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Enlightenment

Enlightenment	Level 100

100 yd range
Instant
Requires level 20

Increases your experience gained from killing enemies and completing quests by 50%. Lasts 1 hour.

Buff

Enlightenment

Experience gained from enemies and quests increased by 50%.
1 hour remaining

Spell Details

Duration

1 hour

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

100 yards (Vision)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Experience Gained % (Quests too) (4)
Value: 50%

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Mod Experience Gained % (mob kills only)
Value: 50%

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 20
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Effect #4

Apply Aura: Mod Rating ()

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Monk to
85 in 3
Days /played

Comments

Comment by hellomynameis

It has been proposed on forums that this buff will be more beneficial at higher levels, since then 50% would give more xp. But when you think about it, you will get xp 50% faster for 1 hour no matter what level you are. You will basicly save 30 minutes of leveling no matter what level you are.

We can messure it in XP, or levels gained, or time saved. If you want to gain as much xp as possible from the buff, save it for higher levels. If you want to gain as many levels as possible while this buff is active, then do the quest at lvl20. If you want to save time, then it really doesn't matter what level you use it at, you will save 30 minutes of the average time it takes level at that level for 1.5 hour, therefore going through the content in 1 hour instead of 1.5 hours.

Now, if you want to make good use of the buff, have 10-15 quests lined up within one quest hub and deliver them all when you get this buff.

Comment by Kallech

This is granted from the class quests given to monks every 10 levels - 20, 30, etc. Once you complete the quest once, it becomes available as a daily. Both the initial version and the daily version give this spell.

What's NOT obvious is that the duration stacks - that is, if you complete the "every 10 levels version" and then a daily back to back, the durations will add together, so two of them will give you two hours worth of Enlightenment, etc.

Not sure if there's a cap yet.

EDIT: A few more quirks of this spell.

It doesn't actually seem to run out when it hits 0 - it will stick to you until you get a loading screen or, it seems, when you level. In some cases it may take a random amount of time, but I found those two things will definitely make it vanish at last.
If you have any amount between 1 second and 1 hour, getting this buff cast on you again will increase it to two hours. I would often try to finish up leveling around 8 or 9 minutes, then come back and get it again so it would jump to two hours, granting me nearly 3 hours of increased XP. As you can gather from people who have commented below, 2 hours is probably the limit.
You can come back and do the daily version at level 90; you'll get a 3000 mastery buff that sticks around for an hour. (And gold, of course.)

Comment by ElhonnaDS

This only gives +20% from level 86 and up. I only needed 3 of these to get my monk from 81 to 85 (I saved up all quests that provide this buff until then) so I suggest you spend some before you hit cata content...

Comment by Hallwacker

This buff is bugged, I noticed that it will stay on 0 seconds sometimes, and doesn't disappear. As one of the comments said, it doesn't get removed during dungeon, it might have something to do with this. However, I'm questing and getting a whole 40k experience per quest in northrend (borean tundra) with a 0 second duration Enlightenment.

Comment by Skyl3lazer

Note that this buff doesn't fall off if you die normally, only if you have 0 minutes remaining in a dungeon and are ressed.

Comment by Hallwacker

Another noteworthy thing is that when you click your own portrait when it's stuck on a 0 second duration, it will look like the buff keeps refreshing. Any time another of your buffs disappear this effect will appear, and if you look quickly enough, you will see the duration be at -30*** something. I don't think this will go unnoticed for long, so enjoy your buff while it lasts.

PS: Don't join a battleground or log out when it's stuck on 0 seconds, or it will be removed.

Comment by Astrix

The experience buff while leveling is nice, but 3000 mastery at 90? I foresee other classes getting mighty jealous.

Edit: That's 7% free mastery for anyone crunching numbers.

Comment by goodolarchie

As a monk who leveled 1-90, my best advice is do NOT extend your duration of the lvl 20/30/40 buff with the daily! Turn one in, let it run its course, then go back, rinse repeat. You can get 20 levels a day with 100% enlightenment uptime by doing this.

The reason for this is that the buff does not run out when the timer reaches 0 (bug), it seems to last another ~30 minutes. This easily enough time to squeeze out another level. Extending the duration will only grant one "hidden" post 0 bonus, as opposed to two by doing them separately. E.g. 60m+30m, 60m+30m > 120m+30.

Another trick to squeeze out faster levels is to fill up your quest log with "completes" before you log out for the night, assuming your buff has run out. When you re-up the buff the next morning, go and turn in all of your quests for a bonus 50% on each one of them.

Godspeed!

tl;dr - always let the buff run out, do not append quests. Save up completed quests before logging for the night for the daily turn in on the next day.

Comment by Zantos54

The best way to maximize up time for this buff was to let it stack. How you do that is get the buff the first time, then wait to do the daily. Once you have about 20mins left, or less if you think you can complete the quest in time, go and do the daily. What happens is it will automatically stack up to the 2hour mark straight from how ever much time is left. Someone suggested letting it run out, and then have it for another 30mins due to a bug.

The down side is that bug will eventually be fixed. Even if it isn't, doing it my way still yields more time. For example, going by three sets of grabbing the quest. You go and get the quest, have it for 60, then 30 due to the bug. Repeat. So it looks something like this:
60+30+60+30+60+30 = 270mins.

Now, you do it my way of going to 20mins, then refreshing it. So, you get it, go from 60 - 20 so that's 40mins. Then you add 100mins by refreshing it so late. So, after 2sets you've gained 140mins. If you always refresh it from 20mins, then you'll always get 100mins.

In the end, going from 2hours down to 20mins over and over will yield the most time, and will be reliable since the first method is only able through a bug at this time.

Comment by greystoker

This DOES persist thru death. If you have the 0s duration thing blinking (glitch?) if you die it WILL drop. DONT DIE if it says 0s.

Comment by swirlyeyes

Changes to 3000 Mastery at max level which cannot be stacked for raids as Blessing of Might overrides this (also 3000 mastery)

Too bad.

Comment by Buckmoney

How to win at Enlightenment:
1. Rest until the weekend
2. Do the Daily every day
3. On the weekend, do dungs and/or quest
4. Don't waste time

Comment by Saltychip

Time doesn't diminish while you're logged out so if you need to go somewhere or do something you can log out and save the timer.

Comment by ShuBox

Here's the deal in a Q&A format.

How does Enlightenment work?

Enlightenment is granted to you by the completion of the Monk daily quest, and by the training quests monks earn every ten levels (20, 30, 40, etc.). It usually lasts for one hour, but if you earn Enlightenment while you still have an Enlightenment buff active, you gain two hours of it. While leveling with heirlooms and the guild experience bonus, I found that I could level up 10 times within the four hours that two perfect back-to-back Enlightenment buffs granted (one from the daily and one from the quest granted every ten levels). The buff does not expire or count down when you log off.

What's with the 0s bug?

Whether it is intentional or a glitch is unknown, but sometimes when you receive the buff and it begins to expire, the buff will remain active and the buff's countdown will stay at zero seconds. When this happens, the buff will stay on your character for some time until your character either dies or leaves a zone.

It appears as though that glitch has been fixed.

How do I make the best use of the buff?

Contrary to what some comments on this page say, saving your 10-level buffs until a high level is not a smart choice. In fact, it might net you with a loss of time and experience.

Let's suppose that a level 30 character (we'll call him Character A) wants to use the Enlightenment buff. The character would have the +50% bonus experience for one hour. After 1 hour of work, the character will have gained as much experience as he would have gained with 1.5 hours of leveling at the same pace without the buff. If the character stacked buff and earned the 2 hour bonus, he will have gained 3 hours worth of experience in just 2 hours. If he levels up at least 10 levels per day, the character will have 4 hours worth of the Enlightenment buff per day. If he logs off before the buff expires and continues questing the next day, he can keep up his 4 hour Enlightenment buff all the way until he can no longer level up 10 times within 4 hours, which would usually happen around level 50 or 60.

Now let's suppose that a level 30 character (we'll call him Character B) decided to collect his daily Enlightenment buffs and use them, but instead of turning in the quest he earns every 10 levels, he saves them all up for when he is level 80. After one hour of work without the 10-level buff, the character will have gained an hour worth of experience. After two hours of work, he will have gained only two hours of experience.

Why won't Character B gain as much experience? It's simple. He never benefited from stacking buffs at lower levels. Unless he is able to perfectly stack his 10-level buffs from levels 80 to 85, he will lose time and experience overall.

I'm sorry if that wasn't clear to you, but just take my word for it.

EDIT:
As of 5.1, you can no longer stack Enlightenment buffs. All quests which grant a player with Enlightenment now only give 1h of experience -- no more, no less. Therefore, the best way to gain experience using the buff is by simply buffing it whenever you can (assuming that you don't already have the buff). As a note, you might find it slightly strategic to complete the objectives of many quests but not turn the quests in, use Zen Pilgrimage, collect your Enlightenment buff, and then turn in those former quests. It saves you a few minutes worth of leveling.

Comment by orcsmash

To make the most out of this buff complete 24 quests get the buff and hand them all in with a 50% bonus.

Comment by flyingfig

This isn't really surprising since both quests award the same spell ID. The buff should behave the same way, regardless of where it's coming from. But just so it's said...

Back to back daily buffs WILL stack up to two hours as well.

As in, do the daily one day and log out with ~5 minutes on the buff*, log in the next day and complete the daily first thing and the buff time will extend to 2 hours, not 1 hour and whatever time was remaining. So the "free time" effect is not just a perk of doing the 10's quest + the daily. If you can only play your monk ~2hrs a day, you can perpetually keep them buffed just with the daily quest.

*Alternately, an earlier comment indicates the buff will extend to 2hrs even when it's stuck at 0s. So if that's true, you just need to cast Zen Pilgrimage before you hit 0s so you don't lose the buff on the loading screen. You'll gain a few more minutes of buff time in this case.

Comment by Versipelliso

Just a little note, when you get to 85, the buff decreases to 20% extra experience per hour, it says on the rewards from the quest that its 50%, but if you hover over the buff, it's only 20%.

Comment by nealj121

I would like to add my 2 cents to this.

It was very nice for blizz to add this to monks, anything to make that 1-90 grind easier.

This is how I used the buff and it helped speed up leveling a lot:

Wait until you have a huge line of a quests to turn in like (like 5-6 of those kill 10 of this and that) and then do the daily to get the buff. Return, turn the quests in and you get mega xp. And go from there.

At first I just used it for grinding dungeons as healing (as I usually do when leveling a new healer) but felt I wasn't getting enough XP.

And yes of course if you stack it to the 2 hours, even better.

Comment by BaZERGer

When i reached 85, the buff i got afterwards aparantly didn't stack with the old one, i only got a single hour from doing it while having the pre-85 buff on when delivering.

Though the post-85 buff did give more duration, but aparantly it just added an hour, rather than renewing to full 2 hours. Dunno if this a new change or just a post-85 thing. Couldn't find any "hotfix notices" to explain it, though i guess they do tend to group those up and release them at later times.

Comment by bfree380

Very odd, but my wife and I (both 86) did the daily on Thursday, logged out, did the daily on Friday, logged out, then today (Saturday) when we logged on, we both had 2 hours of the buff. My wife logged out while I took a quick shower and stupidly forgot to log off. When I got out I logged out for a minute, and when I came back on, I only had 20 minutes left :/ Not sure what happened, but it was REALLY annoying.

Comment by Piranha42481

Did the quest today on my monk and got NO buff. >.>

Comment by j3ff

Did the quest last night on my 49 monk and got the buff up to 2 hours.

Tonight I logged in before bed just to do the daily...did it and it went up to 3 hours...I also hit level 50 upon completing it and was immediately given the new quest. Did that one and now my buff says 4 HOURS. I wonder what the new max is?

Comment by tiggerbox29

Did my dailie and my quest and i didnt recieve my buff either times

Is this a bug? anyone else have problems with this

Comment by dasbaum

Does not stack with WoW's 8th Anniversary

make sure to cancel WoW's 8th Anniversary before finishing the quest for Enlightenment.

edit why downrate, it is true T__T

apply WoW's 8th Anniversary then Enlightenment = not working only WoW's 8th Anniversary stays up

apply Enlightenment then WoW's 8th Anniversary = working

Comment by MuriloNZ

Doesn't seem to be stacking to 2 hours anymore; the last 2 days I've gotten my daily refresh with 2-4 minutes left on current buff, and it only went up to 1 hour.

Comment by mrespman

As of 5.1, this buff no longer persists at 0 seconds. It ends when it reaches zero, no matter if you're in a dungeon or not.

Comment by Philk913

well i havent been playing my monk much but each day i have logged in to do this daily and then just log back out im currently sitting at 6hrs dont know know how high it stacks but loving it i will update if i get to a cap

Comment by valdarin

There is some confusion about the duration of the buffs as compared to what it says in the default UI for the remaining buff duration. Each time you complete the daily quest it adds one hour to the duration, but it does not cause it to refresh to a multiple of 1 hour. For example, with about 15 minutes left on the buff, I go and complete the quest. Now the tooltip will say "2h" but the buff duration is 1 hour and 15 minutes.

It's possible this works like flasks where if you complete it with < 15 minutes remaining, it will boost you up to 1:15. It certainly does not boost you up to 1:59.

Comment by Furydeath

Look's like it's been nerfed again I have it saying 20% down from 50%.

Comment by ltshaft

Contrary to popular opinion, the buff doesn't glitch and add duration if you refresh it with only a few minutes remaining. It only appears that way because of how Blizzard's timers work. If the buff duration is anywhere from 1-2 hours, it will display "two hours remaining." So if you renew the buff with 5 minutes left, it will have 1 hour and 5 minutes of duration but will display "two hours remaining," until it goes under one hour. If you watch, 6 minutes later the buff will say 59 minutes remaining.

As of 5.1 the buff also does not glitch anymore and won't last infinitely. It will, however, stack infinitely. If you are not planning on playing your monk one day, you should still at least log in to do the quest really quickly to get an extra hour banked up for when you do play him.

Comment by Minatauran

I knew that I would not be leveling my monk for a while, so I did dailies for 12 straight days. I can confirm that yes you can get to at least 12 hours of enlightenment. And while some people have posted that it up ticks to an extra hour, this is not true. If you have a addon that shows the exact time you will see that it only grants 1 hour. I tested this from 20 to 85.

Comment by Shinzul

I wasn't sure what would happen when I leveled to 85 for the Enlightenment buff, so I tested it on my monk.

I leveled to 84.8ish and then did the enlightenment quest 6 days in a row. On the 6th day (today) I completed the quest and the xp from completing the quest leveled me to 85.

I should have thought about this a little more, but completing the quest replaced my 5H remaining buff of +50% experience gained with 6H remaining of +20% exp...

I'm not sure if leveling to 85 automagically replaces the % you gain from 50% to 20%, or if it was the fact that completing the quest and having it be what dinged me to 85 did me in. Either way, I'm pretty ticked off that I got boned.

Comment by hjp426

Did this get hotfixed? Yesterday I had two hours stacked, I log in to do the daily today, finish it, and now I only have an hour. Hadn't logged in at all in between. ?

Comment by Azshanta

I've been stacking the buff up on my monk alt when I'm unable to play her, and she's currently up to 9 hours on the buff, so it appears that the limit is NOT 2 hours like a few people have said before, but in fact something much higher.

Comment by dasbaum

Buff changes from 50% to 20%, seems to be affected by Level. Can only be seen by mouse over on buff if gained @ affected Level.

Get Buff @ Level 45 = 20%
Level with Buff from 45 to 47 = 20%

Get Buff @ Level 47 = 50%

O_o dunno why

Comment by menoblack

It seems that if you have this buff and rested experience at the same time this gives you a 100% buff (without using any rested xp). This works all the way till level 90.

Comment by fang620

A cap of 24 hours has now been added to this buff (patch 5.2)
My monk had 3 days of this buff saved up pre-patch. When I logged on after the patch, it was down to 24h and doing the monk class dailies just refreshes this buff back up to 24 hours.

Comment by Odinrane

on my monk, currently level 29, i have 9 enlightenment stacks on. still not sure if there is a cap. haven't seen any yet.

Comment by Salculd

Effect #5: You will neurotically obsess about optimizing your leveling time while this buff is active. Alt-tabbing out? Log off to maximize its uptime. PVP server on the minority faction? Log off to maximize its uptime. Have to poop? Log off to maximize its uptime.

Comment by DominoDragon

Also stacks with Darkmoon Top Hat.
Keep in mind that if you purchase these hats that they expire once DMF has finished. I was lucky to find one in the Darkmoon Game Prize

Comment by Tauhrak

The trick i've found with this is to save up as many stacks as you can before it becomes 20%, then nuke through levels 80-90 using this buff, not sure of maximum stack, but i had 17hours on mine, i just did daily for about 3 weeks to get to that stage, then hit 79 off of daily quest xp, and rushed up, spamming dungeons and questing until 90, had a good amount of buff remaining, too, about 5 hours i believe.

Comment by Unrage

I can confirm this buff stacks up to a maximum of 24 hours.

Comment by TCG503

I can confirm this stacks at least up to 4 hours and persists from day to day. I've done the daily quests 4 days in a row.

Comment by Kuja

This seems to give a lot less exp at level 75 too, not just 85.

Did a quest that gave 42k exp with the buff. I did exact same quest without the buff and it gave 37k exp.

Comment by piraka810

I can confirm at least 5 hours of stacking. As I have been logging on every day and stacking it.

Comment by fxkill2006

The buff can be canceled by right clicking on it. Learned it by the hard way. :S

Comment by spamplz

This does also increase experience gained from pet battles.

Comment by sivla

you can actually time to have 3 hours of enlightment. wait until reach a round number 20/30/40 etc then go do the level up quest at the peak, after doing the peak quest, grab the daily..do that, you now have 2 hours...if you time it so you manage to get the quest, the daily, and the next day's daily you get a huge 3 hours..which if wearing heirlooms, in a level 8+ guild and know all the quests, and the best ones to take that don't take you from end of a zone to the next, you could easily get 15/20+ levels from level 20/40 at least..and probably 10/15 level post level 40 >55 or even 58..but you need to really time stuff, so you make the absolute most out of the buff..you can also use enlightment with the 300% xp buff too...which is needless to say, huge amount of levels in almost no time at all

Comment by Furuki

Blizz should make this a universal daily. It's plenty hard enough to get to the Peak of Serenity as a level 20 non-monk anyway. Why not reward those of us who do it for our effort?

Comment by kelthozad

As of now, the current max hours on this buff is 6 hours. I just tested it and I had a starting 6 hours when i entered the meditation, then i left with 6 hours after completing the daily quest.

Comment by glaiveninja

Note that this buff will dissapear when entering a skirmish.

Comment by Aisenfaire

In WOD: Note that for level 90 above, this buff no longer gives you bonus experience. Instead, it gives you some mastery that scales with your level (at level 92 I get 207 mastery).

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