[Guide] Make your own leveling zone!

[Hiddennoremac]

The following is a quick guide on how to set up a good leveling zone for your private server

What you'll need:
GM Status
Access and editing privileges to your servers Database.

Step 1: Find a zone
For your leveling zone, you're going to need an extensive amount of room (depending on the level cap and experience rate of your server) so find a spot where players wouldn't normally travel and also a spot that wouldn't get in the way of a player's game experience. (i.e. Don't do it in the middle of Stormwind)

Some good zones to look at are:
Un-instanced Zul'Gurub (If you don't know how to get into it, just go to the outside of the instance entrance and ".cheat fly" over the large arch.)
Hyjal
Azshara Crater (.worldport 37 1003 281 327)

There are tons of other places you could do it at, you just need to explore (Try to pick long, flat areas. It makes it easier for players to navigate it.)

Step 2: Set up your starting area
Find a spot in your area that you would like the players to begin (Level 1) and make a 'Base Camp'.

To make it easier on yourself, you should make yourself a macro to change the faction of the NPC's you're going to spawn. (To make them usable for Horde and Alliance).

The macro should look something like this:
.mod faction <ID #>
You can use any faction you want, just make sure its either friendly or neutral to both factions. I used 814 (Argent Dawn) for mine.

IMPORTANT: WHEN YOU SPAWN GAME OBJECTS, PUT A 1 AFTER THE COMMAND OR THEY WON'T BE THERE AFTER YOU RESTART YOUR SERVER. (i.e. .go spawn 1234 1)

Heres a list of some NPC ID's that you might need:

Rogue trainer: 918
Warrior trainer: 914
Hunter trainer: 5515
Priest trainer: 5489
Paladin trainer: 928
Druid trainer: 5504
Warlock trainer: 5495
Mage trainer: 5497
Shaman trainer: 17204
Woo Ping (Weapon Master): 11867
Buliwyf Stonehand (Weapon Master): 11865
Bixi Wobblebonk (Weapon Master): 13084
Innkeeper: 6929

Now heres a list of some Game Object ID's you might need:
Mailbox: 32349
Portal to Undercity: 176501
Portal to Thunder Bluff: 176500
Portal to Orgrimmar: 176499
Portal to Silvermoon: 182352
Portal to Darnassus: 176498
Portal to Ironforge: 176497
Portal to Stormwind: 176296
Portal to Exodar: 182351
Portal to Shattrath: 184594

Step 3: Setup a graveyard

Your players are going to need a graveyard that is located near the leveling area, so follow this guide and it'll show you how to set one up.
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/emulat...graveyard.html ([Guide] How to make your own graveyard)

Step 4: Spawn the creatures

You need to organize how you spawn your creatures so that players don't get confused while trying to find the next set of levels. Heres a picture of a leveling zone I quickly made just to show you how to spawn your creatures without confusing your players.



They're all separated into distinct groups and as they the groups of creature go farther and farther into the zone, the levels get higher and higher. (Usually they go up my intervals of 3 levels for each group.)

The following is a list of creature ID's that you could spawn in your leveling zone in order from lowest level to highest (Remember, you don't have to use these creatures you can always find your own ):

[Level 1]: 299
[Level 6]: 525
[Level 10]: 478
[Level 15]: 124
[Level 18]: 453
[Level 21]: 565
[Level 25]: 930
[Level 30]: 683
[Level 34]: 694
[Level 37]: 1142
[Level 41]: 1550
[Level 44]: 1491
[Level 47]: 5982
[Level 51]: 6004
[Level 55]: 7670
[Level 57]: 7668
[Level 62]: 19527
[Level 64]: 18089
[Level 66]: 12129
[Level 68]: 19686
[Level 69]: 21462
[Level 70]: 19744

NOTE: If you want to make it easier on the players / prevent MASS aggro, find a faction that is attackable but neutral to players and make all of the creatures you summon that faction. (I used faction 32)

Step 5: Setting up a portal to your leveling zone

If you don't already know how to make a portal, go to:
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/ascent...-winckler.html (How To Make A Custom Portal easy Newb Friendy Tutorial pWd By Winckler)

Once your portal is made you have to restart your server for it to work. After you restart you server, put the portal in all the starting zones (teleport to them using the .start command [i.e. .start bloodelf]) and you're good to go!

Enjoy your new leveling zone

[Broxigar-]

Why must you use black text. Impossible to read without highlighting it >=/ Or getting really close to your computer screen and squinting your eyes. Change the text color =/

[Royalaty]

OMG text color sack i cant see anything :@
Why you allways say - create portal to lvl road - but how is create taxi drive include teleporter to lvl road? any know how to made this one?

[Hiddennoremac]

create portal to lvl road - but how is create taxi drive include teleporter to lvl road? any know how to made this one?

I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. >.<

[XxSellusxX]

good job on the guide i dont see the whole black text crap everyone else is crying about but nice work

[malto]

I didnt read. But just the screenshot is awful.

Would you play wow if zones were made like that ? Players will just aggro all the mobs, this not "natural", how a wolf would be like dumb here to wait with other wolfs?

THIS IS SHIT !

[mamba666]

I didnt read. But just the screenshot is awful.

Would you play wow if zones were made like that ? Players will just aggro all the mobs, this not "natural", how a wolf would be like dumb here to wait with other wolfs?

THIS IS SHIT !

The guide explains how you can place the mobs wherever you want to. This is an example that is easy to see and read.

Custom content requires that you put a little thought into it and maybe even make something a ltitle different than how soemoen else did it or even how someone else presented it to you as an example.

Go rethink your response and be constructive.

So since you have a better idea what is it and give an example of how you do it. That would be constructive.

To the mod. I think it was a good example and you explained yourself well.

Thank You.

[Hiddennoremac]

I didnt read. But just the screenshot is awful.

Would you play wow if zones were made like that ? Players will just aggro all the mobs, this not "natural", how a wolf would be like dumb here to wait with other wolfs?

THIS IS SHIT !

The screen shot wasn't a real leveling zone, I made it as an example for the sole purpose of this guide. If you had read anything from this guide you would have seen that I dealt with the aggro issue by saying:

NOTE: If you want to make it easier on the players / prevent MASS aggro, find a faction that is attackable but neutral to players and make all of the creatures you summon that faction. (I used faction 32)

I also never said this was supposed to be like retail WoW. Leveling zones serve the purpose of leveling your characters. The server probably has tons of other things to offer / have the players worrying about other than leveling to 70. Obviously if you want leveling up to be a main part of your server then you'd either put a lot more time into it or you'd just let them explore the 'natural' World of Warcraft. However, this guide was made for private servers that have better things to do. Please read my post before you criticize it.

[Desolair]

Nice step-by-step guide.
Very easy to follow.

[rayray33444]

Guide was awesome, thank you for this OP

[snowflaker]

.npc ID 1 doesnt need"1" it is only for gameobjects lol

[Hiddennoremac]

wat u mean by "Access and editing privileges to your servers Database."

It means that you need to be able to log into your server's SQL database and edit the data in the tables.

[rgames]

when I .mod faction 814, they become argent dawn and I can talk to them, but they still aggro me.

[Hiddennoremac]

when I .mod faction 814, they become argent dawn and I can talk to them, but they still aggro me.

You have to re-log for the faction change to fully work if they've aggroed to you in the past.

[devoured]

thanks for this. good job!