Jame's Horde Leveling Guide
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1. Print the guides. There is a "Printer Friendly Version" link at the bottom of every guide, you just have to click on it. However, that might be expansive (and probably expensive), because the guides are big, very big. Another downside is that my guides are updated very frequently, so if you print it you'll miss the latest updates.
2. Playing WOW in Windowed Mode feels very comfortable while following along with this guide.
- Keep the guide opened in an internet window
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Click on "Apply".
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This is how I play wow while following my guide, when I don't feel like booting up my 2nd computer 
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new Horde
Hey Jame, I will be switching to Horde today and I'm currently level 51. Night Elf Hunter. I will be switching to an Orc Hunter, but I don't know where to start on the horde guides, so can you recommend me where to start ?
Thanks for the guides btw, their awesome
Need some help
To start off, i love your guides Jame. They really do help me through a lot. But i went from about 50-71 without using it, and now ive decided to use them again. Ive seen other people ask this, and you say to just go to where your level is, you'll catch up. Im currently trying to catch up with your howling fjord guide, but ive done all quests that I should be doing at 71. Any help please?
Honored Member
Just keep going. Do any
Just keep going. Do any quests in Howling Fjord that you haven't done yet. If you keep following the guides and do all of the quests in all of the zones you will be 80 (or close) when you're finished with Grizzly Hills.
Storm Peaks
I havn't quite gotten to the Icecrown area as such yet but noticed there were no guides listed for storm peaks? I know most people are leveled by that point but it's a great area and thought I would at least ask if there were any thoughts to adding a section for it.
Thanks
Administrator
Jame has been away from his
Jame has been away from his guides for some time now. I know he originally planned to write guides for each zone of Northrend, but it is likely that, if and when he returns, he will be concentrating on Cataclysm content. So these guides may never get written by him. However there are a few great guide writers here on WoW-Pro who are trying to fill in the gaps in these guides.
As yet I don't think there is a Storm Peaks guide, however
Honored Member
I've written a Storm Peaks
I've written a Storm Peaks (Horde) guide for the addon if you want to get it. You can find a link to it here. As far as a paper version goes, I do have an organized list of the quests that I wrote my guide from. It's not really a guide (and way below Jame's quality or I would have posted it here), but if you would like it, send me a PM and I'll get it to you.
Scoot
The original leveling guides
The original leveling guides in Tourguide contain a decent Storm Peaks guide. It also contains a Sholazar Basin & Icecrown guide which are pretty decent. Maybe those can help you!
I seem to remember that someone on wow-pro added or posted a link to his/her Storm Peaks guide some time ago. Could be wrong though!
New guides
Hi Jame,
I really enjoyed your guides.
Will you make any for lvl 77+? I really need those to lvl a bit and make alot of money.
Thanks in advance, MtR
Exalted Member
Jame is a bit busy with real
Jame is a bit busy with real life matters, and sadly, I don't think these zones will come as I think jame will be focusing on The Cataclysm expansion.
But Scoot already wrote some nice guides ( I know atleast for the horde ) to a few of the zones. You can find them here.
As for the Gold, you might wanna check out The WoW Millionaire posts. Or the more indepth one; WoW-Pro Gold Making Guide.
Help
Sorry i know this probely is not the correct place to post this and feel free to delete/remove this.
I have followed all the guides as my horde druid up to level 71, but due to a long due hosp viste when i reloaded world of warcraft i have no idea what section of the guide i am up 2!
Any help that anyone can give me will be most gratefully received.
Top notch guides.
Jame's Guide and Addon
I just wanted to say thanks
I have a few 80's already and always found I was stumbling through most of it haphazardly so when I went horde I was even more lost. This guide is FANTASTIC and the addon is the most simple thing I've yet to encounter. Thank you so much for making the game more enjoyable and lowering the frustration level of always tabbing out.
Member
Battlegrounds instead of grinding
I found usefull and fun, to go into battlegrounds instead of grinding if caught behind exp.wise since patch 3.2 modifications to BGs. Maybe you could recomend this in your guides.
Rappa
Administrator
Very good point! I suppose
Very good point! I suppose it's a type of grinding, but it might want to be mentioned specifically. Thanks for the suggestion!
Member
Another perk
I found that often when coming out of a BG, you are filled with buffs from other players, very usefull while you continue to quest.
Leveling guide changed?
Has the horde leveling guide changed? The guide i had before, which i downloaded a week ago, has changed and when i just downloaded it again. I clicked the same link as before. Is the old one still around?
Administrator
The only thing that may have
The only thing that may have changed is an increase number of coordinates or clarity in objectives. Make sure you are using guides that say "WoW-Pro" in the title, otherwise you're using the default tour guide guides, not ours.
20% more exp from Account Bound items
How should I know which quests to skip when I got this?
Administrator
I believe someone is working
I believe someone is working on a guide for this, but at the moment we don't have one. Just skip quests you don't like or ones that are taking a long time, and skip ahead if quests turn gray.
Jame. Best. Guide. Ever.
Jame. Best. Guide. Ever. I've used it religiously before, but you just outdid yourself by adding the in-game addon. My only question is why you haven't added it to Curse yet, but either way, awesome job making the WoW experience even better.
Administrator
Thanks for the nice
Thanks for the nice feedback! The FAQ explains why we haven't (and won't) add this to Curse or other external sites.
Noob experience
Jame - yo're a star.
My first character was Horde undead rogue and he hit lvl 80 this week.
I used the Northrend guides from level 70 upwards. I always had rest experience (i only play 2-3 hrs a night), did very few group quests/dungeons, did plenty of the dailies in GH (especially those around the ships - 80k XP for 10 mins work) and finally ran out of guide just after reaching lvl 78. I moved to SB and did the Nessingway quests and then moved to Icecrown and dinged 80 not long after doing the quests from the airship. Lighthearted is a great benefit for questing first timers.
I still have massive areas of Northrend to explore but it will be so much easier as a lvl 80.
The tips i can try and pass on as regards gold making are:
Play the AH - get Auctioneer (but dont always trust it) let it scan the AH over a couple of weeks to get an idea of prices, create yourself a banker (i got mine to lvl 20 so he could DE lots of stuff) and log him at the start and end of your play session. Concentrate on trade goods - weapons/armor etc do not always sell quickly. Do not get greedy - buy at less than 40% of market value (less than 20% ideally - there is enought to make it worthwhile) and do not try to sell at more than 80% (unless current availability dictates otherwise). By doing this i have been able to fund new equipment as i levelled - including mounts.
Thanks again - RW
Thank You from Hugu
I am a new player with a 73 druid on Ysera. I fumbled around even with Questhelper and your guides have made a huge difference in getting the leveling process moving forward in a smooth process. I want to thank you for all your hard work and kudoos to your support in the Wow Community.
Member
I pat thee on the back
Jame, I hope you realize, deep down, how much better you've made many peoples WoW experiences. Keep kickin' ass.
My DK
Hey Jame, my DK is currently level 76 and I am 50% through your Dragonblight guide. I was thinking of going somewhere where there is a lot of Saronite ore instead of Cobalt ore because I want to level my mining and blacksmithing at the same time as leveling and also make myself tanking and dps sets. What level would you recommend I go, where and when (Eg, after all your guides, after Dragonblight etc.)
PS. I love your guides.
Administrator
Well, not being Jame I can't
Well, not being Jame I can't give you the best answer
But I can tell you this: There is no Saronite in the areas that Jame has guides for currently. If you want to skip ahead to Icecrown or Stormpeaks, go ahead - do what makes the most sense for your character (Also, Icecrown quests are super fun!). You may not level as efficiently without the guides but you'll be getting an important resource for yourself as you go. You can always come back and go through the guides at level 80 to make great cash from the quests (and work towards achievements).
Hope that help, at least a little!
Thanks
Thanks Jiyambi, I'll go to Icecrown then go back to grizzly hills for the guide
Besides I'm level 77 now and still on the Dragonblight guide.
New guides
I hope you'll have some new guides soon! I've levelled my hunter from 21 all the way to 75 so far with your guides, and I don't want to have to use some lesser guide or solo it to get the rest. I couldn't come close to the speed I've had with your guide any other way.
priceless
These guides makes getting lvls one of the easiest and fastest things in WoW and the addon is just flat out godly of all of the quest tracker addons i have used it is by farthe best.
Last Lovesong
Member
Love these guides
I love these guides i have got like 7 80s using these guides
i downloaded and put the
i downloaded and put the addons in the addons folder but there is still no button in the character creation screen. can u help me?
Trusted Member
Losing my mind...
Ok, so when I leveled my DK to 80 I used a written guide for ZulDrak. I cant find it anywhere now. AM I losing my mind or was it another site? I have only used this site since WotLK release.
DKs rule...others drool
Revered Member
Probably you have used Zygor
Probably you have used Zygor ZD guide or something other. I've no memories of a ZD guide here on Wowpro, so you must probably remember wrong
zd guide
http://www.wtbblue.com/questing-guides has the zone guides for all of the other zones except IC. jame's guides are much better but if you want to cook off the qwests for the achievements in the other zones this site has the guides. like i said they are alright but this site's (jame's) guides are much easier to follow imo.
Moderator
Must have been somewhere
Must have been somewhere else, because we definitely have no Zul'Drak guide here
Revered Member
Tourguide comes with some
Tourguide comes with some guides already on it, it was probably one of those. It should still be there ... somewhere.
zangarmarsh
my guide keeps saying to go to shat and port to org to talk to thrall for a quest, but i never got the quest and cant find it, the quest was the cenarion expedition
that
that quest starts in thrallmar, from .. nazgrel or whatever (the big guy in the big building)
its called "the assassin" (the first part of the chain)
try looking around on wowhead for follow ups.
it has nothing to do with cenarion expedition
i've noticed a bug in the addon / guides
sometimes it automatically ticks off parts of the guide even though you havnt done it.
so you'll be heading to places you shouldnt yet.
i can remember this happend in a certain place during that salmophlange quest thingie, in the barrens. it completely skipped the part about killing the goblin who has the key..
weird though. i hope that bug is a part of tourguide, and easily fixed (coz fixing X amount of guides can take alot of time
)
Administrator
Sometimes this happens
Sometimes this happens because of an error in our coding (I think the samophlange one was an example of this). However sometimes I truly cannot find the reason for the step skipping, after having checked the coding multiple times.
If you discover any specific instances of this happening, please post here with the details and we'll look into it. Thanks
I have actually found this
I have actually found this to happen alot in the Dwarve/Gnome leveling guide. I am currently leveling both a Dwarve hunter and a Gnome warlock and there have been several steps (in the 6-8 level area) where quests tick off and jump ahead. Also I find that a majority of quests and steps in the 1-6 level range have to be ticked manually to continue.
Recruit a Friend?
I have been using your guide for over two years now, first on Alliance and now on Horde, and have loved it. I recently recruited a friend to warcraft, and would love to recruit him to your guides as well, but I am curious as to how you suggest handling the fact that we will be leveling three times as fast. On top of the fast speed your guide provides, we could theoretically finish in just over a day playtime. Should we continue to follow the 'go until grey' rule, and then just skip ahead to our appropriate level once again? Or skip specific lower exp-rate sections? Or since there will always be two of us, skip to a bit ahead of our current level, skipping any areas that we hate?
Also, I have been enjoying the addon addition of the guide recently, and while, compared to QuestHelper, it is significantly more accurate, there are a few points at which it has either seemed to cause a few glitches, or I have found the notes deficient or absent and have had to resort to using LightHeaded. Is there any way that we are able to assist you with this, or at modify it for our own personal benefit if you have more 'help' than you really need? I could see it being beneficial to many of us, for example, to somehow mark less beneficial quests, or quests that have no followups. But if there is anything in particular that I/we could be of assistance of as far as the addon goes, please tell.
Administrator
For part 1 of your question:
For part 1 of your question: Skipping to higher XP rate sections would be best, but I don't really know which are the highest XP rate. Perhaps I will do a better job of recording this as I level and make a list somewhere, that could be helpful. For now, I recommend skipping any zones you dislike (as long as you don't go above your level in the guide) - this should help you keep pace.
For part 2: You can report glitches/bugs/missing information on our Bug Reporting page. For specific suggestions, you can just leave a comment pretty much anywhere, but the works in progress page would be the best place.
Thanks for the great feedback and questions, hope you and your friend have a great time with the guides!
Latest toon (full wotlk levelling)
Hey, I've played a little paladin on TR lately and I quite liked the playstyle (oh, well, and the OPness
), and therefore I decided a few days ago, my next toon would be one of those. Nice thing is, i didn't have one already, so I could enjoy the whole process of wotlk levelling and so I rolled a paladin and hit 80 at 4d 1h 30min /played (pvp server!
). (http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6559/69006439.jpg, if you want to see the final score screen^^, yes i have Heartstone keybinded xD )
), and without taglevelling or friends instance rushing me or sth.
) > sholazar > zul'drak (used alliance version of tekkub's guide there, as both zones are completly neutral anyways, sholazar first because well... you never know when Jame might release zul'drak^^)
), all other gear was only questrewards.
))
That is without much rested bonus (I didn't specifically log out in the open world but the char was levelled over a two week span so not much time to accumulate rested exp
Just doing the current hordelevelling guide. Belf start area > barrens and standart horde guide > outlands after western plaguelands (lvl 60) > northrend after nagrand (69.XX
So whag made the time so nice?
- Gear was pretty good: from level 15 onwards I used BOA Axe (enchanted with crusader) and the shoulders (not enchanted due to lazyness
- Exorzism infused paladins are beasts. A complete spike of CS, Judgement, Exorzism and divine storm is usually enough to drop the mob or at least get it in hammer range, if one is on CD, one melee hit will have a similar effect, just takes a tad longer. Regen is not needed at all due to judgements of the wise. Elite quests are easy as hell, just hit it till it dies (or kite with Judgement of Justice, if necessary (Breaking through final boss, Giants in howling fjord, ...)
- I have quite a bit of experience in speed levelling (2 80s, several 6x to 7x on both factions (now 3 80s
Still that time is about 3-4 days faster than I thought I could possibly do, so I decided to share it with you
Revered Member
Awesome post ^^ I also
Awesome post ^^
I also think that your /played is somewhat a record, because it's hell of a short time. You make me want to roll a paladin but sadly I haven't a free slot on my server... so I need to delete one char
).
Also, I like your UI and I'm wondering what kind of addon you're using for player and target frames (looks better than xperl... at least for me
Byee
Sorry for the long wait, i
Sorry for the long wait, i don't happen to browse the wow pro comments that eagerly
)
The Unitframes was Kollektiv Unit frames, who happened to be annoyed with the code of the nurfed unit frames, so he wrote his own and applied the nurfed look (he didn't update them for 3.2 though
Administrator
That's an awesome leveling
That's an awesome leveling time, thanks for sharing it with us! Paladins are awesomely fun, aren't they? I'm still working on mine, my progress got slowed down due to school and raiding >_<
I started my first week in
I started my first week in the university this semester quite uhm... relaxed. And I don't raid that much anymore (6 days/week during classic, but sorta burned out, and didn't play much during TBC (just some pvp), and well... the current content is so easy i don't really care about it
), so i had enough free time(4 days of paladin twinking in two weeks equals around 7h/d, which is rather much, huh? ^^)
Concerning paladin: Yes, it is strangely fun to spike mobs/players in 5 to 10 seconds (:
Goodwork
Hi jame, i realy enjoy your guide, making it easier since i dont want to waste time leveling anoter toon to 80. But i was wondering, im always half a lever lower than your guide or so. i guess its not the first time you hear this
,and theres quest in ur guide that have level requierement so what should i, keep going or, grinding or anything else ?
Administrator
Actually, usually people are
Actually, usually people are a bit ahead of the guide. The only time we usually hear that people are behind is if they have no rested XP and don't run instances. If you find yourself behind, I would definitely suggest you try and find a group for an instance at your level. That usually will boost your XP enough to help you catch up, and also help you get some good gear!
problems with guide
hello jame
Thanks for the guide justwondering, i am doing the level 40-41 badlands part of your guide(onlly just started using it) and teh quests inSTV have already been finished by me b4 i used the guide. Should i skip the quests and go to the nxt place and grind at the end if i do not reach the target level?
Administrator
Yup, that's probably the
Yup, that's probably the best way to deal with it. If you can get a group for some instances, that could also help you catch up.