Jame's Horde Leveling Guide

Overall, pretty good. I definitely feel as if I'm being more efficient, even if it's not the case (I don't keep track of hp/hour, /played, stuff like that, so I have no numbers to compare this char to past chars).

Just a few comments about the guide from my experience, so far (34).

I'm 34 now, and have followed the guide verbatim from 21. Only once have I actually been within a thousand XP of the level when the guide says "you should be level X." And in some cases, I am about a half a level behind where the guide says I should be. Right now is one of the most extreme, and this prompted me to post. I did the entire level 34 guide, and have approximately 25,000 xp left to ding (out of approximately 51,000).

From 21, I've always made myself be at the level that the next part of said guide said I should be at, which generally involved about a fourth of a level grind after I completed the quests that particular section said to do. While I'm not killing everything in site, I'm surely not avoiding a fourth of a level of XP from mobs. If the guides assume that I should be killing 80-100 more mobs a level than I am, the guide should say so. I'm even doing extra quests, and am still considerably behind where the guide says I should be.

As of 3.0.2, I think the guide, at least up through the 30's, should be bulked up, simply from my experience. I hope the following levels don't leave me with this deficiency after I've completed, verbatim, the quests as they are presented. I know I could keep going, but eventually I'm going to fall 3 or 4 levels behind, and I don't want to be trying to kill mobs that are 4 levels higher than me to complete a quest.

Just a note, and maybe my luck has just been phenomenal throughout this chars leveling experience, but I have to think that blizzard upped the drop rate of a lot of quest items that used to take forever to drop, probably because of the new quest acheivements. Some examples are Hecular's Sword (within the first 10 kills, never got it within the first 25 the 5 or 6 times I've done it in the past), Hecular's Rod (again, within the first few kills, always had to clear the entire cave out atleast once, if not twice to get it to drop in the past). And this is the case will all the rarish quest drops. They are all dropping considerably faster. As such, I'm getting less XP from grinding the mobs for the quest item (which makes it seem like there is an end), and being forced to grind simply to grind (which I flat out do not enjoy).

I love your guides if i had never used them i would have never even been able to get to 70

~Chris

I used your guide to level my warlock, and got him seventy pretty fast. So I decided to make a pally and see how fast I could get him to cap. I am at 3d 7hrs played time and level sixty. You and your guide are absolutely awesome.

I am curious if there are any plans to make a guide for triple XP players. I just recruited a friend of mine and we found ourselves searching for quests our level.

Thanks, your guides are so helpful, all your efforts are much appreciated.

-Andrew

Just curious, will following this guide also get us the Loremaster achievement?

(I know you haven't finished the 77-80 guide but im talking about in the future)

Is there no new guides past Dragonblight? Jame these guides are so wonderful I'm anxious to see the rest .

Well keep up the hard work if you're still working on it, I think I speak for many people when I say your guides are extremely helpful!

-Willowhorn

In addition to playing in window mode its really useful to look at the "Printer-friendly version", because the guide will "stretch" over the whole screen and you have to scroll down less often
I bet most of you had alread this idea, but whatever

Jahwo

Aww!

Was so exited that today the grizzly hills guide was released, but I cannot find it

Ahh ive been waiting for this forever and now its the day its suppose to be released and its not here ... cries... hope it comes soon!

Jame Thanks for the guides. Just a tip for people who don't like alt tabbing there is an in game browser: check the comment below, it's called playexpert.

Thanks to your guide (and a combination of heavy work hours and moving house giving me tons of rest exp) I hit 80 half way through Dragonblight and am looking forward to using the rest of your guides to grind gold and achievements

What I'm wondering is - once you've finished your guides to 80 for both factions, what are you going to do? Any possibility of updating your outland guides for us achievement junkies? Or maybe a short guide pointing out some quests in each zone that are outside of the main quest hubs that are likely to be missed?

Thanks again,
Kelarik - 80 Tankadin (yes it's totally possible to level prot), Bloodscalp-EU

I hit 70 after turning in the first couple quests at the safari in Nagrand. Then hit 71 after turning in the last quests at the safari in Nagrand. This was with full rested xp the whole time, also I ran one instance. I then went to blade edge mountains and netherstorm and finished both of them. I am at 72.66 now and I am debating whether to go to northrend of finish netherstorm/shadowmoon valley. I was browsing the northrend guilds and I am worried that some of the quests will be too low level for me if I finish outland. I have about a half a level of rested xp as of right now. Also thanks for the great guilds, I have used them since about lvl 30 (though I remember not being able to do any hillsbrad quests because of the insane amount of gankers on my server)

Zebula (emerald dream server)

Well, what can I say? Once again, your Northrend guides have knocked me unconcious due to their excellence.

I started out on my Paladin. Who had rested exp from 70-73. So that obviously gave a boost, aswell as the Wintergrasp Essence buff you get if your faction controls Wintergrasp.

Other than that: I started out, at level 70 with 41 days played. I am now level 77, at 43.5 days played. And that was with RL interruptions (With me forgetting to log out) and random ingame stuff that didnt include leveling.
Not to mention, I still have a good chunk of your Dragonblight guide to finish. Hopefully this will take me near, or to, level 78.

So thats, 3 Zones I will have completed.

Grizzly Hills should hopefully take me from 78-80.
So, that's four zones completed, and five zones left for cash.
WUT???!?!?!? 0.0
There's 350 Quests total, according to the achievements..
Multiply that by, what, 15? 5250.
Plus all the drops and stuff, vendor loot, etc, I'd say 6000/7000 is waiting.

So, not only is your Northrend guide a leveling guide, I guess it is also a gold making guide, too, in a sense.

If you follow Jame's guide with rested exp, you'll be riding that mammoth in no time (:

Hey Jame, I used your guide to get one of my 70s up to 74, and I LOVE the guides. They are awesome!!!

Anyways, I made a troll hunter a while back and got him to 40... Now I am sitting at 40 and looking at your 41-51 guide and I am so overwhelmed. Should I go and ding 41 first?? I already did all the Safari quests in STV a while back. Where should I be? Also a bunch of the quests you mentioned in the 41-51 guide that I should have in my Quest log are not there... I am stuck and would love some help....

Other than that, keep it up bud!

-Sboopy5170 (the confused)-

I use your guides differently than most people, I assume, Jame. I use it as a guideline, as in, just using it to find quests/quest-hubs. I'm the kind of player who cannot stick to a certain way of doing things. While it's slower, I find it more enjoyable, and overall, more chances to throw an instance in.

are you currently working on guides from 75-80?

I'm lvl 65 i was wondering if i should start your guide 65-70 or will it be too hard to catch up?

~chris

Love these guides trying to get my Deathknight to level 70 so i can start at Northend -)

My only problem I find is that I sometimes get bored of a zone and want to switch. That's also why I level slowly, I guess. Glad to see you keep these guides for free, blah blah blah.. Can't wait for more from you, especially the in-game add-on. I'll try to help this site however I can so these guides stay alive, since they've aided me, and so many other men and women who play WoW, to a great extent. /get off of soapbox pedestal.

I think it is worth mentioning that whenever your faction wins at Wintergrasp (PvP area of Northrend, even if you are on a PvE server you'll be marked as PvP upon your entrance in the are) you will gain a buff that increase experience gained by 5% from all sources. That is a nice buff if mixed up with rested xp.

Hiya Jame

Wondering,

Are you planning on making a archievement guide for the Loremaster stuff? (atm I'm lv 80 and finishing the Shozalar basin quests to get the 75 quests complete. After that I haven't even been in Icecrown, Stormpeaks and Crystalsong... i assume your guides will go from Grizzly Hills --> Zul'Dral --> Shozalar. Are you planning on making guides for the Loremaster title with the quests complete at Icecrown, Stormpeaks and Crystalsong? (and poss. others?)

Thanks,

- Magekíd

good job, when the next guides (lvl75+) plzzz?