Experience and rested XP in WoW Forever

Experience in WoW Forever works much like Classic, with the same amount needed per level and the same cap at 60. What changed are the sources: dungeons pay differently, green mobs give less, and camps, food and the Cozy Sleeping Bag add bonuses on top. This guide covers it all.

Experience to level 60	4,084,700, the same as in Classic
Main sources	Quests, kills, dungeons, exploration
Rested XP	Double experience from kills, up to 150% of a level
Extra bonuses	Camp Tent, Well Fed from food, Cozy Sleeping Bag
Legacy talents	Well Rested and Talented
Leveling route	RestedXP, 10% off with our partner link
Related	Camping guide, Cozy Sleeping Bag, Cooking

How experience works

You earn experience from quests, kills, exploration and dungeons. With enough of it you reach the next level, up to the cap of 60. There you stop gaining experience.

The experience bar at the bottom of the screen shows how far you are. Hover over it to see your current experience and how much you still need. Every gain also appears in the chat.

Experience per level

Every level asks for more experience than the one before. In total you need 4,084,700 to reach level 60. In September a story claimed that Forever needs far less, but Blizzard denied that: the amounts are exactly those of Classic.

Level	To next level	Total so far
1	400	0
2	900	400
3	1,400	1,300
4	2,100	2,700
5	2,800	4,800
6	3,600	7,600
7	4,500	11,200
8	5,400	15,700
9	6,500	21,100
10	7,600	27,600
11	8,800	35,200
12	10,100	44,000
13	11,400	54,100
14	12,900	65,500
15	14,400	78,400
16	16,000	92,800
17	17,700	108,800
18	19,400	126,500
19	21,300	145,900
20	23,200	167,200
21	25,200	190,400
22	27,300	215,600
23	29,400	242,900
24	31,700	272,300
25	34,000	304,000
26	36,400	338,000
27	38,900	374,400
28	41,400	413,300
29	44,300	454,700
30	47,400	499,000
31	50,800	546,400
32	54,500	597,200
33	58,600	651,700
34	62,800	710,300
35	67,100	773,100
36	71,600	840,200
37	76,100	911,800
38	80,800	987,900
39	85,700	1,068,700
40	90,700	1,154,400
41	95,800	1,245,100
42	101,000	1,340,900
43	106,300	1,441,900
44	111,800	1,548,200
45	117,500	1,660,000
46	123,200	1,777,500
47	129,100	1,900,700
48	135,100	2,029,800
49	141,200	2,164,900
50	147,500	2,306,100
51	153,900	2,453,600
52	160,400	2,607,500
53	167,100	2,767,900
54	173,900	2,935,000
55	180,800	3,108,900
56	187,900	3,289,700
57	195,000	3,477,600
58	202,300	3,672,600
59	209,800	3,874,900
60	-	4,084,700

Quests

A quest gives experience based on its level, its type and how hard its objectives are. The quest log shows the amount before you accept. Quests with slow or tough objectives usually pay more than others of the same level.

The quest log colors every quest by its level compared to yours:

• Gray: 5 or more levels below you
• Green: 3 to 4 levels below
• Yellow: up to 2 levels above or below
• Orange: 3 to 4 levels above
• Red: 5 or more levels above

For quests more than 5 levels below you, the experience drops by 10 to 20% for every extra level.

Elite and group quests send you after stronger monsters or into dangerous places. You often need help, and the reward is higher, experience included.

Repeatable quests have a blue marker instead of a yellow one. Most give no experience, so do them only for the other rewards.

Kills

Monsters give experience based on their level compared to yours and on their type. Monsters close to your level give the best balance between speed and experience. Much lower ones give little, much higher ones take too long.

Nameplates use the same colors as the quest log. Gray monsters give no experience at all. Monsters with a skull are far above your level and best avoided.

Green mobs give less than in Classic. Monsters below your level pay less in Forever, from a few percent to about a quarter per kill. Blizzard says that is intended, to balance the new buffs from food and camps. Monsters of your own level give exactly as much as in Classic.

Elites have a golden dragon around their portrait. They give more experience than normal monsters, but take so much longer that they are rarely worth farming.

Tagging and kill credit

Only the first player or group to hit a monster, with damage or a debuff, gets the experience. A monster tagged by someone else gets a gray nameplate. In a group, every member who is alive and nearby gets credit, so you do not each need to hit every monster.

AoE grinding

Pulling a pack and burning it down with area spells can be fast in the right spot. Blizzard made it less effective in Forever, especially for Mages, who were known for it in Classic. It still works to some degree with the right spells, gear or help. You need a way to survive the pack or keep it away with roots, slows and stuns, plenty of monsters and few players competing for them.

Dungeons

Dungeon experience changed several times on the beta. In September Blizzard moved experience from kills to quests: monsters gave little, the dungeon quests a lot. On 1 October the extra experience from dungeon quests was cut by 50%. A week later dungeon monsters got 20% more experience, and a bug that based every kill on the highest level in the group was fixed.

The best approach is to pick up the dungeon quests in advance and complete them during the run. Pulling large packs and killing them with area spells, called dungeon cleave, also works, but Blizzard does not want dungeons to be the fastest road to 60.

A much higher player in the group costs a lot of experience. A level 60 clearing a dungeon for you is no longer an efficient way to level. Group with players in your own level range. The dungeon guide lists every dungeon with its levels and quests.

Exploration

Entering a new area for the first time gives a little experience and reveals it on your map. The amount is small, so it is not worth a detour, but it adds up while you travel for quests.

Groups

In a group, the experience per kill depends on the size of the group and the levels of its members. A bigger group means less per player, and a much higher member cuts it sharply. In return you kill faster and finish quests more easily. Quest rewards do not change in a group, but quest objectives do not count in a raid group.

Rested experience

Rested XP doubles the experience from kills until it runs out. Quests and exploration do not get the bonus.

You build it up in an inn, a capital city or in the Cozy Sleeping Bag. Your portrait then shows a ZZZ. Log out there and it keeps building while you are offline. With rested XP, the filled part of your experience bar turns blue instead of purple, and a marker shows how far the rested pool reaches.

Speed	5% of your current level per 8 hours in a rested area
Cap	150% of your current level, 30 bubbles
From empty to full	About 10 days logged out
Legacy: Well Rested	4% faster and a 4% higher cap per rank, up to 20%

Well Rested raises the speed and the cap by the same percentage. Filling up still takes about 10 days, but the pool holds up to a fifth more. Talented, the next Legacy talent, gives your first talent point up to five levels earlier. Both are in the Legacy calculator.

Camps, food and the sleeping bag

Forever adds three bonuses that stack with each other and with rested XP.

Camp Tent. At a camp, a Leatherworker can set up a Camp Tent. Resting there gives rested experience as in an inn, up to 5% of a level. The buff lasts an hour and stays when you die. The camping guide covers every camp object.

Well Fed. Most food from Cooking gives Well Fed, with 5% more experience from kills on top of its other stats. It usually lasts about 15 minutes and is lost when you die. Cooking is a secondary profession, so it comes on top of your two primary ones, and you need it to light a campfire.

Cozy Sleeping Bag. Roll it out anywhere and lie down for up to 3 stacks of Well-Rested, 1% more experience per stack. The buff stays when you die, and lying in the bag counts as a rested area, also while logged out. The sleeping bag guide walks through the quest chain across both continents.

A leveling route

The biggest gain in experience per hour comes from a good route: quests picked up in advance, handed in on the way and no running back and forth. RestedXP has step-by-step leveling routes for every class and race, also for WoW Forever. Through our partner link you get 10% off.