So it looks like, via the PTR 2.3 patch notes, solo questing and grinding is getting a major boost pre level 60.

I suppose it makes sense with The Frozen Throne looming as Blizzard will want as many level 60-70 players out there as possible to buy the expansion, and I doubt many pre-60 players will consider it straight away.

Experience: The amount of experience needed to gain a level has been decreased between levels 20 and 60. In addition, the amount of experience granted by quests has been increased between levels 30 and 60.

There’s some other rather nice changes:

Useless lowbe cloth agility and strength item bonuses are being replaced with something more relevant to casters:

Low Level Cloth Items: All agility and strength on low-level cloth items has been replaced with other stats, usually bonus spell damage, but also sometimes other stats beneficial to mana users.

And finally a new guild bank system allowing large bank spaces to be purchased and used by an entire guild (rather than having to use a banking alt):

The Guild Bank is a shared repository for an entire guild and will be accessible through new NPC?s called guild bankers. The Guild Bank will allow players with the appropriate permissions to store items and money for use by the rest of the guild. Permissions to withdraw and deposit
money and items are controlled by the guild leader through the guild controls menu. The Guild Bank is divided up into separate tabs so that the guild leader may restrict access or group items into distinct categories.

Up to 6 purchasable tabs each containing 98 item slots

Permissions to view/deposit/withdraw per tab

You may use your Guild Bank withdraw limits to pay for item repairs (now enabled on all merchants)

Transaction logs of the last 50 actions in the bank viewable on a per tab basis

I smell some banking alts creating there own one man guild and using it as an extended bank rather than for use for an entire guild, but who knows maybe Blizzard will stop this happening by putting a lower limit on the number of players required in a guild to enable the guild bank.

So if everything stays the same throughout the PTR testing phase these are some of the things we can expect to see in Patch 2.3.

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