Release Dates - Updated 16th December

Jame,
Will all the new guides, Zul'Drak on up, cover enough quests to get the quest achievement for each zone? I did Zul'Drak by myself to get to 80 and I'm still missing 9 quests. I'm scared to start the other zones so I don't screw them up too!

I'm sure you get tired of reading the "when will the next section be out" posts, so I won't jump on the bandwagon.

My Lock (77) and Shaman (78) have finished Grizzly hills and are camped in Dalaran doing the Cooking Daily. My Shaman is also a Jewelcrafter and is doing the JC Daily. My Priest (76) is about halfway through Grizzly and has been going back and forth to get her Cooking Daily in. My Hunter (72) has finished Borean Tundra and is sitting in Howling Fjord waiting his turn. My Rogue (skinner) ventures out into Borean Tundra to kill various animals for meats as needed and to skin but has hasn't even accepted the first quest. My Druid, Mage, Warrior and Paladin have only come to Borean Tundra to train their skills. My Death Knight (Miner/Skinner) just made 70 in the last 3 or 4 days and will probably take over the meat farming duties. I have skipped most of the group quests, mainly for lack of patience. I'll do an LFG for the group quests for 2 or 3 minutes and abandon them. I also have only been in 3 of the instances total, all characters counted. I have been doing the toon shuffle and questing with rested XP for the whole time though.

My point????

Take your time....I would rather have the guides as close to perfect as possible rather than having them come out with many errors.

I paid for a 1-60 Alliance Guide before but won't mention names (*cough-Brian Kopp-cough*) and find your guides to be of at least equal quality and you just can't beat the price! I was given the Burning Crusade update for free. I waited and waited and waited for an update on the availability of the other guide up until I left for work the night of the release. By that time I'd heard about wow-pro and read through your Borean Tundra guide. I took Thursday and Friday off to play the expansion. When I arrived back at work the following Monday, I had an e-mail about the Wrath update to my *paid* guide. Needless to say, I didn't feel the need to update. I have found a more valuable resource here and will be donating in the near future and will continue to do so.

For those that think that your *free* guides are slow in coming can always ask for their money back!!! LOL

I just wanted to post a positive post about all your hard work and to let you know that some of us don't care when the next installment comes out, as long as it does.

I would, though, like to add my vote to those that have expressed an interest in guides to finish Netherstorm and Shadowmoon Valley to get the Achievement. I came out to Outland at 68 with my Death Knight, even though you didn't think we should. I completed Hellfire Peninsula, Zangarmarsh, Terrokar and Nagrand. Again, I didn't do most of the group quests and didn't step foot in an instance. After 3 or 4 quests in Blades Edge, I dinged 70 and made my way to Borean Tundra to make the Inn my home. Once all my toons have cleared all of Northrend I'll be making the trip back to Outland to get as many Achievements as possible.

I did a guide on our guild website for the Quel'Danas Dailies but I think that is more than a little outdated to be posted here. I do use quite a few mods and might do some guides on those if you think that might come in handy.

To wrap up a long winded and somewhat erratic post, keep up the good work and take your time. If it's worth having, it's worth waiting for.

Is this too long for a first post????

James (with an s)

Thanks Jame for all the work you've put into this guide.

Before the guide, I had no sense of questing efficiency and would often just waste all my time in instances, making me level very slowly due to wasting time LFG and not getting much money (because I didn't know how to use the AH). Your guide really helped as I was extremely close to quitting WOW as my /played was well over 10 days and I was still in the low 50's.

After finding your guide, I started a new character following other guides on this site till 20(which are also awesome) and I immediately saw the difference. I found at level 30+ I had already a few hundred gold more than my previous character at 50, and my /played was also significantly less. I just hit 70 for the first time thanks to you and your guides and I would just like to thank you for it.

I just finished up Nagrand and plan to complete your guide in Blade Edge and Netherstorm before moving on to Shadowmoon Valley (which I am terrified of since I'll be toughing it on my own without your guide:P), before moving on to Northrend for more money from 80 questing.

Thanks again
Staroze 70 BE Paladin - Blackrock

First I want to say Great guides Jamie. I have been useing since I was lvl 40 on my mage back when TBC was already out half a year.

I tell everyone that has hard time lvling to check out www.wow-pro.com for quest help or just to follow the guide.
Thank you for makeing my questing organized lol

Now onto the other thing i came here about, any idea on when the guide for Zul'Drak will be out, I am lost with out these guide most of the time but useing them to GH and do each dungeon 2 times up to Drak'Tharon I hit lvl 80 before leaveing GH

ok im done, again my brother and i thank you and if you want to see my lvl 80 Draenei DK its name is ßaldur

I burned out doing the Sunwell Isle dailies to get my epic mount, and left the game for awhile. After reading your WotLK guides I decided to come back and I'll be darned if I'm not hooked again.

After doing the first guide I was behind half a level, but by the end of the second guide I was ahead by that much. I finished Grizzly Hills and moved to Zul Darak by myself and I just hit 79 last night. I still miss checking off each objective from the printouts though.

Thanks Jame for all you've done.

Hello there! How far have you come on the Zul'Drak guides ? Im lvl 77 and im waiting for the guide so i can start leveling again Your guides is Awesome! its so easy and it makes leveling really fun

I followed the guides all the way through Dragonblight, then continued on my own through Grizzly Hills and Zul'Drak. Then I hit 80 , which left Sholazar, Storm peaks and icecrown to do at 80. I'm midway through Icecrown now, and have about 4000 gold through questing. It's just awesome.
And for people feeling lost without the guides, a good place to start would be the quest page in wowwiki. It lists all the quests (well 99% of them) in a zone sorted by hub and NPC.
Besides i did notice that Blizzard has done a great job making quests 'flow' into one another, i.e. you;d start at the first hub and a few quests send you nearby and generally 1 quests sends you to the next hub, so I usually try to do all the quests in one hub before doing the quests that sends you to the next one, and I found it quite manageable .
I can;t wait to see the guides for those zones.. I've tried to be efficient, but often it was only at the end of the zone that I saw better way of doing things

Just start running through the rest of the areas and start cleaning them out. Waiting on the guides means waiting to get to 80 which will take awhile, especially since he is just coming out with Grizzly Hills. There are still 3-4 more areas. Just keep moving on and eventually he'll have all the guides which will just make leveling your other toons easier.

Sorry everyone, a lot of unexpected things happened and prevented me from working on the guide over the past 3 days.

I'm quite close to finishing it though, so you'll just have to bear with me and wait a couple more days.

I'm fairly confident that the guide will be released before next wednesday.

Thank you for your patience.

I have a sneaking suspicion that James is delaying the Grizzly Hills guide so all the alliance characters have a head start to 80!!

But seriously, I used all all your guides to level my Rogue to 70 and since the release of WOTLK, to level my DK to 80. Just had to go ahead and finish Grizzly Hills and half of Zul'drak on my own. Thanks for the wonderful guides James!

yea, possible u can do it if ull go 5-10 times into instanses so i think u (same as i) can hit 80 at this guide. But there is still no guide, i cant w8 for it !!

hey jame

first off, i want to say i love your guide and they've helped me level so fast i couldn't beleive it. i thought only a crazy no-life could get to 80 quickly, after i spent way too much time looking for random things in zangarmarsh a year ago.

but when i used your guide, i was amazed to be level 77 after one month of WOTLK being out. so this is my question.

i'm level 77, just hit it. i did all instances during your guides and some violet hold runs while waiting, so i'm a bit ahead.

I'm level 77 and have full rested XP to 78. Could I ding level 80 in grizzly hills following your horde guide?

thanks so much

--dave

Been using your guides for a while now. They are a huge help for me. I'm so easily distracted while playing wow, but your guides are quick and the returns keep me focused. I'm close to hitting 75 on my undead priest and I've just finished Borean Tundra. Hopefully you'll have your next couple guides out by the time I catch up to them, but no worries since I've got 3 characters to level, including a DK who is only level 62. I've got plenty of time.

Hey Jame, where is horde leveling guide ? Im 77 now and cant wait for it! Please update release dates asap. Ty

thank u jame for the great guides, i cant wait for the rest of the northernend guides. I also want to point out that all the quest achivements that the guides naturally give is also a nice add.

Even though I've been waiting so long for ur grizzly hill guide for horde to come out, but this period of waiting gives me time to study for my exams, so great timing!!!

Jame first I would like to say thanks for making these guides and making it easier to level for a lot of people.This is my first shot at using a guide but i feel i need to because I suck at levelling.Ill be using Bostons 1-30 guide and Your 30-80 guide.Could you point out if these clash on anything. Ill give you some feedback when im done.

Keep Up The Good Work

Konor

Thanks alot for your guides Jame! <3

So after Grizzly Hills, you will do Zul'Drak. What will be after? Because I'm then gonna quest by myself in Shozalar Basin and the others you are not making guides for

I don't know what i would do without them, and i think i like everyone else are scared to stray off them. Watch when you release Grizzly Hills as everyone gets to 76/77, and then stops for a few days until you release the next.... ^^
And yes. I may or may not have been refreshing the page a lot today

It's almost done, I'll release it within the next hour. Hopefully just before midnight

Please bear with me.

No worries James. Great job. guides are amazing and if I have to wait another day, its not problem. I have been patiently waiting for the Griz Hills for a week, another day just means another day of grinding mammoth meat, worm meat , etc... to up my cooking. I have been doing it by slow fighting each creature to max out my weapon skills while Im grinding the meats...lol

Thanks again, I just want you to know how appreciated your efforts are....I am in awe at your dedication and sucess.

Hi,
I googled your guides 2 weeks before the start of wotlk. I have to say they are outstanding and more than useful. Due to our new born son, I had to level both (my own char and my wife's char) and it worked out brilliant. I invited my wife's char (paladin) into my group (me I'm a rogue) and we leveled (I opened wow in the window mode 2 times and played on one computer overlayed) togehter. Some quests have only be done by one group member and it counts for both. I think your guide optimses everything.

We are both lvl 76 now (despite teh fact that we played in a group always!), and I finished the the dragonblight guide yesterday. So I'm hardly looking forward getting the grizzly hills today !

I'm spreading your www. address to everyone who wants to know how to do this or that - it's even the guild message of the day - everayday .

Thanks a lot!!!
Mathias

For the coming guides, is it possible to add a quest flow chart at the beginning?
- It could serve as a sneak peek/preview of guides for us who _really_ can't wait while u're doing the details.
- It'd be easier for us to check quest chains, because sometimes you'll want to rush thru a chain first to catch a grp quest LFM
- It is a good place to check progress, especially with all the phasing in the later zones. (I'm looking at u, icecrown)

Anyway ,thanks james! I was looking for questhelper alternative since I want to level my alt to 80 more effectively, then I come upon this guide, looks awesome!

I just worry what happen after I finish dragonblight - will I be addicted to the guide? Will grizzly hills guide comes in time? And there's ZD and icecrown afterwards - damn!

It's December 3rd, I'm hitting Grizzly Hills, and I need your guide! Totally addicted - thanks a lot, Jame!

I played wow for about 6 month before i heard about your guides and i managed to level just fine in that time, sure not as fast but a level at a time. Now i'm totally lost without your guides, currently in Grizzly hills and i think i'll get the explore achivement before i actually finish a quest just by running around trying to find questgivers.
Have you considered publishing the guides in subchapters, more minor releases? That way the pain and suffering of your followers might be somewhat releaved. Just a question from a desperate minion.

Oh and thank you Jame, thank you thank you

Hi James, you did a great job in producing such a wonderful guide that make gamers like us a whole lot more easy to level up.No more time wasting and no more nightmare as to where to obtain and complete quest in the shortest possible time.
Although out in the market there is a mods call quest helper.But one need to hunt for the quest giver first before qh can be put into action.Which means we're questing blindly without proper follow-up and getting appropriate quest.Which in turn might result in unnecessary waste of time trying to complete a undesirable quest.Really hope we can catch up with your next release from 75-80 .James do hope you don't leave us alone.Please continue with your guide.How can we survive without
your guidiance ?
I face this problem when I level my char from 76-80.Without your guide I had to quest blindly,wondering and pondering around trying to get my char to 80.Looking forward for your next release.

THANK YOU ! James....

Jame, well done. Your guides are incredibly detailed and I can only imagine how much time they must have taken.

Amazing work. Many thanks for being such a huge help to the WoW community. Looking forward to seeing more great work from you in the future.

jamie awsome job, please hury with grizzly hills im lost without your help.
i tried 3 quests and it took me 3 hours, H E L P... your guide is the best thing since sliced bread.

firstly id like to thank you, not only for the wotlk guides, but also for all the power leveling guides you've made, they really helped me and lots of people i know to getting to 70 and beyond.
but i was also wondering if theres a reason why the alliance get their grizzly hills guide first? i mean come on we all know the horde is wayyy better.

James, thank you so much for finally releasing the release dates i have waited so long for it, and i really want to lvl my 76 troll hunter, but if i quest by myself, i completely ruin it i can't wait till the 12th of november! or maybe the 5th, if my ally death knight is high enough (now lvl.66 )

grtz!

Extremely impressive guide! I just did as you told from 60-70 and ding 72 when finished. I love it very much. Still I have quests in Netherstorm, as well as unexplored Shadowmoon. Shall I keep going in the outland or fly to the northrend abandoning the old quests? Thanks for your advice.

Hey Jame,

Just wanted to stop by and say a big Thank You for all the leveling guides and for all the hard work you did. Heaven knows those guides helped me get to 80 as fast as I did. I finished up the Dragonblight guide at about halfway to 77 and then just roughed it through with Carbonite for the remaining levels.

While I was no where near the time others got to 80 (a guild in my server was already halfway through 25-man Naxxramas when I hit 80) but I am already doing dungeons and heroics with my Tanking Warrior and my guildies.

Once again, a big thank you and hope you get the guides up soon for my DK

Jame -

Just finished up with your Dragonblight guide and while I don't normally try pull times as fast as yours, I still love using your guide because it gets me 100% of the zone in the most efficient way possible.

I think I speak for a lot of people in saying that we're salivating to read the upcoming Grizzly Hills guide. Hopefully you will be posting it VERY soon, or at least putting up what you have so far. If not, throw us a bone and give us a *rough* ETA.

Thanks Jame - Keep up the amazing and marvelous work you do for the community. We really do appreciate it.

Sizz