What Is Considered Powerleveling? When to Report?

[chubchubpenguin]

Hello, I know that powerleveling is a bannable offense, but the only specified example of it that is given is something like "no bringing low level to high level area to boost up". Powerleveling, on retail, took to mean using a higher level character to help ease the leveling of lower level character. What does it mean here?

More specifically, what is the official verdict on the examples below?

a) lvl 80 + lvl 10, unpartied, @ Barrens (lvl10-21 location) lvl 10 tags monsters and lvl 80 finishs it off
b) lvl 80 + lvl 10, unpartied, @ Icecrown (lvl80 location) lvl 10 tags monsters and lvl 80 finishs it off
c) lvl 80 + lvl 10, partied, @ Barrens (lvl10-21 location), lvl 80 kills everything while lvl 10 does nothing/does quests
d) lvl 80 + lvl 10, partied, @ Icecrown (lvl80 location), lvl 80 kills everything while lvl 10 does nothing
e) lvl 80 + lvl 10, partied, @ Ragefire Chasm (10-16 dungeon), lvl 80 clears dungeon while lvl 10 does nothing

At what level does it become too "high" for it to become bannable? A level 10 in Ashenvale (lvl 20 location)?

I saw 2 level 80s running a level 30 alliance in Stranglethorn, and I thought to report them but when I told a fellow ganked horde of my plan, s/he told me that that sort of powerleveling is okay.

Thanks for the clarification.

[Handepsilon]

Powerlevelling becomes bannable if the mob you're tagging are skull level (10+ level away). 30 in STV is normal.

B is totally bannable, but D, I'm not sure. GM can detect if you're in party or not, I think. The rest seems ok

[Posuk]

No problem - Locations for your level is OK
a) lvl 80 + lvl 10, unpartied, @ Barrens (lvl10-21 location) lvl 10 tags monsters and lvl 80 finishs it off
c) lvl 80 + lvl 10, partied, @ Barrens (lvl10-21 location), lvl 80 kills everything while lvl 10 does nothing/does quests

No problem - dungeon for your level is OK
e) lvl 80 + lvl 10, partied, @ Ragefire Chasm (10-16 dungeon), lvl 80 clears dungeon while lvl 10 does nothing

Power leveling - should be bannable
b) lvl 80 + lvl 10, unpartied, @ Icecrown (lvl80 location) lvl 10 tags monsters and lvl 80 finishs it off
d) lvl 80 + lvl 10, partied, @ Icecrown (lvl80 location), lvl 80 kills everything while lvl 10 does nothing

Powerlevelling becomes bannable if the mob you're tagging are skull level (10+ level away)

True. If you can't kill them alone without help, because mobs are with skull for your level = powerleveling - should be bannable

[woodhauler]

There is a serious lack of 'power-leveling' knowledge and information here.

The traditional method of mob tagging, either with a friend or dual-boxing yourself, is very straightforward. Blizzard changed the rules in each expansion from vanilla through cata, allowing different tactics (and limitations) to be used for this over the years. In wrath, here is how it worked in retail:

- lowbie toon tags a mob, and the 80 finishes it off. You do this UNGROUPED obviously, or you don't get hardly any XP on the lowbie.
- then the mob awards the lowbie an upward-scaling amount of XP from a few levels below, to 4 levels above.
- from 5 - 10 levels above (the lowbie) the mob XP gain is STATIC, meaning the scaling stops and becomes fixed.
- after 10 levels above, the mob goes to skull, and AWARDS NO XP, if you tag and then kill with the 80.
- the zone you are in, the mobs you fight make no difference, the only thing that matters is the level range.
- thus it becomes pointless to mob-tag grind on things higher than 5 levels above your lowbie toon (hit chance becomes a GIANT issue)
- the typical approach then is to find a group of mobs 5-9 levels above the lowbie and stay there until you hit their level, then move on.

I have power-leveled over 20 characters this way on the old core, and it worked exactly as retail did in every case.

I have NOT tested this on the new core however, and have no idea if it's setup properly now. It may be bugged and work differently.

And as a final note, maybe you (and everyone) should concentrate on their own game, and stay out of other people's lives a little more. Being a jackboot-in-training is NOT something to aspire to my friend.

GLHF

[TheSerbian]

If you are in group with some level 80 for example and he kills a level 80 mob you will not receive any XP but if you get aggro on the mob and you manage to hit him and then person with level 80 kills it you will get XP.

So from your question
B = Ban
Everything else is okay.

Its okay if I for example boost my friend level 20 in stockades (level 80 boosting level 20 in Stockades). Since level 20 can kill those mobs and see their level (Confirmed by a GM in game)

[Handepsilon]

Skull Level should not give XP, except that does not happen in Lordaeron. I've received reports that Northrend mobs can give up to 700-800+ xp on level 20, provided the lowbie can tag it. If I remember correctly, the staff confirmed that something went wrong with the XP formula regarding that matter, thus powerlevelling ban becomes a thing

[Smec]

Just curious, how much hit rating would you have to have to be able to "tag" or hit a lvl 80 mob if you are lvl10?

[chubchubpenguin]

And as a final note, maybe you (and everyone) should concentrate on their own game, and stay out of other people's lives a little more. Being a jackboot-in-training is NOT something to aspire to my friend.

I was being ganked repeatedly while trying to quest, so I'll admit that I had an underlying reason to want to report. Regardless, if someone is breaking the rules, what's wrong with reporting? You would report a botter, you would report a fly-hacker, so why would you not report a powerleveler who is breaking the rules?

Concentrate on your own game--I would love this. Tell this to all the end-game max level alliance killing my lowbie horde characters.