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This is a very old page and the home page, with links to all the current guides, updated for Shadowlands and onward, is here. This page will remain for legacy sake.
The 1-60 (and lower) guides (below) are for pre 4.0 leveling, that's
before the shattering. So for most of you they're obsolete. These guides
will not be updated. The class guides, below, are being
updated for the newest builds and info, but that is on ehte main site. This section is just here for legacy reasons.
Our dungeon guide is also being
updated. Keep in mind that this is a "how to dungeon" guide, not a
listing of all those bosses in all the dungeons.
The home page, with links to all the current guides, updated for Shadowlands and onward, is here.
Contents:
Leveling Guides by Class
These guides do not cover there "where to go and what to do" parts.
What they do cover is builds, talents, leveling tips and so on.
Patch 4.3: The amount of XP required to level from 70-80 has been
reduced by about 30%. This will somewhat break PDF and web based leveling
guides, but Zygor's is fine with
it.
There shouldn't be any real leveling changes between 4.3 and the release
of Mists
of Pandaria.
Leveling Tips
- The Auction House carries a variety of Quest Items. If
you're having a hard time gathering bits for some "Collect X
GoreTusk Livers" quest then you can buy them off the AH, frequently
at shockingly low prices. Buy the stuff, hand it in, finish the quest
in a fraction of the time. It helps to have a bank alt for this as
it will save you lots of travel time. The alt buys it and mails it
to your questing character.
- Buy the biggest bags you can afford (Frostweave bags have 20 slots,)
but even four 6-slot bags make life easier.
- Set yourself up so that you don't have to go to town very often.
- Stock up on buffing foods (buy them or level up your cooking skill.)
They'll buff your Stamina at low level, and other things at higher
level.
- Stock up on bandages and keep your 1st
aid skill maxed, even if you're a healer. Yes, My Palladins
and Druids and such have First Aid. You won't use it often, but
there are the odd times when nothing else will do.
- Stock up on potions and scrolls (Look into troll's blood potions.)
Scrolls can buff any of your stats and last for 30 min.
- If you're using edged weapons look into the Sharpening Stones made
by Blacksmiths. The stones are usually dirt cheap. Similar enchants
are quite expensive. Maces are hard to sharpen, sorry.
- Upgrade your weapon(s) every few levels, the rest of the stuff
can generally lag a bit behind.
- Consider getting the local "kill X of this beast..." quests
for more XP, if you're going to be killing them anyway...
- Learn to use HotKeys and macros and then memorize them. Your grinding
will be much faaster and more efficient and somewhat less tedious. ArenaJunkies has
lots of macros.
- Get the skinning skill
if you're killing beasts (and you'll be killing a lot of them.) The
gold you make from the skins will buy your level 30 and 60 mounts.
If you like, kill a bunch and then skin them. Feel free
to skin what others kill. Skinning also increases your crit rating.
- Herbalism and Mining are good money makers. Pick one. Herbalism
also gives you a small heal and Mining adds to Stamina.
- If you have a choice between killing beasts and humanoids go for
the latter, the drops are better.
- When you hit Outlands and Northrend start doing the quests. Yeah,
I know. Do them anyway.
- Zygor's is our favorite fast leveling guide. Check out our full review.
Which Class and Race?
Race? It doesn't matter if Gnomes make the best mages
if you can't stand the site of them. Ditto Troll Hunters. So pick whichever
works for you.
The Blood Elf area, down through the Ghostlands, is probably is probably
the fastest leveling area. The quests and mobs are al realtively close
together and there's a lot of both. You can get a +7 Stamina cloak
if you get exalted with Tranquillen, in the Ghostlands. (Just do all
the quests, you'll get there.)
Class?
Once they get to level 10 a Hunter will pretty much outrun everyone
to the level cap. Their pets are extremely useful and the pair just
works very well at killing very quickly. Especially for beginners.
Warning: You'll be automatically stuck with the lable Huntard. Try
to learn your hunter well enough to lose the label.
Retribution Paladins will go quickly and aren't hard to play. Heavy
armor and weapons, nice buffs, and healthy damage and heals will keep
them moving quickly.
Warlocks can level about as well as Hunters, they're just a little
more complicated.
Mages throw lots of damage,
but they're fragile. At mid-levels they will be resting a lot to
get their mana back. This is dangerous on PvP servers. A well-played
mage will move quite quickly, though. Frost mages have a lot more survivability
abilities than the other flavors.
Rogues and Warriors can move right along and feral
Druids aren't far,
if at all, behind. Same with Shammies.
Priest - Go shadow and be patient until your Shadow powers mature
in the 40s.
Healing classes will find leveling painful unless you're grouping.
Death Knights? Well, they mow everything down.
Dungeon leveling - If you're a tank or healer then
your queue to get into dungeons with the Dungeon Finder tool will generally
be very short. My Pally tank generally has a wait of zero. Get a decent
group and dungeons can be fun and fast XP, not to mention getting you
into some nice gear. See our Mdeungeon
leveling guide for more.
PvP Leveling - Used to be that PvP in the battlegrounds
gave zero XP. That's changed. You can get a pretty fair amount and
any time, but if you do your BG PvP on the "PvP Weekend" of
a particular Battleground, and if your side is winning, then you can
pick up very fast XP. Don't be like so many of the BG clowns. Figure
out what it takes to win and help your team do that. Fighting other
players on the roads or the middle zones is fun, gets you a bit of
honor, and helps your team to lose. You also get far less XP and
honor by losing, but lots of people prefer than for some reason.
About Powerleveling :
- Powerleveling - there are three kinds. Generally they're used by
people who are either lazy or who just don't want to do the 1-80
grind to hit the end game content.
- You pay LowerLeveling4you.something and they level your character
to whatever level for some amount of money. Nice easy, if you
have the money, and a good way to get banned if you're caught.
We like to play the game (why bother, otherwise?) so we dont
do this. If you want to, and want to risk your account, then
go to google and look it up. No, we're not providing clues, you're
smart enough to figure it out.
Oh yes, there are rumors that some of these companies are less
than honest. Assuming that's true, consider your self warned.
- Botting is using a set of scripts to play your
character for you. You set it up, teach it where to go, and so
on. Hated by players (those who don't use bots) and Blizzard. Bliz
will ban your account if you're caught, and they're pretty good
at finding out.
- Rushing is where a high level character (friend,
guildie, or someone fouind through chat) takes you through the
lewer level dungeons. He kills everything and you get XP and, depending
on your agreement, you get the loot. This can make for very fast
leveling. The downside?
- You don't learn to play your character (if you get a lot
of levels this way.)
- You will have to upgrade all your skills, by a lot, so you
should have some cash.
- You skip the game and exploration, but
that's why you're doing this in the first place, right?
The upside? Fast levels and gear. Perfectly legal
- Leveling Guides - See above.
These show you where to go and what to do and some will track your
tasks (how many killed, things collected, etc.) The standard in-game
guide shows you where things are, once you get the quests, and
is far superior to the old style where you has to look it up on
Thottbot.com or ask around.
The guides not only show you where things are, and do a better
job than the in-game system, but they show you the best order
in which to do the quests. Zygor's
guide is our favorite of the paid leveling guides and you can learn more about it here. Highly
recommended and we do use it. A lot.
By the way, Zygor's guides
are 100% Shadowlands (and beyond) ready and come with a bunch of goodies. Go
here to learn more.
The Old Leveling Guides
- Level 1-12 Orc
and Troll leveling guide
- 1-20 Horde - Same as above, but it continues into the Barrens to level 20.
-
Night Elf leveling guide - While it starts in the Nelf area it can
be used by any alliance willing to go that far. It goes to Darkshore
at level 11.
-
Human leveling guide - If you're a Humie then follow this guide.
- 1-60
leveling guide - note that this is a grinding guide
and it actually starts from level 10. It's for those who don't
want to bother with questing and just mash mobs for their level.
- Zygor's is our favorite fast leveling guide. Check out our full review.
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