Powerleveling a friend

Is it possible to help a friend level without interfereing in his
experience gain? I have a 70 rogue and my friend just started the
game a week ago and I was wondering if there are ways to help him
level a little bit faster without interfereing with experience. I
tried doing this the other night but I don't think I'm being very
helpful. It almost seems more efficient for him just to quest and
level on his own. What I tried doing was finishing off mobs when they
were below 50% health but I'm not sure if that's cutting into xp that
he could be receiving.

I'm not trying to get him to level 70. I'd like to catch him up to
one of my lower level alts. So, are there efficient ways of helping
the levels go by faster or is powerleveling counter productive?

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Fandralas wrote:
>Is it possible to help a friend level without interfereing in his
>experience gain? I have a 70 rogue and my friend just started the
>game a week ago and I was wondering if there are ways to help him
>level a little bit faster without interfereing with experience. I
>tried doing this the other night but I don't think I'm being very
>helpful. It almost seems more efficient for him just to quest and
>level on his own. What I tried doing was finishing off mobs when they
>were below 50% health but I'm not sure if that's cutting into xp that
>he could be receiving.
>
>I'm not trying to get him to level 70. I'd like to catch him up to
>one of my lower level alts. So, are there efficient ways of helping
>the levels go by faster or is powerleveling counter productive?

You can effectively power level your friend. You just have to remember
that there's 2 main sources of XP.
Mob kills.
Quests.

Under normal conditions, if you're doing a lot of questing, you're
gonna get about the same total XP from both sources. However, when
you group with someone a lot higher level than you and that higher level
helps with the kills, you're going to get a LOT less XP per kill than
if you were soloing them or only groups with equal level characters.

So attempting to power level a friend by slaughtering tons of mobs
is counter productive.

However, quest XP isn't reduced because you had a high level friend
help you. And if you're grouped with a high level friend, you can
burn thru a lot of quests quite quickly. Those "Kill 30 XYZ mobs"
may take you 30 to 45 minutes to do solo, but take 5 minutes or less
with a high level friend helping so even though the total amount of
XP you would have gotten for the quest is less (the mob XP part
is gimped, but the quest XP part is unaffected), the amount of XP
gained per unit time is greatly increased.

So if you want to effectively power level your friend, have him pick
up every quest and sight and go for it.

Now this does NOT mean do every quest. A good example is some of
the drop quests. E.g. Get me N items from the dead mobs. Some of
these drop quests have very good drop rates and you only have to kill
about the same number of mobs as items you need to collect. Other drop
quests have absolutely terrible drop rates and you could grind for
a long time to get the drops you need. If the drop rate sucks,
DROP THE QUEST, and go on to other quests.