u/GatoDeSerio

[Heavily] Assisted 1-60 run in era, that I completed in 28 hours and 22 minutes. Hours off from world first (kudos those guys), but was a fun side project and thought I'd share my routes/tech. Also interested in any input on shaving hours off (besides more rested hopping - I did get impatient in the end).

I used four accounts to summon myself and do my own boosts, and had plenty of rested hops over the last 8 months doing this off and on.

Avg. XP/Hour over the entire run: ~144,000 / hr

Highest XP/Hour: ~1,800,000 / hr

Below is by no means an exhaustive step-by-step guide, just a recount of what I did on this run

1-11

• Human mage, summoned to SW. Ony Buff, train weapons, grab set of twink gear and consumes.
  • Enchants: Fiery weapon, speed on boots, +str on gloves and wrists, +all stats on chest.
  • Consumes: VDay event chocolates, VDay event darn box (these work at level 1 and give +30 agi), elixirs (str, health, armor, troll's blood, agility), explosive rockets (these are incredible at low levels and do not require engineering), plenty of healing potions, Frog Leg Stew (equivalent of level 25 food that can be used at level 1).
• Hearthed to Northshire and grinded until level 6. With Ony buff + str gear and consumes, you will nearly one shot mobs using melee only.
• At level 6, got summoned to hyper-spawn boars at the farm west of Fargodeep mine in Elwynn (33,85). Grinded boars Southpark style until level 10, with "mob tagging" assistance from my alt mage account (ungrouped, following char, casting arcane explosion when mob is roughly <50% health).

11-15

• Deadmines boost. One of my weaker legs of the run. I need to find a better hyperspawn location here as I'm too high level for Elwynn boars, and not high enough for Westfall crabs (more on that later).

15-20

• Hearthed to train Arcane Explosion.
• Summoned to hyperspawn crabs in Westfall. I started North, around 46,10, but moved to 26,67 at level 17.
• AOE grind crabs with mob tagging assistance.

20-25

• Summoned to Stockades.
• Stocks boost from my alt account (brought in other alts to bring the avg. level down)
• Slowed down from 24-25 testing Seal of Wrynn quest, which didn't end up being worth it (even with aspect of pack assistance).

25-37

• Summoned to Scarlet Monastery (SM).
• SM boost (mostly Cath/Armory rotations). I discovered I could get faster xp/hr doing Armory only and waiting out lockouts while staying logged out.
• Had only two wipes in the entire 1-60 run, and they both occurred here at levels 35 and 36 (my longest level timer of 1 hour 20 minutes).

37-42

• Summoned to Maraudon.
• 320+ mob mage boost from my alt account.
• Summoned to mount vendor in Elwynn at 40 to buy mount, and ported to train skills.

42-50

• Summoned to Barrens to train defense - the scorpion swarmers around 41,70 in South Barrens are incredible for training defense. This is critical for this next segment so you don't get dazed during the solo runs.
• Summoned to Zul'Farrak (ZF).
• ZF graveyard solo boost until 50. Arlaeus has some great videos on this.
• LIPs become available at 45, but fed myself many mana potions for this phase.

50-58

• Summoned to Sunken Temple (ST).
• 72 mob solo boost (shoutout Arlaeus again).
• Earlier levels, I discovered I could maintain a high xp/hour (350-400k) if I stayed logged up until my alt mage account was about to start the pull.
• From 54 on, I was doing the boost entirely solo.
• Important Gear: Glowing brightwood w/ +22 int enchant, Robes of Insight, Venomshroud set for +nature resist (w/ +15 nature resist enchant to cloak), nature resist rings.
• Noted way too late: Flask of Distilled Wisdom can be popped at 50 to help dramatically with mana pool during the runs.

58-60

• Summoned to ZG Island in STV and traded materials (1 bijou + Coins).
• Bijou quest turn-in.
• Coin turn-in until 60 using auto-turn-in addons (you'll need around 630 coins to be safe). This is where I hit 1.8M xp/hr.

Alright, time to touch grass.