Please share your leveling route

[Diwa]

From level 1 - 60. What did you do?
Especially your leveling route for both Alliance and Horde before entering your first dungeon.
What map to quest from level 1 - 14?

[omnimultum]

1-10 normal zones 10-16 RFC boosting or 5man grouping
16-20 Wailincaverns OR deadmines
20-27 Shadow fang keep
27-32 razorfens kraul
32-44 Scarlet monastery
44-50 Zul farrak
50-54 Sunken temple
54-57 BRD jail runs
57-60 more brd OR LBRS

[Barazanthul]

Stalking this thread, because i am really interested in the answers.

I am playing Alliance.

1-17 Questing (Mostly via FedEx)
18-21 Deadmines
21-28 Stockades (Had one Black Fathom Deeps run in here)
28-30 Gnome

Currently planning on one level in Razorfen and then going back to Gnome. After that i plan to head of toScarlet Monastery.

[pobdoq]

This is the lvl route I made/used for 5x undead mage. Took me 13 days real time to get to lvl 60. 7 days something playtime.

1-10 tirisfal
10 uc - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=5725/the-power-to-destroy
10-14 silverpine (set hearth stone here)
14 silverpine - get wand: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=99/arugals-folly (Prove Your Worth)
14 tb - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=962/serpentbloom
14 tb - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=5722/searching-for-the-lost-satchel
14 tb - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=5723/testing-an-enemys-strength
14-16 RFC
16 silverpine - get wand: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=516/berens-peril
16 rachet - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=959/trouble-at-the-docks
16 wc - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=1486/deviate-hides
16 wc - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=1487/deviate-eradication
16-22 WC
22 learn teleport orgrimmar/undercity
22-25 hillsbrad - get wand: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=567/dangerous
25-30 RFK
30-35 SM
35 get mage quests at orgrimmar, then go to dustwallow
35-42 SM
42-48 ZF
48 (optonal) hinterlands - get cape: https://classicdb.ch/?quest=7861
48-52 SUNKEN TEMPLE
52-54 BRD
54-60 LBRS

[Bradster]

From level 1 - 60. What did you do?
Especially your leveling route for both Alliance and Horde before entering your first dungeon.
What map to quest from level 1 - 14?

As alliance (I did this just last week)

The Dwarf starting area is a bit more kind on kill quests compared to the human areas. I found this out the hard way after it was too late. I slowly grinded on bore and bears. I found Dun to be least inhabited compared to human area. Leveled skinning and mining in the process. Then focused on killing humanoids, for the cloth. Picking areas out of the way is ideal. There is no etiquette at these levels, everyone's gotta be first. What that translates too is everyone tagging your mobs or leap frogging you on quest stuff. No one is going to wait their turn.

But picking areas off the beating path you can get a lot of trade skilling done, while level a bit slower.

When your group is young like this, it won't be as powerful as you'd hope yet. With no taunt or a way to hold aggro, you can't get too carried away.

After you feel like you've lost the will the live, hopefully your level 16 by now. This is a bit low to head in to dead mines. However, no one can harass you in there. Once your in the instance you'll just grind to the second door. You'll defeat the first boss, then once you reach the next door, that's a good place to stop and reset.

Once you hit 18 you can start farming for the ring from the goblin boss.

Once you hit 20, life is good. Now would be a good time to visit the AH and gear your tank. You can put on STA and STR rings and stuff. Which point your good to go! you should be able to farm that just fine.

If you run a tailor/enchant you'll be 150 capped on both by level 20 no problem as well.

[Hiddenbrom]

This is the lvl route I made/used for 5x undead mage. Took me 13 days real time to get to lvl 60. 7 days something playtime.

1-10 tirisfal
10 uc - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=5725/the-power-to-destroy
10-14 silverpine (set hearth stone here)
14 silverpine - get wand: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=99/arugals-folly (Prove Your Worth)
14 tb - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=962/serpentbloom
14 tb - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=5722/searching-for-the-lost-satchel
14 tb - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=5723/testing-an-enemys-strength
14-16 RFC
16 silverpine - get wand: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=516/berens-peril
16 rachet - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=959/trouble-at-the-docks
16 wc - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=1486/deviate-hides
16 wc - accept: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=1487/deviate-eradication
16-22 WC
22 learn teleport orgrimmar/undercity
22-25 hillsbrad - get wand: https://classic.wowhead.com/quest=567/dangerous
25-30 RFK
30-35 SM
35 get mage quests at orgrimmar, then go to dustwallow
35-42 SM
42-48 ZF
48 (optonal) hinterlands - get cape: https://classicdb.ch/?quest=7861
48-52 SUNKEN TEMPLE
52-54 BRD
54-60 LBRS

I’m interested in this, how did you level all the way and that fast without an healer?

[daviddoran]

On Horde side, I do 1-12 in the starting area
12-14 I do FedEx, while grinding every thing on my way to Silverpine, grab flight point in The Sepulcher, fly to UC and grab the quest from Varimathras, then take the zeppelin to Orgrimmar, grab all the RFC quests, and do Hidden Enemies from Thrall. Just grinding on the mobs to get 5x Lieutenant's insignia get s you a level or two. Once you are on the final leg of Hidden Enemies, clear bags and run into RFC. If you are still only 12-13, I just grind on the first part up to the troggs and reset.
14-18 RFC From 14 on, grind in RFC, turning in quests as I go if the reward is an upgrade. I skip the demon boss on caster only teams after doing the quest once, and just grind the packs around him, and reset. If the group is going well, I stay in RFC right up to 18.
18-19 WC Prep I head to Crossroads, and do the prereq quests for leaders of the fang, and grab the quest from Ratchet for the 99 year old Port. Then to Thunderbluff again to get the final quest for Leaders of the fang, and the Serpentbloom quest. Also grab the 2 quests from the cave above WC.
19-22 WC grinding (Make sure to have a skinner up to 90 skinning, otherwise lots of leather is wasted, even if you just vendor it) I sometimes will skip some of the gathering on a toon or two, especially if their exp is ahead of the others (I sometimes run with a buddy taking one of my toons slots, so my exp is often up to 1 level apart) The Deviate Hides and Serpentbloom quests are a chore! I mostly care about getting the weapon upgrades from the Leaders of the fang quest.
At 22 I head to Orgrimmar, then take the Zeppelin to Brill, pick up the SFK quest in UC, fly to Silverpine, set hearth to Sepulcher, and grab all the SFK quests
22-27 SFK grinding. I only go to the end boss on casters if I need the cloth gear. For everyone else, it's faster to just reset after killing Odo. At 27, If I still haven't killed Arugal, finish him for the final quest, then turn everything in
28 I hit up BFD at least once, if only for the quests. There's a decent Wand upgrade for casters.
29 I either hit up RFK or head to SM. I always look up any potential dungeon quests beforehand, and only grab the ones that are either convenient (i.e. not a long ass chain) or offer great rewards.
30-44 SM grinding. I hearth in Brill for convenience. Depending on what gear I need, I grind on the lower level instances until I can do the higher ones. For my Shaman team I grinded in Armory until 44 trying to get all the gear from Herod, mixing in Cathedral runs to keep it interesting. My other teams are just about to start SM, but for casters, I plan on farming Library for the staff, and only doing Armory once, because I hate that place at this point.

That's as far as I am so far, but I plan on hitting up Uldaman, Maraudon, and Zul'Farrak multiple times on each team for gear drops, depending on the team's needs. Probably farming a lot of Maraudon for the BIS gear, then off to Sunken Temple, and Blackrock Depths.

Probably won't do too much of Scholomance and Stratholme until 58-59, or until the gear fills out. At 60 just farming whatever dungeons drop the gear I need is my plan. Beyond that, who knows?

[Diwa]

Thank you everyone for the detailed leveling routes and linking to quests was really helpful.
I'll do the Horde side tips later for my mix team. Questing Level 1 - 17 was slow especially on gather quests and encountered some hate DMs that I just ignored.

Hope for more inputs here. Quests links will be really appreciated.



As alliance (I did this just last week)

The Dwarf starting area is a bit more kind on kill quests compared to the human areas....

I really find it slow when I reached level 8 in Dun Morogh. Just to add to your post, here's a path on how you can go to Darkshore from Dun Morogh fast. So far I can see better quest in Darkshore and my 4 mages + Priest can kill red mobs fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtty9M4kaoo

[pobdoq]

I’m interested in this, how did you level all the way and that fast without an healer?
Out door grinded until lvl 14 with a quest here and there. Then did dungeons with round robin sheep/nova/cs, single target dmg until late 30's, when I could spec aoe+shatter. That's when it went a lot faster. It's probably a good idea to spec aoe sooner.

For my aoe spec I did use frostbite, which you usually don't take, because it makes it harder to keep the pack together. But with 5 mages it procs so often and you kill so fast, it's actually great.

RFC: I could go fast and kill all bosses easily with 5 mages.
WC: I just did the first boss and reset, not that fast.
RFK: I just did the lower part where the escort quest is.
SM: I could kill all bosses by using ice block on the mage that was taking damage. XP was pretty good once I specced AOE. Even though I could not do big pulls.
ZF: Did graveyard runs
Sunken Temple: I cleared the packs on the upper ring, and then reset
BRD: Killed all the packs on the left. Between Beal'Gar and the gate
LBRS: Killed all the packs at the start until the first bridge in LBRS

Not having a healer and being just 1 person controlling all mages means it's hard to do big pulls, so I did pretty small ones. I didn't go nearly as fast as good spell cleave groups, but I did go faster than the average dungeon groups.

The reason I got a decent time to 60 wasn't because I was killing fast, it was because (at least after 30) I didn't waste much time. I stopped worrying about how fast I was going. I just kept going, and didn't waste time trying to find ways to go faster. That's something I did a lot in the past and it slowed me down a lot.

[Hiddenbrom]

Out door grinded until lvl 14 with a quest here and there. Then did dungeons with round robin sheep/nova/cs, single target dmg until late 30's, when I could spec aoe+shatter. That's when it went a lot faster. It's probably a good idea to spec aoe sooner.

For my aoe spec I did use frostbite, which you usually don't take, because it makes it harder to keep the pack together. But with 5 mages it procs so often and you kill so fast, it's actually great.

RFC: I could go fast and kill all bosses easily with 5 mages.
WC: I just did the first boss and reset, not that fast.
RFK: I just did the lower part where the escort quest is.
SM: I could kill all bosses by using ice block on the mage that was taking damage. XP was pretty good once I specced AOE. Even though I could not do big pulls.
ZF: Did graveyard runs
Sunken Temple: I cleared the packs on the upper ring, and then reset
BRD: Killed all the packs on the left. Between Beal'Gar and the gate
LBRS: Killed all the packs at the start until the first bridge in LBRS

Not having a healer and being just 1 person controlling all mages means it's hard to do big pulls, so I did pretty small ones. I didn't go nearly as fast as good spell cleave groups, but I did go faster than the average dungeon groups.

The reason I got a decent time to 60 wasn't because I was killing fast, it was because (at least after 30) I didn't waste much time. I stopped worrying about how fast I was going. I just kept going, and didn't waste time trying to find ways to go faster. That's something I did a lot in the past and it slowed me down a lot.

I may give this a try.. Thanks man, your input is really valuable.

[Dorffo]

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[Mercbeast]

I'd run fed ex 1-10, or just find a good spot and grind. The other option is to follow a quest guide, but skip everything that has drops. If you fall behind the guide because of this, grind mobs for a level in a good dense spot.

[Mercbeast]

Those spots in westfall look juicy. I'd love to know if anyone has found any hyper spawns at higher levels. They'd be absolutely amazing to grind on.

[Anemo]

Does anyone have advice for the early levels? Currently levelling my first squad using my normal solo quest route and it is going super slow. Is simple mob grinding better than all these horrible night elf loot quests? Bit of a pain since this was mostly a setup test squad and I'm going to have to do it all again.

[sethlan]

Thanks for sharing guys, From what I can tell, if server not so busy-mornings are the best for questing as not many people in the open: At peak hours I go and grind dungeons the XP is not so bad on 5 guys, plus you get some loot and gear. Whenever i get bored i jump out and do some quests. usually i skip collecting quests if i need to collect 10-20 things on each guy and drop rate is also low. I'm only 37 atm. on my 5 shamans- taking my sweet time.... But i'll make sure to check what people posted above, thanks again!

[shawnzer]

Great stuff guys, this should be stickied

[Mercbeast]

Does anyone have advice for the early levels? Currently levelling my first squad using my normal solo quest route and it is going super slow. Is simple mob grinding better than all these horrible night elf loot quests? Bit of a pain since this was mostly a setup test squad and I'm going to have to do it all again.

I think that you should follow your quest route, but skip any and all collection type quests unless they are like less than 5 items per character. Do kill quests, do click item type quests, do fedex quests. If you fall behind in levels on your route, stop in a place with high mob density and grind a level. Collection quests are the bane of MBing experience. To give you an idea, granted this was launch day, I think I spent 2-3 hours in Fargodeep mine in Elwynn Forest trying to do the candle and gold dust collection quests. If I had the entire place to myself, it might have taken me an hour, but still, an hour for slow rate of killing + 2 quest turn ins is terrible xp.

The issue with collection quests usually boils down to, spawn density. As a 5 boxer, very few collection quest areas are going to support your rate of killing, which means if you're not killing at or near your maximum potential, you're losing xp the longer you stay in that area. I'll add another exception for collection quests. If the spawn is enormous and you never run out of stuff to kill for the quest, you might want to consider doing it. In general though, what I would do is, follow a quest guide, and only do kill quests, fedex quests, and clicky quests, and just massacre everything you come across between quests while running.

[Diwa]

Does anyone have advice for the early levels? Currently levelling my first squad using my normal solo quest route and it is going super slow. Is simple mob grinding better than all these horrible night elf loot quests? Bit of a pain since this was mostly a setup test squad and I'm going to have to do it all again.

Horde
So far combination of Tirisfall and Durator Kill quests and FedEX were enough to reach level 10

Alliance
Dun Morogh then Darkshore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtty9M4kaoo

[Purpleflavor]

i'd suggest orcs/trolls go to Tirisfall and do the kill quests there around 7-9. There are a lot of good ones.

[Peregrine]

What I usually do is:

If undead: Level through lv 5 or 6 and then move to orc start area:

Do all quests there apart: collection quests and from there move to troll village pick all quests, then move to razor hill: pick all quests there, and do all the quests/ don't forget to go up the tower when you kill benedict and loot the quests from chest there. When you complete all the quests there and you're level 8/9 get the quests to meet near the burning blade cave north east and farm there until you're level 10/11.

From there move to Orgrimmar, pick all quests, move to Crossroads,get the quest to Ratchest, pick the quests there. Do the basic quests that you've received. From there, move to Undercity quickly, pick the quest for Rfc, move to Sepulchur. Do the basic kill quest there and once you're finished there you should be around 12/13.

Hs to Orgrimmar (don't forget to set your HS there) and move to Crossroads and do the other set of lv 13 quests there (mostly the centaurs bosses and the lake discovery). Once you reach lv 14, I'd recommend waiting in Ogrimmar for buff.

The Rfc farm will take you to the lv 19 (you should stay there until that level).

From Rfc farm, you should move to Crossroads, do the quests for Wc and complete the Wc quests there and farm Wc until lv 22.

From there move to Bfd or do the quests.

I'll posts later this week detailed guide for quests and dungeon mix up to 50.

[Diwa]

What I usually do is:

If undead: Level through lv 5 or 6 and then move to orc start area...

Thanks for sharing and we'll wait for your detailed version :)
I haven't seen you stream yet also

[nodoze]

The Dungeons tab on my 'Classic WoW Planning' Spreadsheet has an amalgamation of multiple people's recommended dungeon progression (many from this forum with links to the original discussions plus info from outside this forum) for both Horde & Alliance:


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j6tc7Bi0WNN_NbplgM1mbKcJkv89c4EhbYDN18vuYA4/edit#gid=566752830

I updated the first few rows of the 'Dungeons' Tab to include links for Alliance getting to the level range (~level 18) for the first dungeon (or at least ready for the mine area outside the VC/DM entrance) via first FedEx and then via the HyperSpawn(s) in WestFall which is what I did...

Note that the 'HA' column denotes if a given Content area is generally for Horde or Alliance and an upper-case 'A' or 'H' means that it is really hard for the other faction to utilize and an a lower-case 'a' or 'h' denotes that generally it is for that faction but other factions can use it with some effort (and 'e' denotes that it is for either faction)...

Note that "rStart" & "rStop" are the recommended level ranges to Start or Stop a given content area (respectively)...

Note that "aStart" & "aStop" are/were my actual ranges to Start or Stop a given area (respectively)... Feel free to copy this tab (or even the whole spreadsheet) and delete the aStart/aStop entries (&/or anything else) & use for your own purposes (or as you see fit)...

I purposefully left the entire spreadsheet unprotected so folk can copy it if desired (and modify their own copy for their own purposes) as most other sources I have come across were either copy protected and/or not in a spreadsheet type form which I find more useful for mapping &/or tracking progress...

[Anemo]

This (https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/d1tkrr/all_dungeons_by_minmax_mob_level_for_best_exp/) chart of min/max level of mobs/bosses in each dungeon might be useful for people too.

[nodoze]

This (https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/d1tkrr/all_dungeons_by_minmax_mob_level_for_best_exp/) chart of min/max level of mobs/bosses in each dungeon might be useful for people too.Thanks! That is a really good find. I added a link to that on the Dungeons tab for easy reference.