30-60 Grinding Guide

[Synegh]

I've seen grinding guides out there before, but none that are fully complete or fully satisfy me. Because grinding is the fastest way to level after around 30+ until 60, I decided to write a guide on grinding, and tell the best areas to grind at. This can work with both factions most of the time. Also, this will be my first post on MMOwned. Yay.

Some quick suggestions and run-down:
Money-making: Sell all greens that you can't equip on the AH. Also, take two gathering professions, so you should take Mining/Skinning or Herbalism/Skinning. Mining will make you more gold early on, but Herbalism is more useful to a raid end-game. You can switch these when you hit 70 or whenever you want, but if you want your mount at 40, I suggest taking two gathering professions and selling what you gather on the AH for extra cash. You'll make good money this way.

Melee classes should have first aid and be making bandages a lot, keeping up on which bandages are best for their level. Food is also good, so cooking is a good investment.

Mana-using classes should have water and food, and also be taking first aid.

All classes should bring some health potions for backup emergencies.

Talents: Rogues: Level combat-swords. It's foolproof, and you should have no problem soloing. Daggers are far more tedious to level with -- you rely on gouge for far too much dps. If gouge misses, you'll be stuck spamming SS with low top-end daggers until gouge is up or you have enough combo points for a ks.

With swords, maces or fists, spam sinister strike until you build up 5 combo points. If the mob is <25% health, evis. If it still has a good chunk of health left, kidney shot and continue the SS spam. Riposte every time it lights up. Level first aid and bandage between pulls.

Sample build: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=fGe0oxZG0Ez0VzxMGox

Dump your points into combat until you get riposte, then switch to assassination to get 2/2 remorseless attacks. From there, you can either choose to max malice early to continue up the combat tree to adrenaline rush.

Early on, look for agility/stamina (monkey) and agility/strength (tiger) gear. Your mainhand should be relatively slow (2.6-2.9) with high top-end. The speed of your offhand doesn't matter as much until you get combat potency, but try to keep it under 2.2 for poison applications. On a pve server, use dual instant or deadly (MH crip on runners). OH crip and MH instant on active pvp servers.

When you ding 70, respec into a more instance/raid/pvp friendly build. If you choose to stay combat swords, this will mean dropping riposte and imp eviserate in order to pick up imp SnD, murder, and a few combat fillers.

Druids should level feral. Sample build: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=zZEGMcfroxzioVxIz
In this build you'll focus on Feral first, getting Ferocity your first five points and then moving up from there. When you get 41 points, you can finish up the Feral section or move onto Resto to get Omen Of Clarity and Naturalist.

Mages can level fire or frost, not a big deal. Frost is better for AoE grinding, however.

Priests should level shadow with Wand Specc. First five points go into Spirit Tap, the next 5 go into Wand Specialization, and then focus on moving up the shadow tree. Sample: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=rVZZxMGdMtRhtEo

Hunters should level Beast Mastery: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=me0MzxgRVzAoVVbRV
You can put your first five points in Lethal Shots, but then you should go into BM and fill out that tree.

Shaman should level enhancement. Something like this: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=uZxVfzE0sVuqo

Warlocks should level this: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=IqMbiRfzqtbo

Warriors should level Arms: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=pAModAboMhdioV
Put your first five points in Cruelty, then start putting points in Arms.

I don't care about paladins, just level whatever, you'll be auto-attacking to 70 no matter what.

Now, onto the grinding guide.

Get some good music to listen to while grinding. You will be bored.

25-29: The centaur just in Thousand Needles just south of Freewind Post. Amazing experience, easy to kill, cloth drops.

30+: Tigers/Panthers/Raptors quests. Do which ones you can, come back whenever you want. Great area to grind as well, the beasts aren't too hard and can be skinned. There's also a lot.

30+: All monsters in Shimmering Flats are good to grind, the quests here are also mainly killing the monsters you're grinding on, so grabbing those for quick experience is easy.

31-35: The Yetis in Hillsbrad in the cave near Tarren Mill are great experience and can be skinned.

*** 34-38: Venture Co. Goblins in STV die quickly and are casters. Drop cloth and lots of greens. There are a few quests in Booty Bay related to these. Fantastic grinding. Lightning bolt can hit a little hard if you're on the lower levels. ***

35-40: Ogres in Alterac.

36-38: Kodo grinding in Desolace, a few Desolace quests.

37-40: Murlocs in STV.

40+: Rock Elementals and Dragon Whelps in the Badlands are great for getting money if you just bought your mount or need a bit more to get your mount. Whelps have a chance of dropping a dragon pet that sells great on the AH or in the Trade channel, and Rock Elementals drop nice vendor trash. Whelps can be skinned if I remember correctly.

40+: The woodpaws in Feralas are pretty great, but stay away from the ones that give the slower casting speed disease.

40-46: Wastewanders in Tanaris, these guys are great because they drop a lot of Mageweave and there are a few quests connected to these guys. Beware the high level patrol around here, but otherwise, great spot.

*** 45-49: Naga in Feralas, these guys have nice drops, a lot of pearls, and are so easy to grind through. It's like a knife through butter, or if you're a rogue, a knife through someone's spine. ***

45-49: Feralas harpies, Frayfeather Skystormers.

46-50: Ghosts in Azshara are awesome, they have great drops.

47-50: Dunemaul Ogres in Tanaris.

50-54: Thistleshrubs in Tanaris.

50-54: Undead in WPL, drop great items that can be saved to exchange for Argent Dawn rep, drop good money, lots of runecloth.

51-55: Satyrs in Azshara drop lots of Felcloth and money, and some nice greens.

54-58: Blood Elves in Azshara give great loot and die really fast, but this area can be crowded on newer servers with other levellers.

54-58: Ghosts around the frozen lake in Winterspring.

54-60: Lashers in Eastern Dire Maul are absolutely amazing for your last levels. Comboing this with Lumberjacks in WPL for some variety will get you to 60 quickly.

54-60: Scarlet Lumberjacks in WPL are great for getting all the way to 60.

56-60: Thunderhawks in Azshara are great to grind on at this point.

58-60: The yeti cave in Winterspring, various other Winterspring mobs, a few quests in Winterspring.

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[gnomercy]

this is probably one of the best written guides iv seen lately,
i love it, if i could give you rep, i would

edit: it let me give rep now xD so there you go. your now on 3 not 2

[TehGoggles]

Warrior-Endless rage is useless as a 41 point talent, so is Improved Mortal strike. As an arms warrior you'll never be raged starved, this is something like the build I used to get 70 http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=pVMIdAioM0dZVVzm0gk . Basically Mortal strike then slams inbetween it's cooldown. Lvl as Axe or Sword spec. You can get improved heroic strike until you get mortal strike, after that, it's almost useless. I never used heroic strike after I got mortal strike, unless I was tanking and had 5 sunders on, and had a lot of excess rage.

[Synegh]

Warrior-Endless rage is useless as a 41 point talent, so is Improved Mortal strike. As an arms warrior you'll never be raged starved, this is something like the build I used to get 70 http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=pVMIdAioM0dZVVzm0gk . Basically Mortal strike then slams inbetween it's cooldown. Lvl as Axe or Sword spec. You can get improved heroic strike until you get mortal strike, after that, it's almost useless. I never used heroic strike after I got mortal strike, unless I was tanking and had 5 sunders on, and had a lot of excess rage.

Thanks for the suggestion, added.

[xlAnonym0uslx]

I think this has been posted before.

[Synegh]

I think this has been posted before.

Considering I just wrote all of it by hand, probably not. A few of the grinding spots may be similar, but that's just because I use the best grinding spots.

this is probably one of the best written guides iv seen lately,
i love it, if i could give you rep, i would

edit: it let me give rep now xD so there you go. your now on 3 not 2

Thanks much. <3

[xlAnonym0uslx]

Oh, ok, it just seems familiar.
EDIT: +rep then. =P

[Chsz]

why not fury for lvling? its much faster imo.

[TehGoggles]

why not fury for lvling? its much faster imo.

Eh, I beleive arms is better until the 40's-50's, 2 handers are a lot easier to obtain than good one handers, plus you'd miss a lot at lower lvls due to not that much + hit gear, and you don't start getting that montrous attack power until later lvls anyways.

[Synegh]

Eh, I beleive arms is better until the 40's-50's, 2 handers are a lot easier to obtain than good one handers, plus you'd miss a lot at lower lvls due to not that much + hit gear, and you don't start getting that montrous attack power until later lvls anyways.

This is pretty much true. Fury isn't as great as people say it is up until 55+, imo.

[Synegh]

Oh, ok, it just seems familiar.
EDIT: +rep then. =P

Thanks.

[Ykpdoc]

Wow great stuff!
Thx Syn

[Synegh]

Wow great stuff!
Thx Syn

Thanks, and no problem.

[xXMavrickXx]

thanks for this

[Pimpin_N0ob]

I like this guide, it's nice just the talents, some go up to 70 but the others only go to like 50 or something. Also it would be nice if you added a 60-70 guide to it also.