Leveling Quickly in World of Warcraft – Geek Girl Game Secrets

So about leveling quickly in World of Warcraft like the pros do it…  ??Ok, so like, I’m only a level 42 as of this blog post in World of Warcraft with my latest ‘toon. Give me a break, I just started this year and I usually only play on weekends.  (I know, excuses, excuses.)

So I just recently discovered random dungeons. Ok, being new is hard when you’re not in a guild, I suppose. There’s no one there to tell you about all this stuff you can do. Yeah, it’s in the forums, but you have to admit, there’s a lot in the forums and instructions. This stuff is easily missed.

It really breaks up the monotony when you can do an occasional random or dungeon while you’re rolling through solo questing.

Now that I’m learning what DPS means (damage per second) and wondering how to build up my new warrior girl up to start tanking, I’m left with wondering about the fastest way to grind through a few levels quickly on World of Warcraft.

Here’s what I know so far about leveling on your own (mostly):

Level 1 – 10

Getting to level 10 these days should only take two hours, three at most if you’re in an area where there’s a lot of back and forth running involved. Blizzard made getting to level 5 pretty easy. You more than likely won’t leave the ‘newbie’ area until you are level 5 or close to it.

Basically, you want to do all of your intro quests as fast as possible. So you’ll need to pick up more than one at a time, and then look at your map. Check as to where those quests are located. Set a path toward the closest ones, and work your way around and back to the safe tree or building or cave or hut.

So go ahead and grab as many golden “?” as possible in the first part. When you leave the ‘safe zone’, plan on doing more running as it’s more spread out, but it’s very similar. Pick areas where there’s a whole lot of fighting, and avoid ‘errand running’ unless it leads to a fighting quest or some good gear.

Level 15

After getting to level 10 in a hurry, you’ll want to do some exploring and find new places to level up. The easiest place on the alliance side that I’ve found was at the Loch Modan in WoW. There’s an area where the center where the quests are coming from are relatively a shorter distance from all of the enemies you’ll be looking for. Don’t be afraid to swim through that big lake to get to where you need to be.

Randoms and Dungeons

As soon as you are able to do randoms and dungeons of all sorts, use your Dungeon Finder to locate groups for you. Have this running and grind through your dungeons with your groups. These break up the solo questing without joining a guild to help you along.

These dungeons award lots of prizes and you’ll level pretty quickly. Even at 40, I managed to get to 42 in a couple of days (playing just a few hours a day).

20 and Up

Once you’re at twenty, and you have a steed, mount up and travel to different flight masters where it makes sense to go. Flying is the best way to get around until you get faster mounts, and you’ll save time if you just spend an afternoon running to different flight points. From then on if you need to run errands (and you will) you can hearthstone to your chosen town and then fly out from that spot.

That’s how I’ve done it so far, getting to 15 as fast as possible in order to do some randoms and just plugging away at quests where fighting (especially humanoids) was the main request.

Any tips from more seasoned pros? What’s your best leveling tip? If you’d like, I’d post a pic of your ‘toon and your tip in the next blog post I do about World of Warcraft.