WoW Leveling Guide: Priest

1-20:

Starting Zone: Barrens (h8 at Silverpine). If you are Alliance, I guess go to Westfall firstly. Never been to Darkshore because it was too bad for leveling. I leveled my Priest on the Honor Contest 1.10 PTR and Westfall was a best zone. Lots of good quests. You should not ever need to grind before 20. If you are out of quests, do WC or VC. Never done VC as Horde, but there is decent cloth loot there I think.

20-40:

Primarily instance a lot. As a good healer, you will have no problem being as low as 1-2 levels down the minimum for an instance. Just know how to heal. Do not get a 60 to run you through. It is good healing practice. Healing instances is a great break from DPSing mobs for an hour, and I do not care what you say, Healing is so much easy than topping the DPS meters. Keep grinding to a minimum. Grind Quests are your friend. You ca not instances ALL the time, though, so try different zones such as: Southern Barrens - Bael Modan (get the quest along the primary road) and Quillboars north of RFK Hillsbrad Foothills - The ganking is not that bad and the quests here are awesome. Grind Mudpaw Gnolls in southeast after you are out of quests. 1,000 Needles - Good questing here. They remove the Mark of Shame, so feel free to do that chain if u have all the Flight Paths for it. Shimmering Flats - Finished the quests, grind the bugs afterwards. Arathi Highlands - Fun PvP zones very few gankers outside your level range. Quest. Stranglethorn Vale - Some people hated it, I enjoy the questing here. Tons of quests. Badlands - Rock Elementals. Not many quest.

40-50:

Badlands - Finished off the low 40s with the Rock Elementals in Badlands, move onto Tanaris. Tanaris - Lost Rigger Cove has lots of quests and GREAT grinding. No 60s ever come here, but both mid-40 factions do. Tanaris - Thistleshrub Valley, I like grinding these things. The level 49s died so easily. Easy pulls constant pace, awesome herb loot (occasional BoE epic), very great area. Keep doing instances. Uldaman very bad, though, I did not bother ever clearing that more than once or twice. I ran ZF a lot, and Maraudon as I got a higher leveled.

50-60:

This is where it wills gets "Eh." Not many good instances for experiences (great loot though, in the high 50s you should be running DM daily), and constant mind-numbing grinding is the only one way to get through it. The key to grinding at 50 is to make money while you do it vastly. The more money you make in the 50s, the less you will need to farm as a raider. Avoid WPL on a PvP server. Too many of a PvP zone for 60s. I tried grinding in Felstone Field, but a pathetic Human Warrior named Bigbomb camps there at all day every day with nothing better to do. Yeah, I felt like calling them out publicly for everyone on Bleeding Hollow, in case this ever gets stickled. Move onto Un'Goro Crater. First clear out all the quests their (fun stuff), then grind a few levels in Fire Plume Ridge. There will be china farmers here, but they should not give you much trouble (especially Alliance). Most bad thing at playing their class anyway. This place has the highest Essence of Fire (http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=10062) drop rate at the game, other than MC. Next up: Felwood. I skipped all the quests, you may want to do 'em. Farm Jadefire Run for a few levels. Easy experience and the loot are awesome. Tons of Runecloth, Felcloth, and Demonic Runes. Start with the ones in the south until you are higher, then move up to the North. In the upper 50s, you have got a few options. Next up should probably be Silithus. The quests here are easy and they are not in highly PvP-centered parts. Grind the Rock Elementals up north, they have very good Essence of Earth (http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=7534) drop rate. Eastern Plaguelands! With the additional of Naxx in the next patch, I do not know how packed this place will become with 60s, but right now it is just too big, high level, and out of the way to be a great PvP zone like BRM and WPL. There are too many quests here. Group up with a friend and get em done, you will get a lot of experiences. Finally, if you are lucky, you can finish off your last 2 levels in a several hours. How? Burning Steppes. I had a T2 Mage tap level me on all the Elite Dragonkin right here. I would get average 600 experiences per kill and it would not take any longer than normal. Tap leveling is when you damage a mob (Pets do not count, FYI) then have someone out of your party help you kill it, granting you almost a full experience. Power leveling is great here. Good luck.