ontop. I really appreciate the help you gave me in game
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Andy22✭✭✭Once you have go through and done all the POI’s for v1-v5 zones you should be around v4 at this point.
I tested this and it seems u get like 10-20k per dungeon/Boss/Dolmen? I need 1.8m xp just from v4 to v5.
I only count around 95 POI for all the Dominion zones?
30x Bosses
15x Dolmen
~50x Dungeons
So assuming ~15k per POI, i would need 120 POI just for V4 alone?
Do i miss something?
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hlgSoul ShrivenVr1 poi - 9k xp
Vr2 poi - 18k
Vr3 poi - 27k
Vr4 poi - 36k
Vr5 poi - 45k
Experience point gain increases depending on the zone they are at.0 -
Grimnix173✭✭
Andy it sounds like you were doing POI's below your level. You should be gaining way more exp. If you are v4 I'd suggest unlocking that V5 zone and moving onto that factions POI's. You should hit v5 before getting all your almanac quest done, if not you can still go to the v5 zone as long as those quest are finished.
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Andy22✭✭✭Grimnix173 wrote: »Andy it sounds like you were doing POI's below your level.
I did refuse to quest anymore, especially in "Elf Land"! I did not pick daggerfall as faction, just so that my endgame involves doing boring quest for some "Elf Queen". Its a cheap way to expand content and i don't like the visuals in elf land.
Thats ofc why i was not in the "appropriate" zone yet, since i did mainly get Vet xp by grinding vet dungeons.
Anyway thx for the tip, i did not know that POI xp was dependent on the zone lvl. I directly ported to the V5 zone and yes i now get 45k xp!
This should help me get to V6 pretty soon, when i finally can check out the remaining 3 vet dungeons. Thats btw the only reason i actually want to reach vet6 at least
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Aeradon✭✭✭✭✭Amazing. Thanks OP. This gives hope rather than all the "VR feels like chore, no point" BS the forum is filled with. Time to hit the roads. (:People keep telling me they're gonna buy me an ale. They never do.
There are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's culture. And the Elves.
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Compilation of Ideas and Suggestions0 -
Csub✭✭✭✭✭I'm 49 only but I'll keep this in mind just in case I wanna hurry up or if I want to help others. :P
Thanks a bunch for sharing this.Edited by Csub on May 15, 2014 4:41AM"The Divines gave you a nose for a reason, Tharn. So you can keep your mouth shut and still keep breathing. - Lyris Titanborn0 -
SwampRaider✭✭✭✭✭in the DC ++ zone(Ebonheart zones vr6-10) a lot of peopel are farming Lions DenCharacter: Eros, Eros I I, The Paw of Woe
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ohmygodie✭✭Has anything changed in the Vet XP you get from VR POi ?
I'm VR2 and only getting 36k from VR5's DarkAnchors/WorldBosses
VR4 gives the same : 36k, VR3 : 27k, VR1 : 9k
Or is it that there is now a 'must be within 2 level' xp penalty ?0 -
Anlaemar✭✭✭Not quite VR yet, but I'll defiantly keep this in mind for when I do get it.(NA) Anlaemar with 750+ Champion Points
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