If you are sick and tired of trying to keep track of all the thousands of quests you need to run to reach level 70, then I have an awesome bit of information for you: you can use the WoW addon Cartographer to increase your leveling speed by a huge factor! This has to be one of the best kept “open” secrets in all of World of Warcraft.
Cartographer is a tool that allows you to display information about WoW directly to your in-game map and minimap. Addons like this are famously used to track profession nodes such as ore veins. Cartographer allows addon developers to create plugins to feed it whatever information they please, and because of this two projects were born that we are now interested in: Cartographer Quests and Cartographer QuestObjectives.
You can download the newest versions of all three files (Cartographer, Cartographer Quests and Cartographer QuestObjectives) at the official WowAce site.
Both Quests and QuestObjectives record the locations of quest givers and the locations quests are completed in a database (lua) file on your computer. They then display this information on your map in-game, so you can see how having this information right in front of you will speed up your questing (and hence your leveling) QUICK. And the best thing? They are both 100% legal - you will not get in trouble with the GMs for using these.
Of course, starting from scratch with these won’t really speed up your leveling right away. You’ll only have a blank slate. This is why I’m offering both of my personal database files below.
These have almost all the quests for both Alliance and Horde, from the starting areas all the way to the Outlands. To install these files simply unzip the contents into the following directory, overwriting the default (empty) files:
- World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\ACCOUNT-NAME\SavedVariables
Note that ACCOUNT-NAME is the name of your account. Now when you log in, you should see icons for all the quest-givers and the locations of where to complete your current quests already on your map and minimap!
Of course, knowing where to get quests and then where to complete them is really only half the battle. To really level fast, you have to know which order to complete the quests in to minimize your travel-time in the game. That’s why I find guides like the Elite WoW 1-70 Guide invaluable. Aside from giving many pointers about how to more effectively level, they also tell you which order to do the quests in.
