Jame’s Alliance Leveling Guide

leveling guidesHas anyone ever tested how long it takes /played to time to get from 1-65 with these guides.

Almost every instance isAlmost every instance is included in my guides. I always recommend to do the instances and my guides make you do the pre-quests to most of the instance quests.

Doing more instancing than my guide recommends is a good thing, it means you might not even need to grind at all. So by all means, instance as much as you like 🙂

instancingHey James,
You have an an amazing guide. GREAT JOB! 🙂 may have said this but where does instancing fit in all this? Not all but a lot of good wepons come from instancing. Will doing instances throw the whole guide off? 😕

Thanks alot,
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I look forward to that!I look forward to that! Great guides. Some quests I really hate (like the escort quests or the quests involving the little houses in Western Plaguelands), I just skip them, I am ahead of schedule so no probs.

things about your guidehi thank you very much for this guide it rocks
but i what i missed in this guide is more details
yea imagine someone playing wow and he did not do anything
unless its in ur guide someone like me i was really searching for the fast way to lvl and ur guide can do that
if it have the details about quests u can say in some steps take like 10 quests but it would save a lot of time if u said this NPC have quest #1 and quest #2
get it from him and then go to NPC that have quest #3 and quest #4
coz in ur quest i missed about 5 or more quests coz i couldn’t find them and they have a follow up quests so i have 2 search the quests i missed and do it which was gray to me to keep track of the new quests
some picture about the guy who give the quest will be super gr8
thx for ur gr8 guide

vibrant plumesjames how are u going to get all the vibrant plumes they only drop 5% and i have to get 25 somehow which is the quickest way to get them 🙂

Still great!“# Kroc Says:
Fri, 2007-01-26 09:50

Yo Jame, will there be a 60-70 Alliance levelling guide?

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# Jame Says:
Fri, 2007-01-26 18:37

Yes there will be a 60-70 alliance leveling guide, and then a horde counterpart. No ETA yet! Smiling”

Well, honestly, I didn’t find that in Outlands I needed a guide as much as I did before.

On the other hand, everyone I’ve passed the links to these guides to has been very grateful. They really rock.

I did use the alternate to STV that runs you through Desolace (it is in the guide section), but was able to pick up quickly.

Just wanted to drop by and say thank you again.

Just start with the 50-60Just start with the 50-60 guide and get all the quests that Jame tells you to get. If he mentions some quests that are follow-ups of his previous guide, leave them out.

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level 52I am level 52 and I have no idea where to start cause so many of the quests are interwoven with each other…can someone please help me.

James YOU RULEAs the title explain your guide rocks. In fact, it was too good. I could not finish it and i went into outland when i was at about lvl54 of your guide.
But James, please, make a guide for 60-70. Have it out before the next expansion please.

😀 😀 😀

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Hey James, could you do us a small favor and bold and yellow the italized quest please? I just got done with southshore and I missed that quest in BB cause I didn’t see it. 🙁

Great Guide, Helped Me a LotThis was a very helpful guide. I used it when levelling my second character – a Paladin. I got him to 30, picked up the guide, and followed it almost religiously from 30-50. At that point, I followed it loosely, but I divereged a bit because I headed straight fo Outlands at 58.

It certainly pointed out a lot of zones and quests that I didn’t do the first time around, and gave me a good benchmark of when I should head to each zone. Levelling was faster and easier this time around. Use the guide if you want to level quickly and get on with the real content.

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One SuggestionGreat guide Jame! Using it with a few chars and works like a charm!

I have one suggestion to make though, to the very beggining of the guide, when going thru Dustwallow Marsh to the Barrens, you might drop by the Shady Rest Inn and click the big iron Shield on the fireplace, the hoofprints outside and the little badge on a plank inside, 3 separate quests to turnin Theramore, I’ve taken them, done the first part of hitting Highperch and Roguefeathers until 31 then hearth back to Theramore and turning them all in puts me like 3 bubbles into 31 for almost no time added at all, just some bag and log space.

I am currently working onI am currently working on the level 60-70 guides, but no ETA yet, sorry 🙂

Great guideLoved the guide it was really clear and fast, any thoughts for a guide from 60-70 James?

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Great GuideIt helped me level from 30-50 in 2 weeks, although i had a few problems in areas where i started following the guide to a location later realizing i didn’t have the quest, the benefits out wieghed the draw backs 10 fold, and since everyone is asking for a 20-30 guide, maybe you should just throw up a list of zone and in what order, for instance redridge(20) ashenvale(23) wetlands(25) darkshire(27) ect. just a suggestion =D

I love this guide so much…I love this guide so much… I’ve used it on about five or six characters so far — it helped my druid from 30-65, my other druid (hehe) from 20-40 (and I’m still working on him), my warrior from 30-70, and a bunch of other characters who have just started The Grind.

I only wish I’d known about it when I was leveling my paladin when I first started playing. 🙂

I’ve now started using it for my new shaman and my brother started a new warlock. We recently got to 30 so we’re starting on the guide and I can’t wait. 😀

works for duos tooMy son (human Paladin) and I (NE Hunter) are duoing through these guides. We started when we were both level 31, and keep skipping the “now grind till you’re xxx bubbles from yy level” thinking that the guide will catch up to us, but it never does, we’re still one whole level ahead (at 46 atm).

Awesome guide Jame!

Thanks,

Leveling and STVJame, I’ve got a lot of people telling me to do Western Plaguelands (WPL) instead of Azshara and Ungoro at level 52, because of the intense pvp on my server.

Do you have any comments or advice for those of us in this kind of situation, other than taking a high level with us?

Unlike many, I have the option to run with a 61 druid and one to two 61 paladins, but I realize not everyone has that luxury.

Also, on a side note, I would recommend that at 51, everyone take a break from Leveling and do ALTERAC VALLEY (AV) Battleground for at least one afternoon.

Pick up ALL the quests for the BG at the AV cave above Southshore and complete as many as you can for great xp (around 6000+ per!) and get yourself one of the great items for winning one BG.

Hunters especially will want the Ice Barbed Spear which will boost your necessary hunter stats massively.

I also HEARTILY recommend you pay attention and do *ALL* the available quests for SUNKEN TEMPLE, when Jame calls for them as the Helm of Exile you can get hold of is really nice for Battlegrounds, boosting your mana and some other stats.

Kudos on a great series of guides, Jame, and Im looking forward to Outland =D

28-57 in 2 weeks with casual28-57 in 1 week with casual game play.
Playing a Demonologist Warlock with no pet(Demonic Sacrifice buff)

Great guide Jame, I leveledGreat guide Jame, I leveled my warrior to 60 without it and it was brutal. I have now leveled a priest, and a warlock to 70, a hunter to 60, and am about to start a rogue and a mage using your guide again. I have posted links to it in my guild forum and recommend it anytime I have a chance.

Brendoc, I found that I had the same thing happen to me, I was alway 1-3 levels above the guide and never had to do any non quest related grinding (I would do instances when I could or just skip those parts and the guide would catch up to me a little).

Great job again Jame, look forward to maybe seeing a 60-70.

There’s something wrong with this guide!Hello Jame! I have just 2 remarks to make about this guide:
1) At some point you actually forgot to put the Y part of the coordiantes! (Big deal.. actually had to work my brain for a change..)
2) I’m constantly almost 1 lvl above the guide, is it jsut me or is this guide simply too good to be true?
3) Ur amazing… Great asset to the WoW community, and a very very nice and beloved person!

I’ve tried to lvl from 60-70 with Brian Kopp’s guide which actually costs money (I know some ppl who know some ppl who rob some ppl so that’s no problem for me) and I would like to tell you that yours is much better.. The language is very nice, comprehensible and amusing to read (Sometimes I had to read the same sentence from Brian Kopp’s guide 2-3 times in order to understand what to do which is rather hard when I have 2-3 mobs pounding on me), the maps are alot easier to understand, and basicly, U rule all! All praise Jame
/bow 😀 😉

Umm..your an idiot?Incase you didn’t notice, this guide is a leveling guide marinda, not a guide on telling you how to make the best of your character by getting what professions and where to level them so the guide can hold your hand through your entire WoW experience, but simply a guide that will show you an easy way (and yes it is really, really easy) to go from 30-60 quickly.

For your grinding complaint, it’s proven that grinding is FASTER leveling than it is to quest. That is, if you know how to grind and are a good grinding class. If you don’t want to grind, then go run an instance or something, you don’t NEED to grind where it says grind. Jame’s even said that at the beginning.

Honestly, if you are so stupid that you don’t think you should bank and need someone to tell you “hey, maybe you should put the STV pages in the bank for awhile until you gathered them all up”, then you should just quit WoW now so you don’t make even more of an idiot of yourself. :O

I’ve leveled now 3 70’s using Jame’s guides from 30-60, and to be honest, these “creatures” that are “so high level” never, ever appeared to me. Maybe you read the guide wrong and were too busy looking for lines that said “bank this” or “there’s a herb at 54,39 for you herbalists out there!” to notice the actual leveling guide. And again, you probably screwed up if you were facing creatures too tough for you.

/end rant

Okay..now the real reason I got back my account lol..

I find that Jame’s leveling guide is more useful than anything I have used before. I first made a post when I had a 46 Hunter and 42 Priest, now that Hunter and Priest are both 70, and I have leveled a Gnome Warrior to 70, and currently am leveling my Human Rogue to 70, who has just hit the 30, thus I came to this guide.

I even recommend it for the good players, because this guide WILL help you level tremendously faster than if you tried doing it on your own. 🙂

Nice guide, but…I’m sure this guide will help some people, but I found it to be incredibly annoying at times. There are a few key issues that make playing by this guide completely impractical for me:

Professions – For the most part, this guide completely ignores professions. Granted, it would be hard to write a separate section for each of the professions, but SOME mentions of certain things could be considered. For example, making note of various teachers for things such as first aid and fishing, or even the consideration that having ANY of the major professions is going to put a strain on bag space. Professions are there to help the player with stat boosts, armor, weapons, or to provide a means of making money. Simply getting to 60 is sort of pointless if you have to then go back to square one, nearly broke, and work up a profession.

Grinding – Right from the get-go, Jame has us grinding. Not that it bothers me to occasionally pound away mindlessly on mobs, but I found myself grinding more than HALF of the first two levels for… nothing but xp. Come on. If you’re not grinding for a quest, it’s a WASTE of time. I could be elsewhere doing even simple quests for three times the xp I made killing several hundred harpies.

Banking – There is only an offhand mention of what items should and should not be placed in the bank. It would have been really nice to know that I didn’t need certain items on my person until I would turn them in three levels later. I could have saved four or five slots in my bags just carrying around useless quest items. This becomes especially critical in STV, where traveling up and down the whole zone repeatedly just so I can empty my bags and turn in quests and those damn pages is seriously time consuming and frankly DANGEROUS. You have to pass mobs 8 and 9 levels higher than you EACH TIME. Come on… Want to really slow yourself down, get killed by a Mistvale Gorilla in the middle of STV… repeatedly.

Quest Level – Yes, it’s always better to try and do quests that are yellow or better for higher xp, but some of the ones Jame has chosen just seem like a bad call. The Venture Co. Geologists are some of the fastest casters in the whole damn game. Fighting them three levels down gives you a HUGE aggro range and will almost certainly cause caster adds. Finding the ones on the fringes wastes TIME, which is the whole point of the guide. Sometimes, it’s actually faster to fly to a different zone and do an easier quest than to stick with a single zone and grunt through something that gets you killed multiple times. Not to mention repair costs.

Easier Mobs – There are several points where a simple note that there are easier versions of certain mobs just over in X direction would have seriously helped. Sure, the turtles around the racetrack drop nice scales, but the level 35 ones will chew up a warrior or rogue in record time. Having to spend a potion or a cooldown for each and every one is wasteful, especially when he could have mentioned that there are level 31 turtles wandering just to the Northwest that drop the same scales.

Thanks JamesWould finally like to thank you for making this guide. I have used your guide to level 3 alts. A hunter, priest, and a Shaman. About to use it for a third time for a rogue.

Thanks again for a great guide. It actually makes leveling fun. Only thing that sucks is making it to L30, but then its a breeze.

Very nice guide ;)I followed this guide from lvl 30-60 and i must say that this guide is better than the ones you actully pays money for. I leveled a Draenei Male hunter and my mate levled a Draenei Male Paladin. we both got to lvl 60 quite fast 😉
the guide is clearly recommended ;>

I’m now lvling another draenei hunter, female this time 😉 still following the guide ;>

CritiqueI gotta say its a great guide. During spring break (1 week)i leveled a hunter from 1-42. This is after doing all the instances to get the loot i wanted. For a hunter this guide was great as hunters are great soloers and can kill mobs 1-2 levels higher than them with a much easier time than other classes. But with a warrior there is alot of flaws in the guide. I often have to get 1-2 levels before i can do the quest guide because some of the mobs are to high lvl. From what i understand you did this as a rogue, i think you should re-evaluate your guide based on other classes, as most mobs higher than the character arent worth killing. I know as a fact that priests, mages, warriors, and shaman, would have a hard time following your guide word for word, especially noobs. I also think the alliance guide should have a 20-31 section just like horde does. I usually use the other guide(youri i think is his name) but its pretty undescriptive and overall a horrible guide.

It looks like this… i haveIt looks like this… i have a mage lvl70 and it took me kinda long time to lvl. Now i created warrior alt. Ppl say that they lvl from 43-50 in 11 days reading this guide so it is very good coz as i remeber it took me 2-3 days on each lvl (40+). I am warrior (arms speced). This character is kinda twinky coz i give him money from my main but i dont want to buy blue items for 100g each time i lvl… i buy greens for wise prices. my gear is usualy around 2-3 lvls different from my lvl so it is good.

You said that this guide will be less-grinding-like l8er so i will continue using it.. will see.. thanks for answer.

Now back to grinding 😉

Hi Grochu, all depends onHi Grochu, all depends on your spec and how you grind. Normally it shouldn’t take that long for you to ding and not everyone dislikes grinding, as it is sometimes more relaxing than questing (matter of taste).

If you want, post your spec and explain how you kill mobs and what type of gear you choose and maybe some improvements can be made so grinding becomes easier and faster for you.

Furthermore this part of the guide is indeed heavy on the grinding, but it will become less soon. It’s just that in that level range not many good quests are around.

problem at the beginningHi there
I just started to use this guide as i hit 30 lvl. Now i am lvl 31 and doin part in shimmering flats. Drop rate was good for me, i have these turtle meet and now i should grind to reach lvl 32 acording to this guide. But the problem is that i have more than half way to lvl 32. It would take around 2 – 2,5h of hardcore grinding. I haven’t dinged 2 times since started to use this guide and i am already sick of grinding. First harpies in 1k needles now this… Is it really faster than doin another quests? I’m starting to think if i shouldn’t go further on my own…

Sorry for my english and ofc thanks for great and hard work you made doin this guide

Not a bad guide, but…This isn’t a bad guide, but I had a few issues with it. It tells you to go through STV during your low 30s, and then head to Hillsbrad/Alterac/Arathi at 35, and while I understand that doing it this way is theo more ‘streamlined’ way of questing, I prefer doing it the other way around, seeing as many of the MOBs in STV are 40-41 and will greatly hinder any low 30s toon from doing effecient questing there. But, that being said, it’s still a great guide for the quests themselves

Ohhh yeah! -This is good stuffJames I want to thank you: “THANK YOU” 🙂
Very nice job -I hope that you’ll take the time to make a 60-70 guide 😉
I know it’s a lot of work, but we really, really and I mean REALLY appreciate your work.

Happy gaming }:)

SuggestionThe guide is great. I am using it to level several characters. BUT, there are several things I think you should change to your guide:

1) When you tell us to save something (i.e. Put these in your bank) can you tell us why?
2) The things that you tell us to buy from the AH… also tell us why we need these.
3) Make a 60-70 guide quick!! :p

60-70I love your guides. So cool. following everything you say lvling is so easy. you are Awesome 🙂 When do you think the 60-70 will be out. i have a couple toons ready to move on and i dont want to do it with out guide. lol did it once in outlands by myself. ready for your help now. lol
Thanks

Yeah Jame I too am finishedYeah Jame I too am finished chapter 1 and I’m only lvl 37, I’m a paladin and I’ve started this long grinding session 🙁

Anyway great guide I’ll definately be continuing to lvl 60 😀

Oops :SSorry, never read the comments at the bottom of the page… Never mind about my previous question 🙂

Dave.

Jame’s Alliance 60 – 70 Levelling Guide?Hey Folks

Firstly, just want to add that I am a huge fan & supporter of the Jame’s series of levelling guides. They make WoW so much more enjoyable for those of us who aren’t seasoned gamers… Thanks Jame!

Any ideas when Jame’s Alliance 60 – 70 Levelling guide will be out? While I have started on 60 – 70 on my own, and would no doubt get there at some stage, I would much prefer to follow his next chapter in his alliance guide series.

Thanks again,

Dave.

Many thanks (and a suggestion or 2)I’ve used your guide and your strategy for leveling in general to get 2 alts into the 60-70 range already, and I have yet to find a flaw. I did however have a couple suggestions to add directed to new players especially. Due to the mechanics behind melee and glancing blows/crit rates based on enemy level, I think a warning directed towards warrior/rogue (maybe shammy and pallys too) stating that fighting mobs on level or slightly below will SIGNIFICANTLY increase the damage they can do may help new players avoid frustration and increase their xp rate. Also, I was wondering if you could at least outline the areas/quests you did skip (possibly in a second file) so that these players who find your guide lacking can see what other options they have if they REALLY need something else to do. Anyway, thanks again for the wonderful guides, back to my (second) warrior alt. Peace.

Burning Crusade LevellingAnd no, I’m not after an ETA on 60-70 as I have two characters at level 70 now (druid and paladin) and didn’t have any problem levelling.

I use Jame’s guide for 30-60 and think it’s great, I’m usually a bit ahead of the guide (or can skip grinding sessions) due to rested xp.

[Wall of text incoming, not for the feint hearted 🙂 ]
With regards to Outland levelling, I did try to write my own guide for Hellfire Peninsula (mainly to help my alts with quest routes). I think one problem with Outland is that you need revered with a lot of factions to get heroic keys. Ideally you should run Ramparts/Blood Furnace instances until you are 5999/6000 into friendly (when you stop getting rep for kills) before you start questing, then you won’t need as many Shattered Halls runs at level 70 for revered.

Problem with this is that you will gain quite a level or two just from instance runs and any levelling guide that starts with ‘Run this instance 6 times before you start questing’ isn’t going to go down too well.

Also Cenarion Expedition has a repeatable quest that stops at honoured, the best way to get rep with CE is to do this hand-in quest until honoured and then do the normal quests. Skipping out rep earning would make for a smoother levelling guide, but a much harder grind at level 70 (where the instances aren’t as easy to pug).

First time round I was just enjoying the scenery until I got to Nagrand (at level 66ish cos I skipped out Terokkar), in Nagrand I just picked up all the quets I found and went through my log making a note of which direction each quest was in and made sure to do all those quests when I got to the area. Second time round it’s much easier because you have an idea of the follow-ups for each quests (and where the quests are, I had trouble finding the throne of elements first time round).

If Jame releases a guide for 60-70 I will probably try it out on one of my alts, but so far I’ve not found any quests in BC that are overly time consuming or difficult (other than the bugged ones). Rather long ramble, but the point I was trying to get to is that questing in Outland seems to me much more intuitive to questing in Azeroth (with quests that lead you half way round the world and back and areas with quests going from grey to red difficulty).

If it’s your first character just get out there and enjoy exploring the new content (my tip for alliance, buy a nethergarde bitter in nethergarde keep before you go through the portal), for alts you should have a pretty good idea which quests to do in which order anyway.

Awesome GuideGreat work on this. I like to think I’m good at leveling, but your guide has still helped me wonderfully. I got my hunter to 32 or 33 before starting your guide and not once I have I yet needed to grind. I hit 40 in under 3 days play time. 🙂 I know it was only a hunter, but I’m still proud of that. Anyway keep up the great work. It would be awesome if you made a 60-70 guide :P. After a few 70s you just want to get through it fast!

I need help….pleaseWed, 2007-04-04 18:02 — pamarly
Favor for Krazek and Colonel Kurzen
Did I miss something……I cant find in your guide when we do Favor for Krazek…..I’m lvl 43 pally and when i look at ur guide I am to turn in that quest in Gadgetzan but i don’t remember doing it. I know its a series, When should i have done this? its been in my quest log a long time, and now its green. Help
And are we suppose to do the Colonel Kurzen quest?
I’m confused………but I love ur guide its the best…
😕
Please e-mail me at purrk1tty_3@yahoo.com

Excellent workI made 60 fast with this guide. very well written and works like a charm if followed exactly. Myself and several others in my guild use this guide and we all love it! Can’t wait for the 60 – 70 guide to release!! Keep up the great work!

Good guideGood guide. The most proffesionally made guide i have ever seen :D. I got to lvl 60 in 7 days played time and that is the time people that follow Joana´s guide get, GJ James I look forward in testing your horde one

Very Good GuideHey im 12 years old BUt This Guid IS really cool

Still Having soem trouble buyign Some Pages.. But Really Good!!! 😛

}:)

The best guide Actually its the only guide i Understand but still o_O
Im gonna do Part2 Now .. Seems to me that is great

Fazoox Level 42 mage In Shattered Halls

Very GoodI like this guide very good, its just abit much grinding some places, but mostly went fine, sometimes i went to an instance when u sayd grind rest of the lvl.
very nice guide, just atm im stuck cause i dont want to grind another 11 none rested bars on just mobs, waiting for the rested:D
but iv got very fast in lvls iv only used this guide half week and iv lvled all lvls in less then 2h TY:D

Now Get the 60-70 done, Realy good work jame 😛

Great Guide!Hello Everyone!

I have been a player in World Of Warcraft for quite some time now! I’ve been using simultaniosly (sorry about spelling!) the two Alliance guides Brian Kopp’s 1-70 Alliance Guide and Of Course, Jame’s Alliance Guide. All-in-All, I have to say, I have tested BOTH guides on 2 Characters~ Both Warrior, Human, And used Brian Kopp’s Guide 1-29 On One Character and then Jame’s 30-60 On another, and then PURE Brian Kopp’s Guide, and after recording…..Jame’s Guide one by apprx. 5 Days!!!! Amazing Guide Jame’s! Well-Done! Couldn’t Have Made it any better!

FYI: If you ARE considering buying Brian Kopp’s/Joana-Mancow’s Leveling guide, over Jame’s, I wouldn’t say it’s the BEST purchase of your lifetime. Brian, Joana, you’re guides were good, but like I said I tested them, Jame’s was better!!

Hope My Opinon Helped!

Jame!- 5+ Stars, Amazing Guide..Especially b’cuz it was free!!!! Excellent work!! Can’t Wait for 61-70!!

wow 🙂 this is amazing so detailed and very easy to understand thanks 🙂

ETA on 60-70I came accross this guide as I started up my shaman when BC came out. Now my shaman is level 50 and im moving onto the final part of the guide(Which I completly love and is helping me level very fast!). Now this has been asked before, and I dont want to sound like a dick for repeating it again (even though I probably am anyway), I’d like to know the ETA of the 60-70 guide if that is possible. THANK YOU!

Jumping into the middle of it?What does a guy do if he’s level 38 and just found this guide? I have most of the STV quests done, and a good number of the BB’s. Do I just finish up to 40, then start fresh with the second chapter?

Love it!I love this guide! The only problem I had was that i found that leveling in the very beginning was slow. After that it was crazy 😛