 This guide dates back to pre-cataclysm days. Ok, pre-Outland days. The Shattering that came with Cataclysm has rendered this page obsolete.
See these pages for up to date leveling guides:
This guide below will only take you to level
60 and is a grinding guide. I strongly suggest your pick up
some appropriate quests along the way for faster XP and a little less
boredom.
Tips for faster leveling:
- Do the quests along with the grinding.
- Play a Rogue or a Hunter.
- Take a friend and team with him. The XP per mob will be less,
but you will kill them a lot faster and have much less downtime,
more than making up for the lower XP.
- Take advantage of Blizzard's invite a friend program. You get 3x XP.
- Always use rest XP. Always log out at an inn.
- Make sure you have adequate food, bandages, and bag space for long
sessions away from the inn.
- Send your auctionable loot to your banker
alt instead of auctioning it yourself.
- Upgrade your weapons every few levels for faster mob mashing.
- Grab a real in-game leveling
guide and go from 1-80 in
about the time you'd normally grind from 1-40.
Guide key:
H*A = Contested zone
H = Horde zone
A = Alliance zone
I = Zone has a instance
Level 1-12: Just do the quests in the starting area's
to hit 10 and if you start as something other then undead go to the
undead area for some more quests to hit 12.
Level 12-20: The Barren's will be your home for these
levels it can get boring, but forge on... soon it should be more interesting.
Grinding Spots:
Level 10-13 Area surrounding crossroads
Level 12-15 Bristlebacks in camps around mountain to north of crossroads
Level 13-16 Pirates south of ratchet
Level 16-20 Marines at the keep south of ratchet
Level 18-24 Bristlebacks near Camp Taraujo
Level 17-23 Monsters/animals around Camp Taraujo
Level 20-30: The Barren's will still have some stuff for you to do at this level till about 23-24 or so, and also you can go to the Wailing Caverns (http://www.gotwarcraft.com/guides/wailing_caverns.php) for some xp and loot. H/I
Another area starting about 23-24 or so is Ashenvale you can stay here till about 30. H*A/I
Grinding Spots:
Level 27-31 Saytr at all the Saytr camps along the road going past Splintertree Post
Level 23-26 Monsters around Splintertree post should be good for these levels
Level 26-28 Night elf warriors near various outposts
And also at about level 24-26 you can go to Thousand Needles and level up there till about 30. H*A
Grinding Spots:
Level 26-31 Centaur near Freewind post
And the last leveling zone is the Tarren Mill/Hillsbrad area you can stay here till 28 or so. H*A
Level 22-25 Human's at hillsbrad farms
Level 22-26 Animals/monsters around tarren mill
Level 25-28 Humans in the Azureload mine
Level 30-40: You can go to Stranglethorne Vale at lvl 30 but beware lot's and i mean lots of ganking goes on around here so it might be best to wait till 35+. H*A
Grinding Spots:
Level 30-38 Killing the panthers/tigers is a pretty good way to level up in Stranglethorn Vale(STV)
Level 34-38 Trolls in the various ruins scattered around STV can take you through these levels
Level 36-39 The Goblins at the factory(it's pretty hard to miss) are pretty easy to kill, just watch out for the big shredders
Level 37-39 Trolls in the big troll fortress at the top left and the trolls behind it can be killed for these levels
Level 39-44 Pirates near Booty Bay are pretty easy to kill and drop a nice amount of money each kill
Level 39-44 The undead trolls/ghouls at the ruins near Booty Bay are nice to kill
Desolace is another option for leveling from 30-36 or 38 not many alliance wonder around here so it should be pretty safe. Desolace also has Maraudon for when your level 48 or so. H*A/I
Grinding Spots:
Level 32-36 Centaurs clans scattered around Desolace
Level 37-41 Skeletal Horrors around the bottom of the map
Level 34-37 Orcs at the fortress around the top of the map (Hard to miss)
Around level 34 you can go to Arathi Highlands and level here for around 2-6 levels. H*A
Grinding spots:
Level 34-38 If you go down the main road in Arathi and turn left once your just past the big keep there should be spiders/raptors and such around there. Barely anyone goes there.
Level 34-36 The ogres in and around the cave near the middle of Arathi
Level 38-42 The big rock elementals at one of the Elemental circles
Level 37-40 The Air elementals near the alliance outpost
Level 38-42 The water elementals up north near Hammerfall
About level 33 you can go to Shimmering flats and stay here(if you grind) till 40. H*A
Grinding spots:
Level 35-40 The basilisks around the small pond/river area close to the raceways
Level 33-36 general animals/monsters around here can get you these levels
Level 40-50: Now leveling starts to get a bit harder but there are still alot of places to go.
40-46 You can go to the Badland's and level up for a while there. H*A/I
Grinding spots:
Level 40-46 the Ogres near the bottom left corner of the badlands can get you these levels
Level 42-46 The Black Whelps at the far right near the top of the map have a chance to drop the rare black whelp pet which sells for around 60-100 gold on my server
46-50 You can go to Feralas now and level up here for a while. H*A/I
Grinding spots:
Level 46-50 The Hippogriphs near the bottom middle of the map can get you these levels and alot of money
Level 46-50 There is a Yeti cave near the Hippogriphs that you can grind at if your a skinner
40-50 You can go to Tanaris for these levels and go to Zul'Farrak here. H*A/I
Grinding spots:
Level 45-49 Pirates in the right side of the map where it juts out into the sea a bit can be easily grinded
Level 40-45 The bandit camps around the desert near Gadgetzan
Level 47-50 Ogres far far south of Gadgetzan are good
40-43 Stranglethorne should still have some quests for you at 40 so go there and finish all those up. H*A
Grinding Spots:
Level 39-44 Pirates near Booty Bay are pretty easy to kill and drop a nice amount of money each kill
Level 39-44 The undead trolls/ghouls at the ruins near Booty Bay are nice to kill
46-55 Searing Gorge is a ok area for leveling now. H*A
Level 50-60: Now leveling is really slows down so prepare for a long grind.
54-60 Un'Goro Crater is filled with elite monsters and has alot of quests/grinding spots for these levels. H*A
50-60 You can go to the Western Plaguelands now for some good grinding and questing. H*A/I
Grinding spots:
Level 50-60 Undead at Sorrow Hill
Level 54-60 Undead at the different farms around the plaguelands
Level 57-60 Undead in the ruins of Andorhal north of chillwind camp
56-60 You can go to the Eastern Plaguelands this also has some good quests and can get you a level or two. H*A/I
50-60 The Burning Steppes is a ok area for leveling now and has some decent grinding spots. H*A/I
Grinding spots:
Level 56-60 Orcs at the big blackrock fortress
Level 58-60 The Elite dragon monsters near Blackrock mountain
50-60 Azhara is another good area for leveling for a little while. H*A
Grinding spots:
Level 50-57 Naga at the ruins next to the sea
Level 52-56 The Blood elfs/Legashi camps at the north part of Azhara
Level 50-55 The bear guys around north Azhara
56-60 Winterspring is a good area around these levels. H*A
Grinding spots:
Level 56-60 The Yeti south of Gadgetzan
Level 54-58 The undead south and left of Gadgetzan
55-60 Deadwind Pass is a nice grinding area for these levels. H*A
Grinding Spots:
Level 55-60 The Ogres near the middle of Deadwind Pass
1-80 leveling Guide
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