by SnowflakeIntroduction
This guide is made for FAST leveling through the use of Optimized Quest Circuits. With this guide, questing will be very efficient and you’ll not waste any second running around and trying to figure
out in which order to do your quests. Follow each instruction carefully and you will see for yourself. The quest choices and order to do them are optimal so that you run as few as possible while doing the most possible, turning several quests at the same time. It will be like grinding, because
you’ll be killing stuff almost non-stop, besides you’ll also be completing a bunch of quests at the same time!
Everything described in this guide can be done solo (beside when I say otherwise). You can, of course, follow this guide while duoing, grouping, it’s not a problem, it works
too.
DISCLAIMER: This guide does NOT take into account tradeskills, class specific quests or PvP. It’s 100% focused on getting the most experience possible in the shortest possible time while doing a lot of quests and enjoying as much content as possible. Any race/class combination can do this guide. Any complaints about PvP, tradeskills, or class
specific issues will be ignored.
Basic rules
* Spend your talent points so that you kill things as fast as possible. (e.g: Priest should specialize in Shadow Talents, Warriors in Arms/Fury, etc.
* Don’t waste your time trying to find groups for questing, you can solo everything that is described in this guide unless I say otherwise. Only group with someone when it’s not gonna be a waste of time (e.g: meeting the person at the other end of the zone to
show him the way to where your quest is, that is a waste of time)
* Try to always log out in an inn or in one of the major cities when you take a break.
Useful Addons
To get the most out of my guide, you should get an addon which displays coordinates, because I use them to describe locations in my guide (x,y). You can use any addon you like, but here’s a very simple one I use.
Recommended
DMiniCoords– A simple box which displays coordinates, left-click it to move it where you like.
Optional
Below is a list of other addons I use, this is 100% optional though, it’s mostly for people who are curious to know which addons I use:
*Bartender4 – A great action bar addon.
*X-Perl UnitFrames – Very nice, highly customizable unit frames.
*Quartz – The best casting bar addon out
there, imo.
*Scrolling Combat Text – I just don’t like the default UI Floating Combat Text.
Side Note: In case you don’t know how to install add-ons, simply download an addon from one of the links above and unzip it. Then drag the unzipped folder in your Addon folder (full path is c:\\Program Files\\World of Warcraft\\Interface\\Addons). Then, restart World of Warcraft and it should be working.
If it isn’t working, you might need to log out to your character selection screen and click on “Addons” in the lower-left corner. Tick the box that says “Load out of date Addons”. Re-launch WoW.
Color Code:
*Quests
*Items
*Locations
*Quest objectives to kill
*NPCs
*Locs
Level 1
1.You start off in Shadowglen. Now, take some time to set up your UI (if it’s complicated).
2.Take the quest [2]The Balance of Nature
from Conservator Ilthalaine.
3.Now, wander around this little area and kill 7 Young Nightsabers and 4 Young Thistle Boar.
You should ding level 2 from this.
Level 2
1.Now, go turn in [2]The Balance of Nature at Conservator Ilthalaine.
2.Get the follow up [3]The Balance of Nature. Also get [1]Class Depending Sigil.
3.Sell trash, repair, and go to your trainer to turn in
[1]Class Depending Sigil and train your abilities if you’d like.
4.Go to (59,36) and kill 7 Mangy Nightsaber and Thistle Boars. You should ding level 3 from doing this.
Level 3
1.Go all around Aldrassil and grab the quests:
[1]The Woodland Protector from Melithar Staghelm(59,42)
[4]Webwood Venom from Gilshalan Windwalker(57,41).
[4]A Good Friend from Dirania Silvershine(60,41).
Also turn in [3]The Balance of Nature.
2.Go
to (54,32) and find Iverron. Turn in the quest and get the follow up [4]A Friend in Need.
3.Now, get out of the pass and kill Webwood Spiders until you have 10 Webwood Venom Sacs. You should ding level 4 from doing this.
Level 4
1.Train your new abilities at your class trainer, sell junk, and repair.
2.Turn in [4]Webwood Venom at Gilshalan Windwalker(57,41) and obtain the follow-up [5]Webwood Egg.
3.Turn in [4]A Friend in Need at Dirania Silvershine(60,41) and obtain the follow up [4]Iverron’s Antidote.
4.Now, go over to Tarindrella and turn in [1]The Woodland Protector
and get the follow-up [3]The Woodland Protector.
5.Go west of Tarindrella to (55,45).
Here, kill grells until you get 8 Fel Moss, and 7 Hyacinth Mushrooms. You should reach
level 5 doing this.
Level 5
1.Obtain 4 Moonpetal Lilies. They are around the ponds.
2.Now, go to the cave where we killed the spiders around before. Go inside
it, clear to the very end, and kill the spider guarding the Webwood Egg. If you haven’t found the Webwood Ichor yet, then keep
killing spiders here until you do.
3.Once you’re done here, get out of the cave and head back to Aldrassil.
4.Once at Aldrassil,
sell junk and repair. Once you’ve done this, turn in the quests [4]Iverron’s Antidote, [5]Webwood Egg, and [3]The Woodland Protector. Obtain the follow-up [5]Tenaron’s Summons. Don’t start the follow-up of [4]Iverron’s Antidote until you complete the next step!
5.Go to the top of the tree and turn in [5]Tenaron’s Summons. Get the follow-up [5]Crown of the Earth. Now, go start the timed quest, [4]Iverron’s Antidote. Find him and turn it in.
6.Go to (59,33) and fill the vial at the moonwell.
7.Go back to Aldrassil.
8.Go to the top of the tree and turn in [5]Crown of the Earth and get the follow-up [5]Crown of the Earth.
Level 6
1.Train your new skills at your trainer.
2.Now, follow the path out of Shadowglen. On the way, you’ll find a NPC named Porthannius. Get his quest [5]Dolanaar Delivery.
3.Follow the path until you reach Dolanaar. While on this path, you will find a satyr named Zenn Foulhoof. Talk to him and get his quest [5]Zenn’s Bidding. Then continue on to Dolanaar.
4.In Dolanaar,
complete the quest [5]Dolanaar Delivery, and make the inn your home. Also, find Corithras Moonrage and turn in the quest
[5]Crown of the Earth. Get the follow-up [5]Crown of the Earth.
5.Learn First Aid and Cooking. Now since you have trained Cooking, you can get the quest [7]Recipe of the Kaldorei.
Grab the quests:
*[5]Denalan’s Earth from Syral Bladeleaf.
*[6]A Troubling Breeze from Athridas Bearmantle
*[6]The Emerald Dreamcatcher from Tallonkai Swiftroot.
*Also get [7]Twisted Hatred
from her.
—Note— Kill every Nightsaber, Webwood Lurker, and Strigid Owl that you see on
your way.
6.Move to (63,58). Fill up your Jade Vial at the moon well.
7.Now follow the road to Starbreeze Village. Clear all the way to the inn, and go to the very top. There, you should find a dead Night Elf named Gaerolas Talvethren.
8.Turn in [6]A Troubling Breeze and get
[6]Gnarlpine Corruption.
9.Go outside of the inn and you will find a small house with the Emerald Dreamcatcher in it.
10.Clear your way out of the village and run circles around the area by Dolanaar until you have the following items:
* 3 Strigid Owl Feathers
* 3 Nightsaber Fangs
* 3 Webwood Silk
* 7 Spider Legs
When you get all of these items, go back to Zenn Foulhoof and turn in the quest.
You should be level 7.
Level 7
1.Go back to Dolanaar, sell and repair.
2.Turn in [6]Gnarlpine Corruption at Athridas Bearmantle and get the follow-up [9]The Relics of Wakening.
3.Turn in [6]The Emerald Dreamcatcher at Tallonkai Swiftroot and get the follow-up [8]Ferocitas the Dream Eater
4.Get the quest [7]Seek Redemption! from either Sentinel Kyra Starsong, Syral Bladeleaf, or Moon Priestess Amara.
—NOTE— From now on look
for Fel Cones.
5.Now, leave Dolanaar and head to Lake Al’Ameth. There, you will find Denalan. Turn in [5]Denalan’s Earth
and get the follow-ups [7]Timberling Seeds and [7]Timberling Sprouts.
6.Now kill Timberlings
until you finish the two quests.
Turn them in and get the follow-up [7]Rellian Greenspyre.
You should be level 8 after you get all of these items.
Level 8
1.Go back to Dolanaar and sell junk, repair, and train new skills.
2.Go to (69,53). Here, we’re going to kill Ferocitas the Dream Eater.
Kill the mobs around him, then kill him and loot the Gnarlpine Necklace. Make sure to right click the necklace for the jewel.
3.Now, kill 7 Gnarlpine Mystics.
4.If you have not gotten the 3 Fel Cones, then collect them now.
5.Go to Zenn Foulhoof(60,56). Turn in [7]Seek Redemption!.
6.Go back to Dolanaar, sell and repair.
7.Turn in [8]Ferocitas the Dream Eater and [7]Recipe of the Kaldorei.
You should be level 9. If you’re not, go
grind on some mobs.
Level 9
1.Go east out of the town.
2.On the road, you should find a patrolling group of Night Elves. Get the quest [8]The Road to Darnassus from Moon Priestess Amara.
3.Go to (49,55) and kill Gnarlpine Ambushers until you finish the quest.
4.Go to (44,57).
Enter the den, and clear around it to find all four items.
Black Feather Quill: (43,61) in a small room across a bridge.
Rune of Nesting: (44,60) in a small room across a different bridge. Same chamber as the Quill.
Sapphire of Sky:
(44,62) in a small room at the very bottom of the chamber.
Ravenclaw Talisman:(45,57)
—NOTE— This is better done in a group. However, it can be soloed.
5.At (44,61), you will find Oben Rageclaw.
Take his quest [8]The Sleeping Druid.
6.Kill Gnarlpine Shamans until one drops the Shaman Voodoo Charm.
7.Return to Oben Rageclaw. Turn in the quests and get the follow up [10]Druid of the Wild.
8.The druid you have
to kill for this wanders under 3 bridges by the entrance of the cave. Once you kill him, click on the body and use the charm. This will complete the quest.
9.Go back to Oben Rageclaw and turn it in.
10.Hearthstone back to Dolanaar.
11.Turn in [9]The Relics of Wakening, and get the follow-up [12]Ursal the Mauler.
You should be level 10.
Level 10
1.Sell junk, repair, and train new abilities.
2.Go east out of Dolanaar and find Moon Priestess Amara. Turn in [8]The Road to Darnassus.
3.Now, head to Darnassus.
4.When in Darnassus, go to (38,21). Turn in [7]Rellian Greenspyre and get the
follow-up [9]Tumors
5.Go to (36,85) and take the quest [12]Tears of the Moon.
6.Get out of
Darnassus and head to (38,34). Take the quest [11]The Enchanted Glade from Sentinel Arynia Cloudsbreak.
7.Kill harpies until you have 6 Bloodfeather Belts.
8.Go back to Sentinel Arynia Cloudsbreak and turn in the quest. Get the follow-up [11]Teldrassil.
9.Go to the river east of here and kill elementals until you have 5 Mossy Tumors.
10.Go to
(47,25) and kill Lady Sathrah. Loot the Silvery Spinnerets.
11.Go back to Darnassus. Turn in [9]Tumors and get the follow-up [9]Return to Denalan.
12.Go to (35,9) and turn in [11]Teldrassil. DON’T get the follow-up.
13.Go to Temple of the Moon and turn in the quest. Get the follow-up [12]Sathrah’s Sacrifice.
14.Jump down to the fountain and use the Sathrah’s Sacrifice. This will complete the quest.
15.Go back and turn it in.
16.Sell and repair while you’re in Darnassus.
You should be level 11.
Level 11
1.Move out of Darnassus and move to (42,67). Fill up your Tourmaline Vial at the moon well.
2.Go to (42,75) and click the Strange Fruited Plant.
Take the quest [10]The Glowing Fruit.
3.Go to (39,80). Kill EVERYTHING around him, then kill Ursal the Mauler.
4.Go back to Denalan(61,69). Turn in both quests.
—NOTE— When you turn in [10]The Glowing Fruit, you’ll be attacked by three boglings. Make sure you get the kill so you get the items they drop for the +1 damage
increase. It may not seem like much but it helps.
5.Take the follow-up [9]Oakenscowl.
6.Go to (53,74). Kill Oakenscowl and loot the Gargantuan Tumor.
7.Go back to Denalan and turn in the
quest.
8.Go back to Dolanaar.
9.Turn in [9]Crown of the Earth and get the follow-up. Also turn in [12]Ursal the Mauler.
10.Go to (38,34) and fill up your vial.
11.Hearthstone back to Dolanaar.
12.Turn in [11]Crown of the Earth
and take the follow-up [11]Crown of the Earth.
13.Go to Darnassus. Find Arch Druid Fandral Staghelm. Turn in [11]Crown of the Earth.
14.At (71,44), get the quest [10]Nessa Shadowsong.
You should be level 12.
Level 12
1.Use the pink teleporter at (39,41) to get to Rutheran Village.
2.Follow the road and turn in [10]Nessa Shadowsong at Nessa Shadowsong, take the follow-up [10]The Bounty of Teldrassil.
3.Turn in the quest at the flight master and get the follow-up [10]Flight to Auberdine and purchase a flight to Auberdine.
4.In Auberdine, find Laird and turn in the quest. Get
the follow-up [10]Return to Nessa. Purchase a flight back to Rutheran Village.
5.When you get there, turn in the
quest at Nessa Shadowsong.
6.Purchase a flight back to Auberdine.
7.Go to the docks, and take a ship to Stormwind City.
And this is where the guide ends! I personally suggest Joan’s 13-20 Alliance Leveling Guide.
-Kostada
Please note this is a reformatted version of Taralom’s Night Elf guide. I found that the formatting in that was somewhat confusing, and turn-ins etc. were off some. All credit goes to him.
Also, all props go to Jame for the introduction and for how the
guide is set up.
good guideoverall good guide but it only gets u to lvl 12 if u are constantly killing, for getting to ironforge u could take ship 2 stormwind from auberdine then go through tram
faster way to ironforgeThe faster way to ironforge would be to take the boat from the long wash to stormwind,and go to the deeprun tram in the dwarven district
Good guide, players below full of CRAPWhile the guide is not “perfect” it is a good guide to get to level 12 in a relatively short amount of time. It optimizes questing with grinding, the only things I didn’t like was the relics quest and its follow up (ursla the mauler).
I started my first hunter with this guide and he couldn’t do the relics quest by himself. I also didn’t want to waste half an hour finding a group to do the quest either. So I grinded a little harder then what the guide says too making it take slightly longer to level up. I found that when it said I should ding level five for instance that I was like 3 bars short.. and like 5 bars short when it said level 8 and almost a whole level short when it said I should ding 12.
It leaves out a few quests here and there although nothing major.
The guys who claim an hour and a half to level 12 are nuts. Unless your always fully rested and have the friend recruit add on bonus exp and even then thats knowing exactly where to go and finding the quest loot fast. 4 and half to 5 hours is average with little to no rested exp, soloing and a little time wasting.
Great Guide, One FlawThis guide is great, and I have used it for two toons so far. Everything is perfect accept in the Level 7 Section. At the end after you kill the Timberlings, you did not say to accept the follow up quest that you are offered after turning in the Timberling Seeds quest. I read it realy carefully and saw that it didn’t say to accept the quest, so I didn’t and then when I got to level 10, and I got to Darnassus I realised I didn’t have the quest to turn in. But thanks for the guide, I can tell you put alot of hard work into it, and I think it is a great guide, which I will recommend to my frends and guildies in the future!
Malheureusement pas. Mais tuMalheureusement pas. Mais tu peux faire une demande par Private Message à Souricette ou Kwaice (ils ont déjà traduit beaucoup de chapitres en Français).
Le même en français ?Le même en français ? existe t’ il ?
I agree,I agree, the only reason I knew how to get to some places is because I have had other Night Elf characters and I knew the basic idea of where to go. Now with the updates I can’t get any add-ons to work so titan panel is useless for me right now. Maybe if you could say go southeast from Dolonaar to get to Relics Of Wakening or something like that it would help out a lot in the guide. 🙂
Thanks for the information.Thanks for the information. I hope Taralom reads this and updates his guide soon 🙂
Travel to Ironforge…and now with the new pre-WotLK patch you don’t have to run through the Wetlands/Loch Modan/Dun Morogh to get to Ironforge – you just take the boat from Auberdine to Stormwind City and take the tram to Ironforge from there. 🙂
Still – I think you are missing something if you don’t do at least some of the Darkshore and even Bloodmyst quests before you go over to the Eastern Kingdoms — especially if you are playing a druid and certainly if you are enjoying the Nightelf storyline.
–Azeroth is more fun than Oz!
Helpful additionI tend to not use coordinates when I play. This is sort of hard to do when trying to follow your guide because in some parts, only the coord is given. A helpful addition to this guide, for players who don’t use coord systems, like myself, would be more maps.
Other than that, the guide is awesome. 🙂
Suggestions…This is a wonderful guide Taralom and I love it. Noght elves are my favourite class and I leveled many of them so I know Terdrasill quite well and my quest circuits are similar to yours.I wanted to write a night elf starting guide myself, but no use since you already did good job…Maybe I will write a guide for Darkshore…Anyway, here are some suggestions:
-Don’t do Relics of Wakening Until level 10 if you are a hunter or druid. It will be nearly imposible.
-THere are two quests you haven’t discovered and they perfectly fit in your circuits. First one is like Glowing Fruit.You will find a same plant at (35,29) and recieve a quest ” The Shimmering Frond”.The other one is a bit harder and requires you to kill a silver timberling around (43,28).You loot his heart and take the quest from it. Both quests are turned in at Denalan and have a followup which is done in the soil next to him. These quests should be done while you are there doing tears of moon(The Timberling may be hard for that level, I soloed it with a level 10 druid, but it is still an orange mob…).You will also recieve some useless things from those quests 😀
I hope you add these as they are easy XP. Anyway, great job Taralom!
Awesome guide, Nice jod Taralom!World of Warcraft is awesome. Period. Ok?
Hey, I have just finished Taralom’s 1-12 night elf guide. It just took me about 6 hours, and when I level without the guide, I had a level 11 rogue with 14 hours!
so as you can see, that is a huge improvement. Thanks and nice job Taralom!
Just wanted to mention…On your lvl 4 guide where you say “Also complete The woodland Protector” just would like to thro these coords up here, kinda hard for some people to find (57,45) lol took me 4 ever runnin around tryin to figure out where she was. :jawdrop:
ThanksNice work
Fairly easy to follow
Except for that you confused me with the directions
(I think you meant west when you said east, and vice versa :P)
not that good :/its not working for me at all, i’ve got 6 and a half hour played time now, and im lvl 10 only. if i do it my own way it goes even faster this is only getting slower for me.
great guide :]great guide :] 😀
@ drakefallen, the satyr at@ drakefallen, the satyr at the branch is there for a roguequest they need to pickpocket it and return to their questgiver ;), but it is pretty much work to put in all the class quests and I’d rather keep the guide universal ;).
Thanks for all the positive feedback guys.
Taralom
WowI created a new character to try this guide out and could not believe how fast I leveled. I reached level 12 just over 3 hours of play time and still had time to go to Popeyes in between! Muy Fantastico!!! 🙂
great guide, it workedgreat guide, it worked really well.
Annoying thing about teldrassil is that there are tons of areas near the harpies that no one ever explores, even though they have good loot and treasure chests.
I also found an interesting mob on one of the large branches you can reach. I don’t remember the name but it was a satyr, and i think it was part of a druid quest, or maybe it was just there. Thing is, when I attacked it, it spawned some doubles, and it dropped quite good loot and XP. If anyone knows what the coordinates are, it might be something to mention.
fantastic! It workedfantastic! It worked beautifully for my druid. Thanks for your work, especially giving being thorough with the coordinates.
thanksthanks for making this it helped me alot i got 1-12 in 5hours wich is fast for me
the only thing wrong with it was i didn’t have cords so that made it hard but that wasn’t your fault so yeah good job
Ooops…I mean Eregho not thisone 😛 i thought ferius mentioned the guy that wrote this extra information.
ahaow sry m8 i read
25-30 Added
and 31-39 too. Basically it’s finished!
so thought you posted them on the website my mistake
😀
SorrySorry but I don’t really understand what you mean Ferius?, Btw I currently have no time to update the guide if someone else feels like fixing in this part[the stuff thisone mentions] just send it to daeronens@hotmail.com
other partsDude where did you posted them other parts from 12-god knows where 😛 and btw thx for thisone used it and aproved ^^
ThanksThanks for your feedback and for those quests. I will include them as soon as possible, once I get home.
2 things missing.2 quests near the harpy’s aren’t included in the guide, both are very easy and can be done along with the harpy quest without hardly going out of your way.
At 31, 32 you’ll find a cat called Mist who you simply need to take to the night elf standing next to the moon well nearby, the same NPC for the harpy quest. It’s an extremely easy escort, the cat follows you rather than typical escorts where you slowly follow the escort where they want to go.
Also at 35, 29 you’ll find a Strange Fronded Plant, which gives you the quest Shimmering Frond. You take the Shimmering Frond to the same place as the Glowing Fruit, so it can easily be handed in at the same time when you go back to do Oakenscowl.
The easiest way to do these 3 quests is to go to the place you mention for the harpy’s until you have about 4 bloodfeather belts, afterwards move north and start the start the Mist quest, since the cat is guarded by about 6 harpy’s hopefully you’ll get the remaining belts during that. Afterwards just go north-west with the cat following you and collect the shimmering frond, if more harpy belts are needed there is a small camp of harpy’s just near the shimmering frond also. Once you done all that just run down to the Night elf and hand in Mist and The Enchanted Glade.
Only a small thing really, but I think it’s worth including, Mist isn’t a very well known quest, but there’s nothing wrong with it other than that it’s in a location nobody really looks.
Other than those 2 missing quests however it’s a very nice guide, very similar to my leveling steps in Teldrasil, and I’ve done the place over 30 times.
CoolCool thanks for the feedback allready, I won’t be responding to anything said or asked here for the next 8/9 days because of a vacation to Austria, skiing XD.
Taralom
About to give this a tryHey Taralom – thanks for taking the time to create this guide – I am fixing to give this a try i will have more feed back for you in a few hours i guess – Cya then
-Tsukino
ThanksThanks Snowflake, I made this because certain people find it hard to level to 12 in a starting zone, and I believe teldrassil is the hardest starting zone too[if you could call starting zone’s hard 😛 ], Anyway thanks.
Taralom
Beautiful workBeautiful work 🙂
Very new25-30 Added 8)
and 31-39 too. 😀 Basically it’s finished! 🙂
Guide Will be FinishedThis weekend i’ll probably finish the guide. Today I added step 18-24, Yesterday I added 14-17. And in the weekend I have some more time and it’ll probably be done. 8)
Thanks for the tip btw. Didn’t know the website had such hosting functions 🙂 .
Taralom
Very nice Taralom, wouldVery nice Taralom, would rock if you could upload the picture you’ve used to our site instead though, for that you just have to scroll down while editing an click on “file attachments” 🙂
Any FeedbackAs it says above.
Taralom