Warcraft Leveling Guide

Character Creation

The first step to successful power leveling is also the most important step. Character creation and class selection. Although each races has special abilities in the long run, choose one that you will not mind looking at for hours on end. You also want a race that fits your personality and a class your comfortable with. (Don't choose Undead if you like looking pretty, or Dwarves if you have a short man complex.)

Now when it comes to which Class to choose....

There's No Debate

If you are serious about power leveling in World of Warcraft, then your only class choice is either a Hunter or Warlock. I know this part is subjective, but choosing one of these two classes is a must for quick leveling in WoW. Both class's attributes include a pet, and excellent wipe recovery talents/spells (ie. feign death, soulstone, fear, traps). With the right talent speck, hunters and warlocks can grind equal or lesser PVE mobs for hours upon hours without a second of downtime (eating or drinking).

People will argue that a mages AoE make for quick leveling. Or a rogue's high DPS makes that the best class. But from the fact remains, no amount of AoE or DPS can make up for the downtime needed to run all over Azeroth looking for the perfect set of mobs (i.e. Non-Casters, No Snares, Resist), or taking direct damage.

The Grind

The most basic way to gain experience is to walk into an area with monsters and start fighting them. Every victory against a monster of equivalent level gets you experience. These points add up nicely if you try to kill monsters as quickly as possible. Trying to gain levels solely through monster killings is called "grinding" by most players. Some people find this method dull because it offers less variety of action compared to questing, going exploring, and so forth. Others feel relaxed by bringing down a stable flow of money, experience, and monsters. There is nothing wrong with this method either way if it's what you like.

Instance Grinding

Instance grinding is very different from grinding on monsters out in the field. Getting into a group of four or five characters and repeatedly taking on instances near your level is a wonderful way to get your character into better gear. It is not, however, a fast way to gain levels. Looking at pure experience per hour, instances are only better for the absolute worst grinding characters (e.g. healers, survival spec, non-damage dealing).

This does not mean that you lose out in the long run by leveling in this way. Slow leveling often has a few perks. The longer you take at each level, the more money your character has throughout the game and the more your gear stays up-to-date...LOL

Whats An Equivalent Mob?

Monsters are worth experience if they are close to your character's level. There is allowed to be a 20% difference in levels between your character and the monster OR a difference of five levels (whichever is greater will be used).

Anything beneath this threshold gives zero experience when slain because the challenge is go trivial. For power leveling purposes this should be avoided at all costs.

Level Quick Equivalence Reference


Until Level 25: 5 Level Diff.
30: 6 Level Diff.
40: 8 Level Diff.
50: 10 Level Diff.
60: 12 Level Diff.
70: 14 Level Diff.

Checklist for a Good Grinding Area


Many Monsters Available
Enough Space Between Monsters That They Can be Fought Individually
Creatures in Area Lack Powerful Special Abilities that Harm Your Class/Race (poison,disease,curses, and others)
Monster Levels are Just Low Enough to Keep the Kills Fast and Downtime Short (a couple of levels under your character for characters with modest gear, or monsters of equal level for those with better equipment)
Few Players Competing for Kills in the Area
A Vendor is Somewhat Accessible(for making repairs and dropping off loot items) or Mailbox for Alt.
Enemies Drop Cloth (if you bandage frequently)
Preferrably, a Graveyard is Close Enough to Shorten Downtime if an Accident Happens, This Isn't as Important as the Other Factors

Power Level By Questing

During the lower levels (certainly through Levels 1 to 40), characters gain quite a bit of experience through questing. It isn't hard to gather multiple quests from towns in this period, and completing several at a time is both easy and exciting. The awards for turning in these quests catapult characters through their levels. And, when played correctly, the best elements of grinding and questing can be combined once players understand the locations they are visiting.

First off, it's useful to grind while approaching quest sites and while leaving them! If you have a quest in the northwest of The Barrens, asking you to kill Harpies, it is helpful to kill Centaur, Raptors, and other enemies on the way. Walking to the edge of a zone may take five or six minutes (more in a number of cases). That time is somewhat wasted if you simply travel because your characters are full on health and mana. Use those resources to blow through enemies quickly; be inefficient with mana, if you have it, because you are going to regenerate it as you go anyway.
Blast through the odd target here and there and you will find that experience gained per hour improves by a fair margin. This also makes traveling a lot more fun!

Pick and Choose

A subset of questing is to avoid getting all the quest in a region while doing only those that fit your character's needs. This becomes quite common at the later levels, when people prefer to fight in certain regions, and dungeons.

To pick and choose which quests means to look through all available choices and decide which ones have rewards that you need OR which ones have targets that you want to kill anyway. This is a solid, mercenary approach. If your character likes to grind against Trolls in Hinterlands, there is no reason on Azeroth not to help the local Dwarves (who have a few problems with said Trolls). Grinding is all well and good, but dropping off quest each time you head back to sell loot rewards gains practically free experience when you play in this manner.

When followed correctly, a good step-by-step questing guide or power leveling guide is the best tool you can use to quickly level to 70 in the World of Warcraft. They take the guess work out of which areas to explore, what quests to choose, and in what order to do complete them. Today's most popular leveling guides guarantee that you can level your character to 70 in around 8 days. Pretty amazing!

Tips For Finding A Quality Power Level Guide

Keep these in mind:

Good quest guides (power level guide) come with detailed quest objectives and how best to solo the objectives
Videos showing in-game footage of the techniques described within the guide
Maps to show you exactly where to find quest objectives and path to take
In-Game coordinates of discuss locations, to cut down travel time.
Updates when ever major changes happen in game, such as patches or expansions

Once Again You Only Have Two Choices

If you take into account the above factors and apply them to all the World of Warcraft power leveling guides floating around on the internet, only two rise to the top. Those being Joana's Horde Power Level Guide and Brian Kopp's Alliance Power Level Guide. Both of these guides meet all the requirements of a truely "professional power level guide", break no Blizzard TOS rules, and come with a 60 Day "No Questions Asked" Money Back Guarantee.

Once you factor in your faction there really is only one choice.

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Joana's Horde Power Level Guide

Brian Kopp's Alliance Power Level Guide

In depth side by side comparisons and reviews of all the guides can be found at WoW Guides