This guide is not for noobs.If your familiar with your class, and faction; you will have no trouble understanding this guide its quick to read.It takes skill to find a good grinding spot, sure ANYONE can find one, but finding the right one; with less agro than some places, a healthy amount of mobs, and a place that you will not get ganked (hopefully); that’s what made this guide take 1 1/2 months for me to make, because I had to find the right locations and test it constantly. By all means if you do not want to level fast and enjoy the game do so (you cannot pvp, level a profession, nor do anything, but leveling), this guide was meant for people that play EVERYDAY, not just one day here and one day there. Yes, grinding is tedious, but its the most efficient way to do it, and farming/leveling company's use that method, I'm not defending that there's a lack of detail; I did it that way on purpose so it makes it easier to follow, and not clouded by useless info, by where and why to go; who needs that when you've leveled a character to 60 or 70? You know it well enough to find these locations; to set this short, I made this guides "lack of info" on purpose for well-informed player to follow easily, if you want a guide that get you to 60 or 70, but in much much more time (doing professions, extra quests, and such along that line), go with Knopp/James guide for Alliance. -For speed leveling - you should not be afraid to fight when you are in low hp/mana. I kept pulling on my Shaman until I was down to about 10% hp and 10% Mana. That cuts down on med time. -The key is to grind on mobs that are 1 or 2 levels above you and complete quests while you are doing this -You're going spend tons on food/water/bandages 3. for casters, buy good wands every few levels. Get cookie's stirring rod from VC and buy the rest as you go. Maybe a new wand every 5-7 levels. That way you can cut down on med time by wending the mob when it is at 10% health so you can naturally start to regent mana -for melee - bandage, bandage, bandage and buy good weapons every few levels - if you can afford it, pimp yourself out (caster get +dmg gear, melee get +attack power gear) the harder you hit, the faster things die, the faster you get xp. Even that means you spend more time sitting down eating/drinking (that only takes 15 seconds max) 4. Don't waste time doing PvP or leveling a profession, it just wastes time. - please note that you MUST PLAY WOW everyday in order for this to do it, not one day here, one day there. -If you are going to be out more than 1/2 a day from WoW, make sure you put your Avatar (Character) at an inn or a capital city to get rest XP.
Human/Gnome/Dwarf -Nooby zone (1 - 6.5) - yes, get to 6.5 ... that means killing just a handful of extra mobs. If you are just grinding and doing quests this should take you 1hr** now go to IF or SW and pick up skinning (this will help offset the costsof buying your gear and buying food/water) Highly recommend that you spend 20g and get yourself 4 runecloth bags. In order to power level yourself you can't be going back to town to sell things every hourOutside IF/SW (6.5-11) - pick one (don't go between SW and IF cuz that takes way too long) you're going to need to grind a bit but this will take you 3-4 hrs of played time (again, no chatting is involved here ... typing just slows down your DPS and slows down your leveling) ^_^Loch Modan (11-13) - the first few quests here are easy to do. Kill spiders,bears, boars. Kill little kobolds. Kill trolls. You can skin and get cloth to make bandages. 2 hrs playedWestfall (13-16) - Complete all the level 12 quests and then grind on the Harvest Golem/Watchers near the north part of Westfall. There should be 3farms that have level 11-13 mobs. Then grind on the higher level ones on the West until you hit 16. While you're running around the farms, grindingon these mobs - complete the other westfall quests. 4 hrs played*be sure to do the defias brother hood quests*don't forget to pick up the quest "dry times" and start buying the alcohol form the different placesLoch Modan (16-18 ) - come back here and do a few more quests. You should be able to complete them quickly since you are such high level. Don't forget the quests in the digging site to the east and the other buildingall the way in the southeast corner (i forget the name of it) 4 hrs playedRedridge (18-20) – quest, quest, quest and grind on Murlocks or the Kobolds (forget what they are called but they are all over the mountains tothe north) 4 hrs played**DING ** have someone run you through the Deadmines 2-4 times (untilyou get some nice gear) 2 hrs playedYou should now be at 1 day /playedRedridge (21-23) - quest and grind on Orcs on the north east part of RR 4 hrs playedWETLANDS (23-25) - quest/grind on murlocks, crocs, the undead pirates,the invisible dudes that walk in the river, the gnolls, etc (do not do the Orcquests yet) 4 hrs playedDarkshire (25-28 ) – quest, quest, quest - the wolf guys, the comb quest,the Undeads in the cemetery, etc, etc 5 hrs played**find a kind soul to take you to the stockades (do all the quests there in one run, not worth it to get gear)Wetlands (28.5-30) - do the orc quests, raptor quests and then grind it outon either one (Orcs if you need bandages, raptors if you want skins) 5 hrsplayed*if you can, find someone to help you with the last few Darkshire quest (morbent fel, etc)Hillsbrad Foothills (30-31.5) - these quest are probably green to you (if they are grey and not part of a chain, skip them). You should be able to kill Nagas and Murlocks on the south and get good xp. You can also do thedefias quests really quick. 2 hrs playedAlterac Mountains (31.5-33) - grind in the cave to the north (on the way toAV) and then yetis ... just grind 6 hrs played**DING you should be at 2 days /played** (maybe a little more if you have been chatting it upArathi Highlands (33-35) - some quick quests here - you can grind on Orcsor trolls**at this time, have someone take you to SM and do some quests there. Ifthey can, run you through until you get some nice gear (class dependentobviously) and you should be able to get a level or two from there. Ideally, they would run you through the whole thing 4 hrs played - obviously you may not find someone to dedicate 4 hrs for you, so go to STV and start your quests there too ...STV (34-40) - let me break this one down for you**the key here is to pick up as many quests as you can, and complete them all before turning them in. STV is FULL of chain quests. Kurzen campquests, Mastery quests, Troll tribes, etc**(34-35) your first set of quests should get you a full level. Grind as much as you can in the kurzen camp since its usually safe from ganking(35-37) troll tribes (getting the tablets) and 2nd series of masteries and the geologist co quests.**@ 37 go to STV and pick up quests there(37-40) singing blue shards, apes, raptors, tigers, panthers and troll tooths? or whatever it is you need to collect from trolls. 20 hrs played**if at any point you get tired of STV, go back to Arathi or if you really hate grinding, go to Desolace or even Badlands**or if you find someone nice, they'll take you to gnomeragan ****DING - go buy your mount** /played 3 days***I'll stop posting how much time it should take you so no one will get depressed and hurt themselves but it slows down a lot from this point on, now you really need to start buying that +dmg +ap gear***(from this point on 40-50 should be about 4 hrs per level on average and 50-60 should be about 5-6 hrs per level)(plus the levels specified from this point on are more strict, for example - Iwouldn't recommend going to sorrow hill before you are 50 cuz its not efficient - same thing for Un'Goro before level 52)Alterac Mountains (40-42) - Ogres (non elite) + humanoids (quest/grind)Tanaris (42-45) - wasteland wanderers (grind, grind, grind) - get water pouches and just grind. Trust me on this, you need to start grinding someor you'll run out of quests and get stuckin between zones)STV (45-46.5) - finish the quests here (pirates, Zanzil secret/Nagas, apes,etc)Tanaris (46.5-48 ) - Ogres (again grind, grind, grind) - you can pick up quests in Tanaris and complete them if you want, but its faster to just grindright nowSearing Gorge (48-50) - quests are fast and grinding is easy. Don't bothergetting the searing gorge key ... you'll never run through that door ...Western Plaguelands (50-51) - sorrow hill - Chillwind point.**I know this place is super camped so if you can't find pulls there, go back to Searing Gorge or Feralas (there is a repeatable quest there on theshore (right after you take the boat the little goblin there gives it)) or even Azshara (but watch out for the farmers there!)Felwood (51-52) - some quests, some grinding. Don't bother doing the quests in the north by the cave that leads to Winterspring. Just do whatever is green/yellow so that would be the first Furlbog quests + Jadenar + whatever other quests you pick up from the south part of FelwoodUn'Goro (52-54) - Bring your Mithril casing! (2 escort quests + lots of killquests + some travel back and forth between here and Tanaris)**its important that you grind whatever part of your level is leftWPL (54-55) - finish quests here (cauldrons + scarlet + whatever else youcan find) and then grindAzshara - Felwood (55-56) - GRIND! or do whatever quests you still haven't done here (you could grind on Ogres in Burning Steppes too)Winterspring (56-57) - quests + grinding (you might want to go to Darnassus first, in the Therussian village you can pick up a quest for Azshara and another for Winterspring)EPL (57-58) - lots of good quests here, just that you run into the occasional horde party going to Strath.* Outlands*Hellfire Peninsula (58-60) 1.5 Hours = 1 LEVEL! Quest, Grind; this equals uber XP.**again, this guide shows a lot of grinding but its helpful if you stay in onezone until you level.**Hellfire Peninsula (60-62)Do ALL the quests you see, most quests gives you 10k xp or more, also do instances for gear and stuff.Zangarmarsh (62-65)Do all the quests that there are to do, its the best way to level, groups quests can be a pain so make sure you have buddies that can help you out. on occasion do instances for quests, xp, and loot.Terrokar Forest (65-67)Quest, quest, quest; get a buddy to help you out with group quests. Once again do instances for quests, xp, and loot.Nagrand (67-68 )I'm tired of putting Quest, quest, quest, but Quest, Quest, Quest! Also once again Instances, Instances, Instances!Blade Edge Mountain (68-70)Quest, you should be 70 by the time you finish here.Netherstorm (70) * Quest for gold, gold is quadrupled at 70 *Again QuestShadowmoon Valley (70) * Quest for gold, gold is quadrupled at 70 *Again Quest
