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This week, we are going to help you understand a practice that varies wildly from group to group, server to server and even expansion to expansion about POWER LEVELING. "In the past few months to get POWER LEVELING, I have run into a situation with people who are (or who I think are) new players who happen to be 80," reader Sarabande writes to WoW Rookie. "To them, the idea of DEing BoP items for shards is completely alien (and to at least one, he just rolled greed on everything just to see if he could get it)."

Should your group roll for unwanted or unneeded drops when an enchanter is on hand to disenchant them? What is accepted in one situation might be scorned in another. Because there is no single way to handle the situation to get POWER LEVELING, it is important for new players to be aware of the options. It is also important to understand the reasons why players feel so strongly one way or another about this issue about POWER LEVELING. Because there is no single "correct" method, the savvy player respects the group consensus to get POWER LEVELING.

Disenchanting is the process of breaking down (yes, we mean "destroying") armor or weapons of uncommon (green), rare (blue) or epic (purple) quality into magical elements (crystals, shards, essences and dusts), which can then be used to enchant other gear. Also known as DEing and sharding, disenchanting is the primary means of "gathering" or "creating" materials for enchanting (an important point that explains why enchanters sometimes get touchy about their "rights" to loot drops for sharding.)