TAUREN 1-10: goal level 10 in under 2 hours. Built from our own beta Tauren runs, cross-checked against the RestedXP Forever route.
THE MATH
Level 10 needs 27,600 XP. The full route gives about 12,600 quest XP before 10, so roughly 15,000 XP has to come from mobs you kill along the way. Tauren is doable in about 110 to 120 minutes, and the checkpoints and skips below are how you get there.
KILL-TO-LEVEL CHECKPOINTS (hold your turn-ins until you reach them)
1. Level 3, at 1,150 of 1,400 XP, before turning in The Hunt Continues: keep killing Mountain Cougars and Plainstriders around Camp Narache so the turn-in pops level 4.
2. Level 5, at 880 of 2,800 XP (Shamans: a full level 5), during Rite of Strength: kill every Bristleback Quilboar and Shaman on the way, not just the ones you need for belts.
3. Level 9, at 3,000 to 4,400 of 6,500 XP, before the big Bloodhoof turn-in: finish Swoop Hunting and Mazzranache by killing Swoops, Prairie Wolves, Flatland Cougars and Plainstriders. The turn-ins (Dwarven Digging, Dangers of the Windfury, Swoop Hunting and the totem chain) then push you to 10.
DO: CAMP NARACHE
The Hunt Begins, A Humble Task, The Hunt Continues, Rites of the Earthmother, Rite of Strength, Grace of An'she and Mu'sha, The Battleboars, Break Sharptusk!, Attack on Camp Narache, plus your class note.
DO: BLOODHOOF VILLAGE AND MULGORE
A Task Unfinished, Rites of the Earthmother, Sharing the Land, the Rite of Vision into Rite of Wisdom chain, Dwarven Digging, Mazzranache, Chakuyak, Kyle's Gone Missing!, Swoop Hunting, Sparring Match, Dangers of the Windfury, A Sacred Burial, The Demon Scarred Cloak, Stalk With The Earthmother (new in Forever), The Ravaged Caravan, and The Adventurer then The Great Outdoors then Camping 101: Cooking.
Chains: Poison Water, Winterhoof Cleansing, Thunderhorn Totem, Thunderhorn Cleansing, Wildmane Totem. And Longwalker Malah, Grim Tidings, Our Ancient Enemy, Drive Them Out.
Our slow runs missed the Thunderhorn and Wildmane totem chain, The Demon Scarred Cloak, Stalk With The Earthmother, The Longwalkers, Fizsprocket's Notes and Preparation for Ceremony. Do not skip them.
SKIP
Camping 101: Fishing (a detour for 270 XP), Earth Sapta (0 XP), and class quests that are not yours.
CORRECTION: MAZZRANACHE IS DROP LUCK
Two of our runs kept it open about 95 active minutes each and killed 27 and 54 wolves before the Prairie Wolf Heart dropped. RestedXP points the heart at Prairie Wolf Alphas and Prairie Stalkers, not plain Prairie Wolves. Pick it up, kill only Alphas and Stalkers for the heart, grab the other three items as you pass, and abandon it if it is not done by the big Bloodhoof turn-in.
OBSERVED QUEST XP
Sharing the Land 700, Break Sharptusk! 675, Rite of Strength 450, The Battleboars 450, The Adventurer 410, The Great Outdoors 410, Grace of An'she and Mu'sha 360, Rite of Vision up to 625, Rites of the Earthmother up to 1,250, Sparring Match 270, The Hunt Continues 250, The Hunt Begins 170, A Humble Task 168 to 250, A Task Unfinished 110.
GROUP SPEED
A quest chain done as a group of 4 is worth about 10,000 XP an hour each. Grinding gnolls at Palemane Rock as a group of 4 gave about 5,000 to 6,000 XP an hour each (4,300 to 5,300 in a group of 5), against the 13,800 an hour a 2-hour 1-10 needs. So use the group for quest objectives and only kill extra mobs to top off the last few hundred XP before a checkpoint.
TO CONFIRM ON LAUNCH DAY
That mob XP and the group bonus work like Classic, whether quest items drop for every group member, and whether Forever uses shared mob tagging.
HOW WE KNOW
Test runs by MinMax Life members in the WoW Forever beta, with AFK and chat time removed, cross-checked against RestedXP's Forever routes and public guides. XP figures marked 'observed' are quest turn-ins captured by our Atlas tracker. Items listed under 'to confirm' will be checked on launch day. Strategies change, so comment with what you find.
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