QUOTED FROM WARCRAFT HUNTER'S UNION:
A lot of people have noticed that pet XP gain plummeted severely with the last hotfix. Suddenly it was taking 10 times as long to level your pet up. We finally got an answer — it turns out Blizzard made a fix to prevent you from leveling efficiently through Cataclysm by grinding Wrath mobs:
We recently made a change to the way experience is calculated and wanted to take some time to explain this change in order to clear up some confusion some may be having in regard to their rate of progress. If you are currently at the maximum level that you can be for an expansion (or higher), killing creatures from that expansion will now grant 10% of normal experience.
Examples:
- Level 60 or higher players get 10% normal experience for killing creatures in Azeroth (“Old world” content)
- Level 70 or higher players get 10% of normal experience for killing Burning Crusade creatures.
- Level 80 or higher players get 10% of normal experience for killing Lich King creatures.
- Level 85 or higher players get 10% of normal experience for killing Cataclysm creatures.
What does this mean for those that have Cataclysm and are leveling up new characters? This means that you will gain normal experience through to level 60 and will then need to move on to The Burning Crusade zones until you reach level 70 and Wrath of the Lich King zones until you reach level 80. Once you reach 80, it is expected that you will be continuing your leveling adventures in the new Cataclysm zones and dungeons. We have made this change so that players will continue to progress through the appropriate content for their level versus grinding on quick re spawns in a less ideal location.
This change will also affect hunter pets and their leveling rate if the player is at max level, however, this is an unintended change that we will be addressing in the future.
It's "unintended change" for pet leveling. 🙁 Oh well, I'll just continue to bring along my low level pets at Hyjal.
That's a serious opps…
So in theory, once I hit lvl 81 and all my level 80 pets (14 @ 80, 1 @ 78…sigh) will start getting normal experience when leveling in cata zones? Am I understanding that correctly?
That's what it sounds like, I hope they fix this, this really is a huge oversight on their part.
I don't mind this "fix" now. While leveling at Mount Hyjal, I was also able to *quickly* and *easily* level several pets from 80 to 81 -- old WotLK dungeon speed, perhaps even faster.
Drakien said:
That's a serious opps…
So in theory, once I hit lvl 81 and all my level 80 pets (14 @ 80, 1 @ 78…sigh) will start getting normal experience when leveling in cata zones? Am I understanding that correctly?
Actually, in theory, as soon as you hit the Cata levelling zones at 80 your pets should get the full EXP gain back.
The way its been working for me is that my pets don't gain xp till I'm a level above them. So, right now I'm 81 and any pets that I have at 80 gain xp till they level to 81, when they stop gaining till I hit 82.
Takaas said:
The way its been working for me is that my pets don't gain xp till I'm a level above them. So, right now I'm 81 and any pets that I have at 80 gain xp till they level to 81, when they stop gaining till I hit 82.
Yup, leveling has always been this way. It's just that many of us have been 80's for quite some time. 😉
Hit level 82 and all is good with pet XP! Crisis averted, torches put out, pitchfork hung neatly back on the wall...lol
Lol awesome man, and grats on 82!