Brayden's Guide to Leveling

[brayden]

When people hear that someone has an amount of max level characters on World of Warcraft that succeeds about 2 they automatically believe that you have absolutely no life and all you do is play that game. They are very wrong. Leveling is much easier than it used to be and the parts that are pretty hard have been revamped and are a ton of fun.

A lot of people dread leveling and some like me actually enjoy doing it. Especially trying to level a new goblin or worgen you will put these tips to good use. I have leveled 5 characters to 80 in the past couple years I have been playing WoW and I plan to get them all to 85 as soon as possible.

Leveling Guides

1. First of all using leveling guides is a complete waste of time. I am sorry for those of you guide writers reading this post but you will save a ton of time and money if you just go off the top of your head. Almost all of the quest hubs in this game lead to another hub and another... and another until you ding 85. If you think that it is worth $50.00 to tell you what I just did but in alot of confusing details then please do go out and buy one.

Music

2. Get some music that will keep you focused and not bored. Make it something that gets you energized for instance Daft Punk and not Beethoven. This will give you much more time to play before you get burned out.

Focus on One Toon

3. Pay attention to only one character. If you feel as though you are getting bored then go run a battleground or run an instance for a while. Therefore if you are running battlegrounds to level then go quest for a while. Doing the same thing over and over again even if you are questing can get extremely annoying however if you go play on your main or go make a new character the chances of you getting back onto the character you left anytime soon are slim.

Use Battleground Weekends to Their Full Potential

4. Battleground weekends are an extreme advantage. I have leveled tons of characters a good amount of levels without hierlooms and guild perks in a Warsong Gulch weekend. This can be risky as loosing does not get you near as much experience as winning does however, on most servers you will make out better than you would if you were to quest or grind.

Don't Push Yourself to the Extreme

5. It is okay not to go 1-85 within a short period of time. Most people out there have lives and cannot spend hour after hour playing World of Warcraft. Other people.... have seen pictures of people with lives. It is okay to see sunlight every once and a while and eat something other than hotpockets infact I do believe it is like... healthy or something. Anyways alot of people I know who say they are going to level a toon 1-85 very fast end up getting to about 30 and not touching that toon again until a while later when they are looking for something to do.

That wraps it up. I guarantee you that following these tips will get you to what level you want to be in no time.

Thanks,
Brayden - Gerpz

[Albaek]

This is tips, not a guide.
Using leveling guides (ingame addons ones) is seriously not a waste. It is way faster than ordinary leveling because they know which quests are close together, reducing the walk time significantly.

[itakeflagkk]

This is tips, not a guide.
Using leveling guides (ingame addons ones) is seriously not a waste. It is way faster than ordinary leveling because they know which quests are close together, reducing the walk time significantly.

I have to agree with Albaek here the difference between zigors guide and Questhelper is about 10 hours in 1-85 time ( Means you get to skip them harpie quests were u die 15 times after running back and forth for 3 hours for 8000 XP)

P.S. +Rep

[brayden]

I respect both of your opinions however, I have bought 2 leveling guides before. Joanas and Demise and it really seemed extremely pointless. It may help to an extent but not worth the money that you spend on them. I also did forget to add a part with usefull addons like Questhelper and Lightheaded and a few others.

Also you said that it reduces the walk time... all of the redone quests in the old zones and all of the ones in the new zones are all in a hub and when you are done that hub they send you to another. There are not many npc's standing out in the middle of a forest giving out quests.

[Phoenix^]

I disagree with the leveling guide, if you look at zygors, saves a lot of time, especially when it's telling you to buy X item for a quest coming soon, so you don't have to run all the way back and get it.
But of course, the difference is not big, but it is not a waste of time. Outland is really bad with hubs.