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New PTR Build, S3 Gear req reduced in S4, Latest news

News | March 20, 2008 (3 months, 2 weeks ago) | by Zyuu | Filed in World of Warcraft

New Public Test Realm Build, Season 3 gear requirement will be reduced in Season 4, Season 1 gear will be removed, Level 70 reached in one day, Fury of Sunwell Video here at Curse, Daily Blue posts

There's a new PTR Build available and the PTRs are back up again. Most notable difference is that Sunwell Plateau can be accessed again.

Below you can find the most recent World of Warcraft news.

Season 4 will reduce the prices of Season 3 gear

When Season 4 is out the requirements for obtaining Season 3 gear will be reduced.

There will be no changes to gear availability/rating requirement until Season 4 starts, which will not begin when patch 2.4 goes live.

When Season 4 starts here's what will happen:

  • Season 1 removed
  • Season 2 moved to honor
  • Season 3 rating requirements and prices lowered
  • Shoulders: 1950 rating
  • Weapon: 1800 rating
  • Season 4 gear added

Season 4 isn't expected to begin any time soon, but as always we plan to give at least a two week notice before it does. Stay tuned to these forums or any of your fine local fansites as I'm sure the information will spread fairly rapidly once we do announce a Season 4 start date.

[edit: Season 3 prices and Season 4 rating requirements are not yet announced. All information contained herein is of course, as always, subject to change.]

What about Season 1 being removed?

You get to keep your items of course, they'll just no longer be available for purchase from the vendors.

Level 70 reached in one day and two hours

Yesterday two players named Minerva and Athene on the Stormscale-EU realm managed to beat the previous record of reaching level 70. It took them 1 day, 2 hours, 31 minutes and 40 seconds. It's been said that they reached level 60 in only 14 hours.

Sources claim that a couple from the Blizzard staff was watching them.

First thing that comes to mind is how they did it. What kind of leveling plan did they use? Exactly what is the most efficent way of reaching level 70 the fastest. The questions are many and I'm sure there's many theories and ideas surrounding this subject.

Check out the screenshot below.

Reaching level 70 the fastest

Fury of Sunwell Trailer

Recently Blizzard released a video of the upcoming Patch 2.4 -- Fury of Sunwell. If you have yet to see it (or want to see it again), check it out below!

Daily dose of Blue (Blizzard) Posts

Blizzard WWI08 tickets will be onsale at 5pm today

Blizzard WWI08 tickets will go onsale at 5pm (CET), Central European Time.

WWI08 official website.

Europe: Free Character Migration

Due to population differences between some of the highest and lowest populated PvP realms, the following Free Character Migration will be available from March 19th to March 25th:

  • From: Al'Akir, Frostmane, Grim Batol, Outland, Twilight's Hammer
  • To: Burning Steppes, Spinebreaker

Please note that the migration may be closed at any time should a destination realm's population rise too high.

FAQ: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/faq/charactermove.html...

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

the screenshot shows it took 5sec to go from lvl 69 to 70, so the question is , if that's not a private server nor a cheat , I do not see something other than a bug exploitation. Think yourself ... nobody is intented to gain 1 million XP in 5 sec. this is totally not possible and not wanted by blizzard .... 5sec is almost not enough or just enough to kill only 1x lvl 70 trash lolz....

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Mera, seriously, check what it says:

"Time played this level: " that means 5 seconds played as level 70. It says nothing of how much time it took from 69 to 70.

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

correct me if im wrong, but couldnt you summon your lvl 1 to the entrance of say strat, have your 70 clear the first room, move up, clear the next etc etc? not sure if theres minimums to particular instances or if you would get better xps in said instances. would your agro range at lvl 1 pull the whole place? has anyone tried this? also i would think that either one of the 2 would have full sets of boe gear for certain lvl ranges to save time farming it up. the real hard part would be 60-70 imo.

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

They likely did it with instance runs.

But that's still insane time, great work guys. :D

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Hells teeth its about 10 million XP or therabouts .

It was 10,847,000 pre 2.3 .

Thats mind boggling .

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

I attempted to watch the video and turned off after 2 mins due to the guys foul mouthed egotistical rantings . Really sorry but the guy seriously needs to lighten up .

26 hours straight at a pc whilst remaining sharp enough to play ..... Its a real stretch . As commented on numerous times on the EU forums . Its more than possible to do if you run the char in relays with others or merely have a raid guild doing the actual grind . He supposedly did it straight with no rested . Thats an unbelievable amount of mobs/quests to get through . It just doesnt add up . Seriously someone please dredge up some figures for 1-70 Total xp needed and 1-70 quests total gained .

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Bleh it's a private server guys.. come on don't be dumb. They had a level 70 on their server, posted a screen shot of them hitting 70 super fast on a 500% exp private server then poof they are famous.

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

No it's not on a private server.

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

What Id like to know is what they did it in real time . That 26 odd hours could easily have been spread over a week or more .

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

They did it actualy 5 seconds shorter then it said. If you check the chatframe it sais time played this level = 5 seconds so they did it in 1 day, 2 hours, 31 minits and 35 seconds, but hey who cares, still fast imo.

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

you should make a guide about how to get to 70 that fast it's amazing

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Obtaining level 70 so fast is only possible if you use the "get rested" tactic. Always have rested exp and when you have used all the rested exp, go to inn and get rested untill you have that 1½ level's of rested exp.
But still if they used that rested exp method, I can't believe they did that fast.
Gief some info.. I wanna level up that fast also :)