Jame’s Alliance Leveling Guide

james being the basic hero that he isDude you’re an absolute hero!!! I barely play this and I’m still able to level so fast thanks to your guides!!! They’re really good man keep up da good work!! love from your exalted fan }:)

swarzon human mage
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<3Amazing guide jame, followed it from 30 and now im 60 ^^ cant w8 to get all the outland gear i have waited for since 58 🙂

read through the replies and saw many people had problems with money, which i think is rather weird.
i had my mount at 40 and i just bought my lvl 60 mount, with around 20g left and loads of items to auction off. my advice: use the auction house, green boe’s from almost any lvl sell for more than 2g each. my mining skil also helped decent bit, but not near as much as selling stuff in AH was. and maybe leave that expensive secundary profession for a while, do it at 70 😉

O_othis is a guide for leveling, if you want money and lots of of it, guess what, you have to specifically do that, it doesnt just fall into your lap, ive not struggled with with money, but when ive needed it ive spent time making it, if you want to power level, you need a cushion of money to save you time, or do without untill your finished leveling, up to you. There are things in the game like most of these types of games that are time sinks, getting gold is one of them, on the other hand once you get to level 70 it will most likely be much easier :jawdrop:

Thanks Jame!Just wanted to thank you again for the guides Jame! I managed to get my new mage to lvl 70 in only 9 days by following your guide from lvl 30 on up! I was able to do this while skipping the last section of your guide in Netherstorm. So I was able to purchase my regular flying mount, hit lvl 70, and still have over 2000g without ever touching Netherstorm or Shadowmoon Valley! Hopefully there is enough gold left in those quests for my epic flyer. I would love to see a guide from you on questing those 2 zones at lvl 70. Anyway thanks again, here’s a screenshot for you 🙂

[img]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-2/948040/lvl70.jpg[/img]

-Phantom.

I have currently the sameI have currently the same problem, but I will say that I don’t kill everything in my path and in my haste to reach 70 (this is one of many characters) I don’t do instances or ever have much rested XP.

This however, hasn’t limited me very much at all. I’m 68 doing the level 69 part of the guide and haven’t had any trouble at all with any quests being too hard or too high level.

Still a great guide even if you skip the “kill everything” and instances.

A couple of extra suggestionsHi Jame.

I just thought it would be a good idea to add in an alternate way of going though some areas that might give certain reputation to different factions such as Honor Hold or Aldor/Scyer.

I understand that the guide is a leveling guide, and it is. It is a very good one. It’s just that I plan on getting exalted with a couple of factions, like Scryers, though turning in the items to gain their rep. Maybe you could add a sub section to the parts of the guide where you would gain reputation though non-repeatable quests and say where to go grind for the items to get the reputation for that faction, and have it equal to the amount of xp you would get from the quest.

Although it might be slower than questing, the grinding might be wanted by some people who want exalted with the faction without going though the quests, planning it out better etc. Plus, the quests could be saved at a later level, maybe even level 70, which would mean you would get more money for that flying mount.

Like I said, it’s just a suggestion. If the 60 – 70 guides ever need editing, you could add that in, maybe.

Baíley, Ahn’Quraj 🙂

I can only see a fewI can only see a few reasons:

You are lucky with quest drops (and thus kill less mobs)
You don’t have much if any rested bonus, ever
You try hard to avoid killing anything besides the bare minimum to complete quests

Maybe you started with my guide at an earlier level than was recommended?

Wrong?Heya! Very nice guide indeed! Thanks a lot.

I’m just wonderring, do you think I’m doing wrong?
I have followed your guide really carefully. At the moment I’m 64 with 8-9 bars left when the guide says I should be very close or if not level 65. I’ve done all quests said in the guide and so on. And I don’t really want to farm 8 bars, wich will take some hours (boooooooooring :P)

Thanks again!
Happy new year!
Best regards,
Caronwyn

This guide realy works forThis guide realy works for me in combination with the professions skinning/mining… Those are very nice to make money…

Nice tips from everyone. NowNice tips from everyone. Now if only you’d all register an account I could give you a rate up! ^^

The trickI think the trick was to not upgrade your armor. As a Mage, I had got to level 60 with level ~30 gear, and had no problems critting like a glassconnon.

I don’t know if it differs from other classes, but armor upgrades aren’t needed. Outland Greens at 60 cover up any gear upgrades you need. I’m level 62 now, with around 420g, saving up for my ground mount. Considering I had around 10g at level 50 for my twink account, I think i’ve done very well.

Like I said, I don’t know if you need to gear up for different classes. Just saying, you get all the gear you could ever want to 60 with the Hellfire Pen quests.

Good luck!

Baíley – Ahn’Quraj PvP EU 🙂

AwsomeJust have to say these guides are awsome i found it when i was level 40 on my hunter and within 2 weekends ( i only play for about 4 hours a weekend in total) i was level 60. Am now folowing your outlands guide and im zipping along. At this rate i’ll have all my caras to 70 in no time.
THANKS Jame’s your a star

Something doesn’t sound rightI’ve been using Jame’s guides since level 30 for my human rogue, and just finished the level 60-65 yesterday (and hit level 65 right on cue).

I bought my regular mount as soon as hit level 40 (and had 45g leftover), earned & blew over 200g on overpriced blue armor from the auction house between levels 50-56 (I know, I know, not a wise choice), and bought my epic mount at level 62 (which left me with 7g to my name).

After being basically broke at level 62, I managed to build myself up to 534g by level 65. Granted, I did run Stratholme once with some guildies, where I picked up 62g worth of loot (after vendoring the trash & BoP and auctioning off the BoE).

But even if you subtract the 62g from the instance run, that still means I managed to earn 472g solely by questing/grinding in Zangarmarsh, as directed by Jame’s guide.

Follow the guide, and the gold will come. Just keep a couple things in mind:

1) Make a very, very big effort to not die, as dying means spending a ton on repairs. Personally, whenever my HP drops below 40% or so, I back off & bandage, always make sure I’m well-fed, and make it a point to have 3-4 stacks of health pots and 3-4 stacks of bandages on hand, just to make sure I won’t die.

2) Kill EVERY mob you encounter on your way from point A to point B, regardless of XP. Sure, that gray mob won’t net you any XP, but it’ll more than likely drop some loot (usually vendor trash, but sometimes good, auctionable stuff) & perhaps a bit of coin. That cash adds up very fast. And if it’s gray, you should be able to kill it so quickly that it won’t put too much of a dent in your XP/hour.

3) Auction anything & everything that has even the slightest bit of demand. You’d be surprised at the huge amounts of gold people are willing to pay for useless junk. Take advantage of this.

Here’s hoping things turn around for you, and that you’re knee-deep in gold very soon.

Cheers!

Impossible, if done rightI’m about to slide into 57th level, and every piece of equipment on me is blue or better, and I’ve got about 1000 gold on hand. As long as you have ‘some’ idea of how the market works and you’re selling your greens in the AH, as well as your cloth drops, you can make a killing just picking up trash without having to do anything other than drop things into the AH and reap the rewards.

I’m a market player, I buy and sell, I tailor and disenchant, and I jingle when I walk. -But- I’ve made more than 50G -every single day- just picking up cloth and greens during normal levelling with this guide…

Are you making sure to sell things in the AH and not vendor things mindlessly?
Are you dieing once every 10 minutes (costing yourself a fortune in repair bills)?
Do you loot everything from the monsters? (even if you were looting junk greys and selling -everything- to the vendors you could probably put together 5-10G daily)
Have you checked your pockets for holes?

hey m8,

I cant imagine howhey m8,

I cant imagine how u can end up at lvl 61 with just 11G
I use jame’s guide on 2 of my char and I ended up great gold wise. got 2 epic flying on both of my char.

Jame’s guide is a lvling guide.. for gold I think u just hv to come up with other ideas. Like selling netherweave gold, or drops, or from ur profession. at least thats what I do. Ofc following the guide is great, but in between u gotta add time to make money and not only lvling if u wanna make gold and buy ur mount.

Outlands gives alot of gold rewards.. am sure by the time u reach 65 u will afford to buy epic mount.

and just want to say this is not jame’s fault imo. he guide us thru lvling.. not making gold. for that u need another guide :p lol

for Jame, keep up the good work and looking forward to the revamped guide! *2 thumps up!!*

You’re definately doingYou’re definately doing something wrong. I never farmed anything and only did quests. By the time I hit 40 I could easily afford my standard ground mount. When I hit 60 I had enough for my Epic ground mount. Now I’m at lvl 66 and I have 1100 gold without doing anything but questing. Here are a few tips:

-Loot everything, make sure your bags are big enough, you should never leave loot on a mob.
-Make a lvl 1 auction mule character and mail everything you get to him to sell on the AH.
-Sell everything thats not grey on the AH. Just do an AH search to see the prices and set your price competitively.
-DO NOT buy anything on the AH, gear matters very little until you hit 70, you will get good enough upgrades from quest rewards/instances.
-Pickup a gathering profession or two, skinning is a great one to make extra money from mobs you are killing anyway for quests.

Just following these 5 tips should easily get you enough for all your mounts. I plan to buy my Epic Flying mount when I hit 70 and craft my epic tailoring set without any farming, its completely possibly.

wow i dont think your doing things righti have been following your guide since lvl 31 and now i am lvl 48 so far (still going) and i have 250g, most of which are from Ah items i sold.. so i dont know how you end up with 11g at level 61

Are you dying a lot?
Are youAre you dying a lot?
Are you selling certain things at the auction house? Things such as runecloth/netherweave cloth?
Are you spending money to buy stuff at the AH?

I can’t fathom how you can end up level 61 with only 11 gold.

freaking rediculous guidei use to be a really slow leveler but my guild is amazed at how fast i level its the little thing’s in Jame’s guide that are awesome

THANKS JAME

Making money in gameHello jame’s

I have been using your guide for my human palidin since level 30. Now I just turned level 61 and I cant afford to even get the bracers from ironforge because i cant even come up with the 20 gold to aquire them no less the 300 gold needed for my level 60 mount!!! I have followed your guide religiously the whole time and barely make enough money to pay for my level training and armor upgrades cause i have yet to see a nice monster drop and all the quest items are bind on pick up so im forced to sell them to a NPC vendor for a few silver. So when i read in your quide that i could get loads of money when i went to outland I could hardly wait till got level 60. Well level 60 came and i went to outland using your guide and now i just made level 61 and guess what lol I got a whopping 11 gold on me so what gives??? What do i need to do to see that massive amount of gold that you brag so much about in your guide!! At this rate i will get level 70 without ever seeing my level 60 mount and never even be able to dream of a epic mount that would only ever be a very bad joke to me. 🙁

Please is there anything you can do to help me out.

Thanks Bob

PS my email is rnorris72@cox.net if you would like to email me on this subject

Still AmazingEven after the exp changes, these guides are still almost perfect the way they are. Now, instead of having grinding sessions every level or so, you just follow the guide as it stands.

I got a level ahead of the guide around level 35, and have been ahead ever since (now level 48 and climbing)

The only thing I would recommend is to add a section on Theramore. The new content added there is amazing for the ranges 38-42. I skipped Badlands all together and went there, and have been ahead of the guide even then.

The great thing about the exp changes is that if there is a part of the guide you don’t like, you can usually skip it easily and it won’t hurt your exp. But the best part is that there are NO MORE GRINDING sessions, at all. The exp gained from quests should easily be enough to make you level.

I still love these guides, keep up the good work.

You have my thanks and respectI sincerely appreciate your time and effort to put such a useful guide together. I have been following it since lvl 30 and am now a 59 warrior. Your guide has helped me to maintain economy of motion and keep my exp rolling in. I also have got much more out of the game overall because of seeing new areas and meeting new people. Thank you.

Lvl 59 Destroyr Nordrassil server

I would put that down to theI would put that down to the recent increase in XP from quests since 2.3

It’s not impossible, justIt’s not impossible, just tedious. Use fire spells, even without fire talents you can still solo them reliably 🙂

Waaaay aheadIm currenty level 56 in the 50 – 60 guide, and i’ve been able to skip the Un’Goro escort quest and the Sunkern Temple part, mainly because im level 56 at the startof the level 55 section.

For those that are waiting for the new guides to come out, don’t. I’m A WHOLE LEVEL ahead of the guide, so technically I could skip most of it, but I won’t. Just for rep and things.

Mages on this guide are pretty fast, expect for the parts where you have to drink. Other than that, it’s all quick, which i’m finding out.

I can’t wait to finish out my character, and start many others in the near future.

Baíley – Ahn’Quraj EU 🙂

Thanks Jame!Hey Jame I just wanted to thank you for your guide. Using it I leveled my new mage to 60 in only 6 days played time. I could probably even have shaved a day or two off that time if I didn’t afk or work on tradeskills so much 🙂 Here’s a screenshot to use however, thanks again!

[img]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-2/948040/lvl60.jpg[/img]

Water ElementalsI just have to say that that lvl 38 quest is next to impossible if you are a frost mage. They are immune to all frost attacks. Just saying 🙂

“In chapter two, some of the“In chapter two, some of the quests in your section on the Swamp of Sorrows involve the Harborage and Fallow Sanctuary. May I suggest adding [38] Mercy for the Cursed given by Anchorite Avuun in the Harborage to your list. It only involves killing three Cursed Lost Ones and it should take no time at all whilst killing all the other things in order to get the crystals and whilst escorting the Lost One’s dinner out of the camp .”

This is one of the new burning crusade quests, and once jame has gone over the guides, like he is atm with the horde, this quest will probably be added

Depends on your preferences.I leveled through 58 in Old World, mostly following the guide. Post patch, I could pretty much skip entire sections of the guide (which I LIKED, since some places I didn’t like, and some instances I was OK with avoiding).

At 59, I went to Hellfire and started with the 60-65 guide. I was always about half a level behind the Guide’s listed level. After doubling my health, getting all the GREAT early armor upgrades (not to mention the weapons you can buy at Honored reputation), I was just about 62, and starting the Zangarmarsh section of the guide. I realized that if I kept at this pace, I’d have more grinding/questing to do LATER (as I neared 70), and I want to keep as many quests available to do at 70 as possible.

So, I took my warrior back to Western and Eastern Plaguelands at 62. Holy cow. Everything’s green, you can pretty much AOE-pull things and whirlwind/cleave things down. The only thing that was even remotely a thread was the 60 elite crypt fiend in the Terrorweb tunnel. (Which, incidentally, squished me like a bug.) Other than that though, it was easy experience to get.

It was MUCH slower than Outlands questing (and I imagine Silithus would be similarly less-rewarding). I did it on the expectation that it would make it easier to farm money later.

In retrospect, though, I think I might have been MORE productive just grinding on mobs in the Dead Mire or other Zangarmarsh zone (working on Sporregar rep, for example) from 62.5 to 63. I had a lot of wasted travel time in the Plaguelands. (It was, however, darn fun. Revenge on Araj was sweet. :))

Jame, thank you for the awesome guides. I recommend quite often, and will be using them on more characters in the future. It’d be nice if, after updating these to have less stuff to do post-patch, you were to keep a copy of the OLD guides, with their now optional-waves of quests. I really liked that. Also, you can probably do nearly an entire zone in one trip, instead of coming back later to do the harder quests, since you’ll have leveled more from the earlier ones. 😉

Tour guide integration?James, I saw someone ask a few weeks ago about a ‘tour guide’ version of your leveling guide. This would be a sensational extension of your guide.

I print the guide out two pages /side, double sided, and read it continuously during questing, but it would rock if it was integrated into the tour guide mod.

Just a thought.

Keep up the good work.

Sorry to say that, but…I hit lvl 60 in Felwood. Nevertheless, I continued the guide and I’m now 62 and in the middle of Cenarion Hold/Silithus-questing.

Hey James I love yourHey James I love your guides. They help so much getting to level 70. Even though i got 23 day playime at level 65 because its my first character and I hang around and go afk a lot. But I hope to get there by 28 days. Id like to print this guild out its just so many pages and ink is very expensive. Im always doing instances and screwing the guide off. I hated doing feralas so i did 1 quest there it is so boring and it was just not fun. So I was always ahead of ur guide by half a level or so so keep up the good work and I hope u make a 70-80 guide when the wrath of the lich king comes out. See ya

Thanks for the suggestion.Thanks for the suggestion. Snowflake will probably add it when she does the revamp of this chapter 🙂

Just a suggestionIn chapter two, some of the quests in your section on the Swamp of Sorrows involve the Harborage and Fallow Sanctuary. May I suggest adding [38] Mercy for the Cursed given by Anchorite Avuun in the Harborage to your list. It only involves killing three Cursed Lost Ones and it should take no time at all whilst killing all the other things in order to get the crystals and whilst escorting the Lost One’s dinner out of the camp :).

Good to know Snowflake willGood to know 🙂 Snowflake will take that into account when she revamps this part.

Dragons in Burning SteppsIn your 50-60 guide. The dragons in Burning Stepps are no longer elite. Makes that quest much easier.

Yeah, same for me. Level 60Yeah, same for me. Level 60 atm and half way to level 61 and i still have plaguelands / silithus to do. I’ve used your guides a few times so there were certain parts i knew i had to adapt so that certain regions didn’t turn grey to me. Re-arranging when certain areas are done (ie Azshara) and included elite quests that are now easy (Every quest outside Uldaman can now be cleared up quick and easy 🙂 ).

Not sure what it was like for others but i only managed to get 1 run in Blackfathom depths and Sunken temple so questing alone is enough for leveling extremely fast.

Good job James on your guides.

Great! That’s the kind ofGreat! That’s the kind of things I like to hear 🙂

I leveled with the currentI leveled with the current 30-60 guides and i ended up being lv 61 at the very end of the 51-60 guide. so imo these guides are perfect the way they are especially with the leveling increase. I was able to skip every portion of where it said to grind out the rest of the level because i was already ahead in XP. Great Job Jame!!! Oh and on a side note, going into outlands at 61 paid off well, since now i am 64 when the guide said i should be dinging 63, and i also was able to skip all the said grinding sessions.

Sometime in January.Sometime in January.

Revamps?When will the Alliance 30-60 be revamped? If you have no idea, eh at least i asked : )

Great Guides,

Good Luck Have Fun!

Check the news page, it’sCheck the news page, it’s all there!

Horde guideWhen is the guide for horde 60-70 going to be released?

Thx james for a lovely guidejust thought i would tell u how gratefull im for this guide:)ive played before the burning crusade and than i had a break and sold my acc, i just started a litle again for about 1month ago and search the internett for a guide and i found yours and it has actually been fun leveling:) i have followed it since 30 and i just dinged 65 today so the timing for the 65-70 guide was just perfect for me:)and i also read that u considerd a money/quest guide for lvl 70 and i now i would really appreciate that:P

greeting from a gratefull follower of your guide, Bajas

Awesome news!Just wanted to say that you and your support crew are very impressive! Meeting your deadline to release the 65-70 guide deserves major kudos. If I was your boss I’d be sure you received a major raise in pay

Using your guides takes the drudgery out of leveling the 3rd/4th/5th alt etc. to 70. Thanks again for your efforts and hard work.

WOOITs OUT thanks JAMES :sick: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop:

release of 65-70Thanks Jame!

I was just checking wow-pro when I read your message about it being released in the afternoon. It wasn’t there yet at 4:10 pm Dutch time, but when i refreshed the page… there it was 🙂

Just in time for me, because I’m lvl 66 and am almost done with the 60-65 guide in Terrokar.

np’s dude. We all gratefulnp’s dude. We all grateful (just itchin to give it a go) 🙂

James is European?I blame the metric system for how awesome your guides are.

Excelent!I keep poping on, hoping it’s there! 8)

Also, I would like to say how much I appreciate the quality and accuracy of these guides and the fact they are free and easily accessible, so thank you for writing them. They have greatly increased my leveling rate of many characters.
(still no 70, but he’s coming, just as I get my hands on the last installment!)
Thank you again.