Jame’s Alliance Leveling Guide

Thanks a ton!Jame, Thanks for the spectacular guides. I can’t even begin to wonder how many people I’ve recommended it to, and how many characters I’ve used this guide for!

The first time I used it, I got a rogue from 1-60 (Pre BC, almost a year and a half ago) in 10.5 days /played time!

I literally swear by this guide, and am more pleased than ever to see that you’re still at hard work making it better, and making new guides! (I’ve been deployed for the last 14 months)

Keep up the great work, and I’ll keep throwing your name out there to my fellow WoW-ers in leveling despair!

–Dooder

Why these guides are so goodI see a good lot of praise for these guides, both here in the comments and on other sites/forums. I just wanted to give my take on why I think they’re such good guides.

First: They’re easy to understand. There’s very little discrepancy about where you should go, or what you need to do in a certain situation (and, as people experience problems they say so, which leads us to…)

Second: They’re updated. This game changes – a lot; and those changes can easily break things in the game. Also, the author recognizes that he (i think he? apologies otherwise!!) is quite human, and that not everyone thinks exactly the same. So instead of getting all defensive, it’s “thanks – fixed!”

Last, but not least: They’re modularized. These guides can be used by anyone, whether you’re on your first character or you have eight 70’s. This means much different playing styles (people throw in dungeons, or questing with friends, or they don’t get on much so lots of rested xp.) Personally, I’m leveling a number of toons at the moment, so I’m winding up with a lot of rested. So, after following boston’s guide thru 30 (i finished it at 32 or 33 or so on one guy, due to rested xp) and toss in some runthroughs sm for some gear I got, I’m on step 32 or so, but my toon is more than halfway into 37. So if I decide to skip a zone, or a few steps, it’s very easy to do this and not get confused about where I’m supposed to go.

So please, as you continue to improve these guides, make sure you keep these attributes, both with updates to existing ones, and new ones (you know you’ll be burning to make one when WotLK comes out!!)

Thanks again for these amazing guides,

Cors

QuesthelperThank you Jame!

I have used your guides many times to level my chars and they are great!

1 note though maybe mention Questhelper in recommended addons section?

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/9924/

Best Questing addon ever 🙂

YOUR GUIDE RULES!Hey, just need to say thank you so much for this awesome guide, I don’t think I would ever have the patience to finally get to 70 without this, it made the whole thing a lot easier and quicker, not to mention more fun.

Great work mate, and keep it up for the sake of all players who find levelling very long and sometimes boring!

just wanna say thanks jamesjust wanna say thanks james 😀

Thank you, fixed!Thank you, fixed!

I plan to do that as soon asI plan to do that as soon as I get the time 🙂

This is curious, I’m alsoThis is curious, I’m also using firefox, but I have no troubles with this particular guide…

Thanks again for the guidesThanks again for the guides i finally have my first level 70 and i still havent finished the level 65-70 part, but i will still follow the guide for the money :D, while following your guide i managed to get enough money for my flying mount and training as soon as i hit 70 and i still have money left over for another 5 mounts :O i know i suggested more guide but it just struck me… why not make a level 70 only guide helping everyone out with what quests to do where once they hit level 70, Thanks for the link too i hope it will help a lot 😀

Small CorrectionAfter you kill tethyr in part 1, you state you should talk to sergeant hamelyn when it is really Amelyn. Very small correction, just thought i might add it incase people were confused when they look him up in thottbot or w/e.

Hi james, i have a questionHi James and thanks for all your hardwork.

Im using the old 41-50 guide, can i use the new 50-60 guide with no problem or i will loose quests that i was doing on the old guide? and will i not be able to do quests that was not present on the old guide but are present on the new 41-50 guide to tranfer to the next lvl guide?

Leveling a druidHi,

I’ve leveled my druid with balance speck from 1-50+ and respecked to feral after that. I can honestly say that feral is much, much easier to lvl with, as you virtually get no down time at all. Being balance is enjoyable and totally different but you will constantly be running out of mana and risk dying if that happens while you still have mobs on you. If you are interested in leveling speed then feral is definitely the way to go. I recommend you try balance until lvl 20, which is when you get cat form. That way you will have gotten a bit of a feel to what balance is about. I’d also recommend that you keep 2 or more gear sets, (feral DPS, feral tanking, balance, healing) and try respecking a couple of times as you lvl. If you for example play moonkin at lvls 40-45 and a couple of lvls between 60 and 70 then you should be able to get a proper idea of how it is to lvl and instance with a moonkin.

FirefoxLvl 30 – 40 Guide is not displaying in firefox. I was using firefox for 30-40 just fine untill 2 days ago. Now i have to use IE to allo0w the page to be displayed. Just an FYI

It’s up to you. If youIt’s up to you. If you really can’t wait, try to follow my old guide. If not, yes of course it’s better to wait for the revamp :p

I’m hoping the 40-50 chapter will be out by the end of April.

There are already 20-30There are already 20-30 guides, so I don’t need to write one 😛

I didn’t write the alliance 20-30 guide myself, but I’ve tested it and it’s a high quality guide, so I won’t write one myself 🙂

Here’s the link:

https://www.wow-pro.com/leveling_guides/bostons_20-30_alliance_leveling_guide

Just Wondering.Hey James, first of all great guide, got my first character to 70 by following this guide.
What I wanted to ask though was I have a 40 Allaince shaman and was following the new 30-40 guide and now can only use the old 41-50 guide. Should I just wait for the new 40-50 guide or try to adapt the new guide with the old one? Also, when about is the new 40-50 guide coming out for Alliance.

Another MethodAWSOME guide. Use it all the time. I have found another way to kill off the courier, and ALL of the body guards. Guessing that if you’re looking at this you’re a draenei shaman (hopefully enhancement), so here’s how it goes. Drop your stoneskin totem when you’re just in range for lightning bolt, lightning the courier (which aggs everything). Activate your Draenei healing ability, drop healing stream and magma totems, flameshock the courier. Kill that npc off first, loot incase you die, flameshock whenever you’re focused. Keep dropping magma totems, hope for crits, and you should be able to kill everything off without too much trouble thanks to your healing ability and healing stream (and shamans rock). Use a healing potion/mana potion if you have to, though I had a few windfurry procs so didn’t have to. By the time you start killing the guards they should be at least half dead, so no biggy!

Great guidei followed your guid from level 32 and i had reached level 60 by level 55 of the guide, this guide rocks and not only this guide rock but all your guides rock make more guides maybe a 20-30 one? 😛 keep up the good work im up to the outlands guide after abandoning the 50-60 guide at level 55 part and im already level 65 and im only up to the level 63 part 😀 i love this guide

Yes we will add that questYes we will add that quest hub in the revamped 40-50 Chapter. I highly recommend doing this quest hub, it’s the best you can find pre Outland.

Hey Jame, ive been usingHey Jame, ive been using your guides from lvl 30 -> 50 and im still enjoying them, they are very easy to follow and I have recommended them to various other people =]

ATM im 2 lvls above the recommendation lol, zul farrak managed to lvl me twice when i used the guide that was on this site :jawdrop:

Just wanted to express my thanks, keep makin awesome guides 🙂

DruidI’ve yet to use your guide but it looks very nice, however I have a question. I plan on rolling a druid alt soon and I will be following your guide with that and you said to always spec for the most damage. As a Druid would speccing for the most damage be as a Balance druid for the spell DPS, as a Feral druid in cat form for melee DPS, or would they be close enough that whichever I want to play would be fine?

Thanks a ton.

Hi JameThank you a trillion times for this guide, I’ve used it over and over and this time it’s with a Draenei Shaman 🙂 So I’d like to offer the tactic I use to get the Sealed Folder for the Forsaken Courier.

Basically, you want to keep the bodyguards away from you while you pund on the Courier, this is how I do it:

[b]Get about 40yds from then and let them patrol to you, during that you you put out a stoneclaw totem and a magma totem. Before they get to the totems you pull the courier with a Lightning Bolt to ensure the totems won’t pull her. This will separate her from the bodyguards, once you’ve got her you put an Earth bind totem down to slown down the incoming body guards. After that you just nuke down the Courier who should be down to about 30% by now (I never got a Windfury proc, so it’s alot faster if you do). Loot the folder, set down a new Earthbind Totem, cast Ghost Wolf and run away. 🙂 Obviously this was done as an Enhancement Shaman level 35 but I don’t see a faster spec to level with.[/b]

Also, is there an estimate on the 40-50 guide?

Thanks,

Dylan B.

Hello,

Curious if you’reHello,

Curious if you’re taking into account the new quest hub in 2.3.x (forgot which exactly), that goblin town in Dustwallow? Wondering if I should go there myself with my 40 shaman or wait till chapter 2 where you’ll have it covered. I just want to experience the content as I haven’t seen it yet.

It’s normal, they apparentlyIt’s normal, they apparently removed this quest as of patch 2.4.0 🙁

First of all greatFirst of all great guide

but i have 1 issue, when it says talk to Magister Falris and get his quest, “Losing Gracefully” on my screen it doesnt say he has any quet available

Thanks for yourThanks for your suggestions.

The cloth donation quests already have been added in the horde guide, and will also be added to the alliance guide when we revamp it.

About the map thing, we’ve already found a temporary fix: we simply stopped making huge maps with 20 steps. We generally split circuits in 2 maps or more, so that there isn’t ever a need to scroll back up a lot.

2 Small suggestionsGreat guides, love them, impressive you did all that work for no pay! Thanks so much.

Cloth!!! As leveling my shaman i noticed i could get a few thousand exp when i passed through a main city by handing in 60 cloth. It might be worth adding this to the guides at the top, as a small suggestion. You could always buy the cloth from the Auction House, gold for exp.

Maps!!! Is there any chance you could have a 2 column format on your guides? Some of the longer routes can be difficult to see because there are 12 or more points, and the map is way off up the page, nowhere to be found.

Yes there is a gap at theYes there is a gap at the moment, it will be fixed as soon as possible. For the time being, just follow the guide without paying attention to the level recommended.

I got a questionhi and thanks for the great guide, i have 2 questions:

1- theres a gap between lvl 40 and lvl 41, theres noleveling guide between this lvls?

2- i was using the old leveling guide from 40 to 40, if i use the new guide from 41 to 50 it will have the sames quests as the old lvling guide or i will miss some quests becouse i was using the old leveling guide?

Thanks (hope i get a quick response) 🙂

Buldozer

Good job with your guide JameGood job Jame. I have used this guide for 2 characters. ( 70 warlock and i am using it on lvl 35 shaman ) My friends call me a haxer:D I gaved them the site to this guide and now we are all on lvl 70:D Thank you so much. GL with the next guide, Northrend:D

About 8 days /played,About 8 days /played, without rested XP bonus.

It has been suggested a fewIt has been suggested a few times. It does sound nice, but it would mean less people visiting the website, and considering this website provides everything for free and autofinances itself (hosting costs, contest prizes) thanks to ad -revenue, this would just be bad for the website’s health.

has anyone ever thoughthas anyone ever thought about making an Add-on to incorporate the guide into the game? That would make things 10billion times easier!

Good GuideI love this guide so much I made an account SOLELY for posting a comment. I’ve been using the ones I found months ago, and noticed that there seemed to be some updates that I thought would work out really well for additions. I was pleased to see James is taking the initiative to update his already awesome guides. And that there are guides for Outlands. =D Thanks so much!

Thank you JameThank you, I see the 30-40 revamp is up and now its time to level my Pally. I love your work!

Warlock trainersJust to let you know there is a warlock and demon trainer in Ratchet. More convenient for Alliance locks to train while on Kalimdor.

I’ve also been around withI’ve also been around with WoW since the beginning and was fortunate enough to be able to play the hours needed to level without guides at first but i’m talking serious time put in, I have a few online business run from home so I get to play however often as I want. With all the changes over the years i’ve read some guides and have to say your’s is hands down the greatest and proved to be the best for leveling. I haven’t played as much lately as I got sucked into the online poker and backgammon world were you can win a few bucks for the time spent playing which is always nice in comparison to playing WoW, while leveling in the game is always a good feeling so is winning a game or hand and getting paid hehe.

TimeHi

I was wondering how long with this guide how long roughly it will take me to get to lvl 70 ??? 🙂

Eyecron-_- U rock !!! 😀

Yes, you should ignore theYes, you should ignore the dungeon 3 bracers. This will be removed from the guide during the revamp.

The revamped 30-40 guideThe revamped 30-40 guide should be out in a couple of days, so if you don’t mind waiting, I recommend it 🙂

It’s loading for me. AnyoneIt’s loading for me. Anyone else has that problem?

Awsome guide!Hey i just recently started using this guide and i love it! It is really good, i started leveling an alliance mage and then at 30 i was looking around for a guide. Found this one, to see how it is and now im level 53 with 4 days play time!

Althought in chapter 3 i dont get why we need the dungeon 1 bracers or whatever. So i just got the epic warsong gulch ones.

alliance updateHi James, just wondering im level 28 should i wait for the updated versions of 30-41 alliance guide when i hit level 30 or shall i use the old versions and then use the updated version,

Not loadingThe 50-60 guide cant be loaded. what’s the problem?

Thank you for the update. IThank you for the update. I look forward to it. You are awesome Jame.

awesomethis is an awesome guide… only had to make one change. Instead of grinding at expedition armory in the 60-65 guide, i preferred grinding at legion front, the wrathguards there. They give a tad lower exp (i think 50 or so a mob) but they are MUCH easier to kill (averaged about 8-15 seconds on each mob) more mobs in a single area but still easy to single pull. Plus you dont have to deal with knights charge and the casters bolts..

just a suggestion

keep up the amazing work

Thank you, and I’llThank you, and I’ll definitely write one for WotLK 🙂

The first revamped AllianceThe first revamped Alliance chapter (30-40) should be out in about a week.

Excellent guide, wouldn’t use anything elseFirst off, after leveling up 2 characters to 70 with 2 to 2 and a half months of playtime each, I got extremely tired of leveling and decided to search for a guide. After I saw ths one, I looked no further.

I started a new character which is now my first 70 paladin, completed in only 2 weeks and 4 days of playtime.

Keep up the great work and hopefully you’ll create one for Wrath of the Lich King 🙂

RevampJame, let me start by saying that I loved your guide. I used it for all my characters, 2 of which are now both 70. The others, sadly were deleted when I got bored of them, only to recreate another of that same class once I actually started to understand the game mechanics.

I recently got my Paladin to 32, and am waiting for the revamp of the alliance versions. I have been using the horde revamp for my BE hunter (now 25). Any idea when we might start to see the revamped guides going up for Ally?